The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Seasons

1950

8.6

Neighbor Blanche Morton frequently joined Gracie in escapades which annoy hubby Harry and provides George with an opportunity to offer a humorous soliloquy.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Kleebob Card Game

A door-to-door book salesman finds Gracie to be a tough customer; George and Harry try to get out of going to the movies by teaching their wives a confusing card game they invented for that purpose called "Kleebob."

S1 • E2

Gracie the Artist

After briefly discussing reaction to the first Burns and Allen telecast, George steps aside as Gracie visits an art museum and immediately decides that she will become a painter. In the middle of the show the dance team of Fosse and Niles do a number.

S1 • E3

The Property Tax Assessor

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.

S1 • E4

Harry Morton's Private Secretary

Blanche Morton becomes jealous when her husband, Harry, hires a new secretary because she assumes his new assistant is female. 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.

S1 • E5

Gracie's Checking Account

George's banker persuades him to cancel Gracie's checking account. Meanwhile, a traffic cop tries to give Gracie a ticket for running red lights.

S1 • E6

Gracie's Christmas

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

S1 • E7

Rumba Lessons

Before the Mortons and Burnses go to a party, Gracie hires an Arthur Murray dance instructor to teach George and Harry how to dance. The boys beg off, citing "old football injuries" until they see the beautiful female dance instructor who will conduct the lesson.

S1 • E8

Happy Hmm Hmm

Gracie discovers that today's date is circled on her calendar, but she doesn't remember why. She assumes she's supposed to throw a party.

S1 • E9

To Go or Not to Go

George and Harry Morton want to go duck hunting, but Gracie and Blanche want to go to Palm Springs.

S1 • E10

Gracie and the St. Bernard

Gracie finds a stray St. Bernard dog so she brings him home. She tries to teach him tricks, such as how to fetch George's golf clubs which displeases George.

S1 • E11

Holding Out

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.

S1 • E12

The Income Tax Man

George's accountant can't grasp Gracie's proposed tax deductions.

S1 • E13

The Vanderlips' Dinner Party

The Vanderlips are having a dinner party, but have not invited Blanche and Harry.

S1 • E14

Johnny Velvet's Day in Court

Gracie witnesses an car accident that involves gangster Johnny Velvet. Velvet and his attorney try to intimidate Gracie into testifying in his favor.

S1 • E15

George is Sick

George is sick. People keep bringing him food to help him gain strength and recover.

S1 • E16

Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend

The Vanderlips are going out of town for a few days, so Gracie volunteers to let their teenage daughter Emily stay with her and George during that time. Emily soon gets an interesting lesson when Gracie "helps" her with her schoolwork.

S1 • E17

The Andersons Move In

Harry Morton sells a lot in the neighborhood to some out-of-state people.

S1 • E18

The Vanderlips' Costume Party

The Vanderlips plan to throw a lavish costume party, and Gracie looks to travel brochures to get some "ideas" for costumes for she and George.

S1 • E19

Mamie Kelly Gets Stuck

Gracie's friend Mamie Kelly comes to visit and overstays her welcome because she keeps missing the various modes of transportation out of the city.

S1 • E20

To Fish or Not to Fish

Harry Morton would rather go fishing than visit Blanche's mother.

S1 • E21

Too Much of the Mortons

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.

S1 • E22

Silky Thompson Moves to Beverly Hills

A petition is circulated to prevent gangster Silky Thompson from moving into George and Gracie's neighborhood - and after spending some time with Gracie, Thompson signs it himself.

S1 • E23

Gracie's Vegetarian Plot

Gracie and Blanche read a diet book. They invite the author to speak at the meeting of their club, the Beverly Hills Uplifters Society. Gracie and Blanche are so inspired by the speech that they serve their husbands nothing but vegetables.

S1 • E24

Space Patrol Kids Visit

George's attempts to write a speech are interrupted by the Mortons, Harry and Mamie's children who, as Space Patrol cadets are constantly attacking "the Earthman" with their toy blasters.

S1 • E25

Buying Wholesale

Harry Morton has a real-estate client who sells appliances. Harry tells Gracie that she can order things through him wholesale. George makes her take the appliances back, so she buys the same items-retail.