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LUCKY STRIKE PROGRAM, THE {THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM}
LUCKY STRIKE PROGRAM, THE {THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM}
(RADIO)
Summary
One in this series of comedy/variety programs starring
Jack Benny. Highlights of this program include the
following: Benny and Mary Livingstone discuss St.
Patricks Day and the return of Dennis Day, who has been
in the Navy; telephone operators Mabel and Gertrude talk
about Benny; Phil Harris and his orchestra play "Who's
Sorry Now?"; Day returns to the show and sings "Danny
Boy"; and the cast performs a skit entitled "Benny
Boulevard," a satire of the segment on "The Fred Allen
Show" known as "Allen's Alley." Includes commercials.
(This series also aired on CBS from 1949 to 1955.)
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: March 17, 1946 7:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:30:04
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R82:0031
- GENRE: Radio - Comedy/Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Music, popular (songs, etc.); Radio - Parody; African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: NBC - Radio series, 1944-1948
- COMMERCIALS:
- Radio - Commercials - Lucky Strike cigarettes
- Radio - Commercials - Tareyton cigarettes
CREDITS
- Sam Perrin … Writer
- John Tackaberry … Writer
- George Balzer … Writer
- Milt Josefsberg … Writer
- Phil Harris … Music (Misc. Credits), Orchestra Leader, Cast
- Dennis Day … Performer, Cast
- Don Wilson … Announcer, Cast
- Jack Benny … Cast
- Mary Livingstone … Cast
- Eddie Anderson … Cast, Rochester
- Artie Auerbach … Cast, Mr. Kitzel
- Bea Benaderet … Cast, Gertrude Gearshift
- Sara Berner … Cast, Mabel Flapsaddle
- Basil Ruysdael … Talent, Lucky Strike commercial
- Riggs, L.A. "Speed" … Talent, Lucky Strike commercial
- F.E. Boone … Talent, Lucky Strike commercial
- Fred Allen