The Train Ride To Hollywood: Jack Benny (March 28, 1937)

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“The Train Ride To Hollywood” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 28, 1937. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jack Benny and his companions board a train at Chicago's Dearborn Street Station bound for California. Jack, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and others travel together, with Jack trying to keep order among the group while fans and fellow passengers crowd around. The train journey includes a stop at Albuquerque, where Jack's group browses a novelty shop and looks for a telegram office. The episode is part of the Jack Benny series, broadcast on March 28, 1937, on NBC and CBS Radio, and stars Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.

A train journey from Chicago toward California, with a stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Don Wilson

Listen for: Jack's running exchanges with Mary and Kenny on the train, and the stop in Albuquerque.

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.