What happens
Jack Benny broadcasts his show from Toronto, Canada, the first time the program has originated outside the United States. Jack and his cast joke about their visit, including a tunnel he claims was built for him, a Canadian quarter, a bill exchange with Dennis Day, and a French-speaking Norwegian airman. The guest conductor, Alan McIver, leads his orchestra, and the cast celebrates Jack's birthday on February 14 with a poem and gifts. Rochester reports trouble with the tunnel toll and a lost trunk. The episode is from the Jack Benny series, aired on NBC and CBS radio in 1943, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the leading roles.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during a Jack Benny radio broadcast, with the cast at the Royal York Hotel and a Canadian audience of military personnel.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Rochester, Don Wilson, Alan McIver, Phil Harris
Listen for: Jack's birthday celebration and the running jokes about the tunnel to the Royal York Hotel and Rochester's toll collection.
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.