JACK BENNY MONTH III

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, February 20, 1982

JACK CARSON SHOW (1948) with Marion Hutton, Frank DeVol and the orchestra, Jane Morgan, Howard Petrie, Frank Nelson, and Jack’s real-life father. Jack has insomnia. AFRS Rebroadcast.         (8:50; 8:35; 10:30)

LET GEORGE DO IT (7-12-48) Bob Bailey stars as private eye George Valentine who is hired to investigate a lovers triangle by one of the people involved. Sustaining, MUTUAL-Don Lee Broadcasting System. (14:15; 14:25)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (2-7-43) George Burns and Gracie Allen sub for Jack who is confined with a cold. Cast includes Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Bill Goodwin, and Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. Gracie is reluctant to do Jack’s show. NBC. (9:54; 9:55; 8:37)

MILT JOSEFSBERG, long-time writer for Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball and other radio and TV comedians, recalls his career and remembers, particularly, working for Jack Benny. In part one of this four-part interview recorded September 4, 1981, at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California, Mr. Josefsberg recalls a particular Jack Benny sketch and talks about radio censorship. (18:45) In the second part of the conversation, he discusses writing for Bob Hope and how he worked with the other writers on the Benny show. (9:20).

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (1943) Jack and the gang are in Vancover, British Columbia, to help promote Canada’s 6th Victory Loan, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, and Dennis Day, who makes his last appear­ance on the Benny program before going into the Navy. Grape Nuts Flakes, CBC, NBC. (13:24; 16:38)

SUSPENSE (4-13-53) “The Great Train Robbery” starring Fred MacMurray with Paula Winslowe and Joseph Kerns. Two men pull a train robbery but get fouled up by one man’s wife. AutoLite, CBS. (14:40; 8:50).