What happens
Jack Benny opens his first program of the new season with an unusual fantasy in which he and his cast have been asleep for fifteen weeks, and a blue fairy must wake them. The show follows the Jello program as the cast gathers, and Jack chats with Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone and Phil Harris about their summer. Dennis Day is given news about his pay, and Rochester, the butler, grumbles about his own situation. Originally broadcast on October 6, 1940, the series starred Jack Benny alongside Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris and Dennis Day, with Don Wilson as announcer.
The Jello program's studio on a Sunday night, opening the show's seventh season, with a fantasy opening in which the cast is asleep.
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, The Blue Fairy
Listen for: The blue fairy's attempts to wake the cast, and Jack's conversation with Don Wilson about the new season and the sponsor.
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.