THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM: THE LOST EPISODES

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• Release Year: 1950
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: The Jack Benny Program and its legendary star are counted among the most dazzling jewels in the crown of American comedy. From its beginnings as an immensely popular radio program to its heyday on television, the daily trials and tribulations of the beloved comedian kept millions of fans laughing for over 30 years. Here at last are 18 long-lost episodes, unseen since their original broadcast, that have been lovingly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Jack, Don, Mary, Eddie Rochester Anderson and a constellation of guest stars are all here in this first-of-its-kind DVD collection of The Jack Benny Program.
• Cast: Jack Benny; Don Wilson; Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson; Dennis Day; Mary Livingstone; Mel Blanc; Benny Rubin; The Sportsmen Quartet; Frank Nelson; Ned Miller; Jeanette Eymann; Herb Vigran; Charles Cantor; Lois Corbett; Rolfe Sedan; Maudie Prickett; Ross Elliott; Bob Crosby; Sammy Weiss; Iris Adrian; Frank Remley; George Burns; Chick Sheridan; Glen Turnbull; Artie Auerbach; Charles Bagby; Seymour Rosen; Thomas Wade; Jesslyn Fax; Sam Hearn; Joseph Kearns; Richard Reeves; Wayne Songer; Joe Besser; Gisele MacKenzie; James Stewart; Elvia Allman; Madge Blake; Bea Benaderet; Richard Deacon; Hallene Hill; Barbara Pepper; Roy Glenn; Gloria Stewart; Howard McNear; Jack Albertson; Gail Bonney; Bob Hope; Dave Willock; Henry Hunter; Dorothy Collins; Shirley Mitchell; Frank Wilcox; Cliff Norton; Harold Gould; Pitt Herbert; Verna Felton; Sheldon Leonard; Jan Arvan; Robert Darwin; Pierre Watkin; Chuckie Bradley; Paul Bradley; Leoda Richards; Ben Lessy; Grandon Rhodes; Leon Tyler; Frank Gerstle; John Monaghan; Jesse White; Barry Gordon; Stephen Wootton; James Flavin; Scott Elliott; Olan Soule; Bobby Johnson; Sara Berner; Frances Robinson; John Harmon; Jack Pepper; Don Rice; Dick Ryan; Jane Dulo; Sandra Gould; Joseph Forte; Jack Boyle; Ray Kellogg; Frank Fontaine; Gracie Allen; Betty Rome; Charles Zacha Jr.; Charles Wagenheim; Barbara Nichols; Kevin Enright; John Laing; Mary Young; Robert Patten; Johnny Silver; Frances Bergen; Claire Carleton; Maxine Semon; Bernie Kopell; Russell Trent; Paul Maxey; Lester Dorr; Irwin Charone; Harry Shearer; Jean Willes; Phil Arnold; Hoke Howell; Joan Swift; Evelyn Dutton; Robert F. Hoy; Gil Frye; Lee Millar; Bill Fletcher; Vincent Price; George Gobel; Laura Anders; Bess Flowers; Mary Benoit; Frances Pasco; Phyllis Sues; Cosmo Sardo; Harvey Korman; Ed Sullivan; Milton Berle; Carol Burnett; Raymond Burr; Gerald Mohr; Connie Francis; John Gallaudet; Louis Nye; Margaret Brayton; Edgar Bergen; Roy Rowan; Vince Williams; Naomi Stevens; Peter Leeds; Rex Evans; Russ Conway; Barry Kelley; Joan Marshall; Bill Idelson; Duke Johnson; Richard Peel; Irene Tedrow; Bill Dungan; Charles Herbert; Herbie Faye; Jackie Russell; Nancy Kulp; Bobo Lewis; Muriel Landers; Charles Bateman; Lee Meriwether; Jacques Shelton; Damian O'Flynn; Bill McLean; Alice Backes; Vito Scotti; Bill Walker; Michael Ross; Dennis Holmes; Gaylord Cavallaro; Pat Colby; John Alvin; William Bakewell; Pauline Drake; Mary Treen; Ray Walker; June Earle; Charity Grace; Jane Burgess; Robert Bice; Peggy Mondo; Johnny Carson; Phil Silvers; Will Wright; Isaac Stern; Mabel Albertson; Joan Benny; Dan Duryea; Jayne Mansfield; Sol Gorss; Nan Leslie; Alan Hale Jr.; Danny Thomas; Ollie O'Toole; Mahlon Merrick; Ann Doran; Hayden Rorke; Robert Ball; Ann Wilner; Maurice McEndree; Paul Baxley; John Willis; Howard Wendell; Henry Beckman; Tyler McVey; Colin Campbell; Kem Dibbs; Doris Packer; Cheerio Meredith; Dick Kallman; Leonard Bremen; Eddie Colebrook; Helen Wallace; Ida Moore; Frank J. Scannell; Bob Jellison; Gregory Irvin; Valerie Scott; Fred Graham; Dinah Shore; Lynette Bryant; Mollie Glessing; Ray Noble; Barbara Stanwyck; David Niven; Leigh Snowden; Gurney Bell; Bill Days; Robert Garsen; Red Skelton; Carey Leverette; William Munchow; George Jessel; Sid Kane; Anita Reed; Len Lesser; Paul Power; Walter Burke; Jack Paar; Joey Bishop; Robert Wagner; Milton Parsons; Mary Lansing; Adrienne Marden; Lionel Ames; Frederick De Cordova; Jonathan Hole; The Marquis Chimps; Burt Mustin; Ralph Levy; Norman Abbott; Seymour Berns; Don Weis; James V. Kern; Dick Linkroum; George Balzer; Sam Perrin; Hal Goldman; Al Gordon; Milt Josefsberg; John Tackaberry; Hugh Wedlock Jr.; Howard Snyder
• Director: Frederick De Cordova
• Runtime: 9:00
• Company: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Shout! Factory
• Media Format: Series