Gracie tests the patience of a driver's license examiner. Meanwhile, George's friends lavish him with praise and gifts after learning he's writing an autobiography.
George has an appointment to take a physical exam, but each time he's prepared to leave a distraction pulls him away from his car and Gracie absconds with his keys.
When Gracie fears that they might have to move to New York for business reasons, she consults Mr. Beasley the postman, and concocts a crazy story about George witnessing a robbery.
Trouble arises when Gracie gets the impression that Mrs. Vanderlip has stolen a ruby clip from a department store and tries to help her avoid apprehension.
After reading Blanche's fortune, Gracie concludes Blanche is in love with a man she encountered at the grocery store. Gracie attempts to intervene, dragging Harry Von Zell's name through the mud in the process.
George thinks he's come up with the perfect plan to get out of attending a concert. He gives Gracie a jigsaw puzzle and hopes she'll be too distracted to remember the concert's starting time.
Harry Morton tries to get Gracie to ask George to emcee a banquet, but she gets confused and thinks she herself is being asked to be master of ceremonies. She pawns the job off on Harry Von Zell, who incurs George's wrath.
George decides to invite his mother-in-law for a brief stay, but a misheard conversation at the post office leads Harry Von Zell to spread word that the forthcoming visit has caused an enormous fight between George and Gracie.
The Friar's Club testimonial dinner for George and Gracie is sold out, but Gracie is intent on figuring out a way to get the Mortons and the Bagleys in.
Mr. Vanderlip entrusts his beloved parakeet with George while he's out of town but Gracie assumes it's her anniversary present and, feeling sorry for the caged bird, decides to set it free.
Blanche's freeloading brother comes to stay with the Mortons. Nothing is safe around him, including Harry Morton's clothes, George's cigars, and Harry von Zell's girlfriend.
George's apparently compulsive behavior as he appears to be searching for a lost five dollar bill leads to trouble, as Gracie, the Mortons, and Von Zell all try to help him regain his sanity.
Gracie mistakenly concludes that Blanche's devious brother Roger is going to marry Emily Vanderlip, so Roger uses the ensuing confusion to try to extort money from George.
Gracie tries to surprise George by having a wall safe installed, but she promptly locks the combination inside along with papers that he urgently needs access to. To rectify the situation, Gracie visits a pool hall to hire a safecracker.
After a friend confides that her presumed-dead first husband is still alive, Gracie visits a TV therapist to try to find a solution to the predicament.
Gracie would like to have the house painted coral, but George wants it to stay white. Once again, Von Zell and the Mortons get involved in a confusing situation, along with some befuddled house painters.
An impressionist impersonates the grocery delivery boy and wows Gracie and her friends, but when George contacts the real delivery boy to offer him a job on the show, he's baffled by the kid's lack of talent.
George has an important business meeting at the beach, but Gracie thinks it's a pleasure trip and invites their friends to tag along. Unfortunately, each time they're prepared to leave, some interruption detains them.
An unsuccessful uranium prospecting expedition by the two Harrys sets the stage for a showdown between them and George over partnerships in non-existent mines.
When Blanche's brother shows up unexpectedly, it causes such a rift between Blanche and Harry that she decides to leave him. Blanche and Roger take up residence at the Burns' home, so George rooms with Harry, fearing his own divorce.
Danny Goodman, an old vaudeville partner of George's, comes to visit. Trouble starts when they decide to dress in prison outfits and reprise their "jailbird" song and dance routine.
Harry Morton arranges a job for Roger out of state, so Roger fakes amnesia - but he lets George in on the scam, knowing no one else would believe it's a ruse. To find a cure, Gracie goes to a doctor and claims she's the one with amnesia.
Harry Morton and George thwart their wives' plans for a Hawaiian vacation until Blanche's brother unexpectedly arrives - and then they can't wait to get away.
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By what name was The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950) officially released in India in English?