What happens
Jim Anderson decides to build a brick barbecue in his Springfield backyard so he can host the Buckleys, old friends visiting from New York, for dinner. His wife Margaret and their children Betty, Bud and Kathy have doubts about the project, and the instructions from the magazine prove hard to follow. Kathy's help keeps causing trouble, and the plans are complicated by a clash with Betty's homecoming party on the same Saturday. The Father Knows Best series aired this episode on November 9, 1950, with Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
The Anderson family's backyard and home on Maple Street in Springfield, on a November weekend.
Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Betty Anderson, Bud Anderson, Kathy Anderson, Phil Buckley, Mrs. Buckley, Joe Phillips
Listen for: Listen for Jim's confident planning of the barbecue, Kathy's reading of the magazine instructions, and the Buckleys' arrival at the outdoor dinner.
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.