- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 9.0/1040 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
- 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
- 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
- 8.6/1036 votes
#13 - Uncle Clyde
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1953
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 8.8/1037 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
- 8.7/1032 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
- 8.5/1033 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
- 9.0/1036 votes
#22 - Up All Night - Burgler
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1953
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1027 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
- 8.2/1030 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
- 8.6/1031 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
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".