The Jack Benny Show 1952-53 Season

Here we are again for the next episode in the 1952-53 season of the Jack Benny radio show (The Lucky Strike Program).   This season Jack was the #2 show on radio behind Amos N' Andy (which followed Jack on Sunday nights on CBS).

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The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny
Steak Ride 
(Mel Blanc's english horse)
originally aired 02/18/1953
CBS radio
(also included is Jack and Mel on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson talking about the english horse)
click here to see most of the interview with Johnny and see Jack's just double over laughing at Mel.
stick around after the show and listen to an interview of Mel Blanc by Dr. Demento from 1979.

Jack Benny Christmas

One of the famous running gags for the Jack Benny Show was always Jack going Christmas shopping to buy gifts for Don, Phil, Rochester, Dennis and even Mary.   Usually the clerk was Mel Blanc who by the end was so exhausted dealing with the skin flint Jack that was ready to shoot himself.

here from the 1957 season of the TV version of Jack's show features the classic lineup with Mel as the clerk and Frank Nelson as the smartalec floor walker he made famous on the radio show.




Click here for the radio classic, the 1946 Christmas shopping episode

The Jack Benny Show (radio)

From 1955 here is a rare rehearsal tape of the Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny.   This episode has guest Bob Hope.