What happens
Jim Anderson plans to drive his family to a tennis match with his employer Mr. Gribble, but the household is in chaos as everyone searches for missing items. Margaret, Betty, Bud, Kathy and Jim argue over lost sweaters, gloves, hats and shoes, and Jim keeps getting pulled into phone calls. The family's car keys end up inside the house, and the Andersons are locked out on a day they are already running late. The episode is part of the Father Knows Best series, first aired on May 17, 1951, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
The Anderson family's white frame house on Maple Street, and the surrounding neighborhood, on a Saturday afternoon.
Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Betty Anderson, Bud Anderson, Kathy Anderson, Mr. Gribble, JP, Ed Davis
Listen for: Jim trying to hurry the family along while the children and Margaret keep searching for things, and the family's attempts to get back into the locked house.
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.