Season 3

E1. Free Trip to Hawaii

Oct 9, 1952 · 30m

Gracie tries to play cupid for Harry and her wardrobe woman, not realizing that the woman is married already and has two children

E2. Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist

Oct 16, 1952 · 30m

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.

E3. Gracie Worrys about George's Sneezing

Oct 23, 1952 · 30m

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.

E4. Buying a Boat

Oct 30, 1952 · 30m

Gracie recruits Harry to buy George a boat. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Harry Von Zell.

E5. Gracie has George's Portrait Painted

Nov 6, 1952 · 30m

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.

E6. Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos

Nov 13, 1952 · 30m

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.

E7. The Ballet Tickets

Nov 20, 1952 · 30m

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.

E8. Skating Pearsons Come to Visit

Nov 27, 1952 · 30m

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.

E9. Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil

Dec 4, 1952 · 30m

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.

E10. Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson

Dec 11, 1952 · 30m

Gracie tangles with the underworld. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet, Harry Von Zell, Larry Keating.

E11. Gracie Thinks George is Going to Commit Suicide

Dec 18, 1952 · 30m

Gracie thinks George wants to get out of a complicated existence. Harry Von Zell, Larry Keating, Bea Benaderet.

E12. Von Zell Dates a Married Woman

Dec 25, 1952 · 30m

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.

E13. Uncle Clyde

Jan 1, 1953 · 30m

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

E14. Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her

Jan 8, 1953 · 30m

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.

E15. Gracie Trying to Keep Mortons From Moving Away

Jan 15, 1953 · 30m

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.

E16. Gracie Thinks She and George are Not Married

Jan 22, 1953 · 30m

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.

E17. Mayor Brown Comes to Dinner

Jan 29, 1953 · 30m

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

E18. George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl

Feb 5, 1953 · 30m

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.

E19. Gracie on a Train - Murder

Feb 12, 1953 · 30m

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.

E20. Blanche Wants New Car / Gracie Gets Von Zell a Wife

Feb 19, 1953 · 30m

Gracie tries to find Von Zell a wife and children so he can save money on his income tax.

E21. Swamp Party

Feb 26, 1953 · 30m

Gracie tries to help the Mortons sell their swamp.

E22. Up All Night - Burgler

Mar 5, 1953 · 30m

When Harry Morton makes noise while coming downstairs to turn of his car's headlights one night, George thinks it's a prowler breaking in and goes to investigate. Then Blanche Morton hears George stumbling around and thinks HE'S a burglar. The police are called and wind up arresting Harry Von Zell!

E23. Buying a Ranch

Mar 12, 1953 · 30m

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.

E24. George in the Army

Mar 19, 1953 · 30m

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.

E25. Gacie Reports the Car Stolen

Mar 26, 1953 · 30m

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.

E26. Gracie Pretends She's a College Boy's Mother

Mar 30, 1953 · 30m

Gracie poses as a student's mother so he can bring his girlfriend "home" to dinner. Harry Von Zell, Bea Benaderet, Larry Keating.

E27. Buying a Mountain Cabin

Apr 6, 1953 · 30m

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.

E28. The Missing Fur Stole

Apr 13, 1953 · 30m

Lots of mixups, in both plot and dialogue, as Gracie mistakenly reports to the police that Blanche's new fur stole has been stolen.

E29. Spanish Lessons

Apr 20, 1953 · 30m

Spanish lessons for Gracie and Blanche lead to George getting into some very unexpected trouble.

E30. Gracie & Cleaning Woman / Vanderlips

Apr 27, 1953 · 30m

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