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Neighbor Blanche Morton frequently joined Gracie in escapades which annoy hubby Harry and provides George with an opportunity to offer a humorous soliloquy.

A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.

Contestants try to guess if celebrities have given the right answers to questions about recent news stories.

George's banker persuades him to cancel Gracie's checking account. Meanwhile, a traffic cop tries to give Gracie a ticket for running red lights.

Blanche Morton becomes jealous when her husband, Harry, hires a new secretary because she assumes his new assistant is female. Meanwhile, a pretty high school student drops by the Burns home to interview George for her high school newspaper, Blanche and Gracie assume that the girl is the person Harry just hired.

A door-to-door book salesman finds Gracie to be a tough customer; George and Harry try to get out of going to the movies by teaching their wives a confusing card game they invented for that purpose called "Kleebob."

George Burns delivers a monologue on how he met Gracie while she bollixes the tax assessor and frustrates George and Harry with their football knowledge.

For the next six months after this episode, the program would alternate with 'Racket Squad' eleven times. Sponsored by Arrid Cream Deodorant (new footage). Garry had an empty water glass and read a Christmas poem about the panel. Bill successfully guessed in Game 1 that Herman Perlman of Washington, D.C. decorated the bathtubs in the White House, and was also the winner of the national 'I've Got a Secret' contest, of which he got a $500 bond; Garry remembered this at the last minute. Henry successfully guessed in Game 2 that Marion Ettie was the 1953 Orange Ball Queen. For the Special Guest Round in Game 3, Jayne successfully guessed that Basil Rathbone was wearing long red flannels (of which he subsequently shows off), and Garry forgot to go to Bill at the fourth turn. The panel was stumped in Game 4 by Mrs. Saretta of Manhattan, New York, who was nurse for Kitty Carlisle's husband, playwright Moss Hart.

Boris Karloff's secret was that he was afraid of mice. A man's secret was that he wears girdles. No copies of this episode are known to have survived.

Melville Cooper left after this episode, and Nina Foch sat in the 4th chair for a while. Sponsored by Arrid Cream Deodorant. Garry read a bulletin at the beginning. The panel was stumped in Game 1 by Dick Mullaly of Dick Malolly, Massachusetts, who spent a weekend at the YWCA. The panel was stumped in Game 2 by Mrs. William Say Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, went to school with Jayne Meadows, 15 years ago. For the Special Guest Round in Game 3, the panel was stumped by Mickey Mantle, who was going to be the youngest father in Baseball. The panel was stumped in Game 4 by Alice Samuels of Brooklyn, New York, who lost her teeth in Radio City Music Hall.

Sponsored by Arrid Cream Deodorant. Garry gave the panelists made-up backgrounds just for this episode. Jayne successfully guessed in Game 1 that Alice Shaw of Rockville Centre, New York had five sets of twins, and Garry says she had 18 children, which Alice then named. The panel was stumped in Game 2 by Mr. Duggar of Upstate New York, who discovered Aureomycin. For the Special Guest Round in Game 3, the panel was stumped by Diana Lynn, who was wearing Bill Cullen's wife's wedding ring, and she subsequently gave it back to Bill. The panel was stumped in Game 4 by Leo Mattersdorf, who figured out Albert Einstein's income tax (a clip from this episode later appeared in the 4th Year Anniversary Special).

This episode is missing and assumed lost.

Lucille Ball sits on the panel, replacing the vacationing Faye Emerson. The first contestant is a woman who built the chairs that the panel is sitting on. The next player is a 96 year-old man who was at Fords Theatre the night Abraham Lincoln was shot. His memory is of John Wilkes Booth falling to the stage after jumping from Lincoln's box. Stumping the panel, he wins a can of pipe tobacco as he doesn't smoke cigarettes. Desi Arnaz is the guest, and his secret is "I love Lucy."