THE JACK BENNY SHOW & X-MINUS ONE

On “The Jack Benny Show,” Jack has a terrible time trying to listen to the 1950 World Series. When he’s not being interrupted by visitors, his radio keeps jumping between a performance of “Bali Hai” and a boxing match from the 1920s. Then “X Minus One” adapts Ray Bradbury’s classic short story, “The Veldt.” How real is too real for the television of the future?

Episodes

The Jack Benny Show

October 8, 1950

“Jack Listens to the World Series and the Dempsey-Tunney Fight”

4:10

X Minus One

August 4, 1955

“The Veldt”

36:14