What happens
Jack Benny and Rochester prepare a shopping list, and Jack's pet parrot Polly escapes and is later found in the refrigerator. Dennis Day visits, worried about a gambling debt, and Jack learns that Bob Crosby is going golfing. Jack mentions a studio deal with Darryl Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox, about making a film based on his life. Jack Benny stars in this 1952 episode of the Jack Benny radio series, broadcast on NBC and CBS Radio on October 19, 1952, with Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris also in the cast. Jack and his friends talk about the proposed film and his plans for it.
Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, California, with the studio of 20th Century Fox nearby
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby, Don Wilson, Polly, Darryl Zanuck
Listen for: Jack's exchanges with Rochester over the shopping list and the parrot Polly, and his phone call with Darryl Zanuck about his life story film
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.