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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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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'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 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 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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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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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 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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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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