The New Girlfriend: Father Knows Best (September 28, 1950)

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“The New Girlfriend” is an episode of Father Knows Best, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 28, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jim Anderson and his family live in a white frame house on Maple Street in Springfield. Bud Anderson, a teenager, announces he is in love with a girl, and his father advises him on courtship, recalling his own days courting Margaret. Meanwhile, Betty Anderson quarrels with her boyfriend Billy Smith over a rival named Eloise March, and Jim tries to follow an important news broadcast while the household is thrown into turmoil. The episode is from the radio series Father Knows Best, first broadcast on 1950-09-28, with Robert Young as Jim Anderson. The transcript covers only the first part of the episode, which is all this guide needs.

The Anderson family home, a white frame house on Maple Street in Springfield

Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Bud Anderson, Betty Anderson, Kathy Anderson, Eloise March, Billy Smith

Listen for: Bud confides his first love to his father, and Jim recalls courting Margaret on her front porch

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.