JACK BENNY MONTH II

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, February 13, 1982

RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE
(3-23-51) Dick Powell stars as the easy-going private eye who is hired by an actress who has been shot at — and wants to know why. Sus­taining, NBC. (15:15; 13:05)

GEORGE BALZER, long-time writer for Jack Benny, continues to look back at his career. In this segment, he recaps his personal writing background, reveals how he got his job with Jack Benny, and tells of an hilarious Benny press conference in 1943. (18:30)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (4-25-48) Guests Ronald Colman and Dorothy Kirsten join the regulars. Jack, dressed as Charlie’s Aunt meets Colman. Lucky Strike Cigarettes, NBC. (9:40; 11:15; 4:55)

SPOTLIGHT REVUE (1-9-48) Spike Jones and His City Slickers, with Dorothy Shay, the Park Avenue Hillbilly, Doodles Weaver and guest Nellie Lutcher. Doodles, as Professor Feedle­baum, sings “Ragtime Cowboy Joe.” Coca Cola, CBS. (10:50; 8:15; 10:05)

GEORGE BALZER remembers writing for Jack Benny on Armed Forces Radio Service programs, various personal appearances, the transition from radio to television, and Jack’s relationship with his writers. (16:40)

WIERD CIRCLE (1950s) “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a radio adaptation of the famous story by Edgar Allen Poe. Syndicated. (15:58; 9:24)

GEORGE BALZER concludes his recollections about a full career writing for the Jack Benny Program as he tells about Jack’s move from NBC to CBS, Jack’s relationship with his Lucky Strike sponsor, the Vault, and writers’ credits on radio and television in the 1950s. (21:45)

JACK BENNY SHOW (1949) A special salute to the American Red Cross brings Jack and his cast together for a quarter-hour transcribed program. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Colman are expected for dinner and Jack is making pre­parations. Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Mel Blanc, Don Wilson, Frank Nelson. (8:21; 5:44)