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Starring Jack Benny
Season 15 (NBC) (1964-65)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:  Steve Jensen
references:
TV Guide /   Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive

########## The Jack Benny Program ############
############# season 15 1964-65 ##############
############### (final season) ###############
NBC Fridays 9:30 pm Eastern (weekly) 28 episodes
(change of network - moves from CBS to NBC)
(change of day - moves from Tuesdays to Fridays)

Season 15, Episode 1: NBC Premiere
Original Air Date—25 September 1964

15.2: [230] The Jack Benny Program: THE LUCILLE BALL SHOW [verified -SJ]
2- Oct-1964 NBC Friday  / pc: 24613
Directed by Norman Abbott
Guest Star: Lucille Ball


Synopsis:
Jack is wearing a tux with tails in honor of Lucille Ball but she comes out dressed wild and acts goofy. Jack tries
to tell a joke that the sound man told him but gets it wrong. The sound man, Arte Johnson, takes the stage and tells
the joke himself. They end up doing a skit about Paul Revere with Don Wilson appearing as George Washington.
Mrs. Revere (Lucille Ball) suspects Paul (Jack) of carrying on with other women and because of that, she ends up knocking
Paul out and Mrs. Revere ends up going on the ride to warn that the British are coming, when she can't wake him up. [SJ]

Season 15, Episode 3: Andy Williams Show
Original Air Date—9 October 1964
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 (1966) movie) gushes over Andy's crooning, he's too embarrassed to admit who he is.

15.4 [232] The Jack Benny Program: THE INCOME TAX SHOW [verified -SJ]
16-Oct-1964 NBC Friday
Written by Sam Perrin & George Balzer & Hal Goldman & Al Gordon; Directed by Norman Abbott
Guest Stars: Jimmy Stewart & Gloria Stewart (as themselves)
With: Harold Gould (1st IRS man) Bill Quinn (2nd IRS man) Joan Marshall (Marsha), Scott Elliott (The Waiter)
Jeanette Eymann (The Woman)



Synopsis:
This show has two Internal Revenue Service agents trying to figure out how Jack earned $375,00 last year but only spent
$19 for entertainment expenses. $3.90 of that was declared by Jack when he had dinner with his girlfriend and Jimmy &
Gloria Stewart. Gloria gets some good one-liners in about Jack during the show. The IRS agents remind Jack that they
are there to help him, several times. [SJ]

15.5 [--] The Jack Benny Program: JACK MAKES A COMEDY RECORD
23-Oct-1964 NBC Friday
Written by Sam Perrin & George Balzer & Al Gordon & Hal Goldman
Directed by Norman Abbott
JACK BENNY AND BOB HOPE 1964
Guest Star: Bob Hope (as Himself)
With:
Mel Blanc ......... 1st Writer
Maudie Prickett .... Secretary
Peter Leeds ........ Producer
Robert Ball ........ 2nd Writer
Lois Corbet ........ Lois
Jacque Shelton ..... Engineer
Scott Elliott ...... Butler
Jack 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.

15.6 [234] The Jack Benny Program: HILLBILLY SKETCH [verified -SJ]
30-Oct-1964 NBC Fri  /  pc: 24601
Written by Sam Perrin, George Balzer, Hal Goldman, Al Gordon
Directed by Norman Abbott
Guest Star: Connie Francis (Herself)
With:
Dale White (Harlow), Sammy Weiss (The Drummer), Herbie Faye (The Man)



Synopsis:
Jack affronts guest Connie Francis by claiming comedy is hard, but singing is easy, then sets his apprentice announcer
Harlow Wilson, a devoted fan of pop singer Connie, on her. The cast lampoons "The Beverly Hillbillies" in a musical
sketch with Connie as Jack's wife, and Harlow in the Jethro role.
Synopsis:
In his monologue, Jack reveals that his producer has been using raffle tickets to get the audience to stay in their
seats until the end of the program. He introduces Connie Francis, and they argue about whether it is harder to sing
or to get laughs. She sings "I was born too late," and an Al Jolson medley ("Swanee," "Mammy," and "April showers").
Don does the Alka-Seltzer commercial as an endorsement by a safe-cracker. In the sketch, Benny, Stevens, Dale White
and Don Wilson play members of the Skinner family of the Ozarks. They all sing a parody of "Sit right down and write
yourself letter."

Season 15, Episode 7: Jungle Sketch
Original Air Date—6 November 1964

Season 15, Episode 8: Jack Loses a Raffle
Original Air Date—13 November 1964

Season 15, Episode 9: The Cat Burglar
Original Air Date—20 November 1964

Season 15, Episode 10: Jack Hires a Cook
Original Air Date—27 November 1964

Season 15, Episode 11: Wayne Newton Show
Original Air Date—4 December 1964

Season 15, Episode 12: Jack Has a Sick Alligator
Original Air Date—11 December 1964

Season 15, Episode 13: Amateur Night
Original Air Date—18 December 1964

Season 15, Episode 14: One Man Show
Original Air Date—25 December 1964

Season 15, Episode 15: The Jack Jones Show
Original Air Date—8 January 1965

Season 15, Episode 16: Jack Adopts Son
Original Air Date—22 January 1965

Season 15, Episode 17: The Kingston Trio, Guests
Original Air Date—29 January 1965

Season 15, Episode 18: Jack Goes to the Monkey's House
Original Air Date—5 February 1965

Season 15, Episode 19: The Stradivarius Story
Original Air Date—12 February 1965

Season 15, Episode 20: Jack Joins Acrobats
Original Air Date—19 February 1965

Season 15, Episode 21: Rainy Day in Palm Springs
Original Air Date—26 February 1965

Season 15, Episode 22: Jack Brings Ed Up from the Vault
Original Air Date—5 March 1965

Season 15, Episode 23: Jack Finds a Double
Original Air Date—12 March 1965

Season 15, Episode 24: Jack's Navy Buddy Returns
Original Air Date—19 March 1965

Season 15, Episode 25: Dennis Opens a Bank Account
Original Air Date—26 March 1965

Season 15, Episode 26: Jack Appears on a Panel Show
Original Air Date—2 April 1965

Season 15, Episode 27: Jack Has Dog Trouble
Original Air Date—9 April 1965

Season 15, Episode 28: Smothers Brothers Show (final episode)
Original Air Date—16 April 1965
The Smother Brothers confound every attempt by Jack to force them into his straitjacket comedy formula while
performing his theme song, but even scarier to Jack is when he's 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 being immobilized to lock in an appearance on Jack's final program.

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