New Year's Sitter

Now listen to Father Knows Best transcribes starring Robert Young as Father! Welcome to Springfield and another half hour is it with the folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street. Sit back and enjoy life with the Andesans.

Kathy, Bud, Betty, Margaret and Jim has the head of this typical American household again sets out to prove that Father Knows Best. Well, this is New Year's Eve in Springfield, just as it is everywhere else.

But there's something special about this New Year's Eve at the White Frame House on Maple Street For the first time in years, things have worked out so the Jim and Margaret could go out to a new year's party instead of spending it at home with the children.

And right now, party preparations are nearing completion. Like this. Margaret, I need some help with these cufflinks. They put so much starch in the cuffs I can hardly bend them around my wrist. Mommy! They keep snapping back at me.

Mommy! Yes, Kathy, but take some white shoe polish and clean them. Clean them anyway. Now then, Jim, give me your cufflinks. You know, I can hardly believe we're actually going out this New Year's. It is hard to believe.

How many years is it now that we've been trying to get to the Stevens New Year's party? You'd think they would have stopped inviting us by now. Well, tonight we'll make up for all the years we've missed.

Mommy! Of course it makes you feel a little older to realize that your children are finally old enough to go somewhere on New Year's Eve. But it's kind of a good feeling too. It gives you a sense of freedom.