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.
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.
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.
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”.
December 16, 1945 – Hello Louella. Gossip Columnist Louella parsons has a cameo. Jack benny gets a lot or mail for the “I Can’s Stand Jack Benny” contest. It will be judged by Fred Allen, Peter Lorre and Goodman Ace.
References include songs “Melencholy Baby”, “The Sheik of Araby” and “I’m Glad I Waited For You”. The two-way stretch refers to real rubber used in womens undergarments after the war. Plus Tommy Manville, Van Johnson, and the poem “The Ballad of Yukon Jake” by Edward E. Paramore Jr.
