What happens
The final broadcast of the Jack Benny season has Jack and his cast introducing the people behind the program. Don Wilson and Jack trade playful jabs, and Phil Harris describes a mishap involving goldfish. Margaret Whiting joins the Sportsmen Quartet for a sung version of Baby It's Cold Outside. Jack introduces his arranger, Mr. Kitsil, Ed the vault guard, the writers, and the telephone operators, while Mel Blank voices several parts. Dennis Day sings Three Wishes. The episode, broadcast on NBC and CBS Radio, closes with a visit from a Treasury Department official who presents Jack with a citation for a savings bond short.
The Jack Benny radio program, a final broadcast of the season, with the cast gathered in the studio.
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Dennis Day, Margaret Whiting, Mr. Kitsil
Listen for: Jack's staged introductions of cast and writers, Margaret Whiting and the Sportsmen Quartet singing Baby It's Cold Outside, and Mel Blank's multiple voices.
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.