What happens
Gracie Allen and George Burns trade jokes on a Burns and Allen broadcast from 1940, first aired on April 24, 1940. Gracie plays herself as a presidential candidate, and the episode opens with banter about rain, Hollywood gossip and her family's crowded apartment. George tries out a speech for the variety club, and the talk keeps drifting into a series of comic misunderstandings. Later a self-described psychiatrist arrives and begins to examine Gracie, while Ray Noble and Gracie share an awkward romantic exchange. The episode is still going at this point in the transcript.
A radio broadcast studio in Hollywood, California, with the show's comedy sketches set in the Burns and Allen household and their campaign.
Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Ray Noble, Dr. Schmeerbach, Laura, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Willson, Mel Blanc
Listen for: Gracie's literal-minded replies to George's questions, and the escalating confusion of the psychiatrist's visit.
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.