On the train to Los Angeles: Jack Benny (March 14, 1954)

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“On the train to Los Angeles” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 14, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby and Don Wilson are returning by train from New York to Los Angeles aboard the Super Chief. They pass the time playing twenty questions, and Don Wilson's guesses lead to a joke about a cigarette brand. Bob Crosby visits with the band, and Dennis Day sings a medley of songs about the Irish, Italians, French and Germans. Rochester talks with the porter about his long service to Benny, and Benny chats with passengers in the club car, including a traveling underwear salesman. The episode is part of the Jack Benny series, with the lead actors named above and an original air date of March 14, 1954 on NBC and CBS Radio.

A train travelling from New York to Los Angeles aboard the Super Chief, including Mary's compartment and the club car.

Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby, Rochester, Phil Harris

Listen for: The twenty questions game and the surprise answer Don Wilson gives.

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.