Father Knows Best
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
27 dated broadcasts across 78 years on the air, with 75 years 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 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 14 min
- 02
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 29 min
- 03
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 44 min
- 04
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 59 min
- 05
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 22 min
- 06
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 37 min
- 07
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 52 min
- 08
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 15 min
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