February 8, 1942 – Jack is upset because Fred Allen has moved to Sundays.
Clip from the song “I’m In Love With The Sound Effects Man” by the Kingsmen from and episode of Fibber McGee and Molly (later recorded by Spike Jones). They mention Gene Autry, Edger Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Abbott and Costello, Phil Baker, and The Great Gildersleeve.
February 14, 1937 – Jack Benny celebrates his birthday. Radio bandleader Ben Bernie show up and offers to lend Jack his violin so that he can play “The Bee” and settle the feud with Fred Allen.
They mention The Townsend Plan, the movie “Wake up and live”, Prudence Penny cooking school, Little Orphan Annie, the songs “Thanks a Million” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing)”.
January 24, 1937 – Jack Practices The Bee. The feud between Jack Benny and Fred Allen is ramping up. Then the gang heads over to Phil Harris’ house to meet Phil’s southern mother and sister.
January 31, 1937 – Phil Harris’s sister Lucy Belle visits the studio. Nightmares of Fred Allen. Jack Benny will play ‘The Bee’ next Sunday.
References include the Red Cross disaster work in great Ohio river flood. Actors Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, George Burns, Fred Astair, child actor Jackie Cooper and Robert Taylor who was starring in the movie “Camille”.
February 7, 1937 – After hearing 10-year-old Stuart Canin play Schubert’s “The Bee” on The Fred Allen Program, Jack Benny is Ready to play “The Bee” himself. Leading to The Stolen Violin.
They mention the movie The Good Earth, Jack’s movie College Holiday in which he plays “Love in Bloom”, and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
