Jack Benny was truly one of radio's most important and beloved stars. His first appearance on radio was in 1929, and his shows for various sponsors including Lucky Strike, Jell-o, Grape-Nuts and others, ran until 1956, when he moved to television.
Jack Benny and his wife
Mary Livingstone in an early portraitA massive collection of large PDF files each containing multiple scripts from Jack Benny's "Lucky Strike" broadcasts scripts from the late 1940s through mid 1950s, can be found on the industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ website. Literally thousands of pages of scanned "Jack Benny" shows are available for download.
Click on a script title below to view it:
Oct 16 1938 | Last show from the old studio |
Jun 11 1939 | Hound of the Baskervilles |
Nov 05 1939 | "The Women" |
Oct 13 1940 | Phil Tries to Collect on the World Series |
Jan 12 1941 | Jack is Late with No Script (East Coast version) |
Jan 12 1941 | Jack is Late with No Script (West Coast version) |
Dec 14 1941 | Christmas Shopping |
Oct 18 1942 | Jack Donates his Maxwell to a Scrap Drive |
Feb 14 1943 | Jack's Birthday, from Toronto Canada |
Mar 21 1943 | The Gang Visits Orson Welles |
Dec 08 1946 | Jack buys Don shoelaces for Christmas |
Sep 23 1951 | Captain Horatio Hornblower |
May 02 1952 | Jack loses $4.75 at the Race Track |
Sep 28 1952 | High Noon |
Dec 05 1954 | Christmas Shopping '54 |
Date Unknown | Tobaccodocuments scripts from the mid 1940s-1950s |