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- 1950–196530mNot Rated9.1 (76)TV EpisodeJack loses to Rochester at gin rummy and has to do Rochester's chores for the day while Rochester plays golf. Jack goes to the market to buy groceries for Christmas dinner.
- 1950–196525mNot Rated8.8 (104)TV EpisodeJack is determined to finish his Christmas shopping in one visit and tortures a wallet salesman with constant changes to his order. Meanwhile, Dennis is having difficulty finding the right present for his mother.
- Jack visits his adoring members of the Jack Benny Fan Club, Pasadena Chapter.
- It's ten minutes before showtime, and Gracie is nowhere to be found. Jack winds up letting George talk him into posing as Gracie for the show.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.5 (18)TV EpisodeJack is Christmas shopping at a department store and can't decide on what to buy for his friends. Should the gifts be nice or cheap. He is driving the staff crazy with his choices.
- In this live episode, before the monologue, Bob steals Jack's pants, so Jack wears Don Wilson's. The skit features Bob and Jack as big game hunters in Africa, who get captured by cannibals. Martin & Lewis do a cameo at the end.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.4 (52)TV EpisodeJack and his long-time best friend George Burns play golf, but Jack quickly storms back to his office, crying foul to his secretary. George strolls in next, smoking a victory cigar, causing Jack to flee again. So, George makes himself at home at Jack's desk, and relates to Jack's secretary Ms. Gordon, how he met Jack 40 years before, in a cheap Chicago rooming house.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.4 (14)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.4 (78)TV EpisodeJack goes on trial for murder, defended by superstar lawyer Perry Mason (Raymond Burr). The women in the courtroom swoon over Perry, but his defense of Jack is feeble. When Jack asks how Perry always wins on his own show, Perry Mason sneers "because my writers are better than yours !"
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.4 (51)TV EpisodeJack is the manager of a roadside hamburger stand that is taken over by a gang of tough criminals led by a scar-faced crook who likes to eat sardines, including the can--and even Dennis Day gets into the act.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.4 (54)TV EpisodeThe Smothers Brothers confound every attempt by Jack to force them into his straitjacket comedy formula while performing his theme song, but, even scarier to Jack, he is pinned under an unexploded bomb in a World War II London air raid. The UXB squad turns out to be the Smothers. Tom can't remember which wire to pull, while Dick uses the opportunity of Jack's being immobilized to lock in an appearance on Jack's final program.
- 1950–1965Not Rated8.4 (17)TV EpisodeJack is frustrated at the passport office.
- Audrey Meadows joins Jack, Dennis Day and others in a hilarious spoof of her and Jackie Gleason's comedy series "The Honeymooners".
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (39)TV EpisodeJack keeps all of Beverly Hills awake with his violin playing and is arrested for disturbing the peace.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (38)TV EpisodeJack and the gang vacation in Palm Springs.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (35)TV Episode"Jack Gives Johnny Carson Advice" about maintaining a long show business career through versatility, but Johnny turns the tables on him by displaying his many talents including singing, dancing and drumming.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (41)TV EpisodeWhen Jack learns that the jackpot on Groucho Marx's television quiz show "You Bet Your Life" has risen to a whopping $3,000, he sneaks onto the show as a contestant, by wearing a disguise.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (46)TV EpisodeAfter a run in with a crabby cameraman, Jack introduces a young Japanese girl singer, Romi Yamada. He expresses his interest in having her do a further show, but her agent drives a hard bargain, and recalls Jack's appearance on an Ed Sullivan-like show in Tokio, where Jack inserted himself into a rock-and-roll children's group.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (45)TV EpisodeA variety of hijinks ensue when Jack treats a group of youngsters to a day at the carnival.
- While in New York, Jack wants to impress Jackie Gleason, so he and Rochester move into the penthouse suite of the luxurious St. Regis Hotel, and there's no length Jack won't go to, in order to avoid having to pay the $36 a night rental.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (38)TV EpisodeJack illustrates how he relaxes after a show, but its more like La Vie en Cracked than La Vie en Rose. His masseur ties him in knots and rubs in rancid chicken fat, because Jack pays him only $3 a session. Rather than a swank Hollywood hot-spot, cheapskate Jack takes his chic date Gertrude, the switchboard operator, to an underground French restaurant crowded with sloshed Parisian sewer workers - who make Ed Norton look debonair.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (51)TV EpisodeJack intros guest Nat 'King' Cole as the best friend a song ever had, in Nat's final TV performance before his death. Nat banters with Jack, plus croons "When I Fall in Love" and "Day In, Day Out." Nat reluctantly consents to sit in on piano for Jack on "Sweet Sue." At their rehearsal Jack's sax player injures his drummer's arm in a fight, so always-cool Nat calls in a 5 year old (James Bradley Jr., later played with Anita Baker and Chuck Mangione) on the skins.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (63)TV EpisodeJack invites some celebrity friends over to the house for one of his weekly jam sessions. This week's session includes Dan Dailey, Kirk Douglas, Fred MacMurray, Tony Martin, and Dick Powell.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.3 (44)TV EpisodeJack sups at a chichi nightclub where heartthrob crooner Robert Goulet is dining. Will Goulet pilfer Jack's drop-dead gorgeous date or will the sex symbol comic pull women away from Goulet? Two versions are presented. Which one is true?
- Jack devotes the entire half-hour to an amateur talent contest - of sorts. George Jessel pays a surprise visit.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.2 (61)TV EpisodeJack starts recalling his old vaudeville days and the tours he made with his two partners--Bing Crosby and George Burns--in their act billed as "Goldie, Fields and Glide".
- Jack Benny enlists his long-time radio and TV cast members Charlie Cantor and Mel Blanc, to playfully demonstrate how radio programs created suspense and atmosphere. Includes a parody of "The Whistler" with Jack as the diabolical Fiddler, who spins the tale of oblivious husband Griffith Park (Dennis Day), targeted for murder by his wife and her lover.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.2 (65)TV EpisodeAuditioning actors for a 1 hour show recounting his thrilling life provokes many emotions in Jack: lust for a young actress, vanity when an elderly woman from his hometown shows up, and especially greed. A young actor is perfect for Jack as a child, which the actor's 10 year old agent takes every advantage of.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.2 (10)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.2 (47)TV EpisodeJack proposes recording a lucrative comedy album with Bob Hope, upon finding out how worthless his investments are: as chief stockholder of a harpoon company, Jack gets dubbed Schnook of the South. Fretting that he won't be able to counter Hope's hilarious ad libs, Jack orders his writers to give him all the laughs, but Old Ski Nose is too slick to fall for that.
- Jack welcomes Jack and tries to prevent a confusion of first names. Paar wants Benny to do a version of his show but Benny says he won't do it without Charlie Weaver. "Charlie Weaver" makes an appearance. Dennis Day sidelines as NBC page.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.2 (20)TV Episode
- Jack winds up having to do all of Rochester's chores, after he loses a gin rummy bet.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.2 (39)TV EpisodeCharleston T. Gundelfinger runs a lunch counter where the customers must be quick on the draw, if they want their change.
- Jack answers a reporter's questions in his dressing room, with Rochester to heckle him. In a flashback, we see some of Jack's childhood. In a well furnished Victorian home, Jack was a money hungry brat, and his father loved getting the family together to play their instruments together, despite his ineptness with a violin.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.2 (12)TV EpisodeJack tries to steal a movie role away from Basil Rathbone so he could play opposite of Claudette Colbert.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.2 (57)TV EpisodeJack is thrilled to introduce his guest, actor Peter Lorre, who seems very modest and timid - until Jack congratulates him on his ability to personify evil, spurring Lorre to pull a knife from his jacket pocket. Jack has a nightmare involving Lorre, in which Jack visits a new doctor, because the doctor takes coupons and validates parking. Also waiting for the doctor is Lorre, hiding behind a newspaper blaring the headline "Fiendish Murderer Escapes."
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.2 (34)TV EpisodeJack hires Rod Serling to improve his show but he winds up trapped in the Twilight Zone himself.
- Jack and Rochester give gifts to the cast. First TV appearance of Mel Blanc following his near fatal car accident in January of 1961.
- On the anniversary of Don Wilson's 27 years of service with Jack, he and Jack recall the first day they met, when Don showed up for an audition and Jack put him through dance and elocution classes to "whip him into shape".
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (14)TV EpisodeJack meets with network executives to sign his new contract.
- Only Jack could reunite Fred & Ginger with his program's generous salaries & lavish production values. Ginger's more concerned that Jack will destroy her dinner party by scaring off her guests with his violin. Fred can't make rehearsals, but so what ? The suave, lithe Jack is the perfect understudy.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (19)TV Episode
- A reporter asks Jack how he found Mary, and Jack remembers himself as a straw-hatted Hollywood boulevardier, twirling a cane, singing "Just a Gigolo " - lured into a May Co. store by a sale on $ 1.99 guaranteed shirts. 22 years later as he's being interviewed, Jack's still wearing the garish shirt. Underwhelmed by Jack's charms, saleswoman Mary Livingstone cracks wise with Jack, while her female co-workers both slice him up and encourage Mary. Episode also features Rochester singing and scat-dancing with The Sportsmen Quartet on "I Get So Lonely."
- Oscar Levant suspects Jack is suffering from a nervous breakdown, so he takes him to see his doctor. Levant also rehearses a piano solo for Jack's show.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (25)TV EpisodeJack takes two men from the Treasury Department into his mysterious vault, full of hilarious security features.
- Carol Burnett plays Jane to Jack's Tarzan. She also sings The Trolley Song.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (44)TV EpisodeWhile doing a PSA promoting safe driving, it's discovered that Jack's license expired, so the organization the PSA is for stalks out. Jack's attempt to renew his license at the Kafkaesque motor vehicle office is nightmarish.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (49)TV EpisodeIn desperation, a psychiatrist phones Jack for his help with a distraught patient. An amnesiac with a violin has been found on the street, and he's bitterly muttering Jack's name - over and over. Jack identifies him as his long-time, long-suffering violin teacher, Professor LeBlanc, who reveals he couldn't lose his hearing, so he lost his mind.
- Jack makes sure Parisians remember him: he boasts to anyone he can corner that he drives a garbage truck. That's how an under-tipped hotel employee translates "star of stage, screen and television" for Jack. A garbageman compatriot is delighted to give Jack & Mary a free ride in his truck, while Maurice Chevalier takes them nightclubbing.
- After Don does a man on the street interview that ends badly, Jack brings out Johnny Carson then into his first year as "Tonight" host. Carson displays samples of his various talents, including singing, drum playing and card tricks. He then does an interview with Jack where private thoughts can be heard "Strange Interlude"-style.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (36)TV EpisodeJack fondly recalls himself as a handsome, high-spending dandy who had to gallantly fight off constant female attention, when he's asked how he met long-time girlfriend Mary Livingstone. But Jack resists attending a reunion with Mary's former co-workers at a May Company department store in L.A., where she met Jack in 1932, as they remember it very differently - especially the crucial purchase of an engagement ring. Rochester caters Mary's reunion, and can't help rolling his eyes at Jack's unbelievable recollection.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (24)TV EpisodeA Friday night shift takes an unexpected turn for Advanced Paramedic Jon. A panicked caller needs help for a friend who has given birth in a hotel room despite not knowing she was.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (45)TV EpisodePreparing for a train trip to New York, he's held up at home by a slow moving plumber there to fix a dripping faucet, and phone calls from a girl looking for her boyfriend to elope with. When he gets to the station, he finds his reserved room has been canceled just as the train is about to leave.
- Jack and his cast do a spoof of the popular radio series, "The Whistler."
- Since Jack Benny and U. S. Steel are the IRS' best customers, they want to help Jack take his full deductions.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (40)TV EpisodeSeveral stars' wives are planning a charity benefit in Beverley Hills, trying hard not to invite Jack, but he insinuates himself, unasked, into the event. He wanted to play his violin, but the only spot open is to referee a championship wrestling match, which he takes, but bungles it up so he gets involved in the wrestling, too.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.1 (39)TV EpisodeJack panics when Rochester informs him that his Maxwell automobile has been stolen from his garage and they immediately race to the opulent Beverly Hills police station where the dispatcher plays Elvis Presley and Lawrence Welk records between making police calls. The police discover the crooks have returned the car and apprehend one of the perpetrators who broke his toe kicking the car's tire.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (42)TV EpisodeA pair of burglars find that robbing valuables from Jack's bedroom is no easy job.
- Mamie Van Doren and Dennis Day sing a duet of "You Make Me Feel so Young." Later, they play the roles of a condemned prisoner's wife and son. Of course, Jack plays the condemned man, who is about to be executed.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (30)TV EpisodeIn this parody of the Broadway musical "Damn Yankees," Jack Benny dreams he sells his soul to the Devil for a chance to play at Carnegie Hall. The orchestra conductor turns out to be Spike Jones who sabotages Jack's performances.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (48)TV EpisodeJack and Gisele are returning from a show in Phoenix and get lost. They stumble into a café in what appears to be a Western ghost town and ask directions. While they sup on peanut butter sandwiches, the owner spins a story from the town's history, where a black-hearted villain called Tombstone Harry tries to force a beautiful saloon girl to marry him, or he'll foreclose on her mortgage. A black-garbed hero, the Cactus Kid, attempts to stop the villain.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (21)TV EpisodeJack tells the story of how he first met Rochester, while riding on a train.
- Jack attempts to steal a movie role from Vincent Price, whom has been promised the lead in Irene Dunne's next picture.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (34)TV EpisodeFor a change of pace, Jack does a plot-less revue instead of a scripted play, by supposedly responding to questions culled from fan mail. The acts include an over the top radio sound effects man, Don and Dennis impersonate Laurel and Hardy repairing a Model T tire, and Jack playing his violin with an eccentric pianist accompanying.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (53)TV EpisodeJack falls asleep and dreams that he and Mary have been married for the past 21 years. However, in Jack's world, Mary is the one who goes to work and earns the money, while Jack stays home, cooks, cleans and remains 39 years old.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (31)TV EpisodeJack and versatile performer and musician Gisele MacKenzie,pair up on violin and perform 2 musical pieces together. Gisele also plays and sings on piano the song "Smile". With great comedy from Jack and cast as well.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (56)TV EpisodeJack's attempt to fly to New York City is frustrated by a cabdriver who can't bear to say goodbye to his passengers, surreal airport announcements, and a sarcastic ticket agent
- Jack and Bob do a skit about the time they auditioned their vaudeville act.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (70)TV EpisodeJimmy & Gloria Stewart finally run out of excuses and the day they've dreaded for so long arrives: having to double date with Jack to an opera. To embarrass the classy Stewarts to the max, Jack's date is the way-over-the-top blonde banshee Mildred Meyerhouser.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (42)TV EpisodeJack praises Mr. Welk but insists anyone (in particular himself) can lead an orchestra-the results of his attempt to do so are classic.Later, he browbeats Lawrence into orchestrating his song "When You Say "I Beg Your Pardon Then I'll Come Back to You" A.K.A. "When the Swallows Return to Capistrano" which ends up as a polka.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated8.0 (43)TV EpisodeJack's guest is 6'6" Western star Clint Walker, who sings a song and banters with Jack. Jack is insulted when the gigantic Walker snubs Jack's suggestion that he play Clint's brother in a movie. But Jack auditions for the part anyway.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.9 (41)TV EpisodeJack wants to play himself in an autobiographical movie, but the studio prefers younger star Bobby Darin for the role. Darin displays his many talents as he and Jack contend over the role.
- In this episode, Jack becomes aware of the high cost of low cost traveling. Indeed Jack's stinginess made him opt for a cut-rate airline and ... for trouble! The pilot is crazy, the plane lands on a meadow instead of an airport, and the farmer owning the pasture end the baggage handler are pains in the neck! Of course, Jack arrives late for the show and Dennis has already taken it over!
- Fred does his best to get Jack fired by the sponsor and has himself in line as Jack's replacement.
- In a spoof of the movie, Gaslight, Jack portrays a notorious jewel thief, who is trying to convince his wife, played by Barbara Stanwyck, that she's losing her mind. Bob Crosby appears as a police detective trying to nab Benny's character.
- Jack has a violin duel with Gisele McKenzie. To primp for the show, Jack visits a swank Hollywood barber shop where the skinflint throws around nickels like manhole covers. Will he need Novocaine for his manicure this time?
- An important sponsor will soon be coming to visit, and it's up to Jack to supply a date for his daughter. He turns to Don to let his son take her out, but Harlow's never had a date before so they get a young lady teach to him how to behave with girls.
- Meeting at Jack's house, his manager has a hard time finding any privacy to talk to him. His writers seem to be simpleminded and easily distracted, adding to the frustration. Jack reminisces about his supposed start in show business in a hillbilly stage stage show complete with a feud shooting.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.9 (12)TV Episode
- After Jack learns that Jimmy and Gloria Stewart are making a film together, he decides to horn in on the act.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.9 (41)TV EpisodeThe Mills Brothers sing two songs. Jack and Don visit Las Vegas.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.9 (38)TV EpisodeAfter an episode full of mistakes, Jack holds a post-show meeting. But staff point out how he flubbed a line and how he scratched himself during the show. For his rash, Jack visits an allergy doctor with strange show biz patients.
- Jack is kidnapped and forced to make a $10,000 withdrawal from the bank.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.9 (44)TV EpisodeJack tries to trick Mickey Rooney into appearing for free as a guest star on his show. Jack and Mickey are in a sketch depicting a prison in the future year 1985, wherein all the prisoners are pampered.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.9 (53)TV EpisodeJack Benny's guests, the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary, illustrate how folk songs develop with a tune about Jack, whose lyrics include "A silver dollar was his teething ring." Jack insists that the group cancel their flight out of town to come to his house, to discuss an important matter, at length.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.9 (16)TV EpisodeJack switches to a new sponsor but Don Wilson and the Sportsmen Quartet keep confusing it with the old one. Jack discusses how long Don and most of his regulars have been with him and fantasizes what they would look like in 30 years.
- Jack's guest is laid-back singer Andy Williams, which prompts a visit from Jack's Pasadena Fan Club President (Madge Blake, Aunt Harriett on "Batman"), who can't believe Really Old Blue Eyes would book another blue-eyed guest. Jack lectures Andy to work harder to promote his career, so Andy changes from a sweater to a tux to join Jack at a premiere - which turns out to be a meat market opening. When a customer (Lee Meriwether, Catwoman in the Batman: The Movie (1966) movie) gushes over Andy's crooning, he's too embarrassed to admit who he is.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (23)TV Episode
- It's the week before Christmas and Jack drops by Edgar Bergen's house to go over the upcoming show's script with his guest star. When Edgar is detained rehearsing his radio show, his wife Frances entertains Jack. Jack is amazed when Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd walk into the room and are introduced. Jack always assumed they were merely ventriloquist's dummies. Edgar finally returns and is ready to present his ideas for a sketch to Jack, but insists on Jack sitting on his knee to hear them.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (17)TV Episode
- Ernie shares his mustache collection with Jack; Don becomes a Beatnik to sing about Lucky Strikes; we see what prisons will be like in 1970.
- With Gary Crosby as a guest, doing a duet with Mary Livingstone on his show, Jack is sure he'll have a good one, but always relies on Rochester's opinion rather than what the TV critics say, just as Mary depends on her mother's viewpoint. Unfortunately, both fell asleep and missed it.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (137)TV EpisodePolice Lt. Jack Benny questions notorious killer "Babyface" Bogart (guest star Humphrey Bogart).
- Jack figures out that he's not a great violinist; Rochester and Mary plot to fool him into believing he is a great violinist with the help of Issac Stern.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (11)TV Episode
- Jack is pestered by a young autograph seeker, then Bob Crosby sings a medley of songs from "Peter Pan" to the child. After the show, Jack has trouble getting to sleep because of a leaky faucet and forces Rochester to rock his bed. Finally asleep, a pair of burglars try to ransack Jack's bedroom but are defeated by his booby traps.
- Jack is infatuated with the new pretty receptionist, but she prefers rugged men, so Jack joins a gym to beef up his body.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (14)TV EpisodeJack's first visitor to his new Beverly Hills office is Executive Head of MGM, Dore Schary.
- Jack and his guest Jack Webb take on a Charlie Chan case in the spoof "Dragonet".
- Jack has written a song, and he asks composer Dimitri Tiomkin to write an arrangement for it.
- Jack is upstaged by a 12-year-old violinist and has Julie London as his guest star.
- Jack debates sex appeal with Rock Hudson. Jack wants to do a show like the Tonight Show.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (9)TV Episode
- Candice isn't around when Jack visits the Bergen household, but Charlie McCarthy is - he's actually a real child, headed to the city dump in his tuxedo, for target practice. Jack can't believe his eyes, and Frances Bergen sings "Them There Eyes." By the time Edgar Bergen shows up to discuss the Bergens' upcoming appearance on the Benny program, Jack's even more confused than Mortimer Snerd usually is.
- Jack's guests, the pop singing group The Lettermen, provoke surprisingly strong reactions from Jack Benny and his regular singer Dennis Day. They bump Dennis from singing on the show at all, so he skulks behind the scenery as the Phantom of the Comedy. Jack, The Waukegan Wizard, claims he earned a high school letter as a cheerleader, but regrets he didn't attend college, so the World's Oldest Freshman enrolls with The Lettermen.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (39)TV EpisodeWhen Jack's studio proposes a TV special adapting the story of his life, Jack takes personal responsibility for casting the roles.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (42)TV EpisodeIn Jack's talent show, the first contestant is Mr. Finque,(Blanc) who impersonates dogs and a British horse. Don Wilson and "son" Harlow do another impersonation, this time of Ted Lewis in his "Me and My Shadow" routine. The "Renaldi brothers" do a bullet dodging act that ends badly. Jack's fan club of old ladies from Pasedena form an amateur orchestra.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (19)TV EpisodeJack holds a violin competition with Gisele MacKenzie while an audience member continually interrupts the show.
- Jack is preparing to leave for a concert tour of England.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.8 (26)TV EpisodeJack introduces Peggy King, the regular vocalist on "The George Gobel Show" who arouses Jack's ire when she tells him that George Gobel is "the best". In the second half of the show, Art Linkletter reprises his role as a children's interviewer from his show "House Party" and asks four youngsters about their romances. He then interviews Don Wilson, Peggy King, Rochester Van Jones and Jack Benny who pretend to be nine-year-olds. Throughout the program, Jack is harassed by an audience member who insists that he be entertained or provided with a new refrigerator.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (11)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (35)TV EpisodeJack plans to throw a surprise birthday masquerade party for Dennis Day.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (39)TV EpisodeA dinner invitation gone bad causes Jack to seek legal advice with regard to firing his announcer, Don Wilson.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (62)TV EpisodeAfter being awakened at 4:00 a.m. by a phone call from "Hank, The All Night Radio DJ", Jack finds that he can't get back to sleep. Later that day, exhausted from lack of sleep, he and Mary go to a clothing store to buy him a new suit, but it turns into much more of an ordeal than he ever thought it would be.
- Jack welcomes superstar Gary Cooper, who makes his television debut. Cooper does an Elvis-like turn with a guitar and the Sportsmen quartet. Jack also wears huge-heeled boots, vying for a cowboy movie part as Cooper's twin brother.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (36)TV EpisodeJack and Rochester are putting together a scrapbook of Jack's European vacation. Jack tells Rochester about his visit to Venice.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (12)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (43)TV EpisodeHawaiians are thrilled to sing Aloha to stingy Jack Benny, who gets only 1 lei, while a fellow passenger is covered with them. The romantic atmosphere of the Pacific cruise back to L.A. overwhelms Jack, who envisions a zoftig blonde passenger as Jayne Mansfield. Jayne breathes "You're Just Too Marvelous," to love-struck Jack.
- Benny's first program drives the studio audience wild - & straight into the streets when he unholsters his violin to mangle "Love in Bloom," his theme. Jack knows he's off to a bad start on TV when one of the show's cracked technicians interrupts Jack's intro to wave to an aunt. Rochester sings "My Blue Heaven" while cleaning Jack's house, and Dinah Shore auditions "I'm Yours" for Jack. Jack joins her for "I Oughta Know More About You." The Sportsmen Quartet perform "There's No Business Like Show Business," a theme song from Jack's radio program. Jack's well-wishers who drop by include Ken Murray and Mr. Kitzel.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (36)TV EpisodeTennessee Ernie Ford appears from a remote location via split screen television.
- 'George Burns' crashes Jack's variety show, which features two songs sung by Ann-Margret and juggler extraordinaire, Francis Brunn.
- Jack, Wayne Newton and Louie Nye perform at a charity fund-raising garden party.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (20)TV EpisodeDennis Day presents Jack with a hand-crafted birthday gift and then sings "Autumn Leaves"; Don Wilson asks if his son Harlow can read a Lucky Strike commercial, then gets angry when Harlow can't remember the lines; Frances Bergen and William Holden demonstrate the proper way to do a movie kiss after Frances tells Jack he has "no sex appeal at all."
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.7 (26)TV EpisodeTo meet his sponsor in New York, Jack and Rochester pack their bags and a parrot and head to the train station. Their taxi driver is a blubbering wreck who hates to see people leaving.At the station they encounter friends like Don and Mr. Kitzel, and pests like Frank Nelson.
- 1950–1965Not Rated7.7 (11)TV EpisodeDick Van Dyke takes on different characters with Jack in an English murder mystery.
- Jack consults "American Bandstand" host Dick Clark on how to get teens to watch his program. Dick's suggestion is to book rock and roll bands like The Sabres, who perform "Flip, Flop and Fly." Cheapskate Jack refuses to pay their fee of $5,000 fee and puts together his own band on the cheap. Dennis, Don and Jack dress like The Sabres and perform the same song on the show.
- While doing the opening monologue for his show, Jack finds himself constantly interrupted, first by guest Bob Crosby, who decides to start singing a song just as Jack is in the middle of telling a joke, and then by an overly talkative cab driver.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (17)TV EpisodeJack runs for president of a boy's club located in a neighbor's basement. In true political fashion, he's bribing voters with lollipops. But he's up against fellow comedian George Gobel. Then there's that last minute walk-on entry.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (39)TV EpisodeDennis Day's lugging his own scenery on stage for his song, leads an irate Jack to relate how he picked Dennis to be his show's singer, passing over an agent's offers of Sinatra (too skinny) and Bing Crosby (too bu-bu-ba-boo). Jack tracks the unknown Irish tenor from a fish market and ice cream store (Dennis is fired from both), to a Chinese restaurant.
- Jack demonstrates the difference between his cheap violin and his $30,000 Stradivarius. Also, Milton Berle plays the part of a very bad boy adopted by Jack.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (47)TV EpisodeRochester imagines what kind of surgeon Jack would have been, if he had gone to medical school as he planned during his youth.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (36)TV EpisodeHaving Martha Tilton as a guest causes him to reminisce about when they worked together with the USO during World War Two, on the island of New Guinea. During the show, Jack performs his stand-up, then starts playing his violin, when the sirens sound and enemy planes start bombing, everyone runs off but jack keeps playing. Eventually two Japanese soldiers, all that's left after a hari-kiri wave, surrender if he'll stop playing.
- Jack fires his announcer, Don Wilson, over a trivial argument.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (64)TV EpisodeJack insists on taking Mildred to a violin concert even though his girlfriend would prefer to attend the boxing arena. Jack spies Jimmy Stewart and his wife in the crowd and tries to attract their attention by pelting him with peanuts, which only results in driving them from the theater. Bored, Mildred tries to get the radio station carrying fights on her transistor radio, which drives the remaining audience members out.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (8)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (33)TV EpisodeJack wonders how his life would have turned out, if he had never left his hometown Waukegan, Illinois. He imagines he would have been a violin teacher.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (9)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (14)TV EpisodeJack goes to the barbershop. He then tells of his trip to Hong Kong and his suit purchase. Gisele sings and the two perform a few songs on violin. Jack was really a very good violinist.
- 20th Century Fox is planning to make a movie based on Jack's life story.
- Carol Burnett sings Sweet Georgia Brown. Later, she joins Jack and Don in a riverboat sketch.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (39)TV EpisodeJack Jones sings two songs. Jack Benny plays the role of a school principal, and Jack Jones plays the role of a schoolteacher in the show's sketch.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (8)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (9)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.6 (8)TV Episode
- This show is a spoof of the famous Ingrid Bergman vehicle Gaslight, for which Bergman won her Academy Award, with Jack taking Charles Boyer's job trying to drive his wife crazy. There is also a very funny radio version with Ingrid herself in the role. It's a natural story to turn into the broad satire so welcome to see in early television.
- Jack strolls down Wilshire Boulevard with his girlfriend Mildred Meyerhouser. He hears comments about the white suit he's wearing and his "weigh yourself for a penny" machine in his front yard. Jack and Mildred sing "Happy Easter."
- Gracie can't be found for her scheduled appearance on the show, so Jack has to dress up as a woman and do a comedy bit as Gracie with George.
- Jack answers the first question correctly and immediately quits with $64.
- Jack and Rochester are returning from a vacation in Hawaii. While sitting on the deck and reading, Jack encounters a large woman. He falls a sleep and dreams that the woman has turned into Marilyn Monroe.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.5 (40)TV EpisodeJack tries to wow guest songstress Jane Morgan by taking her to - a cafeteria? That's bad enough, but for Jack it's a war zone, with hostile attendants & personalized land mines at each counter awaiting their pickiest, least favorite diner. Will the hash slingers go easier on finicky Jack because he's with beautiful, blonde Jane?
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.5 (40)TV EpisodeHis sponsor walks out on Jack's show, when his sponsor's in town for contract renewal, so Jack's afraid to take him to a nightclub featuring a comic competitor. A puppet show seems a safe (and cheap) alternative, but filling in for the sore-throated puppeteer is golden throated Danny Thomas, whose charity and charm entrance the sponsor, but paralyze Jack.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.5 (45)TV EpisodeJack, Mary, and Dennis spend a day at the horse track.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.5 (34)TV EpisodeJack's all excited because he's going to make his first film in many years, directed by Billy Wilder. It's supposed to be a secret yet he calls Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons right away, and soon even the mailman and a house painter know. Dennis comes over in a raincoat that Jack talks him out of. When Wilder arrives he's not too keen on the whole movie project.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.5 (38)TV EpisodeJack refuses to leave a homeless shelter until they give him back an ancient jacket Rochester donated, which had $200 sewed in the lining. Jack's just returned from a desert hike with the Beverly Hills Beavers, so due to his dirty clothes & 3 day beard, everyone at the shelter believes he's an extraordinarily picky homeless person, not the most generous man in show business.
- Jack's show is going weekly and Miltie gives his input on what it takes to do a weekly show. In short, it is slapstick, baggy-pants comedy. On the show, Milton plays straight man and Jack is in a clown suit delivering cornball punchlines.
- To begin his 15th year on television, Jack (still 39) returns to the network where he began on radio 32 years ago. Tonight: Jack visits his new bosses, the NBC vice presidents; sits in on a "panel show" with the Marquis Chimps; and is visited by singer Dennis Day, who brings along his wife Peggy. Don Wilson is the announcer.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.5 (38)TV EpisodeThe cast do a skit spoofing the songwriting of Stephen Foster.
- Rita Moreno sings and guest stars in a skit about a little Spanish town.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (10)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (10)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (8)TV Episode
- Jack demonstrates why he's an insufferable golf partner.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (30)TV EpisodeJack ought to be suspicious when his porter in the Rome airport speaks in a Scottish burr and looks like a Greek god. In Jack's hotel suite he hears a magnificent male opera singer in another room, so the Svengali signs the puzzled amateur up to conquer America.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (39)TV EpisodeJack hears there's uranium for the finding in Death Valley, so he's off to buy gear for an expedition. At the camping store he duels his nemesis, the sarcastic sales clerk Frank Nelson. In the desert Jack's party confronts other prospectors, and some Mexican stereotypes a la Treasure of Sierra Madre.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (8)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (41)TV EpisodeJack's guest is British comedian/singer Max Bygraves. After Jack claims to have discovered Max and introduced him to U.S. audiences, there's a flashback to Jack first seeing Max perform in London. Jack loves Max's performance, but is aghast with Max's dead-on impersonation of Jack.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (23)TV EpisodeJack has four tickets to a new play. He and his new girlfriend were originally going to go with Don Wilson and his wife, but Don called to cancel. Jack's girlfriend gets him to call and invite Jimmy and Gloria Stewart. Jimmy accepts the invitation thinking he's talking to Jack Lemon. He and Gloria panic when they realize that it's Jack Benny instead.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (10)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (16)TV EpisodeJack's old Navy buddy causes trouble when he guilt-trips Jack into having him on his show.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (15)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (44)TV EpisodeJack is so mad at Rochester for falling asleep during his show, he sends him to his room without dinner.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (17)TV EpisodeTake-off on folk singing craze. Billy Graham asks why comedians use insults for laughs and the gang shows him the reason.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (17)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (8)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.4 (9)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (38)TV EpisodeJack imagines himself as Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
- Jack consents to an episode of the show to be opportunity for new acts to showcase their talents but then he starts to regret deciding to do it when things don't go as he thinks they should.
- Jack's announcer, Don Wilson, fakes a broken leg in order to give his son, Harlow, an opportunity to substitute announce for him on the show.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (19)TV EpisodeJack mistakenly receives an invitation to a dinner at the home of Ronald and Benita Colman. Arriving in his tuxedo; he tries in vain to pretentiously fit in with the upper-crust British crowd.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (38)TV EpisodeLittle Joey Miller, a member of the Beaver Club, has a bad tooth and won't go to the dentist. Mrs. Miller calls Jack and asks him to talk to Joey. Mrs. Miller brings Joey to the house. Jack suggests they all go to his dentist. Jack decides to show Joey having your tooth pulled doesn't hurt. And it all goes wrong. Rochester sings "I Can't Give You Anything But Love."
- Near the end of a New Year's Eve interview with a female reporter, Jack tells her the tale of that same night in 1953, when his plans for the evening did not go as expected. Leaving him with no one to be with at midnight and personal regrets.
- George Burns, Robert Wagner, Tony Curtis, and Johnny Green are at Hillwood Country Club waiting for Jack to join them for golf. They all question whether Jack has the stamina to do a new episode each week this season. Their scoffing cause him to have a nightmare where he's grilled by Mike Wallace on "Night Beat." His doctor, Frank Nelson, also shows up in his dream to harass him. Back at home, Jack's windows are knocked out by his "fans" throwing rocks.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (9)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (48)TV EpisodeWhen the show's cast invites Jack to a big New Year's Eve party, he turns them down because he has a date with his new lady friend Gloria. A couple of hours later, however, Jack finds himself at a "party" with his new date--Rochester.
- Jack's monologue is interrupted by a picture taking family who join him onstage. Jack and Rochester are leaving on a personal appearance tour, so Jack rents his house while he is gone.
- Jack holds tryouts for undiscovered talents to try and become regulars on his show.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (41)TV EpisodeEd Sullivan is nervous about doing "his first dramatic part" but embraces it, playing an attorney defending a French girl accused of murder. The case seems to be stacked against DA Jack when the entire jury are baguette-wielding Frenchmen.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (47)TV EpisodeJack winds up in a Tijuana jail with The Kingston Trio.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (53)TV EpisodeLucille Ball reveals the "true" story behind Paul Revere's famous ride.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (47)TV EpisodeDarla Hood sings a song and appears in a sketch spoofing the Our Gang series.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.3 (23)TV EpisodeJack is in good spirits about the new season until Don and his wife, Lois, come by and harass him about fat jokes. Then, it's an infuriating visit to Dennis' home where his mother insults Jack for not making her son the star of the show.
- Raymond Burr wants to be a comedian, so Jack allows him to host the show.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.2 (9)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.2 (18)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.2 (8)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.2 (34)TV EpisodeJack and Mary vacation in London, where Jack is accidentally locked in the Tower of London during a tour.
- Jack handles an overenthusiastic fan. The writer of the jingle of the new sponsor unintentionally reveals something funny. John Wayne offers to take girl singer Jaye P. Morgan out to dinner. Jack freelances as a violinist.
- Johnnie Ray's contract to appear on Benny's TV show arrives and Jack is horrified by his $10,000 fee. He storms over to Ray's home and offers him $250 instead. Johnny sings "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone," and "Cry" for Jack and the performance is so devastating, Jack is turned into a helpless bowl of jelly. Jack pays him $15,000. At the end of the show, Danny Thomas makes a guest appearance to plug his show The Danny Thomas Show (1953).
- Jack chats with the audience and performs a duet with Gisele MacKenzie.
- 1950–1965Not Rated7.2 (8)TV Episode
- Jack's guest is Connie Francis, who sings "I Was Born Too Late" and a medley of songs associated with Al Jolson ("Swanee," "Mammy," "April Showers"). In a sketch, Jack does a musical TV show about Ozark hillbillies.
- Inside the studio, Bobby Rydell sings two songs. Outside the studio, Jack is haunted by a mysterious stalker.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.1 (42)TV EpisodeJack attends Frankie Avalon's record session, but constantly interrupts the takes. Eventually, he's given a role in the recording.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.1 (35)TV EpisodeJack recalls the first time he encountered the devious Phil Silvers.
- Opera star Roberta Peters joins Jack for fun and song.
- Jack visits the home of Liberace, but even he isn't ready for the outrageous extravagance he sees there.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated7.0 (13)TV EpisodeLive from the San Diego Naval Training Centre Jack performs his stand up routine with assorted musical numbers.
- After the opening act goes missing, Jack fills in for Shandu the Magician.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated6.8 (14)TV Episode
- Jack has the Sportsman Quartette audition a new ad then tells Rochester about his recent concert in Missouri and visit with Truman at his new library. Flashback of the visit where Truman takes Jack on a tour of artifacts of his presidency.
- 1950–196530mNot Rated6.6 (11)TV Episode
- 1950–196530mNot Rated6.6 (34)TV EpisodeEssentially a filmed radio show, a few chairs and a microphone on a stage, Jack and company re-create what was a tradition on his radio show, a skit where "Old Year" packs up and moves out and "New Year" moves in.
- During an interview, Jack says that instead of becoming a comedian, he may have become a concert violinist. The show then cuts to Jack playing (very well) with a sixty piece orchestra. Ann Sothern comes out at the end to plug her show.
- When Jack falls asleep on stage during his monologue, Don Wilson comes out and explains that Jack has been worried about this season's first episode, and then tells them--in flashback--about the kind of day Jack's been having.
- Jacks Maxwell breaks down in Beverly Hills while Rochester is driving him to the studio. His monologue is about Christmas presents for his cast and crew. He then introduces three guest stars: Helene Francoise, a French singer; Lynette Bryant, the poker-faced little girl from the hillbilly act in his last program; and jujitsu expert Leon Salvadore, who is supposed to be able to throw anyone within 12 seconds; six guys from the Twelfth Street Gym knock him out.
- Rochester has been taking bowling lessons. Dennis gets his bowling ball stuck on his finger. Jack plays 'Flight of the Bumblebee' with his guest, Isaac Stern.
- 1950–196530mNot RatedTV Episode