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Beans, Napkins, and a Very Nervous Parrot
Aired: Oct 24th, 1948. Jack's throwing a fancy dinner party for Ronald and Benita Colman, but his bank-vault-tight budget turns the evening into a comedy of errors — mystery napkins from a stranger, a backyard full of unsellable string beans, and a parrot named Polly rehearsing her manners a little too enthusiastically. Mary Livingstone drops by with a letter from her mother that derails the whole household. A cozy, silly slice of 1948 domestic chaos from Jack Benny's world.
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