August 8, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mother, is Nashville House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes, its father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Robert Young his father.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought
to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee
that's always good to the last drop. If an arrow rises,
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it must fall, If a river flows, it must bend.
And be they long or be they small? All vacations
have an air in Springfield, which is still an at
Bridgetown Live. The Anderson's just an average American family with
the average American trials and tribulations. Their car is rolling
rapidly toward the white frame house on Maple Street, and
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as they return from a long summer holiday at Round Lake,
it might be interesting to note the thoughts which occupy
their minds. For instance, there's Kathy aged.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Nine, gee, whizz, next week we have to go back.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
To school, Bud who is fifteen, Gosh, next week we
have to go back to school. And Betty who was
a very adult seventeen.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Jonathan Creeper's next week we have to go back to school.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Then of course, there's Margaret, the mother of the brow.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Next week the children go back to school.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Last but by no means least bother himself. Jim Anderson,
Well it won't be long. Now here's maple.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
There's Jimmy waite. Jimmy, Now, will you stop pushing.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I'm not Kathy's standing on my foot.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Kathleen sits still and behave yourself. I'm saying, hello, Jimmy.
There'll be plenty of time for that.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Jim, Are you sure everything's all right at the house?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Of course, everything's all right. Why well, you look.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Just like a boy with his hand in the jam pot.
And if you've done anything, Silvie, you sl oh, Kathy
sip down, That was Silsie. Well you don't have to
jump out the window.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Look what she did to my shoe.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I did not.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
You certainly did.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I certainly didn't.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
You certainly did.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I certainly didn't. Kathy. Will you please stop screeching in
my ear. I wasn't screeching in your ear. You certainly were, certainly.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
All right, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, she said, I was screeching in hurry.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I said, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I wasn't.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
House.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, that's a relief.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
No, I think it's just that when you get that
peculiar look on your face, I never know what to expect.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I thought maybe you had the house painted purple or something.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Here Mary, I know you mean well.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
But whenever the children and I go away, you get
such weird ideas about the house.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh like the barbecue pit I built last summer. I
suppose that was a weird idea.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
No, it was fine until it fell apart. How about
the year you decided to turn the playroom into a
bowling alley never mind? Or the year you.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Painted the living room green and Mom had to send.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
All the fun I said, never mind.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Oh gosh, I was only trying to help.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Kathleen. Right after dinner you go to bed, but.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I know just what you were thinking, and I won't
stand for it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But I wasn't thinking about the fire alarm you built
in the other.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, don't just sit there, but we're home. Let's get
the luggage into the house.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Dad man takes a little extra pride in his home,
and what happens People make fun of him, treat him
like the village idiots.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh, Jim, we weren't making fun of you.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
You certainly were.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You thought I was going to paint the house purple.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No I didn't, Dear.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I merely said Joel, Hey, Joe, come back here.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Where do you think you're going?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I just saw Joe Phillips.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, take a look at the suitcases. They come first.
Holy call, Kathy. That is not where we live. This
is our house, the white one.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
You can see Patty in the morning. Dear, right now,
we've all got to help your father.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Geez, well, I guess that's about everything, Jim. Margaret has
nothing to worry about. I haven't done anything to the house,
nothing much anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Kathy, push the water bottle under my chin. It's kippy.
Want me to carry it? Just push it over a little.
Why can't I carry it?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Cathy?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It broke?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
People go away all the time and come home all
the time. They don't get into things like this. Only
this family. If we so much as go across the street, Dad,
these bags are getting heavy, Well, put them down.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Don't you want me to take them inside?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Naturally? I want you to take them inside.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
How can I take them inside if I put them down?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Margaret, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
There, I have my keys.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
There we are, Kathy, hold the screen door open until
we get in. Yes, Taddy, see if you can manage
not to break it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh how can you break the screen door?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I don't know, but don't try to find out.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
All right, but let's go.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I don't think I can make it. This little bag
feels like it's got rocks in it.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Kathy, what have you gotten your suitcase?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Rocks? Rocks, special rocks. I'm saving them.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Gods, we haven't got enough rocks in Springfield. She has
to bring a suitcase full of them back from round Leigh.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
They're all different colors, Bud.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Take them out in back of the garage and dump them.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Okay, it's practically a collection.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I saved them all summer.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well dump them carefully, Bud.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay, and don't right them. Mother. My arms are falling off.
All right there, we're going right here, and let me.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Get this bag through the door, will you. That's a
good girl.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh well, we're home.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
How does it look?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
It looks wonderful, simply wonderful.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I had miss Nielsen come in last Friday and give
it a good cleaning.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh that was very thoughtful. I don't see anything different,
do you, mother, No, dear, everything looks just the way
it should.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Who gosh, these coats are heavy, Oh Betty. You can't
just dump them in a chair like that. You know
where they belong.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Okay, I'll hang them up just a minute, Betty.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I've made a few little changes around the house, just
minor changes.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Jim.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, it's something I've had in mind for quite a
few years. You see, the way I figure, there is
much difference between a home and an office so far
as efficiency is concerned.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Anyway, Jim, a.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Home isn't like an office. You can't run them the
same way.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Of course you can't.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And whether you see what I've done, everything's.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Neat and tidy and orderly, the way things ought to be.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I hope you know what you're doing, all right, Betty.
Put the coats in the closet before they get all wrinkled. Oh,
keet out, and then see what happened to Bud and Kathy.
If nothing half, you mind if I raise something up?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Talking and do as you're told?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, Father, that girl can talk more and say less
than any ten people in Springfield. Jim, she certainly doesn't
get it from my side of the family. I'll tell
you that, Jim. I've never heard anyone talk so much
in my entire life, all the way down from round
Lake Talk Talk talk, Jim, Oh, silent one.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Eh, do you mind if I say something?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Of course not.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You know that's a ridiculous question.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Well I have another ridiculous question. What have you done
to the house.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I've instituted a little system, that's all.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And it's about time.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Mother.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
There certainly are they're in the box.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The hangars are in a box.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
There's nothing that looks sillier than a bunch of empty
coat hangers. Besides, they don't do anything but catch dust.
What the box under the box with the goloshes, Jim?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
It's It's taken me fifteen years to train the children
to hang up their coats.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And now you've hidden the hangers.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh I haven't. I've put them where they belong. It's
part of the system.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
You haven't rearranged the entire house that way, have you?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
More or less?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Now, don't get upset, Margaret. The least you can do
is give the system a chance.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
But if you aren't home, we'll never be able to
find anything.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Yes, you will.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I spent a whole week making a catalog. Everything is
entered in its proper place, dishes, silver linen, Everything's been
put away systematically and entered in the catalog.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Jim Anderson, do you mean that in order to find
a plate in the cupboard, I've got to look it
up in a catalog.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's right under sea.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Dishes under sea.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I filed them under China.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It isn't ridiculous at all. You've been complaining for years
that you haven't had enough closets. Well, when I got
through rearranging things, I had two closets left over.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I'm not going to say a thing, not a single
thing this moment.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I don't dare father, And there isn't any key.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
The key is where it belongs with all the other keys.
They're all tagged, labeled and filed very systematically. Where I
wish you'd stop looking at me that way. I was
merely trying to be helpful. I know it isn't easy
to get used to a new system, but.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You will say, Dad, here's a letter for you.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It was the delivery and I signed for it.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
It's on the.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Bank, So I see, what do you think a bank
would be if they didn't have a system, they'd be.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Broken a week.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We're not running a bank.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
No, But when some of the bills come in from
the department stores, No, it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
What's the matter, Father? Is something wrong here?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I'm not overdrawn?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
How could I possibly be overdrawn?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Well, they have a system.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Margaret, this is not a joking matter.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
The day I left for Round Lake, just a week
ago Friday, I deposited over seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
How could I be overdrawn?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Maybe their system didn't work.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You're darn right it didn't work. Just as soon as
I find my checkbook.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Isn't it in the desk drawer? No?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I uh put it someplace else.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Part of the reorganization.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, I put it in a much more logical place,
a very logical place, only I can't remember exactly where.
Why don't you look it up in the cattle odd
the catalog?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Well that's where you entered everything, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, you see, that's what I've been trying to tell you, Margaret.
I was trying to get everything ready for you and
the kids when you got home, and I had the
catalog all finished and everything.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But Jim, you didn't.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Uh huh, I lost him.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Oh, No, best cup of coffee eye ever tasted. Tomorrow
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right at your table.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
You can hear that from the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am,
he'll be there, because the world's greatest coffee expert is
your husband. Now, naturally, we think we're pretty fair experts.
After all, our Maxwell House coffee is America's favorite brand.
But the final judge is that man of yours. And
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if you'll just put a cup of Maxwell House in
front of him, we're mighty sure you'll hear him say
best coffee I ever tasted. In fact, we'll give you
your money back if he doesn't. You see, no coffee's
made like Maxwell House, and that's why no coffee tastes
like Maxwell House. No other coffee has that famous good
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to the last drop flavor. Get Maxwell House tomorrow and
serve it to your husband. And if he doesn't say
it's the coffee for him, just return the can an
unused portion to us, and we'll gladly refund the price
you paid. You'll find our address right on the front
of that familiar blue tin. So tomorrow, see how much
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the world's greatest coffee expert Enjoy's Maxwell House coffee, always
good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's only minutes later in the white frame house on
Maple Street, and the future looks dismal and dark for
the family known as Anderson. Father with his brilliant new system,
has disorganized the entire household. But it won't be for long.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You know how it is with life.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's always darkest before the dawns. And though everything may
seem quite grim at the moment, there's really no need
to be concerned. Just hang around for a little while,
and gradually things will get worse.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I seek they're in the basement, I know, Jim.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
The first thing we've got to do is find the keys.
We can't live in a house where everything is locked up.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
If I could only remember what I did with.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The catalog, I'll settle for the keys. Can't you remember
where you put them?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I put them in a drawer.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Which drawer?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I don't remember anyway, I locked the drawer. So what
good would it do if I did remember.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You locked the drawer with all the keys in it?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, naturally, then I put that key you somewhere else where,
in a towel. I think it was a towel. Maybe
it was a pillow case, Jim. But it's all written
down in the catalog. If we can find that, there'll
be nothing to worry.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
About except trying to get this house back in order again.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Margaret, there's one thing you refuse to recognize. Doing it
my way, I had two closets left over.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
This it's one thing you refuse to recognize. We have
two trunks and five suitcases to unpack. How many closets
do you think we'll have left over?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Then?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh, I guess I forgot about that. Well, anyway, I tried.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I'm not worried.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
About the closets. At least they're open. But all those
locked drawers and missing keys, what are we going to.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Do about them?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We'll have to make a thorough search, that's all.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
But he went out to get the rest of the luggage.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Dear, anytime the doorbell rings, he manages to do something else.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
But you sent him for it.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Well, how did I know the bell was going to ring?
Haven't even been home fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
You'd think people would have a decency to let you
get your hat off before they start ringing the doorbell.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Jim My boy, Oh hello, mister Gribble, come on in.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I'm not interrupting anything, am I?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh no, we were just sitting around playing a little
game of button button. Who's got the button?
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Yes, Jim for you. The most wonderful news you've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It wouldn't have anything to do with a catalog, would it.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
What?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Well, that's sort of a key subject around here right now.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
And I see who is it.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
It's mister Grebble. Honey.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I can't say very long, just stop buy on my
way to the club, sat the car in the driveway,
you know.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Oh, hello missus. And it's nice to see you back.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
It's nice to be that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That is it might be sometime soon.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Is There's no place like home.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
That's what I always say, the old familiar haunts, with
everything in its place and the place for everything.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Isn't it? The truth.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Is you said something about good news JP.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
I did. Oh yes, I didn't. I you my boy.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I've done it, yes, sir, after three years, I've finally
done it. No, yeah, well that's great. What did you do?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Why?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I've gotten the Springfield Athletic Club to open its membership list.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Not far, mind, you, just far enough to let you in. Now,
what do you think of that.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
The athletic Club.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Oh that's wonderful, JP.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
It really is, isn't it, Margaret?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Oh yes, I'm just goosebumps all over.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I'm finally going to get into the Athletic Club.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Well, I've got to get down there right away.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
So if you'll just let me have a check for
one hundred and twenty five dollars, let's check for your application,
My boy, I want to get it in before they
changed their minds.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
You want me to give you a check?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
What's the matter with you, Jim? Don't you want to join?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yes, I I wanted to join for the last five years.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Well, then stop staring at me like a congenital moraro
on and give me a check for one hundred and
twenty five dollars. A check for one hundred and twenty five.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Dollars, mister gribble.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
We might as well tell you I left my check
book at the office.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
That's what we wanted to say, wasn't it, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I guess so, dear. If that's what you.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Say, well, there's nothing criminal about that, of course not.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I I'll drop by the bank first thing in the morning,
and then I'll leave a check at your office.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I'll that be.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Ah, that won't be necessary, it won't be any trouble, JP.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And I don't think it's right for you to lay
out all that money. Who said anything about that? You
bank with the merchants, don't you. Well, here's one of
my blank checks.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
You can use that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Well, is that you, Bud?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I guess so? Well, come on in, Bud, mister Gribble's here, Jim,
if you'll just make out a check for one hundred
and twenty five dollars, I want you to meet Bud.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
JP. He's a fine boy.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I met George Sodden when he was two years old.
I'll just make out a check, Bud. You know mister Gribble,
don't you sure?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I'm mister Gribble.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
I'm beginning to wonder, Jim.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Mister Gribble is a great baseball fan, Bud. Why don't
the two of you talk about baseball while I get
on the phone.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
I don't know one other a baseball back from the other.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
All I want. Look, I'll make out the check and
all you have to do is how will that be?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Oh, that'll be fine, just fine.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I've got all the bags in bed, now, can I
go see Joe.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No, I want you to stay here. And oh, why
don't you get mister Gribble a drink?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
What kind of a drink?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Any kind of a drink?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Water?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Anything? I don't care. How about a nice glass of water?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
JP?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
No, go ahead, Bud, get mister Gribble a.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Glass of water.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
He doesn't want any.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
We'll get it for him anyway.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Holy call, All right, Jim, it's made out now.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
All you have to do is sign yes, Betty, Kathy,
mister Gribble.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Is here, Jim. Why don't you just tell him?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Betty?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Kathy?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Can't you hear me?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I just told you mister Gribble is here?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Good for here?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Well, don't you want to say hello?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Hello mister.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Hello Betty?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
How about Kathy?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Hello, mister Gribble, Hello, Kathy, friendly little group.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Why don't you come down and tell mister Gribble all
about the nice summer you had?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Jim?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Tell him all about it one day at a time, Jim,
never mind the keys, never mind missus Neilson, Jim, mister Gribble,
never mind mister Gribble.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
I guess I'll be running along.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
No, wait, I haven't signed the check. Oh you remember that, Jim.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I'm sure mister Gribble.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Okay, I'll just sign it.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, here you are on JP, and thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Not at all. It'll be nice having you in the club,
I imagine.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'll take you to the door.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Goodbye, missus Anderson, goodbye, mister Gribble.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I'm sorry everything was so upset.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
That's quite all right, Quite all right, jim my boy.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Yes, JP, when you come down to the club, I
take things easy for a few weeks. Oh you were,
shouldn't have been overdoing things a little.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
I know what you mean. JP. I'll be careful.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Well, I'll be running along.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Thanks again for everything.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Oh not at all, my boy. Glad the help.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, I've joined something, the athletic club or Levenworth one
of the things.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Jim, What on earth were you trying to do?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I don't know, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I thought if I could get Bill Morris on the
phone about that deposit I made.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
But why didn't you tell mister Gribble the truth? I'm
sure he'd have understood.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I couldn't, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Would you trust all your insurance to a man who
can't keep his bank account straight?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I thought the bank made the mistake.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
They did I mean I think they did.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
The water, Dad, what water?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
You said to get a glass of water for mister Gribble.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well he's gone.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
What do I do with the water?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Drink it, I'm not thirsty, and take it outside and
water the lawn with one glass.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Jim, you're getting the boy all confused.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well what do you think I am? No money, no catalog,
no keys. Wait a minute, no, what the middle drawer
in my desk.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
That's where I put it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That's where you put what.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I distinctly remember putting something in it.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
The catalog.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
That's where it is.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Come on, Jim, we get the catalog. Everything will straightened out.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We'll find a bank book and the keys and uh
huh is it locked?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Yes, it's locked. Everything's locked. But don't worry. I'll fix this.
Where's the letter open?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Ho, Jim, you'll ruin the desk.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Well, I've got to get it open there.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh your poor desk.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You see, I knew I put it someplace.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Is it the catalog?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well not exactly, it's it's the check I was supposed
to deposit.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Well that solves one mystery, but the search for the
catalog goes on and on, just goes to show you
come out way ahead when you know where to find
what you want. Now, when it comes to coffee, you
want the most for your money, the most in flavor,
the most in enjoyment, and the world's greatest coffee.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Expert can help you find it.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Just serve the number one expert, meaning that husband of
yours a cup of Maxwell House. Then when you see
him smile and hear him say best coffee I ever tasted,
you'll know it's Maxwell House for your best money's worth.
Get a familiar blue Maxwell House ten tomorrow and see
what that man of yours says about its wonderful, good
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to the.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Last drop flavor.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Then count all the cups of truly good coffee you
get from that one pound. We think you'll be convinced
you get the most for your money with Maxwell House coffee.
So tomorrow, introduce the world's greatest coffee expert to coffee
that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Again. It's moments later in the white frame house on
Maple Street, and only one of the Anderson's many problems
has been resolved. Father, who always knows best, has taken
care of the money situation. But it's Mother, the gentle
soul who takes care of the rest like this, Jim,
We've got.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
To go about this thing logically. Now where were you
when you finished the catalog?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Uh? In the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I wound up with the pots and pans.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And then the phone rang?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well? Didn't it?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (26:32):
But how dear, whenever you lose something, the telephone has
always just rung.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Well, Uh, then what happened?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
It was Hector Smith, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yes? But I still don't you and Hector.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Made a poker date. You had to make a few notes,
didn't you.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
That's right. I had to put down the address and
the time.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You also put down the catalog.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Well, I couldn't write with my hands full.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Now, let's see what handy spot would be the most
illogical place for you to put it.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I put it right on the telephone table, and then.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
It disappeared, Betty, Yes, mother, look on top of the
balance over the whole window.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Margaret, you know that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Who in his right mind would stick a book away
on top of a window balance? You would, I certainly
would not, Mother, Yes, Betty, I found the catalog.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
On top of the valance. That's right, Thank you, Betty.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I guess everything's all straightened out now, not quite, dear,
but it will be as soon as we put everything
back where it was in the beginning. Life is swell
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when you keep well. That's why so many folks eat
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They're so good and so good for you too. Ask
your grocer for Post forty percent brand flakes. Remember, life
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is swell when you keep well with Post forty percent
brand flakes, America's favorite bran flakes. Join us again next
week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring
Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargee and the
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Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Foreman. So until
next Thursday, good night and good luck from the makers
of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee, always good
to the last drop. Father Knows Best was transcribed in
Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now stay tuned in
for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of these stations,
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Mother, is Nashville House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes, its father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Robert Young his father.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought
to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee
that's always good to the last drop. If an arrow rises,
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it must fall, If a river flows, it must bend.
And be they long or be they small? All vacations
have an air in Springfield, which is still an at
Bridgetown Live. The Anderson's just an average American family with
the average American trials and tribulations. Their car is rolling
rapidly toward the white frame house on Maple Street, and
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as they return from a long summer holiday at Round Lake,
it might be interesting to note the thoughts which occupy
their minds. For instance, there's Kathy aged.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Nine, gee, whizz, next week we have to go back.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
To school, Bud who is fifteen, Gosh, next week we
have to go back to school. And Betty who was
a very adult seventeen.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Jonathan Creeper's next week we have to go back to school.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Then of course, there's Margaret, the mother of the brow.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Next week the children go back to school.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Last but by no means least bother himself. Jim Anderson,
Well it won't be long. Now here's maple.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
There's Jimmy waite. Jimmy, Now, will you stop pushing.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I'm not Kathy's standing on my foot.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Kathleen sits still and behave yourself. I'm saying, hello, Jimmy.
There'll be plenty of time for that.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Jim, Are you sure everything's all right at the house?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Of course, everything's all right. Why well, you look.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Just like a boy with his hand in the jam pot.
And if you've done anything, Silvie, you sl oh, Kathy
sip down, That was Silsie. Well you don't have to
jump out the window.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Look what she did to my shoe.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I did not.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
You certainly did.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I certainly didn't.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
You certainly did.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I certainly didn't. Kathy. Will you please stop screeching in
my ear. I wasn't screeching in your ear. You certainly were, certainly.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
All right, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, she said, I was screeching in hurry.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I said, that's enough.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I wasn't.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
House.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Well, that's a relief.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
No, I think it's just that when you get that
peculiar look on your face, I never know what to expect.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I thought maybe you had the house painted purple or something.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Here Mary, I know you mean well.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
But whenever the children and I go away, you get
such weird ideas about the house.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh like the barbecue pit I built last summer. I
suppose that was a weird idea.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
No, it was fine until it fell apart. How about
the year you decided to turn the playroom into a
bowling alley never mind? Or the year you.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Painted the living room green and Mom had to send.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
All the fun I said, never mind.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Oh gosh, I was only trying to help.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Kathleen. Right after dinner you go to bed, but.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I know just what you were thinking, and I won't
stand for it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But I wasn't thinking about the fire alarm you built
in the other.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, don't just sit there, but we're home. Let's get
the luggage into the house.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Dad man takes a little extra pride in his home,
and what happens People make fun of him, treat him
like the village idiots.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh, Jim, we weren't making fun of you.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
You certainly were.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You thought I was going to paint the house purple.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No I didn't, Dear.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I merely said Joel, Hey, Joe, come back here.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Where do you think you're going?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I just saw Joe Phillips.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, take a look at the suitcases. They come first.
Holy call, Kathy. That is not where we live. This
is our house, the white one.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
You can see Patty in the morning. Dear, right now,
we've all got to help your father.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Geez, well, I guess that's about everything, Jim. Margaret has
nothing to worry about. I haven't done anything to the house,
nothing much anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Kathy, push the water bottle under my chin. It's kippy.
Want me to carry it? Just push it over a little.
Why can't I carry it?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Cathy?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It broke?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
People go away all the time and come home all
the time. They don't get into things like this. Only
this family. If we so much as go across the street, Dad,
these bags are getting heavy, Well, put them down.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Don't you want me to take them inside?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Naturally? I want you to take them inside.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
How can I take them inside if I put them down?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Margaret, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
There, I have my keys.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
There we are, Kathy, hold the screen door open until
we get in. Yes, Taddy, see if you can manage
not to break it.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh how can you break the screen door?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I don't know, but don't try to find out.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
All right, but let's go.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I don't think I can make it. This little bag
feels like it's got rocks in it.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Kathy, what have you gotten your suitcase?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Rocks? Rocks, special rocks. I'm saving them.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Gods, we haven't got enough rocks in Springfield. She has
to bring a suitcase full of them back from round Leigh.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
They're all different colors, Bud.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Take them out in back of the garage and dump them.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Okay, it's practically a collection.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I saved them all summer.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Well dump them carefully, Bud.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Okay, and don't right them. Mother. My arms are falling off.
All right there, we're going right here, and let me.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Get this bag through the door, will you. That's a
good girl.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh well, we're home.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
How does it look?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
It looks wonderful, simply wonderful.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I had miss Nielsen come in last Friday and give
it a good cleaning.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh that was very thoughtful. I don't see anything different,
do you, mother, No, dear, everything looks just the way
it should.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Who gosh, these coats are heavy, Oh Betty. You can't
just dump them in a chair like that. You know
where they belong.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Okay, I'll hang them up just a minute, Betty.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I've made a few little changes around the house, just
minor changes.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Jim.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, it's something I've had in mind for quite a
few years. You see, the way I figure, there is
much difference between a home and an office so far
as efficiency is concerned.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Anyway, Jim, a.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Home isn't like an office. You can't run them the
same way.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Of course you can't.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
And whether you see what I've done, everything's.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Neat and tidy and orderly, the way things ought to be.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
I hope you know what you're doing, all right, Betty.
Put the coats in the closet before they get all wrinkled. Oh,
keet out, and then see what happened to Bud and Kathy.
If nothing half, you mind if I raise something up?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Talking and do as you're told?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, Father, that girl can talk more and say less
than any ten people in Springfield. Jim, she certainly doesn't
get it from my side of the family. I'll tell
you that, Jim. I've never heard anyone talk so much
in my entire life, all the way down from round
Lake Talk Talk talk, Jim, Oh, silent one.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Eh, do you mind if I say something?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Of course not.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You know that's a ridiculous question.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Well I have another ridiculous question. What have you done
to the house.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I've instituted a little system, that's all.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And it's about time.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Mother.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
There certainly are they're in the box.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The hangars are in a box.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
There's nothing that looks sillier than a bunch of empty
coat hangers. Besides, they don't do anything but catch dust.
What the box under the box with the goloshes, Jim?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
It's It's taken me fifteen years to train the children
to hang up their coats.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And now you've hidden the hangers.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh I haven't. I've put them where they belong. It's
part of the system.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
You haven't rearranged the entire house that way, have you?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
More or less?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Now, don't get upset, Margaret. The least you can do
is give the system a chance.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
But if you aren't home, we'll never be able to
find anything.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Yes, you will.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I spent a whole week making a catalog. Everything is
entered in its proper place, dishes, silver linen, Everything's been
put away systematically and entered in the catalog.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Jim Anderson, do you mean that in order to find
a plate in the cupboard, I've got to look it
up in a catalog.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's right under sea.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Dishes under sea.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I filed them under China.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
It isn't ridiculous at all. You've been complaining for years
that you haven't had enough closets. Well, when I got
through rearranging things, I had two closets left over.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
I'm not going to say a thing, not a single
thing this moment.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I don't dare father, And there isn't any key.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
The key is where it belongs with all the other keys.
They're all tagged, labeled and filed very systematically. Where I
wish you'd stop looking at me that way. I was
merely trying to be helpful. I know it isn't easy
to get used to a new system, but.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You will say, Dad, here's a letter for you.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
It was the delivery and I signed for it.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
It's on the.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Bank, So I see, what do you think a bank
would be if they didn't have a system, they'd be.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Broken a week.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We're not running a bank.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
No, But when some of the bills come in from
the department stores, No, it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
What's the matter, Father? Is something wrong here?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I'm not overdrawn?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
How could I possibly be overdrawn?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Well, they have a system.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Margaret, this is not a joking matter.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
The day I left for Round Lake, just a week
ago Friday, I deposited over seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
How could I be overdrawn?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Maybe their system didn't work.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You're darn right it didn't work. Just as soon as
I find my checkbook.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Isn't it in the desk drawer? No?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I uh put it someplace else.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Part of the reorganization.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, I put it in a much more logical place,
a very logical place, only I can't remember exactly where.
Why don't you look it up in the cattle odd
the catalog?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Well that's where you entered everything, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, you see, that's what I've been trying to tell you, Margaret.
I was trying to get everything ready for you and
the kids when you got home, and I had the
catalog all finished and everything.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
But Jim, you didn't.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Uh huh, I lost him.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Oh, No, best cup of coffee eye ever tasted. Tomorrow
(13:00):
right at your table.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
You can hear that from the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am,
he'll be there, because the world's greatest coffee expert is
your husband. Now, naturally, we think we're pretty fair experts.
After all, our Maxwell House coffee is America's favorite brand.
But the final judge is that man of yours. And
(13:25):
if you'll just put a cup of Maxwell House in
front of him, we're mighty sure you'll hear him say
best coffee I ever tasted. In fact, we'll give you
your money back if he doesn't. You see, no coffee's
made like Maxwell House, and that's why no coffee tastes
like Maxwell House. No other coffee has that famous good
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to the last drop flavor. Get Maxwell House tomorrow and
serve it to your husband. And if he doesn't say
it's the coffee for him, just return the can an
unused portion to us, and we'll gladly refund the price
you paid. You'll find our address right on the front
of that familiar blue tin. So tomorrow, see how much
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the world's greatest coffee expert Enjoy's Maxwell House coffee, always
good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's only minutes later in the white frame house on
Maple Street, and the future looks dismal and dark for
the family known as Anderson. Father with his brilliant new system,
has disorganized the entire household. But it won't be for long.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
You know how it is with life.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
It's always darkest before the dawns. And though everything may
seem quite grim at the moment, there's really no need
to be concerned. Just hang around for a little while,
and gradually things will get worse.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
I seek they're in the basement, I know, Jim.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
The first thing we've got to do is find the keys.
We can't live in a house where everything is locked up.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
If I could only remember what I did with.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The catalog, I'll settle for the keys. Can't you remember
where you put them?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I put them in a drawer.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Which drawer?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I don't remember anyway, I locked the drawer. So what
good would it do if I did remember.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
You locked the drawer with all the keys in it?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, naturally, then I put that key you somewhere else where,
in a towel. I think it was a towel. Maybe
it was a pillow case, Jim. But it's all written
down in the catalog. If we can find that, there'll
be nothing to worry.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
About except trying to get this house back in order again.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Margaret, there's one thing you refuse to recognize. Doing it
my way, I had two closets left over.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
This it's one thing you refuse to recognize. We have
two trunks and five suitcases to unpack. How many closets
do you think we'll have left over?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Then?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh, I guess I forgot about that. Well, anyway, I tried.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I'm not worried.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
About the closets. At least they're open. But all those
locked drawers and missing keys, what are we going to.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Do about them?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We'll have to make a thorough search, that's all.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
But he went out to get the rest of the luggage.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Dear, anytime the doorbell rings, he manages to do something else.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
But you sent him for it.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Well, how did I know the bell was going to ring?
Haven't even been home fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
You'd think people would have a decency to let you
get your hat off before they start ringing the doorbell.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Jim My boy, Oh hello, mister Gribble, come on in.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I'm not interrupting anything, am I?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh no, we were just sitting around playing a little
game of button button. Who's got the button?
Speaker 7 (16:57):
Yes, Jim for you. The most wonderful news you've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It wouldn't have anything to do with a catalog, would it.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
What?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Well, that's sort of a key subject around here right now.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
And I see who is it.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
It's mister Grebble. Honey.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I can't say very long, just stop buy on my
way to the club, sat the car in the driveway,
you know.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Oh, hello missus. And it's nice to see you back.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
It's nice to be that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That is it might be sometime soon.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Is There's no place like home.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
That's what I always say, the old familiar haunts, with
everything in its place and the place for everything.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Isn't it? The truth.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Is you said something about good news JP.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
I did. Oh yes, I didn't. I you my boy.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I've done it, yes, sir, after three years, I've finally
done it. No, yeah, well that's great. What did you do?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Why?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I've gotten the Springfield Athletic Club to open its membership list.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Not far, mind, you, just far enough to let you in. Now,
what do you think of that.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
The athletic Club.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Oh that's wonderful, JP.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
It really is, isn't it, Margaret?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Oh yes, I'm just goosebumps all over.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I'm finally going to get into the Athletic Club.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Well, I've got to get down there right away.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
So if you'll just let me have a check for
one hundred and twenty five dollars, let's check for your application,
My boy, I want to get it in before they
changed their minds.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
You want me to give you a check?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
What's the matter with you, Jim? Don't you want to join?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yes, I I wanted to join for the last five years.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Well, then stop staring at me like a congenital moraro
on and give me a check for one hundred and
twenty five dollars. A check for one hundred and twenty five.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Dollars, mister gribble.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
We might as well tell you I left my check
book at the office.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
That's what we wanted to say, wasn't it, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I guess so, dear. If that's what you.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Say, well, there's nothing criminal about that, of course not.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I I'll drop by the bank first thing in the morning,
and then I'll leave a check at your office.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I'll that be.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Ah, that won't be necessary, it won't be any trouble, JP.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
And I don't think it's right for you to lay
out all that money. Who said anything about that? You
bank with the merchants, don't you. Well, here's one of
my blank checks.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
You can use that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Well, is that you, Bud?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I guess so? Well, come on in, Bud, mister Gribble's here, Jim,
if you'll just make out a check for one hundred
and twenty five dollars, I want you to meet Bud.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
JP. He's a fine boy.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I met George Sodden when he was two years old.
I'll just make out a check, Bud. You know mister Gribble,
don't you sure?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I'm mister Gribble.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
I'm beginning to wonder, Jim.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Mister Gribble is a great baseball fan, Bud. Why don't
the two of you talk about baseball while I get
on the phone.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
I don't know one other a baseball back from the other.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
All I want. Look, I'll make out the check and
all you have to do is how will that be?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Oh, that'll be fine, just fine.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I've got all the bags in bed, now, can I
go see Joe.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
No, I want you to stay here. And oh, why
don't you get mister Gribble a drink?
Speaker 5 (20:15):
What kind of a drink?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Any kind of a drink?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Water?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Anything? I don't care. How about a nice glass of water?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
JP?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
No, go ahead, Bud, get mister Gribble a.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Glass of water.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
He doesn't want any.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
We'll get it for him anyway.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Holy call, All right, Jim, it's made out now.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
All you have to do is sign yes, Betty, Kathy,
mister Gribble.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Is here, Jim. Why don't you just tell him?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Betty?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Kathy?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Can't you hear me?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I just told you mister Gribble is here?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Good for here?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Well, don't you want to say hello?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Hello mister.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Hello Betty?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
How about Kathy?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Hello, mister Gribble, Hello, Kathy, friendly little group.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Why don't you come down and tell mister Gribble all
about the nice summer you had?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Jim?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Tell him all about it one day at a time, Jim,
never mind the keys, never mind missus Neilson, Jim, mister Gribble,
never mind mister Gribble.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
I guess I'll be running along.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
No, wait, I haven't signed the check. Oh you remember that, Jim.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I'm sure mister Gribble.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Okay, I'll just sign it.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, here you are on JP, and thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Not at all. It'll be nice having you in the club,
I imagine.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I'll take you to the door.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Goodbye, missus Anderson, goodbye, mister Gribble.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I'm sorry everything was so upset.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
That's quite all right, Quite all right, jim my boy.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Yes, JP, when you come down to the club, I
take things easy for a few weeks. Oh you were,
shouldn't have been overdoing things a little.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
I know what you mean. JP. I'll be careful.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Well, I'll be running along.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Thanks again for everything.
Speaker 7 (22:25):
Oh not at all, my boy. Glad the help.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Well, I've joined something, the athletic club or Levenworth one
of the things.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Jim, What on earth were you trying to do?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I don't know, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I thought if I could get Bill Morris on the
phone about that deposit I made.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
But why didn't you tell mister Gribble the truth? I'm
sure he'd have understood.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I couldn't, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Would you trust all your insurance to a man who
can't keep his bank account straight?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I thought the bank made the mistake.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
They did I mean I think they did.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
The water, Dad, what water?
Speaker 5 (23:09):
You said to get a glass of water for mister Gribble.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well he's gone.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
What do I do with the water?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Drink it, I'm not thirsty, and take it outside and
water the lawn with one glass.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Jim, you're getting the boy all confused.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well what do you think I am? No money, no catalog,
no keys. Wait a minute, no, what the middle drawer
in my desk.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
That's where I put it.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
That's where you put what.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I distinctly remember putting something in it.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
The catalog.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
That's where it is.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Come on, Jim, we get the catalog. Everything will straightened out.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We'll find a bank book and the keys and uh
huh is it locked?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Yes, it's locked. Everything's locked. But don't worry. I'll fix this.
Where's the letter open?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Ho, Jim, you'll ruin the desk.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Well, I've got to get it open there.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh your poor desk.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You see, I knew I put it someplace.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Is it the catalog?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well not exactly, it's it's the check I was supposed
to deposit.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Well that solves one mystery, but the search for the
catalog goes on and on, just goes to show you
come out way ahead when you know where to find
what you want. Now, when it comes to coffee, you
want the most for your money, the most in flavor,
the most in enjoyment, and the world's greatest coffee.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Expert can help you find it.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Just serve the number one expert, meaning that husband of
yours a cup of Maxwell House. Then when you see
him smile and hear him say best coffee I ever tasted,
you'll know it's Maxwell House for your best money's worth.
Get a familiar blue Maxwell House ten tomorrow and see
what that man of yours says about its wonderful, good
(25:31):
to the.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Last drop flavor.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Then count all the cups of truly good coffee you
get from that one pound. We think you'll be convinced
you get the most for your money with Maxwell House coffee.
So tomorrow, introduce the world's greatest coffee expert to coffee
that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Again. It's moments later in the white frame house on
Maple Street, and only one of the Anderson's many problems
has been resolved. Father, who always knows best, has taken
care of the money situation. But it's Mother, the gentle
soul who takes care of the rest like this, Jim,
We've got.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
To go about this thing logically. Now where were you
when you finished the catalog?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Uh? In the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I wound up with the pots and pans.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And then the phone rang?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well? Didn't it?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (26:32):
But how dear, whenever you lose something, the telephone has
always just rung.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Well, Uh, then what happened?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
It was Hector Smith, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yes? But I still don't you and Hector.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Made a poker date. You had to make a few notes,
didn't you.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
That's right. I had to put down the address and
the time.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You also put down the catalog.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Well, I couldn't write with my hands full.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Now, let's see what handy spot would be the most
illogical place for you to put it.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I put it right on the telephone table, and then.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
It disappeared, Betty, Yes, mother, look on top of the
balance over the whole window.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Margaret, you know that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Who in his right mind would stick a book away
on top of a window balance? You would, I certainly
would not, Mother, Yes, Betty, I found the catalog.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
On top of the valance. That's right, Thank you, Betty.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I guess everything's all straightened out now, not quite, dear,
but it will be as soon as we put everything
back where it was in the beginning. Life is swell
(28:02):
when you keep well. That's why so many folks eat
Post brand flakes for breakfast every day. Every one ounce
serving of these tasty, crisp toasted flakes provides brand to
help prevent irregularity due to lack of bulk in the diet.
They're so good and so good for you too. Ask
your grocer for Post forty percent brand flakes. Remember, life
(28:26):
is swell when you keep well with Post forty percent
brand flakes, America's favorite bran flakes. Join us again next
week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring
Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargee and the
(28:47):
Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Foreman. So until
next Thursday, good night and good luck from the makers
of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee, always good
to the last drop. Father Knows Best was transcribed in
Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now stay tuned in
for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of these stations,
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