goes to the doctor for a vitamin shot: Jack Benny (November 9, 1952)

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“goes to the doctor for a vitamin shot” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 9, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jack Benny goes to his doctor's office for a vitamin shot, and Mary Livingstone goes along with him. Before the visit, Jack stops at a drugstore, where a waitress irritates him, and he later gets a ride from Rochester. At the doctor's office he runs into a patient who believes he is a rabbit, a man with sixteen children, and a doctor with an unusually large needle. Jack Benny stars, with Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in supporting roles. This episode of the Jack Benny series originally aired on November 9, 1952.

Los Angeles, California, including a corner drugstore, a radio studio, and a doctor's office

Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby, Don Wilson, Harry

Listen for: Jack's visit to the doctor's office, where he meets a patient who thinks he is a rabbit and a man with sixteen children, and where the doctor's oversized needle leads to a joke about the vitamins he has been given.

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.