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First Show of the Season
Episode number: 1
Overview: Show opens with the audience in line to see the show, telling each other how their tickets were forced on them. In his opening monologue, Jack analyzes his own humor. Dennis sings 'Around the world in 80 days.' Don does the Lucky Strike commercial as a calypso number; Jack won't let him finish it. He introduces Mel Blanc as Otto Ketzler, a novelty music act from Vienna; Ketzler plays bottles filled with alcohol--as he tunes them, he becomes more and more inebriated. Don's wife makes Jack call the sponsor to explain that the curtailed commercial was Jack's fault, not Don's.
The Airport
Episode number: 2
Hal March Show
Episode number: 3
Overview: During the monologue, the President and Secretary of the Jack Benny Fan Club, Pasadena Chapter, come onstage. Don and Harlow Wilson do a soft shoe to 'Me and my shadow' for the Lucky commercial. Hal March, host of The $64,000 Question quiz show, is the guest; Jack asks him questions, and he tries to answer them for prizes.
Ginger Rogers Show
Episode number: 4
John Forsythe Show
Episode number: 5
Jack's Life Story
Episode number: 6
Overview: Jack wants to star in the movie version of his life story, but producer Buddy Adler wants Van Johnson. Van Johnson and Buddy Adler play themselves. Announcer: Don Wilson. Rochester: Eddie Anderson.
Christmas Shopping
Episode number: 7
Jack Goes to the Rose Bowl
Episode number: 8
Jack Takes a Beaver to the Dentist
Episode number: 9
Honeymooners Show
Episode number: 10
Overview: Dennis sings 'The 12th of never.' In the sketch, Jack plays Ralph Kramden in a take-off of The Honeymooners, with Meadows as Alice and Dennis as Ed Norton.
Jack at the Races
Episode number: 11
Violin Competition with Gisele MacKenzie
Episode number: 12
Academy Awards
Episode number: 13
Railroad Station Show
Episode number: 14
Ronnie Burns Show
Episode number: 15