What happens
Jack Benny, confined to bed with a sprained ankle after a football game with neighborhood kids, receives visits from friends and family. Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Mary Livingston and Phil Harris come by with gifts and gossip, while Rochester tends to him. Benny is the star of the Jack Benny program, which aired on NBC on December 14, 1947, with Mary Livingston, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the lead cast. The visitors trade jokes and small talk around the sickbed as the ankle is examined and the household settles in for the day.
Jack Benny's bedroom at his home, where he lies confined with a sprained ankle.
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Stevie, Dr. Milton
Listen for: Benny's sprained ankle and the stream of visitors who drop in on him, including Rochester's reading of a children's story at the end.
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.