The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

30min

Comedy

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, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.

Episodes

Cast

The Kleebob Card Game

1. The Kleebob Card Game

30min

12th Oct 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"".

Gracie the Artist

2. Gracie the Artist

30min

26th Oct 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.

The Property Tax Assessor

3. The Property Tax Assessor

30min

9th Nov 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.

Harry Morton's Private Secretary

4. Harry Morton's Private Secretary

30min

23rd Nov 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.

Gracie's Checking Account

5. Gracie's Checking Account

30min

7th Dec 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.

Gracie's Christmas

6. Gracie's Christmas

30min

21st Dec 1950

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

Rhumba Lessons

7. Rhumba Lessons

30min

28th Dec 1950

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

Happy Hmm-Hmm

8. Happy Hmm-Hmm

30min

4th Jan 1951

Looking at the calendar, Gracie finds that a date has been circled. But why?

To Go or Not to Go

9. To Go or Not to Go

30min

18th Jan 1951

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

St. Bernard

10. St. Bernard

30min

1st Feb 1951

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.

Live Show #11

11. Live Show #11

30min

15th Feb 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.

The Income Tax Man

12. The Income Tax Man

30min

1st Mar 1951

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

Live Show #13

13. Live Show #13

30min

15th Mar 1951

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

Johnny Velvet's Day in Court

14. Johnny Velvet's Day in Court

30min

29th Mar 1951

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

George is Sick

15. George is Sick

30min

12th Apr 1951

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

Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend

16. Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend

30min

26th Apr 1951

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

Live Show #17

17. Live Show #17

30min

10th May 1951

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

Too Much of the Mortons

18. Too Much of the Mortons

30min

24th May 1951

The Vanderlips plan a costume party. To get ideas on costumes, Gracie goes to a travel agency to look at the photos in the brochures.

Live Show #19

19. Live Show #19

30min

7th Jun 1951

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

Live Show #20

20. Live Show #20

30min

21st Jun 1951

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

Too Much of the Mortons

21. Too Much of the Mortons

30min

5th Jul 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.

Silky Thompson Moves to Beverly Hills

22. Silky Thompson Moves to Beverly Hills

30min

19th Jul 1951

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

Gracie's Vegetarian Plot

23. Gracie's Vegetarian Plot

30min

2nd Aug 1951

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.

Space Patrol Kids Visit

24. Space Patrol Kids Visit

30min

16th Aug 1951

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

Live Show #25

25. Live Show #25

30min

30th Aug 1951

Gracie gets into trouble ordering appliances from a real-estate client of Harry Morton.

Gracie Prepares a Wedding

26. Gracie Prepares a Wedding

30min

13th Sep 1951

Gracie invites problems by holding a home wedding.

First air date

12th Oct 1950

Last air date

15th Sep 1958

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks