What happens
Jim Anderson of Springfield is summoned to the mayor's office after his daughter Kathy sends a sharp letter criticizing the city's plan to tear down the old meeting hall for a new highway. Jim's wife Margaret and the children Betty and Bud accompany him, and the family fears the consequences of the letter's impertinence. Kathy confesses that she wrote it under her father's name, and the mayor reads the letter with a mix of amusement and attention. The episode is part of the series Father Knows Best, which aired on January 4, 1951, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
Springfield, the Anderson home on Maple Street and the mayor's office in city hall
Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Betty Anderson, Bud Anderson, Kathy Anderson, The Mayor
Listen for: Kathy's letter to the mayor about the meeting hall and the family's nervous wait outside his office
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.