October 20, 1940 – FDR has announced the first ever peace time draft. Jack Benny goes to trade in his old Maxwell for a new Packard Convertible.
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Halloween Party
October 30, 1938 – Jack Benny is broadcasting from a new NBC studio. Big Crosby’s “Pocket Full of Dreams” is a hit song. Sally Rand dances with a bubble in the movie “The Sunset Strip Case”. Meanwhile in Russia, Stalin rule of terror is at it’s height.
4 O’Clock in the Morning
November 1, 1953 – Jack benny gets a call from an all-night DJ. They mention 86 year old bodybuilder Barnarr MacFadden, Brew 102 Beer and Mary Livingstone does an impression of Marilyn Monroe. This episode was later done for TV.
The Marine Corps
November 7, 1943 – Jack Benny and the gang dodge aircraft tests on location at the Marine Corps Air Station in Mojave, California.
Leo Durocher (and the Colmans)
November 17, 1946 – Guest Ronald and Benita Coleman live next door to Jack Benny in the show. This episode has another guest, Leo Durocher, loud-mouth manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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