January 6, 1946 – At the Rose Bowl game Jack Benny made a bet with Phil Harris, but will he pay it? This is the end of the “I Can’t Stand Jack Benny Because…” contest and the first episode with the hot dog man who we later come to know as Mr. Kitzel. Plus references to “Mutany on the Bounty”, Abbott and Costello, Stokowski, Tarzan, Rinse-O and Coca-Cola.
October 27, 1940 – Mary is out sick, but Jack and the cast carry on with a football skit. They mention a number of historical facts, the self proclaimed wizard of credit Smiling Frankie Gordon, Mickey Mouse, Pinocchio’s Blue Fairy and the Tom Collins cocktail.
October 13, 1940 – Phil Harris tries to collect on a World Series bet. Jack Benny, Don Wilson and Mary Livingstone read reviews of their first show of the season including Ed Sullivan’s review. And Rochester was elected honorary Mayor of Central Avenue. Plus references to conscription day, Helen Hayes, Oscar Levant, Gone With The Wind, Boomtown, The Grapes of Wrath, and Gulliver’s Travels.
1940 World Series
Eddie “Rochester” Anderson
This is a record for State Farm Insurance agents when the company started sponsoring the Jack Benny TV Show in 1960. “Jack Benny Music to Write Apps By”. Side A is Jack Benny and the gang, Side B is State Farm on how they came up with the State Farm theme.
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October 6, 1940 – Jack tells a childhood story. Mary Kelley returns as The Blue Fairy (a spoof on Disney’s Pinocchio). Plus they mention William Shakespeare’s a “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and the tap-dancing Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.
