Father’s Day Trip
About This Broadcast
The Andersons plan a special Father's Day, but Jim chooses a fishing trip instead; when both families join him, the outing ends with illness, lost gear, and the discovery that their prized fishing spot is actually a government fish hatchery.
This Father Knows Best broadcast aired on June 15, 1950. It is listed as episode 43 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Robert Young, Jean VanderPyl, Norma Jean Nilsson, Roy Bargy and His Orchestra, and June Whitley. Other credited names include Ed James as writer and Bill Forman as announcer.
The surviving recording runs about 28 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Maxwell House Coffee.
A family situation comedy about Jim and Margaret Anderson and their children, using everyday household problems and generational misunderstandings for warm comedy.
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Bill Forman
Robert Young