From Camp Muroc - Alexis Smith: Jack Benny (January 23, 1944)

“From Camp Muroc - Alexis Smith” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 23, 1944. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jack Benny and his radio company travel from Los Angeles to the Army airfield at Muroc, California, to entertain the soldiers there. Along the way the bus picks up Don Wilson, Rochester, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day and actress Alexis Smith. The cast bickers about the trip, Jack's musical ambitions and his rehearsal of a love scene from his new picture. The broadcast is a comedy program on NBC, first aired on January 23, 1944, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris as the lead actors.

Los Angeles, traveling by bus to the Army airfield at Muroc, California

Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Alexis Smith, Butterfly

Listen for: Rochester's running jokes and the cast's teasing about Jack and Alexis Smith during the bus trip

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.