May 16, 1937 – Jack Benny and the gang do the Eugene O’Neill play “Ah, Wilderness!”.
References include the tradition of throwing rice and old shoes at weddings, the coronation of King George and Queen Elizabeth, Portland Hoffa, Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and the racehorse Pompoon.
April 20, 1947 – Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone play Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert in their version of “The Egg and I”.
References include a radio component called the magic eye, singer Nelson Eddie, Sen-Sen liquorice breath freshener, and Murine eye drops.
March 25, 1951 – It’s Easter day and Jack Benny and the gand (joined by Mar’ys sister Babe) do a parody of the movie “Sunset Boulevard”.
References include the Senate crime investigating committee, billiard champ Willie Hoppe, Telula Bankhead, Hopalong Cassidy, movies “Harvey”, “Broken Arrow”, “Tomahawk”, “Lassie”, “Banzo”, “Wabash Avenue”, and “I’ll Get By”.
April 1, 1951 – Leaving New York to do his TV show, Jack takes Babe Livingstone to the train station.
References include The Kefauver Committee, Dick Tracy, the song “The Tennessee Waltz”, the radio show Suspense, and Claudette Colbert, Basil Rathbone and Robert Montgomery who would be on his TV show.
March 18, 1945 – Jack tells a reporter the story of how he discovered Mary back in 1932. They made this episode for TV which aired October 31, 1954.
Refrences include the Oscars where Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman were winners. They mention the radio shows “Your Hit Parade”, “Duffy’s Tavern”, and “Fibber McGee and Molly”, the silent film actress Theda Barra, the bandleader Spike Jones, the old song “Just a Gigolo”, the watch company Gruen.
Plus the true story of Mary meeting Jack.
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