Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone shop for Christmas at a Beverly Hills department store, where Jack cannot decide on a pair of shoelaces. The episode, from the Jack Benny Program, first aired on December 8, 1946, on NBC and CBS Radio, with Benny, Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the leading roles. Jack keeps changing his mind about the metal or plastic tips while Mary grows impatient, and they run into a series of odd clerks, old acquaintances and minor mishaps around the store. Jack also struggles to find gifts for friends, employees and his sponsor, with each choice bringing new complications. Phil Harris appears at the lingerie counter, and Rochester is found shopping for a tie.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Dennis
The transcript of “Christmas Shopping - Shoelaces For Don”, an episode of Jack Benny first broadcast December 8, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Jack Benny Program plays Jack Benny free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The Jack Benny Program, quality of product, is essential to continuing success. In a cigarette, it's the tobacco that counts. And LSMT, Lucky Strike means fine tobacco. Yes, Lucky Strike means fine tobacco. It takes fine tobacco to make a fine cigarette.
And here out of gear, at market after market, independent tobacco experts, men who spend their lives buying, selling, and handling tobacco can see the makers of Lucky Strike consistently selected by that fine, that light, that naturally mild tobacco.
Fine, light, naturally mild tobacco. Yes, Lucky Strike means fine tobacco. And this fine Lucky Strike tobacco means real deep-down smoking enjoyment for you. So smoke that smoke of fine tobacco, Lucky Strike. So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw.
I'm American. Thank program starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston Phil Harris Rochester Devastate. Yours truly, Don Wilson. Ladies and gentlemen, Christmas will soon be with us and millions of people are rushing around making hasty last minute purchases.
So let's go back to last Monday and look in on a local department store in Beverly Hills. Have you made up your mind yet, Mr. Well, well, I don't know. That was Monday. We now bring you up to Wednesday. Same store.
Now look, mister, you've examined them both very carefully. Haven't you made up your mind yet? Gee, I don't know which one I want. That was Wednesday. We now bring you up to Saturday's. Same store.
Gosh, I wish you hadn't shown me both of them. Let me see that first one again, will you? Look, mister, I got a wife and five kids. I haven't been home in a week. Now make up your mind, will you?
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So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw. They married, that department store was certainly crowded, wasn't it? It sure was. And they had so many people working there. There was Mel Blank, Gerald Moore, Frank Nelson, Benny Reuben, the Olavon, Artie Auerbach, Sandy Bicard, Pete Lee, Elliott Lewis and you know those little wooden soldiers that sang yeah sounded
just like that quartet the sportsman I was gonna mention my writers too but they wouldn't even come in for the show they stayed in Palm Springs I hope they run out of Sun Tan oil good night folks Sunday Feed, National Broadcasting Company.
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