What happens
Jack Benny spends a morning at home in Beverly Hills, where his valet Rochester has overslept and Jack fails to find the coffee. Visitors arrive, including Mary Livingstone and Dennis Day, who wants to buy Jack's house, and Bob Crosby, who invites him to a poker game. Jack settles in to read a pirate novel called The Purple Pirate, and the story within the book unfolds, following an English captain captured by the French pirate Dennis La Fitte. The Jack Benny program aired on October 17, 1954, on NBC and CBS Radio, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.
Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, and the pirate ship in the novel The Purple Pirate
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Bob Crosby, Mr. Kettle, Dennis La Fitte, Red Robert
Listen for: Jack reading the pirate novel and the captain's predicament aboard La Fitte's ship
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.