August 15, 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 (00:03):
Now listen to Father Knows Best, transcribes Darring Robert Young
as Father. Well he the spring here and another half
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hour visit for the folks in the white frame house
on Maple Street. Sit back and enjoy life with the
Andersons Kathy, Bob, Betty, Margaret and Jim, as the head
of this typical American household again sets out to prove
that Father knows Best. Down through the ages, the search
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for buried treasure has led venturesome souls into daring exploits
and colorful, exciting adventures. Although the occupants of the white
frame House on Maple Street are not yet aware of it,
there's a treasure hunt brewing right in their own backyard.
At the moment, however, nothing unusual is in evidence in
the Anderson household.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
As the head of.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The family arrives for the noonday meal and the youngest
member of the tribe, Kathy, brings up a familiar and
wholly innocent sounding question like this, Daddy's kidding, Gerry.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Can I ask you a personal question?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I guess, So what is it?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Can I have thirty nine cents?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, that's pretty personal? Well, can I is that all
your kids think about money? I can't even get my
hat off before someone asks me for money. Doesn't anybody
around here like me for myself instead of my millions?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I'm sorry, daddy here, let me hug you.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, now that's more like it. Well, thank you, kit
I tell you that's a lot more satisfying being welcomed
home with a kiss.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Now, can I have the thirty nine cents?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Tell me? Well, let's discuss it on the way out
of the kitchen. I have to eat my lunch in
kind of a hurry today. Just what do you need
thirty nine cents so desperately for?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I want to go to the movies this afternoon?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Is that what they charge kids now? Thirty nine cents?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh no, it's only nineteen cents.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
But I need ten cents for popcorn and a nickel
for a strawberry ice cream cone.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
On the way home, I see, well, what's the other
nickel for?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well, that's in case I wish I'd got chocolate instead
of strawberry.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, at least you're using a little foresight. Hello, Margaret,
lunch ready.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, not cried? Why are you in a hurry?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, as a matter of fact, I am sort of daddy.
I have to get out to the airport and meet
Lewis and he's coming in on the one forty plane.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Who's coming in?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Ed Lewison, the field representative from the Home Office, just
got a wire from him this morning.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Daddy, Why do you always have to be the one
that rushes out to the airport to meet everyone from
the Home Office.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well, it's only natural. I'm head of the office here,
and well you don't want me to insult Lewison.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't know. You might try it one.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Let him know that you're a pretty busy man too, Daddy, Cappy,
don't bother your father all the time. You can help
set the table.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We've got some cash business to talk over.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You can do that later. Your father has to rush
out to the airport.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I hear a young son tiptoeing downstairs.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
He's been crashing around all morning. He's going through that
annual ordeal of getting his things together for camp.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Already doesn't leave for three weeks, I know, but he.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Does this every summer, and then when it's time to
go to camp, he's lost practically everything and has to
do it all over again.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Daddy thirty nine cents.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
See Mom, cour'st that army blanket there. Oh, hi, bed
you home.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No, I'm somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico on a
shrimp cut.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Well, I'm glad you're here, dad, because I need some
money to buy a camera.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
A camera, yeah, for camp.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
They got it on the list here.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, Bud, you don't have to take everything they put
down on that.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
List, Mom says I do.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, I didn't say that, Yes you did.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Don't you remember there were a couple of items on
there I wasn't gonna take, and you said I had to.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What kind of items, Bud?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Well, this one right here, for instance, soap.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh, well, I can see how that would sound fairly
frivolous to you.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
So how about the camera, dad?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, I want a thirty nine cents Daddy.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
It says here. I'm supposed to take a tennis racket too,
but I can buy a second hand one real chief
from Fletcher brous.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now wait just a minute. You kids seem to think
I'm growing money on the bushes around here, father, So
we'd better have a little understanding.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Father.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yes, Betty, how much do you want?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What you say?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Father, I just somehow expected you to ask me for
some money.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well, as a matter of fact, I was going to what, Betty,
if you'll help Kathy put the things on the table,
we can eat your father's in a big hurry.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh in a minute, mother, You see, Father Ralph has
decided somehow or.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Other, Ralph is fast becoming one of my least favorite acquaintances.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Well, Ralph has decided that I should round out my
personality development with an athletic program. And he's decided I
should take up bowling.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
How nice of Ralph.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And in order to play it properly, you.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Don't play bulling, you bowl.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, whatever you do to do it properly, Ralph says.
Ralph says, you have to have bowling shoes, Oh sure,
and a bowling ball measured to your particular.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Grip an absolute must.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So is that an unreasonable request?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Father, No, I don't think it's unreasonable. And furthermore, I
don't think it's unreasonable for me to tell you, no.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
What thirty nine cents, daddy?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
They got a camera at the drug store for only
four ninety five.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'll wait a minute, whoa hold it. I don't know
what's got into kids nowadays. Seems like you have to
buy all your entertainment.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, things aren't exactly free and no, father.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well, I don't know about that. Some of the best
things are free. There's even a song that says that.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh, sure, I'll give you the moon. What can we
do with the moon?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I have it measured to your grip and use it.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
For a volleyball.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Jim, you'd better start eating if you want to get
out to the airport.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh, that's right, you know. I remember when I was
a kid. We didn't have any money to throw away
on entertainment.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
We made our own fun like how daddy.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh, I don't know different things. I remember we'd get
up a little treasure, hunt bury something, and then try
to find it, dig it up some fun. Well at war,
whoever bury the treasure would draw a map, and the
others would try to follow the map. Why don't you
try it now?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
About that camera, dad?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh me, I'll try it, Daddy. I've got some time
to kill before the movie start.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Anyway, Benny, aren't you going to eat anything?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Ralph says, I'm putting on weight.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Oh, for pity's sake, you're much too thin. I wish
Ralph would mind his own business.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Now, just how do you want me to do this
treasure thing? Daddy.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, Kathy, you're not doing it for me. You're doing
it for yourself so you can have some fun.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Anything you say, Daddy, Well, what you do.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Is get something from everyone, put it in a tin
can or a box, and bury it and then draw
a map.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Hey, that might be fun, but will you hunt for it.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I've got to go over to Fletcher's and see about
that tennis racket.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
No, I think you'd better stay here and join the
treasure hunt.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
But it's on the list, Dad, And Fletch said his
tennis racket was a clean deal, real cheap, those strings attached.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Considering it's a deal with Fletch, I'd say you're lucky
it has a handle.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Daddy.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Can I have your rmestone bracelets put in the treasure No?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Now, don't take any of my good jewelry and bury
it in an old hen can see, Daddy, it won't work.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
How do you know? You haven't really tried yet.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Here, Kathy, you can have this old pen of mine
for your treasure chest.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
All right, gee, I don't think this will work. It's
kind of broken.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Mommy, Oh that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Seems like kind of a cheap treasure hunt. Daddy. Maybe
you ought to give me a dollar to put in it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, that's what I'm trying to get away from. Just
use things around the house, Okay, but.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
No, I just want to use that jack knife.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You got hanging on your belt.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
No, I got that out for my cam stuff, and
I don't want you to lose it for me.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh now, Bud, it isn't going to hurt you to
let her take the knife. You'll get it back. But Dad,
the game is more fun if you use things of
so value to the other players.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
What other players don't look at me?
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Well, I'll let her take some of my camping equipment,
but not my knife, Kathy, Yes, in my room lying
on top of the sleeping bag is the thing you
can use?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Oh boy, what is it?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
A bar of soap?
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Aw?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Heck, that's no treasure.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Well, it's part of my camping equipment, isn't it? Mom?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It certainly is. Jim, do you want no more selling?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yes, please, it's very good.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Kathy? Where are you going? You're not through eating?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And you say, I am. I've got to start to
gathering up the treasure.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well what do we say when we leave the table?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Goodbye? I mean, excuse me that's better. Don't you take
any of my jewelry. I won't touch.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
The old jug dad, father.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Why don't you children leave your father alone for a
few minutes. He's in a big hurry today, has to
meet a plane.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Yeah no, but dead.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Bod right now. I don't care to discuss cameras or
tennis rackets, or bowling shoes or anything else.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
I wasn't gonna ask you about any of them.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You weren't.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
No, I just want to ask you about another item
on my list. It's got me stumbed.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What is it? Something mysterious like toothpaste?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
No, it says here musical instrument?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Well, why don't you take a piano? They're especially nice
for hiking.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Fletch says he'll sell me a clarinet, real cheap.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That Fletch moves right in, doesn't he.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
He says it would be pretty light to carry because
all the keys are broken off.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
No, Bud, isn't that pretty ridiculous? What good would a
clarinet be with all the keys broken off?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
What's the difference? I can't play it anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It sounds like a red hot bargain.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Can I get it dead?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
No? Use your head, son, father.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Well, how about the camera. You can use that. After
I get home from camp.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Father, I have to meet Rapping about twenty minutes, and
he expects me to go bowling with him.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, that's fine. The exercise will do you good.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
But in order to play the game properly, you wanted
to have the property.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh now, Betty, you don't have to have all that
special stuff, at least not for the bowling. You're going
to do. Thousands of people bowl every day without any
special equipment.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But to play the game properly.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Look, if you get to be a champion, I'll see
that you have all the equipment you need.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Good, Father, even get you a fur lined.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Ball for bowling in cold weather.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Okay, Daddy, I'm all set with the treasure. Now where
do I bury it?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, don't ask me. That's supposed to be a secret.
None of us are supposed to know where you bury it?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Oh, I see, Well, okay, here goes in Captain Kidd's
treasure expedition.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Weren't you man with the laws?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I hope she didn't get into my jewelry.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh, don't worry so much about it, don't spoil her fun.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Well, I won't be here to spoil it.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I've got to eat, Ralph, Betty, I wish you'd eat
a little more. You won't even be able to lift
a bowling ball, let alone throw it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
It doesn't matter anyway. My bowling career has just been
utterly frustrated by lack of proper equipment.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Kids have certainly changed since I was a boy.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Believe me, No, you probably wanted things just as badly
as they do, but it was on a different scale.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
There weren't quite so many things to want then.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh, I don't know about that. The point is that
we were resourceful and figured out Dad, what is it, Bud?
Speaker 7 (12:26):
If I could find you on ad showing that four
ninety five camera they got at the drug store, would
it help you pick it out when you go down there?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But I don't have time to go to the drug
store now, And besides, I'm perfectly capable of recognizing a
camera when I see one.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Well, I'll get the air just in case I've got
one up in my room.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Oh me, I don't believe those kids hear a single
word I say.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Well, I think they hear only what they want to hear.
Did you have enough to eat?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yes, plenty? Huh I guess i'd better head out toward
the airport.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh, Lewison isn't the kind who likes to stand around
waiting for anyone.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Oh no, by all means, don't make him.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Mother, have you seen any of my lipsticks?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Why no, I can't find a single one. Well, I
didn't do anything with them.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I know they were right on the dresser this morning.
Wait a minute, I'll bet I know Kathy. Kathy, she
put them in that buried treasure thing. Oh wait, I
get my hands on that little shrimp.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh now, don't get so excited. It's just a game.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But I can't go out looking like this. Ralph is
waiting for me. Hey, mom, he'll be ashamed to take
me to the bowling alley.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh, yes, you've got a dress. Real fancy to get
into a bowling alley?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Oh that little well?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Hey mom, did you take those flashlight batteries I had
laid out with my campy equipment.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, I didn't questioned them.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Well they're gone, and so is my compass.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'll tell you where they are. Kathy buried them in
the treasure. Why she practically cleaned me out of everything?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh, Betty, she did not totally call.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Nothing is safe around here with that little pickpocket.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Oh, for goodness sake, there's nothing to get so upset about.
Don't get all your stuff back? Can't you go along
with a game?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Father? Ralph is waiting for me.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
I've got to take that stuff to can.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, it's not going to hurt you to go along
with Kathy for a few minutes, Margaret, I have to
hurry or I'll be late.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
All right, dear, will you be home for dinner?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I think so? It all depends on Lewison.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Do you have to have mister Lewis and tell you
when you can go home and eat dinner.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's not that, just that he's coming out here for
some very important reasons.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And hey, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Where are my car keys? Well?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well, where did you put them?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Right on top of my hat? I'd put them there
purposely so i'd be sure. And wait a minute, I'll
bet Kathy got them. What's the matter with that kid? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's only a game, father.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
But.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Somebody go out and get Kathy and hurry.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think I hear it coming now.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh what does that girl use for brains?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Kath?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Are you ready to play?
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Daddy?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Here's then, app Katty, I haven't got time to play games.
Go out and dig up that treasure right now.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But I can't. I don't know where it's buried. What
I wanted to play too, So I had Daddy Davis
Berry yet.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Well, get Patti Davis then, but she just left for
the movies.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Oh, don't worry, Daddy will find the treasure.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
How oh we have to do is follow the map
she drew.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh no, he returned to the Andersons in a moment.
Greater happiness for more people. That's the result of many
decades of proving that the American economic system is the
best system in the world. Under the system, we've been
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able to outproduce any other nation, to turn out more
goods and services from man aar, and to enjoy a
steadily rising standards of living. Remember, the better we produce,
the better we live. If any of you folks are
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interested in buried treasure, I know where you can find some.
It's hidden somewhere in the backyard of the White Frame
house on Maple Street. The treasure chest consists of a
tomato can, which contains, among other things, two flashlight batteries,
some lipsticks, and the keys to Jim's car. This last
item is the one that's causing considerable furor in the
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Anderson household at the moment like this, Of.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
All the things to bury in that can, but Danny,
you told me to get something from everybody.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
How am I going to use my flashlighted camp with
no batteries.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I'll quit worrying about your batteries. I can't even start the.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Car my good lipsticks, Jim, you were the one who
started this buried treasure idea.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I didn't tell her to put my keys in there.
I had them right there. My hat.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I couldn't put the hat in she wouldn't fit.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I can't go bowling without lipstick. I'll look like a ghost.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
For goodness sake. Calm down. You'd think it was the
end of.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
The world, Margaret. If it isn't the end, it's pretty
close to it. Lewis's plane is due right now, and
if I'm not there to meet him.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Well, dear, why are you standing here waving your arms
and shouting. All you have to do is go out
in the backyard and dig.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Up that cat, Margaret. I haven't time to go out
and play bloodhound to a tomato can. When the head
of the home office is practically breathing down my neck.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
How long would it take you to find it? Patty
Davis probably buried it in the most obvious place.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Obvious place. Look at this map she drew. Looks like
a blueprint of the Pentagon. O, dear mother, why don't
you make Kathy find it?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I don't know where Patty buried it.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
She can't find it, Petty, well Maker, she can't find
it if she doesn't know where it is, well Maker, if.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
My stuff is like, I'm gonna sewer who sue you?
That's who?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
This can't be a map of our backyard. Look what
she has here? Three paces from the old Cannon's mouth
toward Buzzard's Bay.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well we might go out and look, dear nothing doing.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I'm gonna call a cab. What's the number, Daddy?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You told me about the game. You told me your
saw It's seven seven one, father, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I told you about the game. But I didn't suggest sabotage.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I didn't put any of that in him, any of
what any sabotage.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I don't think we have any. Oh that aboriginal.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Child, Oh, cab company, This is Jim Anderson six oh
seven Maple Street. I want a cab out here fast.
I gotta get to the airport all out. Don't you
have anything down there with wheels on it? No, later
won't do me any good, Thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
What did they say, dear?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
The calves have all been reserved for the convention, big
mob in town. The pickle packers are something.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
You can use my motor scooter, Dad.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Oh great, I can see myself riding mister Lewis and
back to town on your scooter.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Lord messrs An rides on the back of his, and
she used to be a school teacher.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Maybe you could buy a Ralph's car.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Ralph's car all four wheels go in different directions. Every
time you put on the brakes, the hood flies up.
I'd be better off on the scooter.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
The children are only trying to help.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Dear Oh, maybe I could borrow at Davis's car.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
The Davises have gone to the movies.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh, for Pete's sake. What about the Phillips, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
They're at home.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Their car isn't working. Missus Phillips parked pretty close to
a fire plug. If I couldn't hurt the car, she
parked on top of it. Florida, came right up to
the floorboards.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
There must be a car someplace.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
It looked like old Faithful.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Dear, you're just wasting time arguing in here. You might
have found the keys and been halfway to the airport.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Let's go out and follow the map, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I'm going up and check all my things, and if
anything else is gone, Cathy, I'm gonna take you apart.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
You might find them.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Jim, I'll hoverrize that little worm.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It's all right.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Come on, Bud, I don't know where to dig for
that darn thing.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Dad, I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Daddy, have you got the map?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yes, I've got the map.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I'll be out in a minute. Dear, I'll have to
put the butter and cream in the refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Oh this is just dandy. There couldn't be a better
time to play pirates in the backyard.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Now here's where we start, Daddy. You see on the
map that says walk from the corner of the stockade.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
This is the garage.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
That's the stockade. Anybody would know that, Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Now, I gotta keep an.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Eye on the long boat yonder if them yellow livered
swabs catch a sight of us.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Not a man will come out alive.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Holy cal.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Kathy, we're not playing pirate?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Have you founded?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Deer founded? We haven't even started. We're still swashbuckling. I
can just picture Lewis and standing around the airport boiling well.
I've often thought I wanted to get out of the
insurance business. Looks like I'm gonna get my wish.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Oh, Jim, stop carrying on. The plane may be late. Besides,
mister Lewison can wait a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That's what you think. Time tied? And Lewis and wait
for no man, where's that silly math?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Here's the first clue. From the corner of the stockade
to the river. Ten paces.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh that Patty Davis? What's she talking about a river?
There's no river back here.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Hey, I'll bet I know what it is. The water
force it it's the same thing as a river.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Did you ever see a river with a meeter on it?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I think's right, dear?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
All right? Ten paces? I suppose they'd be short ones
if Patty Davis was the pirate that laid this thing out.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Wait, let's see the map. Now. If we were right
about the river, then.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
At ten paces you should be able to turn and
look through the crotch of the oak tree and see
an eagle's nest.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Eagle's nest.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Say, we're right. I can see through the crotch of
the tree, and there's the nest.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
See an eagles.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
No, it's a robin's nest or something, but it's a nest.
We're on the right track.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Oh boy, let me a nat, daddy, No, let me
hold it, kid.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And I'm getting the hang of this thing now. Hmm.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You'd better hurry, dear.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
A ass matie. We're on the trail of the doabloom.
Before the tide turns, we'll find the Spanish gold.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Spanish gold in a tomato can.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Now standing under the eagle's nest. Seven paces toward the
cannon's mouth. Wasn't the dickens is the cannon's mouth?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Could be mister Beckett across the street.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
He hasn't house like a cannon. Kathy, you should hear
him holler.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Hey, maybe it's the end of the drain spouts that
looks like a cannon.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
BlimE me, lad you're up, bright one. I'll wager a
quid you've struck it. Push on my heart.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
He's this is kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Huh, Dad, sure is isn't it, Daddy?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, I told you this was a good game, kitten.
We played it all the time when we were kids.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Are we getting close to the treasure? Cap'n Daddy?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Hi? Aye me?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Buckle?
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Hey Dad? The Smith's are watching us from their yard.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Keep your powder dry, mate, we'll tend to those swabs later, Dear,
hadn't you lady mate? I'm having a spot of trouble
here with peg leg Davis's map.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Dear, if mister Lewis, I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Worry about Lewis and he can wait a while?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Oh I can, can I?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Mister Lewison?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
How did you get here? I mean, when did you?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I thought you were going to meet me at the airport?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh? Yes I was. But how did you get here?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I had to hit right?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Oh no, mister Lewis and my family, Missus Anderson, my
son and daughter, Bud and Kathy.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
How do you do well? Anderson? Won't happened? And if
I may say so, it better be good.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Well, you see, a very strange thing happened the keys
to my car. You probably won't believe this, but they're
buried somewhere in the backyard.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Here buried the keysier car.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I know it sounds a little unusual.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Unusual.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That is a masterpiece of understatement. I'm furious with you Anderson,
quite furious.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Mister Lewson. It wasn't his fault. Really, it was my fault,
mister Lewison.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I was playing treasure hunt and we buried the keys
to the car in our treasure chests.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Kathy didn't realize when she took the keys that mister
Anderson was just getting ready to leap for the airport.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
She took a lot of stuff, my flashlight batteries, even.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Oh, let me have a treasure see. We even drew
a map for it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh you did?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Let me see that. Well, looks like the treasure map
say used to do when I was a boy. Mister Lewson,
if you want to get down to the office, spend
plenty of time to go to the office. What does
this mean here? Twelve paces toward the pieces of eight.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Maybe that means you go towards the bank.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I doubt it, Margaret. He's warming up inviting for dinner quick. Uh,
mister Lewson. Uh, you'll join us for dinner tonight, won't you?
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Dinner? Leane right it?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Oh that's wonderful. Well, I'll run in and let you
discuss your business matters.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Oh, mister Lewson, would you like to go inside? We
can talk in the den. How vast you swab? There's
treasure on this island. I am by the great hornspoon.
We're going to fight it.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Come on, mate, where will you?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Mady holy cow?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Well, shiver my timbers and Anderson's will be right back.
This is a call to service for fifty thousand young women.
That figure fifty thousand. There's a number of student nurses
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needed this year. To qualify as a student nurse, a
young woman must be a high school graduate or a
college student of good health and character. To answer this call,
go to your nearest hospital or collegiate school of nursing,
or talk with your school advisor. Well, the treasures and
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the old tomato can have been recovered, and the backyard
pirates have put away their muskets and settled back to
life as usual. And since all has calm for the moment,
Jim Anderson steps out of the living room of the
white frame house on Maple Street for a word with you,
mister Robert Young, Thank you, bill Well, folks, we had
quite a time with our treasure hunt in the backyard,
didn't we Anyway? The Andersons are going to take a
(27:24):
little vacation for the summer. It's been a very pleasant season,
and we hope that some of the things that have
happened in our home remind you of things that have
happened in your own. So until next fall, have a
nice summer, drive carefully, enjoy yourselves. And here's the family.
Margaret played by Jean Vanderpyle, Happy vacation, Betty played by
(27:46):
Rhoda Williams, Goodbye.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I hope you all have a simply perfect but utterly
perfect summer.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
And Bud played by Ted Donaldson. So long, but can't
you say anything but so long?
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Holy Ca.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That's better. And last, but believe me not least Kathy
played by Norma Jeanielson. Have see you in the fall.
Good night, and our cast night for Bill Farman as
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the narrator and mister Lewis and was Jim Nusser Don
Stanley speaking Father Knows Best, directed by Andrew cy Love
was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West and Rodma.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
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Speaker 6 (29:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Keep tune for Dragnet on NBC
Now listen to Father Knows Best, transcribes Darring Robert Young
as Father. Well he the spring here and another half
(00:32):
hour visit for the folks in the white frame house
on Maple Street. Sit back and enjoy life with the
Andersons Kathy, Bob, Betty, Margaret and Jim, as the head
of this typical American household again sets out to prove
that Father knows Best. Down through the ages, the search
(01:00):
for buried treasure has led venturesome souls into daring exploits
and colorful, exciting adventures. Although the occupants of the white
frame House on Maple Street are not yet aware of it,
there's a treasure hunt brewing right in their own backyard.
At the moment, however, nothing unusual is in evidence in
the Anderson household.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
As the head of.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The family arrives for the noonday meal and the youngest
member of the tribe, Kathy, brings up a familiar and
wholly innocent sounding question like this, Daddy's kidding, Gerry.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Can I ask you a personal question?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I guess, So what is it?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Can I have thirty nine cents?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, that's pretty personal? Well, can I is that all
your kids think about money? I can't even get my
hat off before someone asks me for money. Doesn't anybody
around here like me for myself instead of my millions?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I'm sorry, daddy here, let me hug you.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, now that's more like it. Well, thank you, kit
I tell you that's a lot more satisfying being welcomed
home with a kiss.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Now, can I have the thirty nine cents?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Tell me? Well, let's discuss it on the way out
of the kitchen. I have to eat my lunch in
kind of a hurry today. Just what do you need
thirty nine cents so desperately for?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I want to go to the movies this afternoon?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Is that what they charge kids now? Thirty nine cents?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh no, it's only nineteen cents.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
But I need ten cents for popcorn and a nickel
for a strawberry ice cream cone.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
On the way home, I see, well, what's the other
nickel for?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well, that's in case I wish I'd got chocolate instead
of strawberry.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, at least you're using a little foresight. Hello, Margaret,
lunch ready.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, not cried? Why are you in a hurry?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, as a matter of fact, I am sort of daddy.
I have to get out to the airport and meet
Lewis and he's coming in on the one forty plane.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Who's coming in?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Ed Lewison, the field representative from the Home Office, just
got a wire from him this morning.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Daddy, Why do you always have to be the one
that rushes out to the airport to meet everyone from
the Home Office.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Well, it's only natural. I'm head of the office here,
and well you don't want me to insult Lewison.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I don't know. You might try it one.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Let him know that you're a pretty busy man too, Daddy, Cappy,
don't bother your father all the time. You can help
set the table.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We've got some cash business to talk over.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You can do that later. Your father has to rush
out to the airport.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I hear a young son tiptoeing downstairs.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
He's been crashing around all morning. He's going through that
annual ordeal of getting his things together for camp.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Already doesn't leave for three weeks, I know, but he.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Does this every summer, and then when it's time to
go to camp, he's lost practically everything and has to
do it all over again.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Daddy thirty nine cents.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
See Mom, cour'st that army blanket there. Oh, hi, bed
you home.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No, I'm somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico on a
shrimp cut.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Well, I'm glad you're here, dad, because I need some
money to buy a camera.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
A camera, yeah, for camp.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
They got it on the list here.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, Bud, you don't have to take everything they put
down on that.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
List, Mom says I do.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, I didn't say that, Yes you did.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Don't you remember there were a couple of items on
there I wasn't gonna take, and you said I had to.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What kind of items, Bud?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Well, this one right here, for instance, soap.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh, well, I can see how that would sound fairly
frivolous to you.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
So how about the camera, dad?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, I want a thirty nine cents Daddy.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
It says here. I'm supposed to take a tennis racket too,
but I can buy a second hand one real chief
from Fletcher brous.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now wait just a minute. You kids seem to think
I'm growing money on the bushes around here, father, So
we'd better have a little understanding.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Father.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yes, Betty, how much do you want?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What you say?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Father, I just somehow expected you to ask me for
some money.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well, as a matter of fact, I was going to what, Betty,
if you'll help Kathy put the things on the table,
we can eat your father's in a big hurry.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh in a minute, mother, You see, Father Ralph has
decided somehow or.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Other, Ralph is fast becoming one of my least favorite acquaintances.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Well, Ralph has decided that I should round out my
personality development with an athletic program. And he's decided I
should take up bowling.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
How nice of Ralph.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And in order to play it properly, you.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
Don't play bulling, you bowl.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, whatever you do to do it properly, Ralph says.
Ralph says, you have to have bowling shoes, Oh sure,
and a bowling ball measured to your particular.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Grip an absolute must.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So is that an unreasonable request?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Father, No, I don't think it's unreasonable. And furthermore, I
don't think it's unreasonable for me to tell you, no.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
What thirty nine cents, daddy?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
They got a camera at the drug store for only
four ninety five.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'll wait a minute, whoa hold it. I don't know
what's got into kids nowadays. Seems like you have to
buy all your entertainment.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, things aren't exactly free and no, father.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well, I don't know about that. Some of the best
things are free. There's even a song that says that.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh, sure, I'll give you the moon. What can we
do with the moon?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I have it measured to your grip and use it.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
For a volleyball.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Jim, you'd better start eating if you want to get
out to the airport.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh, that's right, you know. I remember when I was
a kid. We didn't have any money to throw away
on entertainment.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
We made our own fun like how daddy.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh, I don't know different things. I remember we'd get
up a little treasure, hunt bury something, and then try
to find it, dig it up some fun. Well at war,
whoever bury the treasure would draw a map, and the
others would try to follow the map. Why don't you
try it now?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
About that camera, dad?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh me, I'll try it, Daddy. I've got some time
to kill before the movie start.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Anyway, Benny, aren't you going to eat anything?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Ralph says, I'm putting on weight.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Oh, for pity's sake, you're much too thin. I wish
Ralph would mind his own business.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Now, just how do you want me to do this
treasure thing? Daddy.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, Kathy, you're not doing it for me. You're doing
it for yourself so you can have some fun.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Anything you say, Daddy, Well, what you do.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Is get something from everyone, put it in a tin
can or a box, and bury it and then draw
a map.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Hey, that might be fun, but will you hunt for it.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I've got to go over to Fletcher's and see about
that tennis racket.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
No, I think you'd better stay here and join the
treasure hunt.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
But it's on the list, Dad, And Fletch said his
tennis racket was a clean deal, real cheap, those strings attached.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Considering it's a deal with Fletch, I'd say you're lucky
it has a handle.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Daddy.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Can I have your rmestone bracelets put in the treasure No?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Now, don't take any of my good jewelry and bury
it in an old hen can see, Daddy, it won't work.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
How do you know? You haven't really tried yet.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Here, Kathy, you can have this old pen of mine
for your treasure chest.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
All right, gee, I don't think this will work. It's
kind of broken.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Mommy, Oh that doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Seems like kind of a cheap treasure hunt. Daddy. Maybe
you ought to give me a dollar to put in it.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, that's what I'm trying to get away from. Just
use things around the house, Okay, but.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
No, I just want to use that jack knife.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You got hanging on your belt.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
No, I got that out for my cam stuff, and
I don't want you to lose it for me.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Oh now, Bud, it isn't going to hurt you to
let her take the knife. You'll get it back. But Dad,
the game is more fun if you use things of
so value to the other players.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
What other players don't look at me?
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Well, I'll let her take some of my camping equipment,
but not my knife, Kathy, Yes, in my room lying
on top of the sleeping bag is the thing you
can use?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Oh boy, what is it?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
A bar of soap?
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Aw?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Heck, that's no treasure.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Well, it's part of my camping equipment, isn't it? Mom?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It certainly is. Jim, do you want no more selling?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yes, please, it's very good.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Kathy? Where are you going? You're not through eating?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And you say, I am. I've got to start to
gathering up the treasure.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well what do we say when we leave the table?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Goodbye? I mean, excuse me that's better. Don't you take
any of my jewelry. I won't touch.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
The old jug dad, father.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Why don't you children leave your father alone for a
few minutes. He's in a big hurry today, has to
meet a plane.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Yeah no, but dead.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Bod right now. I don't care to discuss cameras or
tennis rackets, or bowling shoes or anything else.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
I wasn't gonna ask you about any of them.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
You weren't.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
No, I just want to ask you about another item
on my list. It's got me stumbed.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What is it? Something mysterious like toothpaste?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
No, it says here musical instrument?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Well, why don't you take a piano? They're especially nice
for hiking.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Fletch says he'll sell me a clarinet, real cheap.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That Fletch moves right in, doesn't he.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
He says it would be pretty light to carry because
all the keys are broken off.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
No, Bud, isn't that pretty ridiculous? What good would a
clarinet be with all the keys broken off?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
What's the difference? I can't play it anyway.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It sounds like a red hot bargain.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Can I get it dead?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
No? Use your head, son, father.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Well, how about the camera. You can use that. After
I get home from camp.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Father, I have to meet Rapping about twenty minutes, and
he expects me to go bowling with him.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Well, that's fine. The exercise will do you good.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
But in order to play the game properly, you wanted
to have the property.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh now, Betty, you don't have to have all that
special stuff, at least not for the bowling. You're going
to do. Thousands of people bowl every day without any
special equipment.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But to play the game properly.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Look, if you get to be a champion, I'll see
that you have all the equipment you need.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Good, Father, even get you a fur lined.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Ball for bowling in cold weather.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Okay, Daddy, I'm all set with the treasure. Now where
do I bury it?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, don't ask me. That's supposed to be a secret.
None of us are supposed to know where you bury it?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Oh, I see, Well, okay, here goes in Captain Kidd's
treasure expedition.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Weren't you man with the laws?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I hope she didn't get into my jewelry.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh, don't worry so much about it, don't spoil her fun.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Well, I won't be here to spoil it.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I've got to eat, Ralph, Betty, I wish you'd eat
a little more. You won't even be able to lift
a bowling ball, let alone throw it.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
It doesn't matter anyway. My bowling career has just been
utterly frustrated by lack of proper equipment.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Kids have certainly changed since I was a boy.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Believe me, No, you probably wanted things just as badly
as they do, but it was on a different scale.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
There weren't quite so many things to want then.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh, I don't know about that. The point is that
we were resourceful and figured out Dad, what is it, Bud?
Speaker 7 (12:26):
If I could find you on ad showing that four
ninety five camera they got at the drug store, would
it help you pick it out when you go down there?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But I don't have time to go to the drug
store now, And besides, I'm perfectly capable of recognizing a
camera when I see one.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Well, I'll get the air just in case I've got
one up in my room.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Oh me, I don't believe those kids hear a single
word I say.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Well, I think they hear only what they want to hear.
Did you have enough to eat?
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yes, plenty? Huh I guess i'd better head out toward
the airport.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh, Lewison isn't the kind who likes to stand around
waiting for anyone.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Oh no, by all means, don't make him.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Mother, have you seen any of my lipsticks?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Why no, I can't find a single one. Well, I
didn't do anything with them.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I know they were right on the dresser this morning.
Wait a minute, I'll bet I know Kathy. Kathy, she
put them in that buried treasure thing. Oh wait, I
get my hands on that little shrimp.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Oh now, don't get so excited. It's just a game.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But I can't go out looking like this. Ralph is
waiting for me. Hey, mom, he'll be ashamed to take
me to the bowling alley.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh, yes, you've got a dress. Real fancy to get
into a bowling alley?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Oh that little well?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Hey mom, did you take those flashlight batteries I had
laid out with my campy equipment.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, I didn't questioned them.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Well they're gone, and so is my compass.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'll tell you where they are. Kathy buried them in
the treasure. Why she practically cleaned me out of everything?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh, Betty, she did not totally call.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Nothing is safe around here with that little pickpocket.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Oh, for goodness sake, there's nothing to get so upset about.
Don't get all your stuff back? Can't you go along
with a game?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Father? Ralph is waiting for me.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
I've got to take that stuff to can.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, it's not going to hurt you to go along
with Kathy for a few minutes, Margaret, I have to
hurry or I'll be late.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
All right, dear, will you be home for dinner?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I think so? It all depends on Lewison.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Do you have to have mister Lewis and tell you
when you can go home and eat dinner.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's not that, just that he's coming out here for
some very important reasons.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And hey, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Where are my car keys? Well?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well, where did you put them?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Right on top of my hat? I'd put them there
purposely so i'd be sure. And wait a minute, I'll
bet Kathy got them. What's the matter with that kid? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
It's only a game, father.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
But.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Somebody go out and get Kathy and hurry.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I think I hear it coming now.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh what does that girl use for brains?
Speaker 6 (14:59):
Kath?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Are you ready to play?
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Now?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Daddy?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Here's then, app Katty, I haven't got time to play games.
Go out and dig up that treasure right now.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But I can't. I don't know where it's buried. What
I wanted to play too, So I had Daddy Davis
Berry yet.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Well, get Patti Davis then, but she just left for
the movies.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Oh, don't worry, Daddy will find the treasure.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
How oh we have to do is follow the map
she drew.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh no, he returned to the Andersons in a moment.
Greater happiness for more people. That's the result of many
decades of proving that the American economic system is the
best system in the world. Under the system, we've been
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able to outproduce any other nation, to turn out more
goods and services from man aar, and to enjoy a
steadily rising standards of living. Remember, the better we produce,
the better we live. If any of you folks are
(16:16):
interested in buried treasure, I know where you can find some.
It's hidden somewhere in the backyard of the White Frame
house on Maple Street. The treasure chest consists of a
tomato can, which contains, among other things, two flashlight batteries,
some lipsticks, and the keys to Jim's car. This last
item is the one that's causing considerable furor in the
(16:36):
Anderson household at the moment like this, Of.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
All the things to bury in that can, but Danny,
you told me to get something from everybody.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
How am I going to use my flashlighted camp with
no batteries.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I'll quit worrying about your batteries. I can't even start the.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Car my good lipsticks, Jim, you were the one who
started this buried treasure idea.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I didn't tell her to put my keys in there.
I had them right there. My hat.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I couldn't put the hat in she wouldn't fit.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I can't go bowling without lipstick. I'll look like a ghost.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
For goodness sake. Calm down. You'd think it was the
end of.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
The world, Margaret. If it isn't the end, it's pretty
close to it. Lewis's plane is due right now, and
if I'm not there to meet him.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Well, dear, why are you standing here waving your arms
and shouting. All you have to do is go out
in the backyard and dig.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Up that cat, Margaret. I haven't time to go out
and play bloodhound to a tomato can. When the head
of the home office is practically breathing down my neck.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
How long would it take you to find it? Patty
Davis probably buried it in the most obvious place.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Obvious place. Look at this map she drew. Looks like
a blueprint of the Pentagon. O, dear mother, why don't
you make Kathy find it?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I don't know where Patty buried it.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
She can't find it, Petty, well Maker, she can't find
it if she doesn't know where it is, well Maker, if.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
My stuff is like, I'm gonna sewer who sue you?
That's who?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
This can't be a map of our backyard. Look what
she has here? Three paces from the old Cannon's mouth
toward Buzzard's Bay.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well we might go out and look, dear nothing doing.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I'm gonna call a cab. What's the number, Daddy?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You told me about the game. You told me your
saw It's seven seven one, father, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I told you about the game. But I didn't suggest sabotage.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I didn't put any of that in him, any of
what any sabotage.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I don't think we have any. Oh that aboriginal.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Child, Oh, cab company, This is Jim Anderson six oh
seven Maple Street. I want a cab out here fast.
I gotta get to the airport all out. Don't you
have anything down there with wheels on it? No, later
won't do me any good, Thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
What did they say, dear?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
The calves have all been reserved for the convention, big
mob in town. The pickle packers are something.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
You can use my motor scooter, Dad.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Oh great, I can see myself riding mister Lewis and
back to town on your scooter.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Lord messrs An rides on the back of his, and
she used to be a school teacher.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Maybe you could buy a Ralph's car.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Ralph's car all four wheels go in different directions. Every
time you put on the brakes, the hood flies up.
I'd be better off on the scooter.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
The children are only trying to help.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Dear Oh, maybe I could borrow at Davis's car.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
The Davises have gone to the movies.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh, for Pete's sake. What about the Phillips, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
They're at home.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Their car isn't working. Missus Phillips parked pretty close to
a fire plug. If I couldn't hurt the car, she
parked on top of it. Florida, came right up to
the floorboards.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
There must be a car someplace.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
It looked like old Faithful.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Dear, you're just wasting time arguing in here. You might
have found the keys and been halfway to the airport.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Let's go out and follow the map, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I'm going up and check all my things, and if
anything else is gone, Cathy, I'm gonna take you apart.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
You might find them.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Jim, I'll hoverrize that little worm.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It's all right.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Come on, Bud, I don't know where to dig for
that darn thing.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Dad, I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Daddy, have you got the map?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yes, I've got the map.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I'll be out in a minute. Dear, I'll have to
put the butter and cream in the refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Oh this is just dandy. There couldn't be a better
time to play pirates in the backyard.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Now here's where we start, Daddy. You see on the
map that says walk from the corner of the stockade.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
This is the garage.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
That's the stockade. Anybody would know that, Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Now, I gotta keep an.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Eye on the long boat yonder if them yellow livered
swabs catch a sight of us.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Not a man will come out alive.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Holy cal.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Kathy, we're not playing pirate?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Have you founded?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Deer founded? We haven't even started. We're still swashbuckling. I
can just picture Lewis and standing around the airport boiling well.
I've often thought I wanted to get out of the
insurance business. Looks like I'm gonna get my wish.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Oh, Jim, stop carrying on. The plane may be late. Besides,
mister Lewison can wait a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
That's what you think. Time tied? And Lewis and wait
for no man, where's that silly math?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Here's the first clue. From the corner of the stockade
to the river. Ten paces.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh that Patty Davis? What's she talking about a river?
There's no river back here.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Hey, I'll bet I know what it is. The water
force it it's the same thing as a river.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Did you ever see a river with a meeter on it?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I think's right, dear?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
All right? Ten paces? I suppose they'd be short ones
if Patty Davis was the pirate that laid this thing out.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Wait, let's see the map. Now. If we were right
about the river, then.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
At ten paces you should be able to turn and
look through the crotch of the oak tree and see
an eagle's nest.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Eagle's nest.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Say, we're right. I can see through the crotch of
the tree, and there's the nest.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
See an eagles.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
No, it's a robin's nest or something, but it's a nest.
We're on the right track.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Oh boy, let me a nat, daddy, No, let me
hold it, kid.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And I'm getting the hang of this thing now. Hmm.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You'd better hurry, dear.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
A ass matie. We're on the trail of the doabloom.
Before the tide turns, we'll find the Spanish gold.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Spanish gold in a tomato can.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Now standing under the eagle's nest. Seven paces toward the
cannon's mouth. Wasn't the dickens is the cannon's mouth?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Could be mister Beckett across the street.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
He hasn't house like a cannon. Kathy, you should hear
him holler.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Hey, maybe it's the end of the drain spouts that
looks like a cannon.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
BlimE me, lad you're up, bright one. I'll wager a
quid you've struck it. Push on my heart.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
He's this is kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Huh, Dad, sure is isn't it, Daddy?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well, I told you this was a good game, kitten.
We played it all the time when we were kids.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Are we getting close to the treasure? Cap'n Daddy?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Hi? Aye me?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Buckle?
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Hey Dad? The Smith's are watching us from their yard.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Keep your powder dry, mate, we'll tend to those swabs later, Dear,
hadn't you lady mate? I'm having a spot of trouble
here with peg leg Davis's map.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Dear, if mister Lewis, I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Worry about Lewis and he can wait a while?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Oh I can, can I?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Mister Lewison?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
How did you get here? I mean, when did you?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I thought you were going to meet me at the airport?
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh? Yes I was. But how did you get here?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I had to hit right?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Oh no, mister Lewis and my family, Missus Anderson, my
son and daughter, Bud and Kathy.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
How do you do well? Anderson? Won't happened? And if
I may say so, it better be good.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Well, you see, a very strange thing happened the keys
to my car. You probably won't believe this, but they're
buried somewhere in the backyard.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
Here buried the keysier car.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I know it sounds a little unusual.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Unusual.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That is a masterpiece of understatement. I'm furious with you Anderson,
quite furious.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Mister Lewson. It wasn't his fault. Really, it was my fault,
mister Lewison.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I was playing treasure hunt and we buried the keys
to the car in our treasure chests.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Kathy didn't realize when she took the keys that mister
Anderson was just getting ready to leap for the airport.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
She took a lot of stuff, my flashlight batteries, even.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Oh, let me have a treasure see. We even drew
a map for it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh you did?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Let me see that. Well, looks like the treasure map
say used to do when I was a boy. Mister Lewson,
if you want to get down to the office, spend
plenty of time to go to the office. What does
this mean here? Twelve paces toward the pieces of eight.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Maybe that means you go towards the bank.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I doubt it, Margaret. He's warming up inviting for dinner quick. Uh,
mister Lewson. Uh, you'll join us for dinner tonight, won't you?
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Dinner? Leane right it?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Oh that's wonderful. Well, I'll run in and let you
discuss your business matters.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Oh, mister Lewson, would you like to go inside? We
can talk in the den. How vast you swab? There's
treasure on this island. I am by the great hornspoon.
We're going to fight it.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Come on, mate, where will you?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Mady holy cow?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Well, shiver my timbers and Anderson's will be right back.
This is a call to service for fifty thousand young women.
That figure fifty thousand. There's a number of student nurses
(26:26):
needed this year. To qualify as a student nurse, a
young woman must be a high school graduate or a
college student of good health and character. To answer this call,
go to your nearest hospital or collegiate school of nursing,
or talk with your school advisor. Well, the treasures and
(27:01):
the old tomato can have been recovered, and the backyard
pirates have put away their muskets and settled back to
life as usual. And since all has calm for the moment,
Jim Anderson steps out of the living room of the
white frame house on Maple Street for a word with you,
mister Robert Young, Thank you, bill Well, folks, we had
quite a time with our treasure hunt in the backyard,
didn't we Anyway? The Andersons are going to take a
(27:24):
little vacation for the summer. It's been a very pleasant season,
and we hope that some of the things that have
happened in our home remind you of things that have
happened in your own. So until next fall, have a
nice summer, drive carefully, enjoy yourselves. And here's the family.
Margaret played by Jean Vanderpyle, Happy vacation, Betty played by
(27:46):
Rhoda Williams, Goodbye.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I hope you all have a simply perfect but utterly
perfect summer.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
And Bud played by Ted Donaldson. So long, but can't
you say anything but so long?
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Holy Ca.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
That's better. And last, but believe me not least Kathy
played by Norma Jeanielson. Have see you in the fall.
Good night, and our cast night for Bill Farman as
(28:27):
the narrator and mister Lewis and was Jim Nusser Don
Stanley speaking Father Knows Best, directed by Andrew cy Love
was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West and Rodma.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Lud attend the Republican Convention on NBC yes beginning next Monday,
(29:09):
NBC's cracked news staff of more than three hundred men
will bring you all the important news emanating from the
Republican convention in Chicago. The fight promises to be hot,
as Taftan Eisenhower by for nomination, and the deadlock between
these two candidates could find an unexpected dark horse in
the Republican nomination for the presidency. To hear all the
drama and news that next week will bring, keep your
(29:30):
radio dial. Tune to the NBC Radio Network and here
Counterspy on NBC.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Keep tune for Dragnet on NBC
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