What happens
Jack Benny and his cast prepare to leave Los Angeles for a series of broadcasts from army camps and naval bases in the East. Bandleader Phil Harris is leaving the show to join the Merchant Marine, and Jack and Mary Livingstone trade jokes with him about his new uniform and his training. Dennis Day also gets teased about a film he appeared in, and Jack and Mary settle some small debts. The episode is the Jack Benny program of December 6, 1942, on NBC and CBS Radio, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the leading roles. The transcript ends partway through the broadcast, during a comic sketch about a Liberty ship and the Merchant Marine.
Los Angeles, shortly before the cast leaves for New York, and later a comic sketch set aboard a Liberty ship at sea
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, Don Wilson
Listen for: Phil Harris's farewell to the show and his Merchant Marine training stories
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.