In Denver For The March Of Dimes: Jack Benny (January 18, 1948)

“In Denver For The March Of Dimes” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 18, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jack Benny broadcasts his radio program from the City Auditorium in Denver, Colorado, with an audience of 3,500 people who paid for tickets to support the March of Dimes campaign. Don Wilson, a Denver native, is proud of his hometown, and Mary Livingstone and Phil Harris join Benny for jokes and banter. Benny and his cast meet Governor Lee Knous and Mayor Newton, a guest named Mr. Kitzel drops in, and Rochester calls from the hotel with news of mounting trouble. The broadcast is in the 1948 Jack Benny series and first aired on January 18, 1948, on NBC and CBS Radio.

Denver, Colorado, City Auditorium, during a March of Dimes broadcast, with a stop at the Brown Palace Hotel

Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Rochester, Mr. Kitzel, Governor Knous, Mayor Newton

Listen for: The running jokes between Benny, Livingstone and Harris, Mr. Kitzel's visit, and Rochester's phone call about problems at the hotel.

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.