JACK BENNY MONTH #1

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, February 7, 1998

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (10-14-51) Jack has written a song, “When You Say ‘I Beg your Pardon,’ Then I’ll Come Back to You” and he has a meeting with a music publisher. Featured are Mary Livingstone, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Sportsmen, Sheldon Leonard, Joe Kearns This is the first of eight related pro-grams dealing with Jack’s Song. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, CBS. (27:15)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (3-31-33) An early show with Jack, Mary Livingstone, tenor James Melton, Frank Black and the orchestra, announcer Howard Claney. The cast does a parody of the Mae West film, “She Done Him Wrong.” Chevrolet, NBC. (28:02) QUIZ KIDS (7-21-46) From Chicago, Chief Quizzer Joe Kelly introduces Quiz Kids Patrick Conlon, Ruthie Duskin, Naomi Cooks, and Joel Kupperman. Harve Fishman is in Hollywood interviewing former Quiz Kid Vanessa Brown (Smylla Brind). Alka Seltzer, One-A-Day vitamins, ABC. (28:02)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (4-6-41) In preparation for an appearance on a Quiz Kids program, Jack invites Richard Williams, Claude Brenner, Joan Bishop and Gerard Darrow, the Quiz Kids, to battle his cast, known as the “Jell-O Kids,” with Jack acting as quizmaster. Jell-O, NBC. (29:33)

BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW (1-8-48) George and Gracie with guest Jack Benny. Gracie decides that George and Jack should team up to become the Gypsy Troubadours. Maxwell House Coffee, NBC. (29:52)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (10-21-51) Jack and the gang, plus Bea Benadaret and Sara Berner as Gertrude and Mable, the switchboard operators; Herb Vigran as the sound man; Elvia Allman, Frank Nelson, Lenny Kent. Second program in our Jack’s Song sequence. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, CBS. (27:35).