What happens
Betty Anderson, eighteen, backs her father's car into the garage and dents the fender, then tries to work out how to tell her father, Jim, before she asks to borrow the car for her sorority dance. Her younger sister Kathy and brother Bud get involved, and Betty's mother Margaret tries to help. Father Knows Best is a family comedy series, and this episode was first broadcast on February 26, 1953, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson. The family tries to avoid the truth and then has to face it, as Jim lectures Betty on honesty.
The Anderson family home, a white frame house on Maple Street, and the garage and driveway beside it, on a Saturday afternoon.
Characters: Betty Anderson, Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Bud Anderson, Kathy Anderson, Don Courtney
Listen for: Betty's attempts to avoid telling her father about the dented fender, and Jim's lecture to Betty about honesty.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.