What happens
George Burns and Gracie Allen host their household, which grows crowded when Gracie's mother plans a visit and the couple decide to take in returning servicemen. Gracie reads newspaper ads for soldiers needing lodging and George tries to make room in the den. Meanwhile neighbor Meredith Wilson drops by repeatedly to retell a porcupine joke, and Bill Goodwin, who shares a house with a marine sergeant, offers his own advice. The episode is a Burns and Allen comedy from January 3, 1946, broadcast on CBS and NBC Radio, with Gracie Allen and George Burns in the leading roles. It was sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee.
The Burns home in Los Angeles, shortly after the New Year, when housing for returning servicemen is scarce.
Characters: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Meredith Wilson, Bill Goodwin
Listen for: Gracie's repeated, interrupted attempts to tell Meredith's porcupine joke, and the couple's shifting plans for housing the servicemen.
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.