What happens
Jim Anderson learns his employer wants him to take over the Chicago office, and his family is thrilled to pack up and move from Springfield. Margaret, Betty, Bud and Kathy begin sorting belongings and telling friends the news, while Jim struggles to find the words to share a change in plans. The household is busy with phone calls, packing and visits from a junk man as the move approaches. This is an episode of the series Father Knows Best, first broadcast on November 5, 1953, starring Robert Young as Jim.
The Anderson family's home on Maple Street in Springfield, and the nearby town.
Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Betty Anderson, Bud Anderson, Kathy Anderson, Ralph, Janie Liggett, Patty Davis
Listen for: Jim's announcement that the family is moving to Chicago, and the family's reactions as they begin packing.
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.