What happens
Jack Benny celebrates the fifth anniversary of his radio program on May 2, 1937, with his cast and friends. Mary Livingstone reads a clumsy poem, Kenny Baker sings September in the Rain, and Andy Devine visits with a banana cream pie. A reporter from a Hollywood paper interviews Benny and arranges a group photograph. The program then moves into a comic western skit, Buck Benny Rides Again, in which Benny plays a sheriff throwing a party to mark his fifth year in office at the Busy Bee restaurant. The Jell-O program is the sponsor on this broadcast.
A radio studio on the fifth anniversary of the Jack Benny program, followed by a western comedy skit set in the cow town of Cactus County, Texas.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker, Andy Devine, Eddie Anderson, Don Wilson, Mr. Brown
Listen for: Benny's anniversary greetings, Kenny Baker's rendition of September in the Rain, the photograph session, and the Busy Bee party in the western skit.
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.