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Nobody in Jack's club wants to play golf with him because he is such a bad sport. He manages to make up a foursome consisting of the golf pro and two out-of-towners, but they become exasperated with his cheating. Don does the Lipton Tea commercial in the locker-room with Dr. Scott who has been called to the phone because of an emergency: his wife is out of Lipton Tea. Guest star: Ned Miller , Eric Monti, John Gallaudet, Barry Kelley, William McLean, Howard Wendell, Hugh Sanders (I), Ray Walker, Bobby Johnson, Damian O'Flynn, Jack Boyle, Louis Nicoletti, John Graham. First aired: 10/15/1961.

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Jack and Rochester are cleaning Jack's attic; Jack can't stand to throw anything away. Don arrives, and finds an abstract painting in which he claims to see a man in a car who is happy because he has State Farm Car Insurance. Rochester finds a box of papers that contains Jack's application to medical school. Rochester daydreams about what Benny would have been like as a surgeon. Guest stars: Mel Blanc (Dr. Von Struneheimer) , Claudia Barrett (3rd Nurse), Ruth Brady (2nd Nurse), Joan Tabor (1st Nurse), Tyler McVey (Doctor) First aired: February 26, 1961.

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Benny does a monologue on his Christmas gifts, then remembers last New Year's Eve: Mary is giving a party, but Jack is not planning to go because he has a date with Gloria. After the show, the cast gathers in Jack's dressing room. Crosby sings 'Let's start the new year right,' with the Sportsmen Quartet. Jack gets a call from Gloria cancelling their date. He refuses to go to the party, and instead wanders the streets alone, finally stopping for coffee at Nick's Cafe, where the waitress turns out to be Gloria. He goes home, where he and Rochester ring in the new year together. Guest stars: Bob Crosby (himself), Benny Rubin, Sam Hearn , Sandra Gould, Tom Duggan, Michael Ross. First aired: 12/27/1953.

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After being awakened at 4:00 a.m. by a phone call from "Hank, The All Night Radio DJ", Jack finds that he can't get back to sleep. Later that day, exhausted from lack of sleep, he and Mary go to a clothing store to buy him a new suit, but it turns into much more of an ordeal than he ever thought it would be.

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Jack's monologue is on TV channel switchers. In the sketch, Jack returns from a three day hike with the Beverly Hills Beavers to find that Rochester has given an old sports jacket with $200 sewn in the lining to the Main Street Shelter. Jack rushes down to retrieve it, but in his camping clothes and with a three-day beard, he is taken for a transient himself. When he finally gets his $200 back, his 'alter ego' makes him donate it to the Shelter. Guest stars: Benny Rubin (drunk), Sam Hearn, Herb Vigran, Gregory Irvin (unknown), David Foley, Lester Dorr, Harry Tyler, Frank Scannell, Grandon Rhodes, Ralph Moody. First aired 4/9/1961.

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Jack tells Don about the time his vaudeville act with Burns and Crosby played Scranton, Pennsylvania; the name of their act was Goldie, Fields and Glide. Benny tries to convince Crosby to appear on his program with Burns to do their old act, but Crosby wants more money than Benny is willing to pay. Cameo by Bob Hope. Crosby sings 'Gypsy In My Soul.' Guest stars: George Burns (Himself), Bob Hope (Himself), Bing Crosby (Himself), Jay Novello (Fruit Peddler). First aired: 3/21/1954.

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Rochester has won a gin rummy game with Jack, so he is golfing while Jack does the housework. Jack plays gin rummy with Don, and he ends up doing the housework. Dennis arrives to sing his new song, Let there be love. Jack goes to the supermarket. He has trouble getting a basket loose; he is insulted by Frank Nelson and buys fruit from Benny Rubin; he keeps an eye out for a bargain, such as the alphabet soup which has been marked down because it is in Latin. Herb Vigran (meat vendor), Benny Rubin (fruit vendor), Frank Nelson (Grocery clerk) , Karen Norris (Tommy's mother), Flip Mark (Tommy), Roy Glenn (Roy), Audrey Clark. First aired: 1/22/1961.

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Don leaves the studio forgetting he was supposed to give Jack a ride home. While looking for Don, Jack becomes enamored with a new young receptionist whom he learns has a penchant for broad-shoulded, burly men like Rock Hudson and Robert Mitchum. Jack decides to join a body-building program at McGuire's Gym and goads Don into joining because of the two-for-one special. Hilarity ensues. McGuire is played by Allen Hale Jr., best known as the Skipper Jonas Grumby from the sitcom Gilligan's Island. Guest stars: Richard Reeves, Alan Hale Jr. (McGuire), Lisa Davis (studio secretary), Frank Gerstle, Russell Trent, Norman Alden, William McLean, Leon Tyler. First aired: 2/5/1961.

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Jack has hired only two of the Mills Brothers; because the two of them can't sing well on their own, they ask the other two to come out and sing anyway. Their agent shoots himself backstage. They do the Lipton Tea commercial with Don to the tune of 'Up the Lazy River.' In the sketch, Jack goes to Las Vegas and drives the hotel staff crazy with his stinginess. Guest star: Richard Deacon (Mr. Thomas - hotel manager), Ned Miller, The Mills Brothers (Themselves), Dabbs Greer, Olan Soule, William Bakewell, Eddie Quillan. First aired: 3/19/1961.

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Jack Benny - Public domain TV

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