October 26, 1952 – Louella Parsons is back to write a gossip article on Jack Benny. This is a recycled script from April 2, 1944.
References include Johnnie Ray singer of “The Little White Cloud That Cried”, Florence Chadwick who swam the English Channel, movies like “Francis Goes to West Point”, exiled King Farouck of Egypt, and the presidential campaign with Ike Eisenhower and Richard Nixon vs Adlai Stevenson.
October 19, 1952 – Jack Buys 20th Century Fox. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck of 20th Century Fox is the guest star and Jack dream he is the head of a movie studio himself.
References include Campbell’s Soup, Jack Warner of Warner Brothers, Howard Hughes of RKO, Errol Flynn, Ronald Colman, Lassie Come Home, and the song “Feet Up (Pat Him on the Po Po)”.
October 15, 1952 – Jack Catches His Nose in a Gopher Trap. Mel Blanc does the chattering of the gopher. Then Jack goes shopping for a new television set.
References include the song “Wish You Were Here” by Eddie Fisher, Spike Jones, Marion Davies, the Yankees World series win, Chlorophyll tablets that fight bad breath, Vigero plant food, and Bugs Bunny’s catchphrase “What’s Up Doc?”.
October 5, 1952 – Jack Benny plays a newspaperman.
References include Jack Benny’s first TV show of the season, game 5 of the World Series with ballplayers like Phill Rezzuto and Jackie Robinson, Albert Einstein, Milton Berle, Rocky Marciano, Ty Cobb, The New Follies at the Burbank Theater, and the songs “Cry” by Johnnie Ray, “Kiss of Fire” by Georgia Gibbs, and “Feet Up (Pat Him on the Po Po)” by Guy Mitchell.
October 25, 1942 – In this episode Jack Benny and the gang do their version on the movie “Tales of Manhattan” starring Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton and Edward G Robinson.
References include the Fred Allen radio show, the Kate Smith radio show, gasoline rationing and Berma-Shave.
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