Season 1

Season 1 (1950)




Episodes List

Ep.1 The Kleebob Card Game

Air Date: 1950-10-12

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"".

Ep.2 Gracie the Artist

Air Date: 1950-10-26

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.

Ep.3 The Property Tax Assessor

Air Date: 1950-11-09

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.

Ep.4 Harry Morton's Private Secretary

Air Date: 1950-11-23

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.

Ep.5 Gracie's Checking Account

Air Date: 1950-12-07

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.

Ep.6 Gracie's Christmas

Air Date: 1950-12-21

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

Ep.7 Rhumba Lessons

Air Date: 1950-12-28

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

Ep.8 Happy Hmm-Hmm

Air Date: 1951-01-04

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

Ep.9 To Go or Not to Go

Air Date: 1951-01-18

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

Ep.10 St. Bernard

Air Date: 1951-02-01

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.

Ep.11 Live Show #11

Air Date: 1951-02-15

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.

Ep.12 The Income Tax Man

Air Date: 1951-03-01

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

Ep.13 Live Show #13

Air Date: 1951-03-15

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

Ep.14 Johnny Velvet's Day in Court

Air Date: 1951-03-29

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

Ep.15 George is Sick

Air Date: 1951-04-12

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

Ep.16 Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend

Air Date: 1951-04-26

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

Ep.17 Live Show #17

Air Date: 1951-05-10

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

Ep.18 Too Much of the Mortons

Air Date: 1951-05-24

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.

Ep.19 Live Show #19

Air Date: 1951-06-07

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

Ep.20 Live Show #20

Air Date: 1951-06-21

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

Ep.21 Too Much of the Mortons

Air Date: 1951-07-05

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.

Ep.22 Silky Thompson Moves to Beverly Hills

Air Date: 1951-07-19

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

Ep.23 Gracie's Vegetarian Plot

Air Date: 1951-08-02

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.

Ep.24 Space Patrol Kids Visit

Air Date: 1951-08-16

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

Ep.25 Live Show #25

Air Date: 1951-08-30

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

Ep.26 Gracie Prepares a Wedding

Air Date: 1951-09-13

Gracie invites problems by holding a home wedding.