Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
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1949–1954 on radio · NBC
Father Knows Best
The Anderson family, worked out on radio five years before the camera found them.
The television Father Knows Best is a fixed point in the American imagination; almost nobody remembers that it spent five years on NBC radio first, with Robert Young already in the part and the scripts already working. The radio version is noticeably sharper — the father is fallible, the jokes have edges — and hearing it is the cleanest way to understand what television did to the family comedy when it took it over.
- On radio
- Radio from 25 August 1949
- On television
- Television from 3 October 1954
- The overlap
- Robert Young carried the part from one medium to the other
60 recordings · Hollywood
NBC network broadcasts, 1948–1954, held by the Internet Archive, including the audition disc. Public domain (US network broadcast, copyright not renewed); no Creative Commons or non-commercial terms apply.
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Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
195115
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
195214
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
195314
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
19544
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.
Father Knows Best, NBC. Recording held by the Internet Archive; public domain.