What happens
Jack Benny and his cast perform in a comedy episode of the Jack Benny program. Jack's violin is missing, and he hires a private detective to find it while his friends tease him about being cheap. Mary Livingston is acting strangely after her turn in a play, and Phil Harris leads the orchestra. The show includes a Western spoof, Buck Benny Rides Again, in which Buck, a sheriff, pursues the outlaw Cactus Face. Phil Harris plays Buck's friend Frank Carson, and Mary plays a passenger on the train to New York. The episode's sponsor, Jell-O, is also promoted during the broadcast.
A radio studio and the Western town of Buck Benny's sheriff's office, with a train to New York
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Kenny Baker, Eddie Anderson, Buck Benny, Daisy Carson
Listen for: Jack's search for his missing violin and the Western serial in which Buck pursues Cactus Face
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.