What happens
Jack Benny prepares for a Sunday rehearsal while waiting for his guest star, Fred Allen, who is late. Benny's valet Rochester, bandleader Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone and Dennis Day all wait with him, and the cast jokes about Allen's recent fall from fortune. Benny recalls how he first met Allen years earlier in Boston, when Allen came to his dressing room in vaudeville days with a plan for a radio show. The episode is a comedy of routines and banter, aired on NBC and CBS Radio on January 15, 1950, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the leading roles.
Jack Benny's dressing room and the studio at a Sunday rehearsal in Los Angeles, with flashbacks to vaudeville-era Boston.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Fred Allen
Listen for: Benny's recollection of meeting Fred Allen for the first time in Boston, and Allen's later appearance.
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.