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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show — 1943
44 episodes broadcast in 1943.
George resolves to be more romantic just as Gracie's club drafts him to star in its production of 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.'
January 12, 1943
George forgets their wedding anniversary, so Gracie sets out to make him jealous with the help of guest Brian Donlevy.
Gracie traces the Burns family tree and discovers that George is descended from royalty.
The wartime servant shortage lands Tootsie Sagwell as the new maid, with George angling to replace her.
Gracie campaigns for president of the Uplift Society and recruits guest Charles Laughton as her star attraction.
Gracie drafts a wedding announcement marrying Tootsie to a still-unsuspecting Bill Goodwin, while Tootsie tries to remake herself into guest Veronica Lake.
Packing for a New York USO tour, Gracie announces she will play Carnegie Hall, as Zelda sets her cap for guest Bob Burns.
Settled into a swanky New York hotel beside guest Madeleine Carroll, Gracie practices her 'Concerto for One Finger' ahead of Carnegie Hall.
Guests Deems Taylor and Jose Iturbi join the doomed effort to talk Gracie out of her Carnegie Hall debut.
Undeterred, Gracie finally performs her one-finger concerto at Carnegie Hall.
To keep the Uplift Society out of his living room, George angles for a doctor's note declaring him too sick to host.
George explains rationing to Gracie as the household plans a Victory Garden and interviews a handyman.
April 27, 1943
Burns and Allen Concerto for Index Finger
May 4, 1943
May 11, 1943
May 18, 1943
George mounts a campaign for a seat on the school board.
Gracie collects a parking ticket, leaving George to explain it to the judge.
Gracie and Tootsie apply for work as a maid and a cook.
June 15, 1943
Gracie invests in a love potion from one Nigel Bollingbrook.
In the season finale, a hungover George faces a lapsed insurance policy and a suddenly amnesiac Gracie.
Back from touring army camps, George announces -- to Frankie's dismay -- that he intends to become a crooner.
Reading that husbands are in short supply, Gracie recruits a parade of unglamorous women to propose to George.
George tries to talk guest Brian Donlevy into co-starring in his opus, 'The Sin of Madeline Fudnick.'
Tootsie sets her sights on marrying guest Ray Milland as the cast stages its own war-bond rally.
The question of the night: has announcer Bill Goodwin fallen for guest Ann Sheridan?
Gracie grows suspicious that George has taken an interest in a glamorous lady dentist.
George runs into guest Eddie Cantor at the cigar shop and rashly invites him home to dinner.
Gracie's old schoolmate, guest Pat O'Brien, drops by for a visit.
Tootsie competes for 'Queen of the Fleet' against a formidable rival -- guest Hedy Lamarr.
Gracie spots guest Jack Benny at the beauty parlor and uses the secret to strong-arm him into putting George on his show.
Gracie leans on Jack Benny again while trying to win the paper-salvage drive; George hoards his prized pulp magazines.
New neighbor Walter Pidgeon becomes Gracie's target as a husband for Tootsie -- starting with the loan of an egg.
Gracie's gossipy magazine article about guest Loretta Young lands her a fifty-thousand-dollar lawsuit.
Smitten with guest Charles Boyer, Gracie schemes to cast him as a cowboy in the local theatrical production.
A guest studying for a scatterbrained-housewife film role comes to the Burns household for some real-life research.
Gracie and guest Elsa Lanchester conspire to cast her husband, guest Charles Laughton, as Santa at the Christmas pageant.
George bounces a check to guest John Garfield -- a very tough customer versed in the code of the underworld.
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