What happens
Jack Benny spends New Year's Eve 1939 with his friends and staff in this Jell-O program from the Jack Benny series, first broadcast on December 31, 1939 on NBC and CBS Radio. Starring Jack Benny alongside Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris, the episode opens with a Jell-O commercial and a show of greetings. Jack trades jokes with Don Wilson about his age and about the calendars friends have sent him, while Mary and Phil swap Christmas gifts and Dennis Day sings. As the evening goes on, the plans of Jack and his friends for the night begin to change. The transcript ends before the story is complete.
New Year's Eve 1939 in Los Angeles, at Jack Benny's home and around the city
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Eddie Anderson, Rochester, Gladys
Listen for: Jack's New Year's Eve plans with Gladys and what changes them
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.