The Jack Benny Program Season 12 Episodes

Episode 1

Season Premiere

Sun, Oct 15, 196130 mins

Episode 2

Waukegan Show

Sun, Oct 22, 196130 mins

Episode 3

Jack on Trial for Murder

Sun, Nov 5, 196130 mins

Jack goes on trial for murder, defended by superstar lawyer Perry Mason (Raymond Burr). The women in the courtroom swoon over Perry, but his defense of Jack is feeble. When Jack asks how Perry always wins on his own show, Perry Mason sneers "because my writers are better than yours !"

Episode 4

Jack Takes the Stewarts to a Play

Sun, Nov 12, 196130 mins

Jack has four tickets to a new play. He and his new girlfriend were originally going to go with Don Wilson and his wife, but Don called to cancel. Jack's girlfriend gets him to call and invite Jimmy and Gloria Stewart. Jimmy accepts the invitation thinking he's talking to Jack Lemon. He and Gloria panic when they realize that it's Jack Benny instead.

Episode 5

Tennessee Ernie Ford Show

Sun, Nov 19, 196130 mins

Tennessee Ernie Ford appears from a remote location via split screen television.

Episode 6

Jack Plays Golf

Sun, Nov 26, 196130 mins

Jack demonstrates why he's an insufferable golf partner.

Episode 7

Jack Followed Home

Sun, Dec 3, 196130 mins

Inside the studio, Bobby Rydell sings two songs. Outside the studio, Jack is haunted by a mysterious stalker.

Episode 8

Jack Goes to Cafeteria

Sun, Dec 10, 196130 mins

Jack tries to wow guest songstress Jane Morgan by taking her to - a cafeteria? That's bad enough, but for Jack it's a war zone, with hostile attendants & personalized land mines at each counter awaiting their pickiest, least favorite diner. Will the hash slingers go easier on finicky Jack because he's with beautiful, blonde Jane?

Episode 9

Jack Writes a Song

Sun, Dec 17, 196130 mins

Jack has written a song, and he asks composer Dimitri Tiomkin to write an arrangement for it.

Episode 10

Christmas Party

Sun, Dec 24, 196130 mins

Jack and Rochester give gifts to the cast. First TV appearance of Mel Blanc following his near fatal car accident in January of 1961.

Episode 11

New Year's Eve

Sun, Dec 31, 196130 mins

Near the end of a New Year's Eve interview with a female reporter, Jack tells her the tale of that same night in 1953, when his plans for the evening did not go as expected. Leaving him with no one to be with at midnight and personal regrets.

Episode 12

Jack Does Opera

Sun, Jan 7, 196230 mins

Opera star Roberta Peters joins Jack for fun and song.

Episode 13

Dennis' Surprise Birthday

Sun, Jan 14, 196230 mins

Jack plans to throw a surprise birthday masquerade party for Dennis Day.

Episode 14

Jack Gets Passport

Sun, Jan 21, 196230 mins

Episode 15

How Jack Met Rochester

Sun, Jan 28, 196230 mins

Episode 16

Police Station Show

Sun, Feb 4, 196230 mins

Episode 17

Ghost Town Western Sketch

Sun, Feb 11, 196230 mins

Jack and Gisele are returning from a show in Phoenix and get lost. They stumble into a café in what appears to be a Western ghost town and ask directions. While they sup on peanut butter sandwiches, the owner spins a story from the town's history, where a black-hearted villain called Tombstone Harry tries to force a beautiful saloon girl to marry him, or he'll foreclose on her mortgage. A black-garbed hero, the Cactus Kid, attempts to stop the villain.

Episode 18

Rock Hudson Show

Sun, Feb 18, 196230 mins

Jack debates sex appeal with Rock Hudson. Jack wants to do a show like the Tonight Show.

Episode 19

Julie London Show

Sun, Mar 4, 196230 mins

Jack is upstaged by a 12-year-old violinist and has Julie London as his guest star.

Episode 20

Alexander Hamilton Story

Sun, Mar 11, 196230 mins

Jack imagines himself as Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

Episode 21

Shari Lewis Show

Sun, Mar 18, 196230 mins

Episode 22

Crazy Airport

Sun, Mar 25, 196230 mins

In this episode, Jack becomes aware of the high cost of low cost traveling. Indeed Jack's stinginess made him opt for a cut-rate airline and ... for trouble! The pilot is crazy, the plane lands on a meadow instead of an airport, and the farmer owning the pasture end the baggage handler are pains in the neck! Of course, Jack arrives late for the show and Dennis has already taken it over!

Episode 23

Jack Going Back Into Pictures

Sun, Apr 1, 196230 mins

Jack's all excited because he's going to make his first film in many years, directed by Billy Wilder. It's supposed to be a secret yet he calls Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons right away, and soon even the mailman and a house painter know. Dennis comes over in a raincoat that Jack talks him out of. When Wilder arrives he's not too keen on the whole movie project.

Episode 24

Jack Is Violin Teacher

Sun, Apr 8, 196230 mins

Jack wonders how his life would have turned out, if he had never left his hometown Waukegan, Illinois. He imagines he would have been a violin teacher.

Episode 25

Modern Prison Sketch

Sun, Apr 15, 196230 mins

Jack tries to trick Mickey Rooney into appearing for free as a guest star on his show. Jack and Mickey are in a sketch depicting a prison in the future year 1985, wherein all the prisoners are pampered.

Episode 26

Jack Takes in a Boarder

Sun, Apr 22, 196230 mins