Family Theater: Mr. Bidderoe's Mission

The Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents Mr. Bittero's Mission, starring Chester Morris and Cecil Callaway with the music of Meredith Wilson. Jack Haley is your host. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams are.

Good evening. This is Jack Haley, your host on the Family Theater tonight. I imagine lots of you people are still a little puzzled about this program. You want to know what's behind it? Who puts it on?

Who's the sponsor? Well, it's simple. Family Theater is put on by a group of people here in Hollywood who believe as you do in a wonderful ideal, a happy American family. Because we know that a happy family is the finest thing we can have, it's worth working for, worth fighting for, worth praying for.

And it's because the skids are under that ideal, and because lots of families aren't happy, aren't pulling together, that we feel the need for a program like this is vital. Notice how we started off? We said, More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

That's the idea behind the family theatre. We all share the simple conviction that prayer, family prayer, can keep our families happy. For a family that prays together stays together. So don't be afraid. Ask God for His help. He won't let you down.

I sat there in a little world of my own. I began to have that feeling which occurs to all of us at times. as though the days and weeks are rushing by too quickly, and we're living in a dream, never fully aware or alert to the reality of what we're doing at the moment.