The Jack Benny Program

- Season 11

(1960)

George Burns, Robert Wagner, Tony Curtis, and Johnny Green are at Hillwood Country Club waiting for Jack to join them for golf. They all question whether Jack has the stamina to do a new episode each week this season. Their scoffing cause him to have a nightmare where he's grilled by Mike Wallace on "Night Beat." His doctor, Frank Nelson, also shows up in his dream to harass him. Back at home, Jack's windows are knocked out by his "fans" throwing rocks.

Jack consults "American Bandstand" host Dick Clark on how to get teens to watch his program. Dick's suggestion is to book rock and roll bands like The Sabres, who perform "Flip, Flop and Fly." Cheapskate Jack refuses to pay their fee of $5,000 fee and puts together his own band on the cheap. Dennis, Don and Jack dress like The Sabres and perform the same song on the show.

Jack's show is going weekly and Miltie gives his input on what it takes to do a weekly show. In short, it is slapstick, baggy-pants comedy. On the show, Milton plays straight man and Jack is in a clown suit delivering cornball punchlines.

Jack has a violin duel with Gisele McKenzie. To primp for the show, Jack visits a swank Hollywood barber shop where the skinflint throws around nickels like manhole covers. Will he need Novocaine for his manicure this time?

Jack handles an overenthusiastic fan. The writer of the jingle of the new sponsor unintentionally reveals something funny. John Wayne offers to take girl singer Jaye P. Morgan out to dinner. Jack freelances as a violinist.

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Jack is the manager of a roadside hamburger stand that is taken over by a gang of tough criminals led by a scar-faced crook who likes to eat sardines, including the can--and even Dennis Day gets into the act.

Jack insists on taking Mildred to a violin concert even though his girlfriend would prefer to attend the boxing arena. Jack spies Jimmy Stewart and his wife in the crowd and tries to attract their attention by pelting him with peanuts, which only results in driving them from the theater. Bored, Mildred tries to get the radio station carrying fights on her transistor radio, which drives the remaining audience members out.

It's the week before Christmas and Jack drops by Edgar Bergen's house to go over the upcoming show's script with his guest star. When Edgar is detained rehearsing his radio show, his wife Frances entertains Jack. Jack is amazed when Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd walk into the room and are introduced. Jack always assumed they were merely ventriloquist's dummies. Edgar finally returns and is ready to present his ideas for a sketch to Jack, but insists on Jack sitting on his knee to hear them.

Jack consents to an episode of the show to be opportunity for new acts to showcase their talents but then he starts to regret deciding to do it when things don't go as he thinks they should.

Auditioning actors for a 1 hour show recounting his thrilling life provokes many emotions in Jack: lust for a young actress, vanity when an elderly woman from his hometown shows up, and especially greed. A young actor is perfect for Jack as a child, which the actor's 10 year old agent takes every advantage of.

Jack takes two men from the Treasury Department into his mysterious vault, full of hilarious security features.

On the anniversary of Don Wilson's 27 years of service with Jack, he and Jack recall the first day they met, when Don showed up for an audition and Jack put him through dance and elocution classes to "whip him into shape".

Jack winds up having to do all of Rochester's chores, after he loses a gin rummy bet.

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Jack is infatuated with the new pretty receptionist, but she prefers rugged men, so Jack joins a gym to beef up his body.

Mamie Van Doren and Dennis Day sing a duet of "You Make Me Feel so Young." Later, they play the roles of a condemned prisoner's wife and son. Of course, Jack plays the condemned man, who is about to be executed.

Jack answers a reporter's questions in his dressing room, with Rochester to heckle him. In a flashback, we see some of Jack's childhood. In a well furnished Victorian home, Jack was a money hungry brat, and his father loved getting the family together to play their instruments together, despite his ineptness with a violin.

Rochester imagines what kind of surgeon Jack would have been, if he had gone to medical school as he planned during his youth.

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The Mills Brothers sing two songs. Jack and Don visit Las Vegas.

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'George Burns' crashes Jack's variety show, which features two songs sung by Ann-Margret and juggler extraordinaire, Francis Brunn.

Jack refuses to leave a homeless shelter until they give him back an ancient jacket Rochester donated, which had $200 sewed in the lining. Jack's just returned from a desert hike with the Beverly Hills Beavers, so due to his dirty clothes & 3 day beard, everyone at the shelter believes he's an extraordinarily picky homeless person, not the most generous man in show business.

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