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In the opening episode, Gracie and Blanche want to go to the movies and George and Harry want to go to the fights.  George tries to trick Gracie with a made-up card game called ""Kleebob"".

The Kleebob Card Game

After going to an art museum, Gracie believes she can become a great artist.  She begins her art career by painting a portrait of George.

Gracie the Artist

George Burns delivers a monologue on how he met Gracie while she bollixes the tax assessor and frustrates George and Harry with their football knowledge.

The Property Tax Assessor

When Harry Morton hires a new secretary, Blanch and Gracie suspect that he has hired a beautiful girl. Meanwhile, a pretty high school student drops by the Burns home to interview George for her high school newspaper, Blanche and Gracie assume that the girl is the person Harry just hired.

Harry Morton's Private Secretary

Gracie returns George's Xmas gifts before he has seen them because he always exchanges them anyway.  The banker, Mr. Vanderlip has a talk with the Burnses about Gracie's odd check writing system.

Gracie's Checking Account

At Christmas, Gracie tells about the Christmases she had as a child.

Gracie's Christmas

George and Harry need dancing instruction, but don't want it.

Rhumba Lessons

Looking at the calendar, Gracie finds that a date has been circled.  But why?

Happy Hmm-Hmm

George and Harry Morton want to go duck hunting, but Gracie and Blanche want to go to Palm Springs.

To Go or Not to Go

Gracie finds a stray St. Bernard dog so she brings him home. She tries to teach him tricks, such as how to fetch George's golf clubs which displeases George.

St. Bernard

When Blanche discovers that Harry has been holding out money from his paycheck to go to the racetrack, she leaves him and stays with the Burnses.

Live Show #11

The income tax man gets frustrated trying to understand Gracie's tax deductions.

The Income Tax Man

The Vanderlips are having a dinner party, but have not invited Blanche and Harry.

Live Show #13

Gracie witnesses an car accident that involves gangster Johnny Velvet.  Velvet and his attorney try to intimidate Gracie into testifying in his favor.

Johnny Velvet's Day in Court

George is sick.  People keep bringing him food to help him gain strength and recover.

George is Sick

Emily Vanderlip stays with the Burnses while her parents are out of town and Gracie tries to help her with her schoolwork.

Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend

Harry Morton sells a lot in the neighborhood to some out-of-state people.

Live Show #17

The Vanderlips plan a costume party.  To get ideas on costumes, Gracie goes to a travel agency to look at the photos in the brochures.

Too Much of the Mortons

Gracie's old school friend Mamie Kelly visits the Burnses.

Live Show #19

Harry Morton would rather go fishing than visit Blanche's mother.

Live Show #20

George comes to the conclusion that he and Gracie are seeing too much of the Mortons. He devises a plan to trick Blanche and Harry to go out of town for the weekend so he and Gracie can use the Mortons' pool by themselves. Complications ensue.

Gangster Silky Thompson wants to move into George and Gracies's neighborhood.

Silky Thompson Moves to Beverly Hills

Gracie and Blanche read a diet book. They invite the author to speak at the meeting of their club, the Beverly Hills Uplifters Society. Gracie and Blanche are so inspired by the speech that they serve their husbands nothing but vegetables.

Gracie's Vegetarian Plot

Trouble starts when Mamie Kelly and her three children park their trailer in the Burns backyard.

Space Patrol Kids Visit

Gracie gets into trouble ordering appliances from a real-estate client of Harry Morton.

Live Show #25

Gracie invites problems by holding a home wedding.

Gracie Prepares a Wedding

Blanche is worried after having a string of bad dreams, but is afraid to go to a psychiatrist. Gracie decides to go in her place, pretending to be Blanche, so she can tell Blanche what the psychiatrist thinks of "her" problem. However, Harry hears that his wife is seeing a "shrink" and begins to treat Blanche better than he ever had before. Gracie thinks that if Harry treats his wife better when he thinks she's crazy, maybe if George think's Gracie's crazy he'll treat her better, too.

Gracie Goes to a Psychiatrist

Gracie and her Uplifters Society are locked out of their clubhouse because Gracie forgot to pay the rent.

Beverly Hills Uplift Society is Out of Money

Football game tickets bring about complications for the Burnses and Mortons.

The Football Game

Gracie plans a surprise birthday party for George. The plan is that he is to invite all his friends to the Mocambo nightclub for a party but they are to decline his invitation, leaving him to think that nobody has remembered his birthday. However, Gracie being Gracie, things go awry quickly.

Surprise Birthday Party

Gracie is having friends over for Thanksgiving dinner, including Harry Morton's business partner and his wife, Linda Lee. As it happens, a horse that Harry is betting on is also named Linda Lee, and Grace gets the two "Linda Lees" confused. Complications ensue.

Thanksgiving

The Uplifters society is having a concert and Gracie and Blanche want new dresses.

New Dresses for the Concert

George and Gracie's second Christmas show.  Mamie Kelly and her children join the Burnses for the holidays.  George dresses up like Santa for the children and Gracie tells the children the story of ""A Christmas Carol.""

Christmas with Mamie Kelly

Gracie has a storeroom built so she can store canned fruits and vegetables. When the project gets out of hand, George hires someone to pretend he's a building inspector to tell her she doesn't have a permit and will have to tear the storeroom down.

Gracie's Storeroom

Blanche enters the race for the presidency of the Beverly Hills Uplifters.

Blanche for President

George and Harry have some trouble when the Vanderlips are invited over to the Burns home for dinner.

Dinner With the Vanderlips

Gracie finds a dent in the fender of the car.  To keep George from noticing, she tries to convince George that the Burnses and Mortons should walk to a football game rather than drive.

Gracie and the Dented Fender

George and Gracie are taking a trip to Jack Benny's Palm Springs home. Blanche wants to go, but Harry says no. Blanche doesn't accept "no" for an answer.

Trip to Palm Springs

When Gracie misplaces her engagement ring, George decides to teach her a lesson.

Gracie Loses Her Engagement Ring

Harry and the Gold Digger

Live Show #41

A feud between George and Jack Benny is the result of Jack stealing one of George's jokes.

Jack Benny Steals George's Joke

Gracie wants to redecorate, and to get George out of the house she tricks him into taking Harry Morton fishing. However, when Harry declines to go fishing, Grace has to come up with another plan to get rid of George.

Live Show #43

Mamie Kelly and her obnoxious kids again park their trailer in George and Gracie's driveway and cause lots of trouble as they obstruct George's endeavor to write a speech.

The Speech Writer

A prediction from a phoney swami results in Gracie engaging an attorney to divorce George.

Divorce Attorney

Live Show #47

Gracie tells a record company exec she's married to a famous singer and promises to bring him in. In Gracie's mind, George IS a famous singer.

Live Show #48

The Mortons invite George and Gracie to the Happy Time Lodge, but George doesn't want to go so he comes up with a story that he has to come up with $50,000 that night and he won't be able to go if he doesn't get the money. Gracie overhears this and, thinking that she and George are broke, plans to rent out their spare rooms to boarders.

Live Show #49

Gracie goes to the racetrack and winds up buying a horse. The horse's former owners accompany Gracie back to the house and wind up moving in. Meanwhile, the police have been looking for the horse because the animal's "owners" are actually horse thieves--and they track it to George's house.

Live Show #50

George tells Gracie that he ran into George Jessel at the Friars Club, but Gracie somehow misinterprets it into thinking that George thinks he needs glasses. She gets an eye doctor to come to the house to give George an exam, but it turns out that the doctor needs glasses more than anyone else does.

Live Show #51

Gracie and Blanche want to redecorate their houses, but they know that George and Harry won't go for it. Gracie comes up with a plan to get George out of the house--she invites her relatives to stay for two weeks.

Gracie and Blanche Want to Redecorate

Gracie tries to play cupid for Harry and her wardrobe woman, not realizing that the woman is married already and has two children

Free Trip to Hawaii

Gracie gives a dinner party for a famous but somewhat eccentric atomic scientist, who never accepts invitations. However, the scientist hears that George was in Las Vegas at the time of the atomic testing and, thinking that George is a fellow scientist, accepts Gracie's invitation.

Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist

George Sneezing/Gracie Thinks He's Insane. George has been sneezing for a comedy routine, so Gracie takes a medical exam for him and the doctor concludes she's mentally ill. Meanwhile, a dieting Harry Morton hides food all over the house.

Gracie Worrys about George's Sneezing

Gracie recruits Harry to buy George a boat. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Harry Von Zell.

Buying a Boat

Gracie hires an artist to paint a portrait of George.  But the painter is confounded when Gracie explains that she wants to give the portrait to George as a surprise gift.

Gracie has George's Portrait Painted

Gracie and Blanche complain that their husbands have lost their romantic spark, so George persuades Harry to pose as an amorous Frenchman to teach them a lesson. Bea Benaderet, Larry Keating, Ronnie Burns.

Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos

Culture enters the Burns household as Gracie tries to get George to sponsor a ballet company.  Some interesting mixups occur, and the episode ends with George and Gracie doing a dance number without music.

The Ballet Tickets

A couple from George and Gracie's vaudeville days, "The Skating Pearsons" drop by for a visit. They're worried that their son, Joey, wants to get into show business, and ask George and Gracie to talk the boy out of it.

Skating Pearsons Come to Visit

To get Harry to buy Blanche a TV, Gracie tries to get him to buy some swampland--but Harry gets the idea that there's oil under the property.

Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil

Gracie tangles with the underworld. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet, Harry Von Zell, Larry Keating.

Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson

Gracie thinks George wants to get out of a complicated existence. Harry Von Zell, Larry Keating, Bea Benaderet.

Gracie Thinks George is Going to Commit Suicide

Harry Von Zell has inadvertently dated a married woman, but Harry Morton is the one in big trouble when Gracie inexplicably (to our logic) poses on the telephone as Von Zell's wife and gives the woman's husband the Mortons' address.

Von Zell Dates a Married Woman

Uncle Clyde

Harry buys an anniversary present for Blanche and hides it at the Burns' home. However, Gracie finds it and thinks that Harry has fallen in love with her and is trying to win her from George. She sets out to come up with a scheme to "discourage" Harry and show him that he and Gracie are not meant for each other.

Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her

Harry Morton trades his house for one across town. Gracie doesn't want to lose her best friend Blanche, so when the new neighbors move into the Mortons' house, Gracie does everything she can think of to convince them that they wouldn't want to live next door to a household as crazy as the Burns' one.

Harry Wants to Trade His House/Gracie Trying to Keep Mortons From Moving Away

Gracie has acquired the crazy notion that she and George were never legally married.  Jack Benny, a witness to their marriage, visits the Burns household in an attempt to straighten Gracie out.

Gracie Thinks She and George are Not Married

Graice invites the mayor of Los Angeles for dinner.  Fletcher Bowron, longtime Los Angeles mayor in real life, plays himself.

Mayor Brown Comes to Dinner

Gracie and Blanche are disturbed by their husbands' extracurricular activities:  Harry has been playing poker late at night, and George went to Ciro's with Georgie Jessel, who bought a teddy bear for $50 from a cigarette girl.

George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl

Harry Morton gets into trouble with the police as a result of Gracie's mistaken notion that a man she met on a train is planning to kill his wife.

Gracie on a Train - Murder

Gracie tries to find Von Zell a wife and children so he can save money on his income tax.

Blanche Wants New Car/Gracie Gets Von Zell a Wife

Gracie has a very ""entertaining"" way of helping Harry Morton in his real estate business.

Swamp Party

Up All Night - Burgler

Gracie believes that George wants to buy a ranch.  Harry Morton and his partner Casey want to be the ones to sell it to him.  But George does not really want to buy a ranch, and, perhaps ill-advisedly, relies on Harry Von Zell to help him get out of it.

Buying a Ranch

Gracie has the idea that joining the Army will be good for George, and enlists him.  George is not worried, because a doctor is coming to the house to examine him and he knows he will fail the physical.  At the same time, Harry Morton is applying for life insurance and also must be examined by a doctor.  Let's hope there is no mixup.

George in the Army

Someone whistles in George's dressing room and Gracie, believing the old show-biz superstition that it will mean three days of bad luck, hides George's car so that he can't make a scheduled trip to Palm Springs. George reports the car stolen, but eventually gets it back and sets off on his drive to Palm Springs--where he's arrested by the police because his car is still on the "hot car" list.

Gacie Reports the Car Stolen

Gracie poses as a student's mother so he can bring his girlfriend "home" to dinner. Harry Von Zell, Bea Benaderet, Larry Keating.

Gracie Pretends She's a College Boy's Mother

Problems arise when Harry Von Zell decides to buy a cabin from a real estate agent who is a competitor to Harry Morton, and Gracie gets the wrong impression that George is the one buying the cabin.

Buying a Mountain Cabin

Lots of mixups, in both plot and dialogue, as Gracie mistakenly reports to the police that Blanche's new fur stole has been stolen.

The Missing Fur Stole

Spanish lessons for Gracie and Blanche lead to George getting into some very unexpected trouble.

Spanish Lessons

Gracie jeopardizes Harry Morton's bank loan and George and Harry Von Zell's well-being when she mistakenly determines Mr. Vanderlip has been having an affair with his cook

Gracie & Cleaning Woman/Vanderlips

Von Zell's college sweetheart is planning to drop by.  He has given her the impression that he is married, and Gracie wants to help him appear so.  At the same time, Harry Morton has been too much of a doormat to his business partner, Casey, and this relationship needs to be straightened out (by guess who?).

Von Zell's Old Girlfriend Visits

Synopsis 1: 

George appears as a guest speaker at UCLA. 

Synopsis 2:

George receives an invitation to lecture at a college, but when he overhears the Mortons and Harry von Zell making fun of him, he refuses.

GEORGE LECTURING AT U.C.L.A.

Synopsis 1: 

When ravenous Harry Morton misses lunch, Gracie reports him missing. 

Synopsis 2:

Gracie gets involved with the missing Persons Bureau in trying to locate Harry Morton for his wife Blanche.

GRACIE AND HARRY MORTON--MISSING PERSONS BUREAU

Gracie throws a monkey wrench into a birthday party for Harry Morton.

Surprise Party Mix-Up

George invites a pair of burglars to stay in their home after Gracie introduces them as her cousins.

Cousins Perry and Pete

Some amusement results when Gracie finds a telegram from 1923.  In it, George is asked to do a Broadway show, but without his partner.  Gracie does not notice the date on the telegram, and tries to figure out a way to make George feel free to do the show without her.

Gracie Thinks George is Going Solo

Gracie decides that she wants to go to New York with the Mortons for a vacation.

GRACIE TRYING TO GET GEORGE TO GO ON TRIP EAST

Gracie has witnessed a bank robbery, and is scheduled as a witness against gangster Johnny Velvet.  George is expecting to sing at a dinner for Ronald Reagan, but the guest list is dwindling.

Gracie Witnesses a Holdup

Thanks to Gracie's carelessness, the Burns and Mortons get locked out of their homes in the middle of the night, much to the chagrin of the locksmith's jealous wife.

Locked Out of the House

Gracie trips and falls, as a result of her high heel getting caught in a hole in the rug at the department store. The store's management attempts to reach a monetary settlement with Gracie, but are thwarted by confused resistance.

Gracie Falls in a Department Store

When George declares he "can't see" how Harry Morton could spend $200 on an iron deer for his lawn, Gracie concludes George's eyesight is deteriorating.

The Iron Deer

The prospect of Gracie being called for jury duty evokes much concern from all her friends

Gracie Helps Harry get a New Account

The prospect of Gracie being called for jury duty evokes much concern from all her friends.

Gracie Gets a Jury Summons

Gracie (mistakenly, of course) gets the notion that Blanche is a kleptomaniac and wreaks havoc by trying to cover up for her.

Gracie Thinks Blanche is a Kleptomaniac

A mutual acquaintance ticks off George and Harry Morton, so Gracie thinks they're mad at each other. To patch up their friendship, Gracie decides to turn them both against Harry Von Zell.

George and Harry are Mad at Each Other

Gracie mistakes the Mortons' lawn man for the business manager she hired.

Getting a Business Manager

After Gracie gives away Harry Morton's fur coat, she goes to great lengths to procure a replacement.

The Raccoon Coats

Gracie has the mistaken impression that Harry Von Zell is broke, and, of course, endeavors to help him.

Gracie Thinks Von Zell is Broke

Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.

The Best Seasons of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

The Best Seasons of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

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Season 1

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