Overview
Total Episodes: 28
Episode 2
Runtime: 30m
1962-10-02
Frank Sinatra, Jr. sings 'My kind of girl.' Don and his son Harlow appear; it's Harlow's 19th birthday. Jack and Harlow snipe at each other while Don does the Jell-O commercial. In the sketch, Jack, Harlow and Frank Sinatra, Jr. play typical teenagers, at home and at the soda shop, topping it off wi...
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Episode 3
Runtime: 30m
1962-10-09
In the dressing room before the show, Jack calls for a barber, who turns out to be a nut and a Phil Silvers fan. Silvers has been complaining about coming on so late in the show. Jack discovers his pants are missing. Silvers comes on stage in Jack's pants to introduce the show. He goes through J...
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Episode 4
Runtime: 30m
1962-10-16
Benny instructs Raymond Burr how to be a comedian and Burr practices exaggerated comic antics. In the sketch, Burr enacts a scene from an Air Force drama, and Benny redoes it as a comedy.
Episode 5
Runtime: 30m
1962-10-23
In the sketch, Benny tries to conduct Welk's orchestra. He persuades Welk and the orchestra to play the song he wrote, 'When you say I beg your pardon, then I'll come back to you.' Welk turns it into a polka, and the audience dances with Welk and Jack.
Episode 6
Runtime: 30m
1962-10-31
Benny introduces Darla Hood, and talks with her about her work on the Our Gang comedies. She sings 'It's a most unusual day.' In the sketch, she plays her old Our Gang role, while Jack plays Alfalfa, Don Wilson plays Spankie, Rochester plays Buckwheat, and Dennis plays the rich kid.
Episode 7
Runtime: 30m
1962-11-14
Burnett sings 'Clang went the trolley.' In the sketch, Jack plays Tarzan, Burnett plays Jane, and Harlow plays their son.
Episode 9
Runtime: 30m
1962-11-28
Broadcast November 27, 1962: Romi Yamada and Jack Soo from "Flower Drum Song" (and later "Barney Miller") are the guests. Romi performs a song in Japanese and Jack wants to book her for more appearances — at a very cheap price. Her agent begs to differ. Jack Soo hosts a Japanese version of The Ed Su...
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Episode 10
Runtime: 30m
1962-12-05
Jack and Bob do a comedy routine. The sketch is similar to the one done on the show of February 24, 1957: Hope and Benny play a pair of vaudevillians trying to get a job, and in the agent's office several other vaudeville acts are demonstrated, including a young boy who imitates Jimmy Durante.
Episode 11
Runtime: 30m
1962-12-12
Several star's 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 i...
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Episode 12
Runtime: 30m
1962-12-19
Jack encounters nothing but headaches trying to make a flight to New York. He catches a taxi from his home and contends with an emotional cabbie (Louis Nye), who cries uncontrollably because he always hates saying goodbye at the airport. Once inside, he encounters the Mexican Sy (the one with a sist...
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Episode 13
Runtime: 30m
1962-12-26
Benny conducts a talent show, featuring: Mel Blanc as Mr. Finque who does imitations of animals; Don Wilson, who impersonates Ted Lewis singing 'Me and My Shadow,' with his son Harlow as the shadow (the JELL-O commercial); the Renaudi Brothers, one of whom is the fastest human being in the world, an...
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Episode 15
Runtime: 30m
1963-01-09
Jack reminisces meeting Max Bygraves at a show in England 8 years before only to find he's copying Jack's routine
Episode 16
Runtime: 30m
1963-01-16
Jack returns to his house, but no one knows him. Rod Serling guest stars as Mr. Zone, the mayor of a town which was named after him. Jack runs out screaming.
Episode 17
Runtime: 30m
1963-01-23
Peter Lorre sings during the opening monologue. Joanie Sommers follows with a song. Jack dreams about a visit to the doctors office where he's in the waiting room with Peter Lorre, who happens to be in the front page of the newspaper for murdering 6 people. The doctor, who is a plastic surgeon is...
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Episode 18
Runtime: 30m
1963-01-30
Dick Van Dyke says that he has been warned that Jack "works his guests to death." In the skit, Jack plays an inspector investigating a murder who questions everyone in the house - all played by Dick Van Dyke.
Episode 19
Runtime: 30m
1963-02-06
Jack's opening monologue is interrupted by a picture taking family who join him onstage. In the sketch, Jack and Rochester are leaving on a personal appearance tour, so Jack rents his house while he is gone. The renters are suprised by some of Jack's conditions for rental.
Episode 20
Runtime: 30m
1963-02-13
Rita Moreno sings and guest stars in a skit about a little Spanish town.
Episode 21
Runtime: 30m
1963-02-20
Jack and Guest star Connie Francis to a skit on the career of Stephen Foster.
Episode 22
Runtime: 30m
1963-02-27
Having 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...
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Episode 23
Runtime: 30m
1963-03-06
Jack attends Frankie Avalon's record session, but constantly interrupts the takes. Eventually, he's given a role in the recording.
Episode 24
Runtime: 30m
1963-03-13
Jack is kidnapped and held for $10,000 ransom. When Don and Dennis don't believe him, his kidnappers accompany him to the bank—where employees are astonished to hear he wants to make a withdrawal.
Episode 25
Runtime: 30m
1963-03-20
After Jack and Don argue over who said "Don't give up the ship," Jack fires Don and holds auditions for a new announcer. Dennis does the JELL-O commercial as a series of imitations, including James Cagney and John F. Kennedy. Dennis rehearses a sentimental song for Jack, while Don walks back and for...
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Episode 26
Runtime: 30m
1963-03-27
Dennis wants to do his Elvis Presley imitation, but Jack won't let him. Don does the commercial with his son Harlow. The sketch is Jack's version of The Mikado, ruined by Dennis doing his Elvis imitation in his Japanese costume.
Episode 28
Runtime: 30m
1963-04-10
Jack devotes the program to answering request letters from his viewers. One viewer asks about sound effects on his radio program, so he asks Ray Erlenborn to demonstrate; he makes the sounds of horses' hooves, a parade of marching soldiers, the milking of a cow, and a fight between Jack and John Way...
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