August 12, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more
people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
A wondrous gift.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I bring to thee right as a star, and a
velvet sky light as a moonbeam dancing by.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And I call my gift contentment. It's raining in spring feet.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It's been raining, as a matter of fact, for the
past three days. In the white frame house on Maple Street.
Close confinement has sharpened nerves to a razor's edge, and
tension mounts precariously with each falling raindrop.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Dramatic, isn't it go ahead?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Kathy?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Wait a minute, Kathy, I'll trade you Indiana Avenue in
the Electric Company for Marbon Gardens. I don't want Marvin Gardens.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Daddy, Yes, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
How many do I need for the B and O Railroad?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Five?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I hope you get a ten in land in jail.
But well, she's got all the other railroads.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Now, but if you.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Would, Betty can't be good sports about it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Father. I don't mind losing, but she gets the boardwalk
in park place every game. And what's fun is it?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
What do you know? Fine?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
All right, Bud, give her the other railroad.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Here's two hundred dollars that put another house on the boardwalk.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
You can't put any more houses on the boardwalk.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
You've got a hotel now, Well, why cannot father?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
She doesn't know any more about this game than a rabbit.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I do too, you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Do not, I do too.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Nothing I like more than a nice quiet game of Monopoly.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Ray three whole days and all it does is.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
All right, Bud, it's your turn. Oh where am i?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
North Carolina Avenue? You'll roll seven body of land on
the boardwalk, Kathy, I told him not.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
To, Daddy, for well, that's more like it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It puts you on chance.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I hope I go to jail and stay there the
rest of the game.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
Bud, Yes, Dan, it says advanced token to boardwalk.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh no, two thousand dollars.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
But I'm afraid, Jim, Jim, what is it, Margaret, what's the.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Matter, Jim, come up here quickly.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I'll be right up, Hon, I have to go upstairs.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Do you want me two thousand dollars? Send him a bill?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Tag up now, Kathy? What's wrong, Margaret, Jim? Look at
the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's ruins.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Jump and gee, hussip it. We forgot to empty the
buckets all over the wall in the ruck. Come on, Bud, boy,
what a mess?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Hold out my two thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Don't worry mother, good grief the whole attic.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Boy, what a mess.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, don't stand there, do something.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
Open the window, Okay, Margaret, send the girls up here
with the mops. Marger right, heard you, gem Well why
didn't you say something and tell him to hurry up?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Water all over everything? Some mess? Han, Dad, Just stand
out of the way. Bud, I've got to empty these buckets.
Want me to Hell, of course not. I just brought
you along, keep me company.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Well, all I said was, come on, Bud, grab a bucket.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Don't stand there. Well, you just told me grab a bucket.
Cow the worst.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Rain in twenty years, and it has to come when
there's a hole in the roof, But throw it out
the window.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I asked you to do a simple thing like dump
a bucket of water out of a window, and you
can't even do that right?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Well, gosh, it was heavy then, man, I only spilled
a couple of drops.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Grab another bucket and stop talking?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Did they all run?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Jim, look at this place.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
It's going to be all right, Margaret, Katy, stop pushing me.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What I want to see now?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Is that the last one? I think? So? All right?
Closed the window?
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Oh jam, I'll wait a minute, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It isn't going to do any good to cry about it.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I asked you to have the roof fixed.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I plaited. Start mopping, hand.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Kathy, what's money crying about?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Never burn Margaret? Oh honey, listened to me. This rain's
got us all on heage. We're nervous and irritable, but
we can't let it get us down. Can we want
me to do something? Dan? Yes, put the buckets back
where they belong, Okay, Margaret. I hate this host, Margaret,
I do.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's old, and it's ugly, and it's falling apart, and
I hate.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Every bit of it. And you're just tired. I know
it isn't any fun being cooped up here. For three days.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It was bad enough for four.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But no, Margaret, there isn't anything that can't be fixed.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I've been telling you for years that I was just
big enough for us.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
We need another bathroom in four closets, another bedroom.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We've been all through that, Margaret, And this isn't the time.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It certainly is the time.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Look at this place.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm ashamed to have our friends see it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Well, we just won't let them come up into the attic,
that's all, Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
This is not the time for jokes.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I can't think of a better time.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
How are you doing, Betty, you're practically finished. I'm hungry.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Well, as soon as we get through up here, we'll
go down to a nice hot dinner and we'll all
feel better.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Where did they have hamburgers again, Bud Anderson? If you
don't like my cooking, you can arrange to eat somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Margaret, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
All I said it isn't bad enough that I have
to stand over a stove all afternoon.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Honey. He didn't mean anything. You're just as bad as.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He is, just because he's your son.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
If it were one of the girls, you wouldn't be
so quick to defend them.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I wasn't defending him, Margaret.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
I merely say the only two girls in the entire
neighborhood without new Easter outfits, and you don't even care.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
I do care. I told you to buy the new
clothes for Easter, didn't I?
Speaker 9 (06:40):
With prices the way they are today, Jim Anderson, are
you out of your mind?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
I told you to buy them, and if you didn't
want to buy them, why blame it on me?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Jadie Licktt got a hold out measure.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Jennie legged to me again.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
There you are.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
All she has to do is say one word and
you fly off the handle because she isn't your son.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
My son didn't get any new clothes for Easter?
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Did he?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You didn't hear him complaining, did you? I don't want
any clothes, you see, Patty.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Gave us got a new hat and new clothes.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Kathy, what good her clothes?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Just because you don't care how you look?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I care as much as anybody.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
But if I throw money away on clothes when you
can get a gasoline scooter from.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I was only going to.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Tell you I don't care what you were going to
tell me.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
But I'm practically the only kid in the whole school.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The doorbell rang.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I'm practically the only kid in the whole school.
Speaker 10 (07:33):
Only see who's at the door from here, go downstairs
and see who's.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
At the door a bicycle.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I'm practically the only kid in the whole school who
doesn't have a joy wagon.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
And I can't even have a gasoline scooter.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You think I was a kid or something. Margaret.
Speaker 11 (07:55):
There isn't anything more we can do up here, girls,
so we'd better go downstairs.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Go ahead, Kathy, I have the time.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I shoelace, Margaret, I'd like to explain.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
There isn't anything to explain.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Go ahead, girls, but you don't even know him.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Please, I'd rather not discuss it right now.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I don't know one little accident.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
The whole world is coming to an end. The house
is no good. The furniture is no good.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I'm no good.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
No one said anything about the furniture.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
All that you agree about me. The furniture's fine, But daddy.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Keep quiet, Kathy, Betty, you and Kathleen go into the
bathroom and get ready for dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Okay, mout come on. Button face holds a button face,
I said, button face.
Speaker 12 (08:48):
Oh, Margaret, I'd better.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Get started on the hamburgers. If you and your son
have no objection.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You know the way Bud loves hamburgers. He'll eat them
until he's sick.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Has never gotten sick on my hamburger?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Honey, what's gotten into you? I've never seen you luck before.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, if you had rain dripping down on your ceiling
for three.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Days, it is my ceiling, That's what I've been trying
to tell you.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's as much my ceiling in my house as it
is yours.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Then why don't you take a little pride in it?
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Oh Margaret, for the love of Pete dead, But I'm
talking to your mother.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
There's a man here wants to know if you can
use the phone. Well, tell him to come in. Don't
keep him out there in the rain. Would you like
to come in? Thank you very much, sah. I hate
to barge in on you folks like this having a
little trouble.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
No, not trouble exactly. Can't rightly call a little thing
like this trouble. Just got a little water in the distributor,
I think, Bud.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Why don't you close the door?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
Well, ma'am, if you don't mind, would it be all
right if we left it open.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I got my youngun's out in the car. And if
you close the door and your family's out there in the.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Rain, well what family I got? Just betsying a little skip.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
But you don't have to worry, Jim.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We can't let them stay outside, of course not.
Speaker 13 (10:03):
But mister, we're being an awful bother the way it is.
I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Put on your ring coat and robbers.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
If it's all right to bring him in, you won't
have to bother bout fetch you.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, naturally, it's all right.
Speaker 13 (10:14):
Sure neighborly have you?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Betsy? We're ok stick Skipper's head on and bring him in. Okay,
she's a good girl, Betsy. Well eat, but she's got
a head on her bud.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
See.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
If you can't help.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Them, never mind, but I'll go, Jim, put your coat on.
I'll be all right. Hello there, Betsy, Hi, come on,
little fella. I've got you.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Sure right him at it, Skipper, don't say, ain't fine
more second, and we'll be inside where it's nice and warm.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Here we are, huh, Skipper said, ain't.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh you poor angels you're ringing wet.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
They'll be all right, ma'am. Been wet lots of times.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Before that's run upstairs and get some blankets.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Okay, tell Kathy to bring down her slippers. You bet that, honey.
Don't you think they could use a little warm milk?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I certainly do.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Let's see, honey, let's mind their manners.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I can't help it.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Pam Skipper wants to know if this is heaven.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Well, maybe now Margaret won't think her house is so
bad after all, young Skipper sounds even more convincing than father.
But more often than not, ladies, the head of the
house is the one whose opinion you value most. And
that's certainly true about coffee. Fact is your husband is
the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, the one who knows
(11:57):
most about truly good coffee is that man yours.
Speaker 13 (12:01):
Of course we're called experts too.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
More people do buy our Maxwell House coffee than any
other brand. But when you serve the coffee, there's only
one expert you care about, your husband, and tomorrow, if
you fill his cup with Maxwell House, we promise he'll
smile and say.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Wonderful, best coffee I ever tasted.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
We're sure he'll say that, So sure we'll give you
back your money if he doesn't. You see, no other
coffee has that same good to the last drop flavor,
because that flavor can come only from the famous Maxwell
House recipe. It's a very particular recipe demanding certain fine
coffees blended just so, and this recipe belongs to Maxwell
(12:43):
House alone. No other coffee is made like Maxwell House.
That's why no other coffee tastes like Maxwell House. Tomorrow,
take home a pound of our coffee. Pour a cup
of Maxwell House for your husband. If he doesn't say
best coffee ever, send, We'll return every penny you pay.
Our address is right on every familiar blue tin. Fair enough,
(13:04):
then start serving your husband coffee with the world's most
famous flavor, our Maxwell House, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
There's one thing you've got to hand to the philosophers.
They're pretty philosophical and smart too. Take well, take Socrates
for example.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
He said, if all our misfortunes.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take
an equal portion, most people.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Would be content to take their own and depart. That
makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. It does to
the Andersons anyway.
Speaker 11 (13:45):
Like this another cup of coffee, mister Matthews mister Matthews.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm sorry, Matt. How about another cup of coffee by.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
That'd be fine, thank you.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
The reason why you and the kids can't stay here tonight,
well you can find room for them, can't we, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Of course, it's mighty nice to you folks, and don't
think I don't appreciate it. Well, then it's all settled,
that ain't no, mister Anderson.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Please, we've got to be in plainvillea night or I
won't have a job.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Did you call me Potter?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh, never mind, Betty, We're all that's fine here. Of course,
it's only for two weeks.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
But I promise the man i'd be there, and I
reckon he's counting on me. Tell me, Matt, would you
be interested in a permanent job around here.
Speaker 11 (14:30):
My husband's in the insurance business, and he knows a
lot of people, and I'm sure if he talked to them.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
You know, it's like I used to tell Mary, that
was my wife. If there's one thing you can count
on in this world, it's people don't know how the
world to get along without him. That's a very interesting observation.
But look, Matt, you can't keep traveling around with those
two kids. That isn't fair to them, this business of
working in Middletown one week and then going to Plain
(14:57):
Build for two more. Mister Anderson, there's one thing you
don't seem to understand.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
We're not just traveling.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
We're going somewhere, but you've got to earn a living
as we go, so it takes us longer, and it
does most folks.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
It's all. You don't have to go to Arizona, do you?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I suppose not.
Speaker 13 (15:14):
Doctor just says I'll a little bit longer out there.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Is all. Oh, well, you didn't say.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
We'll just keep moving along a little but little we'll
get there.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I'm sure you will.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Get me a little farm like the one we just
had washed away.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Maybe understand they don't wash away in Arizona, Matt. Wasn't
there something you could salvage, some equipment or stock or something.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Well, I tell you the truth, there was much to save.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
We had a lot of bills when yeah, no sense
bothering you folks with any more troubles.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That sure was a wonderful dinner, Miss Anderson.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Thank you, Matt, Say Dad, well, the mechanical genius returns.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
How'd you make out, Bud? You know what was wrong.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
The whole ignition system was wet, and I fixed it.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
No, well, isn't that wonderful.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I ran an extension out to the car and I
hooked up the vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 12 (16:17):
But you didn't take my good vacuum cleaner, Margaret. I mean,
how could you possibly fix mister Matthew's car with a
vacuum cleaner?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
It was easy. I put the blow attachment on it,
and boy, you should have seen those wires dry out.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Now I call that real smart. I wouldn't have thought
of that in a thousand years.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
I don't think anyone would except Bud.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
And you don't have to worry about the vacuum cleaner either.
Kathy's bubbing oil on it.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That'll be nice.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I better go see that she does a good job.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
That's what I like about her family, everybody pitching in
and helping her.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Oh, better around, Skipper up, Betsy. We'll be leaving in
a minute.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Okay, Hey, Skip say, I've got an idea.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Why don't you leave the kids here for a few days. Oh,
I don't think that's.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
A wonderful idea, Jim. They don't have to be in
plain Bill tonight.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Why don't you, mad Well, I never thought of being
away from the kids.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
But it won't be for long, just until the weather
clears out.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
There's lots of room for them. This is a big house,
you know it.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Sure is the biggest one I've ever been in. Prettiest too.
I'm not surprised that Skipper thought it was heaven.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Oh Jim, Well, how about it, matt Will you let
them stay?
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Well?
Speaker 13 (17:40):
Well, if it's all right with them, it's all right
with me.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Good Betsy, we're.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Washing Skipper's face, Daddy. We'll have him ready in a
couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Regular their Betsy. We want to talk to you, okay,
I mean yes, sir, brother.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
That skipper's the cutest thing he ever saw. He's got
chain on his face.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
From here cleared to abbe.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
What's a better brother?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Nothing, dear, not a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Mister Matthews is going to let the children stay with
us for a few days. What do you think of that, creepers?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
That will be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We can move bud down to the day.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
We'll take care of that when the time comes, and
Matthew won't have to worry about a thing. Oh I
know that I can spend Easter with us, and then
sometime next week we'll all take a little ride over
the plain fills.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Daddy, look at Skipper.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What have you done to that poor child?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's buzz old cowboy.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Suit whoa ho'mp along Skipper himself.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
He's a real cowboy, isn't he, Betsy? He's something, pauh.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
He got into the gym.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And he spread it all Caper.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I'm a cowboy and I'm gonna shoot everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Get I'm sure.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Sorry, folks, Betsy, I told you to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Him, I know, but I was drying the dishes.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It isn't anything to worry about.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Matt, Kathy, take that silly looking hat off an see.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I'm gonna shoot.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Asians too, Betsy.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
I've been talking to your father, and how would you
and Skipper like to stay with us for a few days?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Daddy?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You mean without pauw shoot him?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Get in. Mister Anderson's talking to you too.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Are be really gonna stay here? Daddy? Really? Be quiet? Kathy? Oh, Betsy,
please say you'll do it. We'll have such a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Pau Yes, honey, who's going to take care of you?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Na? Just a minute? I took care of myself long
before you came along.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Ma said you never took care of yourself.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
Good.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
He'll get along fine, Betsy.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
We just thought we'd like very much to have you.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
Dear you and Skipper would have your own room and
you wouldn't be out in that horrible rain.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Pau do you want us to stay here?
Speaker 8 (19:52):
It's only for a few days, honey, But I don't
want you to do something that you don't want to do.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I want you to make up your own mind.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I made it.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, that's fine, we'll keep going with Paw. Shee wi, Betsy.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
I'd like to explain to you won't do any good.
Explaining to that child. Once her mind's made up, it's
made up.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
May I try?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Why? Sure?
Speaker 13 (20:17):
Go right ahead, Betsy.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Don't you like us?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I like you?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Fine. You can play with all my toys and I'll
teach you how to play the piano.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Now, wait a minute, Kathy, let's not but I will.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Oh, Betsy, please say you'll stay.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
We have to go with Paw to shoot injes Betsy.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
It's very cold and nasty outside. And if you stay here,
we'll build a big fire in the fireplace and we
toast marshmallows.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I have to take care of my paw.
Speaker 13 (20:46):
But Darling Margaret leave the child alone.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
She knows what she wants to do.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I want to stay here, Betsy, all my life. I
wanted to stay in a house like this with electric
lights and a piano.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Honey, But they don't mean much.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We haven't got your folks and pause. All the folks
we've got left.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Well, that takes care of that.
Speaker 13 (21:07):
Come on, Skipper, we better get your coat on.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I'll take care of it, mister Matthews, Come on, skip.
Do I have to take off the cow blightard?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
No, dear, that's yours to key?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
What thank you? In the world? Daddy? Do they have
sidewalks in Arizona?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I suppose, So where are you going?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'll be right there, Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
If Bud hasn't really fixed the cot, oh.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I think he has, ma'am. It was just a little wet.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
But I'll be right in then, Betsy.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
I have a coat that's much too small for Kathy,
and I'll bet.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It'll fit you just right.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Pau Well, it'll be.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
An Easter present, won't it, Jim?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Say? Matt, I wonder if you do me a favor.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
I've got a raincoat that's always been too tight across
the shoulders for me, and I was.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Thinking that if you take it off my hands, I
could get one that had fit me.
Speaker 13 (22:02):
I was a stranger. Now did just feed me?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
I'm sorry I didn't hear that nothing. I was just thinking, Hey.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Mom, what happened to the jairm? And so where's everybody going?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
The Matthews have to leave?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Dear gosh, what for? I was gonna show so you.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Can get Kathy's blue coat like a good boy. I'm
sure it'll fit Betsy perfectly.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Okay, but gosh, why can't they stay till it stops raining?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Betsy? You sure you wouldn't want to stay here in Springfield?
Speaker 8 (22:30):
I can't think of any place i'd rather stay. But
we'd better be going.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Betsy, as long as you won't stay here. I can't
take your skates.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Oh sure you can.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
My daddy says they've got sidewalks. I can't take them.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
But if Kathy wants you to.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
You aren't supposed to take something unless you can give something,
are you, Paul?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Take them, baby?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But I haven't anything to give.
Speaker 13 (22:56):
We'll give them our love for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Man, Well, result set, how does he look, Betty, he
wouldn't let me take the guns off, so I had
to put the coat over them.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
We're going to Arizona, I know, Darling.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Is this the one? Mom? That's it?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Dear, come on, Betsy, let's try it on.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh while we're trying coats on, slip into this, Matt. Folks.
See what did I tell you? Bit's like it was
made for you. They tell me it's just the thing
they're wearing in Arizona. H Thank you very much there.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Now what do you think of our young lady?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Isn't a beautiful park? It looks much prettier on you
than it it looks beautiful.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Well, if we're gonna get to Plainville tonight, good luck
to you, Matt, and thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 13 (23:46):
I won't even try to say thank you wouldn't know how.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Take care of your paw, Betsy.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I will and keep Skipper good warm.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Shoot a few Indians from me, skip.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Okay, And when you get to Arizona send us a postcard.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We'll write your long letter.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Bet Bye, Kathy, goodbye father.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I know what you're going to say, Betty, and you
don't have to Does that apply to me as well?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Sure? I'm in a noble mood. Goodbye everybody, good bye. Well,
that takes care of that, Jim.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
If they break down again, it's.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
All right, honey. I put some money in the coat pocket.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I hope she likes my skates.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Gosh, those poor kids.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
They aren't poor, Bud, not any of them.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
But father, they don't have a house, they don't have
a lot of money, but they aren't poor.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Then why did I give him my skates?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
That isn't what your father means, Angel, But.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
He said, we gave the Matthews food and coats and skates,
But they gave us something far more wonderful, kitten.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
They gave us one another.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
With your weekend groceries, you'll probably buy the coffee you'll
serve your family all next week, and first and foremost,
you'll be looking for flavor, the most in flavor for
your money. So make it a point to get the
one coffee at your grocer's that's famous for flavor above
all other brands, Our Maxwell House Coffee. Yes, take home
a ten of Maxwell House and serve it to the
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world's greatest coffee expert, your husband. When he breaks into
a smile at the first sip and tells you best
coffee ever, you'll know it's Maxwell House for flavor. Then
just count all the truly good cups you get from me.
You'll be convinced it's Maxwell House for value too. At
your grocer's then look for the friendly blue tin with
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the big white cup and drop take home Maxwell House
coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
It's midnight now, and the white frame house on Maple
Street is peaceful and quiet. The children are fast asleep,
but not Margaret and Jim there.
Speaker 13 (26:29):
Well, it's really Jim's fault like this.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Jim, all right, honey, you go back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Why aren't you in bed?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I just went in to see if the children are
all right? Are they They're fine? Jim?
Speaker 11 (26:44):
If you're going to stand in the window, please put
your robe on. Now, what is it?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I've been thinking about the Matthews. That's all. They'll be
all right, won't they?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Of course they will.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I was just wondering if I shouldn't have put a
little more in the coat pocket.
Speaker 13 (27:04):
What did you put in ten dollars?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
It was all I had, Jim, Yes, dear, I.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Put ten in the other pocket.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Say modred it stopped raining. It has isn't that beautiful?
All the stars are off when you observe a hot
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cereal at breakfast time? Do you hear this?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I don't want any old cereal.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
When you'd rather hear this?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Good?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Well to guess your children to wait a hot cereal
in the morning, Get them post wheatmeal.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Just tell them post wwheatmeal is hop Alon Cassidy's favorite
hot cereal, and they eat it too.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Post wheatmeal is chuck full of solid whole wheat nourishment,
has a wonderful nut like flavor, and it cooks in
three and a half minutes. You'll see you'll all agree
it's the best hot cereal you ever eat. Join us
again next week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best,
starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with Roy.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra. In our cast were
June Whitley's.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Margaret, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Norma G. Nilson, Howard Culbers,
Stuppy Singer, Sheila James, and yours.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Truly, Bill Foreman.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee,
always good to the last drop Father Knows Best was
transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now stay
tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of
these stations.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
Enjoy exciting Dragnet with more good Times on NBC
Mother, Is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more
people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
A wondrous gift.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I bring to thee right as a star, and a
velvet sky light as a moonbeam dancing by.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And I call my gift contentment. It's raining in spring feet.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
It's been raining, as a matter of fact, for the
past three days. In the white frame house on Maple Street.
Close confinement has sharpened nerves to a razor's edge, and
tension mounts precariously with each falling raindrop.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Dramatic, isn't it go ahead?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Kathy?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Wait a minute, Kathy, I'll trade you Indiana Avenue in
the Electric Company for Marbon Gardens. I don't want Marvin Gardens.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Daddy, Yes, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
How many do I need for the B and O Railroad?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Five?
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I hope you get a ten in land in jail.
But well, she's got all the other railroads.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Now, but if you.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Would, Betty can't be good sports about it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Father. I don't mind losing, but she gets the boardwalk
in park place every game. And what's fun is it?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
What do you know? Fine?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
All right, Bud, give her the other railroad.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Here's two hundred dollars that put another house on the boardwalk.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
You can't put any more houses on the boardwalk.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
You've got a hotel now, Well, why cannot father?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
She doesn't know any more about this game than a rabbit.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I do too, you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Do not, I do too.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Nothing I like more than a nice quiet game of Monopoly.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Ray three whole days and all it does is.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
All right, Bud, it's your turn. Oh where am i?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
North Carolina Avenue? You'll roll seven body of land on
the boardwalk, Kathy, I told him not.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
To, Daddy, for well, that's more like it.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It puts you on chance.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I hope I go to jail and stay there the
rest of the game.
Speaker 8 (02:43):
Bud, Yes, Dan, it says advanced token to boardwalk.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh no, two thousand dollars.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
But I'm afraid, Jim, Jim, what is it, Margaret, what's the.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Matter, Jim, come up here quickly.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I'll be right up, Hon, I have to go upstairs.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Do you want me two thousand dollars? Send him a bill?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Tag up now, Kathy? What's wrong, Margaret, Jim? Look at
the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's ruins.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Jump and gee, hussip it. We forgot to empty the
buckets all over the wall in the ruck. Come on, Bud, boy,
what a mess?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Hold out my two thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Don't worry mother, good grief the whole attic.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Boy, what a mess.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, don't stand there, do something.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
Open the window, Okay, Margaret, send the girls up here
with the mops. Marger right, heard you, gem Well why
didn't you say something and tell him to hurry up?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Water all over everything? Some mess? Han, Dad, Just stand
out of the way. Bud, I've got to empty these buckets.
Want me to Hell, of course not. I just brought
you along, keep me company.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Well, all I said was, come on, Bud, grab a bucket.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Don't stand there. Well, you just told me grab a bucket.
Cow the worst.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Rain in twenty years, and it has to come when
there's a hole in the roof, But throw it out
the window.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I asked you to do a simple thing like dump
a bucket of water out of a window, and you
can't even do that right?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Well, gosh, it was heavy then, man, I only spilled
a couple of drops.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Grab another bucket and stop talking?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Did they all run?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Jim, look at this place.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
It's going to be all right, Margaret, Katy, stop pushing me.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
What I want to see now?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Is that the last one? I think? So? All right?
Closed the window?
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Oh jam, I'll wait a minute, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It isn't going to do any good to cry about it.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I asked you to have the roof fixed.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I plaited. Start mopping, hand.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Kathy, what's money crying about?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Never burn Margaret? Oh honey, listened to me. This rain's
got us all on heage. We're nervous and irritable, but
we can't let it get us down. Can we want
me to do something? Dan? Yes, put the buckets back
where they belong, Okay, Margaret. I hate this host, Margaret,
I do.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's old, and it's ugly, and it's falling apart, and
I hate.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Every bit of it. And you're just tired. I know
it isn't any fun being cooped up here. For three days.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It was bad enough for four.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But no, Margaret, there isn't anything that can't be fixed.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I've been telling you for years that I was just
big enough for us.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
We need another bathroom in four closets, another bedroom.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
We've been all through that, Margaret, And this isn't the time.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It certainly is the time.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Look at this place.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm ashamed to have our friends see it.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Well, we just won't let them come up into the attic,
that's all, Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
This is not the time for jokes.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I can't think of a better time.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
How are you doing, Betty, you're practically finished. I'm hungry.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Well, as soon as we get through up here, we'll
go down to a nice hot dinner and we'll all
feel better.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Where did they have hamburgers again, Bud Anderson? If you
don't like my cooking, you can arrange to eat somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Margaret, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
All I said it isn't bad enough that I have
to stand over a stove all afternoon.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Honey. He didn't mean anything. You're just as bad as.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He is, just because he's your son.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Here we go.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
If it were one of the girls, you wouldn't be
so quick to defend them.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I wasn't defending him, Margaret.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
I merely say the only two girls in the entire
neighborhood without new Easter outfits, and you don't even care.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
I do care. I told you to buy the new
clothes for Easter, didn't I?
Speaker 9 (06:40):
With prices the way they are today, Jim Anderson, are
you out of your mind?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
I told you to buy them, and if you didn't
want to buy them, why blame it on me?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Jadie Licktt got a hold out measure.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Jennie legged to me again.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
There you are.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
All she has to do is say one word and
you fly off the handle because she isn't your son.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
My son didn't get any new clothes for Easter?
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Did he?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You didn't hear him complaining, did you? I don't want
any clothes, you see, Patty.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Gave us got a new hat and new clothes.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Kathy, what good her clothes?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Just because you don't care how you look?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I care as much as anybody.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
But if I throw money away on clothes when you
can get a gasoline scooter from.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I was only going to.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Tell you I don't care what you were going to
tell me.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
But I'm practically the only kid in the whole school.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The doorbell rang.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I'm practically the only kid in the whole school.
Speaker 10 (07:33):
Only see who's at the door from here, go downstairs
and see who's.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
At the door a bicycle.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I'm practically the only kid in the whole school who
doesn't have a joy wagon.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
And I can't even have a gasoline scooter.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
You think I was a kid or something. Margaret.
Speaker 11 (07:55):
There isn't anything more we can do up here, girls,
so we'd better go downstairs.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Go ahead, Kathy, I have the time.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I shoelace, Margaret, I'd like to explain.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
There isn't anything to explain.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Go ahead, girls, but you don't even know him.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Please, I'd rather not discuss it right now.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I don't know one little accident.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
The whole world is coming to an end. The house
is no good. The furniture is no good.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I'm no good.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
No one said anything about the furniture.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
All that you agree about me. The furniture's fine, But daddy.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Keep quiet, Kathy, Betty, you and Kathleen go into the
bathroom and get ready for dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Okay, mout come on. Button face holds a button face,
I said, button face.
Speaker 12 (08:48):
Oh, Margaret, I'd better.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Get started on the hamburgers. If you and your son
have no objection.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You know the way Bud loves hamburgers. He'll eat them
until he's sick.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Has never gotten sick on my hamburger?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Honey, what's gotten into you? I've never seen you luck before.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, if you had rain dripping down on your ceiling
for three.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Days, it is my ceiling, That's what I've been trying
to tell you.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's as much my ceiling in my house as it
is yours.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Then why don't you take a little pride in it?
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Oh Margaret, for the love of Pete dead, But I'm
talking to your mother.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
There's a man here wants to know if you can
use the phone. Well, tell him to come in. Don't
keep him out there in the rain. Would you like
to come in? Thank you very much, sah. I hate
to barge in on you folks like this having a
little trouble.
Speaker 8 (09:37):
No, not trouble exactly. Can't rightly call a little thing
like this trouble. Just got a little water in the distributor,
I think, Bud.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Why don't you close the door?
Speaker 8 (09:46):
Well, ma'am, if you don't mind, would it be all
right if we left it open.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I got my youngun's out in the car. And if
you close the door and your family's out there in the.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Rain, well what family I got? Just betsying a little skip.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
But you don't have to worry, Jim.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
We can't let them stay outside, of course not.
Speaker 13 (10:03):
But mister, we're being an awful bother the way it is.
I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Put on your ring coat and robbers.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
If it's all right to bring him in, you won't
have to bother bout fetch you.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, naturally, it's all right.
Speaker 13 (10:14):
Sure neighborly have you?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Betsy? We're ok stick Skipper's head on and bring him in. Okay,
she's a good girl, Betsy. Well eat, but she's got
a head on her bud.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
See.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
If you can't help.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Them, never mind, but I'll go, Jim, put your coat on.
I'll be all right. Hello there, Betsy, Hi, come on,
little fella. I've got you.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Sure right him at it, Skipper, don't say, ain't fine
more second, and we'll be inside where it's nice and warm.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Here we are, huh, Skipper said, ain't.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh you poor angels you're ringing wet.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
They'll be all right, ma'am. Been wet lots of times.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Before that's run upstairs and get some blankets.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Okay, tell Kathy to bring down her slippers. You bet that, honey.
Don't you think they could use a little warm milk?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I certainly do.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Let's see, honey, let's mind their manners.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I can't help it.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Pam Skipper wants to know if this is heaven.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Well, maybe now Margaret won't think her house is so
bad after all, young Skipper sounds even more convincing than father.
But more often than not, ladies, the head of the
house is the one whose opinion you value most. And
that's certainly true about coffee. Fact is your husband is
the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, the one who knows
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most about truly good coffee is that man yours.
Speaker 13 (12:01):
Of course we're called experts too.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
More people do buy our Maxwell House coffee than any
other brand. But when you serve the coffee, there's only
one expert you care about, your husband, and tomorrow, if
you fill his cup with Maxwell House, we promise he'll
smile and say.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Wonderful, best coffee I ever tasted.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
We're sure he'll say that, So sure we'll give you
back your money if he doesn't. You see, no other
coffee has that same good to the last drop flavor,
because that flavor can come only from the famous Maxwell
House recipe. It's a very particular recipe demanding certain fine
coffees blended just so, and this recipe belongs to Maxwell
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House alone. No other coffee is made like Maxwell House.
That's why no other coffee tastes like Maxwell House. Tomorrow,
take home a pound of our coffee. Pour a cup
of Maxwell House for your husband. If he doesn't say
best coffee ever, send, We'll return every penny you pay.
Our address is right on every familiar blue tin. Fair enough,
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then start serving your husband coffee with the world's most
famous flavor, our Maxwell House, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
There's one thing you've got to hand to the philosophers.
They're pretty philosophical and smart too. Take well, take Socrates
for example.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
He said, if all our misfortunes.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take
an equal portion, most people.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Would be content to take their own and depart. That
makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. It does to
the Andersons anyway.
Speaker 11 (13:45):
Like this another cup of coffee, mister Matthews mister Matthews.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm sorry, Matt. How about another cup of coffee by.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
That'd be fine, thank you.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
The reason why you and the kids can't stay here tonight,
well you can find room for them, can't we, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Of course, it's mighty nice to you folks, and don't
think I don't appreciate it. Well, then it's all settled,
that ain't no, mister Anderson.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Please, we've got to be in plainvillea night or I
won't have a job.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Did you call me Potter?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh, never mind, Betty, We're all that's fine here. Of course,
it's only for two weeks.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
But I promise the man i'd be there, and I
reckon he's counting on me. Tell me, Matt, would you
be interested in a permanent job around here.
Speaker 11 (14:30):
My husband's in the insurance business, and he knows a
lot of people, and I'm sure if he talked to them.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
You know, it's like I used to tell Mary, that
was my wife. If there's one thing you can count
on in this world, it's people don't know how the
world to get along without him. That's a very interesting observation.
But look, Matt, you can't keep traveling around with those
two kids. That isn't fair to them, this business of
working in Middletown one week and then going to Plain
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Build for two more. Mister Anderson, there's one thing you
don't seem to understand.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
We're not just traveling.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
We're going somewhere, but you've got to earn a living
as we go, so it takes us longer, and it
does most folks.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
It's all. You don't have to go to Arizona, do you?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I suppose not.
Speaker 13 (15:14):
Doctor just says I'll a little bit longer out there.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Is all. Oh, well, you didn't say.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
We'll just keep moving along a little but little we'll
get there.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I'm sure you will.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Get me a little farm like the one we just
had washed away.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Maybe understand they don't wash away in Arizona, Matt. Wasn't
there something you could salvage, some equipment or stock or something.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Well, I tell you the truth, there was much to save.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
We had a lot of bills when yeah, no sense
bothering you folks with any more troubles.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That sure was a wonderful dinner, Miss Anderson.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Thank you, Matt, Say Dad, well, the mechanical genius returns.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
How'd you make out, Bud? You know what was wrong.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
The whole ignition system was wet, and I fixed it.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
No, well, isn't that wonderful.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
I ran an extension out to the car and I
hooked up the vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 12 (16:17):
But you didn't take my good vacuum cleaner, Margaret. I mean,
how could you possibly fix mister Matthew's car with a
vacuum cleaner?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
It was easy. I put the blow attachment on it,
and boy, you should have seen those wires dry out.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Now I call that real smart. I wouldn't have thought
of that in a thousand years.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
I don't think anyone would except Bud.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
And you don't have to worry about the vacuum cleaner either.
Kathy's bubbing oil on it.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That'll be nice.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I better go see that she does a good job.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
That's what I like about her family, everybody pitching in
and helping her.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Oh, better around, Skipper up, Betsy. We'll be leaving in
a minute.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Okay, Hey, Skip say, I've got an idea.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Why don't you leave the kids here for a few days. Oh,
I don't think that's.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
A wonderful idea, Jim. They don't have to be in
plain Bill tonight.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Why don't you, mad Well, I never thought of being
away from the kids.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
But it won't be for long, just until the weather
clears out.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
There's lots of room for them. This is a big house,
you know it.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Sure is the biggest one I've ever been in. Prettiest too.
I'm not surprised that Skipper thought it was heaven.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Oh Jim, Well, how about it, matt Will you let
them stay?
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Well?
Speaker 13 (17:40):
Well, if it's all right with them, it's all right
with me.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Good Betsy, we're.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Washing Skipper's face, Daddy. We'll have him ready in a
couple of minutes.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Regular their Betsy. We want to talk to you, okay,
I mean yes, sir, brother.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
That skipper's the cutest thing he ever saw. He's got
chain on his face.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
From here cleared to abbe.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
What's a better brother?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Nothing, dear, not a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Mister Matthews is going to let the children stay with
us for a few days. What do you think of that, creepers?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
That will be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We can move bud down to the day.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
We'll take care of that when the time comes, and
Matthew won't have to worry about a thing. Oh I
know that I can spend Easter with us, and then
sometime next week we'll all take a little ride over
the plain fills.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Daddy, look at Skipper.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What have you done to that poor child?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's buzz old cowboy.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Suit whoa ho'mp along Skipper himself.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
He's a real cowboy, isn't he, Betsy? He's something, pauh.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
He got into the gym.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And he spread it all Caper.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I'm a cowboy and I'm gonna shoot everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Get I'm sure.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Sorry, folks, Betsy, I told you to watch.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Him, I know, but I was drying the dishes.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It isn't anything to worry about.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Matt, Kathy, take that silly looking hat off an see.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I'm gonna shoot.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Asians too, Betsy.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
I've been talking to your father, and how would you
and Skipper like to stay with us for a few days?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Daddy?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You mean without pauw shoot him?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Get in. Mister Anderson's talking to you too.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Are be really gonna stay here? Daddy? Really? Be quiet? Kathy? Oh, Betsy,
please say you'll do it. We'll have such a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Pau Yes, honey, who's going to take care of you?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Na? Just a minute? I took care of myself long
before you came along.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Ma said you never took care of yourself.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
Good.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
He'll get along fine, Betsy.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
We just thought we'd like very much to have you.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
Dear you and Skipper would have your own room and
you wouldn't be out in that horrible rain.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Pau do you want us to stay here?
Speaker 8 (19:52):
It's only for a few days, honey, But I don't
want you to do something that you don't want to do.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I want you to make up your own mind.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I made it.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, that's fine, we'll keep going with Paw. Shee wi, Betsy.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
I'd like to explain to you won't do any good.
Explaining to that child. Once her mind's made up, it's
made up.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
May I try?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Why? Sure?
Speaker 13 (20:17):
Go right ahead, Betsy.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Don't you like us?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I like you?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Fine. You can play with all my toys and I'll
teach you how to play the piano.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Now, wait a minute, Kathy, let's not but I will.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Oh, Betsy, please say you'll stay.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
We have to go with Paw to shoot injes Betsy.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
It's very cold and nasty outside. And if you stay here,
we'll build a big fire in the fireplace and we
toast marshmallows.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I have to take care of my paw.
Speaker 13 (20:46):
But Darling Margaret leave the child alone.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
She knows what she wants to do.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I want to stay here, Betsy, all my life. I
wanted to stay in a house like this with electric
lights and a piano.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Honey, But they don't mean much.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
We haven't got your folks and pause. All the folks
we've got left.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Well, that takes care of that.
Speaker 13 (21:07):
Come on, Skipper, we better get your coat on.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I'll take care of it, mister Matthews, Come on, skip.
Do I have to take off the cow blightard?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
No, dear, that's yours to key?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
What thank you? In the world? Daddy? Do they have
sidewalks in Arizona?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I suppose, So where are you going?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'll be right there, Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
If Bud hasn't really fixed the cot, oh.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I think he has, ma'am. It was just a little wet.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
But I'll be right in then, Betsy.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
I have a coat that's much too small for Kathy,
and I'll bet.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
It'll fit you just right.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Pau Well, it'll be.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
An Easter present, won't it, Jim?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Say? Matt, I wonder if you do me a favor.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
I've got a raincoat that's always been too tight across
the shoulders for me, and I was.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Thinking that if you take it off my hands, I
could get one that had fit me.
Speaker 13 (22:02):
I was a stranger. Now did just feed me?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
I'm sorry I didn't hear that nothing. I was just thinking, Hey.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Mom, what happened to the jairm? And so where's everybody going?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
The Matthews have to leave?
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Dear gosh, what for? I was gonna show so you.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Can get Kathy's blue coat like a good boy. I'm
sure it'll fit Betsy perfectly.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Okay, but gosh, why can't they stay till it stops raining?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Betsy? You sure you wouldn't want to stay here in Springfield?
Speaker 8 (22:30):
I can't think of any place i'd rather stay. But
we'd better be going.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Betsy, as long as you won't stay here. I can't
take your skates.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Oh sure you can.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
My daddy says they've got sidewalks. I can't take them.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
But if Kathy wants you to.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
You aren't supposed to take something unless you can give something,
are you, Paul?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Take them, baby?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
But I haven't anything to give.
Speaker 13 (22:56):
We'll give them our love for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Man, Well, result set, how does he look, Betty, he
wouldn't let me take the guns off, so I had
to put the coat over them.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
We're going to Arizona, I know, Darling.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Is this the one? Mom? That's it?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Dear, come on, Betsy, let's try it on.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh while we're trying coats on, slip into this, Matt. Folks.
See what did I tell you? Bit's like it was
made for you. They tell me it's just the thing
they're wearing in Arizona. H Thank you very much there.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Now what do you think of our young lady?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Isn't a beautiful park? It looks much prettier on you
than it it looks beautiful.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Well, if we're gonna get to Plainville tonight, good luck
to you, Matt, and thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 13 (23:46):
I won't even try to say thank you wouldn't know how.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Take care of your paw, Betsy.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
I will and keep Skipper good warm.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Shoot a few Indians from me, skip.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Okay, And when you get to Arizona send us a postcard.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We'll write your long letter.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Bet Bye, Kathy, goodbye father.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
I know what you're going to say, Betty, and you
don't have to Does that apply to me as well?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Sure? I'm in a noble mood. Goodbye everybody, good bye. Well,
that takes care of that, Jim.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
If they break down again, it's.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
All right, honey. I put some money in the coat pocket.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I hope she likes my skates.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Gosh, those poor kids.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
They aren't poor, Bud, not any of them.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
But father, they don't have a house, they don't have
a lot of money, but they aren't poor.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Then why did I give him my skates?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
That isn't what your father means, Angel, But.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
He said, we gave the Matthews food and coats and skates,
But they gave us something far more wonderful, kitten.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
They gave us one another.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
With your weekend groceries, you'll probably buy the coffee you'll
serve your family all next week, and first and foremost,
you'll be looking for flavor, the most in flavor for
your money. So make it a point to get the
one coffee at your grocer's that's famous for flavor above
all other brands, Our Maxwell House Coffee. Yes, take home
a ten of Maxwell House and serve it to the
(25:45):
world's greatest coffee expert, your husband. When he breaks into
a smile at the first sip and tells you best
coffee ever, you'll know it's Maxwell House for flavor. Then
just count all the truly good cups you get from me.
You'll be convinced it's Maxwell House for value too. At
your grocer's then look for the friendly blue tin with
(26:07):
the big white cup and drop take home Maxwell House
coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
It's midnight now, and the white frame house on Maple
Street is peaceful and quiet. The children are fast asleep,
but not Margaret and Jim there.
Speaker 13 (26:29):
Well, it's really Jim's fault like this.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Jim, all right, honey, you go back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Why aren't you in bed?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I just went in to see if the children are
all right? Are they They're fine? Jim?
Speaker 11 (26:44):
If you're going to stand in the window, please put
your robe on. Now, what is it?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I've been thinking about the Matthews. That's all. They'll be
all right, won't they?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Of course they will.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I was just wondering if I shouldn't have put a
little more in the coat pocket.
Speaker 13 (27:04):
What did you put in ten dollars?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
It was all I had, Jim, Yes, dear, I.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Put ten in the other pocket.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Say modred it stopped raining. It has isn't that beautiful?
All the stars are off when you observe a hot
(27:46):
cereal at breakfast time? Do you hear this?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I don't want any old cereal.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
When you'd rather hear this?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Good?
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Well to guess your children to wait a hot cereal
in the morning, Get them post wheatmeal.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Just tell them post wwheatmeal is hop Alon Cassidy's favorite
hot cereal, and they eat it too.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Post wheatmeal is chuck full of solid whole wheat nourishment,
has a wonderful nut like flavor, and it cooks in
three and a half minutes. You'll see you'll all agree
it's the best hot cereal you ever eat. Join us
again next week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best,
starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with Roy.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra. In our cast were
June Whitley's.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Margaret, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Norma G. Nilson, Howard Culbers,
Stuppy Singer, Sheila James, and yours.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Truly, Bill Foreman.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee,
always good to the last drop Father Knows Best was
transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now stay
tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of
these stations.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
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