S3 E1 • Free Trip to Hawaii

Gracie plays matchmaker for her wardrobe woman and Harry Von Zell, not realizing the woman is happily married.

Première diffusion : 9 octobre 1952

S3 E2 • Dinner Party for Atomic Scientist

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.

Première diffusion : 16 octobre 1952

S3 E3 • Gracie Worrys about George's Sneezing

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.

Première diffusion : 23 octobre 1952

S3 E4 • Gracie Buying a Boat For George

Harry Morton and Harry Von Zell try to persuade George that he's overworked and needs to buy a boat so he can go sailing on the ocean and relax. Their main reason, however, is that THEY want to go sailing and figure they can trick George into buying the boat. In order to do that, they concoct a scheme to make him think he's going crazy under the "pressures" of work by making him think he's someone named "Charlie Cochran".

Première diffusion : 30 octobre 1952

S3 E5 • Gracie has George's Portrait Painted

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.

Première diffusion : 6 novembre 1952

S3 E6 • Gracie and Blanche Hire Gigolos

Blanche and Gracie want to have a night out on the town with their husbands, but the boys aren't having any part of it. Frustrated after the men continually ignore pointed hints, the wives decide to hire a pair of male "escorts" to take them out, thinking that might finally wake up their husbands. Complications ensue.

Première diffusion : 13 novembre 1952

S3 E7 • The Ballet Tickets

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.

Première diffusion : 20 novembre 1952

S3 E8 • Skating Pearsons Come to Visit

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.

Première diffusion : 27 novembre 1952

S3 E9 • Harry Thinks that the Swamp Has Oil

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.

Première diffusion : 4 décembre 1952

S3 E10 • Gracie Writes About Silky Thompson

Gracie fabricates a magazine article claiming George once beat up an infamous gangster who shows up at the Burns home in a very bad mood.

Première diffusion : 11 décembre 1952

S3 E11 • Gracie Thinks George is Going to Commit Suicide

Gracie discovers a note in George's pocket, which she misinterprets to be a suicide note.

Première diffusion : 18 décembre 1952

S3 E12 • Von Zell Dates a Married Woman

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.

Première diffusion : 25 décembre 1952

S3 E13 • Uncle Clyde

George scrambles to rent the spare room before Gracie's uncle arrives for a visit, but everyone's plans incur some hiccups.

Première diffusion : 1 janvier 1953

S3 E14 • Gracie Thinks Harry is in Love with Her

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.

Première diffusion : 8 janvier 1953

S3 E15 • Harry Wants to Trade His House

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.

Première diffusion : 15 janvier 1953

S3 E16 • Gracie Thinks She and George are Not Married

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.

Première diffusion : 22 janvier 1953

S3 E17 • Mayor Bowron Comes to Dinner

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

Première diffusion : 29 janvier 1953

S3 E18 • George Jessel - The Cigarette Girl

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 $50 from a cigarette girl.

Première diffusion : 5 février 1953

S3 E19 • Gracie on a Train - Murder

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.

Première diffusion : 12 février 1953

S3 E20 • Gracie Tries to Marry Off Von Zell

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

Première diffusion : 19 février 1953

S3 E21 • Swamp Party

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

Première diffusion : 26 février 1953

S3 E22 • Up All Night - Burgler

When Harry Morton makes noise while coming downstairs to turn of his car's headlights one night, George thinks it's a prowler breaking in and goes to investigate. Then Blanche Morton hears George stumbling around and thinks HE'S a burglar. The police are called and wind up arresting Harry Von Zell!

Première diffusion : 5 mars 1953

S3 E23 • Buying a Ranch

Gracie believes that George wants to buy a ranch. Harry Morton and his partner Casey want to be the ones to sell it to him. But George does not really want to buy a ranch, and, perhaps ill-advisedly, relies on Harry Von Zell to help him get out of it.

Première diffusion : 12 mars 1953

S3 E24 • George in the Army

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.

Première diffusion : 19 mars 1953

S3 E25 • Gacie Reports the Car Stolen

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.

Première diffusion : 26 mars 1953

S3 E26 • Gracie Pretends She's a College Boy's Mother

A young college student wants to impress his girlfriend by asking George and Gracie to pose as his parents. Gracie goes along with it but George refuses. Gracie talks Harry Von Zell into playing the role but, unknown to her, Blanche Morton talks her husband Harry into playing George. Unfortunately, both Harrys show up Gracie's house at the same time as the student and his girlfriend.

Première diffusion : 30 mars 1953

S3 E27 • Buying a Mountain Cabin

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.

Première diffusion : 6 avril 1953

S3 E28 • The Missing Fur Stole

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

Première diffusion : 13 avril 1953

S3 E29 • Spanish Lessons

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

Première diffusion : 20 avril 1953

S3 E30 • The Black Eye Fraternity

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.

Première diffusion : 27 avril 1953

S3 E31 • Von Zell's Old Girlfriend Visits

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?).

Première diffusion : 4 mai 1953

S3 E32 • George Lecturing at UCLA

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.

Première diffusion : 11 mai 1953

S3 E33 • Gracie and Harry Morton -- Missing Persons Bureau

Gracie gets involved with the missing Persons Bureau in trying to locate Harry Morton for his wife Blanche.

Première diffusion : 18 mai 1953

S3 E34 • Surprise Party Mix-Up

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

Première diffusion : 6 juillet 1953

S3 E35 • Cousins Perry and Pete

George invites a pair of burglars to stay in their home after Gracie introduces them as her cousins.

Première diffusion : 13 juillet 1953

S3 E36 • Gracie Thinks George is Going Solo

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.

Première diffusion : 20 juillet 1953

S3 E37 • Gracie Trying to Get George to Go On Trip East

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

Première diffusion : 27 juillet 1953

S3 E38 • Gracie Witnesses a Holdup

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.

Première diffusion : 3 août 1953

S3 E39 • Locked Out of the House

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.

Première diffusion : 10 août 1953

S3 E40 • Gracie Falls in a Department Store

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.

Première diffusion : 17 août 1953