Re: From the OTS:
A "Father Knows Best" Christmas
Antenna TV | 12/25/16
Posted on 12/25/2016, 6:48:17 AM by DallasBiff
Just watched a "Father Knows Best" Christmas episode, and it is basically the Andersons lost on Christmas Eve and they come upon a lodge, where a man named "Nick" is living.
To get to the point, Nick is initially hostile to the Anderson's, but warms up to them. The Anderson's are then informed that Nick is a vagrant in the lodge, and they insist on paying the bill for Nick.
An interesting aspect is that all the children are interested in a gift in the lodge, Betty a camera, Bud a rifle, and Kathy a stuffed dog.
Can you imagine in these times a TV show actually portraying a rifle as a positive gift for Christmas."Father Knows Best" The Christmas Story episode originally broadcast December 19, 1954
Gadzooks, Biff-- Not only do I remember that episode...

we were living in Natchez, Mississippi, at the time--
I even found a screen grab from it:
And that wonderful old character actor...

Wallace Ford, played 'Nick' in it.
And I wanted a Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun...

for Christmas that year--
"No, you'd...

shoot your eye out."
Nope, that is Hollywood fiction...

my Mom and Dad got me one--
And I turned out...

all right!
BTW a free cigar to the whoever...

can tell me what film that photo of Wallace Ford came from--