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28 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Fri, Sep 25, 196430 mins
To begin his 15th year on television, Jack (still 39) returns to the network where he began on radio 32 years ago. Tonight: Jack visits his new bosses, the NBC vice presidents; sits in on a "panel show" with the Marquis Chimps; and is visited by singer Dennis Day, who brings along his wife Peggy. Don Wilson is the announcer.
Episode 2
Fri, Oct 2, 196430 mins
Lucille Ball reveals the "true" story behind Paul Revere's famous ride.
Episode 3
Fri, Oct 9, 196430 mins
Jack's guest is laid-back singer Andy Williams, which prompts a visit from Jack's Pasadena Fan Club President (Madge Blake, Aunt Harriett on "Batman"), who can't believe Really Old Blue Eyes would book another blue-eyed guest. Jack lectures Andy to work harder to promote his career, so Andy changes from a sweater to a tux to join Jack at a premiere - which turns out to be a meat market opening. When a customer (Lee Meriwether, Catwoman in the Batman: The Movie (1966) movie) gushes over Andy's crooning, he's too embarrassed to admit who he is.
Episode 4
Fri, Oct 16, 196430 mins
Since Jack Benny and U. S. Steel are the IRS' best customers, they want to help Jack take his full deductions.
Episode 5
Fri, Oct 23, 196430 mins
Jack proposes recording a lucrative comedy album with Bob Hope, upon finding out how worthless his investments are: as chief stockholder of a harpoon company, Jack gets dubbed Schnook of the South. Fretting that he won't be able to counter Hope's hilarious ad libs, Jack orders his writers to give him all the laughs, but Old Ski Nose is too slick to fall for that.
Episode 6
Fri, Oct 30, 196430 mins
Jack affronts guest Connie Francis by claiming comedy is hard, but singing easy, then sics his apprentice announcer Harlow Wilson, a devoted fan of pop singer Connie, on her. The cast lampoons "The Beverly Hillbillies" in a musical sketch with Connie as Jack's wife, and Harlow in the Jethro role.
Episode 7
Fri, Nov 6, 196430 mins
Episode 8
Fri, Nov 13, 196430 mins
Episode 9
Fri, Nov 20, 196430 mins
Episode 10
Fri, Nov 27, 196430 mins
Episode 11
Fri, Dec 4, 196430 mins
Jack, Wayne Newton and Louie Nye perform at a charity fund-raising garden party.
Episode 12
Fri, Dec 11, 196430 mins
Episode 13
Fri, Dec 18, 196430 mins
Episode 14
Fri, Dec 25, 196430 mins
Jack chats with the audience and performs a duet with Gisele MacKenzie.
Episode 15
Fri, Jan 8, 196530 mins
Jack Jones sings two songs. Jack Benny plays the role of a school principal, and Jack Jones plays the role of a schoolteacher in the show's sketch.
Episode 16
Fri, Jan 22, 196530 mins
In the skit, Jack plays a wealthy man who, under the mistaken belief that "there is no such thing as a bad boy", goes to an orphanage to adopt one, and though advised against it, takes a full grown man in a Buster Brown suit nicknamed "The Rat", who promptly betrays the man's trust, by cracking his home safe.
Episode 17
Fri, Jan 29, 196530 mins
Jack winds up in a Tijuana jail with The Kingston Trio.
Episode 18
Fri, Feb 5, 196530 mins
Episode 19
Fri, Feb 12, 196530 mins
Episode 20
Fri, Feb 19, 196530 mins
Episode 21
Fri, Feb 26, 196530 mins
Episode 22
Fri, Mar 5, 196530 mins
Episode 23
Fri, Mar 12, 196530 mins
Episode 24
Fri, Mar 19, 196530 mins
Jack's old Navy buddy causes trouble when he guilt-trips Jack into having him on his show.
Episode 25
Fri, Mar 26, 196530 mins
Episode 26
Fri, Apr 2, 196530 mins
Episode 27
Fri, Apr 9, 196530 mins
Episode 28
Fri, Apr 16, 196530 mins
The Smothers Brothers confound every attempt by Jack to force them into his straitjacket comedy formula while performing his theme song, but, even scarier to Jack, he is pinned under an unexploded bomb in a World War II London air raid. The UXB squad turns out to be the Smothers. Tom can't remember which wire to pull, while Dick uses the opportunity of Jack's being immobilized to lock in an appearance on Jack's final program.