July 19, 2025 • 31 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 (00:16):
Yes, it's mother knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more
people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's a peculiar thing.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
About people, especially people who belong to a family.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
First they begin to look alike.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Then, as if that weren't bad enough, they begin to
think alike. I'd be a fine thing if you were
related to Betty Grable or Albert Einstein. But what if
you were related to the Andersons? Looking like them wouldn't
be too bad, I suppose, But thinking the way they do, well,
that can lead to all sorts of complications like this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
But why does it have to be a surprise.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Bud, who wants to go to an anniversary party? If
it isn't a.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Surprise, I do.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Who are you gonna call now, mister Smith?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You already called him twice?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, I forgot to tell him something Betty.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Wouldn't it be just as good if mom and dad knew,
then they could help us a little.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh so that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
You're afraid of a little extra park. That's all I
am not, mister Smith. This is Betty Anderson.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Don't tell me you're not having the party.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I've already called everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh no, it isn't anything like that, mister Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
If you see my father or my mother, you won't
say anything about it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Will you tell him it's a surprise party?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Just a minute, mister Smith.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
He knows it's a surprise party. I told him that
in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Mister Smith, if you told him in beginning, to tell
him again.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I can't hear you, I said, if you told him,
But will you please keep still? You said you couldn't
hear me.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I said, I couldn't hear.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh, I can't talk.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Somebody's coming, goodbye?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
What's he doing?
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Hi, Kathy, where'd you come from?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I was in the kitchen? What's she doing?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's a secret.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I can keep a secret.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh sure, if we tell you, we might as well
put it in the newspaper.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I won't tell anybody else.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I won't Betty, let's go upstairs.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Can I go too?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You stay down here where you belong.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I'm belong upstairs just as much as you do.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Why don't you go do your homework.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I don't have to do what you tell me. You're
not my mother.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I talk too much.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
You better tell me what the secret is, or I'll
tell Daddy what you did?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
What did we do?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I'll think of something.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Mother wears army shoes she does not.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
And you better not say things like that, like what Daddy?
Do you know what Beddy and but are doing?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I know, sweetheart, what are they doing? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
They won't tell me.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Where's mommy?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
She's fixing dinner. Biddy and butter are always whispering.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, maybe they're discussing something. They don't want you to hear.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Everybody's got things they don't want me to hear. Everybody's
got secrets. Accept me.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, I'll tell you what. How would you like to
have a special secret with me?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Oh, Daddy, you could try.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I won't tell anybody, not even if they twist my
arms and pull my ears.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
And kick me in the chair.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
All right, Kathy, I trust you.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh, I'll never tell anybody, Daddy, cross my heart and
hope to die as long as I live.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Fine, do you know what? The day after tomorrow is Saturday?
It's our wedding anniversary. Mommy's in mine it is. And
do you know what I'm going to do. I'm giving
mommy a surprise party.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Oh, daddy, how wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That's a secret. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh I'll never tell anybody, Daddy, not even if they
kill me.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
H yes, now I'll tell you what we'll do. I
have to call mister Smith and make a few arrangements,
so you go into the kitchen and make sure that
mommy doesn't hear me.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Isn't this exciting, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It sure is. K go ahead now, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
And if she's starting to come out, all.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, that's a good girl. Oh yeah, wow, all right, Kathy,
real wow, all right? Nine or ninety. They're all the same.
Once they start talking, you can't stop them. Yackyy yeah. Hello, heck,
this is Jim Anderson. Oh I am Jim. What's up? Heck?
(05:23):
I know this is kind of short notice, but Saturday's
our wedding anniversary. And I was just I can't hear
you very well, Jim can't you talk a little lout her. Well,
Margaret's in the kitchen, and I don't want her to
hear me.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Well, what good is it if I can't hear you either.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Heck, Saturday's our wedding anniversary, and I was just wondering.
I can't talk to you now. I'll call you later. Well, hello, honey, Jim,
what on earth are you doing? Do we me? I
was why nothing? Who were you talking to? I wasn't
talking to anybody. I was just trying to find out
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what time it is, that's all.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
There's a clock right in back of you, I know,
but it.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Seemed later than that, and I wanted to check with
the operator.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
That's what he was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Mommy.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
How do you know.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He always checks with the operator, don't you, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yes, it's uh the I always do from time to
time about the time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Jim, Are you sure everything's all right?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Everything's fine, isn't it, Kathy? Is it? Of course? It
is just fine.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Well, if you say so, Mommy, I've got a good idea.
Let's go back to the kitchen. Why don't you like
the kitchen, Jim?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, what she means, honey, is that you can't very
well cook in the hall. Can you.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Something is cooking in the hall?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Ready, mom?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Not yet, dear Well, whenever it is, am I we'll
make a special note of it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, Now, why is everyone so anxious to get me
into the kitchen?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
We're hungry, honey, that's all.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You're sure that's the only reason.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Of course, Why what other reason could we have?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
That's what I'm trying to find out.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You know, I've been trying to figure this out for years.
What makes women so all fired suspicious?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's very simple, dear men.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Monny, the kttle.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Dear women would be suspicious if there weren't any men, of.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Course they would, but not of the same things.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Well, I suppose that makes sense. I don't know to who,
but Kathy, yes, ya, get back on guard duty. I'm
gonna call mister Smith me No, if your mother heads
this way again.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Oh okay, this is day fun.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Every time I start one of these things, I would
have my brains examined. My brains. Hello, heck, this is Jim.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
A lot happen right my heck, Jim, I'm in here, Honey.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Will you tell the children to come down to dinner?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You bet I'll call them right now. But Betty dinner's ready. Okay,
I'll be right down. They'll be right down, Margaret, Thank you, dear.
If you don't mind, I think I'll run upstairs and
wash my hands. Him.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
The booms ringing.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I can't hear you, honey, this darnful hello. Now, look, Jim,
I'm a patient, ma'am. But this is getting silly? Is
that for me? Father? No? It isn't it? Certainly is?
You called me up twice? Nothew? Heck, Betty she over here? No,
she's here. Why don't you call me because I wanted
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to talk to you.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
We'll say something, father, goodbye, head, I'll tell you later.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You better hurry up, father, dinner's ready.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I know dinner's ready, Jim. We'll be right in, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What are you doing out there?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Not a thing, honey.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I thought you said you were hungry.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I am, We're just bye bye. I'm right here, Dan.
I know you're here. Everybody in the neighborhood knows you're here.
Why can't you just walk down the stairs? I thought
it was time for dinner. It is, and you want
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me to walk I'll leave it alone. But father, is
the phone jam and answering it all night. There's no
reason why alone. Guess Look, heck I just been He's telling.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Him if this is your idea, but joke, it isn't
the least bit funny.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Wait a minute, honey, I've been telling this.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Please go in to dinner before everything gets ice cold.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I have to tell you I'll take care of Hector.
What honey, Jim, Hector, Margaret will speak to you.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
That's nice.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Okay, kid, let's go. What's everybody so excited about? Maybe
we're having for dinner? We are Hector in that not fact?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Well, it isn't easy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He is Elizabeth there right? Will you ask her to please?
Speaker 9 (10:50):
I want to tell her about the surprise party I'm
giving for Jim on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
So mother's planting a surprise party too. Seems there's a
lot going on in the Anderson home. Father doesn't know
anything about. And yet, ladies, most of the time, the
head of the house does know exactly what the score is.
For example, he's the one who knows best about downright
good coffee. Yes, your husband is the world's greatest coffee expert. Well, naturally,
(11:35):
we're often called experts too, because more families buy our
Maxwell House coffee than any other brand. But when the
tempting aroma of your coffee fills the kitchen, that man
of yours is the only expert who matters. And tomorrow,
if you'll fill his cup with the rich goodness of
Maxwell House coffee, we know he'll smile with real enjoyment.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And say, I've never taken finer coffee. Believe me, he'll
say that.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
In fact, we're so certain he'll praise our Maxwell House
we'll return your money if he doesn't. You see, that heartwarming,
good to the last drop flavor can come only from
the Maxwell House recipe. It's a recipe that demands certain
superb coffees blended and roasted just so, and only Maxwell
House has that recipe. Since no coffee is made like
(12:27):
Maxwell House, no coffee tastes like Maxwell House. Tomorrow, poor
your husband a cup of Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
If he doesn't say best coffee ever, why just send
us the can an unused portion, and we'll give you
back your money. Our address is right on every familiar
blue tin. Yes, serve our coffee to that expert you married.
He's sure to enjoy Maxwell House coffee that's always good
(12:55):
to the last drop. A great many people believe that
all things come in threeses, good things, bad things, births, deaths, accidents.
Everything happens in three. But even they were sure with
(13:16):
doubt the three surprise parties could ever happen at one time,
which proves conclusively that they've never been in Springfield.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It's a short time later, and the Anderson's dinner is
over at last. Their problems, however, are just beginning like this.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Kathy, Yes, Mommy, has your father come back? Not yet, Betty,
I'm in the kitchen, Bud.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Can I see you for a minute?
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Fleet, I have to help.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Mother ahead, Betty, I can finish up in here. Well,
if you're sure, I'm quite sure.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Okay, if you need me for anything, just.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yell, that's exactly what I'll do.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Hya not head does want you? If nied feelings? And
I don't even care about your old secret. I don't
care if you've got a million of them.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Kathy, you want me?
Speaker 10 (14:04):
Mommy?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Have you finished your homework?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Sure, I finished it long ago.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
What's this about a secret?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Oh, Betty? And but I think they're so wonderful just
because they've got a secret.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Angel, Speaking of secrets, would you like to do something
for mommy?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I don't know any secrets I know, dear, And even
if I did, I couldn't tell because then it wouldn't
be a secret anymore, of course.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
And besides, I don't know anything about the surprise party. Oh, Kathy,
she was I didn't mean to say it.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
I'm sure you didn't. And Kathy, I don't know how
you found out. But let's be sure that no one
else knows anything about our secret?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
What secret?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
The surprise party.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I'm giving for your father on Sevday?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Kathy?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I don't feel well.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You're tired, sweetheart. A good night's rest and you'll be
as good as new. Mommy, Yes, dear.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
If somebody tells you a secret and then somebody else
tells you a secret, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What are you supposed to do about what?
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
What I just said?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
If somebody tells you a secret and you already know
it because somebody else told you?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
What? What?
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Kathy?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You'd better see what they want here?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
But what about my problem?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
We'll talk about it sometime when we're not so tired. Okay, Now,
run along like a good girl.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Okay, And Kathy, I wish you'd stop saying okay Okay, She.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Wills all the secrets in the whole world, and they
have to pick out the same one.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What are you mumbling about?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I'm not happy.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, don't worry, squirt, We're gonna fix that right now. Look,
how would you like to know what our secret is?
I wouldn't. I know enough secrets? We have to tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, you don't, we do, Kathy, You've got to help us.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I don't have to do anything. And I don't want
to know any more secrets. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Your own sister and brother.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Your own flesh and fish.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Well, okay, what's the secret?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We're giving mother and father a surprise party on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh no, And if you tell one person, but one,
well you better not, that's all.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Why did you have to tell me?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Because we want you to get them out of the house.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
They won't go.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I can't tell you. Why can't you because it's a secret.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But all you have to do is.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Get them to take you for a walk or something.
I used to be so happy. I'll give you my
old catcher's nick. I didn't know anything, and I'll give
you back your football.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I was such a happy little dope.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
But it's bothered.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Remember, Kathy, if you say one word? Hi, Dad, how's
every little thing? Well? But would you like to make
a full confession now? Or shall I send Kathy for
the rubber holes? Where did you hide the body? Hello? Father,
(18:07):
I didn't have a holes? What body? Hello? Betty? I
know it and anybody If anybody thinks I know what
I'm talking about, he's crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Mother's in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Good wake me up in time for the fourth race, Betty.
I think we'd better go upstairs.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
We'll see you later.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Father, give my regards to the governor. Buzz buzz buzz whisp.
Nothing but secrets, Daddy, you haven't told anybody about ours?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Have you?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Nobody?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Oh? Keep an eye peal for your mother. I've got
to call mister Smith again. I want to ask now,
Kathy will talk about it late.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Can I even ask one question?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
All right? But nake it? Oh? Heck, I forgot to
tell you something.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Damn what if you know a secret?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Now? She wins. Heck, I'll leave the back door open
and you take everybody into the kitchen. You told me that.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Did I tell you the signal? What signal? Diesel bub?
When I say diesel bub, everybody comes rushing in diesel
bub that's the signal? Can you remember it? I'll have
a tattooed on my chest. Oh here's another thing, peez, Jim,
(19:42):
I got a small chest, I know. Look, heck, you
won't say anything about this that, Margaret, will you? After all,
we want it to be a surprise, don't we. Oh yeah,
sure we're gonna surprise everybody. Well, I'll be seeing your Heck,
(20:02):
good night, pal daddy.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
What is it if I told you a secret?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Honey? I don't have any time for secrets right now.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
But this is about the party.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh, but about it? Well?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Is a secret always a secret?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean if somebody tells you a secret and somebody
else tells you a secret, can't you even tell anybody
that the secret isn't even a secret anymore?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Why don't you call me up next Monday?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
But the party Saturday, Kathy?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
If you don't want to help me, what about the party?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But I mean, well, if everybody tells you the same secret,
if everybody knows, then it isn't a secret.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Well nobody knows, but everybody? Well is it telling a secret?
Speaker 10 (20:57):
If you suppose, if if I suppose what, Well suppose
Betty and butter giving a surprise party for you and mommy.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
I didn't say they were Betty. I just said, suppose.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Betty come down here and bring Bud with you.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Okay, they'll kill me, they said, they don't kill me.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
No one's going to hurch, but walk down the stairs.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
If you say something, Dan, I.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Never mind.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Father? What's this about you and Bud giving a party?
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Kathy?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Just you wait? I didn't tell him, honest, Idea, leave
Kathy alone. It's a good thing. Somebody around here has
some sense. You mean, Kathy me, Well, what's the sense
of having two parties on the same You mean there's
gonna be another party? That's right, I'm giving a surprise
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party for your mother on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Holy call. Look, let's go into the den and close
the door.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
After we saved up all our money.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm on Kathy, you too, Yes, Daddy, I still think
she had something to do with it. Now, First, I
want to say that your mother and I are very
grateful for what. Well. I think it's very nice that
you wanted to give us a party. Oh it wasn't anything.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Aren't we still gonna have a party?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Of course we are. There isn't much sense to having
two sets of refreshments, is there? Why not? Oh? Oh,
but well, what's wrong with it? I've got an idea.
Suppose we say that it's your party, but we'll toss
to see who pays for the refreshments. How'll that be? Okay,
(23:01):
we'll take heads. Good, here we go. It's tails that
means we pay. Huh no, I won so I have to.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Pay and it's still our party.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That's right, boy, that's wonderful. Daddy.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Now you're gonna toss with Mommy?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Never mind, Betty, I'm right here. Hello, oh, hello, heck,
we're all next door to Davis's. How soon we supposed
to come over? Didn't Margaret tell you no?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
She just said she'd see it.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Well, can you see our kitchen window from there? I suppose? So?
All right, as soon as the light goes out, bring
everybody in the back way. Okay, and don't forget the
signal Beeselma, that's my boy. See in a few minutes. Tech. Okay, Well,
that takes care of that. Father.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I'm getting a little worried about what.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I didn't see any sandwiches or anything.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
What if Kathy made a mistake. She didn't make any mistake.
I checked with missus Smith, and your mother's giving a party. Boy,
I hope mom made a lot of sandwiches. I'm starving.
But there's one thing we've got to be sure of.
Your mother must never find out that her party isn't
exactly a surprise. Well, we certainly wat Oh hello, honey,
(24:43):
all finished with the dishes?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yes, dear, all finished?
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I dry, didn't I? Mommy?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You certainly did.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Did you turn the light out in the kitchen?
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Want me to turn it back on?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
No, just leave it the way it is? Shall we
go into the living room? All right? M hm uh.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
The paper says it's going to be warm tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It's about time, isn't it, Kathy? Humm? Oh? Sure?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I I thought today was very nice. Yes, it was fine.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Sure is getting hungry, isn't it? I mean late? Yes? Yes? Later?
All the time?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You know we're all being very silly.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Eh. What do you mean, honey, Well, sitting.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Here pretending that we don't know about your party?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Party?
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Why what Elizabeth told me? All about the part you
and the children are giving. We're giving and I think
it's very sweet?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Honey? You mean the party you're giving.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
No, I mean the one you're giving. I didn't want
to interfere, so I canceled all my plans.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Holy came Margaret. Do you mean you didn't prepare any refreshments?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Of course not. I thought certainly yours would be enough ours.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Oh Margaret, there'll be a house full of people and
nothing to give them.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Boy, what a mess you mean you haven't prepared any refreshments.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Well, we called ours off when we found out about
your party.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Oh Jim, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
But we'll have to run down of the delicacy.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
But this is important. What if somebody says diesel.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Bub, diesel bub?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
After all it is said and done. The one thing
you want when you buy coffee is flavor, the most
in flavor for your money, and frankly, that's Maxwell House,
the one coffee famous above all others for flavors. So tomorrow,
at your grocer's look for our familiar blue tin with
the big white cup and drop take home a pound
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of Maxwell House. Then offer a savory cupful to the
world's greatest coffee expert, your husband. When he asks for
a second cup. His smile will tell you better than
I can why Maxwellhouse is famous for flavor as for value.
Just count all the truly good cups you get from
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each pound. You'll agree Maxwell House is today's coffee by yes,
for the most in honest to goodness coffee drinking pleasure
insist on Maxwell House coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
It's some time later and the Anderson Surprise party is
going full glass thanks to the delicatessen at a raid
on every ice box in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
The question of refreshments has been solved. Not so, however,
is the question of Hector Smith like this. Heck, oh,
heck you want me, Jim, come over here for a second.
I want to talk to you. Okay, what's on your mind? Look,
heck you did this deliberately, didn't You did what you
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knew about all three parties and you let us go
right ahead. Well, sure, what did you want me to do?
You could have told me about it, couldn't you? Of course?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Not?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Why Sam, I'm surprised at you. It was a sacred step.
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(29:54):
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Speaker 4 (30:06):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young Is, Jim Anderson, Roy
Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast, where
June Whitley is, Margaret Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Norma, Jean Nilson,
Verb Bigron and yours truly Bill Forman. So until next Thursday,
goodnight and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
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America's favorite brand of coffee, Always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed Jane. Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows
immediately over most of these.
Speaker 11 (30:42):
Stations, your police force goes into action. That's Dragnet next
on NBC.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
OH
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 (00:16):
Yes, it's mother knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more
people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's a peculiar thing.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
About people, especially people who belong to a family.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
First they begin to look alike.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Then, as if that weren't bad enough, they begin to
think alike. I'd be a fine thing if you were
related to Betty Grable or Albert Einstein. But what if
you were related to the Andersons? Looking like them wouldn't
be too bad, I suppose, But thinking the way they do, well,
that can lead to all sorts of complications like this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
But why does it have to be a surprise.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Bud, who wants to go to an anniversary party? If
it isn't a.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Surprise, I do.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Who are you gonna call now, mister Smith?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You already called him twice?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, I forgot to tell him something Betty.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Wouldn't it be just as good if mom and dad knew,
then they could help us a little.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh so that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
You're afraid of a little extra park. That's all I
am not, mister Smith. This is Betty Anderson.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Don't tell me you're not having the party.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I've already called everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh no, it isn't anything like that, mister Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
If you see my father or my mother, you won't
say anything about it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Will you tell him it's a surprise party?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Just a minute, mister Smith.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
He knows it's a surprise party. I told him that
in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Mister Smith, if you told him in beginning, to tell
him again.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I can't hear you, I said, if you told him,
But will you please keep still? You said you couldn't
hear me.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I said, I couldn't hear.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh, I can't talk.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Somebody's coming, goodbye?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
What's he doing?
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Hi, Kathy, where'd you come from?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I was in the kitchen? What's she doing?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's a secret.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I can keep a secret.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh sure, if we tell you, we might as well
put it in the newspaper.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I won't tell anybody else.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I won't Betty, let's go upstairs.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Can I go too?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You stay down here where you belong.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I'm belong upstairs just as much as you do.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Why don't you go do your homework.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I don't have to do what you tell me. You're
not my mother.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I talk too much.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
You better tell me what the secret is, or I'll
tell Daddy what you did?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
What did we do?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I'll think of something.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Mother wears army shoes she does not.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
And you better not say things like that, like what Daddy?
Do you know what Beddy and but are doing?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I know, sweetheart, what are they doing? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
They won't tell me.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Where's mommy?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
She's fixing dinner. Biddy and butter are always whispering.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Well, maybe they're discussing something. They don't want you to hear.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Everybody's got things they don't want me to hear. Everybody's
got secrets. Accept me.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, I'll tell you what. How would you like to
have a special secret with me?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Oh, Daddy, you could try.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I won't tell anybody, not even if they twist my
arms and pull my ears.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
And kick me in the chair.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
All right, Kathy, I trust you.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh, I'll never tell anybody, Daddy, cross my heart and
hope to die as long as I live.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Fine, do you know what? The day after tomorrow is Saturday?
It's our wedding anniversary. Mommy's in mine it is. And
do you know what I'm going to do. I'm giving
mommy a surprise party.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Oh, daddy, how wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That's a secret. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh I'll never tell anybody, Daddy, not even if they
kill me.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
H yes, now I'll tell you what we'll do. I
have to call mister Smith and make a few arrangements,
so you go into the kitchen and make sure that
mommy doesn't hear me.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Isn't this exciting, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It sure is. K go ahead now, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
And if she's starting to come out, all.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, that's a good girl. Oh yeah, wow, all right, Kathy,
real wow, all right? Nine or ninety. They're all the same.
Once they start talking, you can't stop them. Yackyy yeah. Hello, heck,
this is Jim Anderson. Oh I am Jim. What's up? Heck?
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I know this is kind of short notice, but Saturday's
our wedding anniversary. And I was just I can't hear
you very well, Jim can't you talk a little lout her. Well,
Margaret's in the kitchen, and I don't want her to
hear me.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Well, what good is it if I can't hear you either.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Heck, Saturday's our wedding anniversary, and I was just wondering.
I can't talk to you now. I'll call you later. Well, hello, honey, Jim,
what on earth are you doing? Do we me? I
was why nothing? Who were you talking to? I wasn't
talking to anybody. I was just trying to find out
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what time it is, that's all.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
There's a clock right in back of you, I know,
but it.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Seemed later than that, and I wanted to check with
the operator.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
That's what he was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Mommy.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
How do you know.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He always checks with the operator, don't you, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yes, it's uh the I always do from time to
time about the time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Jim, Are you sure everything's all right?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Everything's fine, isn't it, Kathy? Is it? Of course? It
is just fine.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Well, if you say so, Mommy, I've got a good idea.
Let's go back to the kitchen. Why don't you like
the kitchen, Jim?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Well, what she means, honey, is that you can't very
well cook in the hall. Can you.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Something is cooking in the hall?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Ready, mom?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Not yet, dear Well, whenever it is, am I we'll
make a special note of it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Okay, Now, why is everyone so anxious to get me
into the kitchen?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
We're hungry, honey, that's all.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You're sure that's the only reason.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Of course, Why what other reason could we have?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
That's what I'm trying to find out.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You know, I've been trying to figure this out for years.
What makes women so all fired suspicious?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That's very simple, dear men.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Monny, the kttle.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Dear women would be suspicious if there weren't any men, of.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Course they would, but not of the same things.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Well, I suppose that makes sense. I don't know to who,
but Kathy, yes, ya, get back on guard duty. I'm
gonna call mister Smith me No, if your mother heads
this way again.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Oh okay, this is day fun.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Every time I start one of these things, I would
have my brains examined. My brains. Hello, heck, this is Jim.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
A lot happen right my heck, Jim, I'm in here, Honey.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Will you tell the children to come down to dinner?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
You bet I'll call them right now. But Betty dinner's ready. Okay,
I'll be right down. They'll be right down, Margaret, Thank you, dear.
If you don't mind, I think I'll run upstairs and
wash my hands. Him.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
The booms ringing.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I can't hear you, honey, this darnful hello. Now, look, Jim,
I'm a patient, ma'am. But this is getting silly? Is
that for me? Father? No? It isn't it? Certainly is?
You called me up twice? Nothew? Heck, Betty she over here? No,
she's here. Why don't you call me because I wanted
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to talk to you.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
We'll say something, father, goodbye, head, I'll tell you later.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You better hurry up, father, dinner's ready.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I know dinner's ready, Jim. We'll be right in, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What are you doing out there?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Not a thing, honey.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I thought you said you were hungry.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I am, We're just bye bye. I'm right here, Dan.
I know you're here. Everybody in the neighborhood knows you're here.
Why can't you just walk down the stairs? I thought
it was time for dinner. It is, and you want
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me to walk I'll leave it alone. But father, is
the phone jam and answering it all night. There's no
reason why alone. Guess Look, heck I just been He's telling.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Him if this is your idea, but joke, it isn't
the least bit funny.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Wait a minute, honey, I've been telling this.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Please go in to dinner before everything gets ice cold.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I have to tell you I'll take care of Hector.
What honey, Jim, Hector, Margaret will speak to you.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
That's nice.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Okay, kid, let's go. What's everybody so excited about? Maybe
we're having for dinner? We are Hector in that not fact?
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Well, it isn't easy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He is Elizabeth there right? Will you ask her to please?
Speaker 9 (10:50):
I want to tell her about the surprise party I'm
giving for Jim on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
So mother's planting a surprise party too. Seems there's a
lot going on in the Anderson home. Father doesn't know
anything about. And yet, ladies, most of the time, the
head of the house does know exactly what the score is.
For example, he's the one who knows best about downright
good coffee. Yes, your husband is the world's greatest coffee expert. Well, naturally,
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we're often called experts too, because more families buy our
Maxwell House coffee than any other brand. But when the
tempting aroma of your coffee fills the kitchen, that man
of yours is the only expert who matters. And tomorrow,
if you'll fill his cup with the rich goodness of
Maxwell House coffee, we know he'll smile with real enjoyment.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And say, I've never taken finer coffee. Believe me, he'll
say that.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
In fact, we're so certain he'll praise our Maxwell House
we'll return your money if he doesn't. You see, that heartwarming,
good to the last drop flavor can come only from
the Maxwell House recipe. It's a recipe that demands certain
superb coffees blended and roasted just so, and only Maxwell
House has that recipe. Since no coffee is made like
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Maxwell House, no coffee tastes like Maxwell House. Tomorrow, poor
your husband a cup of Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
If he doesn't say best coffee ever, why just send
us the can an unused portion, and we'll give you
back your money. Our address is right on every familiar
blue tin. Yes, serve our coffee to that expert you married.
He's sure to enjoy Maxwell House coffee that's always good
(12:55):
to the last drop. A great many people believe that
all things come in threeses, good things, bad things, births, deaths, accidents.
Everything happens in three. But even they were sure with
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doubt the three surprise parties could ever happen at one time,
which proves conclusively that they've never been in Springfield.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
It's a short time later, and the Anderson's dinner is
over at last. Their problems, however, are just beginning like this.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Kathy, Yes, Mommy, has your father come back? Not yet, Betty,
I'm in the kitchen, Bud.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Can I see you for a minute?
Speaker 8 (13:40):
Fleet, I have to help.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Mother ahead, Betty, I can finish up in here. Well,
if you're sure, I'm quite sure.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Okay, if you need me for anything, just.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yell, that's exactly what I'll do.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Hya not head does want you? If nied feelings? And
I don't even care about your old secret. I don't
care if you've got a million of them.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Kathy, you want me?
Speaker 10 (14:04):
Mommy?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Have you finished your homework?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Sure, I finished it long ago.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
What's this about a secret?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Oh, Betty? And but I think they're so wonderful just
because they've got a secret.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Angel, Speaking of secrets, would you like to do something
for mommy?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I don't know any secrets I know, dear, And even
if I did, I couldn't tell because then it wouldn't
be a secret anymore, of course.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
And besides, I don't know anything about the surprise party. Oh, Kathy,
she was I didn't mean to say it.
Speaker 9 (14:42):
I'm sure you didn't. And Kathy, I don't know how
you found out. But let's be sure that no one
else knows anything about our secret?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
What secret?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
The surprise party.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I'm giving for your father on Sevday?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Kathy?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I don't feel well.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You're tired, sweetheart. A good night's rest and you'll be
as good as new. Mommy, Yes, dear.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
If somebody tells you a secret and then somebody else
tells you a secret, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What are you supposed to do about what?
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
What I just said?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
If somebody tells you a secret and you already know
it because somebody else told you?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
What? What?
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Kathy?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You'd better see what they want here?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
But what about my problem?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
We'll talk about it sometime when we're not so tired. Okay, Now,
run along like a good girl.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Okay, And Kathy, I wish you'd stop saying okay Okay, She.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Wills all the secrets in the whole world, and they
have to pick out the same one.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What are you mumbling about?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I'm not happy.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, don't worry, squirt, We're gonna fix that right now. Look,
how would you like to know what our secret is?
I wouldn't. I know enough secrets? We have to tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, you don't, we do, Kathy, You've got to help us.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I don't have to do anything. And I don't want
to know any more secrets. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Your own sister and brother.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Your own flesh and fish.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Well, okay, what's the secret?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We're giving mother and father a surprise party on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh no, And if you tell one person, but one,
well you better not, that's all.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Why did you have to tell me?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Because we want you to get them out of the house.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
They won't go.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I can't tell you. Why can't you because it's a secret.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But all you have to do is.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Get them to take you for a walk or something.
I used to be so happy. I'll give you my
old catcher's nick. I didn't know anything, and I'll give
you back your football.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I was such a happy little dope.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
But it's bothered.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Remember, Kathy, if you say one word? Hi, Dad, how's
every little thing? Well? But would you like to make
a full confession now? Or shall I send Kathy for
the rubber holes? Where did you hide the body? Hello? Father,
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I didn't have a holes? What body? Hello? Betty? I
know it and anybody If anybody thinks I know what
I'm talking about, he's crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Mother's in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Good wake me up in time for the fourth race, Betty.
I think we'd better go upstairs.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
We'll see you later.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Father, give my regards to the governor. Buzz buzz buzz whisp.
Nothing but secrets, Daddy, you haven't told anybody about ours?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Have you?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Nobody?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Oh? Keep an eye peal for your mother. I've got
to call mister Smith again. I want to ask now,
Kathy will talk about it late.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Can I even ask one question?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
All right? But nake it? Oh? Heck, I forgot to
tell you something.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Damn what if you know a secret?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Now? She wins. Heck, I'll leave the back door open
and you take everybody into the kitchen. You told me that.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Did I tell you the signal? What signal? Diesel bub?
When I say diesel bub, everybody comes rushing in diesel
bub that's the signal? Can you remember it? I'll have
a tattooed on my chest. Oh here's another thing, peez, Jim,
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I got a small chest, I know. Look, heck, you
won't say anything about this that, Margaret, will you? After all,
we want it to be a surprise, don't we. Oh yeah,
sure we're gonna surprise everybody. Well, I'll be seeing your Heck,
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good night, pal daddy.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
What is it if I told you a secret?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Honey? I don't have any time for secrets right now.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
But this is about the party.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Oh, but about it? Well?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Is a secret always a secret?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I mean if somebody tells you a secret and somebody
else tells you a secret, can't you even tell anybody
that the secret isn't even a secret anymore?
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Why don't you call me up next Monday?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
But the party Saturday, Kathy?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
If you don't want to help me, what about the party?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But I mean, well, if everybody tells you the same secret,
if everybody knows, then it isn't a secret.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Well nobody knows, but everybody? Well is it telling a secret?
Speaker 10 (20:57):
If you suppose, if if I suppose what, Well suppose
Betty and butter giving a surprise party for you and mommy.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
I didn't say they were Betty. I just said, suppose.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Betty come down here and bring Bud with you.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Okay, they'll kill me, they said, they don't kill me.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
No one's going to hurch, but walk down the stairs.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
If you say something, Dan, I.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Never mind.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Father? What's this about you and Bud giving a party?
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Kathy?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Just you wait? I didn't tell him, honest, Idea, leave
Kathy alone. It's a good thing. Somebody around here has
some sense. You mean, Kathy me, Well, what's the sense
of having two parties on the same You mean there's
gonna be another party? That's right, I'm giving a surprise
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party for your mother on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Holy call. Look, let's go into the den and close
the door.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
After we saved up all our money.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm on Kathy, you too, Yes, Daddy, I still think
she had something to do with it. Now, First, I
want to say that your mother and I are very
grateful for what. Well. I think it's very nice that
you wanted to give us a party. Oh it wasn't anything.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Aren't we still gonna have a party?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Of course we are. There isn't much sense to having
two sets of refreshments, is there? Why not? Oh? Oh,
but well, what's wrong with it? I've got an idea.
Suppose we say that it's your party, but we'll toss
to see who pays for the refreshments. How'll that be? Okay,
(23:01):
we'll take heads. Good, here we go. It's tails that
means we pay. Huh no, I won so I have to.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Pay and it's still our party.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
That's right, boy, that's wonderful. Daddy.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Now you're gonna toss with Mommy?
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Never mind, Betty, I'm right here. Hello, oh, hello, heck,
we're all next door to Davis's. How soon we supposed
to come over? Didn't Margaret tell you no?
Speaker 6 (23:53):
She just said she'd see it.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Well, can you see our kitchen window from there? I suppose? So?
All right, as soon as the light goes out, bring
everybody in the back way. Okay, and don't forget the
signal Beeselma, that's my boy. See in a few minutes. Tech. Okay, Well,
that takes care of that. Father.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I'm getting a little worried about what.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I didn't see any sandwiches or anything.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
What if Kathy made a mistake. She didn't make any mistake.
I checked with missus Smith, and your mother's giving a party. Boy,
I hope mom made a lot of sandwiches. I'm starving.
But there's one thing we've got to be sure of.
Your mother must never find out that her party isn't
exactly a surprise. Well, we certainly wat Oh hello, honey,
(24:43):
all finished with the dishes?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yes, dear, all finished?
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I dry, didn't I? Mommy?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You certainly did.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Did you turn the light out in the kitchen?
Speaker 8 (24:54):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Want me to turn it back on?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
No, just leave it the way it is? Shall we
go into the living room? All right? M hm uh.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
The paper says it's going to be warm tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It's about time, isn't it, Kathy? Humm? Oh? Sure?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I I thought today was very nice. Yes, it was fine.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Sure is getting hungry, isn't it? I mean late? Yes? Yes? Later?
All the time?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You know we're all being very silly.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Eh. What do you mean, honey, Well, sitting.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Here pretending that we don't know about your party?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Party?
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Why what Elizabeth told me? All about the part you
and the children are giving. We're giving and I think
it's very sweet?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Honey? You mean the party you're giving.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
No, I mean the one you're giving. I didn't want
to interfere, so I canceled all my plans.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Holy came Margaret. Do you mean you didn't prepare any refreshments?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Of course not. I thought certainly yours would be enough ours.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Oh Margaret, there'll be a house full of people and
nothing to give them.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Boy, what a mess you mean you haven't prepared any refreshments.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Well, we called ours off when we found out about
your party.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Oh Jim, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
But we'll have to run down of the delicacy.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
But this is important. What if somebody says diesel.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Bub, diesel bub?
Speaker 6 (27:19):
After all it is said and done. The one thing
you want when you buy coffee is flavor, the most
in flavor for your money, and frankly, that's Maxwell House,
the one coffee famous above all others for flavors. So tomorrow,
at your grocer's look for our familiar blue tin with
the big white cup and drop take home a pound
(27:40):
of Maxwell House. Then offer a savory cupful to the
world's greatest coffee expert, your husband. When he asks for
a second cup. His smile will tell you better than
I can why Maxwellhouse is famous for flavor as for value.
Just count all the truly good cups you get from
(28:01):
each pound. You'll agree Maxwell House is today's coffee by yes,
for the most in honest to goodness coffee drinking pleasure
insist on Maxwell House coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
It's some time later and the Anderson Surprise party is
going full glass thanks to the delicatessen at a raid
on every ice box in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
The question of refreshments has been solved. Not so, however,
is the question of Hector Smith like this. Heck, oh,
heck you want me, Jim, come over here for a second.
I want to talk to you. Okay, what's on your mind? Look,
heck you did this deliberately, didn't You did what you
(28:56):
knew about all three parties and you let us go
right ahead. Well, sure, what did you want me to do?
You could have told me about it, couldn't you? Of course?
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Not?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Why Sam, I'm surprised at you. It was a sacred step.
(29:33):
Right up today for a brand new Crinkles candy kissed rice.
It's twice as nice Crinkles. The sensational new sugar coated
rice Cereal. Yes, sir, the whole family. You'll have a
circus eating crinkles because candy kissed rice is twice as
nice just at milk or cream and eat no sugar needed.
Crinkles are the quick energy treat for snack time too.
(29:54):
Crinkles then us post Cereal, Get candy kissed rice crinkles
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Speaker 4 (30:06):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young Is, Jim Anderson, Roy
Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast, where
June Whitley is, Margaret Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Norma, Jean Nilson,
Verb Bigron and yours truly Bill Forman. So until next Thursday,
goodnight and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
(30:27):
America's favorite brand of coffee, Always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed Jane. Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows
immediately over most of these.
Speaker 11 (30:42):
Stations, your police force goes into action. That's Dragnet next
on NBC.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
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