Jack Benny TV Show 1960-10-16- Nightbeat Takeoff with George Burns, Tony Curtis, & Mike Wallace

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• SL

  @Slotnikoff · 10 months ago

  Jack Benny was 66 when this episode was made! Eddie "Rochester" Anderson was 55. George Burns was 64. Don Wilson was 60. Mike Wallace was 42. And Tony Curtis was just a kid at 35.

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  @VicMartino · 10 months ago

  I’m so glad there’s a channel here like this one Buck dedicated to the late great Jack Benny where we fans of true comedy can get our daily dose of one of the best and greatest comedian who ever lived. Thank you Buckaroo.

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• FR

  @fromthesidelines · 10 months ago

  Jack would have preferred to continue appearing every other week. But James T. Aubrey, CBS&apos; ruthless president, wanted him to be on every week in the fall of 1960; he didn&apos;t want <b>ANY</b> alternate week programs on HIS network. Of course, he couldn&apos;t force United States Steel and Armstrong Cork &amp; Rubber to comply because they were too powerful, and Aubrey couldn&apos;t afford to lose their advertising revenue. So &quot;THE UNITED STATES STEEL HOUR&quot; and &quot;ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATRE&quot; continued on alternate Wednesdays through 1963.

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• JE

  @Jeannie-s2y · 4 months ago (edited)

  I watch your channel often &nbsp;because I love Jack Benny. Also I enjoy the old commercials included with the shows

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• RU

  @RussellTuckett-h9x · 8 days ago

  I am 67. I wrote &nbsp;joke &quot;0&quot; in 1968. Time for me to give the stand-up a shot

• FR

  @fromthesidelines · 10 months ago

  First program for Lipton Tea {still under Lever Brothers&apos; sponsorship} and Jack&apos;s new alternate sponsor, State Farm Insurance.

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• BI

  @bigred997 · 10 months ago

  Great. Never saw this one. Remember the alternate sponsors and state farm theme song.

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• XA

  @xander6464 · 10 months ago

  HIIIIIYAAAA, Buck! &nbsp;I can&apos;t get used to tea and insurance. &nbsp;I miss Jell-O, Grape Nuts, and Lucky Strike!

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• DM

  @dmiller1000 · 9 days ago

  Around the time of Johnny Green&apos;s bandleadership duties on the Benny show, he put out a great series of Brunswick recordings with Fred Astaire. &nbsp;Green was also a composer and a very talented guy. &nbsp;His parents were &apos;musical&apos; and must have made some $$, as Johnny went to Horace Mann and Harvard.

• FE

  @FerdinandCesarano · 10 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Z_ncb-HkM&amp;t=3245">54:05</a> — The names of the two presidential candidates are indeed mentioned. There is a gag that Jack&apos;s new publicity man has put up a billboard stating that both Nixon and Kennedy are voting for Jack.

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• BW

  @bwradley2122 · 10 months ago

  Wagner also appeared in the original Pink Panther, playing the nephew of David Niven’s character.

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• JG

  @jgonzales91754 · 10 months ago

  Sure do miss: J-E-L-L-OHH.........

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