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The Best Episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1

Every episode of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 14 - Johnny Velvet's Day in Court
    9.1/10(17 votes)

    S1:E14

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 9 - To Go or Not to Go
    9.0/10(13 votes)

    S1:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 10 - St. Bernard
    9.0/10(13 votes)

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 13 - Live Show #13
    9.0/10(13 votes)

    S1:E13

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 15 - George is Sick
    9.0/10(13 votes)

    S1:E15

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 17 - Live Show #17
    9.0/10(13 votes)

    S1:E17

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 20 - Live Show #20
    9.0/10(13 votes)

    S1:E20

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 18 - Too Much of the Mortons
    8.8/10(15 votes)

    S1:E18

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 23 - Gracie's Vegetarian Plot
    8.8/10(29 votes)

    S1:E23

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 25 - Live Show #25
    8.8/10(14 votes)

    S1:E25

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 8 - Happy Hmm-Hmm
    8.4/10(27 votes)

    S1:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 2 - Gracie the Artist
    8.2/10(37 votes)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Paul Henning, Sid Dorfman

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  13. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 21 - Too Much of the Mortons
    8.1/10(28 votes)

    S1:E21

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 22 - Silky Thompson Moves to Beverly Hills
    8.1/10(16 votes)

    S1:E22

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 6 - Gracie's Christmas
    8.0/10(19 votes)

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 7 - Rhumba Lessons
    8.0/10(28 votes)

    S1:E7

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 11 - Live Show #11
    8.0/10(15 votes)

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 1 - The Kleebob Card Game
    7.8/10(113 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Ralph Levy
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 19 - Live Show #19
    7.8/10(23 votes)

    S1:E19

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 5 - Gracie's Checking Account
    7.7/10(61 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 4 - Harry Morton's Private Secretary
    7.6/10(56 votes)

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Ralph Levy
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 12 - The Income Tax Man
    7.5/10(54 votes)

    S1:E12

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

    Director:Ralph Levy
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 26 - Gracie Prepares a Wedding
    7.5/10(42 votes)

    S1:E26

    Gracie invites problems by holding a home wedding.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 3 - The Property Tax Assessor
    7.2/10(70 votes)

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Ralph Levy
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1 Episode 16 - Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend
    7.2/10(53 votes)

    S1:E16

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Johnny Velvet's Day in Court" is the best rated episode of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show season 1. It scored 9.1/10 from 17 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on March 29, 1951. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "To Go or Not to Go".