BONUS - Mother's Day (Burns and Allen & My Favorite Husband)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
With Mother's Day right around the corner, our midweek bonus comedy show features visits from a pair of mothers-in-law much to the chagrin of George Burns and Lucille Ball. First, Gracie's mom comes to town in The Burns and Allen Show (AFRS rebroadcast from May 20, 1948). Then on My Favorite Husband, George's mother's visit stretches on and on...and on (AFRS rebroadcast from March 4, 1949).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize |
| 0:25.4 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account |
| 0:30.4 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to another midweek comedy quarantine bonus show from down these mean streets. |
| 1:04.7 | This coming Sunday is Mother's Day, and it'll be an unusual Mother's Day, |
| 1:09.6 | as most of us are still on lockdown, |
| 1:12.2 | and our celebrations will probably be remote. |
| 1:16.0 | It's a weird feeling whether your family is across town or across the country. |
| 1:21.5 | And today in honor of this unusual Mother's Day, we'll hear as a pair of |
| 1:26.2 | mothers-in-law visits some old-time radio comedy stars. Of course, these visits are anything but cheerful, otherwise they wouldn't be very funny. |
| 1:36.6 | And whatever you have planned for this Mother's Day, I think you'll come out ahead of George |
| 1:41.1 | Burns and Lucille Ball. |
| 1:44.0 | First, Gracie's mother is visiting the Burns House |
| 1:48.0 | in an Armed Forces radio service rebroadcast of the Burns and Allen show. She's got no shortage of complaints about George, |
| 1:56.7 | everything from his lack of do-it-yourself know-how to his career in show business. |
| 2:03.0 | Verna Felton is heard as Gracie's mother, |
| 2:06.0 | and George's efforts to impress her result in a very misguided renovation project. |
| 2:12.0 | Then in my favorite husband, Lucille Ball's Liz Cooper is facing a visit from her mother-in-law, which is bad enough. |
| 2:20.0 | Even worse, the visit turns into a six-week engagement. |
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