Jack Benny opens his season premiere on a busy Sunday afternoon, as he rushes to get ready for his first broadcast of the year. Mixed-up watches, a late arrival from his valet Rochester, and an absent bandleader Phil Harris leave him nervous and confused. Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Don Wilson are all around the studio as the show time approaches. A publicity man named Steve Bradley also appears, promising to make Benny famous across the country. This 1945 episode of the Jack Benny series first aired on September 30, 1945, on NBC and CBS Radio, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Steve Bradley, Larry Stevens, Pauline
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The Jack Benny program quality of product is essential to continuing success. LS MFT, LS MFT, LS MFT, or things. That's right. Lucky strike means find tobacco. So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw.
Beautiful! Yes, lucky strike means fine tobacco, so round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw. Independent tobacco experts know who buys what tobacco. It's a red ally, it's a independent tobacco expert and warehouse man of Lebanon, Kentucky said.
I smoke luckies for the same reason that so many other tobacco men smoke them. Simply because I have seen luckies by fine tobacco. And I've smoked luckies for 13 years. In a cigarette, it's the tobacco that counts.
And lucky strike means fine tobacco. So smoke that smoke of fine tobacco, lucky strike. How about National Broadcasting Company? I say operator, can you tell me what's on the earth four o'clock today? The Lucky Strike program starring Jack Benny.
Hello? Jack Benny. And Abel, that's the sixth one today. Well, I'm still ahead. I've got eight. Oh, you're always lucky. You've won last year too. Yeah, Mr. Benny ought to know better than open his program during the hunting season.
Yeah. Yeah. Here's your broadcasting company. Say operator, can you tell me what's on the air at four o'clock today? The Lucky Strike program starring Jack Benny. Huh? Jack Benny. Hey, Mabel. Wow. This one must have used a knife.
Glad when today is over so I can go home and take off this black dress. Yeah. Yeah. And it's so hard to talk through this veil. Yeah. Hey, Mabel. Look at the switchboard. Jack Benny's resting moon is cooling.
Shall I take a guy to it? Do you want to get it? What's the difference? He's not going to kill himself anyway. Yeah, then that should work. Greater, this is Jack Benny. Greater, with the change of time today, I'd like to check my watch. What time is it, please?
It's 20 minutes to three. 20 minutes to three? That's funny. I've got 20 minutes to four. Well, hold on. Maybe what time have you got? Twenty minutes to five. That's twenty minutes to three. No, no, Gertrude, you moved your watch back and now and you're supposed to move it ahead.
Gee, I do dumb. I'm not as dumb as Mr. Benny. He didn't move it at all. I heard that and I'm going to report you. I'd go to think she's smart. What a telephone operator.
She's a lousy dancer, too. Well, I better hurry and get ready after all. It's 20 minutes or something. Oh, Rochester's fall. I told him to time change at two o'clock in the morning to set all the clocks in the house in my watch, too.
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