What happens
Jack Benny and Mary Livingston, having been seated at the Brown Derby in Hollywood, join Jimmy Stewart at his lunch table after failing to find another. Jack, moving quickly, tries to recruit Stewart for a picture he is producing, while the conversation is repeatedly interrupted by clumsy mishaps at the table. The episode is from The Jack Benny Program, a radio comedy series, and aired on January 9, 1949, on NBC and CBS Radio. Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone star, with Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris also appearing.
The Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, then the studio rehearsal room and parking lot.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Jimmy Stewart, Rochester, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Herbert
Listen for: Jack's persistent pitch to Jimmy Stewart for a picture, and the running gags of spilled food and mishaps at the lunch table.
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.