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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 #084: Christmas Shopping (Season 8, Episode 7)
Jack goes Christmas shopping in a large deptartment store and has trouble making up his mind. Dennis Day sings "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer". Jack encounters Nelson as the floor manager, Blanc and Pepper as salespeople, Rubin as a bandit. The Sportsmen Quartet sing the Lucky commercial in the elevator. Guest stars: Charles Cantor, Mel Blanc (Salesman), Frank Nelson (Floorwalker), Sam Hearn, Benny Rubin (Bandit) , Lois Wilson (Herself), Barbara Pepper (Saleswoman), Gil Frye. First aired: 12/15/1957.
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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.
24:32
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 #155: Jack Plays Golf (Season 12, Episode 6)
Nobody in Jack's club wants to play golf with him because he is such a bad sport. He manages to make up a foursome consisting of the golf pro and two out-of-towners, but they become exasperated with his cheating. Don does the Lipton Tea commercial in the locker-room with Dr. Scott who has been called to the phone because of an emergency: his wife is out of Lipton Tea. Guest star: Ned Miller , Eric Monti, John Gallaudet, Barry Kelley, William McLean, Howard Wendell, Hugh Sanders (I), Ray Walker, Bobby Johnson, Damian O'Flynn, Jack Boyle, Louis Nicoletti, John Graham. First aired: 10/15/1961.
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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.
24:21
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.
25:21
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.
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.
25:46
The Jack Benny Program #136: Don's 27th Anniversary With Jack (Season 11, Episode 13)
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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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 #127: Gisele Mackenzie (Season 11, Episode 4)
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.
24:41
The Jack Benny Program #158: Jack Writes a Song (Season 12, Episoce 9)
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.
25:08
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 #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.
26:48
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 #157: Jack Goes to the Cafeteria (Season 12, Episode 8)
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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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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