The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 1, Episode 5: Gracie's Checking Account

1

The Kleebob Card Game

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"".

30 min

2

Gracie the Artist

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.

30 min

3

The Property Tax Assessor

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.

30 min

4

Harry Morton's Private Secretary

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.

30 min

5

Gracie's Checking Account

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.

30 min

6

Gracie's Christmas

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

30 min

7

Rhumba Lessons

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

30 min

8

Happy Hmm-Hmm

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

30 min

9

To Go or Not to Go

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

30 min

10

St. Bernard

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.

30 min

11

Live Show #11

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.

30 min

12

The Income Tax Man

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

30 min

13

Live Show #13

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

30 min

14

Johnny Velvet's Day in Court

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

30 min

15

George is Sick

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

30 min

16

Teenage Girl Spends the Weekend

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

30 min

17

Live Show #17

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

30 min

18

Too Much of the Mortons

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.

30 min

19

Live Show #19

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

30 min

20

Live Show #20

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

30 min

21

Too Much of the Mortons

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.

30 min

22

Silky Thompson Moves to Beverly Hills

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

30 min

23

Gracie's Vegetarian Plot

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.

30 min

24

Space Patrol Kids Visit

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

30 min

25

Live Show #25

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

30 min

26

Gracie Prepares a Wedding

Gracie invites problems by holding a home wedding.

30 min