The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Season 3, Episode 21: Swamp Party

Free Trip to Hawaii

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

30 min

Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist

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.

30 min

Gracie Worrys about George's Sneezing

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.

30 min

Buying a Boat

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

30 min

Gracie has George's Portrait Painted

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.

30 min

Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos

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.

30 min

The Ballet Tickets

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.

30 min

Skating Pearsons Come to Visit

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.

30 min

Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil

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.

30 min

Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson

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

30 min

Gracie Thinks George is Going to Commit Suicide

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

30 min

Von Zell Dates a Married Woman

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.

30 min

Uncle Clyde

30 min

Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her

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.

30 min

Harry Wants to Trade His House/Gracie Trying to Keep Mortons From Moving Away

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.

30 min

Gracie Thinks She and George are Not Married

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.

30 min

Mayor Brown Comes to Dinner

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

30 min

George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl

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.

30 min

Gracie on a Train - Murder

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.

30 min

Blanche Wants New Car/Gracie Gets Von Zell a Wife

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

30 min

Up All Night - Burgler

30 min

Buying a Ranch

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.

30 min

George in the Army

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.

30 min

Gacie Reports the Car Stolen

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.

30 min

Gracie Pretends She's a College Boy's Mother

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

30 min

Buying a Mountain Cabin

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.

30 min

The Missing Fur Stole

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

30 min

Spanish Lessons

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

30 min

Gracie & Cleaning Woman/Vanderlips

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

30 min

Von Zell's Old Girlfriend Visits

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?).

30 min

GEORGE LECTURING AT U.C.L.A.

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.

30 min

GRACIE AND HARRY MORTON--MISSING PERSONS BUREAU

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.

30 min

Surprise Party Mix-Up

Gracie throws a monkey wrench into a birthday party for Harry Morton.

30 min

Cousins Perry and Pete

George invites a pair of burglars to stay in their home after Gracie introduces them as her cousins.

30 min

Gracie Thinks George is Going Solo

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.

30 min

GRACIE TRYING TO GET GEORGE TO GO ON TRIP EAST

Gracie decides that she wants to go to New York with the Mortons for a vacation.

30 min

Gracie Witnesses a Holdup

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.

30 min

Locked Out of the House

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.

30 min

Gracie Falls in a Department Store

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.

30 min