May 21, 1939 – In this episode of the Jack Benny program, Phil Harris inflicts the worst torture imaginable on Jack…baby talk! Plus we learn about Eleanor Roosevelt’s radio show and the NY World’s Fair. Plus the second half of “Gunga Din”.
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Split Personality
May 21, 1944 – Jack Benny and the gang discuss split personality, and later Jack realizes he has a split personality. Phil Harris and his wife Alice Faye just had a baby. Jack turns on the radio and hears a commercial for “Sympathy Cough Syrup” (very funny spoof), and they reference the death of Flattop from the Dick Tracy comic strip.
Alexander Graham Bell
May 28, 1939 – Not only to they spoof the movie “The Story of Alexander Graham Bell”, they also talk about Jack Benny’s movie “Man About Town”. Plus the FBI director J. Edger Hoover.
Best of The JELL-O Years
May 31, 1942 – After 8 years with JELL-O the Jack Benny Show is changing sponsors (it’s still the parent company General Foods). They are doing a clips show or “A Cavalcade of Last 8 Years with JELL-O”. Clips include: How Jack met Rochester, Buck Benny Rides Again, Andy Devine, Jack saves Fred Allen’s life, Lost Horizon, Dennis Day’s first appearance, Mary’s mother, Carmichael the Polar Bear and the gas man, Mr. Billingsley, Don’s wife, and the New Year’s Eve fantasy.
Sherlock Holmes Preview
June 4, 1939 – Jack Benny is compared to dramatic actors Paul Muni and Spenser Tracy. But it’s really just a rib. Jack Benny is Sherlock Holmes in the preview to “The Hound of the Baskervilles”.
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