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Halloween Blues

Father Knows Best · October 29, 1953 · 29 min · 4,749 words

The transcript of “Halloween Blues”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast October 29, 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, are post 40% Brand Flakes really the best tasting cereal of them all? Well, your father says so, and Father Knows Best. Father Knows Best transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors the Anderson.

Brought to you by Instant Sanker, the delicious coffee that lets you sleep, and post 40% Brand Flakes. Mother, next time you're choosing a cereal, remember. New post 40% brand flakes give your family all the important keep regular benefits of brand in a cereal with a delicious new magic oven flavor.

Insist on post brand flakes the cereal preferred and eaten by far more people than any other brand flakes. This weekend get post 40% brand flakes in the new family size 15 ounce package. They're good and so good for you.

All October rolls around, the air is crisp and clear. And hearts of men are happy in the twilight of the year. In Springfield, in the White Frame House on Maple Street, the Anderson's are at breakfast.

It's a beautiful day. Bright and brisk, and... Well, it starts out as a beautiful day anyway. Like this. Good morning, everybody. Good morning! What a day, what a beautiful, wonderful day. Mother, just a moment, Betty. Here's your cereal, dear.

Cereal, dear. Thank you. Margaret, look at that sun. Look at that sky. Smell those golden leaves burning in the sunlight. Have you ever in your whole life seen a more beautiful day? No, dear. Drink your milk, Cathy.

Take a breath of that air. Clear, cold, clean as a whistle. They can talk all they like about spring. This is the time of year that put zip into a man. Pass the cream and sugar, Betty, please.

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