What happens
Jack Benny borrows Ronald Coleman's Academy Award Oscar to show to Rochester, but on the walk home he is held up and the statuette is taken. Mary Livingstone tries to calm him as he frets over how to explain the loss to Coleman. Phil Harris arrives with a loan request, the quartet cancels its appearance, and Jack decides to ask Bing Crosby for his Oscar instead. The story is part of the Jack Benny series, which aired on NBC and CBS Radio, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris, first broadcast on April 4, 1948.
Beverly Hills, California, at the Benny house and nearby streets, and at Bing Crosby's home.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Ronald Coleman, Bing Crosby
Listen for: Jack's attempt to obtain Bing Crosby's Oscar and the increasingly tall tales he tells about the holdup.
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.