3x1 - Free Trip to Hawaii

October 9, 1952

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

3x2 - Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist

October 16, 1952

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.

3x3 - Gracie Worrys about George's Sneezing

October 23, 1952

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.

3x4 - Buying a Boat

October 30, 1952

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

3x5 - Gracie has George's Portrait Painted

November 6, 1952

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.

3x6 - Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos

November 13, 1952

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.

3x7 - The Ballet Tickets

November 20, 1952

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.

3x8 - Skating Pearsons Come to Visit

November 27, 1952

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.

3x9 - Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil

December 4, 1952

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.

3x10 - Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson

December 11, 1952

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

3x11 - Gracie Thinks George is Going to Commit Suicide

December 18, 1952

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

3x12 - Von Zell Dates a Married Woman

December 25, 1952

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.

3x13 - Uncle Clyde

January 1, 1953

3x14 - Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her

January 8, 1953

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.

3x15 - Harry Wants to Trade His House/Gracie Trying to Keep Mortons From Moving Away

January 15, 1953

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.

3x16 - Gracie Thinks She and George are Not Married

January 22, 1953

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.

3x17 - Mayor Brown Comes to Dinner

January 29, 1953

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

3x18 - George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl

February 5, 1953

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 from a cigarette girl.

3x19 - Gracie on a Train - Murder

February 12, 1953

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.

3x20 - Blanche Wants New Car/Gracie Gets Von Zell a Wife

February 19, 1953

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

3x21 - Swamp Party

February 26, 1953

Gracie has a very ""entertaining"" way of helping Harry Morton in his real estate business.

3x22 - Up All Night - Burgler

March 5, 1953

3x24 - George in the Army

March 19, 1953

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.

3x25 - Gacie Reports the Car Stolen

March 26, 1953

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.

3x26 - Gracie Pretends She's a College Boy's Mother

March 30, 1953

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

3x27 - Buying a Mountain Cabin

April 6, 1953

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.

3x28 - The Missing Fur Stole

April 13, 1953

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

3x29 - Spanish Lessons

April 20, 1953

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

3x30 - Gracie & Cleaning Woman/Vanderlips

April 27, 1953

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

3x31 - Von Zell's Old Girlfriend Visits

May 4, 1953

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?).

3x32 - GEORGE LECTURING AT U.C.L.A.

May 11, 1953

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.

3x33 - GRACIE AND HARRY MORTON--MISSING PERSONS BUREAU

May 18, 1953

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.

3x34 - Surprise Party Mix-Up

July 6, 1953

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

3x35 - Cousins Perry and Pete

July 13, 1953

3x36 - Gracie Thinks George is Going Solo

July 20, 1953

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.

3x37 - GRACIE TRYING TO GET GEORGE TO GO ON TRIP EAST

July 27, 1953

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

3x38 - Gracie Witnesses a Holdup

August 3, 1953

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.

3x39 - Locked Out of the House

August 10, 1953

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.

3x40 - Gracie Falls in a Department Store

August 17, 1953

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.