The Jack Benny Program Season 14 Episodes

Episode 1

The Billy Graham Show

Tue, Sep 24, 196330 mins

Take-off on folk singing craze. Billy Graham asks why comedians use insults for laughs and the gang shows him the reason.

Episode 2

The Robert Goulet Show

Tue, Oct 1, 196330 mins

Jack sups at a chichi nightclub where heartthrob crooner Robert Goulet is dining. Will Goulet pilfer Jack's drop-dead gorgeous date or will the sex symbol comic pull women away from Goulet? Two versions are presented. Which one is true?

Episode 3

Riverboat Sketch

Tue, Oct 8, 196330 mins

Carol Burnett sings Sweet Georgia Brown. Later, she joins Jack and Don in a riverboat sketch.

Episode 4

The Tall Cowboy Sketch

Tue, Oct 15, 196330 mins

Jack's guest is 6'6" Western star Clint Walker, who sings a song and banters with Jack. Jack is insulted when the gigantic Walker snubs Jack's suggestion that he play Clint's brother in a movie. But Jack auditions for the part anyway.

Episode 5

Johnny Carson Guest

Tue, Oct 22, 196330 mins

After Don does a man on the street interview that ends badly, Jack brings out Johnny Carson then into his first year as "Tonight" host. Carson displays samples of his various talents, including singing, drum playing and card tricks. He then does an interview with Jack where private thoughts can be heard "Strange Interlude"-style.

Episode 6

Jack Directs a Film

Tue, Oct 29, 196330 mins

After Jack learns that Jimmy and Gloria Stewart are making a film together, he decides to horn in on the act.

Episode 7

The Ed Sullivan Show

Tue, Nov 5, 196330 mins

Ed Sullivan is nervous about doing "His first Dramatic part" on the show, but he gets into the spirit playing an attorney defending a French girl accused of murder. The case seems to be stacked against district attorney Jack when the entire jury are beret-and-smock wearing,baguette-wielding Frenchmen.

Episode 8

Robinson Crusoe Sketch

Tue, Nov 19, 196330 mins

Episode 9

Jack Takes Boat to Hawaii

Tue, Nov 26, 196330 mins

Hawaiians are thrilled to sing Aloha to stingy Jack Benny, who gets only 1 lei, while a fellow passenger is covered with them. The romantic atmosphere of the Pacific cruise back to L.A. overwhelms Jack, who envisions a zoftig blonde passenger as Jayne Mansfield. Jayne breathes "You're Just Too Marvelous," to love-struck Jack.

Episode 10

Dennis Drives Jack to the Hospital

Tue, Dec 3, 196330 mins

Episode 11

Three Musketeers Sketch

Tue, Dec 10, 196330 mins

Episode 12

Amateur Show

Tue, Dec 24, 196330 mins

In a talent show for unknowns, Jack presents a tap dancer who doesn't wear shoes, an acrobat and his Great Dane, a drunk who hopelessly tries to imitate the acrobat, a Mexican combo, and guest George Jessel fails to get his nephew to play a tuba.

Episode 13

Jack Alone on New Year's Eve

Tue, Dec 31, 196330 mins

Episode 14

How Jack Met George Burns

Tue, Jan 7, 196430 mins

Jack and his long-time best friend George Burns play golf, but Jack quickly storms back to his office, crying foul to his secretary. George strolls in next, smoking a victory cigar, causing Jack to flee again. So, George makes himself at home at Jack's desk, and relates to Jack's secretary Ms. Gordon, how he met Jack 40 years before, in a cheap Chicago rooming house.

Episode 15

Peter, Paul and Mary

Tue, Jan 14, 196430 mins

Jack Benny's guests, the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, illustrate how folk songs develop with a tune about Jack, whose lyrics include "A silver dollar was his teething ring." Jack insists that the group cancel their flight out of town to come to his house, to discuss an important matter, at length.

Episode 16

Nat King Cole, Guest

Tue, Jan 21, 196430 mins

Jack intros guest Nat 'King' Cole as the best friend a song ever had, in Nat's final TV performance before his death. Nat banters with Jack, plus croons "When I Fall in Love" and "Day In, Day Out." Nat reluctantly consents to sit in on piano for Jack on "Sweet Sue." At their rehearsal Jack's sax player injures his drummer's arm in a fight, so always-cool Nat calls in a 5 year old (James Bradley Jr., later played with Anita Baker and Chuck Mangione) on the skins.

Episode 17

The Bobby Darin Show

Tue, Jan 28, 196430 mins

Jack wants to play himself in an autobiographical movie, but the studio prefers younger star Bobby Darin for the role. Darin displays his many talents as he and Jack contend over the role.

Episode 18

Don Breaks Leg

Tue, Feb 4, 196430 mins

Jack's announcer, Don Wilson, fakes a broken leg in order to give his son, Harlow, an opportunity to substitute announce for him on the show.

Episode 19

How Jack Found Dennis

Tue, Feb 11, 196430 mins

Dennis Day's lugging his own scenery on stage for his song, leads an irate Jack to relate how he picked Dennis to be his show's singer, passing over an agent's offers of Sinatra (too skinny) and Bing Crosby (too bu-bu-ba-boo). Jack tracks the unknown Irish tenor from a fish market and ice cream store (Dennis is fired from both), to a Chinese restaurant.

Episode 20

Jack Takes Violin Lessons

Tue, Feb 18, 196430 mins

In desperation, a psychiatrist phones Jack for his help with a distraught patient. An amnesiac with a violin has been found on the street, and he's bitterly muttering Jack's name - over and over. Jack identifies him as his long-time, long-suffering violin teacher, Professor LeBlanc, who reveals he couldn't lose his hearing, so he lost his mind.

Episode 21

Jack and Dennis Do Impersonations

Tue, Feb 25, 196430 mins

Episode 22

Jack Redecorates His House

Tue, Mar 3, 196430 mins

Episode 23

Jack Is Boxing Manager

Tue, Mar 17, 196430 mins

Episode 24

Jack Renews Driver's License

Tue, Mar 24, 196430 mins

While filming a Public Service Announcement promoting safe driving, a close-up reveals that Jack Benny's own driving license is expired, so the organization the PSA is for walks out on Jack. Next, Jack's attempt to renew the license at a Kafkaesque California state motor vehicle office turns nightmarish.

Episode 25

The Lettermen

Tue, Mar 31, 196430 mins

Jack's guests, the pop singing group The Lettermen, provoke surprisingly strong reactions from Jack Benny and his regular singer Dennis Day. They bump Dennis from singing on the show at all, so he skulks behind the scenery as the Phantom of the Comedy. Jack, The Waukegan Wizard, claims he earned a high school letter as a cheerleader, but regrets he didn't attend college, so the World's Oldest Freshman enrolls with The Lettermen.

Episode 26

Jack Goes to the Allergy Doctor

Tue, Apr 7, 196430 mins

Jack demands a post-show meeting with cast and crew, furious over their mistakes. But they call him out for flubbing a line and scratching himself throughout the program. For his rash, Jack seeks treatment from a sarcastic allergy doctor with bizarre show business patients, but the doctor refers him to a highly alternative medical practitioner.

Episode 27

Harlow Gets a Date

Tue, Apr 14, 196430 mins

An important sponsor will soon be coming to visit, and it's up to Jack to supply a date for his daughter. He turns to Don to let his son take her out, but Harlow's never had a date before so they get a young lady teach to him how to behave with girls.

Episode 28

I Am the Fiddler

Tue, Apr 21, 196430 mins

Jack Benny enlists his long-time radio and TV cast members Charlie Cantor and Mel Blanc, to playfully demonstrate how radio programs created suspense and atmosphere. Includes a parody of "The Whistler" with Jack as the diabolical Fiddler, who spins the tale of oblivious husband Griffith Park (Dennis Day), targeted for murder by his wife and her lover.