JACK BENNY AND WORLD WAR II

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, February 20, 1988

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (10-10-43) This first show of the new season, from New York City, finds Jack just back from a three-month overseas camp tour. Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Eddie Rochester Anderson, Phil Harris, Minerva Pious, John Brown. Grapenuts, NBC. (11:40; 10:30; 6:15)

I SUSTAIN THE WINGS (4-15-44) Featuring Capt. Glen Miller and the Band of the Training Command with the Crew Chiefs, Bob Carroll, Mel Powell, Ray McKinley, Johnny Desmond. Actor Broderick Crawford appears in a skit about the life of an Army Air Force Aerial Pho­tographer. Sustaining, NBC. (15:30; 14:30)

TREASURY STAR PARADE (1942) A dramatization of Arthur Blake Clark’s book, “Remember Pearl Harbor.” Host is Henry Hull. U.S. Treasury Department. (15:00)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (1-23-44) Remote broadcast from the Army Air Field at Murock, California with guest Alexis Smith. Mary, Phil, Rochester, Dennis, Don, John Brown, Butterfly McQueen. Grapenuts, NBC. (12:00; 18:00)

KOLLEGE OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE (8-16-44) Phil Harris subs for Kay Kyser in this broadcast for servicemen at San Luis Obispo, California. Guests are the King Sisters who join Ish Kabibble and the boys in the band. AFRS rebroadcast. (14:15; 15:00)

TREASURY STAR PARADE (1942) “Tommy Tucker, Patriot” starring Ezra Stone as a 12-year old who nags his family to be aware of their responsibilities to the war effort. U.S. Treasury Department. (14:20)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (2-27-44) Eddie Cantor and Larry Adler join Jack and the gang in a program broad­cast from the Hollywood Canteen. Grapenuts, NBC. (12:15; 8:20; 6:40)