and Dinah in London: Jack Benny (November 19, 1950)

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“and Dinah in London” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 19, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jack Benny returns from England after a command performance for the royal family, and his cast at the Lucky Strike program is eager to hear about the trip. Phil Harris doubts that Jack was knighted, while Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day and Rochester tease him about his travels and his claims. Dinah Shore joins the show as a guest, and the banter turns to fashion, a stray kitten and a shopping outing in London. The Jack Benny program is a radio comedy series, first aired on November 19, 1950, on NBC and CBS Radio, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.

A radio studio in Hollywood, where the program is being broadcast, with flashbacks to Jack's trip to London.

Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, Dinah Shore

Listen for: Jack's claim that he was knighted, and the running jokes about Rochester's kitten and the London shopping trip.

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.