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Kathy's Engagement Ring

Father Knows Best · September 4, 1952 · 29 min · 3,980 words

The transcript of “Kathy's Engagement Ring”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast September 4, 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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Mother, are post 40% Brand Flakes really the best tasting series of them all? Well, your father says so, and Father Knows Best. Yes, it's Father Knows Best, transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Gung and his father.

A half hour visit with your neighbors the Anderson's, brought to you by America's largest selling Brand Flakes, post 40% Brand Flakes. And by Instant Postem, the good tasting drink that's entirely caffeine-free. I shot an arrow into the air.

It fell to earth I know not where. But things like that can be very, very serious. Especially if that little prankster Cupid is on the sending end of that arrow. And this particular arrow just happened to fall in Springfield, right smack dab in the center of the White Frame House on Maple Street.

And someone you'd never suspect is wearing the biggest engagement ring you ever saw. Let's find out who, gradually along with the rest of the family. Like this. Kathy, you're hardly eating any dinner, aren't you hungry?

Not too. Daddy, haven't you noticed anything different about me? Anybody want the rest of those sweet potatoes? Okay, I might as well finish them. But... well, nobody said anything. You didn't give them a chance.

I'll pay you the butter, bud. Here. don't have to stick your finger in my eye, cut it out. Didn't you notice anything different about my left hand I mean? Yeah, it's clean for a change.

That's not what I meant. I'm only trying to make you notice something. My finger. I'm sure Kathy's only trying to be polite. But put Betty's dessert down. Huh? Oh, I was reaching for the cream and I guess Betty's dessert was sort of in the way.

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