What happens
Jack Benny hosts a broadcast from Buckingham Hospital in Van Nuys, California, entertaining wounded soldiers alongside Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris. The cast trades jokes about the valley bus service, the Volunteer Army Canteen Service, and Phil Harris's band playing a dairy. Larry Stevens sings a song and receives a fan letter, while Benny discusses a gangster threat with Rochester. Heavyweight boxer Joe Lewis joins the program and tries to learn comedy from Benny, and the broadcast ends with a visit from a doctor and a playful mix-up over a baby. The episode is a 1945 installment of the Jack Benny series, first aired on NBC and CBS Radio.
A broadcast from Buckingham Hospital in Van Nuys, California, during the war years, with the cast performing for the hospital's patients.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Don, Larry Stevens, Joe Lewis
Listen for: Joe Lewis trying to learn comedy from Jack Benny and the boxing shoelace trick Phil Harris describes.
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.