What happens
Jack Benny hosts his program from St. Albans Naval Hospital on Long Island, joined by Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson and singer Larry Stevens. The cast trades jokes about Benny's Navy service and his hometown of Waukegan, and the hospital's staff and patients are the butt of some of the banter. Benny recounts a trip to see the film Hollywood Canteen, where he is recognized, a sailor is rude to him, and the group runs into Fred Allen. Harris and Benny take turns with jokes about each other, and the broadcast closes with a commercial and a note about upcoming broadcasts from Glenview and St. Joseph. The episode is from the Jack Benny series, aired on February 4, 1945 on NBC.
A broadcast from St. Albans Naval Hospital on Long Island, New York, with a later sequence in a New York theater and on a Manhattan street.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson, Larry Stevens, Fred Allen
Listen for: Benny's running jokes about his Navy years and Waukegan, Rochester's comic asides, and the exchange with Fred Allen outside the theater.
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.