Stupid Potato

Transcripts › Father Knows Best

The Mink Coat Woes

Father Knows Best · January 21, 1954 · 29 min · 4,292 words

The transcript of “The Mink Coat Woes”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast January 21, 1954. 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.

Machine transcript (may contain errors).

Transcript

Stay tuned now for Robert Young starring in Father Knows Best, which follows this listening reminder. Tomorrow evening there's more delightful comedy fun when you set your radio dial to NBC for the Bob Hope Show and the Phil Harris Alice Fay Show.

Bob's guest star, tomorrow, will be the lovely and talented Virginia Mayo. Together they'll bring you a half hour loaded with laugh-provoking materials, so be sure to listen to the Bob Hope Show. Then stay tuned for Phil Harris and Alice Fay, as they bring you another Mirth Quaking edition of their wonderful comedy show. Tomorrow it's Bob Hope, Phil Harris and Alice Fay on

the NBC radio network. And now it's time for Father Knows Best on NBC. Now listen to Father Knows Best transcribe starring Robert Young as father. And another half hour is it with the folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street. Sit back and enjoy life with the Anderson. Kathy, Bud, Betty, Margaret and Jim has the head of this typical

American household again sets out to prove that father knows best. Now ordinarily a Saturday morning at the White Frame House on Maple Street is the time when the Anderson family takes a change of pace from the week's work in the tempo of life is generally relaxed and rather easy going.

And it might have been that way this Saturday morning if daughter Betty had not come in with what sounded like a harmless piece of news. Like this. Mother! We're in the den, Betty. Mother, guess what? I just came from Jamie Ligotsen. Guess what?

Well, what's happened now? Princess, your mother and I are going over last month's bills. Don't tell us anything that costs money. Will you remember me telling you about Janie's aunt, the rich one? That's what we need, a rich aunt.

Read the full transcript with Potato Plus

93 more paragraphs, about 27 more minutes of the episode. Potato Plus is every episode on demand from any moment, every transcript in full and unlimited transcript search, for $5 a month.

Potato Plus opens soon: join the list

All Father Knows Best transcripts · Search every transcript · The archive