What happens
Jack Benny is upset after a poor showing on the Quiz Kids program, where he could not answer a simple question about the Taj Mahal. Mary Livingstone tries to cheer him up, but he insists he will not go on the air that evening. Meanwhile the show's cast, including Phil Harris, Dennis Day and Don Wilson, goes about the preparations for the broadcast. Jack's household staff and the Quiz Kids themselves come and go as the day builds toward the program. This episode of The Jack Benny Program aired on April 20, 1941, on NBC and CBS Radio, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the lead roles.
Jack Benny's home and the radio studio in Hollywood, around the time of a Jell-O radio broadcast.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, Frankie
Listen for: Jack's reaction to his Quiz Kids embarrassment and the cast's banter about it, including the telegram from his cousin Boo Boo.
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.