JACK BENNY MONTH IV

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, February 27, 1982

DENNIS DAY SHOW (1953) Guest Ken Murray and Dennis team up for a Vaudeville act. Ken offers a history of transportation, Dennis sings “Ebb Tide” and Corky Hale plays the Jazz Harp. AFRS Rebroadcast. (10:50; 9:55; 4:00)

JEFF REGAN, INVESTIGATOR (8-14-48) Jack Webb stars as a private detective in “The Diamond Quartet.” Regan is hired by a gam­bling casino owner to return a necklace to a woman who left it as collateral. Sustaining, CBS. (13:45; 14:35)

MILT JOSEFSBERG, writer for the Jack Benny program, continues to remember his days in radio, as he tells how the famous “Your money or your life” gag was written for Jack. (17:50)

MAIL CALL (1945) Jack Benny is host for this Armed Forces Radio Service program which features Claudette Colbert, Jinx Falkenberg, Jeanne Crain, Frank Nelson, and Eddie “Rochester” Anderson. Jack looks for a date as he prepares to attend the premiere of “The Horm Blows at Midnight.” AFRS. (10:40; 8:45; 11:00)

MILT JOSEFSBERG concludes his thoughts about the Jack Benny show as he remembers Jack’s Maxwell, the Violin teacher, “toupee” jokes, and “plugs” and gifts for the writers. (13:45)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (5-13-45) It’s Mother’s Day and just a few days after V-E Day as Jack prepares for a trip to San Fran­cisco. Jack goes to his vault to get some money for the trip, then goes to the train station. Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Larry Stevens, Phil Harris, John Brown, Joe Kearns, Frank Nelson, Mel Blanc. Lucky Strike Cig­arettes, NBC. (8:10; 6:10; 11:40)

INNER SANCTUM (1940s) “Claudia” stars Agnes Moorehead as a woman who is told of her husband’s death by a man who says he’ll find the killer if she will marry him in return. AFRS  Rebroadcast. (11:05; 10:30)