7.0/1030 votesLoading...#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
- 7.2/1067 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.2/1042 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.3/1052 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.3/1051 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.3/1041 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.4/1046 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.4/1044 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.5/1054 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.7/1058 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.7/1021 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.8/10103 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.8/1027 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1022 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1029 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1018 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1034 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1036 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1019 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1016 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1020 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1022 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1017 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1016 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1024 votesLoading...
#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
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".