What happens
Jack Benny hosts a Thanksgiving dinner at his Beverly Hills home, with Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Don Wilson and Peggy Wilson among the guests. In the kitchen, Jack and Rochester struggle to get the wild duck tender, while Jack fusses over the table and the dressing. The guests begin to arrive, the household gathers in the music room, and the day is shaping up as a chaotic family dinner. This is an episode of the Jell-O program on NBC and CBS Radio, first broadcast on November 23, 1941, with Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone as the leads.
Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills on Thanksgiving Day, 1941
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Don Wilson, Peggy Wilson
Listen for: Rochester's struggles with the ducks in the kitchen and Phil Harris's arrival with Alice Faye
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.