What happens
Jack Benny recounts his New Year's Eve, when Phil Harris set him up on a blind date with a woman named Dolores, which he found miserable. His cast mates Mary Livingstone, Kenny Baker and Andy Devine join the banter about their own holiday evenings, and Andy comes looking for a missing friend named Paul. Benny also announces that the next program will be broadcast from San Francisco, and his butler Rochester prepares to travel with him. Mary Livingstone and Phil Harris are among the cast. The episode is a 1938 New Year's broadcast from the Jell-O program, shown in the series Jack Benny.
A New Year's broadcast of the Jell-O program, with the cast trading jokes about their holiday evenings and plans for a trip to San Francisco.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Eddie Anderson, Kenny Baker, Andy Devine
Listen for: Benny's account of the blind date with Dolores, and the running jokes about Andy Devine's missing friend Paul.
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.