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The Jack Benny Program #169: Alexander Hamilton Show (Season 12, Episode 20)
Jack falls asleep and dreams that he is Alexander Hamilton. Dennis Day plays Aaron Burr. Guest stars: Fred De Cordova (Himself) , Gail Bonney (Liz's mother), Ross Elliott (town crier), Nancy Kulp (Jeanette Eymann), Jean Willes (Mamie/Liz), John Monaghan (Referee), Lester Matthews. First aired: 3/11/1962.
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The Jack Benny Program #134: Jack Casting For Television Special (Season 11, Episode 11)
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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The Jack Benny Program #139: Jack Goes To a Gym (Season 11, Episode 16)
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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The Jack Benny Program #130: Lunch Counter Murder (Season 11, Episode 7)
Jack's monologue concerns the previous night's bachelor party. Dennis does not want to sing because Duryea got the star dressing room. His mother has thrown Duryea out of the room. The sketch is entitled 'Death across the lunch counter, or He died sunnyside up.' Jack plays Charleston T. Gundlefinger, a counterman in a diner. Don plays the police chief. It is midnight, and Jack is nervous because a man was murdered across the street the week before. Three toughs (Duryea, Day and Nelson) come in and intimidate Jack. The police chief is no help. Benny shoots Duryea and Day, but Nelson turns out to be the interior decorator. Guest stars: Benny Rubin (1st customer), Frank Nelson (Interior Decorator) , Verna Felton (Dennis' mother), Colin Campbell (2nd customer), Dan Duryea (Himself), Dick Kallman. First aired: 12/4/1960.
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Jack Benny, #34 How Jack Found Mary (Season 05, Episode 03).avi
Jack tells an interviewer how he met Mary Livingstone years before when she worked at The May Co. Rochester sings and dances with The Sportsmen Quartet. IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0613596/
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The Jack Benny Program #24: Reminiscing About Last New Year's (Season 04, Episode 06)
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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The Jack Benny Program - Four O'Clock In The Morning Show - (Season 5, Episode 10)
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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The Jack Benny Program #028: Goldie, Fields And Glide (Season 04, Episode 10)
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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The Jack Benny Program #145: Las Vegas Show (Season 11, Episode 22)
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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