What happens
Jack Benny gets a haircut in his dressing room while Rochester trims and shaves him, and the two trade jokes about Jack's sentimental keepsakes and his thin hair. Phil Harris mentions a surprise party for Alice, and Jack is invited along. Later, in the studio, Jack's guest Mr. Kitzel arrives with a ticket, the cast rehearses the show, and Dennis Day sings. The program is the Jack Benny show, heard on NBC and CBS Radio, first broadcast on November 10, 1946. The lead actors are Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
Jack Benny's dressing room and the broadcast studio of the Jack Benny radio program.
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Phil Harris, Alice, Mary Livingstone, Mr. Kitzel, Dennis Day, Don Wilson
Listen for: Rochester's teasing about Jack's haircut and his keepsakes, and the mix-up over Phil Harris's party invitation.
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.