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The best of Jack Benny [digital videodisc].

[Minneapolis, Minn.] : Mill Creek Entertainment, c2007.

Benny, Jack, 1894-1974 -- Humor.

Television classics.

4 videodiscs : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Disc 1. Fred Allen & Eddie Cantor -- Honolulu trip -- Humphrey Bogart -- Johnny Ray & Danny Thomas -- Ireane Dunne & Vincent Price --Liberace -- Jack dreams he's married to Mary -- Goldie, fields and glide -- George Burns and Gracie Allen show -- Road to Nairobi -- Jam session.

Disc 2. How Jack found Mary -- Jack does Christmas shopping -- Four o'clock in the morning -- Honeymooners show -- Erine Kovas -- Jack's Hong Kong suit -- The lunch counter murders -- Jack casting for a television special -- Don Wilson's 27th anniversary -- Jack rents his house.

Disc 3. $64,000 spoof -- Jack Benny hour -- Ghost town western -- Christmas show -- New Year's day show 1956 -- Easter Seal teleparade of stars -- New Years Eve -- Jack's Maxwell is stolen -- Jack goes to a concert.

Disc 4. March of time: show business at war -- Reminiscing about New Years Eve -- Peggy King & Art Linkletter -- Jack gets robbed -- Dorothy Shay & Bob Crosby -- General Electric theatre: the face is familiar -- General Electric theatre: the honest man -- You can change the world -- Bing Crosby G.E. show.

Star of Vaudeville, Radio and the Big Screen, Jack Benny brought his highly-successful radio program to the small screen in 1950 and the show ran until 1965. Along for the ride were his famous cast of co-stars including Eddie Rochester Anderson, Don Wilson, Dennis Day and Mary Livingstone, who all shared in the fun and misadventures of their famous boss. Whether dealing with his love of money, his perpetual age of 39 or his beloved Maxwell automobile, Jack Benny and his gang entertained one and all!

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