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The Missing Wedding Ring
Father Knows Best · March 19, 1953 · 29 min · 4,381 words
The transcript of “The Missing Wedding Ring”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast March 19, 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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Father, our post-40% brand flakes really the best tasting cereal of them all. Well, your father says so, and Father knows best. And it's Father Knows Best, transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as Father. A half hour visit with your neighbors in the Anderson's.
Brought to you by America's largest selling brand flakes, post-40% brand flakes, and by instant post-em, the good tasting drink that's entirely caffeine-free. A wedding ring has quite generally been considered the key to bliss and happiness.
But then, if one is to consider certain events which occurred recently at the White Frame House on Maple Street, one must admit that a wedding ring is capable of stirring up a few domestic problems, especially if the ring has a loose stone.
The aforementioned chain of events had its beginning in the Anderson kitchen a few evenings ago when Margaret, maternal head of the Anderson family, was washing dishes with reluctant help from daughter Betty. Actually, mother, I shouldn't even be doing dishes tonight. It's Kathy's turn.
Well, a little extra dish wiping isn't going to kill you. And besides, now that I think about it, Kathy did the last night, didn't she? Yes, but she's supposed to be on every night this week.
She is. Certainly, I've traded her my next six desserts for three turns at doing dishes. Well, you'll just have to take back two desserts because I sent Kathy upstairs to take a bath. I wanted to get to bed early for change.
I don't want the desserts back, I'm trying to reduce. Ralph says that a girl to look attractive should be willowy. Well as far as Ralph and his opinions are concerned. Hi Mommy, look at me.
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