What happens
Jack Benny returns home from a summer tour of Europe aboard the Queen Mary with his cast, including Mary Livingstone and Phil Harris. Along the voyage Benny wanders the deck, runs into Livingstone and a young girl named Betty, and listens to Harris boast about his success in London while showing off his French lessons. Benny and Livingstone later take a train to Los Angeles, where Don Wilson greets them and Dennis Day meets them at the station. Benny reflects on his European engagements in England, France, Germany and Switzerland. This is the season premiere of The Jack Benny Program, first broadcast on October 3, 1948.
Aboard the Queen Mary on the voyage home from Europe, then Union Station in Los Angeles and Benny's home there.
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Rochester, Betty
Listen for: Phil Harris boasting about his London success and his French lessons, and Benny hearing an echo at the train station.
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.