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The Jack Benny Program #139: Jack Goes To a Gym (Season 11, Episode 16) 25:22

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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  • In the opening segment, Jack practices his lines on the bus on the way to the rehearsal for his show. While Don and the director are waiting for Jack to arrive, Jane Morgan sings "The Second Time Around." When Jack arrives, he flirts with Jane, then invites her to lunch. Don does the Lipton Tea commercial with a parrot that does so well Jack fires Don. Jack takes Jane to lunch at a cafeteria. He and Jane rehearse their lines for a skit about a fight between a husband and a wife; everyone in the cafeteria takes sides, and a brawl ensues. Guest stars: Fred De Cordova (Himself), Benny Rubin (Bus Driver), Dave Willock, Ross Elliott, Ned Miller, Jane Morgan (Herself), Shirley Mitchell, Frank Gerstle, Mimi Doyle, Ginny Tyler, Victor Sen Yung, Vito Scotti, Charity Grace, Edith Simmons, Lee Millar, Robert Bice, Fred Graham, George Barrows, Gil Perkins. First aired: 12/10/1961.


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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 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 cleans out his desk and finds a song he wrote 15 years ago, entitled "When you say I beg your pardon, then I'll come back to you." Film composer Dimitri Tiomkin is coming over in the evening at Jack's request, so that he can get permission to use the music from High Noon in a sketch on his program, and Jack decides to ask him to arrange the song he wrote himself, so that it will be a big hit. At home, locksmiths arrive to open his vault, and Don comes by to practice ventriloquism in a State Farm commercial. Tiomkin arrives with his dog, and Jack plays his song on the violin with disastrous results. Guest stars: Maudie Prickett (Ms. Gordon), Benny Rubin (Locksmith), Ned Miller (Charlie), Dimitri Tiomkin (Himself). First aired: 12/17/1961.


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  • Jack has written his life story for television, and has his agent hire a child actor who is just as cheap as he is to play himself. Remake of the sketch originally done on November 20, 1954. Guest stars: Maudie Prickett (Ms. Gordon), Mel Blanc , Jackie Russell (Woman), Mary Young (Mildred Holmquist), Dennis Holmes (Jimmy Evans), Barry Gordon (Harry Johnson). First aired: 1/1/1961.


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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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  • Jack and Gisele take a shortcut while driving from Phoenix to L.A., get lost, and find themselves in a cafe in a ghost town. The cafe owner tells them a story about Tombstone Harry and Cactus Kid (Benny); the sketch is very similar to the one done on November 2, 1952, with Gisele playing the saloon singer. Don Wilson, Gisele and the Sportsmen Quartet do the State Farm commercial to the tune of 'An old cowhand from the Rio Grande. Guest stars: Gisele MacKenzie (Herself) , Glenn Turnbull (The Cactus Kid), Gerald Mohr (Tombstone Harry), James Flavin (Bartender), Will Wright (Drunk), Irene Tedrow (Tess MacKenzie), Charles Bagby. First aired 2/11/1962.


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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 honors Don Wilson on the occasion of his 27th year working with Jack. The sketch relates how Don and Jack met: Jack's radio sponsor, the Universal Corset Co., holds auditions for an announcer for Jack's program, and Don is the only one who laughs at Jack's bad jokes. John Daly presents Don with a plaque; Jack disagrees with Daly's statement that Don came to his show when it was "down," and ends by breaking the plaque over Don's head. The Sportsmen sing "Down Yonder". Guest stars: Leonid Kinskey (Sir Gay Finskey), Nancy Kulp (Teacher), Howard McNear (Mr. Willoby), Roy Rowan (Himself), Bill Baldwin, John Daly (Himself). First aired: 1/15/1961.


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  • Jack gets a haircut between the dress rehearsal and the show; none of the barbers want to do it because his tips are so small. Don and Oscar the seal do the State Farm commercial. Gisele sings 'Smile'. Jack asks her for a date, but she is busy giving a party to which she has not invited Jack. They do their violin duet, during which Jack's ten dollar suit from Hong Kong comes to pieces. Guest star: Iris Adrian (Mildred), Pitt Herbert, Gisele MacKenzie (Herself), Richard Deacon , Rolfe Sedan (Andre), Bobby Johnson, Shirley Mitchell, Jon Chevron. First aired: 11/6/1960.


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