The Jack Benny Program (season 10)
This is a list of episodes for the tenth season (1959–60) of the television version of The Jack Benny Program.
The Jack Benny Program | |
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Season 10 | |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 15 |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | October 4, 1959 – May 1, 1960 |
Season chronology | |
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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111 | 1 | "The Jack Benny Program 30 Years in the Future" | October 4, 1959 | |
The series' 10th season debuts with everyone struggling with changes; Jack misses the show opening, having fallen asleep in his dressing room because of the late hour. Don and the Sportsmen Quartet can't break the habit of doing commercials for Lucky Strike, rather than their new sponsor, Lux Soap. Dennis Day sings "While We're Young." In the sketch, Jack imagines The Jack Benny Program 30 years in the future. Everyone looks much older — except Jack. | ||||
112 | 2 | "Harry Truman Show" | October 18, 1959 | |
Special guest: Harry S. Truman. | ||||
113 | 3 | "Jack Webb Show" | November 1, 1959 | |
Special guest: Jack Webb. | ||||
114 | 4 | "Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Stewart Show" | November 15, 1959 | |
Special guests: James Stewart and Gloria Stewart. | ||||
115 | 5 | "Jack Paar Show" | November 29, 1959 | |
Special guests: Jack Paar and Joyce Davidson. | ||||
116 | 6 | "Jack Goes to a Pasadena Fan Club Meeting" | December 13, 1959 | |
After Dennis' performance of "Sinner Man", Jack attends a meeting of the Jack Benny Fan Club, Pasadena chapter, by the club's president and secretary; when Jack learns that they want him to play his violin, he gladly accepts. The club is made up of little old ladies, and Jack sits in the rocking chair of honor. The women swoon and faint with excitement when he plays "Love in Bloom." The gals put together their own swingin' jazz band and join Benny in "Swanee River / When the Saints Come Marchin' In." | ||||
117 | 7 | "George Burns Show" | December 27, 1959 | |
Special guest: George Burns. | ||||
118 | 8 | "Ben Blue Show" | January 10, 1960 | |
Special guest: Ben Blue. | ||||
119 | 9 | "Maurice Gosfield / Amateur Show" | January 24, 1960 | |
Special guest: Maurice Gosfield. | ||||
120 | 10 | "George Gobel Show" | February 7, 1960 | |
Special guests: George Gobel and Molly Bee. | ||||
121 | 11 | "Jack Is Arrested" | February 21, 1960 | |
Jack, who's been playing his violin at 2 a.m., is arrested for disturbing the peace. He's taken to the Los Angeles jail (one needs an appointment for the Beverly Hills hoosegow), where the inmates think he has the beautiful hands of a safecracker. Rochester brings a lawyer he found sitting at a desk on a street corner: Frank Nelson. Jack fires him. | ||||
122 | 12 | "Natalie Wood / Robert Wagner Show" | March 6, 1960 | |
Special guests: Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner. | ||||
123 | 13 | "Slogan Contest" | April 3, 1960 | |
Jack is convinced he's a shoo-in to win a product slogan contest he enters. When he doesn't win the first prize money, he decides to sue the company sponsoring the product. Benny goes to a lawyer's office and finds the place is overrun with lunatics like Mel Blanc and Dennis Day. Frank Nelson plays the contest promoter. | ||||
124 | 14 | "Easter Show" | April 17, 1960 | |
Jack and his loud and pushy girlfriend Mildred (Barbara Nichols) walk in the Beverly Hills Easter Parade. En route they meet many of Jack's usual agitators: Dennis Day, who sings "Easter Parade"; Don Wilson, dressed as an old lady in an Easter bonnet for the Lux commercial; Professor LeBlanc, Jack's violin teacher; Clara and Emma, the two old women who head the Pasadena chapter of Jack's fan club (Madge Blake, Jesslyn Fax); and photographer Frank Nelson. | ||||
125 | 15 | "Final Show of the Season" | May 1, 1960 | |
Jack has just returned from a tour of the Far East, and has Don bring him onstage in a rickshaw. He says that in Japan they are watching American shows that are three years old. Benny didn't have the heart to tell them The $64,000 Question was rigged. Dennis Day sings "A Woman in Love." |