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A comedy anthology television series hosted by George Burns.

When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good-natured old man, the Almighty selects him as His messenger to the modern world.

A betting castle staff, and a series of misunderstandings and set-ups, leads to an American entertainer and an English damsel falling in love.

In this spin-off series of The Golden Girls, Dorothy Zbornak remarries and moves away, so her mother Sophia and their roommates Blanche Devereaux and Rose Nyland open a hotel called The Golden Palace.

George Burns shows viewers an average day in his life, teaches them his exercise regime, meets with his famous friends and reminisces about his past- providing laughs all the way.

In this feel-good body-switchers comedy, aging worldly-wise businessman Jack Watson swaps bodies with his grandson David in the wake of an automobile accident. George Burns shines in his final leading role.

George Burns returns as God - and as Satan. They battle over the soul of a young rock star who is willing to sell it to the devil.

Nolie who has intellectual disabilities has just turned twenty-one yet acts more like eight. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at how the old man has deteriorated, vegetating in his wheelchair. He realizes that this is partly due to the medication the nurses are giving him. Nolie decides that he must rehabilitate Grandpa himself, since no one else cares. Furthermore, he and Grandpa must keep their project a secret. It's a job for a man, and time for Nolie to become one.

A young girl receives a divine message and starts a campaign to promote faith. Her family and teacher, skeptical of her claims, try to stop her efforts. She persists despite their opposition, convinced of her heavenly calling.

Three friends living on the dole decide to rob a bank.

Kindly former vaudeville performer Bill Grant befriends sassy fourteen-year-old runaway Kate, who is being pursued by some clownishly cruel drug dealers.

A variety show with comedy skits and musical numbers, performed by a regular cast and special guests.

Lucy Carter, a widow with two teen children, takes a job as a secretary for her stuffy brother-in-law.

The wacky misadventures of a forever-scheming woman, her reluctant best friend, and her cantankerous boss.

The life and love of a young couple is told through a series of monologues, sketches, and song-and-dance routines. Each episode followed how they met and fell in love, and then their subsequent married life. Numerous guest-stars helped round out the cast.

Retired vaudevillian George Burns acquires an apartment complex.

The romantic misadventures of Bob Collins, a suave, sophisticated bachelor and photographer operating in Hollywood, California. The show is centered around his womanizing ways with his models, and his sister's attempts to make him settle down.

This The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950) spin-off found George Burns relocated to his downtown office working as a producer and trying to deal with an assortment of entertainers and oddball theatrical acts, as well as his previously established friends.

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

Live variety show with Jackie Gleason.

A minority stockholder takes on the crooked board of directors at a billion dollar corporation.

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary, with the usual Gracie Allen logic. While distracted, Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies. The story moves to Hollywood, where, with Gracie around, kidnappers get kidnapped and the chatter between her and George Burns even takes a few satirized shots at Filmland, in addition to their usual unusual routines. Guy Lombardo, top-billed on the ads and posters with Burns and Allen but not the cast listings, and dance team Frank Veloz and Yolanda, fill in where needed between the cracks of the mostly on-the-fly plot, and they don't seem to be taking their gigs all that seriously either. Burns and Allen Radio fans, the few of us that still remember "radio", will love it, while others are likely to give it a "say what" or "duh", especially if they were raised on television comedy of the past twenty years.

Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.

Gracie Alden tries to graduate college to get an inheritance.