May 23, 1954 – Jack’s trip to Las Vegas is disscussed as well as Jack’s last television show of the season featuring Bob Hope, as well as Dennis Day’s TV Show.
References include the portable Crosley TV set, dialing information (1-1-3), “My Sin” perfume, The Good Humor man, Marylin Monroes and her husband Joe DiMaggio, Frank Sinatra’s song “Young At Heart”, Bing Crosby, and Howard Hughes.
May 20, 1945 – In San Francisco Jack Benny is joined by actress Rita Hayworth, Governer Earl Warren and harmonica player Larry Adler.
This is just after the German Surrender. References include Orson Welles, Bing Crosby in “Going My Way”, and Jack Benny’s movie “The Horn Blows at Midnight”.
May 13, 1945 – Jack is going to San Francisco. It is Mother’s Day, the Sunday after V-E Day and Jack Benny is getting ready for a trip, so he gets some money from his vault.
References include Truman, Churchill, and Eisenhower, the Adjusted Service Rating (soldiers with 85 points could go home), J. Edger Hoover, actor Errol Flynn, songwriter Cole Porter, and singer Bing Crosby.
May 6, 1945 – Continuing a series of episodes about Jack Meeting his cast, this episode is about Jack hiring his announcer Don Wilson. Jack also gets ready to open his swimming pool for the summer.
References include the writer Mark Twain, the movie “Woman in the Window”, singer Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, announcers Harry Von Zell, Jimmy Wallington, and Bill Goodwin.
April 29, 1945 – First episode with Jack Benny’s violin teacher Professor LeBlanc, played by Mel Blanc.
References include Lena Horne, Ronald Colman, songs “rum and Coca-cola” and “My Dreams Are Getting better All The Time”, books “Forever Amber”, The Rover Boys series, the Elsie Dinsmore series, and Bob Hope’s book “I Never Left Home”.
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