What happens
Jack Benny, broadcasting from New York City, finds himself at odds with his old friends Don Wilson and Phil Harris after Benny offers to pay the hotel bills of Don and his wife. Mary Livingstone's remarks about Ed Wynn and a series of visitors, including a hired bodyguard named Hogan, add to the friction. Dennis Day sings a song, and Benny's missing valet Rochester is sought by telephone across Harlem. The episode is a comedy sketch from the Jell-O program, first aired on December 15, 1940, on NBC and CBS radio, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
New York City, at the Ritz Theatre and in Jack Benny's hotel suite.
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Hogan, Rochester, Dr. Leroy
Listen for: Benny's telephone calls to find Rochester, and the running joke about the bodyguard Hogan and his blackjack.
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.