This Day In Jack Benny
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Sinopsis
A podcast of the greatest Old Time Radio ever, The Jack Benny Program! Starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Rochester, Dennis Day, and Don Wilson.The Jack Benny Show AKA The Jello Program AKA The Lucky Strike Program aired from the 1930's right through to the 1950's. Each week your host, John Henderson, brings an episode from that week 60-80 years ago. It's old, yet still as funny as ever. An OTR podcast.
Episodios
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Jack's Movie (Einstein)
25/06/2017 Duración: 32minJune 20, 1937 - This is the very first episode with Rochester! In the episode they mention Albert Einstein, WC Fields, and the Maxwell House Showboat.
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Baseball and Bob Hope
21/06/2017 Duración: 32minJune 20, 1948 - From Cleveland with guests Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell and pitcher Bob Feller. It is an uproarious episode with a great crowd.
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Mary's Movie
18/06/2017 Duración: 32minJune 13, 1937 - Andy Devine is in this early Jack Benny episode talking about his upcoming movie with Bing Crosby. They also mention Fred MacMurray, Gary Cooper and Marlene Detrick. But the star is Mary Livingstone and her first (and possible last) movie "This Way Please".
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Detroit (Radio Ratings)
14/06/2017 Duración: 32minJune 13, 1948 - The Jack Benny Show is #1! The Hooper Ratings listed the top rated radio shows based on millions of telephone interviews through the year. This episode is from Detroit and they mention a number of cars including the 1948 Cadillac, the vehicle to start the tail fin craze. Don Wilson's weight is also discussed in this episode.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
11/06/2017 Duración: 32minJune 11, 1939 - Jack first does a parody of gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler. He mentions a number of old Hollywood stars including youngsters like Mickey Rooney and Bobby Breen. Plus The Cisco Kid, Dr.Kildair, Charlie Chan and most of all Sherlock Holmes. Also this day, from "Seein' Stars" in the Sunday comics June 11, 1939
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Leaving For Detroit
07/06/2017 Duración: 32minJune 6, 1948 - A fun train station episode. Mel Blanc does Porky pig and his famous woody woodpecker laugh. And we explain what "Which Twin Has The Toni?" means.
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Sherlock Holmes Preview
04/06/2017 Duración: 32minJune 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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Best of The JELL-O Years
31/05/2017 Duración: 30minMay 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.
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Alexander Graham Bell
28/05/2017 Duración: 32minMay 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.
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Split Personality
24/05/2017 Duración: 32minMay 21, 1944 - Jack Benny and the gang discuss split personality, and later Jack realizes he has a split personality. They reference the death of Flattop from the Dick Tracy comic strip. Plus 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).
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More Gunga Din
21/05/2017 Duración: 32minMay 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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Infantry
16/05/2017 Duración: 33minMay 14, 1944 - Jack at the gang are at Camp Adair, Corvallis, Oregon performing for the infantry. Don starts off the episode by listing other programs you can hear through the week: Monday - Cavalcade of America Tuesday - Bob Hope Wednesday - Eddie Cantor Thursday - Bing Crosby Friday Amos 'n Andy Saturday - Truth or Consequences Sunday - Jack Benny
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Ronald Coleman's Oscar Returned
10/05/2017 Duración: 32minMay 9, 1948 - Ronald Coleman's Oscar is finally returned...or was it ever gone? They reference the Pilgrims (listen for a funny clip of Abbot and Costello from 1948). Bare midriff's are in fashion. The first villain pro-wrestler on television, Gorgeous George. And they mention Little Orphan Annie.
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Kentucky Derby (3 Little Fishes)
07/05/2017 Duración: 31minMay 7, 1939 - Jack Benny makes a Kentucky Derby Bet. Then they do a skit as horses. Phil Harris is also teased for talking in baby talk when he sang the hit novelty song "Three Little Fishes".
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Frank Sinatra
03/05/2017 Duración: 32minMay 2, 1948 - Guest Star Frank Sinata. That skinny kid won an Oscar for "The House I Live In" in 1945 and was currently in the movie "Miracle of the Bells". Not to mention the fact that he had his own radio show "Your Hit Parade". This week the negotiate a price for him to sing on The Jack Benny Show.
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Seventh Anniversary
30/04/2017 Duración: 31minApril 30, 1939 - It's Jack Benny's 7th Anniversary in Radio. At the time there where also two World's Fairs going on. One in New York, the other in San Francisco. Listen also for quick references to drive-in movies and "Lloyds of London" and Esquire Magazine.
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NBC San Francisco
26/04/2017 Duración: 31minApril 26, 1942 - Jack Benny and the gang are at the new NBC building in San Francisco. Listen closely and you will hear them mention 7-Up, Red Skelton's catchphrase "I Dood It", and "Havanna Nights". They also do a western skit called Jack Hawkin's Revenge.
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Jack’s Studio Dressing Room
23/04/2017 Duración: 32minApril 23, 1939 - On the set of Jack's movie "Man About Town" we meet Guests Binnie Barns and Mark Sandrich with a cameo by Claudette Colbert...all performed in the radio studio by the regular cast with bit players doing the celebrity voices. Meanwhile, Rochester tries to collect on the bet he made with Jack Benny after the Joe Lewis boxing match. And they subtly take a jab at Chamberlain and his Munich Agreement with Hitler.
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Desperate for JELL-O (Don's Play)
19/04/2017 Duración: 31minApril 19, 1942 - Don's play about JELL-O stars Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone and Dennis Day. Plus Jack steals a joke from his corny sound man and much more!