What happens
Jack Benny celebrates Don Wilson's twentieth year on his radio program, with the cast presenting gifts and jokes at Wilson's expense. Dennis Day sings and tells a rambling story about his infancy, while Rochester reports a lawsuit from a woman who fell on Benny's steps. The show then turns to a dramatized sketch of Don Wilson's life, from his birth and college training in elocution to his first job interview with Benny's sponsor, the Universal Corset Company. The series is Jack Benny, first aired on January 10, 1954, on NBC and CBS Radio, with Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the leading roles.
The Jack Benny radio program studio, with a dramatized sketch set in Wilson's childhood home, a college elocution class, and the Universal Corset Company offices.
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Rochester, Bob Crosby, Mr. Penney, Mr. Willoughby, Harry von Zell
Listen for: Benny's insistence that his show was never down, and the sketch of Don Wilson's audition at the Universal Corset Company.
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.