What happens
Jack Benny gets his violin back from a detective after paying a reward, and he plans to finally play Schubert's The Bee on the air. Phil Harris and his orchestra back him, and Kenny Baker and Eddie Anderson drop by the studio. Mary Livingstone's letter from New York, read aloud, shares travel mishaps and jokes about Fred Allen. The Jell-O program series, Jack Benny's show, aired on February 28, 1937, on NBC and CBS radio, with Benny, Livingstone, Anderson and Harris as the leads. The broadcast mixes studio banter, a sponsor's dessert pitch and the violin performance, and the group's plans to travel to New York are set in motion.
The studio of the Jell-O program in Hollywood, with a live audience, and letters and phone calls connecting to Mary Livingstone in New York.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker, Don Wilson, Fred Allen, Lena
Listen for: Jack's attempt to play The Bee, the reading of Mary's letter, and the plan to surprise her in New York.
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.