What happens
Jack Benny gets ready for a television broadcast on a November morning at his Beverly Hills home. His valet Rochester looks after him and the household pets, while Dennis Day threatens to run away from home after a quarrel with his mother. Don Wilson raises a complaint about jokes concerning his size, and Bob Crosby reports that Frank Remley has vanished. Later, Benny arrives at television city, where he clashes with his director Ralph Levy over cuts to the show. The Jack Benny series aired on radio and television, and this episode is from November 15, 1953, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, then television city, on a morning and afternoon before a television broadcast
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Bob Crosby, Ralph Levy, Mac, Johnny Ray
Listen for: Benny's clash with director Ralph Levy over cutting his violin solo, and the disappearance of Frank Remley
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.