The Jack Benny Program [1963-02-19 Featuring Connie Francis]

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1963

Creator: Revue-J & M Production

Complete Record: Benny plays a struggling Stephen Foster whose wife's conversation with the butcher gives him a song idea. Then song ideas keep occurring. Finally, he just takes his shotgun and blows holes in the wallpaper which he puts on his player piano--they all make beautiful music. Don does the JELL-O commercial without mentioning the word JELL-O. In the sketch, Jack plays Stephen Foster and Connie plays his wife; the inspiration for Foster's songs is a conversation between his wife and the butcher who has come to collect on his unpaid bills.