Wednesday, December 19, 2007

The Jack Benny Show: a Santa Sack Full of Christmas Episodes

Here's a huge onslaught of Christmas themed episodes of The Jack Benny Show from the thirties, forties and fifties. They're arranged chronilogically. Enjoy!

December 10th, 1938

Christmas Day, 1938
December 17th, 1939
Christmas Eve, 1939
December 22nd, 1940
January 5th, 1941 - Jack returns Christmas gifts
December 21st, 1941

December 21st, 1942
December 26th, 1943
Christmas Eve, 1944
December 22nd, 1946
December 21st, 1947

December 19th, 1948
December 18th, 1949
December 17th, 1950
Christmas Eve, 1950
December 23rd, 1951
December 21st, 1952
December 13th, 1953
December 20th, 1953
December 5th, 1954
December 11th, 1954
December 19th, 1954
December 26th, 1954

And a clip from the Jack Benny television show with Dennis Day and Richard Deacon.

3 comments:

Randy said...

The link for 12-20-53 is broken.

Bob Bourne said...

Thanks, it's fixed now.

Anonymous said...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! My family had tapes of these when I was little and they have since disintegrated, but I still have the shows virtually memorized.... "Plastic tips - metal tips - plastic tips!" "Oh, floorwalker.... Yeeeeeessss?" What an Xmas treat!