Hosted by Jack Benny and Bing Crosby, as Bob Hope was unable to perform due to an eye surgery to remove a blood clot. Hope appeared in pre-recorded pieces with a Benny monologue and Crosby singing.

When television began to masquerade as the new electronic horizon, cynics pronounced radio dead, or at least moribund. The great names in radio—Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Red Skelton et al.—moved into view ...