Spring Cleaning: Jack Benny (March 27, 1949)

“Spring Cleaning” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 27, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jack Benny returns home to find Rochester struggling with spring cleaning, while Mary Livingstone visits with a letter from her mother and Phil Harris tries to cash a check. Dennis Day sings a new song, the Sportsmen quartet asks Benny for a raise, and Ozzy Nelson calls about his move to CBS. Benny later leads the Beaver scouts on an overnight camping hike, where the boys hear his tall tales and Joey feels nervous about sleeping away from home. The program is a Jack Benny comedy from its 1949 season, first aired on March 27, 1949, with Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the cast.

Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, then a camping trip in the woods with the Beaver scouts

Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Ozzy Nelson, Harriet Hilliard

Listen for: Rochester's feather duster and the talking parrot, the Beaver scouts' camping hike and Benny's tall tale about a tiger

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.