What happens
Jack Benny returns from a summer in London and finds his regular routine upended on the first day of a new radio season. Back home in Beverly Hills, his household staff, including Rochester and Mary Livingstone, prepares for the broadcast, and a milkman mentions the trip with a note left on the porch. Benny learns that his studio has been taken over for television, and he and the cast scramble to find another place to perform. The series is Jack Benny, a radio comedy program, and this episode first aired on September 10, 1950, with Benny, Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the lead roles.
Beverly Hills and Hollywood, California, and the CBS studios, in September 1950
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Mr. Meagan, Elmer
Listen for: Benny's jokes about his London engagement, and the scramble for a new studio as the cast is told their usual studio has been converted for television
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.