The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Season 3

40 episodes · Oct 9, 1952

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  • S3E1

    Free Trip to Hawaii

    Oct 9, 195230m

    Gracie tries to play cupid for Harry and her wardrobe woman, not realizing that the woman is married already and has two children

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  • S3E2

    Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist

    Oct 16, 195230m

    Gracie gives a dinner party for a famous but somewhat eccentric atomic scientist, who never accepts invitations. However, the scientist hears that George was in Las Vegas at the time of the atomic testing and, thinking that George is a fellow scientist, accepts Gracie's invitation.

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  • S3E3

    Gracie Worrys about George's Sneezing

    Oct 23, 195230m

    George has been sneezing for a comedy routine, so Gracie takes a medical exam for him and the doctor concludes she's mentally ill. Meanwhile, a dieting Harry Morton hides food all over the house.

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  • S3E4

    Buying a Boat

    Oct 30, 195230m

    Gracie recruits Harry to buy George a boat. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Harry Von Zell.

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  • S3E5

    Gracie has George's Portrait Painted

    Nov 6, 195230m

    Gracie hires an artist to paint a portrait of George. But the painter is confounded when Gracie explains that she wants to give the portrait to George as a surprise gift.

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  • S3E6

    Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos

    Nov 13, 195230m

    Gracie and Blanche complain that their husbands have lost their romantic spark, so George persuades Harry to pose as an amorous Frenchman to teach them a lesson. Bea Benaderet, Larry Keating, Ronnie Burns.

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  • S3E7

    The Ballet Tickets

    Nov 20, 195230m

    Culture enters the Burns household as Gracie tries to get George to sponsor a ballet company. Some interesting mixups occur, and the episode ends with George and Gracie doing a dance number without music.

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  • S3E8

    Skating Pearsons Come to Visit

    Nov 27, 195230m

    A couple from George and Gracie's vaudeville days, "The Skating Pearsons" drop by for a visit. They're worried that their son, Joey, wants to get into show business, and ask George and Gracie to talk the boy out of it.

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  • S3E9

    Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil

    Dec 4, 195230m

    To get Harry to buy Blanche a TV, Gracie tries to get him to buy some swampland--but Harry gets the idea that there's oil under the property.

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  • S3E10

    Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson

    Dec 11, 195230m

    Gracie tangles with the underworld. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet, Harry Von Zell, Larry Keating.

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  • S3E11

    Gracie Thinks George is Going to Commit Suicide

    Dec 18, 195230m

    Gracie thinks George wants to get out of a complicated existence. Harry Von Zell, Larry Keating, Bea Benaderet.

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  • S3E12

    Von Zell Dates a Married Woman

    Dec 25, 195230m

    Harry Von Zell has inadvertently dated a married woman, but Harry Morton is the one in big trouble when Gracie inexplicably (to our logic) poses on the telephone as Von Zell's wife and gives the woman's husband the Mortons' address.

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  • S3E13

    Uncle Clyde

    Jan 1, 195330m
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  • S3E14

    Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her

    Jan 8, 195330m

    Harry buys an anniversary present for Blanche and hides it at the Burns' home. However, Gracie finds it and thinks that Harry has fallen in love with her and is trying to win her from George. She sets out to come up with a scheme to "discourage" Harry and show him that he and Gracie are not meant for each other.

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  • S3E15

    Gracie Trying to Keep Mortons From Moving Away

    Jan 15, 195330m

    Harry Morton trades his house for one across town. Gracie doesn't want to lose her best friend Blanche, so when the new neighbors move into the Mortons' house, Gracie does everything she can think of to convince them that they wouldn't want to live next door to a household as crazy as the Burns' one.

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  • S3E16

    Gracie Thinks She and George are Not Married

    Jan 22, 195330m

    Gracie has acquired the crazy notion that she and George were never legally married. Jack Benny, a witness to their marriage, visits the Burns household in an attempt to straighten Gracie out.

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  • S3E17

    Mayor Brown Comes to Dinner

    Jan 29, 195330m

    Graice invites the mayor of Los Angeles for dinner. Fletcher Bowron, longtime Los Angeles mayor in real life, plays himself.

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  • S3E18

    George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl

    Feb 5, 195330m

    Gracie and Blanche are disturbed by their husbands' extracurricular activities: Harry has been playing poker late at night, and George went to Ciro's with Georgie Jessel, who bought a teddy bear for $50 from a cigarette girl.

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  • S3E19

    Gracie on a Train - Murder

    Feb 12, 195330m

    Harry Morton gets into trouble with the police as a result of Gracie's mistaken notion that a man she met on a train is planning to kill his wife.

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  • S3E20

    Blanche Wants New Car / Gracie Gets Von Zell a Wife

    Feb 19, 195330m

    Gracie tries to find Von Zell a wife and children so he can save money on his income tax.

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  • S3E21

    Swamp Party

    Feb 26, 195330m

    Gracie tries to help the Mortons sell their swamp.

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  • S3E22

    Up All Night - Burgler

    Mar 5, 195330m
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  • S3E23

    Buying a Ranch

    Mar 12, 195330m

    Gracie believes that George wants to buy a ranch. Harry Morton and his partner Casey want to be the ones to sell it to him. But George does not really want to buy a ranch, and, perhaps ill-advisedly, relies on Harry Von Zell to help him get out of it.

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  • S3E24

    George in the Army

    Mar 19, 195330m

    Gracie has the idea that joining the Army will be good for George, and enlists him. George is not worried, because a doctor is coming to the house to examine him and he knows he will fail the physical. At the same time, Harry Morton is applying for life insurance and also must be examined by a doctor. Let's hope there is no mixup.

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  • S3E25

    Gacie Reports the Car Stolen

    Mar 26, 195330m

    Someone whistles in George's dressing room and Gracie, believing the old show-biz superstition that it will mean three days of bad luck, hides George's car so that he can't make a scheduled trip to Palm Springs. George reports the car stolen, but eventually gets it back and sets off on his drive to Palm Springs--where he's arrested by the police because his car is still on the "hot car" list.

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  • S3E26

    Gracie Pretends She's a College Boy's Mother

    Mar 30, 195330m

    Gracie poses as a student's mother so he can bring his girlfriend "home" to dinner. Harry Von Zell, Bea Benaderet, Larry Keating.

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  • S3E27

    Buying a Mountain Cabin

    Apr 6, 195330m

    Problems arise when Harry Von Zell decides to buy a cabin from a real estate agent who is a competitor to Harry Morton, and Gracie gets the wrong impression that George is the one buying the cabin.

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  • S3E28

    The Missing Fur Stole

    Apr 13, 195330m

    Lots of mixups, in both plot and dialogue, as Gracie mistakenly reports to the police that Blanche's new fur stole has been stolen.

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  • S3E29

    Spanish Lessons

    Apr 20, 195330m

    Spanish lessons for Gracie and Blanche lead to George getting into some very unexpected trouble.

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  • S3E30

    Gracie & Cleaning Woman / Vanderlips

    Apr 27, 195330m

    Gracie jeopardizes Harry Morton's bank loan and George and Harry Von Zell's well-being when she mistakenly determines Mr. Vanderlip has been having an affair with his cook

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  • S3E31

    Von Zell's Old Girlfriend Visits

    May 4, 195330m

    Von Zell's college sweetheart is planning to drop by. He has given her the impression that he is married, and Gracie wants to help him appear so. At the same time, Harry Morton has been too much of a doormat to his business partner, Casey, and this relationship needs to be straightened out (by guess who?).

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  • S3E32

    George Lecturing at UCLA

    May 11, 195330m

    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.

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  • S3E33

    Gracie and Harry Morton / Missing Persons Bureau

    May 18, 195330m

    Gracie gets involved with the missing Persons Bureau in trying to locate Harry Morton for his wife Blanche.

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  • S3E34

    Surprise Party Mix-Up

    Jul 6, 195330m

    Gracie throws a monkey wrench into a birthday party for Harry Morton.

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  • S3E35

    Cousins Perry and Pete

    Jul 13, 195330m

    George invites a pair of burglars to stay in their home after Gracie introduces them as her cousins.

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  • S3E36

    Gracie Thinks George is Going Solo

    Jul 20, 195330m

    Some amusement results when Gracie finds a telegram from 1923. In it, George is asked to do a Broadway show, but without his partner. Gracie does not notice the date on the telegram, and tries to figure out a way to make George feel free to do the show without her.

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  • S3E37

    Gracie Trying to Get George to Go On Trip East

    Jul 27, 195330m

    Gracie decides that she wants to go to New York with the Mortons for a vacation.

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  • S3E38

    Gracie Witnesses a Holdup

    Aug 3, 195330m

    Gracie has witnessed a bank robbery, and is scheduled as a witness against gangster Johnny Velvet. George is expecting to sing at a dinner for Ronald Reagan, but the guest list is dwindling.

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  • S3E39

    Locked Out of the House

    Aug 10, 195330m

    Thanks to Gracie's carelessness, the Burns and Mortons get locked out of their homes in the middle of the night, much to the chagrin of the locksmith's jealous wife.

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  • S3E40

    Gracie Falls in a Department Store

    Aug 17, 195330m

    Gracie trips and falls, as a result of her high heel getting caught in a hole in the rug at the department store. The store's management attempts to reach a monetary settlement with Gracie, but are thwarted by confused resistance.

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