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The Meteor

Father Knows Best · November 29, 1951 · 29 min · 4,580 words

The transcript of “The Meteor”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast November 29, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Father Knows Best plays Father Knows Best free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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What's-what house the best coffee in the whole world? Well, your father says so, and your father knows best. Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Anderson's.

Brought to you by Maxwell House. The coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more people than any other brand of coffee at any price. Maxwell House. always good to the last drop. Here's a quotation I'm sure you all remember. I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth I know not where. I lose more darned arrows that way or something

like that. Anyway, tonight we aren't exactly concerned with arrows but we are interested in other things that fall to earth, meteors to be exact. When a meteor crashes to earth, A heavenly hot rod on the loose. That's news.

When it crashes in the backyard at the White Frame House on Maple Street and becomes the personal property of the Anderson's, that's news with an unpredictable future. Like this. Ink. Ink. Where do they hide the ink?

Leave it to my kids if it isn't nailed down, it's gone. Margaret! What a way to run things. Can't ever find anything when you need it. Someday I'll come home and there won't be any house.

I'm right too. I ran my office the way they run things around here. We'd be heading for the poor house right now. Margaret. Just a minute, dear. There you are. How does that look? It looks fine, but do you think we'll have enough for 16 girls?

Oh, we aren't half finished. We've got all the little sandwiches to make. Oh, I was beginning to get worried. Margaret. Just a minute, dear. Betty. Yes, mother? Honey, all I want is the ink. Jim, what would we be doing with the ink?

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