The Jack Benny Program

- Season 7

(1956)

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In 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.

Jack 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.

Jack 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.

Jack 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.

Jack and Mary vacation in London, where Jack is accidentally locked in the Tower of London during a tour.

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Jack holds tryouts for undiscovered talents to try and become regulars on his show.

Jack 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.

Jack and his cast do a spoof of the popular radio series, "The Whistler."

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Jack and Rochester are putting together a scrapbook of Jack's European vacation. Jack tells Rochester about his visit to Venice.

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.

Jack 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.

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