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The Worst Episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

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The Worst Episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

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,...

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  1. 7.0/10(31 votes)

    #1 - Surprise Birthday Party

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    S2:E4

    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.

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    Director:Ralph Levy
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  2. 7.2/10(68 votes)

    #2 - The Property Tax Assessor

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    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Ralph Levy
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  3. 7.2/10(53 votes)

    #3 - The Income Tax Man

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    S1:E12

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

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    Director:Ralph Levy
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  4. 7.2/10(44 votes)

    #4 - Space Patrol Kids Visit

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    S1:E24

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

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  5. 7.3/10(52 votes)

    #5 - Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend

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    S1:E16

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

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  6. 7.3/10(41 votes)

    #6 - Gracie Prepares a Wedding

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    S1:E26

    Gracie invites problems by holding a home wedding.

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  8. 7.4/10(46 votes)

    #7 - Beverly Hills Uplift Society is Out of Money

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    S2:E2

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

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  9. 7.4/10(44 votes)

    #8 - Christmas with Mamie Kelly

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    S2:E7

    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.""

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  10. 7.5/10(55 votes)

    #9 - Harry Morton's Private Secretary

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    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:Ralph Levy
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  11. 7.7/10(59 votes)

    #10 - Gracie's Checking Account

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    S1:E5

    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.

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  12. 7.7/10(21 votes)

    #11 - Thanksgiving

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    S2:E5

    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.

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  13. 7.8/10(105 votes)

    #12 - The Kleebob Card Game

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    S1:E1

    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"".

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    Director:Ralph Levy
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  14. 7.8/10(28 votes)

    #13 - Rhumba Lessons

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    S1:E7

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

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  15. 7.8/10(23 votes)

    #14 - Live Show #19

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    S1:E19

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

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  16. 7.9/10(29 votes)

    #15 - Too Much of the Mortons

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    S1:E21

    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.

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  17. 7.9/10(18 votes)

    #16 - New Dresses for the Concert

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    S2:E6

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

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  18. 7.9/10(37 votes)

    #17 - Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil

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    S3:E9

    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.

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  19. 7.9/10(38 votes)

    #18 - GEORGE LECTURING AT U.C.L.A.

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    S3:E32

    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.

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  20. 8.0/10(38 votes)

    #19 - Gracie the Artist

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    S1:E2

    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.

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  21. 8.0/10(19 votes)

    #20 - Gracie's Christmas

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    S1:E6

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

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  22. 8.0/10(16 votes)

    #21 - Live Show #11

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    S1:E11

    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.

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  23. 8.0/10(20 votes)

    #22 - The Speech Writer

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    S2:E18

    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.

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  24. 8.0/10(22 votes)

    #23 - Divorce Attorney

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    S2:E19

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

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  25. 8.1/10(17 votes)

    #24 - Silky Thompson Moves to Beverly Hills

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    S1:E22

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

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  26. 8.1/10(16 votes)

    #25 - Live Show #43

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    S2:E17

    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.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Surprise Birthday Party" is the worst rated episode of "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show". It scored 7/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by Ralph Levy and written by N/A, it aired on 11/8/1951. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Property Tax Assessor".