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Mind Your Manners

Father Knows Best · September 24, 1953 · 29 min · 4,139 words

The transcript of “Mind Your Manners”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast September 24, 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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If to you now for Robert Young starring in Father Knows Best which follows immediately after this listening reminder Tomorrow evening two great NBC comedy shows return to the airwaves the Bob Hope show and the Phil Harris Alice Fay show Yes, Bob Hope and Phil Harris join forces to make Friday night one of the happiest nights on NBC radio

With Bob you'll hear lovely market whiting and Les Brown and his band of renown and with Phil Harris and Alice Fay will be Elliot Lewis Julius Abruzio, Brother William, and little Alison Phyllis. Be sure to hear them beginning tomorrow night on NBC Radio. Now stay tuned for Father Knows Best next on NBC. Now listen to Father Knows Best, transcribe starring Robert Young

as father. He's filled with another half hour visit with the folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street. Sit back and enjoy life with the Anderson's Kathy But Betty, Margaret and Jim, as the head of this typical American household again sets out to prove that father knows best.

Yes, we're in Springfield, but at the moment, not in the White Frame House on Maple Street. Instead, Jim Anderson is in the family car driving down Springfield's Main Street, accompanied by a backseat driver. No, no correction. A front seat talker. Jim's daughter bedded. Jim is trying to do two things at once.

things at once. As a member in good standing of the safe drivers club, he is trying to navigate the busy traffic and safety while at the same time listening to his daughter Betty. Like this. Father, Father, what would you say our position was?

No, I don't know. How about third base? That's a pretty good spot. You know what I mean. There's a red light. Thank you. What's this about our position? Somebody been saying something? Oh no, I was just wondering. I mean, after all, you are a pretty important man in Springfield. People don't get to be district managers just like that. Well, I

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