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The Worst Episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Every episode of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show ranked from worst to best. Explore 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,...
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS

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 30 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".

  • Surprise Birthday Party
    7.0/1030 votes
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    #1 - Surprise Birthday Party

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/1951

    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.

    Director: Ralph Levy

    Writer: N/A

  • The Property Tax Assessor
    7.2/1067 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • Space Patrol Kids Visit
    7.2/1042 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • The Income Tax Man
    7.3/1052 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend
    7.3/1051 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Gracie Prepares a Wedding
    7.3/1041 votes
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    #6 - Gracie Prepares a Wedding

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 9/13/1951

    Gracie invites problems by holding a home wedding.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Beverly Hills Uplift Society is Out of Money
    7.4/1046 votes
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    #7 - Beverly Hills Uplift Society is Out of Money

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1951

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Christmas with Mamie Kelly
    7.4/1044 votes
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    #8 - Christmas with Mamie Kelly

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/20/1951

    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.""

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Harry Morton's Private Secretary
    7.5/1055 votes
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    #9 - 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
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    #10 - 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

  • Thanksgiving
    7.7/1021 votes
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    #11 - Thanksgiving

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/22/1951

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Kleebob Card Game
    7.8/10103 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Rhumba Lessons
    7.8/1028 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Live Show #19
    7.9/1022 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Too Much of the Mortons
    7.9/1029 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • New Dresses for the Concert
    7.9/1018 votes
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    #16 - New Dresses for the Concert

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/6/1951

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • GEORGE LECTURING AT U.C.L.A.
    7.9/1034 votes
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    #17 - GEORGE LECTURING AT U.C.L.A.

    Season 3 Episode 32 - Aired 5/11/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gracie the Artist
    8.0/1036 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Gracie's Christmas
    8.0/1019 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Live Show #11
    8.0/1016 votes
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    #20 - 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 Speech Writer
    8.0/1020 votes
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    #21 - The Speech Writer

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/22/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Divorce Attorney
    8.0/1022 votes
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    #22 - Divorce Attorney

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 6/5/1952

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Live Show #22
    8.1/1017 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Live Show #43
    8.1/1016 votes
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    #24 - Live Show #43

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 5/8/1952

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Live Show #47
    8.1/1024 votes
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    #25 - Live Show #47

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 7/3/1952

    Gracie has to renew her drivers license.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A