It’s a two-fer kind of week, and we’re serving it up retro-style!
First on the lineup: a show you probably haven’t heard of—heck, even we hadn’t. It’s On the Air, a delightfully oddball ABC sitcom from the summer of ’92 that ran for a grand total of seven episodes—four of which didn’t even air in the U.S. (which feels like the TV equivalent of being ghosted mid-season).
Then we hit rewind for something truly timeless: The Burns and Allen Show, featuring the original comedy power couple, George Burns and Gracie Allen. Here’s the thing about us Gen X’ers—we grew up watching legends like George Burns, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Karen Carpenter, and Mary Tyler Moore (usually on a gigantic wood-paneled Zenith TV with only a 20-inch screen). We didn’t always know how great they were—we just knew they were popular with our parents and until we developed our own tastes, we liked what they liked and some of what they liked never left us
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So join us as we unpack the forgotten weirdness of On the Air... and celebrate the enduring genius of George and Gracie, who could still teach modern sitcoms a thing or two.
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