What happens
Jack Benny hosts this episode of his radio comedy program from Fort Custer, Michigan, with Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Rochester, Don Wilson and guest conductor Bob Crosby and his orchestra. Benny and his cast banter about rationing, the soldiers at the camp and the new judo craze, which leads to a series of comic mishaps. The program features a song from Dennis Day, a band number from Crosby's orchestra, and a sketch in which Benny plays his grandfather, the scout Kit Carson Benny, leading a band of men on a mission. The episode is from the Jack Benny series, first broadcast on February 28, 1943.
A radio broadcast from Fort Custer, Michigan, and a comic sketch set in the 1870s at a block house on the edge of the wilderness.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Rochester, Don Wilson, Bob Crosby, Phil Harris
Listen for: The judo gags with Benny, Mary, Dennis and Crosby, and the sketch in which Benny plays Kit Carson Benny leading his men through the wilderness.
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.