What happens
Jack Benny visits a Marine base during a broadcast from Camp Elliot and trades jokes with Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and Dennis Day. Benny teases Mary about her supposed admirer, a Marine, and Phil tells of a wild Halloween party. Dennis tries to pitch in with a song and a costume story while Benny's quarrels with the others keep building. The episode is part of the Jack Benny series, first aired on November 1, 1942 on NBC and CBS Radio, starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
A United States Marine base at Camp Elliot near San Diego, where the program is broadcast.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Dennis Day
Listen for: Benny's back-and-forth with Mary about her Marine admirer and Phil's tall tale about his Halloween costume party.
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.