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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!

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,...
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".

  • The Kleebob Card Game
    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

  • Gracie the Artist
    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

  • The Property Tax Assessor
    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

  • Harry Morton's Private Secretary
    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

  • Gracie's Checking Account
    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

  • Gracie's Christmas
    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

  • Rhumba Lessons
    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

  • Happy Hmm-Hmm
    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

  • To Go or Not to Go
    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

  • St. Bernard
    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

  • Live Show #11
    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

  • The Income Tax Man
    7.3/1052 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

  • Live Show #13
    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

  • Live Show #14
    8.6/1017 votes

    #14 - Live Show #14

    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

  • George is Sick
    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

  • Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend
    7.3/1051 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

  • Live Show #17
    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

  • Too Much of the Mortons
    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

  • Live Show #19
    7.9/1022 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

  • Live Show #20
    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

  • Too Much of the Mortons
    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

  • Live Show #22
    8.1/1017 votes

    #22 - Live Show #22

    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

  • Gracie's Vegetarian Plot
    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

  • Space Patrol Kids Visit
    7.2/1042 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

  • Live Show #25
    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