Walt Disney on The Jack Benny Hour (1965)

Jack Benny was a legendary comedy star who's largely forgotten today.

The Jack Benny Program was a popular, award-winning radio and television comedy series that ran for over three decades; from 1932 to 1955 on radio and from 1950 to 1965 on television. Benny was also an innovator in civil rights, treating his co-star Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as an equal when many black actors were not at the time. Benny's schtick was he was a cheapskate with his money and a lot of the gags were made at his expense.

In this 1965 episode excerpt, Jack invites his real life friend, Walt Disney, to appear as himself in a sketch where Benny seeks free tickets to Disneyland for his staff. In the next sketch Benny, Bob Hope, and Elke Sommer do a spoof of Walt's masterpiece, Mary Poppins. This may be the only time Walt Disney ever acted on someone else's show. This edited version only includes the Disney scenes.

The full episode (with the Beach Boys) can be seen here: https://archive.org/details/TheJackBennyHour1965

Original air date November 13, 1965

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