What happens
Jack Benny arrives in New York City for a broadcast from the Astor Hotel, and his stay is full of mishaps and friction. Don Wilson celebrates his anniversary, Benny offers to pay his hotel bill at the Waldorf Astoria, and a stand-in announcer named Fred Allen arrives to read the commercials. Phil Harris leads the orchestra, Larry Stevens sings a number, and Mrs. Nussbaum invites everyone to her restaurant in Brooklyn. Starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris, this broadcast was first aired on January 14, 1945, on NBC and CBS Radio.
New York City, at the Astor Hotel ballroom and in the surrounding city
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson, Larry Stevens, Fred Allen, Mrs. Nussbaum, Mary Livingstone
Listen for: Mrs. Nussbaum's description of her restaurant's rationing-day menu and Fred Allen's commercial reading
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.