Originally broadcast on CBS, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1932–1974
- Surviving broadcasts
- 125
- Genre
- comedy
(143 Episodes) Update: ** Episode information added to all uploads prior to Jan 05, 2011 JACK BENNY (Feb 14, 1894 – Dec 26, 1974): Jack Benny, born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television, and film actor.
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Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 2 of 40Listenable · 1 of 40Rough but complete · 37 of 40
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: JackBenny1
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
32 dated broadcasts across 43 years on the air, with 29 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. JB Information Please · 17 Jan 1943
- 2. JB Orson Wells Hosts · 14 Mar 1943
- 3. JB Jack Opens Pool · 18 Apr 1943
JB JB & Mel B on Johnny Carson NBC TV Show
23 Oct 1974 · 41 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 October 1974. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
JB A Friend At Union Station
15 May 1955 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 15 May 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
JB Jack Listens To Mean Old Man On Radio
21 Mar 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
JB Comm Perf Host Jack Benny
23 Dec 1953 · 10 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 December 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
JB Back from Vacation in Hawaii
13 Sep 1953 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 13 September 1953. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
JB Palms Springs Show
2 Mar 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 March 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
JB Mel Blanc as Indian - Si Routine
9 Dec 1951 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
JB Jack Tries to Buy USC - UCLA Football Game Tickets3
26 Nov 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 November 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
21 Mar 1954
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 21 Mar 1954.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 21 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1932–1974
Other series the network carried while The Jack Benny Program was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Jack Benny Program
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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