The show starts with Jack and Mary doing some Christmas shopping. Mel Blanc is the sales clerk, and tries to up-sell Jack from the cheap wallet to a more expensive…
In preparing to travel to Chicago, Rochester helps Jack get packed up. Medication, clothes, and reading material. Elsewhere, we find Mary with her new maid, packing and making arrangements for…
Don takes us back to the evening before, when Mary, Phil, and Dennis rave over the Danny Kaye movie they just saw, The Kid from Brooklyn. The compliments have Jack…
Guest is Van Johnson. Confusion opens the show when Don introduces Van Johnson as star of the show, and Mary hasn't showed up yet. Jack tries to phone Mary, but…
At March Field, and as March ends, Jack pokes fun at the military with the use of animal jokes. Mary shifts gears with jokes about dating soldiers. The base trains…
The whole gang is gathered for a rehearsal in Jack's library. Dennis is taken aback at the formal proceedings in the meeting that seem to have developed during his absence…
When the guest star, Ray Milland, is given top billing in Don's announcement, Jack takes offense and pouts. Though Mary and Phil joke about the heavy drinking Ray Milland, he…
Jack reads the gossip column, and gets a kick out of the celebrity gossip. Except for the stuff written about him. Rochester joins in Jack's pondering buying real estate in…
Jack tells Don about his birthday bash he had earlier in the week. Of course, Mary enters to fill in the more embarrassing details. Phil is late so Mary reads…
Rochester, Jack, and Mary drive downtown and talk about the films playing. Might Jack win an Oscar for his work in A Horn Blows at Midnight? Mary talks about Jack's…