The series Father Knows Best began on NBC Radio and starred Robert
Young as the General Insurance agent Jim Anderson. His wife Margaret
was first portrayed by June Whitley and later by Jean Vander Pyl. The
Anderson children were Betty (Rhoda Williams), Bud (Ted Donaldson),
and Kathy (Norma Jean Nillson). Others in the cast were Eleanor Audley,
Herb Vigran and Sam Edwards. Sponsored through most of its run by
General Foods, the series was heard Thursday evenings on NBC until
March 25, 1954. The show went to TV May 27, 1954.

Marvin Miller was the Maxwell House
Coffee spokesman for Father Knows
Best.