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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 3
October 9, 1952
40 Episodes
~30 min per episode
Overview
No overview available for this season.
Episodes
40
1
Free Trip to Hawaii
Oct 9, 1952
30 min
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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2
Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist
Oct 16, 1952
30 min
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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3
Gracie Worrys about George's Sneezing
Oct 23, 1952
30 min
George Sneezing/Gracie Thinks He's Insane. 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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4
Buying a Boat
Oct 30, 1952
30 min
Gracie recruits Harry to buy George a boat. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Harry Von Zell.
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5
Gracie has George's Portrait Painted
Nov 6, 1952
30 min
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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6
Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos
Nov 13, 1952
30 min
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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7
The Ballet Tickets
Nov 20, 1952
30 min
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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8
Skating Pearsons Come to Visit
Nov 27, 1952
30 min
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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9
Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil
Dec 4, 1952
30 min
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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10
Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson
Dec 11, 1952
30 min
Gracie tangles with the underworld. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet, Harry Von Zell, Larry Keating.
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11
Gracie Thinks George is Going to Commit Suicide
Dec 18, 1952
30 min
Gracie thinks George wants to get out of a complicated existence. Harry Von Zell, Larry Keating, Bea Benaderet.
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12
Von Zell Dates a Married Woman
Dec 25, 1952
30 min
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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13
Uncle Clyde
Jan 1, 1953
30 min
No overview available for this episode.
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14
Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her
Jan 8, 1953
30 min
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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15
Harry Wants to Trade His House/Gracie Trying to Keep Mortons From Moving Away
Jan 15, 1953
30 min
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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16
Gracie Thinks She and George are Not Married
Jan 22, 1953
30 min
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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17
Mayor Brown Comes to Dinner
Jan 29, 1953
30 min
Graice invites the mayor of Los Angeles for dinner. Fletcher Bowron, longtime Los Angeles mayor in real life, plays himself.
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18
George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl
Feb 5, 1953
30 min
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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19
Gracie on a Train - Murder
Feb 12, 1953
30 min
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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20
Blanche Wants New Car/Gracie Gets Von Zell a Wife
Feb 19, 1953
30 min
Gracie tries to find Von Zell a wife and children so he can save money on his income tax.
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21
Swamp Party
Feb 26, 1953
30 min
Gracie has a very ""entertaining"" way of helping Harry Morton in his real estate business.
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22
Up All Night - Burgler
Mar 5, 1953
30 min
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23
Buying a Ranch
Mar 12, 1953
30 min
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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24
George in the Army
Mar 19, 1953
30 min
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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25
Gacie Reports the Car Stolen
Mar 26, 1953
30 min
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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26
Gracie Pretends She's a College Boy's Mother
Mar 30, 1953
30 min
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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27
Buying a Mountain Cabin
Apr 6, 1953
30 min
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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28
The Missing Fur Stole
Apr 13, 1953
30 min
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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29
Spanish Lessons
Apr 20, 1953
30 min
Spanish lessons for Gracie and Blanche lead to George getting into some very unexpected trouble.
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30
Gracie & Cleaning Woman/Vanderlips
Apr 27, 1953
30 min
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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31
Von Zell's Old Girlfriend Visits
May 4, 1953
30 min
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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32
GEORGE LECTURING AT U.C.L.A.
May 11, 1953
30 min
Synopsis 1: George appears as a guest speaker at UCLA. Synopsis 2: 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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33
GRACIE AND HARRY MORTON--MISSING PERSONS BUREAU
May 18, 1953
30 min
Synopsis 1: When ravenous Harry Morton misses lunch, Gracie reports him missing. Synopsis 2: Gracie gets involved with the missing Persons Bureau in trying to locate Harry Morton for his wife Blanche.
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34
Surprise Party Mix-Up
Jul 6, 1953
30 min
Gracie throws a monkey wrench into a birthday party for Harry Morton.
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35
Cousins Perry and Pete
Jul 13, 1953
30 min
George invites a pair of burglars to stay in their home after Gracie introduces them as her cousins.
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36
Gracie Thinks George is Going Solo
Jul 20, 1953
30 min
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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37
GRACIE TRYING TO GET GEORGE TO GO ON TRIP EAST
Jul 27, 1953
30 min
Gracie decides that she wants to go to New York with the Mortons for a vacation.
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38
Gracie Witnesses a Holdup
Aug 3, 1953
30 min
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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39
Locked Out of the House
Aug 10, 1953
30 min
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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40
Gracie Falls in a Department Store
Aug 17, 1953
30 min
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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