What happens
Jack Benny hosts his radio comedy program, joined by Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and Kenny Baker, with Don Wilson as announcer. The show opens with talk about Benny's new Paramount picture and an offer from Broadway producer Sam Harris, which Benny keeps telling his friends is confidential. The cast goes back and forth with jokes and banter, and Baker sings a Jerome Kern song. Near the end, Benny announces that next week's program will be a dramatic version of Romeo and Juliet, and the cast presents a preview of it. The episode dates from October 25, 1936 and was broadcast on NBC and CBS Radio.
A radio studio in Hollywood during a Sunday evening broadcast of the Jack Benny program.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Kenny Baker, Mr. Blue, Mr. Campbell
Listen for: Benny's announcement of next week's Romeo and Juliet and the preview scene with the ladder.
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.