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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show — 1949
40 episodes broadcast in 1949.
Smitten with a Gregory Peck picture, Gracie wants George to be more romantic -- so George enlists Peck himself to talk her down.
January 13, 1949
January 20, 1949
Gracie maneuvers Bill Goodwin and guest Cesar Romero into competing for the same girl.
For George's birthday, Gracie decides to make a movie of his life -- casting Gene Kelly in the lead.
February 3, 1949
Gracie helps guest Howard Duff's 'Sam Spade' crack a murder case down at the Beverly Hills police station.
Gracie regales guests James and Pamela Mason with the saga of George's cat collection.
Gracie volunteers George for a medical experiment, which he cheerfully mistakes for a booking to perform.
After a fender-bender with guest Richard Widmark, George recruits the menacing star to give Gracie a scare.
The show salutes the Girl Scouts on their thirty-seventh anniversary.
With George nursing a cold, guest Marlene Dietrich sets out to make Gracie jealous.
Gracie keeps guest Jane Wyman company as she waits to learn she has won the Academy Award for 'Johnny Belinda.'
A tall-tale fantasy explains how the once-'Generous Jack Benny' became famously stingy.
Gracie blackmails guest Robert Montgomery into casting George in his new Napoleon picture.
April 14, 1949
A running gag has George and Ida Cantor apparently plotting to poison guest Eddie Cantor.
George's ladyfingers -- and his needlework doilies -- sweep the blue ribbons at the County Fair.
With TV on the horizon, Gracie lobbies Hopalong Cassidy star William Boyd to step aside so George can inherit the saddle -- and Boyd counters by hiring George to dance with a horse.
Guest Marie 'The Body' McDonald helps Gracie convince George he is irresistible and destined for television stardom.
Gracie sets out to adopt guest Mickey Rooney, who plays along for reasons of his own.
May 26, 1949
Smart Set or Ball Game
Guest Chester Morris lends his magic act to George's latest scheme to scare Gracie.
Fired up by a women's-rights crusade, Gracie sets out to assert herself around the Burns household.
Gracie tries to break up a budding romance between the neighbors' teenage daughter Emily and guest Rudy Vallee.
In the final Maxwell House broadcast, George and Gracie prepare to sail for the London Palladium, leaving guest Robert Young in charge.
September 21, 1949
Launching the Ammident series, a Europe-returned Gracie wants George to court her all over again.
October 5, 1949
Gracie's plan to make George the new lead in 'South Pacific' lands him headed for the real South Pacific -- and the Bikini atom-bomb test.
October 12, 1949
October 19, 1949
October 26, 1949
November 2, 1949
November 9, 1949
November 16, 1949
November 23, 1949
November 30, 1949
December 7, 1949
December 14, 1949
December 21, 1949
December 28, 1949
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