The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show - Season 1

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".

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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

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.

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 gets frustrated trying to understand Gracie's tax deductions.

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

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

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

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

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.

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. 

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

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. 

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

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. 

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

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