Author: thisdaybenny

January 16, 1955 – Jack Doesn’t Have a Script, adapted from the January, 12, 1941 episode. A very funny episode where Jack Benny talks to his writers and tries to get them to finish the script as the show is on the air.

References include, the mumps (a childhood illness), writers Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck, comedian Fred Allen, The Hall Johnson Choir, the song “Mighty Lak’ a Rose” and Amos ‘n’ Andy.

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January 3, 1943 – Broadcasting from Bangor, Maine for an audience of soliders. Guest bandleader Abe Lyman.

References include singer Rudy Vallee, boxer Lou Nova, and actresses Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner.

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November 20, 1949 – Jack goes to rehearsal and runs into TV comedian Ed Wynn and Dennis Day’s replacement Larry Stevens.

References include General Bradley, the coal strike, the song “Mule Train”, the Crosley millions contest, the musical “South Pacific”, Al Jolson, Buster Keaton, Margret O’Brien and Keenan Wynn.

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November 13, 1949 – Last week’s mistakes. Jack visits Ronald Coleman on a movie set. The movie was “Champagne for Caesar”, directed by Richard Whorf.

References include the song “Mule Train”, the Notre Dame college football team, comedian Red Skelton, and orchestra conductor Arturo Toscanini.

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November 6, 1949 – Jack rides in a yacht and Rochester guest stars on the Amos & Andy program in the episode “Friendly Loan Company”.

References include the high price of coffee, True Confessions magazine, princess Margret, the song “Mule Train”, Popeye cartoons, comedians Milton Berle and Fred Allen, movie stars Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn and Joan Crawford, the movies “Mutiny on the Bounty” and “Wabash Avenue”,

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