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Second Family Car

Father Knows Best · January 8, 1953 · 29 min · 4,357 words

The transcript of “Second Family Car”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast January 8, 1953. 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, our post-40% brand flakes really the best tasting cereal of them all? Well, your father says so, and father knows best. Yes, it's father knows best. Transcracting Hollywood starring Robert Young is father. A half hour visit with your neighbor is the Anderson.

Brought to you by America's largest selling brand flakes. Post-40% brand flakes, and by Instant Postam, a good tasting drink that's entirely caffeine-free. It is often said that, quote, women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness, unquote.

One of the most common weaknesses among the weaker sex seems to be a complete lack of ability to repair mechanical devices, such as, for example, automobiles. Well, we'd better begin this morning at the White Frame House on Maple Street, where Betty Anderson is broaching a certain automotive idea to her mother, while Sun Bud divides his attention

between a comic book and their conversation, like this. Well, what I'm trying to say, Mother, is, well, yes, just what are you trying to say, Betty? Well, there are certain cold facts nowadays that run the space quite utterly.

Oh, I agree. But what are some of these cold facts? We can't ignore them, Mother. I said I agreed. But just what, take Janie Ligat for example. She drives her own car to school. Oh.

Well, just what does that have to do? I have a little cramer, she drives her own car. I see. So you feel that you have a wee Roman, she drives. Betty, I get the idea.

Well, it's not so much for me, mother, but I think that it's quite a reflection on you and father to have a daughter who has to walk to school or depend on someone else for a ride.

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