Series
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
At Christmas, Gracie tells about the Christmases she had as a child.
George and Harry need dancing instruction, but don't want it.
Looking at the calendar, Gracie finds that a date has been circled. But why?
George and Harry Morton want to go duck hunting, but Gracie and Blanche want to go to Palm Springs.
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.
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 gets frustrated trying to understand Gracie's tax deductions.
The Vanderlips are having a dinner party, but have not invited Blanche and Harry.
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. People keep bringing him food to help him gain strength and recover.
Emily Vanderlip stays with the Burnses while her parents are out of town and Gracie tries to help her with her schoolwork.
Harry Morton sells a lot in the neighborhood to some out-of-state people.
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.
Gracie's old school friend Mamie Kelly visits the Burnses.
Harry Morton would rather go fishing than visit Blanche's mother.
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.
Gangster Silky Thompson wants to move into George and Gracies's neighborhood.
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.
Trouble starts when Mamie Kelly and her three children park their trailer in the Burns backyard.
Gracie gets into trouble ordering appliances from a real-estate client of Harry Morton.
Gracie invites problems by holding a home wedding.
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