What happens
Jim Anderson decides to teach his children Betty, Bud and Kathy the value of money by paying each of them a weekly salary and charging them for meals, room and laundry. Margaret Anderson worries that the plan is too harsh, while the children quickly struggle with their spending and their budgets. This episode of Father Knows Best, broadcast on October 8, 1953, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, shows the family in Springfield as the experiment begins and the household's usual routines are disrupted.
The White Frame House on Maple Street in Springfield, a small American town
Characters: Jim Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Betty Anderson, Bud Anderson, Kathy Anderson
Listen for: Jim explaining the salary plan to the children and the children's reactions to their new budgets
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.