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The Family Behind the Man

Father Knows Best · January 10, 1952 · 29 min · 4,373 words

The transcript of “The Family Behind the Man”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast January 10, 1952. 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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Transcribed. Grand is a real pleasure to have as our new sponsor the folks who make these truly fine crossly products and all of us in the cast of Father Knows Best and Mighty Happy to have

been chosen to help tell you about them. A scientist of old once said, give me the ground to stand on and I will move the earth. Apparently no one took him up on it but the old codger started something.

Today, if you want a mountain move, there's a machine to do it. If you want a lake or a river move, there's a machine to do it. But sad to relate, there seems to be no force known to man powerful enough to move a 15-year-old boy crouched on the floor of the den at 607 Maple Street reading Dick Tracy. Like this.

Bud, will you pick up the papers and hang up your jacket please? In a minute, Mom. Bud. What do you want mom? Put that paper away and I'm in the day on just a second mom.

Mother I can't get Kathy to do anything. She hasn't wiped a single dish hardly. Oh dear. She just sits in front of that radio in the kitchen listening to some bird program. 500 canaries. Well I'll talk to her. I'll be glad when your father gets home. How come dad so late tonight. I don't know. Something important came up, he said. Now please children. Mommy,

call this number. Call what number, Kathy? This one. And if we're the first hundred the calls, you know what? We get a year's supply of bird seed. Oh, creators. Now what would we do with a year's supply of bird seed? It's free. But we don't have any birds.

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