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The Best Episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 3

Every episode of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 3!

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 3 Ratings Summary

"Free Trip to Hawaii" is the best rated episode of "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" season 3. It scored 8.1/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/9/1952. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist".

  • Free Trip to Hawaii
    8.1/1058 votes

    #1 - Free Trip to Hawaii

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/1952

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist
    8.2/1048 votes

    #2 - Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gracie Worrys about George's Sneezing
    8.7/1045 votes

    #3 - Gracie Worrys about George's Sneezing

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Buying a Boat
    8.1/1040 votes

    #4 - Buying a Boat

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1952

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gracie has George's Portrait Painted
    8.4/1036 votes

    #5 - Gracie has George's Portrait Painted

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/6/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos
    8.2/1038 votes

    #6 - Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ballet Tickets
    8.5/1033 votes

    #7 - The Ballet Tickets

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/20/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Skating Pearsons Come to Visit
    8.2/1038 votes

    #8 - Skating Pearsons Come to Visit

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil
    8.2/1036 votes

    #9 - Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson
    8.7/1041 votes

    #10 - Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1952

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

    Director: Ralph Levy

    Writer: N/A

  • Gracie Thinks George is Going to Commit Suicide
    8.5/1033 votes

    #11 - Gracie Thinks George is Going to Commit Suicide

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1952

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Von Zell Dates a Married Woman
    8.6/1032 votes

    #12 - Von Zell Dates a Married Woman

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Uncle Clyde
    8.6/1036 votes

    #13 - Uncle Clyde

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1953

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her
    8.7/1026 votes

    #14 - Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Harry Wants to Trade His House/Gracie Trying to Keep Mortons From Moving Away
    8.5/1034 votes

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

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gracie Thinks She and George are Not Married
    8.8/1040 votes

    #16 - Gracie Thinks She and George are Not Married

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mayor Brown Comes to Dinner
    9.0/1038 votes

    #17 - Mayor Brown Comes to Dinner

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1953

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl
    8.8/1031 votes

    #18 - George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gracie on a Train - Murder
    8.8/1038 votes

    #19 - Gracie on a Train - Murder

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Blanche Wants New Car/Gracie Gets Von Zell a Wife
    8.7/1033 votes

    #20 - Blanche Wants New Car/Gracie Gets Von Zell a Wife

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1953

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Swamp Party
    8.4/1034 votes

    #21 - Swamp Party

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1953

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Up All Night - Burgler
    9.0/1037 votes

    #22 - Up All Night - Burgler

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1953

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Buying a Ranch
    8.4/1028 votes

    #23 - Buying a Ranch

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • George in the Army
    8.2/1031 votes

    #24 - George in the Army

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gacie Reports the Car Stolen
    8.5/1032 votes

    #25 - Gacie Reports the Car Stolen

    Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A