The Jack Benny Program Season 7 Episodes

Episode 1

Alfred Wallenstein Show

Sun, Sep 23, 195630 mins

Episode 2

George Burns/Spike Jones Show

Sun, Oct 7, 195630 mins

In this parody of the Broadway musical "Damn Yankees," Jack Benny dreams he sells his soul to the Devil for a chance to play at Carnegie Hall. Jack gets his wish, but the conductor of his symphony orchestra turns out to be Spike Jones - who sabotages Jack's performance at every turn.

Episode 3

George Gobel/Red Skelton Show

Sun, Oct 21, 195630 mins

Jack runs for president of a boy's club located in a neighbor's basement. In true political fashion, he's bribing voters with lollipops. But will he win. After all, he's up against fellow comedian George Gobel. Then there's that last minute walk-on entry. Laughs ahead.

Episode 4

Jack Is Invited to Ronald Colmans

Sun, Nov 4, 195630 mins

Jack mistakenly receives an invitation to a dinner at the home of Ronald and Benita Colman. Arriving in his tuxedo; he tries in vain to pretentiously fit in with the upper-crust British crowd.

Episode 5

Jack's Maxwell Is Stolen

Sun, Nov 18, 195630 mins

Jack panics when Rochester informs him that his Maxwell automobile has been stolen from his garage and they immediately race to the opulent Beverly Hills police station where the dispatcher plays Elvis Presley and Lawrence Welk records between making police calls. The police discover the crooks have returned the car and apprehend one of the perpetrators who broke his toe kicking the car's tire.

Episode 6

Jack Locked in the Tower of London

Sun, Dec 2, 195630 mins

Jack and Mary go on a group tour of the Tower of London. Jack's fascination with the Crown Jewels causes him to leave the group repeatedly, and, as a result, he is locked accidentally in the room used by King Henry VIII as a torture chamber. There, Jack hears the voice of Henry's ghost, and imagines that he is Mark Smeaton, a minstrel accused by Henry of being involved with Queen Anne Boleyn.

Episode 7

The Mikado

Sun, Dec 16, 195630 mins

Episode 8

Talent Show

Sun, Dec 30, 195630 mins

Jack holds tryouts for undiscovered talents to try and become regulars on his show.

Episode 9

Jack Hires Opera Singer in Rome

Sun, Jan 13, 195730 mins

Jack ought to be suspicious when his porter in the Rome airport speaks in a Scottish burr and looks like a Greek god. In Jack's hotel suite he hears a magnificent male opera singer in another room, so the Svengali signs the puzzled amateur up to conquer America.

Episode 10

The Fiddler

Sun, Jan 27, 195730 mins

Jack and his cast do a spoof of the popular radio series, "The Whistler."

Episode 11

Goodwin Knight/George Jessel Show

Sun, Feb 10, 195730 mins

Episode 12

Hope and Benny in Agent's Office

Sun, Feb 24, 195730 mins

Episode 13

Jack Falls Into Canal in Venice

Sun, Mar 10, 195730 mins

Jack and Rochester are putting together a scrapbook of Jack's European vacation. Jack tells Rochester about his visit to Venice.

Episode 14

Jack in Paris

Sun, Mar 24, 195730 mins

Jack makes sure Parisians remember him: he boasts to anyone he can corner that he drives a garbage truck. That's how an under-tipped hotel employee translates "star of stage, screen and television" for Jack. A garbageman compatriot is delighted to give Jack & Mary a free ride in his truck, while Maurice Chevalier takes them nightclubbing.

Episode 15

Mary Has May Co. Reunion

Sun, Apr 7, 195730 mins

Jack fondly recalls himself as a handsome, high-spending dandy who had to gallantly fight off constant female attention, when he's asked how he met long-time girlfriend Mary Livingstone. But Jack resists attending a reunion with Mary's former co-workers at a May Company department store in L.A., where she met Jack in 1932, as they remember it very differently - especially the crucial purchase of an engagement ring. Rochester caters Mary's reunion, and can't help rolling his eyes at Jack's unbelievable recollection.

Episode 16

Visit from the IRS

Sun, Apr 21, 195730 mins