This Day in Jack Benny

October 17, 1948 - "Sorry Wrong Number" is the most acclaimed radio drama of all time! In this episode Barbra Stanwick guest stars to re-create the role she plays on the big screen. Then Jack Benny gets his own wrong number.

October 4, 1936 - It's the first show of the season and the first ever episode with Phil Harris. During the break the JELL-O program was taken over by Don Wilson! Plus references to Shirley Temple, Fred MacMurray and a record-breaking transatlantic flight.

September 27, 1953 - Listen as Mel Blanc does the jingle for Papermate Pens as Polly the parrot. With references to Liberace, Benny Goodman, Lady Esther Cosmetics, The Bob Crosby Television show and the Jack Benny Television Show. Plus a weighing machine, a phone booth and Los Angeles Smog.

September 23, 1951 - Jack Benny does his version of the Gregory Peck movie "Captain Horatio Hornblower". Plus they talk about popular music like Rosemary Clooney's "Come On-A My House" and Nat King Cole's "Too Young".

September 16, 1951 - Jack Benny is back from his tour entertaining the troops in Korea along with Errol Flynn and a host if others. Plus references to Dagmar's Canteen, and Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

September 14, 1952 - The first show of the season. Phil Harris has been replaced by Bob Crosby.

John Henderson talks with filmmaker, movie podcaster and Jack Benny fan Zach Eastman about the Jack Benny Movies from To Be or Not To Be (1942) to The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945).

John Henderson talks with filmmaker, movie podcaster and Jack Benny fan Zach Eastman about the Jack Benny Movies from Transatlantic Merry Go Round (1934) to George Washington Slept Here (1942).

October 20, 1940 - Jack Benny was the guest star on "The Gulf Screen Guild Theater" radio show with Claudette Colbert and Basil Rathbone.

John Henderson talks with Chuck Schaden, from SpeakingOfRadio.com  and who interviewed Jack Benny for "Those Were The Days", an Old Time Radio nostalgia broadcast started in 1970.  

June 19, 1940 - Jack Benny is a guest on Town Hall Tonight , Fred Allen's radio show. Everyone at this time knew that Fred Allen and Jack Benny hated each other (as a gag on the radio). In this episode Jack and Fred pretend not to recognize each other as they make cutting jabs.

Dan Einstein talks about the Jack Benny Collections at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.  Plus Jeanette Berard from the Thousand Oaks Library American Radio Archive talk about their collection of Jack Benny Scripts.  

January 19, 1940 - Bob Hope, Baby Snooks, Fibber McGee and Molly and Jack Benny team up for this variety program to promote Radio Guide Magazine's new explanation into movies.

Larry Gassman from The Society To Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy  talks about the good old days of old time radio nostalgia, plus meet-ups, conventions and OTR celebrities!  

January 30, 1940 - Jack Benny appears with Eddie Cantor on The March of Dimes special Committee for the Celebration of the President's Birthday . The program was in support of the fight against polio. Plus an interview with Jack's writers, producers and the guy who plays "The Knocking Man".

John Henderson interviews Elva Green about the book she wrote about her father Eddie Green. The book is called "Eddie Green: The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer" . We also talk about Rochester and her family's personal connection.

November 21, 1940 - Jack Benny is the guest on The Maxwell House Coffee Time featuring Baby Snooks and Daddy.

My interview with Caleb Daven a very young Jack Benny fan.

Part 2 of my interview with Steve Darnall of Nostalgia Digest magazine. We talk all about the Jack Benny supporting characters. Plus vintage clips!

Part one of an interview with Steve Darnall of Nostalgia Digest a magazine about old things vintage, from old radio to classic Hollywood and more. 

December 17, 1940 - Jack Benny and Fred Allen Star in the movie Love Thy Neighbour. This is a radio preview of the movie.

Jack Benny was guest star on Orson Welles' dramatic program The Campbell's Playhouse for the play "June Moon". 

John Henderson talks with Ben Dooley of Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear  about his live adaptations of old time radio shows.

The Jack Benny show was on hiatus during the summer, so podcast host John Henderson it interviewing some great guests. It's the summer Jackstravaganza preview. This year look forward to Ben Dooley, Steve Darnall, Caleb Daven, Elva Green, Larry Gassman and Dan Einstein. Plus learn about Forever 39 The Jack Benny Story

Paramount is on the air with Jack Benny in "Artists and Models" and Mary Livingstone in "This Way Please". Listen to these extended movie previews.