The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show has it. Burns was once asked this question and said it would have been a funny line. Asked why he did not do it, Burns replied, "Incredibly enough, no one ever thought of it." In March 1953, "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" joined "I Love Lucy" as part of the CBS Monday-night primetime lineup. As a result, the show entered the top 30 television programs in the Nielsen ratings ranking at number 20. For the 1954–1955 season, it ranked number 26, and for both the 1955–56 and 1956–57 seasons it was number 28. With "I Love Lucy" ending
The Ed Wynn Show The Ed Wynn Show The Ed Wynn Show was an American comedy/variety show originally broadcast from September 22, 1949–July 4, 1950 on the CBS Television Network. Comedian and former vaudevillian Ed Wynn was the star of the program. 39 episodes were produced and broadcast live from Hollywood, making "The Ed Wynn Show" the first program to do so, and transmitted via kinescope to New York. The show also served as the commercial television debuts of comedian Groucho Marx, singer/actress Dinah Shore, comedy team The Three Stooges, Hattie McDaniel, Buster Keaton, Leon Errol and husband and wife comedy team Lucille Ball