George Burns and Gracie Allen share a Christmas-season broadcast in which Gracie frets over gifts and tangles with friends and relatives. Tony Martin, the singer and a guest, is caught between their banter and a plan for a holiday play. Gracie announces that she and the cast will stage a special Christmas adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Burns as Scrooge, Gracie as Mrs. Fezziwig, Henry King as one ghost and Martin as another. Jack Benny's voice and jokes come into the rehearsal, and the cast rehearses the holiday story with frequent interruptions. The broadcast is a Campbell's Soup program, and the series is Burns and Allen, first aired on 1937-12-23 on CBS and NBC Radio.

With George Burns, Gracie Allen, Tony Martin, Henry King, Jack Benny.

Listen for: Gracie's rambling logic about gifts and the telephone call from her mother, and the Christmas play's comic jokes about Scrooge.

First aired on December 23, 1937 on CBS / NBC Radio.

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First aired December 9, 1936.

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First aired December 16, 1936.

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.

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About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

Gracie Allen and George Burns host a holiday broadcast in which the cast chats about Christmas shopping and gift-giving, with Tony Martin and Henry King taking part. Gracie announces an original play, Gracie's Christmas Carol, a comic take on Dickens in which George Burns plays the stingy Scrooge figure and the cast play the three ghosts. The opening scenes set up the premise: Scrooge is haunted on Christmas Eve by visitors who turn out to be familiar radio figures, including Jack Benny and Eddie Cantor, who appear to pursue him over stolen jokes. The broadcast is a Burns and Allen program first aired on December 23, 1936, on CBS and NBC Radio, with Gracie Allen and Bea Benaderet among the cast.

With George Burns, Gracie Allen, Tony Martin, Ken Niles, Henry King, Ebenezer Scrooge, Mrs. Fezziwig, Jack Benny.

Listen for: The ghostly visitors confronting Scrooge over stolen jokes, and Jack Benny's appearance as one of the spirits.

First aired December 23, 1936.

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.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

Two new episodes a week. Live around the clock: The Burns and Allen Show on Stupid Potato

About Stupid Potato. This podcast is from Stupid Potato Studios. We restore classic radio and TV audio and run free internet radio channels, live around the clock: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, Saturday-morning cartoons, vintage TV, Halloween and Christmas, and our own short cartoons. Listen free, find every show and join our weekly note at stupidpotato.com.

George Burns and Gracie Allen host a New Year's broadcast of their radio series, trading nonsense banter about holiday revelry with Henry King and his orchestra. Tony Martin appears as a guest, and the cast talks about his new visit to New York. Gracie describes a sightseeing tour Constance Wilson gave Tony, and the talk turns to a mink coat he reportedly bought her. Gracie insists on a kiss from Tony Martin as part of a resolution, while the regulars keep up their playful confusion. The episode was broadcast on CBS and NBC radio on January 6, 1937, and features Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Willson and Mel Blanc in the cast.

With George Burns, Gracie Allen, Henry King, Tony Martin, Constance Wilson.

Listen for: Gracie's literal-minded wordplay during the mink coat discussion, and the running joke about Tony Martin's kiss.

First aired on January 6, 1937 on CBS / NBC Radio.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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