April 14, 1946 – Jack Benny’s Violin Practice Interrupts Ronald Colman’s Rehearsal.
References include the song “One-zy, Two-zy”, gossip reporter Louella Parsons, France’s debt to the United States, and lines for nylons, butter and vaccinations.
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USS Saratoga (Atomic Bomb Test)
April 21, 1946 – Aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga Navy aircraft carrier docked in the San Francisco Bay, a week and a half before it left for Bikini where it would sink in an atom bomb test that summer.
References include Fred Allen, dehydrated powder eggs, and galley slaves.
Contest Winners (One-zy, Two-zy)
January 27, 1946 – Fred Allen Annouces Contest Winners. Jack Benny has a nightmare about having to give away $10,000 in prises for the I Can’t Stand Jack Benny contest. Phil Haris sings “One-zy, Two-zy” with his daughter.
References include the sending of a radar signal to the moon, the phrase “Dutch Treat”, movies “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and “The Lost Weekend”, plus Margret O’Brien and Boris Karloff.
State Fair Part Two
January 20, 1946 – Jack Benny and the gang again spoof the musical “State Fair”.
References include Mayor LaGuardia, Harry Truman, Betty Grable, Gabriel Heater (“Ah, There’s good news tonight.”), Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.
State Fair Part One
January 13, 1946 – State Fair Rehearsal – Rochester drives Jack Benny and Mary to the studio where they run into Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (impersonator) and rehearse their version of the movie “State Fair”.
References include war hero Pappy Boyington, violinist Joseph Szigeti, radio’s Lum and Abner, actresses Barbra Stanwyck, and Betty Grable, movies “The Lost Weekend”, “The Bells of St Mary’s” and “Spellbound”, songs “Stardust”, “Chickery Chick”, and “Oh You Beautiful Doll”.
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