 The network dropped Benny at the end of the season.He continued to make occasional specials into the 1970s, the last one airing in January 1974.In his unpublished autobiography, "I Always Had Shoes" (portions of which were later incorporated by Jack's daughter, Joan Benny, into her memoir of her parents, "Sunday Nights at Seven"), Benny said that he, not NBC, made the decision to end his TV series in 1965.