What happens
Jack Benny, playing himself, is stationed at the Naval Air Station at Livermore, California, during a week of broadcasts there. Announcer Don Wilson introduces him with a string of holiday jokes, and Benny claims he once served in the Navy as a young man. Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and Dennis Day join the banter, and Rochester calls from Beverly Hills with trouble over his income tax and a lost coat. The Jack Benny program aired on NBC and CBS radio, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris among the leads, and this broadcast is dated March 12, 1944.
Naval Air Station at Livermore, California, and the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, Mr. London, Alice Faye
Listen for: Jack's joking introduction by Don Wilson and the banter about Dennis Day's income tax
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.