The Jack Benny Program
Season 1
4 listed hours · 1950–1965 · CBS/NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
The Jack Benny Program is the cheapest violinist, the longest pause, and radio's stingy persona perfected for television. Rochester, the vault, age-39 vanity. Watch it now as character-comedy timing that still teaches silence — a multi-decade sitcom engine built on running gags instead of plot machinery.
TV Flash files Season 1 of The Jack Benny Program (1950–1965) on CBS/NBC as the first listed season of 15 — 4 listed hours, 1950-10-28–1951-05-20 from “Premiere Show” (S01E01) to “Ben Hogan Show” (S01E04). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Premiere Show
Premiere Show: the vault, the age-39 vanity, and radio's stingy persona walking onto a television stage.
- S01E01
Premiere Show
Premiere Show — Season 1, Episode 1 of The Jack Benny Program. Aired 1950-10-28. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S01E02
Faye Emerson and Frank Sinatra Show
Faye Emerson and Frank Sinatra Show — Season 1, Episode 2 of The Jack Benny Program. Aired 1951-01-28. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S01E03
Claudette Colbert and Basil Rathbone Show
Claudette Colbert and Basil Rathbone Show — Season 1, Episode 3 of The Jack Benny Program. Aired 1951-04-01. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
- S01E04
Ben Hogan Show
Ben Hogan Show — Season 1, Episode 4 of The Jack Benny Program. Aired 1951-05-20. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.
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