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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show - Episode Guide

Season 1

The Kleebob Card Game

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1950

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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

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1950

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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

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1950

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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

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1950

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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.

Gracie's Checking Account

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1950

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The banker, Mr. Vanderlip, has a talk with the Burns about Gracie's odd check writing system.

Gracie's Christmas

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1950

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

Rhumba Lessons

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Dec 28, 1950

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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. 

Happy Hmm-Hmm

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1951

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Gracie discovers that today's date is circled on her calendar, but she doesn't remember why.

To Go or Not to Go

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1951

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

St. Bernard

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1951

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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.

Holding Out

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1951

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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 Burns.

The Income Tax Man

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1951

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

The Vanderlips' Dinner Party

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1951

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

Gracie's Car Accident

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1951

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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

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Apr 12, 1951

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

Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1951

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

The Andersons Move In

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: May 10, 1951

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

The Vanderlips' Costume Party

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: May 24, 1951

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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.

Mamie Kelly Gets Stuck

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1951

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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. 

To Fish or Not to Fish

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Jun 21, 1951

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

Too Much of the Mortons

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Jul 5, 1951

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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. 

Gracie's Vegetarian Plot

Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Aug 2, 1951

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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

Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Aug 16, 1951

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

Buying Wholesale

Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Aug 30, 1951

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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. 

Gracie Prepares a Wedding

Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Sep 13, 1951

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Gracie organizes a wedding for a woman in the Burns's living room. 

Season 2

Gracie Goes to a Psychiatrist

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1951

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Blanche plans to see a psychiatrist because she's been plagued by nightmares, but when she chickens out, Gracie waltzes into the office pretending to be Blanche. Befuddled, the doctor contacts Harry to tell him his wife's insane. 

The Football Game

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1951

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The Burns and Mortons each buy four tickets for the football game, but when they realize there are more tickets than people, each couple decides to sell them,

Surprise Birthday Party

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1951

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Gracie plans a surprise birthday party for George. The plan is that he is to invite all his friends to the Mocambo nightclub for a party but they are to decline his invitation, leaving him to think that nobody has remembered his birthday. However, Gracie being Gracie, things go awry quickly. 

Thanksgiving

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1951

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Gracie is having friends over for Thanksgiving dinner, including Harry Morton's business partner and his wife, Linda Lee. As it happens, a horse that Harry is betting on is also named Linda Lee, and Gracie gets the two "Linda Lees" confused. 

New Dresses for the Concert

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1951

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The Uplifters Society is having a concert and Gracie and Blanche want new dresses. 

Christmas with Mamie Kelly

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1951

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Mamie Kelly and her children join the Burnses for the holidays. George dresses up like Santa for the children and Gracie tells the children the story of "A Christmas Carol."

Gracie's Storeroom

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1952

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Gracie has a storeroom built so she can store canned fruits and vegetables. When the project gets out of hand, George hires someone to pretend he's a building inspector to tell her she doesn't have a permit and will have to tear the storeroom down.

Blanche for President

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1952

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Blanche enters the race for the presidency of the Beverly Hills Uplifters.

Dinner with the Vanderlips

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1952

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George and Harry have some trouble when the Vanderlips are invited over to the Burns home for dinner. 

Gracie and the Dented Fender

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1952

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Gracie finds a dent in the fender of the car. To keep George from noticing, she tries to convince George that the Burnses and Mortons should walk to a football game rather than drive.

Trip to Palm Springs

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1952

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George and Gracie are taking a trip to Jack Benny's Palm Springs home. Blanche wants to go, but Harry says no. Blanche doesn't accept "no" for an answer.

Harry and the Gold Digger

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1952

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To help Jane out of a tricky situation, Gracie sets up Harry von Zell with gold-digging Flossie Hardwick. Meanwhile, a pie promoter tries to sell George on a new gimmick to improve the show.

The Good Old Days of Vaudeville

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1952

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George and Gracie recall the good old days of vaudeville to a producer who's making a documentary on the subject. 

Jack Benny Steals George's Joke

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1952

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A feud between George and Jack Benny is the result of Jack stealing one of George's jokes.

Gracie's Redecoration Scheme

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: May 8, 1952

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Gracie wants to redecorate, and to get George out of the house she tricks him into taking Harry Morton fishing. However, when Harry declines to go fishing, Grace has to come up with another plan to get rid of George. 

The Speech Writer

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: May 22, 1952

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Mamie Kelly and her obnoxious kids again park their trailer in George and Gracie's driveway and cause lots of trouble as they obstruct George's endeavor to write a speech. 

Divorce Attorney

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1952

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A prediction from a phony swami results in Gracie engaging an attorney to divorce George.

The Musical Scam

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Jun 19, 1952

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Harry von Zell and George get conned into investing money in a musical which George is promised the lead role in. 

Dual Meanings

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Jul 3, 1952

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When George announces he's getting a new "secretary," Gracie mistakes the desk for a person and hires a detective to uncover the identity of this woman. The investigator mistakes Harry Morton for George, further escalating confusion.

The Great Gazatti

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1952

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Gracie tells a record company exec she's married to a famous singer and promises to bring him in. In Gracie's mind, George IS a famous singer. 

The $50,000 Lie

Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Jul 31, 1952

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The Mortons invite George and Gracie to the Happy Time Lodge, but George doesn't want to go so he comes up with a story that he has to come up with $50,000 that night and he won't be able to go if he doesn't get the money. Gracie overhears this and, thinking that she and George are broke, plans to rent out their spare rooms to boarders.

The Stolen Racehorse

Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: Aug 14, 1952

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Gracie goes to the racetrack and winds up buying a horse. The horse's former owners accompany Gracie back to the house and wind up moving in. Meanwhile, the police have been looking for the horse because the animal's "owners" are actually horse thieves--and they track it to George's house. 

The Spectacular Spectacle Debacle

Episode: 2x25 | Airdate: Aug 28, 1952

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George tells Gracie that he ran into George Jessel at the Friars Club, but Gracie somehow misinterprets it into thinking that George thinks he needs glasses. She gets an eye doctor to come to the house to give George an exam, but it turns out that the doctor needs glasses more than anyone else does. 

Gracie and Blanche Want to Redecorate

Episode: 2x26 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1952

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Gracie and Blanche want to redecorate their houses, but they know that George and Harry won't go for it. Gracie comes up with a plan to get George out of the house--she invites her relatives to stay for two weeks.

Season 3

Free Trip to Hawaii

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1952

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Gracie plays matchmaker for her wardrobe woman and Harry Von Zell, not realizing the woman is happily married.

Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1952

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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.

Gracie Worrys About George's Sneezing

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1952

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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.

Gracie Buying a Boat for George

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1952

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Harry Morton and Harry Von Zell try to persuade George that he's overworked and needs to buy a boat so he can go sailing on the ocean and relax. Their main reason, however, is that THEY want to go sailing and figure they can trick George into buying the boat. In order to do that, they concoct a scheme to make him think he's going crazy under the "pressures" of work by making him think he's someone named "Charlie Cochran".

Gracie Has George's Portrait Painted

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1952

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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.

Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1952

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Blanche and Gracie want to have a night out on the town with their husbands, but the boys aren't having any part of it. Frustrated after the men continually ignore pointed hints, the wives decide to hire a pair of male "escorts" to take them out, thinking that might finally wake up their husbands. Complications ensue

The Ballet Tickets

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1952

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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.

Skating Pearsons Come to Visit

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1952

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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.

Harry Thinks That the Swamp Has Oil

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1952

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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.

Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1952

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Gracie fabricates a magazine article claiming George once beat up an infamous gangster who shows up at the Burns home in a very bad mood.

Von Zell Dates a Married Woman

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 25, 1952

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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.

Uncle Clyde

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1953

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George scrambles to rent the spare room before Gracie's uncle arrives for a visit, but everyone's plans incur some hiccups.

Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1953

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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.

Harry Wants to Trade His House

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1953

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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.

Gracie Thinks She and George Are Not Married

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1953

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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.

Mayor Bowron Comes to Dinner

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1953

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

George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1953

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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.

Gracie on a Train - Murder

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1953

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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.

Swamp Party

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1953

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Gracie has a very "entertaining" way of helping Harry Morton in his real estate business.

Up All Night - Burgler

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1953

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Gracie has a very "entertaining" way of helping Harry Morton in his real estate business.

Buying a Ranch

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1953

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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.

George in the Army

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1953

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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 mix-up.

Gacie Reports the Car Stolen

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1953

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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.

Gracie Pretends She's a College Boy's Mother

Episode: 3x26 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1953

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A young college student wants to impress his girlfriend by asking George and Gracie to pose as his parents. Gracie goes along with it but George refuses. Gracie talks Harry Von Zell into playing the role but, unknown to her, Blanche Morton talks her husband Harry into playing George. Unfortunately, both Harrys show up Gracie's house at the same time as the student and his girlfriend.

Buying a Mountain Cabin

Episode: 3x27 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1953

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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.

Season 4

Gracie Goes to Psychiatrist for Blanche's Dream

Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1954

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Gracie visits a bewildered psychiatrist for dream analysis, which unexpectedly results in Blanche and Harry Morton each believing the other is crazy.

Season 5

Season 6

Burlesque

Episode: 6x29 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1956

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Season 7

The Ring

Episode: 7x24 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1957

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Season 8

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