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	The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
		The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, which premiered on 12 October 1950, was one of the first comedy series to make the successful transition from radio to television.
		On Burns' insistence, the show was broadcast on alternate weeks in order to provide sufficient time for rehearsals and alleviate some of the pressures of live broadcasts.
		Burns continued working in a revamped version of the show, The George Burns Show (NBC, 21 October 1958 to 14 April 1959), in which he again played himself, now in the role of a theatrical producer.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/G/htmlG/georgeburns/gerogeburns.htm (949 words)

	Amazon.com: Burns & Allen Show: DVD: Rolfe Sedan,Howard McNear,Larry Keating,Fred Clark,Adelaide Hawley Cumming,Ronnie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I didn't feel like I was watching a 'Burns and Allen' show, It felt like a long boring commercial for carnation milk.The quality of the picture is ok..just ok. There are parts in a couple of episodes where scenes were snipped together, almost like the films we watched in high school.
		Burns and Allen is a hilarious show that was produced in the early 1950's.
		Example In the gracie throws a wedding episod, a women is talking to gracie and tells her she is getting ready to marry a used car salesmen, gracie tells her, well I guess it doesn't matter if he's new or used as long as you love him.
	www.amazon.com /Burns-Allen-Show-Rolfe-Sedan/dp/B0002B54ZS (708 words)

	Jim R. Schwiesow -- A new Burns and Allen show
		Those of us old enough to remember the comic act of George Burns and Gracie Allen will recall that the recurring theme of the show was the interaction between a shrewd and astute husband, George Burns, and a simple-minded and intellectually vacuous wife, Gracie Allen.
		I now announce that the country is soon to be introduced to a new Burns and Allen show in an all-new format.
		I understand that Gracie Allen was possessed of superior intelligence and wisdom, and that her on-stage personality was simply the result of the high quality of her role-playing.
	www.newswithviews.com /Schwiesow/jim7.htm (1785 words)

	Burns and Allen Summary
		Their Burns and Allen Show on CBS television from 1950 to 1958 proved particularly innovative as it contained sitcom plots that were bracketed by Burns's vaudeville-inspired omniscient narration and monologues.
		Burns, who wrote the majority of their material, called it "illogical logic"—an alternative linguistic universe in which the character of Gracie was the sole inhabitant.
		Burns and Allen were exceptionally adept at using the media attention they received to extend the narrative of their program into the realm of "reality." Not only did they purposely muddy the distinction between their lives and that of their characters, but they also played on-air stunts to their maximum effect.
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	The Burns and Allen Show
		Burns and Allen were an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen.
		Historians of popular culture have often stated that Allen was a brilliant comedian, whose entire career consisted of engaging in dialogues of "illogical logic" that left her verbal opponents dazed and confused, and her audiences in stitches.
		During a typical 23-minute episode of the Burns and Allen show, the vast majority of the dialogue and speaking parts were written for Allen, who was credited with having the genius to deliver her lengthy diatribes in a fashion that made it look as though she was making her arguments up on the spot.
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	Gracie Allen: George Burns
		Burns and Allen are one of the most beloved couple in old time radio.
		Many of the shows that changed over from a radio format to television failed, but "The Burns and Allen Show" was a big hit.
		Allen and Burns played themselves as television actors, and the show took place in their "home." The plots often involved their neighbors, with whom they socialized by going out to movies or playing cards.
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	George Burns
		At about the same time, George took on "Burns" as a surname—close enough to "Birnbaum" to be sure, but actually "Burns Brothers" was the name of the nearby coal yard where George and his other poverty stricken friends would regularly help themselves to whatever they were able to hide in their clothes.
		Shortly after their marriage, Burns and Allen broke in their new act, the now famous "Lamb Chops." It was an immediate hit, and they were soon signed to a five-year contract on the Keith-Orpheum circuit and played to huge crowds all across the country.
		The show was in production throughout the summer, but everything came to a sudden halt when on August 27 Gracie, who suffered from heart trouble, had a massive heart attack and tragically died at the hospital that evening.
	www.classicimages.com /1996/april/georgeburns.shtml (3188 words)

	Radio Hall of Fame -Burns & Allen
		Burns switched their roles upon discovering that his wife’s delivery got a bigger laugh than his punchlines.
		Burns and Allen were touring England in 1929 when they made their first radio appearance on the BBC.
		The Burns and Allen Show was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1994.
	www.radiohof.org /comedy/burnsallen.html (197 words)

	George Burns and Gracie Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Allen, the daughter of vaudeville performers, also started on the stage at a young age, teaming with her sister in a musical act.
		But Burns immediately noticed that his partner was getting all the laughs, so the act was revised with Burns as the straight man, and Allen as his ditzy, scatter-brained partner.
		After a lengthy and successful career in radio, "The Burns and Allen Show" debuted on television in 1950, and was a top-rated show for the next eight years, nominated for Emmy awards as the top comedy show from 1952 to 1955.
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	Burns and Allen at AllExperts
		Burns and Allen were an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen.
		Burns and Allen developed their popular routine over more than three decades of stage, radio, film, and television.
		During a typical 23-minute episode of the Burns and Allen show, the vast majority of the dialogue and speaking parts were written for Allen, who was credited with having the genius to deliver her lengthy diatribes in a fashion that made it look as though she was making her arguments up on the spot.
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	The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: A Comedy Masterpiece - Fifties TV Shows - A Timeless TV Classic
		George Burns would begin each episode by facing the audience and giving a brief monologue about what the audience was about to see, all the while holding his famous trademark cigar.
		At various points during the show he would turn to the camera and philosophize with unflappable straight-faced ease about Gracie and her current situation.
		Burns, in fact, lived to be 100, passing away in 1996.
	www.loti.com /fifties_TV/The_George_Burns_and_Gracie_Allen_Show.htm (418 words)

	"The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This was in the grandstand of classic TV shows from the golden age of the 1950's which from some never got the chance to see one of the greatest comedy acts of all time-the great George Burns and his lovely wife Gracie Allen.
		The last time Burns and Allen was ever shown was during the 1980's when repeats of this lost or another word for it seldom seen series was shown regularly on cable's CBN-TV,The Christian Broadcasting Network,which shown a lot of these classic shows which nowadays are totally forgotten but remain within our memories.
		This was one television show that really broke the molds during the golden age of classic TV during the early part of the 1950's and so forth.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0042111 (802 words)

	The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show - General Comments in G in in Jump The Shark
		It got so, in the later years, that George dreaded telling her they were renewed for another season, because her physical health [in addition to her frequent migraine headaches] began to deteriorate very slowly by the mid-'50s, and she KNEW it.
		Having heard several of their radio shows (I love Mel Blanc's ironically named Happy Postman!) and seen some of their live shows on public domain VHS, I look forward every Sunday to see the next episode of Burns and Allen.
		When his next door neighbor had a professional commitment in either Hollywood or Broadway, Burns brought the new actor in front of the audience, said that the original actor had another acting commitment and said that from now on the new actor would be playing the role.
	www.jumpingtheshark.com /forum/george-burns-gracie-allen/761 (1651 words)

	George Burns and Gracie Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Burns and Allen Show was first broadcast on February 15th 1932 and ran until May 17th 1950 when the show moved to television.
		George Burns and Gracie Allen were a real-life couple who successfully moved their stand-up comedy Vaudeville act to radio.
		Burns and Allen are special to me because of their friendship with Jack Benny.
	students.washington.edu /jvarnold/radioshows/burns.shtml (165 words)

	Amazon.com: The Burns and Allen Show: Teen-Age Space Girls/Free Trip to Hawaii/Home Wedding/Gracie's Car Accident: DVD: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Best of the Burns and Allen Show, Vol.
		The George Burns and Gracie Allen Collection DVD ~ Rolfe Sedan
		This is four episodes of the burns allen show.
	www.amazon.com /Burns-Allen-Show-Teen-Age-Accident/dp/B0000AZT2N (551 words)

	George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
		The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show was a comedy series.
		Her role as "Blanche" on "Burns and Allen" cost her the role of "Ethel Mertz" on the "I Love Lucy Show (1951)".
		Ronnie Burns who plays George and Gracie's son on the show, is their real life adopted son.
	www.crazyabouttv.com /burnsandallentv.html (727 words)

	George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Vol. 1 (1950) - Overview - MSN Movies
		Synopsis: George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Vol.
		1 contains two episodes of the classic comedic television show about a calm, laid-back entertainer (Burns) who is married to a zany, trouble-prone housewife (Allen).
		Apart from Allen's spirited performance, one of the most memorable things about the show is Burns' technique of turning to the camera and addressing the audience directly.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=41565 (60 words)

	The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show TV Show - The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Television Show - TV.com
		George Burns and Gracie Allen were among the few successful radio personalities to make the transition to television in the early days of the medium.
		The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show exuded excellence, with a unique format, interesting plots, a great cast, and virtually non-stop comedy featuring the unparalleled zany wit of Gracie.
		Following his wife Gracie Allen's retirement in 1958, George Burns decided to continue the old series without Gracie using the characters and settings from the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show....
	www.tv.com /the-george-burns-and-gracie-allen-show/show/1118/summary.html (402 words)

	UCLA Film & Television Archive - Collections
		The pair initially made appearances on The Guy Lombardo Show between 1932 and 1934 and emerged together on The Burns and Allen Show in 1936 on CBS, becoming popular fixtures on network radio by 1938 and attracting national corporate sponsorship.
		During 1942, The Burns and Allen Show altered its performance format from its vaudevillian variety style to a situation comedy in response to a substantial drop in audience ratings.
		The switch in format helped rebuild a mass audience for Allen and Burns playing on their unique chemistry and strengths as a comedic pair and would aide their future transition to television, where the two stayed together until Allen's death in 1964.
	www.cinema.ucla.edu /collections/Profiles/radio/burnsallen.html (197 words)

	Burns & Allen Show (DVD) : Movies from Overstock.com
		A longtime husband and wife comedy team, Burns and Allen played themselves on the show, which focused most...
		A longtime husband and wife comedy team, Burns and Allen played themselves on the show, which focused mostly on the comic problems created by flighty and air-headed Gracie`s misunderstandings.
		Every week, during the whirlwind of events surrounding the couple and their friends, George would turn to the audience with a series of humorous observations about life spurred by the plot of the episode.
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	BBC - Comedy Guide - The Burns And Allen Show
		Having honed their double-act on stage, in films and in their long-running radio show, Burns and Allen were master exponents of their particular comedy style, with George cast in the role of husband to the staggeringly obtuse Gracie.
		She was not so much stupid as surreal, an original thinker whose thought patterns could turn the world upside down, reverse it and then replace it as a square, aptly demonstrated by their famous sign-off gag where Burns would say, 'Say Goodnight Gracie' to which Allen would respond, in all innocence, 'Goodnight Gracie'.
		Despite the domestic setting, and the sitcom trappings and plots involving neighbours and family, the couple still seemed to be playing a sophisticated stage routine, occasionally talking to the audience, and the show benefited immensely for it.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/b/burnsandallensho_7771080.shtml (300 words)

	Gracie Allen - Filmography - Movies.com
		I Married Joan (1952)/The Burns and Allen Show (1950) - (1953) - Actor
		The Burns and Allen Show - V. - (1951) - Actor
		The Burns and Allen Show - Meet George and Gracie - (1950) - Actor
	movies.go.com /gracie-allen/f1000258 (218 words)

	The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show V.1 (1950) - 82465
		George Burns and wife Gracie Allen created a comic legacy with the the follow-up to their popular radio program in the 1940's.
		By the 1950's the duo went on to a successful career in television and the rest is history.
		This program features four classic episodes of the GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN SHOW which was broadcasted on CBS from October 12, 1950 to September 22, 1958 when Gracie Allen retired.
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	Comedy College: Lessons in Laughter - George Burns and Gracie Allen
		For two decades, the way the two of them dealt with day-to-day living became fodder for their comedy until Gracie retired in 1958.
		The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, a situation comedy about the private lives of a show business couple, aired from 1950 to 1958.
		George continued comedy as a solo act, and by the time the curtain finally came down, he had been in front of audiences for 93 years.
	comedycollege.publicradio.org /archive/burns_allen.shtml (159 words)

	Blish Product: BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW : WHY WAS GEORGE LATE FOR THE SHOW?
		George Burns and Gracie Allen brought their vaudeville act to American radio in 1932.
		George was an expert straight man and wrote most of their material, but it was Gracie’s portrayal of an absurd and scatterbrained flirt that stole the show.
		In 1942, the style of the show changed and it became a situation comedy featuring the adventures of a regular guy married to an entirely irregular lady.
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	"The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		After "The Amos 'n Andy Show" (1951), this was the second US sitcom to be imported for broadcast in the UK.
		Gracie Allen: Well, you see one Christmas my father caught a wild turkey and he fed him corn and chestnuts.
		This is the television show that broke all the molds.
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	"The Burns and Allen Show" Resource Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Network(s): CBS (Thursdays at 8:00PM from 1950-53, Mondays at 8:00PM from 1953-1958) "The George Burns Show" aired from October 1958 thru April 1959.
		After delighting audiences on vaudeville, in movies and on radio, George Burns and Gracie Allen's antics were broadcast on CBS from 1950 to 1958.
		The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show, Vol.
	www.mortystv.com /showcards/burns_and_allen.shtml (388 words)

	Burns and Allen - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Burns was always astute when it came to comedy - he lead the brainstorming sessions that wrote the shows, and carefully edited his writers with the final word on what was cut and what stayed.
		For Gracie, of course, it was perfectly normal, and the American public continued their love affair with her.The shows had names after the sponsors, such as Maxwell House Coffee Time, or The Ammident Show - it was the Burns and Allen show to the public.
		Burns and Allen went on to TV, as did many of the greatest radio stars that had worked in vaudeville - Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Red Skelton and others.
	www.otrcat.com /burnsallen.htm (1267 words)

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