Live actors with animated sequences bring to life the celebrated poem, 'Night Before Christmas'
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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.
A little girl dreams about her rag doll coming to life.
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The Jack Benny Program #137: Jack at the Supermarket (Season 11, Episode 14)
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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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.
Santa magically creates a Punch and Judy puppet show to the delight of children at a Christmas party. WARNING! Parents may wish to watch this before exposing innocent eyes to the comic brutality of a Punch and Judy puppet show from the late 1940s - including some very non-PC scenes.
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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 #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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The Jack Benny Program #166: Ghost Town Western (Season 12, Episode 17)
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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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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