Father Knows Best
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Nov 4, 2026
Scott BassHOST
And Severson was...
Scott BassHOST
You know, just a little bit more Father Knows Best sort of like, you know, ward level.
Scott BassHOST
What was Father Knows Best's ward?
David Lee ScalesHOST
Cleaver, right? Cleaver, yeah.
Scott BassHOST
No, that's Beaver.
Scott BassHOST
Yeah.
David Lee ScalesHOST
Billy Gray.
David Lee ScalesHOST
Oh, no. Billy Gray was the actor that played James Anderson on Father Knows Best.
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Radio Retropolis.
Jim RomanovichHOST
I'm Jim Romanovich and welcome to the Father Knows Best podcast here on Radio Retropolis.
Jim RomanovichHOST
Our episode up today is called Time for a New Car.
Jim RomanovichHOST
This was aired on June 8th, 1950.
Jim RomanovichHOST
And here it is on Radio Retropolis.
Jim RomanovichHOST
Radio Retropolis.
Bill ForemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yes, it's Father Knows Best, transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father.
Bill ForemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A half-hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons.
speaker_4NARRATOR
You know, when Thursday rolls around, it'll bring more top radio entertainment to you over these NBC stations.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Thursday starts right off in high gear with Robert Young starring as heroic and harassed Jim Anderson of Father Knows Best.
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The Andersons are just like your family, but funnier, for the head of the household can get himself involved in situations that take the concerted effort of wife and progeny to get unraveled.
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And usually Jim rises from the battle bloody but unbowed, and still firmly convinced that father knows best.
speaker_4NARRATOR
For adventure fans, Thursday holds the promise of top mystery listening also, as NBC presents Mr. Keene, tracer of lost persons, who matches his deductive reasoning against the violence and murder of crimes.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Later, join Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday of Dragnet, the true story of your police force in action.
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Father Knows Best, Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons.
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Hear all these and more Thursdays on NBC.
speaker_3HOST
I'm using three episodes in this analysis.
speaker_3HOST
In Father Knows Best's Margaret Disowns Her Family, an exhausted mother explains why the work exhausting her is still the greatest job in the world.
speaker_3HOST
In An Extraordinary Woman, a famous doctor and adventurer arrives to certify that the ordinary housewife has actually won.
speaker_3HOST
And in The Career Woman, a successful designer looks at Donna's children and domestic routine and begins to describe her own accomplishments as somehow incomplete.
John GrayGUEST
So we would actually have our little hobby that we do.
John GrayGUEST
And it's kind of like Father Knows Best.
John GrayGUEST
He's always reading the newspaper.
John GrayGUEST
It's
Bobby BonesHOST
Okay.
Bobby BonesHOST
It's like a parody of Father Knows Best, which also was like a black and white TV show.
Bobby BonesHOST
So that was number one that didn't work out.
Bobby BonesHOST
A lot of times I'll get people that come to me and say, hey, you should really try to do something based around Dancing with the Stars since you won the show.
Cornelius BryantHOST
I remember.
Cornelius BryantHOST
Like on shows like Father Knows Best and all these shows used to come on in the 60s and early 70s.
Cornelius BryantHOST
Even though the wife stayed home, she always got up in the morning.
Cornelius BryantHOST
She had her hair done.
Gary RossHOST
And so I was raised around that, and that to me was very normal.
Gary RossHOST
So a lot of the images and a lot of the things that I saw on television to me were very commonplace and a slice out of middle America, Father Knows Best, the Donna Riccio, things like that.
Gary RossHOST
They were actually... somewhat exotic to me and different and, you know, a world that I wasn't used to.
Gary RossHOST
In fact, I found that so amazing, people's fathers who, all they really did was try to make money.
Geezer GusHOST
I'm so thrilled you tuned in.
Geezer GusHOST
Today's comedy episode is a classic from the Father Knows Best radio show starring Robert Young.
Geezer GusHOST
The Father Knows Best radio show ran from 1949 to 1954, then turned into a regular television series in 1954 to 1960.
Geezer GusHOST
The radio show series had a strong following with listeners and it went on to become a very successful television series.
Geezer GusHOST
Today's episode is titled Taking on City Hall.
speaker_12ADVERTISER
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Bill ForemanNARRATOR
Join us again next week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargy on the Maxwell House Orchestra, and yours truly, Bill Foreman.
Bill ForemanNARRATOR
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee.
Bill ForemanNARRATOR
Always good to the last drop.
Bill ForemanNARRATOR
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James.
Bill ForemanNARRATOR
Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of these stations.
Robert YoungVOICE_ACTOR
Robert Young again, reminding you to stay tuned for Dragnet on NBC.
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