What happens
Jack Benny prepares to leave Los Angeles for a Chicago stage tour, with his valet Rochester helping him pack. Friends and co-stars including Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Dennis Day and Mary Livingstone also get ready to travel, each finding a small black address book that causes some fuss. The group gathers at Union Station, where the train is delayed and the travelers wait on the platform. This episode of the Jack Benny Program aired on May 4, 1947, on NBC, with Benny and Livingstone among the leads.
Jack Benny's home in California, Union Station, and a passenger train bound for Chicago
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson
Listen for: Rochester's packing list and the mix-up over the little black address book
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.