The Jack Benny Program (season 14)
The Jack Benny Program | |
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Season 14 | |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 28 |
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Original network | CBS |
Original release | September 24, 1963 April 21, 1964 | –
Season chronology | |
This is a list of episodes for the fourteenth season (1963–64) of the television version of The Jack Benny Program.
Episodes[]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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205 | 1 | "Billy Graham Show" | September 24, 1963 | |
Special guests: Billy Graham and Sonny Liston. | ||||
206 | 2 | "Robert Goulet Show" | October 1, 1963 | |
Special guest: Robert Goulet. | ||||
207 | 3 | "Riverboat Sketch" | October 8, 1963 | |
Special guest: Carol Burnett. | ||||
208 | 4 | "Tall Cowboy Sketch" | October 15, 1963 | |
Special guest: Clint Walker. | ||||
209 | 5 | "Johnny Carson Show" | October 22, 1963 | |
Special guest: Johnny Carson. | ||||
210 | 6 | "Jack Directs a Film" | October 29, 1963 | |
Special guests: James Stewart and Gloria Stewart. | ||||
211 | 7 | "Ed Sullivan Show" | November 5, 1963 | |
Special guests: Ed Sullivan and Monique LeMaire. | ||||
212 | 8 | "Robinson Crusoe Sketch" | November 19, 1963 | |
Jack tries to get out of paying a 14-cent overdue fine by presenting the librarian with a note from his doctor. Dennis checks out books by Gibbon and Velben so he'll look smart when he walks past UCLA on his way home. | ||||
213 | 9 | "Jack Takes a Boat to Hawaii" | November 26, 1963 | |
Special guest: Jayne Mansfield. | ||||
214 | 10 | "Dennis Drives Jack to the Hospital" | December 3, 1963 | |
Jack is trying to work on a Julius Caesar sketch, while being pursued by a female fan. Wanting to take over the show for a few weeks, Dennis hatches a plan to make Jack think he's becoming unhinged. He hires an impressionist to make phone calls, as Benny, to receptionists, doctors — anyone and everyone. Naturally, Jack doesn't recall having talked to any of these people and begins to question his sanity. Upon hearing his own voice, which wasn't coming from his mouth, Jack checks himself into a hospital. | ||||
215 | 11 | "Three Musketeers Sketch" | December 10, 1963 | |
Jack talks about golfing in his monologue. He chats with a TV statistician who has monitored all of Jack's programs and found that Benny has told 80,000 jokes... and only gotten 30,000 laughs. Dennis storms on stage and says he's quitting because Jack has called him stupid 2,000 times. | ||||
216 | 12 | "George Jessel / Amateur Show" | December 24, 1963 | |
Special guest: George Jessel. | ||||
217 | 13 | "Jack Alone on New Year's Eve" | December 31, 1963 | |
Jack gives the cast the night off and does the show himself. He talks with Mary Livingstone on the phone and takes questions from the audience, some legit, some planted. When asked his age, he responds that everything is marked down after Christmas. Jack has the audience sing "Auld Lang Syne" and read the State Farm commercial while he provides sounds effects. He also talks about Dennis Day's Christmas present, his Maxwell, Phil Harris in Korea, and George Burns.[1] | ||||
218 | 14 | "How Jack Met George Burns" | January 7, 1964 | |
Special guest: George Burns. | ||||
219 | 15 | "Peter, Paul and Mary Show" | January 14, 1964 | |
Special guests: Peter, Paul and Mary. | ||||
220 | 16 | "Nat King Cole Show" | January 21, 1964 | |
Special guest: Nat King Cole. | ||||
221 | 17 | "Bobby Darin Show" | January 28, 1964 | |
Special guest: Bobby Darin. | ||||
222 | 18 | "Don Breaks His Leg" | February 4, 1964 | |
Special guest: Miss Beverly Hills. | ||||
223 | 19 | "How Jack Found Dennis" | February 11, 1964 | |
Jack explains how he manages to look so good on TV after all these years: long shots. In close-ups, he's nothing but wrinkles. Dennis brings out his own palm tree as scenery and performs "Cocktails for Two." | ||||
224 | 20 | "The Final LeBlanc Sketch" | February 18, 1964 | |
Jack receives a call from a psychiatrist, Dr. Johnson (Herbert Rudley), asking him to identify a man who keeps repeating Benny's name. The delirious man is Jack's violin teacher, Professor LeBlanc (Mel Blanc). In flashbacks, we witness the crash and burn of Professor LeBlanc as Benny's heinous violin fiddling eventually drives him insane. Jack decides the only way to cure the man is to play his instrument, and for the first time he plays beautifully. Realizing he's not a failure, LeBlanc regains his memory. Jack orders Dr. Johnson not to tell anyone that he's a good violinist; he makes much more money being a bad one. | ||||
225 | 21 | "Jack and Dennis Do Impersonations" | February 25, 1964 | |
Special guest: Danny Kaye. | ||||
226 | 22 | "Jack Redecorates His House" | March 3, 1964 | |
After taking abuse from his card game buddies about a hideous chair he's just had reupholstered, Jack hires a sexy home decorator to update his home. Her ideas involve zebra stripes. | ||||
227 | 23 | "Jack Is a Boxing Manager" | March 17, 1964 | |
Jack visits a restaurant owned by an ex-boxer and begins daydreaming about being an old-time fight manager. His protege, Dennis "Kid Dynamite" Day, thinks "Doc" Benny is the best because he lets him fight twice a day. A gorgeous blond, however, stands in the way of Doc making some quick money. | ||||
228 | 24 | "Jack Renews His Driver's License" | March 24, 1964 | |
Jack rehearses some Dixieland music with members of his band at the studio. He does a public service announcement for safe driving and finds out his driver's license has expired. On the way to the golf course, Jack and Don drop by the DMV to have it renewed. Renewing should be simple, but Jack has trouble with everyone: A man who doesn't work there accepts his $3 fee and runs, a grumpy guard accuses him of cheating, and the man giving the eye exam can't see. Getting his photo taken is an ordeal as the photographer thinks he's Erich von Stroheim directing a film. | ||||
229 | 25 | "The Lettermen Show" | March 31, 1964 | |
Special guests: The Lettermen. | ||||
230 | 26 | "Jack Goes to an Allergy Doctor" | April 7, 1964 | |
Jack holds a meeting in his dressing room to grouse at the cast and crew about a sloppy show. He begins to itch and, thinking he's having a reaction to something, goes to see a doctor where the patients scratch and sneeze in unison. Hating needles, Benny marches out mid-exam in search of another specialist. He settles on an odd one who performs some goofy and very unscientific tests on the itching patient. The source of Jack's irritation turns out not to be a "what", but a "who": Dennis Day. | ||||
231 | 27 | "Harlow Gets a Date" | April 14, 1964 | |
Don has arranged for Harlow to take the sponsor's daughter on a date. That gives Jack and Don just three days to change his clod of a son into a suave man of the world. Harlow puts his newly found charms to work for the wrong purposes. | ||||
232 | 28 | "I Am the Fiddler" | April 21, 1964 | |
In his final show for CBS, Jack reminisces about the old days of radio and its ability to paint pictures in the mind. To assist, Mel Blanc demonstrates his various voices. Dennis sings "I'm Glad There Is You". |
References[]
- ^ Adams, Val (January 1, 1964). "TV: Benny, the Master / Comedian's '63 Finale a Bravura Display of the Repertory of an Old Pro". The New York Times, p.41. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
External links[]
- 1963 American television seasons
- 1964 American television seasons
- The Jack Benny Program seasons