What happens
Jim Anderson is packing for a business convention in Chicago when his family's superstitions begin to snowball. His daughter Betty goes on a date with a stranger after a fortune-telling card warns of a tall, dark man, and his son Bud blames his baseball slump on a bat. Jim's wife Margaret gives away his old gray hat to the junk man, which sends Jim into a rage. Father Knows Best is a radio family comedy from 1950, and this episode first aired on May 25 of that year. The episode is partly told here, and the story is still unfolding when this account ends.
The White Frame House on Maple Street in Springfield
Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Betty Anderson, Bud Anderson, Kathy Anderson, Ed Davis, Mr. Adams
Listen for: Jim Anderson's indignant insistence that superstition is silly, followed by his own attachment to his lucky gray hat
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.