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The Jack Benny Program #136: Don's 27th Anniversary With Jack (Season 11, Episode 13) 25:46

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'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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • Jack takes his girlfriend Mildred to a violin concert, even though she would prefer to go to the fights. Jack spots the Stewarts in the audience and tries to get their attention by tossing peanuts at them, eventually driving them out. When Mildred turns on her transistor radio to listen to the fight, the entire audience leaves. Guest stars: James Stewart (Himself), Gloria Stuart (Herself) , Barbara Nichols (Mildred Meyerhouser), Erno Neufelt, Hank Weaver, Damian O'Flynn, Robert Patton, Pat Colby. First aired: December 11, 1960.


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  • 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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  • 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 Beach Boys appear in a skit with Benny and Hope as surfers. Jack trys to weasel Disneyland tickets from Walt Disney. Also, a skit with Benny, Hope and Sommer in a takeoff on Italian movies. This was Benny's first special after the demise of his regular series. Benny obviously trys to appeal to the younger viewers by booking the very popular Beach Boys.


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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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