Reviewer:
richgoup
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March 23, 2012
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Rumba Lessons
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.
Season 1, episode 7.
Original air date: 28 December 1950.
Cast: Georges Burns (George Burns), Gracie Allen (Gracie Allen), Bill Goodwin (Bill Goodwin/ Announcer), Bea Benadaret (Blanche Morton) and Hal March (Harry Morton).
First one produced in Hollywood.
From IMDB.
Good story idea and a bunch of very good lines.
Reviewer:
bgrauman
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May 6, 2011
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An important transition
This was the first episode produced in Hollywood, at CBS' Columbia Square facilities; after three months of live brodacasts from the Mansfield Theater in New York [6 alternate week episodes], George and the network decided the series would originate from the West Coast. This meant that the show would no longer be seen "live" to East Coast viewers. The coaxial cable enabling live national telecasts wouldn't be completed until September 1951; before "coast-to-coast" transmissions, if a live TV show originated from New York, it would be shown about a week or two later, via kinescope film, to West Coast affiliates {as "THE BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW" had been). Now that it was being produced "live" in Hollywood, the reverse happened- East Coast [and several Midwestern] stations began showing kinescopes of the show two weeks after their initial live broadcast out West. So, this episode originally aired live on December 28, 1950 [West Coast], and "kinnied" a week later- January 4, 1951- for viewing back East.
It was also Hal March's final episode as "Harry Morton". After playing him during the last season of George and Gracie's radio show, and the first six episodes of their TV series, he decided it was time to "move on". George found character actor John Brown (who was eventually blacklisted from the entertainment industry) to replace him in the following episode.
Typically funny episode...
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December 23, 2009
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29 Minutes
I think, and I could be wrong, I uploaded this. Probably on another account. Gracie Allen is charmingly silly. George Burns is also funny. The commercials are done in a clever way and are watchable.