What happens
Jack Benny is nursing a bad cold after a day at the racetrack, and his friends gather at the studio to joke with him. Mary Livingston reads a funny letter from her mother and Kenny Baker sings. Jack's sister Lucy Bell arrives, and the teasing between Jack and Fred Allen, who has been mocking him on the air, keeps building. Jack announces he plans to play Schubert's The Bee next Sunday and asks Phil Harris to expand the orchestra. The 1937 Jell-O program starred Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris, and aired on NBC on January 31, 1937.
A radio studio in Hollywood, where the Jell-O program is being broadcast.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker, Don Wilson, Lucy Bell, Fred Allen
Listen for: Jack's running feud with Fred Allen and his announcement that he will play Schubert's The Bee.
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.