January 25, 1953 – 60 Piece Orchestra Skit
Season 3 Episode 5
We present a wonderfully rare episode from Jack Benny’s third television season with an introduction by Kathy Fuller-Seeley, John Henderson, Terry Phillips, and Buck Benny!
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Dennis Day’s Parents (Baa Baa Baa)
February 7, 1954 – Dennis is told to quit the show by his mother. Jack Benny is also visited by a ten-year-old Harry Shearer. Plus Mel Blanc’s hillarious rendition on “The Whiffenpoof Song (Baa Baa Baa)”.
References include the actresses Ava Gardener, Lana Turner, Jane Russel and Marilyn Monroe, who was on her honeymoon with Joe DiMaggio.
North-West Mounted (Winter Olympics)
February 9, 1936 – Jack Benny and the gang have returned home to New York after almost a year in California. They mention the Winter Olympics in Germany, and the actor Cary Grant. Mary Livingstone writes a play about The North-West Mounted Police.
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
January 24, 1954 – Re-run March 27, 1955 – After a visit with Bob Crosby at home, Jack Benny and the gang dramatize the Robert W Service poem “The Shooting of Dan McGrew”.
References include “Santa Baby” by Ertha Kitt, the end of the Chlorophyll fad, and the game of Scrabble. Plus a Lucky Strike commercial by the poet Ogden Nash.
Parking Ticket
January 17, 1954 – This episode begins with Jack Benny and the gang have lunch at the drug store and ends with Jack fighting a parking ticket in court,
References incule Terry Moore’s ermine bathing suit, golfers Fred Wanpler, Lloyd Mangrum, Sam Sneed and Ben Hogen, musicians Bing Crosby, Liberace, The Bell Sisters, The Ink Spots, The Fred Waring Choir, and Teresa Brewer with her song “Ricochet Romance”. Plus the movie “The Eddie Cantor Story”, detective Boston Blackie, and Mandrake the Magician.
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