Father Knows Best
Broadcast · 1948 · Seasonal
NBC
NBC · 1949–1954
Broadcasts
111
Cadence
Seasonal
Rated
PG
Since
1948
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1949–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 111
- Genre
- comedy
Father Knows Best began on NBC radio in August 1949 with Robert Young as insurance man Jim Anderson, alongside June Whitley and later Jean Vander Pyl as Margaret. The radio run continued to 1954, when the series moved to television. The surviving recordings in this collection stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
41 dated broadcasts across 7 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
- 1. Audition Show · 20 Dec 1948
- 2. Safety Campaign · 5 Jan 1950
- 3. A Weekend in the Country · 16 Feb 1950
- 01
Audition Show
20 Dec 1948 · 30 min
- 02
Safety Campaign
5 Jan 1950 · 29 min
- 03
A Weekend in the Country
16 Feb 1950 · 29 min
- 04
An Uncontrolled Dog
4 May 1950 · 29 min
- 05
Betty's Screen Test
18 May 1950 · 29 min
- 06
Picnic For Fathers Day
15 Jun 1950 · 58 min
- 07
New Arrangements
29 Jun 1950 · 29 min
- 08
Family Car Stolen
14 Sep 1950 · 29 min
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NBC in 1949–1954
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