gets a parking ticket: Jack Benny (January 17, 1954)

“gets a parking ticket” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 17, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jack Benny spends an afternoon in Los Angeles, lunching at a drugstore with Dennis Day and Bob Crosby, then running errands. Back at his car he finds a parking ticket he believes is unfair, since he says the meter was fast. He goes to the Beverly Hills police station to contest it, where a judge and a crowded waiting room of unusual characters await him. The episode is from the Jack Benny series, first broadcast on January 17, 1954, on NBC and CBS Radio, with Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris among the leads.

Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California, including a corner drugstore, a music store, a theater and the Beverly Hills police station

Characters: Jack Benny, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby, Rochester, Liberace, Eddie Cantor, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone

Listen for: Benny's exchange with the judge at the police station and his argument over the parking meter

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.