What happens
Jack Benny is frustrated with Paramount over a film script that requires him to hang upside down from a window while proposing to Joan Bennett. He calls producer Mr. Hornblow and studio head Mr. Zooker to demand changes, and argues with the director Mitch Leisen. Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone and Don Wilson react to his complaints during the program. The episode then turns to the third and final part of the Tom Sawyer adaptation, in which Tom, Becky and Joe enter the old Indian cave on a school picnic and find themselves lost underground. The broadcast was an episode of the Jack Benny series, aired on June 5, 1938, with Benny, Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the leading roles.
A radio studio during the Jell-O program, followed by a dramatized picnic at the old Indian cave near Aunt Polly's home.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Eddie Anderson, Mr. Hornblow, Mr. Zooker, Mitch Leisen
Listen for: Benny's arguments with Mr. Zooker and Mr. Hornblow over the window stunt, and Tom and Becky's descent into the cave.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.