Throwback Thursday Comedy Nostalgia: George Burns and Gracie Allen on the Road

Today we had a twinge of nostalgia for the old TV sitcoms and found this 65 year old clip of a segment from the George Burns and Gracie Allen show.

This episode goes way back to 1952 and has George and Gracie driving with their friend Blanche Morton (played by Bea Benaderet, who appeared in almost every episode of the show) from Los Angeles to Palm Springs to visit Jack Benny.

Burns and Allen worked together as a successful comedy team that entertained vaudeville, film, radio, and television audiences for over forty years.

The duo met in 1922 and married in 1926. Burns was the straight man and Allen was a silly, addle-headed woman. Their 30-minute radio show debuted in September 1934 as The Adventures of Gracie, whose title changed to The Burns and Allen Show in 1936; the series ran, moving back and forth between NBC and CBS, until May 1950. 

After their radio show's cancellation, Burns and Allen reemerged on television with a popular situation comedy, which ran from 1950 to 1958.

Enjoy!

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