July 30, 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 (00:17):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young his 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. All marriages we've off been told
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are figured out in heaven. But there must be an
annex on Maple Street at number six oh seven in
the event that you didn't know, that's where the Anderson's lived,
and that's where Dan Cupid gets in some perifty powerful
licks like well like this.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But I'm not hungry.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Stop arguing, Kathleen, and eat your dinner, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I see no reason why the children have to eat
at this ridiculous hour.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
I don't mind eating at five o'clock.
Speaker 7 (01:17):
You don't mind eating period?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Is that so by nine o'clock they'll be storming around
here like a bunch of starving Armenians.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
And if you think.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Jim Louise will hear you, she's upstairs getting dressed well.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
It wasn't her idea, It was yours.
Speaker 8 (01:32):
Candlelight and soft music.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
She happens to be my favorite cousin. If she needs
a little help in getting Tom Goodwin to propose.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
They've been going together for almost five years, and if
he hasn't proposed by this time.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Jim, he's going to propose.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Believe me, I don't know women get these weird ideas.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
There's nothing weird about marriage there ish.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Look, honey, the guy obviously isn't the marrying type. It
doesn't take five years to make up your mind.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm going to see to it that Tom Goodwin proposes
to my cousin Louise tonight.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Bud.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Yes, Dad, I want you to keep this little scene
in mind. It may come in very handy in the future, okay, dad,
Gin The poor guy by the name of Goodwin just
goes along minding his own business, and what happens?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
They gang up on him, set traps.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Do they really, Daddy?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yes, flickering candle light, the sweet scent of camellias.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I thought camelias didn't smell, or what I'm being charged
they'd better smell. Isn't he awful? Mother?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Just because he's a man.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Now there's another thing, isn't it disgraceful? I'm a man,
you know.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
This isn't just a case of Louise and her friend
having dinner with us. This is a fight to the finish.
The hunters smelled blood and they're closing in for the kill.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I thought they were just gonna have dinner.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
But as you grow older, you'll learn that women have
a peculiar attitude when it comes to unattached males. If
a man wanders around unmarried, every woman in the world
considers it a personal insult. They band together, they form
little groups, they compare strategies.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Father, leave him alone, dear, he'll run.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Down you see, Bud. I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I don't too.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
That was very simple children, your mother being a woman,
and I wouldn't have it any other way. He's trying
to get poor Tom Goodwin to commit matrimony with her
cousin Louise.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Oh well, sure, did you understand that?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Keep still or he'll explain it again.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Jim, I don't understand. You're a sudden interest in poor
Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
You don't even know the man that has nothing to
do with it.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
He's a man and in a case like this, We've
got to stick together, right, Bud.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Oh, oh sure, Bud.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Those are probably the flowers? Would you get them like
a good boy?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
How about my cake?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
No one's going to touch your cake?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Well, I better take it with me anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Bud, you'll get crumbs all over the floor. Oh dear,
if he gets this house messed.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Up, Honey, don't you think you're going a little overboard
on this thing?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I certainly do not. Tom Goodwin is coming all the
way from Middletown for this dinner, and if one thing
goes wrong, Nothing is going.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Wrong, mother, He'll be hooked before he knows what hit him.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Who's gonna get hooked?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Never mind, hear? Just drink your milk.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What I like is the high plane on which females
conduct these campaign.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
She's going to be hooked?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Who is daddy?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Betty?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Stick Andrews.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Tell him I'll be right there, Betty.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
You haven't finished your dinner.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh it's all right, mother.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
We're going to stop him for hamburger on the way
to reheard.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Well, don't stay out too late, dear, I'm all in
good hunting long everybody.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
If she knew she was going to have a Hamburger.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Why did she?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I can't understand what happened to the flowers. They were
supposed to be here at four you still didn't tell me.
Tell you what, dear, who's.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Going to get hot?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
No one is Kathy? And please drink your.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Milk anytime nobody wants to tell me anything, drink your milk.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Boys, that Dick Andrew's a character. You know what he's
got on three mufflers? And hey, what happened to my cake?
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Sit down and drink your milk.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
But I had a whole piece of cake.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
You took it with you.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I did. Oh, well, I guess I ate it. You
know what Dick Andrews had on three mufflers? Yeah, what
a character, Jim.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
If the flowers aren't here in fifteen minutes, you'll have
to go after them.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
I have to change my shirt. What's the matter with Bud?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
He's leaving as soon as he finishes his milk.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Me too, I'm being stashed over at Patties, so I
won't say anything.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Well, you've certainly got everything all figured out, haven't you.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yes, Dear to the last detail.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Poor guy, I hope you knows what he's in for.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Meaning me, I suppose, Oh, hello, Louise, don't pay any
attention to Jim, Dear, he's just being a man.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Oh, Margaret, would you mind very much.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
If Louise you haven't changed your clothes?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I know, dear, you see, I've been thinking the whole
thing over, and I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
All right, Margaret, why don't you leave her alone?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Louise Baker, you march right upstairs and put on your
blue dress. Margaret, if she doesn't want Jim, will you
please leave this to me? He's here, he isn't here,
he won't be here for an hour. It's only the
man with the flowers.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
But yes, ma'am, it's a good thing for this family.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
I know how to open a door.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
He's the ambitious type.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Margaret.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Would you mind very much if we call the whole
thing off?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I most certainly would.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
But if Tom ever finds out Louise.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
You can't call off an avalanche.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
And once Margaret gets started, well, somebody's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Kathy, Dear, don't.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Worry about helpful Henrietta. She'll be out of here before
you can say. Why Tom, how sudden Jim.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
When it comes to being helpful, even if he does propose, Margaret,
it won't work. A man shouldn't be tricked into marriage. Oh,
don't be ridiculous, shouldn't. A marriage has to be built
on a firmer foundation. And if it starts out with
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trickery and deceit, well how can it possibly last?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Jim and I've done alright, haven't we?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
What is it? Bud? He said to tell you he
was awfully sorry. But they have to go over to
his mother's for dinner.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Oh dear, Now, what are we gonna do about Kathy?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Why don't I go over to the woods.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Why don't I just go back to Middletown.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You go upstairs and change your clothes, and let's not
have any more of this nonsense.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Better do what she says, Louise. She's a pretty rough customer.
I'll see you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Later in just a minute, Bud.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
But Joe's waiting for me.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Go ahead, Louise, Margaret, I am not a child, of
course you want? Now go upstairs and change Agree.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
This is the silliest thing I've ever done in my
entire life.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Wait until after you're married. That's when the silly things
really begin.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Jim, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
What am I supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Just stand here, Oh, Bud, you'll take Kathy with you?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Oh right, Holy cow, Mom.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
You're only going over to Joe's.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I know, but we're gonna invent a telephone. Okay, Kathy
can be the bell. Holy Call.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Go ahead, Bud, and take good care of your sister.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
If she touches one thing, I won't, but.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Honest, I won't. You won't even know I'm there.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Really, you won't, Holy Call.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yes, dear, would you mind explaining one small thing to me?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Of course not. But don't you think you better run
down for the flowers?
Speaker 8 (09:06):
The flowers can wait? What did you mean? Jim and
I have done all right?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Well, haven't we?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Naturally? But there wasn't any trickery involved in our marriage.
The whole thing was my idea, Oh Jim.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It was no such thing. I made up my mind
the first day we ever met.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
And I suppose I had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's right now. Look, Margaret Angel, do you remember what
happened the night you proposed?
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Of course I do.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I walked around the block six times before I had
the nerve to go in. It was only five, it
was six. My father was counting them, and it was five,
okay five, But when I pushed the bell, that was it.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Jim.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
You were it before you even saw the bell.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
You know, now that I think of it.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I got the candle light and soft music business myself, didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
I to a wild rose. It took me six months
to learn the darn thing.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And, come to think of it, I've never heard you
play anything since.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Just to a wild rose, that's all it took.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Well, if that isn't the most cold blooded conniving, I'm
getting to the point where I don't even like women.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You aren't supposed to, dear, just me.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Think you're clever, don't you.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
I've got a good mind to tell Tom Goodman what
this is all about.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
You wouldn't, Oh, I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
No, you wouldn't. Now stop acting like a spoiled little
boy and answer the door. Yes, mother, And if it
isn't the man with the flowers, you will have to
go after them.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I don't have to, but I will. Women they think
they're so smart about everything. Can't even let a.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Man make up his own mind about getting.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Married music flowers. Well, it certainly took you long enough
to get here.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Well, I'm sorry, mister Anderson. But you see, never mind
the explanations, just give me the flowers.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Yes, sir, you just about ruined everything I did.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
You certainly did you see? These aren't just flowers. These
are two ools to dig.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
The grave of an unsuspecting bachelor. They are yep, poor guy,
he's as good as cook right now.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
But where do I sign for what? The flowers?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Don't I have to sign for them?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Oh? No, you see, I'm Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, it looks like father may have talked out of
turn this time. And yet more often than not, the
man of the house does know exactly what he's talking about.
For instance, ladies, when it comes to coffee, truly good coffee,
that husband of yours is the world's greatest experts, No
two ways about it. The number one expert on coffee
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is your husband. Of course, grocers call us experts too.
They know more families enjoy our Maxwell House coffee than
any the brand. But when you brew the coffee, the
final judge is your husband. And tomorrow, if you'll fill
his cup with wonderfully good Maxwell House, we're sure he'll
smile across the table and say.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Wonderful, best coffee ever.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
In fact, if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back.
You see, we know no coffee tastes like Maxwell House,
because no coffee's made like Maxwell House.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
In all this world.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
There's only one recipe for that famous good to the
last drop flavor, a recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended
just so, and only Maxwell House has that recipe. So
we say, take home a pound of our coffee tomorrow.
Serve your husband Maxwell House. If he doesn't say best
coffee ever, just send us the can an unused portion,
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and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is plainly printed on every familiar blue tin. But enough
from me tomorrow. See how much the world's greatest expert
enjoys our coffee. Tomorrow, Serve your husband Maxwell House coffee
good to the last froth. The candles have burned low
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in the Anderson's dining room, and the scent of flowers
mingles gently with the memory of good red beef. The
dinner hour is almost gone, and a delicate moment approaches.
The time has arrived for the.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Kill like this, Why don't we have our coffee in
the living room. I think we'll be much more comfortable.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Oh yes, why don't we have our coffee in the
living room? Be more comfortable? Gosh, I was sure a
wonderful dinner, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well, thank you, Tom.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Margaret's a wonderful cook, isn't she?
Speaker 8 (13:48):
She sure is.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Well, it runs in our family, doesn't it. Louise Well,
I wouldn't exactly say that, She's just being modest. Tom.
Grandmother Williams always used to say that our family produced
the finest cooks in the entire country.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
He got.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
What was that, dear? Nothing?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I was just well, certainly looks romantic in here, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Fire in the fireplace? All the lights turned off?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Jim Well, I was only saying, why don't you sit down, Tom,
and we'll have our coffee?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Oh, thank you very much?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Cream and sugar?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
No thanks, I'll take it straight, Louise.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Margarete.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You take yours plane too, don't you?
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I do. Isn't that an amazing coincidence? You and Tom
have so many things in common.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Don't you? Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Is something wrong, Jim?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
No, I uh, I was just wondering when my turn
was coming up, and for coffee.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I mean, here you are, dear, thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
You know Tom, it's a funny thing. But after you
get used to having a few kids.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Louise, why don't you play something for us?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (15:09):
I don't think you're sure.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Go ahead, lou you play and we'll drink our coffee.
All right?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
How would you like to a wild rose?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Jim? If you don't stop, it's all right.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
It went down the wrong pipe.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
That's go ahead, Louise. But I'm a love to a
wild rose?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Oh yes, it's it's a practically my favorite song.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Yeah, mine too, Yes, Oh dear, well, that didn't last
very long.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
It didnt Kathy. Why aren't you everybody? Buds?
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
They brought a friend, Bud.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I distinctly told Joe you know what she did?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
She blew out all the fuses at the phillips.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I did not.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You certainly did.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I didn't either, did I?
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Joe?
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Well, I don't know who did it, but the lights
are sure all out.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Look, why don't you kill We told her to plug
it in when we said, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You did not You just said to plug it in?
Speaker 8 (16:32):
Joe?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
You were right there? Didn't I tell her to wait?
Guysh I don't know. I was down on the basement.
What were you trying to do blow up the house.
We were making a telephone Dad and I Bud, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I want you and Kathy to go right back to Joe's.
But there aren't any lights, Bud Anderson, if you don't
go back to Joe's this very instant?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Hey, what's the matter with our lights?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Jim?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Will you please do something?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Honey?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Did we blow a fuse too?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Your mother's any second? Joe? Yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Aren't your mother and father at home? No, sir.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
You see, we didn't know Kathy was coming over, and
when she did, my mother and father decided they had
to go to the movies.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Jim, why don't you take the children inside?
Speaker 8 (17:22):
All right?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Come on, kids, I'm sure Louise and Tom will understand,
of course.
Speaker 11 (17:27):
Oh is he the one who's gonna get Kathy.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Let's solve it out of the playroom and see if
we can't get this thing straightened out.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Come on, Kathy is.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Not calling me?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Why? Always?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Joe?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I'm awfully sorry. Tom.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Oh, that's okay. I don't mind little noise.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Tom lives at the Y in Middletown and he's used
to having boys around, aren't you?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Tom? I sure, I am.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I see tell me? Do you like you think it's
the why?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Oh? Sure, I like it? Fine?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I mean it isn't like having your own home, is it.
Speaker 12 (18:07):
Well no, but then there wouldn't be any sense in
my having my own home with her.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Gosh, I'm not even.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Married, and so we understand, Margaret, if you.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Don't mind, I guess I got old.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Jim, Why aren't you more careful?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
What do you mean careful? It's so dark in here,
I can't even see where I I'm sorry, Tom. Oh,
that's all right, Jim.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Yeah, just about made it, didn't.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I have the children all right, dear?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Oh, sure, they're going to rig up the phone over here,
but they promise not to make any noise.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Oh, dear, you.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
See, Joe got a telephone outfit for Christmas and they've been.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Trying to Jim.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Louise was going to play, but I was just telling
I'm sorry, just go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Well to a wild rose?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
All right, pretty, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Jim?
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Well I was it?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yes? You?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Oh no, I'll be right.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
There, okay, mother.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The most terrible thing happened. We were what are y'all
sitting around in the dark for.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
The roses? Grow better that way, Betty.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You said the rehearsal wouldn't be over until ten.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Well, the boiler broke down and there wasn't any heat,
and you've never seen any place so cold. Hi, Louise, Hello, dear.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I haven't met your friend.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Oh, I'm sorry, Betty. This is Tom Goodwin. How do
you do all right?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Betty?
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Louise was telling me, Oh, excuse me, I forgot all
about Jick.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I'll be right in Betty, Please, I understand, mother.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
We won't make a sound.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
How did he get upstairs?
Speaker 7 (19:55):
But we're almost finished, dad, Patsy, Betty.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I'm I don't know what's gotten into those children tonight.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Did you say something, Tom? No, No, I was.
Speaker 9 (20:08):
Just sitting here, that's all Ordinarily, you don't even know
they're in the house, Honey.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, I mean you know they're in the house, of course.
But go ahead, dear. What the piano you were doing? Beautifully,
wasn't she?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Tom?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
She sure was just great?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
All right, Louise.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
If the roses weren't wild in the beginning, they are now, Jim,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Go ahead, Oh, dear Jacky.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Tell Joe any floorbodio.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Now now?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, tell them to turn the plug over yoo.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
Okay, wait a minute, Jim.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Leave Mylne Migaret.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
They'll stop.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Now.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Joe wants to know now it's words.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Tell them to put it back the way it was.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Joe, Jim, I don't think I can stand this for
another second.
Speaker 11 (21:31):
The kids at the piano, Okay, Louise, Louise, will you
excuse us for just a minute.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Jim and I have a few things we want to
take care of.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Oh, please don't worry about as Margaret.
Speaker 12 (21:52):
Oh, we'll get long, fine, all right, Jim, but we
have to take care of those things.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
What thing, Kathy, all those things.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 12 (22:11):
Tom, Well, don't hurry on our account now, we're not
going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Hello, Oh Ji, Jimmy, I have never been so embarrassed
in my entire life.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Well, this will teach you not to go around playing
Cupid with a house full of kids.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
What did you expect?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I expected Tom Goodwin to propose, and he's going.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
To I'll still take Tennessee in six points.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I want you to go right down to the playroom
and explain to Kathy, why don't I just shoot.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Them and get it over with you. Jim, Well, how
do you expect a bunch of normal kids.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You don't have to practice hog calling tonight, do they?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
No?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
But well, I'll speak to them.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'll take care of Betty and Jim. Please be firm
with them.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Oh sure, I'll tell them. They've got to make a
very quiet type of noise.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
But we're down here, Dad.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
But whether or not you know it, you and Kathy
are in a jam.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
We are what we do.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
Hey, look at this, here's a whole box of things
we never even saw.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Well, no wonder it wouldn't work.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
But I'm trying to tell you upstairs and try to
get Kathy what now?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Look but Kathy and you too, Joe, Yes, sir, I
went out and bought a book and I'm now an
expert on child's psychology.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
You are gosh, And do you know what the book
says to do.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
If I hear one more peep out of any one
of you, I'm coming down here and ring your scruwnny little.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Next boy psychology? Now, is that understood? We were only
trying to fix up the phone, Dad.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
We didn't know you were gonna get there.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
All right, Just remember one little peep.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Jam, what's the matter, honey?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Goom it happened?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Wonderful? Father? Did he get hurt?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
I can't even think what's going on.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
But, oh, Jim, I've never been so happy in my
whole life.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You mean he did it a ray in everything.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Well, what do you know? Well, congratulate me, Jim. I
finally made it.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
You finally made it.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I mean she congratulations to thank you, Jim.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
They're going to be married in June. Isn't it thrilling?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Yes, sir? And now what all of you and Margaret?
It was for sure.
Speaker 12 (24:36):
You see, Jim, I was an only child and things
around my house were always wha kind of quiet, all right.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
That's why I was afraid to get married.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I thought it'd be sort of dull.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
But gosh, if it's like this, you mean you're getting
married for the.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Noise, isn't it wonderful? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
No, Tomorrow or Saturday, you'll probably buy coffee for that
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family of yours, and above all you'll be shopping for flavor.
Then it makes sense, doesn't it, to choose the coffee
with the most famous flavor in the world, our Maxwell
House coffee. Now, don't take my word, call in the
world's greatest coffee expert. Right, brew a pot of Maxwell
House for your husband. He's the final expert on coffee.
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When he beams and says best coffee ever, you'll know
Maxwell House has the flavor and for value. Well, count
for yourself all the truly good cups of coffee you
get from every pound this weekend. Look for coffee that
gives you your money's worth and more. Look for the
friendly blue with a big white cup and drop. That's
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your sign of good coffee. Maxwell House coffee always good
to the last drop. It's breakfast time on Maple Street,
and the Andersons, five little cupids with egg on their chins,
are deep in the morning meal and deep in their
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usual problems like this.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Isn't it strange the way things turn out?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Dear?
Speaker 8 (26:31):
You mean Louise and Tom?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yes, now, who would ever have guessed that he was
so crazy about children?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Louis said, they're gonna have millions of them. She said, six,
That's what I said.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Margre Yes, Dear, you don't have any more cousins you'd
like to U? No, Dear, not even a second cousin.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Jim, I give you my word, My matchmaking days are over.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Good O The sugar.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Father, do you know a boy named Frank Culbertson?
Speaker 8 (27:07):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Why, well, he belongs to the Athletic club.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
What about him?
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You must know him, father.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
He's twenty seven years old, blonde hair, of blue eyes,
five eleven inches, one hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
We'll wait a minute. Even if I did know him,
don't you think he's a little old for you?
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I didn't mean for me.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
But Janie Niggott's cousin is twenty five, and that's pretty
old for a girl to be wandering around without a boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So we were just wondering if you couldn't sort of
drop it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Get around the club. But you know what you don't
loved talking to somebody for alright, is.
Speaker 10 (27:41):
To at breakfast time.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
You don't have to say.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
You children eat your cereal right this instant, Just say
hop Along Cassidy is crazy about hot wheatmeal.
Speaker 13 (28:07):
Just a little psychology. Yes, to get your children to
eat a hot cereal, just tell them post wheatmeal is
hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal and they eat it too.
Post wheatmeal is chuck full of solid whole wheat. Nourishment
has a wonderful nut like flavor and at cooks. In
just three and a half minutes, you'll see you'll all
agree it's the best hot cereal you ever ate. Join
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us again next week when we'll be back with Father
Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with June
Whitley as Margaret Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra
and yours truly, Bill Former. So until next Thursday, good
night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
America's favorite brand of cook always good to the last drop.
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Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Written by Ed James.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over
most of these stations.
Speaker 12 (29:14):
Coming up Dragnet with tense, absorbing drama 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 (00:17):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young his 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. All marriages we've off been told
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are figured out in heaven. But there must be an
annex on Maple Street at number six oh seven in
the event that you didn't know, that's where the Anderson's lived,
and that's where Dan Cupid gets in some perifty powerful
licks like well like this.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But I'm not hungry.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Stop arguing, Kathleen, and eat your dinner, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I see no reason why the children have to eat
at this ridiculous hour.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
I don't mind eating at five o'clock.
Speaker 7 (01:17):
You don't mind eating period?
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Is that so by nine o'clock they'll be storming around
here like a bunch of starving Armenians.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
And if you think.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Jim Louise will hear you, she's upstairs getting dressed well.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
It wasn't her idea, It was yours.
Speaker 8 (01:32):
Candlelight and soft music.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
She happens to be my favorite cousin. If she needs
a little help in getting Tom Goodwin to propose.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
They've been going together for almost five years, and if
he hasn't proposed by this time.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Jim, he's going to propose.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Believe me, I don't know women get these weird ideas.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
There's nothing weird about marriage there ish.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Look, honey, the guy obviously isn't the marrying type. It
doesn't take five years to make up your mind.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I'm going to see to it that Tom Goodwin proposes
to my cousin Louise tonight.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Bud.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Yes, Dad, I want you to keep this little scene
in mind. It may come in very handy in the future, okay, dad,
Gin The poor guy by the name of Goodwin just
goes along minding his own business, and what happens?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
They gang up on him, set traps.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Do they really, Daddy?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yes, flickering candle light, the sweet scent of camellias.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I thought camelias didn't smell, or what I'm being charged
they'd better smell. Isn't he awful? Mother?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Just because he's a man.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Now there's another thing, isn't it disgraceful? I'm a man,
you know.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
This isn't just a case of Louise and her friend
having dinner with us. This is a fight to the finish.
The hunters smelled blood and they're closing in for the kill.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
I thought they were just gonna have dinner.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
But as you grow older, you'll learn that women have
a peculiar attitude when it comes to unattached males. If
a man wanders around unmarried, every woman in the world
considers it a personal insult. They band together, they form
little groups, they compare strategies.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Father, leave him alone, dear, he'll run.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Down you see, Bud. I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I don't too.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
That was very simple children, your mother being a woman,
and I wouldn't have it any other way. He's trying
to get poor Tom Goodwin to commit matrimony with her
cousin Louise.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Oh well, sure, did you understand that?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Keep still or he'll explain it again.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Jim, I don't understand. You're a sudden interest in poor
Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
You don't even know the man that has nothing to
do with it.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
He's a man and in a case like this, We've
got to stick together, right, Bud.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Oh, oh sure, Bud.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Those are probably the flowers? Would you get them like
a good boy?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
How about my cake?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
No one's going to touch your cake?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Well, I better take it with me anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Bud, you'll get crumbs all over the floor. Oh dear,
if he gets this house messed.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Up, Honey, don't you think you're going a little overboard
on this thing?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I certainly do not. Tom Goodwin is coming all the
way from Middletown for this dinner, and if one thing
goes wrong, Nothing is going.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Wrong, mother, He'll be hooked before he knows what hit him.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Who's gonna get hooked?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Never mind, hear? Just drink your milk.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
What I like is the high plane on which females
conduct these campaign.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
She's going to be hooked?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Who is daddy?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Betty?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Stick Andrews.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Tell him I'll be right there, Betty.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
You haven't finished your dinner.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh it's all right, mother.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
We're going to stop him for hamburger on the way
to reheard.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Well, don't stay out too late, dear, I'm all in
good hunting long everybody.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
If she knew she was going to have a Hamburger.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Why did she?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I can't understand what happened to the flowers. They were
supposed to be here at four you still didn't tell me.
Tell you what, dear, who's.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Going to get hot?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
No one is Kathy? And please drink your.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Milk anytime nobody wants to tell me anything, drink your milk.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Boys, that Dick Andrew's a character. You know what he's
got on three mufflers? And hey, what happened to my cake?
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Sit down and drink your milk.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
But I had a whole piece of cake.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
You took it with you.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I did. Oh, well, I guess I ate it. You
know what Dick Andrews had on three mufflers? Yeah, what
a character, Jim.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
If the flowers aren't here in fifteen minutes, you'll have
to go after them.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
I have to change my shirt. What's the matter with Bud?
Speaker 4 (05:50):
He's leaving as soon as he finishes his milk.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Me too, I'm being stashed over at Patties, so I
won't say anything.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Well, you've certainly got everything all figured out, haven't you.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yes, Dear to the last detail.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Poor guy, I hope you knows what he's in for.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Meaning me, I suppose, Oh, hello, Louise, don't pay any
attention to Jim, Dear, he's just being a man.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Oh, Margaret, would you mind very much.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
If Louise you haven't changed your clothes?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I know, dear, you see, I've been thinking the whole
thing over, and I'm not sure.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
All right, Margaret, why don't you leave her alone?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Louise Baker, you march right upstairs and put on your
blue dress. Margaret, if she doesn't want Jim, will you
please leave this to me? He's here, he isn't here,
he won't be here for an hour. It's only the
man with the flowers.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
But yes, ma'am, it's a good thing for this family.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
I know how to open a door.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
He's the ambitious type.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Margaret.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Would you mind very much if we call the whole
thing off?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I most certainly would.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
But if Tom ever finds out Louise.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
You can't call off an avalanche.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
And once Margaret gets started, well, somebody's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Kathy, Dear, don't.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Worry about helpful Henrietta. She'll be out of here before
you can say. Why Tom, how sudden Jim.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
When it comes to being helpful, even if he does propose, Margaret,
it won't work. A man shouldn't be tricked into marriage. Oh,
don't be ridiculous, shouldn't. A marriage has to be built
on a firmer foundation. And if it starts out with
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trickery and deceit, well how can it possibly last?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Jim and I've done alright, haven't we?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
What is it? Bud? He said to tell you he
was awfully sorry. But they have to go over to
his mother's for dinner.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Oh dear, Now, what are we gonna do about Kathy?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Why don't I go over to the woods.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Why don't I just go back to Middletown.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You go upstairs and change your clothes, and let's not
have any more of this nonsense.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Better do what she says, Louise. She's a pretty rough customer.
I'll see you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Later in just a minute, Bud.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
But Joe's waiting for me.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Go ahead, Louise, Margaret, I am not a child, of
course you want? Now go upstairs and change Agree.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
This is the silliest thing I've ever done in my
entire life.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Wait until after you're married. That's when the silly things
really begin.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Jim, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
What am I supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Just stand here, Oh, Bud, you'll take Kathy with you?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Oh right, Holy cow, Mom.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
You're only going over to Joe's.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I know, but we're gonna invent a telephone. Okay, Kathy
can be the bell. Holy Call.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Go ahead, Bud, and take good care of your sister.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
If she touches one thing, I won't, but.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Honest, I won't. You won't even know I'm there.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Really, you won't, Holy Call.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yes, dear, would you mind explaining one small thing to me?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Of course not. But don't you think you better run
down for the flowers?
Speaker 8 (09:06):
The flowers can wait? What did you mean? Jim and
I have done all right?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Well, haven't we?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Naturally? But there wasn't any trickery involved in our marriage.
The whole thing was my idea, Oh Jim.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It was no such thing. I made up my mind
the first day we ever met.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
And I suppose I had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's right now. Look, Margaret Angel, do you remember what
happened the night you proposed?
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Of course I do.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
I walked around the block six times before I had
the nerve to go in. It was only five, it
was six. My father was counting them, and it was five,
okay five, But when I pushed the bell, that was it.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Jim.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
You were it before you even saw the bell.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
You know, now that I think of it.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I got the candle light and soft music business myself, didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
I to a wild rose. It took me six months
to learn the darn thing.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
And, come to think of it, I've never heard you
play anything since.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Just to a wild rose, that's all it took.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Well, if that isn't the most cold blooded conniving, I'm
getting to the point where I don't even like women.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You aren't supposed to, dear, just me.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Think you're clever, don't you.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
I've got a good mind to tell Tom Goodman what
this is all about.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
You wouldn't, Oh, I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
No, you wouldn't. Now stop acting like a spoiled little
boy and answer the door. Yes, mother, And if it
isn't the man with the flowers, you will have to
go after them.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I don't have to, but I will. Women they think
they're so smart about everything. Can't even let a.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Man make up his own mind about getting.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Married music flowers. Well, it certainly took you long enough
to get here.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Well, I'm sorry, mister Anderson. But you see, never mind
the explanations, just give me the flowers.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Yes, sir, you just about ruined everything I did.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
You certainly did you see? These aren't just flowers. These
are two ools to dig.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
The grave of an unsuspecting bachelor. They are yep, poor guy,
he's as good as cook right now.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
But where do I sign for what? The flowers?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Don't I have to sign for them?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Oh? No, you see, I'm Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well, it looks like father may have talked out of
turn this time. And yet more often than not, the
man of the house does know exactly what he's talking about.
For instance, ladies, when it comes to coffee, truly good coffee,
that husband of yours is the world's greatest experts, No
two ways about it. The number one expert on coffee
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is your husband. Of course, grocers call us experts too.
They know more families enjoy our Maxwell House coffee than
any the brand. But when you brew the coffee, the
final judge is your husband. And tomorrow, if you'll fill
his cup with wonderfully good Maxwell House, we're sure he'll
smile across the table and say.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Wonderful, best coffee ever.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
In fact, if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back.
You see, we know no coffee tastes like Maxwell House,
because no coffee's made like Maxwell House.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
In all this world.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
There's only one recipe for that famous good to the
last drop flavor, a recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended
just so, and only Maxwell House has that recipe. So
we say, take home a pound of our coffee tomorrow.
Serve your husband Maxwell House. If he doesn't say best
coffee ever, just send us the can an unused portion,
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and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is plainly printed on every familiar blue tin. But enough
from me tomorrow. See how much the world's greatest expert
enjoys our coffee. Tomorrow, Serve your husband Maxwell House coffee
good to the last froth. The candles have burned low
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in the Anderson's dining room, and the scent of flowers
mingles gently with the memory of good red beef. The
dinner hour is almost gone, and a delicate moment approaches.
The time has arrived for the.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Kill like this, Why don't we have our coffee in
the living room. I think we'll be much more comfortable.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Oh yes, why don't we have our coffee in the
living room? Be more comfortable? Gosh, I was sure a
wonderful dinner, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well, thank you, Tom.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Margaret's a wonderful cook, isn't she?
Speaker 8 (13:48):
She sure is.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Well, it runs in our family, doesn't it. Louise Well,
I wouldn't exactly say that, She's just being modest. Tom.
Grandmother Williams always used to say that our family produced
the finest cooks in the entire country.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
He got.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
What was that, dear? Nothing?
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I was just well, certainly looks romantic in here, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Fire in the fireplace? All the lights turned off?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Jim Well, I was only saying, why don't you sit down, Tom,
and we'll have our coffee?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
Oh, thank you very much?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Cream and sugar?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
No thanks, I'll take it straight, Louise.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Margarete.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You take yours plane too, don't you?
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I do. Isn't that an amazing coincidence? You and Tom
have so many things in common.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Don't you? Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Is something wrong, Jim?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
No, I uh, I was just wondering when my turn
was coming up, and for coffee.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I mean, here you are, dear, thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
You know Tom, it's a funny thing. But after you
get used to having a few kids.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Louise, why don't you play something for us?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (15:09):
I don't think you're sure.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Go ahead, lou you play and we'll drink our coffee.
All right?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
How would you like to a wild rose?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Jim? If you don't stop, it's all right.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
It went down the wrong pipe.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
That's go ahead, Louise. But I'm a love to a
wild rose?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Oh yes, it's it's a practically my favorite song.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
Yeah, mine too, Yes, Oh dear, well, that didn't last
very long.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
It didnt Kathy. Why aren't you everybody? Buds?
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
They brought a friend, Bud.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I distinctly told Joe you know what she did?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
She blew out all the fuses at the phillips.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I did not.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
You certainly did.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I didn't either, did I?
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Joe?
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Well, I don't know who did it, but the lights
are sure all out.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Look, why don't you kill We told her to plug
it in when we said, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You did not You just said to plug it in?
Speaker 8 (16:32):
Joe?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
You were right there? Didn't I tell her to wait?
Guysh I don't know. I was down on the basement.
What were you trying to do blow up the house.
We were making a telephone Dad and I Bud, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I want you and Kathy to go right back to Joe's.
But there aren't any lights, Bud Anderson, if you don't
go back to Joe's this very instant?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Hey, what's the matter with our lights?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Jim?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Will you please do something?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Honey?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Did we blow a fuse too?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Your mother's any second? Joe? Yes, sir.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Aren't your mother and father at home? No, sir.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
You see, we didn't know Kathy was coming over, and
when she did, my mother and father decided they had
to go to the movies.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Jim, why don't you take the children inside?
Speaker 8 (17:22):
All right?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Come on, kids, I'm sure Louise and Tom will understand,
of course.
Speaker 11 (17:27):
Oh is he the one who's gonna get Kathy.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Let's solve it out of the playroom and see if
we can't get this thing straightened out.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Come on, Kathy is.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Not calling me?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Why? Always?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Joe?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I'm awfully sorry. Tom.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Oh, that's okay. I don't mind little noise.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Tom lives at the Y in Middletown and he's used
to having boys around, aren't you?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Tom? I sure, I am.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I see tell me? Do you like you think it's
the why?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Oh? Sure, I like it? Fine?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I mean it isn't like having your own home, is it.
Speaker 12 (18:07):
Well no, but then there wouldn't be any sense in
my having my own home with her.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Gosh, I'm not even.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Married, and so we understand, Margaret, if you.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Don't mind, I guess I got old.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Jim, Why aren't you more careful?
Speaker 6 (18:22):
What do you mean careful? It's so dark in here,
I can't even see where I I'm sorry, Tom. Oh,
that's all right, Jim.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Yeah, just about made it, didn't.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I have the children all right, dear?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Oh, sure, they're going to rig up the phone over here,
but they promise not to make any noise.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Oh, dear, you.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
See, Joe got a telephone outfit for Christmas and they've been.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Trying to Jim.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Louise was going to play, but I was just telling
I'm sorry, just go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Well to a wild rose?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
All right, pretty, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Jim?
Speaker 8 (19:00):
Well I was it?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yes? You?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Oh no, I'll be right.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
There, okay, mother.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The most terrible thing happened. We were what are y'all
sitting around in the dark for.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
The roses? Grow better that way, Betty.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
You said the rehearsal wouldn't be over until ten.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Well, the boiler broke down and there wasn't any heat,
and you've never seen any place so cold. Hi, Louise, Hello, dear.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I haven't met your friend.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Oh, I'm sorry, Betty. This is Tom Goodwin. How do
you do all right?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Betty?
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Louise was telling me, Oh, excuse me, I forgot all
about Jick.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I'll be right in Betty, Please, I understand, mother.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
We won't make a sound.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
How did he get upstairs?
Speaker 7 (19:55):
But we're almost finished, dad, Patsy, Betty.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I'm I don't know what's gotten into those children tonight.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Did you say something, Tom? No, No, I was.
Speaker 9 (20:08):
Just sitting here, that's all Ordinarily, you don't even know
they're in the house, Honey.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, I mean you know they're in the house, of course.
But go ahead, dear. What the piano you were doing? Beautifully,
wasn't she?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Tom?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
She sure was just great?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
All right, Louise.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
If the roses weren't wild in the beginning, they are now, Jim,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Go ahead, Oh, dear Jacky.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Tell Joe any floorbodio.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Now now?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, tell them to turn the plug over yoo.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
Okay, wait a minute, Jim.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
Leave Mylne Migaret.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
They'll stop.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Now.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Joe wants to know now it's words.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Tell them to put it back the way it was.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Joe, Jim, I don't think I can stand this for
another second.
Speaker 11 (21:31):
The kids at the piano, Okay, Louise, Louise, will you
excuse us for just a minute.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Jim and I have a few things we want to
take care of.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Oh, please don't worry about as Margaret.
Speaker 12 (21:52):
Oh, we'll get long, fine, all right, Jim, but we
have to take care of those things.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
What thing, Kathy, all those things.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 12 (22:11):
Tom, Well, don't hurry on our account now, we're not
going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Hello, Oh Ji, Jimmy, I have never been so embarrassed
in my entire life.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Well, this will teach you not to go around playing
Cupid with a house full of kids.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
What did you expect?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I expected Tom Goodwin to propose, and he's going.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
To I'll still take Tennessee in six points.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I want you to go right down to the playroom
and explain to Kathy, why don't I just shoot.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Them and get it over with you. Jim, Well, how
do you expect a bunch of normal kids.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
You don't have to practice hog calling tonight, do they?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
No?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
But well, I'll speak to them.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'll take care of Betty and Jim. Please be firm
with them.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Oh sure, I'll tell them. They've got to make a
very quiet type of noise.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
But we're down here, Dad.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
But whether or not you know it, you and Kathy
are in a jam.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
We are what we do.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
Hey, look at this, here's a whole box of things
we never even saw.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Well, no wonder it wouldn't work.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
But I'm trying to tell you upstairs and try to
get Kathy what now?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Look but Kathy and you too, Joe, Yes, sir, I
went out and bought a book and I'm now an
expert on child's psychology.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
You are gosh, And do you know what the book
says to do.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
If I hear one more peep out of any one
of you, I'm coming down here and ring your scruwnny little.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Next boy psychology? Now, is that understood? We were only
trying to fix up the phone, Dad.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
We didn't know you were gonna get there.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
All right, Just remember one little peep.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Jam, what's the matter, honey?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Goom it happened?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Wonderful? Father? Did he get hurt?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
I can't even think what's going on.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
But, oh, Jim, I've never been so happy in my
whole life.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You mean he did it a ray in everything.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Well, what do you know? Well, congratulate me, Jim. I
finally made it.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
You finally made it.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I mean she congratulations to thank you, Jim.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
They're going to be married in June. Isn't it thrilling?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Yes, sir? And now what all of you and Margaret?
It was for sure.
Speaker 12 (24:36):
You see, Jim, I was an only child and things
around my house were always wha kind of quiet, all right.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
That's why I was afraid to get married.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I thought it'd be sort of dull.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
But gosh, if it's like this, you mean you're getting
married for the.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Noise, isn't it wonderful? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
No, Tomorrow or Saturday, you'll probably buy coffee for that
(25:20):
family of yours, and above all you'll be shopping for flavor.
Then it makes sense, doesn't it, to choose the coffee
with the most famous flavor in the world, our Maxwell
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(25:41):
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(26:25):
usual problems like this.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Isn't it strange the way things turn out?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Dear?
Speaker 8 (26:31):
You mean Louise and Tom?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yes, now, who would ever have guessed that he was
so crazy about children?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Louis said, they're gonna have millions of them. She said, six,
That's what I said.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Margre Yes, Dear, you don't have any more cousins you'd
like to U? No, Dear, not even a second cousin.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Jim, I give you my word, My matchmaking days are over.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Good O The sugar.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Father, do you know a boy named Frank Culbertson?
Speaker 8 (27:07):
No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Why, well, he belongs to the Athletic club.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
What about him?
Speaker 4 (27:12):
You must know him, father.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
He's twenty seven years old, blonde hair, of blue eyes,
five eleven inches, one hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
We'll wait a minute. Even if I did know him,
don't you think he's a little old for you?
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I didn't mean for me.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
But Janie Niggott's cousin is twenty five, and that's pretty
old for a girl to be wandering around without a boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So we were just wondering if you couldn't sort of
drop it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Get around the club. But you know what you don't
loved talking to somebody for alright, is.
Speaker 10 (27:41):
To at breakfast time.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
You don't have to say.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
You children eat your cereal right this instant, Just say
hop Along Cassidy is crazy about hot wheatmeal.
Speaker 13 (28:07):
Just a little psychology. Yes, to get your children to
eat a hot cereal, just tell them post wheatmeal is
hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal and they eat it too.
Post wheatmeal is chuck full of solid whole wheat. Nourishment
has a wonderful nut like flavor and at cooks. In
just three and a half minutes, you'll see you'll all
agree it's the best hot cereal you ever ate. Join
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us again next week when we'll be back with Father
Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with June
Whitley as Margaret Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra
and yours truly, Bill Former. So until next Thursday, good
night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
America's favorite brand of cook always good to the last drop.
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Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Written by Ed James.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over
most of these stations.
Speaker 12 (29:14):
Coming up Dragnet with tense, absorbing drama on NBC
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