February 13, 1949 – It’s Jack Benny’s birthday and everyone sings Happy Birthday except one guy in the audience.
References include, Eddie Cantor, Errol Flynn, King Midas, Honest John’s used cars, Pyramid Clubs, the songs “Buttons and Bows” and “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean”.
February 6, 1949 – Don Wilson signs his contract, Claudette Colbert and Vincent Price guest star in a re-working of the October 20, 1940 episode. Jack Benny wants to be on The Ford Theater radio show. References include a pyramid club.
January 30, 1949 – Don Wilson still won’t sign his contract. Meanwhile Phil Harris is in Washington DC to entertain at the president’s inaugural ball.
References include the southern California snowfall, Operation Haylift, the radio show Your Hit Parade, Dennis Day’s record “Tarra-Ta-Larra Ta-Lar”, Tyrone Power’s wedding, Artie Shaw, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Milton Berle, and Amos n Andy.
January 23, 1949 – Don Won’t Sign His Contract.
References include the southern Californian snowfall, President Truman’s inauguration, Jasha Heifetz, Barbra Stanwick, Don Ameche, movies “Johnny Belinda” and “Mother Wore Tights” and disk jockeys.
October 18, 1942 – Jack Benny donates his old car The Maxwell for the scrap metal drive in support of the war effort.
References include Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, ship builder Henry Kaiser and revolutionary war hero Paul Revere.
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