What happens
Jack Benny prepares for his Halloween broadcast while his sponsor, Mr. Mortimer, arrives at the studio and is repeatedly turned away by a doorman who doubts his identity. Benny frets over the show, sparring with Mary Livingstone about her material and with Dennis Day over a lumberjack joke he does not understand. Phil Harris talks about classical music, and Rochester coaches a young audience member on when to laugh. The episode is part of the Jack Benny radio series and was originally broadcast on October 31, 1943. Its lead actors are Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
The studio and backstage areas of the Jack Benny radio program on Halloween, shortly before a live broadcast.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Rochester, Don Wilson, Mr. Mortimer
Listen for: Benny's frustration with Mr. Mortimer being refused entry, and Dennis Day's repeated attempts to understand the lumberjack joke.
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.