What happens
Jack Benny learns that his contract for next season has not arrived in mid-April, and he grows increasingly worried that his sponsor may be dropping him. Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson and Dennis Day try to reassure him while the rehearsal for his radio show carries on around them. Jack's attempts to phone his sponsor, Mr. Lewis, and other companies go nowhere, and each mishap deepens his fear of losing his job. The series is Jack Benny, first aired on April 11, 1954, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris among the cast.
Los Angeles, at the Jack Benny radio program rehearsal and in Jack Benny's office and home, in mid-April.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Rochester, Bob Crosby, Mr. Lewis, Gertrude
Listen for: Jack trying to phone his sponsor and other companies while the rehearsal goes on around him.
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.