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by **bboswell** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:43 am

I just happened upon this bound copy of Jack Benny Scripts from '36 to '40.

Yeowch! $3000 is a little salty for my blood. Heck, I haven't even got the scratch for 39 Forever!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 13349&rd=1

the auction claims to be from Milt Josefberg's own library, and it looks like there are some handwritten notes in the columns of the pages.

If someone here buys them, let me know so I can come over and touch the pages!

by **shimp scrampi** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:47 am

the auction claims to be from Milt Josefberg's own library, and it looks like there are some handwritten notes in the columns of the pages.

Which is a little fishy since Josefsberg didn't start writing for Jack until 1942, though they might have been scripts used for reference. Interesting nonetheless.

by **LLeff** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:07 am

shimp scrampi wrote:Which is a little fishy since Josefsberg didn't start writing for Jack until 1942, though they might have been scripts used for reference. Interesting nonetheless.

Actually, I'd been in touch with this person for some time before they put them on Ebay. I'd said the same thing (Josefsberg started in 1943), but it sounds like the bound copies were used for referring back to previous gags, etc. It's long been my feeling that Ed Beloin stayed on a while to get the new group of writers up to speed on writing for the characters. So it's entirely possible that bound groups of scripts were probably shared as reference. Who knows... maybe Bill Morrow gave up his copies when he went into the military, and you'd be getting a volume from more than one of Jack's writers. But I can't assert that, just a fantasy.

by **bboswell** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:03 am

LLeff wrote:I'd been in touch with this person for some time before they put them on Ebay.

So is this related to the volumes in the Thousand Oaks public library, which also claims to have a lot of Josefberg's papers and scripts?

by **LLeff** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:53 pm

bboswell wrote:So is this related to the volumes in the Thousand Oaks public library, which also claims to have a lot of Josefberg's papers and scripts?

Possibly. This fellow knew the Josefsberg family and got the volume directly from them.

by **Jack Benny** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:37 pm

Are copies of these scripts cheeper to get in some other fashion, Laura, or is buying these copying them for my own enjoyment and then re-selling the originals the only way I can get these scripts? I have all of the Lucky Strike scripts, but would love these as well. I just want reading copies like the lucky strikes are.

by **LLeff** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:51 am

Jack Benny wrote:Are copies of these scripts cheeper to get in some other fashion, Laura, or is buying these copying them for my own enjoyment and then re-selling the originals the only way I can get these scripts? I have all of the Lucky Strike scripts, but would love these as well. I just want reading copies like the lucky strikes are.

The pre-Lucky scripts really aren't out there much. You have to have permission from the estate to get copies from UCLA, and I don't know of another source for scripts like the recent Tobacco Documents page.

by **bboswell** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:23 am

LLeff wrote:I don't know of another source for scripts like the recent Tobacco Documents page.

What's this? Is this a possible source for Jack's Lucky Strike scripts? Maybe I haven't been paying attention.

by **shimp scrampi** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:23 am

Yep, it's tobaccodocuments.org - Lots of Benny script PDFs, because, they are in fact, tobacco documents. You need to look under "American Tobacco" - it's not the most user-friendly site.

Now, once someone discovers the lethal health hazards of Jell-O and files some lawsuits, we're in business for the Jell-O scripts! (Just kidding, good folks at General Foods :wink:

) Personally, I don't get that much of a kick out of reading them, though they are a curiosity. For me that old saw is right, Benny is a lot funnier in the delivery than on the page.

by **bboswell** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:47 pm

shimp scrampi wrote:Yep, it's tobaccodocuments.org - Lots of Benny script PDFs, because, they are in fact, tobacco documents.

Wow, Thanks!! I had a glimmer of hope that they might have the Dec 3, 1950 show in the collection, but wouldn't you know it, that one is not there. (Frequent readers might remember my wondering what the punch line was supposed to be to the "Grass Reek" fluff.)

(Side note to "Jack Benny"... You say that you have a lot of Lucky Strike scripts? Is the 12/3/50 show among them? Love your show, by the way!)

shimp scrampi wrote:Personally, I don't get that much of a kick out of reading them, though they are a curiosity. For me that old saw is right, Benny is a lot funnier in the delivery than on the page.

True, but I also love to look at the original docs to see the handwritten notes and (as above) lines that didn't make the cut for one reason or another. Curiosity will probably kill this cat one day!

For example, I have an old script from the Fibber McGee show that, on the final page has a serious call for young women to become nurses. There is a line (with a line through it) that says:

"Remember, it will be you girls at the rear who will be really battling the enema"

The line has an asterik by it and the note at the bottom of the page says:

"Wendy: this will come out, naturally. --D.Q."

D.Q. is Don Quinn, writer of the show.

by **Jack Benny** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:50 pm

Lets see I have October 29, 1950 then the next one is... January 7, 1951!

Oh man, I don't have that episode either. Rats! One thing you will find at that site is that quite a few files are labeled differently, so they are hard to find. I think I have found them all now, but it took a lot of creative searching. If I get ambitious I will list everything I have, then if someone found some other shows burried on that site they can tell us. In fact, I think I have aprogram that does that automitically, I'll be right back.

by **Jack Benny** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:03 pm

Here we go! Just find the right program and voila! My list of Scripts!

Jack Benny Show\1944-45 Season\
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Jack Benny, Jan - Mar. 1945.pdf
Jack Benny, Mar.- May 1945.pdf
Jack Benny, Oct. - Dec., 1944.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1945-46 Season\
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Jack Benny, Jan. - Mar. 1946.pdf
Jack Benny, Sept.- Dec. 1945.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1946-47 Season\
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Jack Benny, Apr. - May, 1947.pdf
Jack Benny, Jan. - Mar. 1947.pdf
Jack Benny, Sept - Dec., 1946 Version 2.pdf
Jack Benny, Sept - Dec., 1946.pdf
Jack Benny, September 29, - November 17, 1946 .pdf
Jack Parr, Summer Replacement for Jack Benny, June - Sept., 1947.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1947-48 Season\
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01- Jack Benny, Oct. - Dec., 1947.pdf
02 - Jack Benny, Jan. - Mar., 1948.pdf
03 - Jack Benny, Apr. - June, 1948.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1948-49 Season\
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Jack Benny, Jan. - Feb., 1949.pdf
Jack Benny, Mar. - May 1949.pdf
Jack Benny, Oct. - Dec., 1948.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1949-50 Season\
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Jack Benny, Apr. - May 1950.pdf
Jack Benny, Jan. - Mar. 1950.pdf
Jack Benny, Nov. - Dec. 1949.pdf
Jack Benny, Sept. - Oct. 1949.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1950-51 Season\
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Jack Benny, Apr. - June 1951.pdf
Jack Benny, Jan. - Mar. 1951.pdf
Jack Benny, Sept. - Oct. 1950.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1951-52 Season\
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Jack Benny, Apr. - June, 1952.pdf
Jack Benny, Jan. - Mar. 1952.pdf
Jack Benny, Sept. - Dec. 1951.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1952-53 Season\
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Jack Benny, Apr. - June, 1953.pdf
Jack Benny, Jan. - Mar., 1953.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1953-54 Season\
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Jack Benny, Apr. - June, 1954.pdf
Jack Benny, Jan. - Mar., 1954.pdf

Jack Benny Show\1954-55 Season\
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Jack Benny, Apr. - May, 1955.pdf
Jack Benny, Jan. - Mar., 1955.pdf
Jack Benny, Sept. - Dec., 1954.pdf

Jack Benny Show\Television\
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1958-10-19.pdf
JB-TV-1950-1951.pdf
JB-TV-1952 Jan-Dec.pdf
JB-TV-1953 Jan-Dec.pdf
JB-TV-1954 Jan-May.pdf
JB-TV-1954 Oct-Dec.pdf
JB-TV-1956 Jan-March.pdf
JB-TV-1956 October show.pdf
JB-TV-1957 Jan-June.pdf
JB-TV-1958 Jan-June.pdf
JB-TV-1958 Sept-Dec.pdf
JB-TV-1959 Jan-June.pdf

by **bboswell** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:37 pm

Thanks Mr. Benny!!

I was just perusing the tobbacco site and reading through the scripts. So, I see now that when they are marked "As Broadcast" that means someone actually went through and added every little thing that was added or deleted during the show!!!

I just read through the "Jack Benny and Bob Hope Double Date" episode. Holy Cow! They penciled in every ad lib Bob blurted out!!

by **River Phoenix** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:57 am

Great link for that tobacco site; I was planning to download the scripts, but that have way to many to go through. I'll just hope the site is never taken down.

by **Mike** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:06 pm

And now there are 2 scripts from the "Gisele MacKenzie Show" on ebay, (with Jack as guest and the other with Boris Karloff), and I AM GOING TO GET THEM! Mike

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