August 18, 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 (00:01):
Now listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young
as Father, Welcome to Springfield and another half hour visit
(00:32):
with the folks in the white frame House on Maple Street.
Sit back and enjoy life for the Andersons, Kathy, Bud, Betty, Margaret,
and Jim, as the head of this typical American household
again sets out to prove that Father knows Best.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Last week, the Andersons journeyed to Grandpa's house in Toledo
to dispose of some of their old belonging store. There
they disposed of them by dragging and shipping them all
home to the white frame House on Maple Street, where
they're right now trying to figure out how to.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Dispose of them.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Right now, Jim, along with Margaret and Bud, is on
the back porch looking over a trunk full of his
old school mementos like this.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Listen to this, Margaret, I want to read you something.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Jim, you're supposed to be starting this stuff over, not
reading all of it. You've been at that one trunk
for hours.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, just listen to this. You know how kids write
stuff in each other's high school annuals.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well here's one that really takes me back. Listen to
this to Jim May, our friendship endure through the long
years ahead, through the ups as well as the downs.
We'll fight shoulder to shoulders through the long game of
life until death knocks us both out of bounds. Your
(01:56):
pal Arnie Johnson, isn't it a wonderful sentiment?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Who's Arnie Johnson?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I don't know. I can't seem to place him.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Well, that friendship certainly endured through the long game of life.
Dad hardly got through the first inning.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Dad, what is it?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
But what are these funny looking pants?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Oh, for heaven's sake, don't bottom trousers? Oh no, I'm
glad I didn't know you when you wore those.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, they didn't look so funny. Then all the guys
wore them for a few weeks. Anyway, Well, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
It looks like the moths have beating you to it.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
But I wish you'd stop pawing through the trunk. You're
getting everything.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Mixed up, mixed up, that mess.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I'm trying to sort this stuff out and see what's
worth keeping and what I want to throw away.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, at the rate you're going, that's gonna take the
next ten years of your life. Is this big pile
of stuff here what you're throwing away?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
No, no, I'm keeping that. The John Cobs throwing away
is in this pile over here.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
What pile? There's nothing there?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Huh oh, I guess you're right.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
It always happens. Whenever you sort out old stuff, you
always wind up with more than you have when you started.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh, listen to this, Margaret. It's the class prophecy in
our annual Get this. As we gaze into the misty
clouds of the future, we see Broadway's newest star, Nancy Higginbottom,
in her hour of triumph, tossing a rose from her
bouquet into the box seat occupied by the distinguished Senator
(03:42):
James Anderson.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Senator Gosh, Dad, were you a senator?
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, you see, this is just what they predicted we
would turn out to be after we graduated.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Boy, they sure missed the vote on you.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
No, I just happened to go into the insurance business
instead of politics. The point is I was highly respected.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Who wrote that, your old buddy, Arnie Johnson?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
No, it was probably written by Well it ought to
tell here, I imagine it was. Well, I'll be done ja.
I wrote it myself, and maybe.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You should have gone into politics, Senator.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Dog gone, dog gone, dog gone?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
What's the matter with Kathy? Look you here kicking the garage.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
There's no telling what's wrong, Kathy. Don't do that. You'll
ruin your shoes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Then you're able to knock over the garage.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Dog gone, dog gone?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, come over here and tell us what's wrong.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
I don't want to tell I was over the playground
and we were playing volleyballing and we lost.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Dog gone It no kitting. That's no way to feel.
If you're going to compete in games, got to be
a good loser as well as a good winner.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
See the idea of sportsmanship fathers, he's based not on.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Father Deddy, don't interrupt your father when he's giving a lecture.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I'm not giving a lecture. I'm just trying to point
out that good sportsmanship is not based so much on
winning or losing, but on how you play the game.
Do you play it hard and clean? Do you play
it for the fun you get out of it and
for the joy of competition? Those are the important things.
Do you kids all understand that? Dad? Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
But did you wear these bellbottom pants on the level?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But we're talking about sportsmanship, father, Oh me, I might
as well have saved my breath. Well, anyway, Kathy, next
time you lose a game, the thing to do is
congratulate the winners and tell them they played a good game.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I think they cheated, Kathy. That's not the way to talk.
You'd better go inside and wash your hands and face
and think over what your father said very carefully.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Okay, but just wait, do'll we play those cheaters again?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Father?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
What is it, Betty?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Where can Ralph and I go this afternoon?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well? I don't know why. Ask me.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Well, Ralph just got his car back from the repair
shop and he wants to try out his new motors.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Can't you just go for a drive in the country.
It's a lovely day for it.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Or Ralph doesn't like to do that, he says, when
you're not driving any place in particular, how do you
know when.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
You get there?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Yes, Ralph is very analytical.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I can see that.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Oh, I'll bet that's Ralph calling. Now what shall I
tell him?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Or Ralph will think of some good analytical place to go?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Hey, Dad, what's this?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But I told you to quit pawing around in there.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Look, mom, a Max senate bathing suit.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's not so Max Sennett. That was regulation in those
So don't actually smart.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I'm not acting smart. I was just looking at it.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh I remember suits like that. My father had one
just like it, except has had a stripe around the
bottom of the skirt.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
All right, it's still in pretty good shape. All it
needs is a new button on the shoulder strap.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I'll bet the girls took more than one look when
they saw you strutting along the beach in that outfit.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Look you smart, Alex. Maybe you'd like to know I
used to be quite a swimmer. As a matter of fact,
I was on the swimming team when I was in college.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Gee, were you really, Dad?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You bet your life I was. We won the state
intercollegiate swimming championship for two years straight college.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Were you the star of the team.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, I don't like to say I was exactly the star.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Were you really on the team?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
What do you mean? Was I really on the team? Information?
I swam against Otto Beidler. What do you think of that?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Who's Otto Bidler?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Who's Otto Bidler? Yeah? Otto Bidler? After he left Aberdeen
normal and went to the university became the national freestyle champion.
That's all gone. Two years later he made the Olympic team.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Were you on the Olympic team?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well, no, that'll give you an idea. By what a
narrow margin? I missed it?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh g Dad, tell me how you? Oh wait, there
goes Joe Phillips down the alley. Hey Joe, Joe, I
got something to tell you. My dad almost made the
Olympic team.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
But don't go blabbing that all over He beat otto bugler.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Chap.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Oh me, daddy, let's see your hands, Kathy? Did you
watch them?
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Huh h? Did you use soap? Well?
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I was going to, but I didn't want to get
the soak dirty o fun. Daddy? Will you take me
out to see the octopus?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
The what?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
He's a real life one, Daddy, a man eating octopus.
They got him out of the fair out at the park.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Is there another fair in town?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Will you take me, daddy?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I'm pretty busy here, kitting still got a lot of
stuff to sort out.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
He's only halfway through his high school annual. Will you
take me daddy home?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Will you?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Kathy, you don't want to go out there, just a
bunch of the same old junk.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
They never had an octopus before.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Can't we go?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Look? All we do is just get dusty and tired
and half sick from eating a lot of things that
aren't good for us.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Oh gosh, I never get to go any place, not any.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Place, Cathy, don't start that again. You get to go
as many places as any girl, you know, probably more.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Patty Davis went to the fair and she saw the
man eating octopus twice.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, I don't think Patty's life has been particularly enriched
by that experience.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Father, Ralph can't think of anywhere to go? Can't you
think of someplace, Betty?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I haven't time to map out your social itinerary. It's
all I can do to me. Wait a minute, I've
got an idea.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Why don't you and Ralph drive out to that fair
at the park?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Yeah, and see the octopus?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
What?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And you can take Kathy with you?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Father, you're so utterly model tea.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I'm what you know that we don't want? You know who?
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Tagg I n g along?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Why not? What's wrong with me? No, Betty? I think
would be very nice if you take Kathy out there.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
What a revolting idea. I'll tell Ralph, but I know
he's got better sense than that. I'll go help you, mother,
don't let her follow me.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
All he over, Kathy, You go wash your hands again,
and this time you soap.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Oh okay, well let's see now where was I in
this mess? Anyhow?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
You had just been elected senator?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh? Yes, he dead, dead, Yes, son dead.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
You can beat mister Phillips, can't you.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
What are you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Swimming? I was telling Joe about you being the star
on the college team, and he claimed his dad could
swim circles around you. Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I think George would need a pair of fairly speedy
water wings to do that, That's what I said.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
So I told him you'd lease he's dead anywhere anytime.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You did so.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Joe said, Okay, how about this afternoon at the YMCA pool.
He's over asking his dad right now?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Will you do it?
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well, but I'm pretty busy right now.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
And the button is off his bathing suit.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
He doesn't wear that old thing. He's got good swimming trunks.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
How about it?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
This?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Okay, Well, but maybe sometime when I'm not so busy.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
She did, You're not afraid to raise him, are you.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Oh no, no, of course not. That's not it at all.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Okay, I'll go call him, but come back here.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Oh me, ye, I don't think you ought to do
a thing like that.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You don't know how right you are.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You're not in condition.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It's not that I'm in fair shape from golf. But well,
I just hate to let the boy down after this
build up. Is going to be a real blow to
him to see his dad lose.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Lose. But how could you weren't you the captain of
the swimming team.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I didn't say I was the captain.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, star, then I didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Say that either. That was Bud's idea. Technically I wasn't
on the team. I was sort of the business manager.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
But you said you raced against that world champion Eddie
Bodler Otto Beidler. Did you just make that up?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Oh no, no, that was the truth. But what happened
was that our star got the mumps and they threw
me in against him at the last minute.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Then you did raise him.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
For about the first three yards. Yes, that was the
last I ever saw of him.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Well, you better just tell Bud all this rush.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I hate to do that. He's built me into such
a hero. I've got to get out of it in
some other way. I just can't let him down.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, maybe George Phillips will have sense enough to refuse
to do it. He's no better condition than you.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Are, soul, said dad. Two thirty. At the y two thirty,
Joe says his dad is raring the girl.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh well, this is the silliest thing I've ever heard of.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
What do you mean silly? This is the chance I've
been waiting for for years. Old Joel's always bragging about
what a hotshot his dad is.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Boy will show him, won't we, Dad? Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, sure, Uh bud? Don't you think maybe two point
thirty is too soon to swim after eating a heavy meal?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
But you haven't eaten a heavy meal.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Dad, No, But I'm going to A swimmer needs a
lot of food.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
We can't go to the fair or anywhere else. Father,
Ralph's motor is missing again. I want to go, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
This is the last day of it. It is whoa
by George. It looks like I'll have to take you then? WHOA?
Will you really?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
What's this? Gosh? But I'm afraid I'm gonna have to
postpone that race. But there's no other way out of it.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
You mean you're gonna take her to the fair? Let
alone like that?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Stop you.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
There's no way out of it, Bud, much as I'd
love to get in there and swim the legs off
Old George. Holy come, come on, we can all go
to the fair and have a big time. Let's go
in and get cleaned up.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Oh boy, oh boy, I get to see the octopus dead.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
You can't do this, It's all arranged. They'll be there waiting.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's right, isn't it, Margaret. Will you call the Phillips
and explain everything.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I'd be more than happy to you.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Kids, run on upstairs and change your clothes. I'd like
to get away from here as quickly as possible.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Come on, Daddy, Can I ask raft.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
To go with it?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Sure? Ask anybody.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
You can't do this.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I know how you feel, Bud. But maybe we can
arrange it some other time. After all, it might not
hurt for me to get in a little practice first.
You wouldn't want me to lose, would you.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Oh there's no chance of that.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, you never can tell. After all, I am a
little rusty and Hello.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Who is this Helen? Well, this is Margaret Anderson and
I what Well, that's exactly what I was calling about. Yes,
I think it's silly too, but we don't have to
worry because Jim can't make it.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Tell them how disappointed I am.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Jim is terribly disappointed. But he promised he'd take Kathy
to the fair, and this is the last date.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
What?
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Really, Well, I guess it could. Yes, that'll be just dandy. Yes, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
What happened? I don't like the tone of your voice?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Well, she said, They all wanted to go to the
fair too, so young Joe suggested that you men could
have your race out there in the park pool.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Hooray, isn't it keen dead?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Oh, it couldn't be keener.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
The Andersons will be right back here. In America, each
of us is free to work in the place and
calling of our choice. No man can tell us what
job we must do. We are free to bargain collectively.
We're free to contract about our own affairs, to own property,
start an enterprise, and to profit from our own inventiveness.
This is progress, the progress of a free people under
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a system which ensures the perpetuation of freedom. So let's
all boost the American economic system and strive to improve
it even further. Remember, the better we produce, the better
we live.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Back in the bygone days, when man first learned to
make sounds and then to turn those sounds.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Into words, he thought he'd made a pretty handy discovery.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
But since that day, words have caused quite a few complications.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Take Jim Anderson, for instance. He'd gladly pay a bonus
if he could take back.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
A few words he tossed off about his swimming ability,
the simple remarks which at the moment are causing repercussions
at six oh seven Maple Street, like this, of all
the ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Things, two grown men out in a public pool in
a public park, having a race, simply because I mentioned,
just mentioned to Bud that I was once on the
swimming team in college.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Well, dear, if it's going to be so painful, I.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Didn't say it was painful, but it can be darn embarrassing.
How do you think I'll feel if I lose?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
But you were just telling the children that, according to
the rules of sportsmanship, it doesn't matter who wins or
loses if you do your best.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That's George Phillips. He's probably been swimming at the club
practicing up. I'll bet anything he's pushing this idea just
to make a monkey out of me.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Hey, Mom, I can't find their swimming trunks.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Look in the drawer in the cedar closet.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
What are you getting my trunks for?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You're going to wear them, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well, I suppose I didn't.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I think you wanted to swim in that off the
shoulder number you were in college.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
All right, but let's not make such a big fuss
about everything. I'll be in the pool all of two minutes.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
What would you rather do, dear? Just wear slacks and
a sports shirt.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
There could be mister Phillips wearing overalls.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Now, Bud, listen now, I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I gotta go call Hank Fetter and Body Glisz. They'll
want to come out to the park.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
That's what I want to talk to you about, Bud.
I think it would be better if you didn't get
too many of your friends out there this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Well, let's think of mister Phillips. You know a lot
of people, and.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Joe's rounding up all his friends. Mister Phillips doesn't mind.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Oh well, can we kind of hold it down? Bud?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Oh am, I gonna have the laugh on Joe. This
is You're gonna be a joke on him. Hi, Dad, uh,
but I gotta go call Hank.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Daddy. Do octopusses make good pets?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
Kid.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
We're gonna see a twelve foot octopus at the fair.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Bud, Yeah, I know. And Dad's gonna beat the socks
off of mister Phillip.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Bud, Please, who's gonna sock the beats off of who?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Dad and mister Phillips are gonna have a big swimming
race out in the pool at the park. You are, Daddy, listen,
it's not a sure, Joe said his father could swim
circles around Dad, and Dad challenged him.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I did not, Joe.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Oh boy, will the octopus be in the pool with you? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
No, kitten, I'll just forget about it.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You're your trunks, Jim, Kathy, you'd better start getting dressed.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Oh huh, but hey, get out to the park this
afternoon about two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Margaret, this thing's turning into a three ring circus.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Well, at least you'll be in the center ring.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Daddy. Joe Phillip's dad and my dad are gonna battle
it out in the pool.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh, for Pete's sake.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Bud, they're gonna have a big race. Everybody's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
There, Daddy, Jim, if you're worried about.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
This, who's worried? George Phillips was probably an Olympic champion.
That's all.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
My dad's gonna leave him like a speedboat.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Margaret, can't you get butt off that telephone?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 7 (21:17):
I got a neat idea.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I can get our class at school to come over.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
We can have a reading section, Kathy, listen.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Geez, maybe we could do constants and have pom poms.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Kathy, go upstairs now and get dressed.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
Well.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Anyway, daddy can beat mister Phillips.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
My daddy can do anything better than any daddy in
the whole world.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Oh, brother, such face, Margaret, do you realize the position
this puts me in?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
What's going on? What's the excitement.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
There's no excitement, Princess. Just go right on doing what
you're doing.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Hangks, getting the guys together?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Father, what is this?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Haven't you heard Dad's gonna take mister.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
Phillip where's he taking him? All right, kids, we've carried
this far enough. Old Joe thinks his dad is so great,
such a big swimmer. Well, dad's gonna show him up,
aren't you.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Bud and Betty, I think your father's getting a headache.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Run along now, Yes, let's all forget this foolishness.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Forget it. When my father's gonna swim against mister Phillips.
I got a call Rol.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Oh, no, he's on the swimming team.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I'll get him to bring the culture along. Margaret.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
All I said was I know there. I can't go
through with this, Margaret. I know I'll lose and the
children will never get over it. George Phillips is practically
a professional. I'll bet money on it.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Well, maybe it'll rain.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
No such luck, not a cloud in the sky. There's
only one thing to do. I've got to go over
and talk to George.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
What are you going to say to him, Dear.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I don't know. I'll I'll buy him off for something.
He'll probably laugh at me. Nose. He's got me right
over a barrel Olympic swimmer. Hey, Jim, huh oh, George, Hello, glad,
I caught you, Jim before you got away. Well, I'm
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glad I caught you too, Jim.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
I suppose you've heard about this swimming business that Joe
and Bud dreamed up.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Oh, yes, I heard something about it. As a matter
of fact.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Well, Jim, you know this wasn't my idea.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Kids, you know how they are? Yes, I know.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
I don't know why Joe ever started this in the
first place.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's very embarrassing for me. Well, I'm not.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
A swimmer, Jim, you're not.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Oh. I can get around in the water, but I'm
not in your league. Oh well, I'm not very good
really when I came over to ask you, Jim, it's
a real favor.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Joe and the boys are going to be out there
this afternoon watching us, And would you kind of take
it easy, Jim, so I don't look too bad.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Oh sure, George, don't worry about it. Everything will be
all right. Oh, thanks, Jim. You don't know how much
this means to me.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
If those kids are going to be out there watching
their dad, I know might are going to be there too.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Good luck, George, see you out there, Jim. How do
you like that?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
What a rescue you are, my.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Gret What is it, dear?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Gather the children. Let's all go out somewhere to lunch
before we go to the park.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
My, you've certainly turned into a ray of sunshine. What happened?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Oh, I just got the thinking it's childish to get
upset about this affair at the park this afternoon. Oh,
what does it matter who wins or loses? You go
out and do your best. That's what counts sportsmanship.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Wow, suddenly you seem to have it all figured out.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Guess there's one thing I'll never figure out.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Dear m, what's that? Honey?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
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Speaker 10 (26:04):
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Speaker 1 (26:05):
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Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well, there's quite a crowd at Nickerson's Park this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Fair side shows man eating Optimists.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But the important scene of action right at the moment
is over by the public swimming pool. Jim Anderson has
just climbed out of the water walked over to where
Margaret is waiting like this.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Now, Jim, remember what you said at home?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
What a mean trick?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Now take it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Easy, he said, give me a chance. He said. I
gave him a chance, and look what happened. He beat me.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Well, dear, he did his best to let you win.
He couldn't swim any slower without sinking.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Maybe didn't do it on purpose. But what am I
going to do, Margaret? How will I ever be able
to face the children? Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I don't think it will bother them too much. What
do you mean they weren't even here for the race.
They all went over to see the octopus.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Oh the things that happened to a father.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Ladies and gentlemen, Tonight, we are honored to have as
our special guest, Missus Joseph C. Wenger, public Relations director
of the California Federation of Women's Clubs.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Missus Joseph C.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Wenger, Thank you, mister Foreman. You know every year the
General Federation of Women's Clubs gives an award to the
outstanding radio and television programs. They give it in three
separate categories, Adult, family, and Children. We're very happy to
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announce that this year Father Knows Best with Robert Young,
was selected as the best in the family classification. We
like to encourage better radio entertainment, and we point with
approval to this program.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
As a wholesome symbol of a life in the American home.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Our congratulations go to the cast of Father Knows Best,
to the National Broadcasting Company, and to you, mister Young,
for your excellent portrayal of five.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Thank you, missus wanger On behalf of my radio family
and our behind the scenes relatives who help bring life
in the Anderson Family to the air each week. Our
most sincere thanks for this memorable award. Believe me, we'll
all try to live up to it in the future.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, darring Robert Young as Jim Anderson. In
our cast were Norma gen Milson as Kathy Ted Donaldson,
wrote William Jeen, Vander Pyle, Charles Seal, and William Foreman.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Your announcer was Don Stanley. Father Knows Best directed by
Andrew C.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Love was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West
and Roswell Rogers
Speaker 3 (29:18):
For Adventure Tonight It's Nightbeat on NBC
Now listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young
as Father, Welcome to Springfield and another half hour visit
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with the folks in the white frame House on Maple Street.
Sit back and enjoy life for the Andersons, Kathy, Bud, Betty, Margaret,
and Jim, as the head of this typical American household
again sets out to prove that Father knows Best.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Last week, the Andersons journeyed to Grandpa's house in Toledo
to dispose of some of their old belonging store. There
they disposed of them by dragging and shipping them all
home to the white frame House on Maple Street, where
they're right now trying to figure out how to.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Dispose of them.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Right now, Jim, along with Margaret and Bud, is on
the back porch looking over a trunk full of his
old school mementos like this.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Listen to this, Margaret, I want to read you something.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Jim, you're supposed to be starting this stuff over, not
reading all of it. You've been at that one trunk
for hours.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, just listen to this. You know how kids write
stuff in each other's high school annuals.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well here's one that really takes me back. Listen to
this to Jim May, our friendship endure through the long
years ahead, through the ups as well as the downs.
We'll fight shoulder to shoulders through the long game of
life until death knocks us both out of bounds. Your
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pal Arnie Johnson, isn't it a wonderful sentiment?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Who's Arnie Johnson?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I don't know. I can't seem to place him.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Well, that friendship certainly endured through the long game of life.
Dad hardly got through the first inning.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Dad, what is it?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
But what are these funny looking pants?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Oh, for heaven's sake, don't bottom trousers? Oh no, I'm
glad I didn't know you when you wore those.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, they didn't look so funny. Then all the guys
wore them for a few weeks. Anyway, Well, I haven't.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
It looks like the moths have beating you to it.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
But I wish you'd stop pawing through the trunk. You're
getting everything.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Mixed up, mixed up, that mess.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I'm trying to sort this stuff out and see what's
worth keeping and what I want to throw away.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, at the rate you're going, that's gonna take the
next ten years of your life. Is this big pile
of stuff here what you're throwing away?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
No, no, I'm keeping that. The John Cobs throwing away
is in this pile over here.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
What pile? There's nothing there?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Huh oh, I guess you're right.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
It always happens. Whenever you sort out old stuff, you
always wind up with more than you have when you started.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh, listen to this, Margaret. It's the class prophecy in
our annual Get this. As we gaze into the misty
clouds of the future, we see Broadway's newest star, Nancy Higginbottom,
in her hour of triumph, tossing a rose from her
bouquet into the box seat occupied by the distinguished Senator
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James Anderson.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Senator Gosh, Dad, were you a senator?
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, you see, this is just what they predicted we
would turn out to be after we graduated.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Boy, they sure missed the vote on you.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
No, I just happened to go into the insurance business
instead of politics. The point is I was highly respected.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Who wrote that, your old buddy, Arnie Johnson?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
No, it was probably written by Well it ought to
tell here, I imagine it was. Well, I'll be done ja.
I wrote it myself, and maybe.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You should have gone into politics, Senator.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Dog gone, dog gone, dog gone?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
What's the matter with Kathy? Look you here kicking the garage.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
There's no telling what's wrong, Kathy. Don't do that. You'll
ruin your shoes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Then you're able to knock over the garage.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Dog gone, dog gone?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, come over here and tell us what's wrong.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
I don't want to tell I was over the playground
and we were playing volleyballing and we lost.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Dog gone It no kitting. That's no way to feel.
If you're going to compete in games, got to be
a good loser as well as a good winner.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
See the idea of sportsmanship fathers, he's based not on.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Father Deddy, don't interrupt your father when he's giving a lecture.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I'm not giving a lecture. I'm just trying to point
out that good sportsmanship is not based so much on
winning or losing, but on how you play the game.
Do you play it hard and clean? Do you play
it for the fun you get out of it and
for the joy of competition? Those are the important things.
Do you kids all understand that? Dad? Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
But did you wear these bellbottom pants on the level?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But we're talking about sportsmanship, father, Oh me, I might
as well have saved my breath. Well, anyway, Kathy, next
time you lose a game, the thing to do is
congratulate the winners and tell them they played a good game.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
I think they cheated, Kathy. That's not the way to talk.
You'd better go inside and wash your hands and face
and think over what your father said very carefully.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Okay, but just wait, do'll we play those cheaters again?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Father?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
What is it, Betty?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Where can Ralph and I go this afternoon?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well? I don't know why. Ask me.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Well, Ralph just got his car back from the repair
shop and he wants to try out his new motors.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Can't you just go for a drive in the country.
It's a lovely day for it.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Or Ralph doesn't like to do that, he says, when
you're not driving any place in particular, how do you
know when.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
You get there?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Yes, Ralph is very analytical.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I can see that.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Oh, I'll bet that's Ralph calling. Now what shall I
tell him?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Or Ralph will think of some good analytical place to go?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Hey, Dad, what's this?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But I told you to quit pawing around in there.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Look, mom, a Max senate bathing suit.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
That's not so Max Sennett. That was regulation in those
So don't actually smart.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I'm not acting smart. I was just looking at it.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh I remember suits like that. My father had one
just like it, except has had a stripe around the
bottom of the skirt.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
All right, it's still in pretty good shape. All it
needs is a new button on the shoulder strap.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I'll bet the girls took more than one look when
they saw you strutting along the beach in that outfit.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Look you smart, Alex. Maybe you'd like to know I
used to be quite a swimmer. As a matter of fact,
I was on the swimming team when I was in college.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Gee, were you really, Dad?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You bet your life I was. We won the state
intercollegiate swimming championship for two years straight college.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Were you the star of the team.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, I don't like to say I was exactly the star.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Were you really on the team?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
What do you mean? Was I really on the team? Information?
I swam against Otto Beidler. What do you think of that?
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Who's Otto Bidler?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Who's Otto Bidler? Yeah? Otto Bidler? After he left Aberdeen
normal and went to the university became the national freestyle champion.
That's all gone. Two years later he made the Olympic team.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Were you on the Olympic team?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well, no, that'll give you an idea. By what a
narrow margin? I missed it?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh g Dad, tell me how you? Oh wait, there
goes Joe Phillips down the alley. Hey Joe, Joe, I
got something to tell you. My dad almost made the
Olympic team.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
But don't go blabbing that all over He beat otto bugler.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Chap.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Oh me, daddy, let's see your hands, Kathy? Did you
watch them?
Speaker 9 (08:52):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Huh h? Did you use soap? Well?
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I was going to, but I didn't want to get
the soak dirty o fun. Daddy? Will you take me
out to see the octopus?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
The what?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
He's a real life one, Daddy, a man eating octopus.
They got him out of the fair out at the park.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Is there another fair in town?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Will you take me, daddy?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I'm pretty busy here, kitting still got a lot of
stuff to sort out.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
He's only halfway through his high school annual. Will you
take me daddy home?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Will you?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Kathy, you don't want to go out there, just a
bunch of the same old junk.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
They never had an octopus before.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Can't we go?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Look? All we do is just get dusty and tired
and half sick from eating a lot of things that
aren't good for us.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Oh gosh, I never get to go any place, not any.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Place, Cathy, don't start that again. You get to go
as many places as any girl, you know, probably more.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Patty Davis went to the fair and she saw the
man eating octopus twice.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, I don't think Patty's life has been particularly enriched
by that experience.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Father, Ralph can't think of anywhere to go? Can't you
think of someplace, Betty?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I haven't time to map out your social itinerary. It's
all I can do to me. Wait a minute, I've
got an idea.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Why don't you and Ralph drive out to that fair
at the park?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Yeah, and see the octopus?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
What?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
And you can take Kathy with you?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Father, you're so utterly model tea.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I'm what you know that we don't want? You know who?
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Tagg I n g along?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Why not? What's wrong with me? No, Betty? I think
would be very nice if you take Kathy out there.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
What a revolting idea. I'll tell Ralph, but I know
he's got better sense than that. I'll go help you, mother,
don't let her follow me.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
All he over, Kathy, You go wash your hands again,
and this time you soap.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Oh okay, well let's see now where was I in
this mess? Anyhow?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
You had just been elected senator?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Oh? Yes, he dead, dead, Yes, son dead.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
You can beat mister Phillips, can't you.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
What are you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Swimming? I was telling Joe about you being the star
on the college team, and he claimed his dad could
swim circles around you. Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I think George would need a pair of fairly speedy
water wings to do that, That's what I said.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
So I told him you'd lease he's dead anywhere anytime.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
You did so.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Joe said, Okay, how about this afternoon at the YMCA pool.
He's over asking his dad right now?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Will you do it?
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well, but I'm pretty busy right now.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
And the button is off his bathing suit.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
He doesn't wear that old thing. He's got good swimming trunks.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
How about it?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
This?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Okay, Well, but maybe sometime when I'm not so busy.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
She did, You're not afraid to raise him, are you.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Oh no, no, of course not. That's not it at all.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Okay, I'll go call him, but come back here.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Oh me, ye, I don't think you ought to do
a thing like that.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You don't know how right you are.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
You're not in condition.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It's not that I'm in fair shape from golf. But well,
I just hate to let the boy down after this
build up. Is going to be a real blow to
him to see his dad lose.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Lose. But how could you weren't you the captain of
the swimming team.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I didn't say I was the captain.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, star, then I didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Say that either. That was Bud's idea. Technically I wasn't
on the team. I was sort of the business manager.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
But you said you raced against that world champion Eddie
Bodler Otto Beidler. Did you just make that up?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Oh no, no, that was the truth. But what happened
was that our star got the mumps and they threw
me in against him at the last minute.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Then you did raise him.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
For about the first three yards. Yes, that was the
last I ever saw of him.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Well, you better just tell Bud all this rush.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I hate to do that. He's built me into such
a hero. I've got to get out of it in
some other way. I just can't let him down.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Well, maybe George Phillips will have sense enough to refuse
to do it. He's no better condition than you.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Are, soul, said dad. Two thirty. At the y two thirty,
Joe says his dad is raring the girl.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Oh well, this is the silliest thing I've ever heard of.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
What do you mean silly? This is the chance I've
been waiting for for years. Old Joel's always bragging about
what a hotshot his dad is.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Boy will show him, won't we, Dad? Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, sure, Uh bud? Don't you think maybe two point
thirty is too soon to swim after eating a heavy meal?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
But you haven't eaten a heavy meal.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Dad, No, But I'm going to A swimmer needs a
lot of food.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
We can't go to the fair or anywhere else. Father,
Ralph's motor is missing again. I want to go, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
This is the last day of it. It is whoa
by George. It looks like I'll have to take you then? WHOA?
Will you really?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
What's this? Gosh? But I'm afraid I'm gonna have to
postpone that race. But there's no other way out of it.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
You mean you're gonna take her to the fair? Let
alone like that?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Stop you.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
There's no way out of it, Bud, much as I'd
love to get in there and swim the legs off
Old George. Holy come, come on, we can all go
to the fair and have a big time. Let's go
in and get cleaned up.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Oh boy, oh boy, I get to see the octopus dead.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
You can't do this, It's all arranged. They'll be there waiting.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's right, isn't it, Margaret. Will you call the Phillips
and explain everything.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I'd be more than happy to you.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Kids, run on upstairs and change your clothes. I'd like
to get away from here as quickly as possible.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Come on, Daddy, Can I ask raft.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
To go with it?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Sure? Ask anybody.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
You can't do this.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I know how you feel, Bud. But maybe we can
arrange it some other time. After all, it might not
hurt for me to get in a little practice first.
You wouldn't want me to lose, would you.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Oh there's no chance of that.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, you never can tell. After all, I am a
little rusty and Hello.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Who is this Helen? Well, this is Margaret Anderson and
I what Well, that's exactly what I was calling about. Yes,
I think it's silly too, but we don't have to
worry because Jim can't make it.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Tell them how disappointed I am.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Jim is terribly disappointed. But he promised he'd take Kathy
to the fair, and this is the last date.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
What?
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Really, Well, I guess it could. Yes, that'll be just dandy. Yes, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
What happened? I don't like the tone of your voice?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Well, she said, They all wanted to go to the
fair too, so young Joe suggested that you men could
have your race out there in the park pool.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Hooray, isn't it keen dead?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Oh, it couldn't be keener.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
The Andersons will be right back here. In America, each
of us is free to work in the place and
calling of our choice. No man can tell us what
job we must do. We are free to bargain collectively.
We're free to contract about our own affairs, to own property,
start an enterprise, and to profit from our own inventiveness.
This is progress, the progress of a free people under
(17:25):
a system which ensures the perpetuation of freedom. So let's
all boost the American economic system and strive to improve
it even further. Remember, the better we produce, the better
we live.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Back in the bygone days, when man first learned to
make sounds and then to turn those sounds.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Into words, he thought he'd made a pretty handy discovery.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
But since that day, words have caused quite a few complications.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Take Jim Anderson, for instance. He'd gladly pay a bonus
if he could take back.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
A few words he tossed off about his swimming ability,
the simple remarks which at the moment are causing repercussions
at six oh seven Maple Street, like this, of all
the ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Things, two grown men out in a public pool in
a public park, having a race, simply because I mentioned,
just mentioned to Bud that I was once on the
swimming team in college.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Well, dear, if it's going to be so painful, I.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Didn't say it was painful, but it can be darn embarrassing.
How do you think I'll feel if I lose?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
But you were just telling the children that, according to
the rules of sportsmanship, it doesn't matter who wins or
loses if you do your best.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
That's George Phillips. He's probably been swimming at the club
practicing up. I'll bet anything he's pushing this idea just
to make a monkey out of me.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Hey, Mom, I can't find their swimming trunks.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Look in the drawer in the cedar closet.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
What are you getting my trunks for?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You're going to wear them, aren't you?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Well, I suppose I didn't.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
I think you wanted to swim in that off the
shoulder number you were in college.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
All right, but let's not make such a big fuss
about everything. I'll be in the pool all of two minutes.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
What would you rather do, dear? Just wear slacks and
a sports shirt.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
There could be mister Phillips wearing overalls.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Now, Bud, listen now, I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I gotta go call Hank Fetter and Body Glisz. They'll
want to come out to the park.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
That's what I want to talk to you about, Bud.
I think it would be better if you didn't get
too many of your friends out there this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Well, let's think of mister Phillips. You know a lot
of people, and.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Joe's rounding up all his friends. Mister Phillips doesn't mind.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Oh well, can we kind of hold it down? Bud?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Oh am, I gonna have the laugh on Joe. This
is You're gonna be a joke on him. Hi, Dad, uh,
but I gotta go call Hank.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Daddy. Do octopusses make good pets?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
Kid.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
We're gonna see a twelve foot octopus at the fair.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Bud, Yeah, I know. And Dad's gonna beat the socks
off of mister Phillip.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Bud, Please, who's gonna sock the beats off of who?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Dad and mister Phillips are gonna have a big swimming
race out in the pool at the park. You are, Daddy, listen,
it's not a sure, Joe said his father could swim
circles around Dad, and Dad challenged him.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I did not, Joe.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Oh boy, will the octopus be in the pool with you? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
No, kitten, I'll just forget about it.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
You're your trunks, Jim, Kathy, you'd better start getting dressed.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Oh huh, but hey, get out to the park this
afternoon about two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Margaret, this thing's turning into a three ring circus.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Well, at least you'll be in the center ring.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Daddy. Joe Phillip's dad and my dad are gonna battle
it out in the pool.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Oh, for Pete's sake.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Bud, they're gonna have a big race. Everybody's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
There, Daddy, Jim, if you're worried about.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
This, who's worried? George Phillips was probably an Olympic champion.
That's all.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
My dad's gonna leave him like a speedboat.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Margaret, can't you get butt off that telephone?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 7 (21:17):
I got a neat idea.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I can get our class at school to come over.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
We can have a reading section, Kathy, listen.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Geez, maybe we could do constants and have pom poms.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Kathy, go upstairs now and get dressed.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
Well.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Anyway, daddy can beat mister Phillips.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
My daddy can do anything better than any daddy in
the whole world.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Oh, brother, such face, Margaret, do you realize the position
this puts me in?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
What's going on? What's the excitement.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
There's no excitement, Princess. Just go right on doing what
you're doing.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Hangks, getting the guys together?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Father, what is this?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Haven't you heard Dad's gonna take mister.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
Phillip where's he taking him? All right, kids, we've carried
this far enough. Old Joe thinks his dad is so great,
such a big swimmer. Well, dad's gonna show him up,
aren't you.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Bud and Betty, I think your father's getting a headache.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Run along now, Yes, let's all forget this foolishness.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Forget it. When my father's gonna swim against mister Phillips.
I got a call Rol.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Oh, no, he's on the swimming team.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I'll get him to bring the culture along. Margaret.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
All I said was I know there. I can't go
through with this, Margaret. I know I'll lose and the
children will never get over it. George Phillips is practically
a professional. I'll bet money on it.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Well, maybe it'll rain.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
No such luck, not a cloud in the sky. There's
only one thing to do. I've got to go over
and talk to George.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
What are you going to say to him, Dear.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I don't know. I'll I'll buy him off for something.
He'll probably laugh at me. Nose. He's got me right
over a barrel Olympic swimmer. Hey, Jim, huh oh, George, Hello, glad,
I caught you, Jim before you got away. Well, I'm
(23:22):
glad I caught you too, Jim.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
I suppose you've heard about this swimming business that Joe
and Bud dreamed up.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Oh, yes, I heard something about it. As a matter
of fact.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Well, Jim, you know this wasn't my idea.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Kids, you know how they are? Yes, I know.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
I don't know why Joe ever started this in the
first place.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's very embarrassing for me. Well, I'm not.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
A swimmer, Jim, you're not.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Oh. I can get around in the water, but I'm
not in your league. Oh well, I'm not very good
really when I came over to ask you, Jim, it's
a real favor.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Joe and the boys are going to be out there
this afternoon watching us, And would you kind of take
it easy, Jim, so I don't look too bad.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Oh sure, George, don't worry about it. Everything will be
all right. Oh, thanks, Jim. You don't know how much
this means to me.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
If those kids are going to be out there watching
their dad, I know might are going to be there too.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Good luck, George, see you out there, Jim. How do
you like that?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
What a rescue you are, my.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Gret What is it, dear?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Gather the children. Let's all go out somewhere to lunch
before we go to the park.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
My, you've certainly turned into a ray of sunshine. What happened?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Oh, I just got the thinking it's childish to get
upset about this affair at the park this afternoon. Oh,
what does it matter who wins or loses? You go
out and do your best. That's what counts sportsmanship.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Wow, suddenly you seem to have it all figured out.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Guess there's one thing I'll never figure out.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Dear m, what's that? Honey?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You Anderson's will be back in a moment. America today
is confronted with the task of defending itself against communistic
aggression abroad and inflation at home. An explanation of how
(25:59):
the American economic system operates has been prepared under the
title of the Miracle of America.
Speaker 10 (26:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
This booklet has been endorsed by representatives of management, labor,
and the public.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
It is yours without cost.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Simply right to box ten times Square Station, New York
City and ask for the Miracle of America.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Well, there's quite a crowd at Nickerson's Park this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Fair side shows man eating Optimists.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But the important scene of action right at the moment
is over by the public swimming pool. Jim Anderson has
just climbed out of the water walked over to where
Margaret is waiting like this.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Now, Jim, remember what you said at home?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
What a mean trick?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Now take it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Easy, he said, give me a chance. He said. I
gave him a chance, and look what happened. He beat me.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Well, dear, he did his best to let you win.
He couldn't swim any slower without sinking.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Maybe didn't do it on purpose. But what am I
going to do, Margaret? How will I ever be able
to face the children? Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I don't think it will bother them too much. What
do you mean they weren't even here for the race.
They all went over to see the octopus.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Oh the things that happened to a father.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Ladies and gentlemen, Tonight, we are honored to have as
our special guest, Missus Joseph C. Wenger, public Relations director
of the California Federation of Women's Clubs.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Missus Joseph C.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
Wenger, Thank you, mister Foreman. You know every year the
General Federation of Women's Clubs gives an award to the
outstanding radio and television programs. They give it in three
separate categories, Adult, family, and Children. We're very happy to
(28:03):
announce that this year Father Knows Best with Robert Young,
was selected as the best in the family classification. We
like to encourage better radio entertainment, and we point with
approval to this program.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
As a wholesome symbol of a life in the American home.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Our congratulations go to the cast of Father Knows Best,
to the National Broadcasting Company, and to you, mister Young,
for your excellent portrayal of five.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Thank you, missus wanger On behalf of my radio family
and our behind the scenes relatives who help bring life
in the Anderson Family to the air each week. Our
most sincere thanks for this memorable award. Believe me, we'll
all try to live up to it in the future.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, darring Robert Young as Jim Anderson. In
our cast were Norma gen Milson as Kathy Ted Donaldson,
wrote William Jeen, Vander Pyle, Charles Seal, and William Foreman.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Your announcer was Don Stanley. Father Knows Best directed by
Andrew C.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Love was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West
and Roswell Rogers
Speaker 3 (29:18):
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