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The Jack Benny Program #148: Main Street Shelter (Season 11, Episode 25)
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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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 #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.
25:50
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 #142: Jack Dreams He's a Surgeon (Season 11, Episode 19)
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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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 #131: Jack Goes To A Concert (Season 11, Episode 8)
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 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/
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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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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