What happens
Jack Benny returns to the air for a new season of his Lucky Strike program, broadcast on NBC and CBS Radio on October 5, 1947, starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris. Benny opens the show by telling of his summer, a vacation that takes him from Sun Valley to Colorado Springs and then to Catalina Island. Back at the studio, he trades jokes and talk with Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Dennis Day and Mary Livingstone, who welcomes everyone back. Benny also checks in with Rochester by phone to ask how the program is sounding at home.
A radio studio in 1947 where the Jack Benny program opens its new season, with flashback scenes of Benny's summer vacation at Sun Valley, the Broadmoor Hotel and Catalina Island.
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Rochester
Listen for: Benny's account of his summer vacation and the comic exchanges with Don Wilson, Phil Harris and Dennis Day about it.
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.