JACK BENNY MONTH PART 4

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, February 24, 1979

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (June, 1953) Last show of Jack’s 1952-53 season with Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby, Rochester, Gertrude and Mable (Bea Benaderet and Sara Berner), Mel Blanc. AFRS rebroadcast. (13:00; 11:00)

SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS (1943) “Love Is News” starring Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, James Gleason with Joe Kearns. Truman Bradley is announcer. Romantic comedy about a newspaper reporter falling for a wealthy heiress. Lady Esther Products, CBS. (13:30; 15:10)

BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW .(11-9-43) Gracie meets Jack Benny in her beauty shop and persuades Jack to let George sing on his radio show. Bill Goodwin, Felix Mills and the orchestra. Swan Soap, CBS. (11:05;, 8:15; 9:42)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (4-4-48) Jack goes to the home of Bing Crosby to borrow Bing’s Oscar so he can replace Ronald Colman’s Oscar which was stolen from Jack on last week’s show! Bing is guest along with regulars Mary, Rochester, Phil, Don and Mel Blanc. The Ink Spots sub for the Sportsmen. Lucky Strike, NBC. (14:55; 12:25)

SUSPENSE (1-8-54) “The Face is Familiar” starring Jack Benny, with Sheldon Leonard, Joe Kearns, Hy Averback. Some shady char­acters dupe Jack into assisting in a bank robbery. Auto-Lite, CBS. (15:10; 13:45)

SPECIAL REPEAT INTERVIEW with JACK BENNY, recorded in 1970. (16:00)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM 15-29-49) Last show of Jack’s 1948-49 season. A great show as Jack introduces all the people on his pro­gram: Sportsmen, Artie Auerbach, Joe Kearns, Sheldon Leonard, Frank Nelson, his four writers, the script girl, Dennis Day, Gertrude and Mable, Mel Blanc, Rochester. With Don Wilson, Phil Harris Mary Livingstone. AFRS Rebroadcast. (10:10; 14:00)