The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
The Exchange Student
TV Flash files “The Exchange Student” as a desk essential hour — The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958) on CBS, season 8, episode 39, aired 1958-09-15, 25 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S08E39: listed hour 291 of 291 in the The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show guide, last listed hour of season 8. It aired 1958-09-15 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Grammar School Dance” (S08E38). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “The Exchange Student”. The Exchange Student closes 1958: last named hour of the surreal marriage, bottled when Gracie's logic still outran the plot.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Exchange Student sit in the The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show guide?
S08E39 is listed hour 291 of 291 — last listed hour of season 8, season 8 episode 39.
When did The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show S08E39 air?
The Exchange Student aired 1958-09-15 and is listed at 25 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start anywhere George talks to the camera and Gracie derails the room. The fourth-wall marriage is the show from the jump.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show is fourth-wall George and dizzy-logic Gracie: marriage as perfected vaudeville, the star stepping outside the scene to talk to us. Watch it now as early meta-sitcom — a radio partnership migrated without sanding off the surreal, bottled when Gracie retired.
The look is a man in the aisle and a woman who derails reality — fourth-wall George, dizzy-logic Gracie, marriage as perfected vaudeville. Their CBS sitcom (1950–1958), 291 episodes across eight seasons, migrated a legendary vaudeville and radio marriage into television's living room without sanding off the surreal. George narrated; Gracie derailed; neighbors, Bea Benaderet's Blanche, announcer Harry Von Zell, Fred Clark's Harry Morton played along. Direct address as a silhouette. Meta before sitcoms had a word…
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- Harry Von Zell as Harry Von Zell
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- Fred Clark as Harry Morton
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