takes Dennis to the psychiatrist: Jack Benny (November 28, 1954)

“takes Dennis to the psychiatrist” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 28, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jack Benny takes his singer Dennis Day to see a psychiatrist after Dennis keeps interrupting him and refuses to stop singing. Earlier, Benny's household is busy with morning routines while Dennis, who calls at odd hours, arrives to sing for a quartet's birthday and is abruptly cut off. Rochester, Mary Livingstone and others move through the day's small mishaps and quarrels. The episode is part of the Jack Benny series, first broadcast on November 28, 1954, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris among the cast.

Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, a CBS studio, and a psychiatrist's office downtown

Characters: Jack Benny, Dennis Day, Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Dr. Heinrich Schulz, Don Wilson, Gertrude, Charlie Bagby

Listen for: Dennis Day's song and the running gags about his silly talk and Jack's temper

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.