What happens
Jack Benny frets about his upcoming appearance on the Quiz Kids, a radio quiz show with brilliant child contestants. Believing he is outmatched, he cramming with Mary Livingstone, quizzing himself on trivia, and trying to persuade the young contestants staying at his house to lose a few questions so he looks good. Rochester keeps the household running, and a mix of misunderstandings and hallway tensions builds. The broadcast opens with Don Wilson and the cast in the Jell-O program's usual format, and the episode works through Benny's preparations and the comic friction with his guests over the course of the evening.
Jack Benny's house in Beverly Hills, where the Quiz Kids have been invited to stay before Benny's appearance on their program.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Richard, Gerard
Listen for: Benny quizzing himself with Mary Livingstone and his attempts to get Claude and the other children to miss questions on purpose.
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.