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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show — 1940
54 episodes broadcast in 1940.
January 3, 1940
January 10, 1940
January 17, 1940
January 24, 1940
January 31, 1940
February 7, 1940
February 14, 1940
February 21, 1940
Gracie launches a run for the White House, assembling a cabinet and setting out to become the first woman president.
Gracie's presidential campaign gets underway as she scouts a convention city and debuts her theme song, 'Vote For Gracie.'
Fresh from addressing the Women's National Press Club in Washington, Gracie announces her Surprise Party convention will land in Omaha.
March 20, 1940
Gracie unveils a campaign platform whose planks include handing student barbers a live sheep to practice on.
Gracie frets that Congress has capped her presidential campaign fund at a mere three million dollars.
Buoyed by sixty-three write-in votes in the Wisconsin primary, Gracie presses on with her campaign.
For her Omaha convention Gracie orders the men into 1870-style beards and old-fashioned dress, then rehearses a speech for Dallas.
Back from Dallas, Gracie upstages George's big speech with the saga of the eighteen people crammed into her apartment.
May 1, 1940
The Burnses head for Omaha, with George saddled with minding Aunt Clara -- who happens to be a kangaroo barred from the train.
Broadcasting from Omaha on the eve of her convention, Gracie rallies the Surprise Party faithful.
Home in Hollywood, Gracie recaps the Omaha convention and sets about persuading George that he is gravely ill.
From the San Francisco World's Fair, Gracie's presidential gag reaches its finale with a visit from a would-be power broker and her old schoolmate Rollo.
June 5, 1940
Swiss Family Robinson Part 1
Gracie totals George's new car while the cast plows through its own version of 'Swiss Family Robinson.'
June 13, 1940
Burns and Allen Swiss Family Robinson Pt 2
June 19, 1940
The season's final CBS broadcast for the sponsor bows out with a round of songs.
July 1, 1940
A surprise party is thrown for Grandpa's ninety-second birthday.
July 15, 1940
July 22, 1940
With Artie Shaw's band sitting in, George and Gracie get ready for a 'kiddie party' at the Cocoanut Grove.
George rehearses a pitch for his movie idea to producer Joseph Pasternak, Artie Shaw's orchestra on hand.
George reminisces about his vaudeville days and how he first met Gracie.
A tardy George finally turns up -- with the startling news that he has a brand-new partner named Elsie Trelafas.
Elsie sues George for ten thousand dollars over his promise to put her on the radio, in an Abbott-and-Costello-flavored tangle.
George heads to court as Elsie's breach-of-promise suit over that broken radio promise finally goes to trial.
George wins the Elsie case but Gracie promptly makes things worse, as brother 'Willie Burns' turns up and Artie Shaw plays 'Begin the Beguine.'
Told to book Clark Gable for the new fall season, George settles for a cut-rate Gable impersonator instead.
George's guest column for Ed Sullivan lands him on the wrong side of gangster Huey Sallas.
On the run from Huey Sallas, George disguises himself as Aunt Clara -- only to have the gangster propose marriage.
George comes clean: the murderous gangster who has been stalking him was a hoax he staged himself.
Gracie submits to a word-association test with Professor Thorndike, to predictably baffling results.
A psychiatrist has moved in with the Allens, determined to map the inner workings of Gracie's mind.
George schemes to keep a date with the glamorous Fifi -- and to duck the broadcast to do it.
On election eve George explains voting to Gracie, who resolves to cast her ballot for Clark Gable.
Gracie stages her own musical comedy about Henry VIII, titled 'When Things Get Dull, He Sharpened His Knives.'
With Gracie stuck at home tending a sick granddaddy, George brings the show to her house -- and has to explain what Thanksgiving is.
The broadcast masquerades as a rehearsal for next week's episode, with George and Gracie dissecting how the last one went.
George dresses to the nines in white tie and tails for a visit from the sponsor.
George sports a mysterious black eye after a Tijuana jaunt that turns into a border-crossing ordeal.
Gracie founds a newspaper and gets her star reporters smuggled into prison for a scoop.
Gracie mislays the scripts to her Christmas play, and the cast improvises a musical holiday finale.
December 30, 1940
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