Family Theater: The Happiest Person in the World

The Mutual Broadcasting System in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated presents The Happiest Person in the World starring William Bendix and Walter Tetley. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams are. Well, I don't suppose there's anybody listening who doesn't know what a flashback is.

You know like when you sit down at the end of a year and look back over what you've accomplished. Maybe we reenact the story and live it over again. Maybe we're happy about it. we've learned because we've been burned and maybe we know why we missed the boat in 47.

Well, anyway, we get to thinking, which is good because all of us sometimes get around to thinking about something like the purpose of family theater, about making a home. I mean making a happy home, which is a big job for any guy.

So tonight we're going to do a flashback on a story about the happiest person in the world. Maybe that's going to be, yes, maybe it's going to be you. Now I better introduce myself, because I'm going to do the first flashback of 1948.

It all started exactly seven days ago. And let me tell you I'm not living the life of Riley or a week, because on the side I've been Father Time, City Editor of the World Newspaper.

Alright, so I sound like Riley, but as Father Time I got more troubles. To begin with, at 11.59 pm New Year's Eve, I'm sitting around the office sharpening my my sickle, combing 1947 out of my beard and waiting for some 1948 sand for my hourglass, when all of a sudden, oh here we go again, what a job. Every 365 days I got a break in