What happens
Jack Benny and his friends Phil Harris, Dennis Day and Don Wilson stop for lunch at a drugstore near CBS after a day at the studio. Waitress Flossie is new to the job and nervous about her first day. Benny gets a ham sandwich and chatter from the group, while the others go their own ways. On his walk home, Benny is asked for a dime for a cup of coffee and gives the man fifty cents instead. The episode is from The Jack Benny Program, broadcast on April 9, 1950, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
A drugstore near CBS Square, then Jack Benny's home and the streets on his walk home.
Characters: Jack Benny, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Mervin, Flossie, Rochester, Mr. Kitzel
Listen for: Benny's fifty-cent gift to a stranger and the jokes about it that follow.
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.