7.8/10103 votes#1 - The Kleebob Card Game
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/1950
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"".
Director: Ralph Levy
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1036 votes
#2 - Gracie the Artist
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/26/1950
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Paul Henning, Sid Dorfman
- 7.2/1067 votes
#3 - The Property Tax Assessor
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/1950
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.
Director: Ralph Levy
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1055 votes
#4 - Harry Morton's Private Secretary
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/1950
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.
Director: Ralph Levy
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1059 votes
#5 - Gracie's Checking Account
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/7/1950
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1019 votes
#6 - Gracie's Christmas
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/21/1950
At Christmas, Gracie tells about the Christmases she had as a child.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1028 votes
#7 - Rhumba Lessons
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/28/1950
George and Harry need dancing instruction, but don't want it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1027 votes
#8 - Happy Hmm-Hmm
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/4/1951
Looking at the calendar, Gracie finds that a date has been circled. But why?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/1014 votes
#9 - To Go or Not to Go
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/18/1951
George and Harry Morton want to go duck hunting, but Gracie and Blanche want to go to Palm Springs.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/1014 votes
#10 - St. Bernard
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/1/1951
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1016 votes
#11 - Live Show #11
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/15/1951
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1053 votes
#12 - The Income Tax Man
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/1/1951
The income tax man gets frustrated trying to understand Gracie's tax deductions.
Director: Ralph Levy
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/1014 votes
#13 - Live Show #13
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/15/1951
The Vanderlips are having a dinner party, but have not invited Blanche and Harry.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1017 votes
#14 - Johnny Velvet's Day in Court
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/29/1951
Gracie witnesses an car accident that involves gangster Johnny Velvet. Velvet and his attorney try to intimidate Gracie into testifying in his favor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/1014 votes
#15 - George is Sick
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/12/1951
George is sick. People keep bringing him food to help him gain strength and recover.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1052 votes
#16 - Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/26/1951
Emily Vanderlip stays with the Burnses while her parents are out of town and Gracie tries to help her with her schoolwork.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/1014 votes
#17 - Live Show #17
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/10/1951
Harry Morton sells a lot in the neighborhood to some out-of-state people.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1016 votes
#18 - Too Much of the Mortons
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/24/1951
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1023 votes
#19 - Live Show #19
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/7/1951
Gracie's old school friend Mamie Kelly visits the Burnses.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/1014 votes
#20 - Live Show #20
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/21/1951
Harry Morton would rather go fishing than visit Blanche's mother.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1029 votes
#21 - Too Much of the Mortons
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 7/5/1951
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1017 votes
#22 - Silky Thompson Moves to Beverly Hills
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 7/19/1951
Gangster Silky Thompson wants to move into George and Gracies's neighborhood.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1028 votes
#23 - Gracie's Vegetarian Plot
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 8/2/1951
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1043 votes
#24 - Space Patrol Kids Visit
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 8/16/1951
Trouble starts when Mamie Kelly and her three children park their trailer in the Burns backyard.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1015 votes
#25 - Live Show #25
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 8/30/1951
Gracie gets into trouble ordering appliances from a real-estate client of Harry Morton.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1
Every episode of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1!
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Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Kleebob Card Game" is the best rated episode of "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" season 1. It scored 7.8/10 based on 103 votes. Directed by Ralph Levy and written by N/A, it aired on 10/12/1950. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Gracie the Artist".