JACK BENNY AND MEL BLANC  Part 1

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, February 4th, 2006

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (12-12-54) Jack is planning a trip to Palm Springs. Mary Livingstone, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby, Don Wilson, Sportsmen, Mel Blanc. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, CBS. (26 min)

CISCO KID (1953) “Murder at North San Juan” stars Jack Mather as the “Robin Hood of the Old West” with Mel Blanc as Porfirio, “cousin-in-law of Pancho” (usually played by Harry Lang, who is absent from this program). There’s a gambling casino problem in the old California mining town of North San Juan. Butter-Nut Bread, Syndicated. (30 min)

GI JOURNAL #79 (1-26-45) William Bendix is Editor-in-Chief of this edition of the Journal, with Arthur Treacher, Mel Blanc, Lena Romay, Jinx Falkenberg, Lt. Jimmy Grier and the Coast Guard Band. AFRS. (29 min)

WHAT’S UP MEL? (2-4-06) “Welcome to Termite Terrace” is the first of four special fea­tures by animation historian Curtis L. Katz on Mel Blanc and his Warner Bros. cartoons. (10 min)

BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW (2-27-47) A week after their 15th anniversary in radio, mes­sages of congratulations to George and Gracie continue to pour in — along with a lot of unpaid bills. Mel Blanc as the Happy Postman. With Bill Goodwin, Meredith Willson and the orches­tra. Maxwell House Coffee, NBC. (30 min)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (5-23-48) Jack, back on the show after a week in New York, announces that the cast will do their version of the hit film “The Egg and I” with Jack in the Fred MacMurray part and Mary taking the role played in the film by Claudette Colbert. Cast: Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Eddie “Rochester’ Anderson, Dennis Day (as Pa Kettle), Elvia Allman (as Ma Kettle), Sportsmen, Mel Blanc. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, NBC. (28 min)

PLUS: Selected short subjects featuring Jack Benny and Mel Blanc.

First remote show from the House of Broadcasting in Scottsdale, Arizona.