What happens
Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone spend a crowded morning Christmas shopping at a department store in Beverly Hills. Jack keeps getting into arguments with store staff while hunting for a gift for his sister Florence in Chicago, and Mary tries to keep him calm. Along the way they meet Rochester, Dennis Day and Phil Harris, each shopping for someone of their own. This is an episode of the Jack Benny radio comedy, which first aired on December 18, 1949 on NBC and CBS Radio, with Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone in the leading roles.
A department store in Beverly Hills during the Christmas shopping rush.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Dennis Day, Phil Harris
Listen for: Jack's running feud with the store clerks, and the mix-ups over the gifts for his sister Florence.
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.