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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 1

26 episodes Premiered Oct 12, 1950 Updated Jul 18, 2026
Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S1·E1 Mytharc

The Kleebob Card Game

Oct 12, 1950 · 30 min

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.

S1·E2 Core

Gracie the Artist

Oct 26, 1950 · 30 min

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.

S1·E3 Core

The Property Tax Assessor

Nov 9, 1950 · 30 min

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 Core

Harry Morton's Private Secretary

Nov 23, 1950 · 30 min

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

S1·E5 Core

Gracie's Checking Account

Dec 7, 1950 · 30 min

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

S1·E6 Core

Gracie's Christmas

Dec 21, 1950 · 30 min

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

S1·E7 Core

Rhumba Lessons

Dec 28, 1950 · 30 min

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

S1·E8 Core

Happy Hmm-Hmm

Jan 4, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E9 Core

To Go or Not to Go

Jan 18, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E10 Core

St. Bernard

Feb 1, 1951 · 30 min

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 Core

Live Show #11

Feb 15, 1951 · 30 min

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 Core

The Income Tax Man

Mar 1, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E13 Core

Live Show #13

Mar 15, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E14 Core

Johnny Velvet's Day in Court

Mar 29, 1951 · 30 min

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 Core

George is Sick

Apr 12, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E16 Core

Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend

Apr 26, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E17 Core

Live Show #17

May 10, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E18 Core

Too Much of the Mortons

May 24, 1951 · 30 min

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.

S1·E19 Core

Live Show #19

Jun 7, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E20 Core

Live Show #20

Jun 21, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E21 Core

Too Much of the Mortons

Jul 5, 1951 · 30 min

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 Graci

S1·E23 Core

Gracie's Vegetarian Plot

Aug 2, 1951 · 30 min

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 sp

S1·E24 Core

Space Patrol Kids Visit

Aug 16, 1951 · 30 min

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

S1·E25 Mytharc

Live Show #25

Aug 30, 1951 · 30 min

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