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 		 Father Knows Best Radio Shows starring Robert Young Father Knows Best - Volume 1    

TAGLINE: "A half-hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons."

Like many shows of the period, Father Knows Best began on radio (NBC in 1949), 5 years before becoming a television series.


16 half-hour shows with original commercials for Maxwell House Coffee.

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Father Knows Best: Robert Young stars as Jim Anderson, a successful insurance salesman living in Springfield with his wife Margaret (June Whitley) and their three children: Betty, Bud, and Kathy. A very polular television sitcom in the 1950s, Father Knows Best had it's beginnings on radio. This delightful family series was the brainchild of Robert Young. The first program was produced in 1948 (Audition Program), and was very similar to Ozzie and Harriet and The Life of Riley in it's basic concept. The programs sponsor on radio was Maxwell House Coffee. All of the programs in this collection are complete half-hour broadcasts with original commercials.

 Disc One
The Elusive Card Game
1-12-50
The Uncontrolled Dog
5-4-50

Disc Two
The Gold Challenge
5-11-50
Superstitious Folk
5-25-50

 Disc Three
Time For a New Car
6-8-50
New Arrangements
6-29-50		 Disc Four
Vacation Arrives
7-6-50
An Efficient House
9-7-50		  
   

Disc Five
Who Has Time?
9-21-50
The New Girl Friend
9-28-50

 Disc Six
Family Spending
10-5-50
The Skunk Must Go
10-12-50		 Disc Seven
A Spooky Cemetery
10-2-50
Too Many Problems
11-20-50

Disc Eight
Bad Barbecue
11-9-50
Enterprising Kids
11-16-50

  
  Father Knows Best Radio Shows Vol. 2 Father Knows Best - Volume 2  
   

TAGLINE: "A half-hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons."

Father Knows Best portrayed a family that was surprisingly similar to a real American family. The trials tribulations and triumphants.


16 half-hour shows with the original commercials for Maxwell House and General Foods

  
   

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  Father Knows Best: The series began August 25, 1949, on NBC Radio. Set in the Midwest, it starred Robert Young as the General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyl. The Anderson children were Betty (Rhoda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson), and Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson). Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley, Herb Vigran and Sam Edwards. Sponsored through most of its run by General Foods, the series was heard Thursday evenings on NBC until March 25, 1954.

Disc 1
Thanksgiving
11-23-50
The French Teacher
12-7-50

 Disc Two
Father Becomes Ill
12-14-50
Christmas
12-21-50
 Disc Three
Party Preparations
12-28-50
Taking on City Hall
1-4-51		 Disc Four
Missing Furniture
1-11-51
Redecoration Woes
1-18-51
    
      Disc Five
Sound Matchmaker
1-25-51
Ranch Inheritance
2-1-51

Disc Six
A Discussion of Diet
9-20-51
Smooth Household
5-15-52

Disc Seven
Watching the Dog
9-11-52
Weekend Activity
9-18-52

 Disc Eight
Should Women Work?
9-25-52
Betty and the Crooner
10-9-52
    
 

> Episodes originally aired 50-52
> Format: CD
> Genre: Drama
> Label: Nostalgia Merchant
> Originally Released in: 1987
> Run Time: 16 Hours (on both CDs)
> Audio: Dolby Digital

                
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