Retro Old Time Radio

Jack Benny 330217 Blue Room Murder.


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Here's a classic old episode that seems to be mislabeled in most archives, and show listings. The date that it is usually listed as November 17, 1935. Here's why this is the wrong date. The sponsor is Chevrolet. Beginning with the 1935 season, Jello began it's long run as sponsor. Chevrolet started around the end of January, or the beginning of March 1933. There's a gap there where no shows are listed, so it's fuzzy as to when the sponsors changed hands. Chevrolet then went on to sponsor the show until April 1934, when General Tire took over. Therefore the date is sometime between late January 1933 and April 1934. In the show, Jack refers to a recent visit to Waukegan for his birthday. This puts the show in either February 1933, or 1934. There is actually a run of shows that are preserved from the final months of the Chevrolet sponsorship, including ones from February. This isn't one of them. The last known show that the original sponsor, Canada Dry, ran was on January 26, 1933. The first known show for Chevrolet is listed as March 3, 1933. This doesn't necessarily mean there were no shows in this gap, just none that are listed. It would make sense though, that this episode is really from February 17, 1933. It doesn't fit anywhere else in the run of the Jack Benny show. The cast members, and other topical conversation also fits with this period. Whew! With all that said, here's what the show is about.

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