The Jack Benny Program season 8
The Jack Benny Program — Season 8 (1957–1958)
Season 8 aired on CBS and included 16 episodes, running from September 22, 1957 to April 20, 1958.
Episode highlights and guests
- Special guest: Robert Culp. Plot: Jack tries to catch a flight to New York to appear on The $64,000 Question, but faces airport chaos: a wild PA announcer, a racetrack tout giving gum advice, Mel Blanc’s Sy, and Frank Nelson as a ticket-seller trying to send Jack away.
- Special guest: Hal March.
- Special guest: Ginger Rogers.
- Special guests: John Forsythe and Mary Costa. Plot: During the monologue, Jack introduces Forsythe. Costa sings “One Fine Day” from Madame Butterfly. Jack forgets an important business obligation, so Forsythe takes Costa out to an exotic restaurant, where they find Jack playing as a Gypsy violinist.
- Special guests: Van Johnson and Buddy Adler. Plot: Jack learns 20th Century Fox is making a movie about his life. At the studio he meets the director of The Horn Blows at Midnight, now a parking lot attendant. Adler says the plan doesn’t involve Jack and won’t even let him play “Jack”; Van Johnson will. They offer Jack a role—his own father.
- Special guest: Audrey Meadows. Jack introduces Dennis Day, who’s upset about not being on the show for five months. After declaring his loyalty (while tossing in some jabs about Jack), Dennis sings “The Twelfth of Never.”
- Special guests: Gisele MacKenzie. Plot: James Stewart, Jerry Wald, and George Seaton also appear. Jack moans about not being asked to emcee the Academy Awards, visits Stewart on a film set, sabotages some takes, and ends up taking over Stewart’s role to show him how it’s done.
- Special guest: Ronnie Burns.
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