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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show — 1946
39 episodes broadcast in 1946.
George and Gracie fix up the den to house a needy returning veteran amid the postwar housing shortage.
George endures another Uplift Society meeting as Gracie lobbies to put Madame Da Silva on the program.
Gracie's Uplift Club makes off with George's clothes and commandeers the broadcast.
George tries to evict long-staying houseguest Meredith Willson by moving guest Kay Kyser into the den.
January 31, 1946
A newspaper names George and Gracie finalists in its search for Hollywood's ideal married couple.
February 14, 1946
George is 'called to Washington' to help the president -- and Truman reportedly asked to see the script.
February 28, 1946
March 7, 1946
Fresh off losing money on a chicken ranch, Gracie goes into the matchmaking business with a matrimonial bureau.
March 21, 1946
March 28, 1946
Trouble over a smashed fender leads Gracie to swear off lying altogether.
Gracie angles to join a literary club by claiming George is the great-grandson of the poet Robert Burns.
April 18, 1946
Gracie must sweet-talk NBC vice president Sidney Strotz into lending a studio for the Uplift Society's play.
An expanded hour-long special, with Frances Langford filling in for a laryngitic Dinah Shore.
Gracie decides to write a column on national affairs, with guest Harpo Marx -- honking and whistling -- as her assistant.
May 16, 1946
May 23, 1946
In the season finale, George forecasts the Louis-Conn bout and introduces summer replacement vocalist Ben Gage.
Gracie takes on a new project: rehabilitating a burglar.
Only Gracie remembers George's birthday -- and celebrates by volunteering him to fly a rocket to the moon.
Angling for new appliances, George and Gracie land on a quiz show -- Kay Kyser's, as it happens.
Meredith Willson may be headed for marriage to a daughter of guest Eddie Cantor.
October 10, 1946
Gracie is convinced George should replace Clark Gable in the new picture 'The Hucksters.'
Gracie tries to persuade George that he is a dead ringer for Clark Gable, and thus perfect for 'The Hucksters.'
George and guest Jack Carson compete for the title 'Glamour Boy of Hollywood.'
Gracie schemes to get guest Frank Sinatra out of town.
November 21, 1946
November 28, 1946
December 5, 1946
Gracie decides to earn her own Christmas money by hiring herself out as a baby sitter.
George unwraps a lavish smoking jacket from guest Eddie Cantor -- along with an Erector Set meant for the boy next door.
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