What happens
George Burns and Gracie Allen want a new refrigerator, and their hardware dealer's delivery list is years long. Gracie, after a conversation with the postman, decides they should win one on radio quiz programs. George reluctantly agrees, and the pair tour several quiz shows, including one where Gracie quizzes him on a question about a famous actor and a president. The episode is from the Burns and Allen series, first broadcast on September 26, 1946, with Gracie Allen and George Burns in the lead roles.
The Burns home and a series of radio quiz show studios in Los Angeles
Characters: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bill Goodwin, Meredith Willson, Mr. Jenkins, The Postman
Listen for: Gracie's logic about winning a refrigerator by appearing on quiz programs, and the mix-up when she quizzes George on a presidential clue
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.