April 27, 1947 – Leaving for Chicago with the Colmans. Jack Benny is getting ready for his stage tour and tickets for his program for Ronald and Benita Colman.
References include the controversy over Fred Allen. He had been cut off by the NBC censors for a joke last week. In the episode they mention Adagio acts, Fred Astair’s dancing, Barry Fitzgerald, Tommy Manville, Norman Krasna, the Florsheim shoe company, and the Texas City disaster.
April 14, 1946 – Jack Benny’s Violin Practice Interrupts Ronald Colman’s Rehearsal.
References include the song “One-zy, Two-zy”, gossip reporter Louella Parsons, France’s debt to the United States, and lines for nylons, butter and vaccinations.
April 21, 1946 – Aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga Navy aircraft carrier docked in the San Francisco Bay, a week and a half before it left for Bikini where it would sink in an atom bomb test that summer.
References include Fred Allen, dehydrated powder eggs, and galley slaves.
January 27, 1946 – Fred Allen Annouces Contest Winners. Jack Benny has a nightmare about having to give away $10,000 in prises for the I Can’t Stand Jack Benny contest. Phil Haris sings “One-zy, Two-zy” with his daughter.
References include the sending of a radar signal to the moon, the phrase “Dutch Treat”, movies “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and “The Lost Weekend”, plus Margret O’Brien and Boris Karloff.
January 20, 1946 – Jack Benny and the gang again spoof the musical “State Fair”.
References include Mayor LaGuardia, Harry Truman, Betty Grable, Gabriel Heater (“Ah, There’s good news tonight.”), Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.
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