Secrets of the Attic: Father Knows Best (February 21, 1952)

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“Secrets of the Attic” is an episode of Father Knows Best, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 21, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jim Anderson discovers that pages of the financial and sports sections are going missing from his newspaper each night, and he blames his friend and newspaper editor Fred Mattson. His wife Margaret and their children try to calm him as he suspects a family member. The household becomes busy with the middle daughter Kathy's secret project, and the Andersons begin to examine what has been happening in their home, which brings a family quarrel into the open. The episode is part of the Father Knows Best series, and its story centers on the family's everyday troubles at home on Maple Street.

The White Frame House on Maple Street, Springfield

Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Betty Anderson, Kathy Anderson, Bob Anderson, Eddie Anderson, Fred Mattson

Listen for: Jim's suspicion that Fred Mattson is behind the missing newspaper pages, and the family's search for the person taking them.

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.