What happens
Jim Anderson is annoyed when his wife Margaret invites Charlie Warren, a former football star and an old acquaintance from Springfield, to dinner while Jim is trying to finish his income tax return. Jim feels Margaret's friendship with Charlie in their youth was closer than she lets on, and he hatches a plan with his friend Hector Smith to make Charlie feel small. The household's breakfast is noisy and tense as the family prepares for the visit. Father Knows Best is a radio family comedy from March 9, 1950, starring Robert Young as Father. The Anderson children, Betty, Bud and Kathy, add to the commotion as the day unfolds.
The White Frame House on Maple Street in Springfield, the Anderson family home, in the 1950s.
Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Betty, Bud, Kathy, Charlie Warren, Hector Smith
Listen for: Jim's jealous bluster at the breakfast table and his scheme with Hector to outdo Charlie Warren.
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.