What happens
Jack Benny and Don Wilson have a falling out after Jack keeps interrupting Don's introduction and Don storms off the stage. Mary Livingstone and Phil Harris watch the feud unfold, and Jack boasts of his physique and recalls a week spent in bed with a cold. Jack and Don trade barbs over a wrongly introduced dinner invitation, and Phil plays a song written by his trumpet player. Dennis Day sings, and the cast prepares to travel to New York for the next broadcast. The episode is part of the Jack Benny series and aired on December 8, 1940, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the lead roles.
The Jack Benny radio program studio, with preparations for a trip to New York City.
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, Dr. LaRoy, Mr. Swallow
Listen for: The running feud between Jack Benny and Don Wilson, and Phil Harris's song about his trumpet player.
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.