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🎄 Wrapping, unwrapping, and rewrapping a bow on a comedy classic.Â
🎙 Guy Hutchinson joins us as we second-, third-, and fourth-guess ourselves back to 1960 to go Christmas shopping with Jack Benny, the last televised version of a longtime radio favorite.Â
🚨 Warning: In one scene, a character shoots himself offscreen.Â
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đź’¬ Topics & Tangents:Â
The Television Academy Foundation on Jack Benny’s Christmas Shopping show, including a video interview with show writer George Balzer.Â
The earliest “Christmas Shopping” recording I could find, from 1937.Â
Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, the progression of race relations, and his racehorse.Â
Finally I get to talk about Mel Blanc, the real star of this show.Â
Adjusting the $1.98 and $40 wallets for inflation.Â
A 2002 message board post on JackBenny.org answering whether Jack was a practicing Jew.Â
A tribute to Frank “Yeees?” Nelson.Â
Dennis Day and the dying practice of actors legally changing their names to their most popular characters’.Â
Stupid “the customer is always right” stories.Â
****Â
📼 Commercials:Â
Norelco Santa (circa 1961).Â
Weird Christmas.Â
****Â
“The Jack Benny Program” and “Jack Goes Christmas Shopping” ©1960 J&M Productions, Inc.Â
Find us at adventcalendar.house.
By Mike Westfall4.8
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🎄 Wrapping, unwrapping, and rewrapping a bow on a comedy classic.Â
🎙 Guy Hutchinson joins us as we second-, third-, and fourth-guess ourselves back to 1960 to go Christmas shopping with Jack Benny, the last televised version of a longtime radio favorite.Â
🚨 Warning: In one scene, a character shoots himself offscreen.Â
****Â
đź’¬ Topics & Tangents:Â
The Television Academy Foundation on Jack Benny’s Christmas Shopping show, including a video interview with show writer George Balzer.Â
The earliest “Christmas Shopping” recording I could find, from 1937.Â
Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, the progression of race relations, and his racehorse.Â
Finally I get to talk about Mel Blanc, the real star of this show.Â
Adjusting the $1.98 and $40 wallets for inflation.Â
A 2002 message board post on JackBenny.org answering whether Jack was a practicing Jew.Â
A tribute to Frank “Yeees?” Nelson.Â
Dennis Day and the dying practice of actors legally changing their names to their most popular characters’.Â
Stupid “the customer is always right” stories.Â
****Â
📼 Commercials:Â
Norelco Santa (circa 1961).Â
Weird Christmas.Â
****Â
“The Jack Benny Program” and “Jack Goes Christmas Shopping” ©1960 J&M Productions, Inc.Â
Find us at adventcalendar.house.

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