What happens
Jack Benny hosts a Christmas Day open house at his Beverly Hills home, decorating the tree while his friends and musicians arrive. Mary Livingstone helps him with the ornaments, and Rochester and Don Wilson handle the door and the guests. Several invited celebrities send telegrams declining the invitation, and a pair of guests reveal a rivalry over Barbara Whitney. Phil Harris arrives with a surprise guest, and the household prepares for dinner. This Jell-O program episode, first broadcast on December 25, 1938, on NBC and CBS Radio, stars Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills on Christmas Day
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker, Barbara Whitney, Joan Bennett
Listen for: Jack's tree-trimming difficulties, the telegrams from absent celebrities, and Phil Harris's arrival with Joan Bennett
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.