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This episode of Bob Hope's classic NBC radio show originally aired on November 9, 1948.

Bing Crosby hosts The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers visits with Bergen & McCarthy, and Red Skelton heads to Dead Eye's dude ranch. Come kick up your heels with Bob Hope, "Buck Benny," Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, and more!

Phil wants to borrow $2000, so Jack pays a visit to the vault. Guest Hoagy Carmichael tries to sell Jack a fine song called, "Smokin' Luckies". Jack visits Professor Le Blanc for a violin lesson. It doesn't sound like Mel Blanc as Professor Le Blanc. Don Wilson, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Hoagy Carmichael, Dennis Day, Jack Benny, Bea Benaderet, Jerry Hausner, Joseph Kearns, Ukie Sherrin.

Jack and guest Lauren Bacall do a love scene from "To Have and Have Not," when in walks guest Humphrey Bogart.

Jack takes a break from practicing "The Bee" on his violin so that he and the gang can go meet Phil's mother and sister who are visiting from Mobile.

Cleaning up after her big New Years party, Mary thinks back to the previous night and the events that prevented Jack from joining the festivities.

This radio dramatization of the classic movie originally aired on September 26, 1938.

From the St. Albans Naval Hospital, New York. Jack takes the gang to see his appearance in "Hollywood Canteen," and meets guests Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa in the theatre.

Jack and Mary wait on line all night for tickets to the Rose Bowl game. Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Artie Auerbach, Elvia Allman, Eddie Anderson, Hy Averback, Griff Barnett, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Jeanette Eymann, Phil Harris, John Laing (commercial spokesman), Edward Marr, Dick Ryan, Don Wilson.

Jack and his friends are leaving for New York; so it's down to the train station for the traditional send-off...well, not quite.

Jack's footprints have been preserved in the concrete in front of Graumann's Chinese Theatre. The cast does its version of, "City For Conquest", a prize fight story in which Dennis knocks out Jack! Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Cliff Nazarro, Frank Nelson.

Jack is trying to get Gladys Zybysko on the phone. Plans are made for next week's show in Oakland.

A woebegone old car, a harried department store clerk, a monosyllabic man in a sombrero, and a train announcer whose line ran somewhere between Orange County and the Twilight Zone are all memorable characters from The Jack Benny Program, and all the products of a single talented throat: Mel Blanc. "The Man of a Thousand Voices" was Carmichael the Polar Bear, who lived improbably in Jack's cellar.

Loved by millions the world over! That's Jack Benny - a man who managed to make friends in every corner of the globe (even though he never picked up the check). Here's a laughter-filled collection of Jack's international exploits, both real and imagined. From Venice to Quebec...from the Queen Mary to the Klondike...Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, and Don Wilson are along for the ride! Are you? Passport, please!

On his way to rehearsal, Jack runs in to Ed Wynn. He's happy to see his old friend - until he learns that his cast thinks that Wynn is funnier than he is!

Nostalgia radio had incredible comedy, mystery, detective, western, sci-fi, musical, and drama shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in fully-dramatized broadcasts that entertained millions.