What happens
Jack Benny prepares a dinner party for Ronald and Benita Colman at his Beverly Hills home, with his valet Rochester and wife Mary Livingstone helping him get ready. Benny frets over the table setting, the napkins, and a flickering electrical problem, while Mary reads a letter from her mother. Phil Harris arrives needing a tuxedo, and a delivery man brings the wrong order. Benny's guests are dreading the evening, and the dinner is still ahead. The series is Jack Benny, first broadcast October 24, 1948, on NBC and CBS Radio, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, California, on the evening of a dinner party
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Phil Harris, Ronald Colman, Benita Colman, Don Wilson, Dennis Day
Listen for: Benny's attempts to fix the electrical lights and the napkin mix-up, and the Colmans' complaints about Benny on the drive over
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.