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Jack's Big CBS Debut (and the Cop Who Wouldn't Give Him a Ticket)
Aired: Jan 2nd, 1949. It's January 2, 1949, and Jack Benny is making his nerve-wracking leap from NBC to CBS — and he has not slept a wink. On the drive to the studio with Rochester behind the wheel and Mary needling him the whole way, Jack's anxiety spirals into talking-in-his-sleep confessions, run-ins with a radio that won't stop counting down the hours, and a traffic cop starstruck enough to let him off the hook. A classic slice of Benny's neurotic charm as radio history quietly gets made.
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