What happens
Jack Benny welcomes back Dennis Day, the Irish tenor, after his two years of service in the Navy, on a St. Patrick's Day broadcast. Jack and Mary Livingstone quiz Dennis about his time at sea, and Dennis recalls his service and his navy classification. Jack then asks Dennis to sing, and Dennis obliges with a Irish song. The episode also includes a sketch parodying Fred Allen's Allen's Alley, in which Phil Harris and the cast ask passersby who the better comedian is, Fred Allen or Jack Benny. The program is part of the Jack Benny series, broadcast on March 17, 1946.
The Jack Benny radio program, broadcast on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1946, with a studio segment and a parody of Allen's Alley.
Characters: Jack Benny, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Don Wilson
Listen for: Dennis Day's return from the Navy, his jokes about service life, and the Allen's Alley parody in which passersby argue over who is the better comedian.
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.