What happens
Jack Benny is broadcasting from Palm Springs, California, for the Lucky Strike program, with Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Rochester and Dennis Day in the cast. The show is dedicated to the formal opening of the new Tamaris Country Club, and the cast trades jokes about golf, poetry and the town's visitors. Benny's regulars banter in the studio while a series of guests drop in, including a Mr. Kitzel who has come to visit. The program is broadcast on March 2, 1952, on NBC and CBS Radio, and the transcript breaks off partway through the broadcast.
Palm Springs, California, during a Jack Benny radio broadcast
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Rochester, Dennis Day, Mr. Kitzel
Listen for: Jack Benny and Don Wilson trading poetry, Phil Harris's golf jokes, Dennis Day's shrimp boats song, and the closing song sung by Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, George Burns and Groucho Marx
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.