What happens
The Anderson family of Springfield argues over the worn rose chair in their living room, and the argument escalates into a sequence of misunderstandings. Father Jim, mother Margaret, and their children Betty, Bud and Kathy are the central characters. The episode is from the radio series Father Knows Best, first broadcast on January 11, 1951, with Robert Young as the father. When a radio contest gives the family an unexpected chance to swap furniture, the Andersons find themselves dealing with moving men and the consequences of their choices. The transcript covers only the first part of the episode, so the rest of the plot is not described here.
The Anderson home, a white frame house on Maple Street in Springfield
Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Betty Anderson, Bud Anderson, Kathy Anderson, Joe Phillips, Janie Liggett
Listen for: The radio contest in which moving men remove furniture from the Anderson house, and the family's reactions as the furniture disappears
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.
