Jack Benny Radio Shows

Old Jack Benny Radio Shows

This post is for fans of old radio programs.

Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film.

Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated “Well!”

His radio and television programs, tremendously popular in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, were a foundational influence on the situation comedy.

When I was a child, my parents would listen to him on the large upright radio in the corner of the living room in our small home in Southern California.

I doubt I remember any of these before 1949.

Show Title – Click To Listen Hit the < On Your Browser To Return To This List	Broadcast Date
Christmas Shopping	12/05/54
Christmas Spirit	12/05/54
The Drive-in Movie	10/24/54
Christmas Gopher Trap For Don	12/14/52
Navy Experience in WWI	03/30/52
A Return Visit From The IRS	03/16/52
Guests Amos Andy	12/03/50
To New York On The Train For The Heart Fund Benefit	01/29/50
I Was Betrayed	01/22/50
How Jack And Fred Allen Met	01/15/50
Drear Pooson Fluffrys Party And Is Stood Up By His Date	01/08/50
Jack Can’t Make Marys Party And Is Stood Up By His Date	01/01/50
Rochester Is Shocked By An Electric Alarm Clock	12/25/49
Christmas Spirit	12/18/49
Mary Buys Jack A Pencil Sharpener For Christmas	12/18/49
Texas Benefit	12/11/49
Guest Show	12/04/49
Jack Spends An Evening At Home Playing Cards	11/27/49
Jack Goes To Rehearsal	11/20/49
Last Weeks Mistakes	11/13/49
Jack Rides In A Yacht	11/06/49
Don Wilson’s Story Of Twenty-Five Years On Radio	10/30/49
Jack Is Recovering From Nose Surgery	10/23/49
Recovering From A Cold	10/16/49
Jack’s Memory Is Lost And Found	10/09/49
Jack Takes Inventory Of His Pantry And Has A Memory Loss	10/02/49
Guest Show	09/25/49
Edward My Son	09/18/49
Bus Tour Introduces The Cast	09/11/49
Cast Introduced	05/29/49
The Champion And The Set-Up	05/22/49
Mary Is Sick	05/15/49
Jack Is Upset With The Cast	05/08/49
The Treasure Of Sierra Madre	05/01/49
Jack Decides To Trade In The Maxwell	04/24/49
Easter Parade	04/17/49
American Heart Association	04/03/49
Spring Cleaning	03/27/49
Mary And Van Are Late	03/20/49
After The Races	03/13/49
A Day At The Races	03/06/49
Jack Has A Music Lesson	02/27/49
Jack Wants To Appear On Ford Theater	02/20/49
Don Signs A New Contract	02/06/49
Don Won’t Sign His Contract	01/23/49
Jacks Scrapbook	01/16/49
Lunch At The Brown Derby	01/09/49
Lunch At The Brown Derby	01/09/49
First Show For CBS	01/02/49
First Show CBS w Amos Andy	01/02/49
Jack Buys A Wallet For Don As a Christmas Gift	12/19/48
Christmas Wallet	12/19/48
Jack Tries To Relax At Home	12/12/48
Professor La Blanc Gives Jack A Violin Lesson	12/05/48
How Jack And The Gang Spent Thanksgiving	11/28/48
Jack Tries To Reach His Advertising Agency	11/21/48
Jack Is Worried Because Mary Is Late	11/14/48
Jack Hears An Echo – Sees Psychiatrist	11/07/48
Jack Goes Trick Or Treating	10/31/48
The Colman’s Have Dinner At Jacks	10/24/48
Sorry Wrong Number	10/17/48
Jack And The Gang Listen To The World Series	10/10/48
Jack Returns To America By Ship And Hears An Echo	10/03/48
From New York	06/27/48
From Cleveland Palace Theater	06/20/48
From Detroit – Dons Weight Is Discussed	06/13/48
Jack Leaves For Detroit	06/06/48
I Was Framed	05/30/48
The Egg And I	05/23/48
Robert Taylor Subs For Jack	05/16/48
Ronald Colman’s Oscar Is Returned	05/09/48
Guest Show	05/02/48
Charlies Aunt	04/25/48
Murder At The Racquet Club	04/18/48
From Palm Springs, California	04/11/48
Jack Wants To Borrow Bings Oscar	04/04/48
Jack Is Robbed Of Ronald Colman’s Oscar	03/28/48
Jack Benny Is The Walking Man	03/07/48
Jack’s Girlfriend Gladys Comes To Rehearsal	02/29/48
From Palm Springs, California	02/22/48
Jacks Birthday Party	02/15/48
Nightmare Alley	02/08/48
Jack And Mary See Colman’s Movie	02/01/48
In Denver For March-Of-Dimes Benefit	01/18/48
Going To Denver For March-Of-Dimes Benefit	01/11/48
Jack Tries To Get Tickets For The Rose Bowl	01/04/48
Jack Tries To Get Goldwyn To Do The Life Of Jack Benny	04/06/47
Jack Wants Goldwyn To Do The Life Of Jack Benny	04/06/47
From San Francisco with Jane Wyman	03/30/47
The Sportsmen Are Hired Back	03/23/47
The Sportsmen Replacement	03/16/47
Jack Tries To Find Replacement For The Sportsmen	03/09/47
Jack Tries To Rehire The Sportsmen	03/02/47
Jack Fires The Sportsmen	02/23/47
Jacks Birthday Party	02/16/47
What Happens After The Show Goes Off The Air	02/09/47
It’s A Wonderful Life	02/02/47
Margie	01/26/47
I Was Condemned	01/19/47
Gracie Wants To Listen To Jack On The Radio	01/12/47
Guest Show	01/05/47
Christmas Party At Birmingham General Hospital	12/22/46
Jack Learns Don Has Metal Tip Shoelaces, So He Exchanges Gift	12/15/46
Jack Buys Don Shoe Laces For Christmas	12/08/46
The Killers	11/24/46
Guest Show	11/17/46
Jack Gets A Haircut – More Trouble With The Sportsmen	11/10/46
Jack Tries To Break His Contract With The Sportsmen	11/03/46
Marys Chiss Wheeze Sandwich Fluff	10/27/46
The Fiddler	10/20/46
Jack And Mary Walk To The Studio	10/13/46
Jack Listens To The World Series	10/06/46
Jack Is Upset Because Phil And Dennis Have Their Own Shows	09/29/46
Ed Sullivan Gives Jack An Award	05/26/46
Trimming Christmas Tree	12/24/44
Bob Hope Parody	04/16/44
Repairing Jacks Sidewalk	04/09/44
Jack Throws A Swimming Party	03/26/44
Dennis Dreams He Has A Radio Program	03/19/44
From Livermore Air Base	03/12/44
From Lemoure Air Force Base	03/05/44
Hollywood Canteen	02/27/44
Guest Groucho Marx	02/20/44
From March Field	02/13/44
From Terminal Island	02/06/44
Jack Has A Pet Camel	01/09/44
Cavalcade Of Last Eight Years For Jell-O	05/31/42
Phil Becomes A Father	05/24/42
Jack Imitates Fred Allen	05/17/42
Jack Learns This Will Be His Last Season For Jell-O	05/10/42
Cast Visits Jack At Warner Brothers	05/03/42
Jack Hawkins Revenge	04/26/42
Dons Play	04/19/42
Try And Get It	04/12/42
Dons Commercial	04/05/42
Doc Benny’s Minstrel Show	03/29/42
Jack Plants A Victory Garden And Plays Golf With Phil	03/22/42
Jack Talks About Lending Fred Allen Ten Dollars	03/15/42
From San Diego Marine Base	03/08/42
Jack Starts A Campaign For An Oscar	03/01/42
At The San Francisco Presidio	02/22/42
Jack Cant Get A Date On His Birthday	02/15/42
Jack Is Upset Because Fred Allen Has Moved To Sundays	02/08/42
The Frightwig Murder Case Part Two	02/01/42
The Frightwig Murder Case Part One	01/25/42
Carole Lombard’s Death – Show Is Without Jack	01/18/42
From March Field	01/11/42
New Year’s Eve Party At The Biltmore Bowl	01/04/42
Halloween	11/02/41
Jack Catches Cold At Dons House	12/01/40
Jacks Halloween Party 1	11/03/40
Jack Tries to Trade in the Maxwell	10/20/40
Vacation Plans	06/09/40
Hillybilly Feud	06/02/40
Formal Dinner For The Sponsor Without Jell-O For Dessert	05/26/40
Northwest Passage	05/19/40
Returns On A TWA Plane	05/12/40
Clown Hall Tonight	05/05/40
Buck Benny At The Paramount Theater	04/28/40
From The Ritz Theater In New York	04/21/40
Preparing To Go To New York By Train	04/14/40
Jack Revives Buck Benny After Three Years	04/07/40
Pinocchio	03/31/40
Trailer On Pinocchio	03/24/40
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame	03/17/40
Mr Benny Goes To Washington	03/10/40
Gracie Allen For President	03/03/40
Birthday Party For Jack, Who’s Recovering From A Skiing Accident	02/25/40
Skiing At Yosemite	02/18/40
Arriving At Yosemite	02/11/40
Yosemite Part 1	02/04/40
Murder on the Bridge	01/28/40
Gladys Zybisco Is Discussed	01/21/40
Intermezzo	01/14/40
Golden Boy with Barbara Stanwyck	01/07/40
Golden Boy with Barbara Stanwyck	01/07/40
Gladys Zybisco Disappoints Jack on New Year’s Eve	12/31/39
Jack Goes Duck Hunting	11/26/39
Jack Discovers He Has Purchased an Os	11/19/39
Jack Has a Toothache	11/12/39
The Women	11/05/39
Masquerade Party	10/29/39
Stanley Livingstone	10/22/39
Dennis’s Mother Interferes with the Show	10/15/39
Introducing Dennis Day	10/08/39
From Waukegan Illinois	06/25/39
Fathers Day Show	06/18/39
Hound of the Baskervilles	06/11/39
Hound of the Baskervilles Preview	06/04/39
Alexander Graham Bell	05/28/39
More Gunga Din	05/21/39
Gunga Din	05/14/39
Gunga Din	05/14/39
Kentucky Derby Bet	05/07/39
Jacks 7th Anniversary on the Radio	04/30/39
Guests Binnie Barns and Mark Sandrich	04/23/39
Four Girls In White	04/09/39
April Fools	04/02/39
Guest Ed Sullivan	03/26/39
Jack Has a Cold	03/19/39
Carmichael is Sick	03/12/39
Jesse James Part 2	03/05/39
Jesse James Part 1	02/26/39
Carmichael, the Polar Bear	02/19/39
Love Finds Annie Hardy	02/12/39
Jack Challenges Fred Allen to a Boxing match	02/05/39
Jack Goes into Training For Fight with Fred Allen	01/29/39
Saving Fred Allen	01/22/39
Jacks Screen Guild Theater Performance	01/15/39
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs	01/08/39
Goodbye 1938 Hello	01/01/39
Returning to Hollywood	12/18/38
0314 Christmas Shopping in New York	12/11/38
murder at the movies	12/04/38
Flash Benny	11/27/38
Too Hot To Handle	11/20/38
Jack Steals Phils Girl	11/13/38
The Crowd Roars	11/06/38
Jack Throws a Halloween Party	10/30/38
Jack Gives a Halloween Party	10/30/38
Algiers	10/23/38
Last Broadcast from the Old NBC Studio	10/16/38
Yellow Jack Movie Spoof	10/09/38
Preparing for the New Season	10/02/38
Tommy Dorsey – G	07/28/38
Last Show of the Season	06/26/38
Back Home in Indiana	06/19/38
Artists and Models Abroad	06/12/38
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Part 3	06/05/38
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Part 2	05/29/38
Adventures of Tom Sawyer Part One	05/22/38
Murder in the Library	05/15/38
Mothers Day Show	05/08/38
Snow White and the Seven Gangsters	04/24/38
Show White and the Seven Gangsters	04/24/38
Easter Program	04/17/38
A Yank at Oxford	04/10/38
Returning to Hollywood	04/03/38
In NY with Fred Allen Kate Smith	03/27/38
leaving for New York	03/20/38
death in the nightclub	03/13/38
Submarine D-1 Part Two 1	02/27/38
Submarine D1 How Old is Jack	02/20/38
Robert Taylor Plays the Cello with Jack	02/13/38
JacksViolin is Stolen	02/07/38
Jack Is Late	02/06/38
The Hurricane	01/30/38
Scoop Benny	01/23/38
Driving Back from San Francisco	01/16/38
In San Francisco	01/09/38
Leaving for San Francisco Next Week	01/02/38
Christmas Show	12/26/37
Jack as Santa Fred Allen program	12/22/37
Fred Allen Benny	12/22/37
Little Red Riding Hood	12/19/37
Christmas Shopping	12/12/37
Big Game the	12/05/37
Jack Cooked the Turkey	11/28/37
Lost Horizon	11/21/37
Another Chapter in Life of Buck Benny	11/07/37
The Devine Farm	10/31/37
Jack Buys the Maxwell	10/24/37
Guest Abe Lyman	10/03/37
Last Show of the Season	06/27/37
Jack s Movie	06/20/37
Death At Midnight Part Two	06/06/37
Death At Midnight Part One	05/30/37
Jack Is Sick – Phil Kenny and Don Host	05/23/37
Ah Wilderness	05/16/37
Buck Benny Party	05/02/37
In The Spring Tra-La 255	04/25/37
Lady Milicent’s Husband 254	04/18/37
Guests George Burns and Gracie Allen	04/11/37
Back From New York	04/04/37
the train porter	03/28/37
From New York	03/21/37
jack benny vs fred allen	03/14/37
Stuart Canin – Fight of the Century	03/07/37
Jack’s Violin Is Returned	02/28/37
Buck Benny Rides Again Twelve	02/21/37
Jacks Birthday	02/14/37
Nightmares of Fred Allen	01/31/37
Jack Will Play the Bee	01/31/37
Jack Practices The Bee	01/24/37
Buck Benny’s Mexican Adventure	01/17/37
Buck Benny in Ensenada, Mexico	01/17/37
Buckingham Benny	01/10/37
More Buck Benny Rides Again	01/03/37
Buck Benny Rides Again And Again	12/27/36
Buck Benny Rides Again and Again	12/27/36
An Old Fashioned Christmas	12/20/36
Buck Benny Rides Again	12/13/36
Money Aint Everything	12/06/36
Buck Benny Rides Again	11/29/36
Buck Benny Rides Again Two	11/22/36
Buck Benny Rides Again Two	11/22/36
Buck Benny	11/15/36
Buck Benny Rides Again One	11/15/36
Missing Girls Dorm Incomplete	11/08/36
Girls Dormitory-Incomplete	11/08/36
Doc Benny’s Minstrels – Romeo And Juliet	11/01/36
Previews Romeo and Juliet	10/25/36
Previews Romeo and Juliet	10/25/36
Anthony Adverse Part Two	10/18/36
Show the – Anthony Adverse Part Two	10/18/36
Anthony Adverse	10/11/36
Anthony Adverse Part One	10/11/36
Phil Harris Introduced	10/04/36
Phil Harris Introduced	10/04/36
Vacation Plans	06/21/36
Opening of Bennymount Films	06/14/36
Jack Forms Bennymount Films	06/07/36
Travel Agent Pays a Visit	05/24/36
Jack Test Drives a Car	05/10/36
Code Of The Hills	05/03/36
Boston Tea Party	04/26/36
I Got A Heavy Date	04/19/36
Ah Wilderness	04/12/36
Clown hall tonight	04/05/36
Cinderella	03/29/36
Jack Is the Guest of Honor At the French Embassy Dinner	03/15/36
Gang Visits the Central Park Zoo the	03/08/36
Eternal Triangle	02/23/36
Drug Store	02/16/36
Benny Of The NorthWest Mounted	02/09/36
Jack And Johnny Are In Jail	01/19/36
Jack and Johnny Are in Jail	01/19/36
Blue Room Murder	11/17/35
Blue Room Murder	11/17/35
Kenny Bakers Debut	11/03/35
Kenny Bakers debut	11/03/35
The Count Of Monte Jello	01/06/35
The Count Of Monte Jell-O	01/06/35
Russia Through A Keyhole	12/16/34
Russia Through a Keyhole	12/16/34
Rose Of The Rio Grande	12/02/34
Rose of the Rio Grande	12/02/34
Mrs Wiggs Of The Onion Patch	11/18/34
Mrs Wiggs of the Onion Patch	11/18/34
Charlie Chan in Radio City	11/11/34
Charlie Chan in Radio City	11/11/34
Through Romantic Hawaii	11/04/34
Bennys of Wimpole Street	10/28/34
Grocery Store Part Two: the	10/21/34
Grocery Store the	10/14/34
School Days pt3 incomplete	09/21/34
School Days Part Two	09/14/34
The House of Benny	08/31/34
House Of Rawchild	08/24/34
Stooge Murder Case	08/10/34
Murderer of MrStooge Confesses	08/03/34
Who Killed Mr.Stooge pt.5	07/20/34
Why Gals Leave Home	07/13/34
Jack Is Taking A Taxi To The Show	05/18/34
Home Cooking At Dons	05/11/34
The Hills Of Kentucky	05/04/34
New Hampshire Through A Keyhole	04/27/34
New Hampshire Through a Keyhole -Or- Lord of the City	04/27/34
Bridge Game	04/13/34
Bridge Game	04/13/34
Frank Parkers Music Store	04/06/34
The Eternal Triangle	04/01/34
The Eternal Triangle	04/01/34
An Arizona Western	03/18/34
Haunted House	03/11/34
Duel In The Graveyard	03/04/34
My Life As A Floorwalker	02/25/34
Dont Live Right	02/18/34
Miniature Women	02/11/34
Guest Mae West	12/17/33
Uncle Toms Cabin	12/10/33
Election Day Opening	10/29/33
Marys Birthday	06/23/33
Who Killed Mr X	06/09/33
Sherlock Holmes And King Kong Part Two	06/02/33
Russian Sketch	05/05/33
Guest Edward G Robinson	04/21/33
Kiddies Night	04/14/33
She Done Him Right	03/31/33
Bertha, The Sewing Machine Girl	01/22/33
Outstanding Achievements Of 1932 Review	01/01/33
First Time On the Radio as MC	05/02/32
First Professional Appearance	05/02/32
Jacks First Program	02/15/32

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