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October 10, 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 (00:02):
Now listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young
as Father, Welcome to springfeat and another half hour visit

(00:31):
with the folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street, Sit.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Back and enjoy life for the Ambassys.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Happy Bud, Betty, Margaret and Jim, as the head of
this typical American household, again sets out to prove that
Father knows Best.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
There comes a time in every boy's life when he
begins to feel that his breeches are getting a touch
too small for him, and it is high time he
dons a more worldly pair of trousers. In the White
frame House on Maple Street, Young Bud Anderson has of
late been feeling the pinch of his present existence and
has his eye on a more expanded light. He feels
the need of such things as well, for example, things

(01:23):
like this, Mom, Yes, what is it?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Can I get a flat top?

Speaker 5 (01:29):
Now? What in the world is a flat top?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
A haircut sort of like a butcher.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
But not a you mean where they shave your head.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
They don't shave you what they do.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Absolutely not, But Mom, they don't.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
The answer is no, Holy cow, you treat me as
if I were a kid.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Oh, for goodness sake, what are you?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
I'm old enough to run my own life.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Oh now, but don't get started on that again.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Might as well put iron bars on my windows.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Oh sure, Just where could you have it better?

Speaker 4 (02:00):
A lot of places? Name one, Claude Messner says, A
guy convent that room up over mister Engel's feed store
for only five dollars a month?

Speaker 5 (02:09):
How bad?

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Well you can, and all you have to do is
just sweep out the feed store every morning.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
I can just see you living upstairs over a feed store.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Well, at least I could live my own life.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Margaret, I'm home.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Hey, there's dead. I'm gonna ask him about the haircut.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
Now, don't bother him with that.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
If he says it's okay, can I I'm still against it?

Speaker 7 (02:30):
Dead?

Speaker 8 (02:30):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (02:30):
Dead?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Hello? Son? Where's your mother in the kitchen? Dead?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
I want to ask you something?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
How much will it cost me?

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Just the price of a haircut? But what I want
to know is Jennie, Oh why does she have to
put in?

Speaker 9 (02:44):
Yannie? Can I earn my own money?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Get lost? Shimp?

Speaker 9 (02:47):
Boat nod turned blue?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, I can see that I'm home and everything is natural.
Now let's take up these big problems one of the time.
Go ahead, Kathy, ladies first, I guess, Oh sure, it's
always that.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Well, Daddy, i'd keep quiet.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Go on, Kathy, Well, Daddy, I want to hear old lady.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Okay, okay, I'm gonna get that room over the feed store.

Speaker 10 (03:20):
Well, Daddy, I want to earn my own money to
go to a summer camp for girls.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Can I I'm heartily in favor of it. Now, how
do you propose to raise all this money?

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (03:31):
That's easy.

Speaker 10 (03:32):
All we have to do is tell thirty boxes of
camp girl tathy.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh that's all.

Speaker 9 (03:38):
Huh, fifty cents a box.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I see how many boxes do you want?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Daddy?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, I don't want any.

Speaker 9 (03:46):
I just thought maybe you'd buy something for a starter.
Oh you know, say twenty boxes?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Twenty? What would I do with twenty boxes of taffy?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Is this conversation about over?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
As far as I'm concerned, it is?

Speaker 9 (04:08):
Well, how about just five, Daddy.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I'll take two, and that's my absolute talk.

Speaker 9 (04:14):
Thanks, I'll go get you taffy.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Don't hurry dad, All right? Now, what is it, bud? Well?

Speaker 4 (04:21):
But I wanted to know of for Pete's.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Sake, I'll get it.

Speaker 9 (04:25):
I'll get it. I'm sure it's for me.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
We better go upstairs.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Dad, Wait, maybe it's for me.

Speaker 9 (04:30):
Hello.

Speaker 8 (04:31):
Oh, yes, Ralphie, it's for her. Of course I do, Ralphie.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Well, let's go dad, before they get sick.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Ning.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Okay, I don't know, Ralph.

Speaker 8 (04:44):
Just a minute, father, May I go with Ralph to
a lecture tonight? A lecture on mentology? On what mentology?

Speaker 9 (04:55):
It's the very latest thing, father. Everyone is taking it.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Up, but everyone really, I hadn't even heard of it.

Speaker 8 (05:03):
Come on, Dad, Ralph explained it to me. You mesh
your subconscious mind with your regular mind.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I must try that sometimes.

Speaker 8 (05:14):
And this release is such fantastic mental power that you
can simply think your way to anything. Ralph says, it's
the greatest thing that ever has civilization.

Speaker 9 (05:22):
Can I go?

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well, if it's that great, I guess it can't hurt
you too much.

Speaker 8 (05:27):
Go ahead, you're a dear father. Hello, Ralph, I can go.

Speaker 9 (05:32):
When?

Speaker 8 (05:34):
Okay, I'll be ready.

Speaker 9 (05:35):
Bye. What time is it, father? I'll bet I won't
have time to do my hair.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Can't you just mesh your subconscious and think a few
curls into it?

Speaker 9 (05:47):
Oh? Father, you're so utterly pedestrian.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Well I haven't been that before. Dad, Yes, Bud, let's
get right down to your problem. What is it that's
bothering you? Well?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Dog, Now, I can't remember what it was.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
I had no idea it was that important.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Oh yeah, I remember now, Look dat I asked mom?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
If I get where are you in the dan? Margaret?
Holy call?

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Well? Are you too finished discussing Bud's flat heead.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
It's not flat head, it's flat tam.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
Well, whatever you call it, it doesn't much matter because
I'm still against it, and I hope your father is too.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
I haven't had a chance to ask him yet, Jim.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
I was just thinking, I've been canning berries all day
and I haven't planned a thing for dinner. Why did
you invite us to eat out tonight?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I think that's a wonderful idea, Dad. Oh yes, I uh,
I believe Bud has some sort of a problem. What
is it?

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Som Well, I new it, I knew it.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
I'll get it.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Hello, boy, I give up.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yeah, he dear, just a minute, but come back here.
It's for you for me?

Speaker 4 (07:18):
How did that happen?

Speaker 5 (07:20):
I think it's Joe Phillips.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Oh thanks, hello Joe. No matter what it is. I
can't do it.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
What kind of talk is that?

Speaker 6 (07:29):
That's been going on for about a week now, just
a minute, Joe, Hey, Dad, Yes, Joe and some of
the guys are going to take an all day ride
on their.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Motor scooters after the stone Quarry and the oh dear. Well,
now wait a minute, mom.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's right on the main highway, isn't it sure a
better road that way? Well, I don't know, Bud. That's
pretty dangerous out there, a lot of high speed.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Traffic, but dead All the other fellows are going well,
maybe so, but I don't want you driving that scooter
on the highway. I know it would turn out like this. Hello, Joe,
I can't go. No, it's no use, I'm trapped.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
No, so long now, Bud, that's not the right attitude.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Well, everybody else gets to do what they want to do,
but not me.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
No, that's not true.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Bad Kathy wants to go out and sell some old taffy.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Sure go ahead, great.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well that's and Betty wants to go to some old
lecture and get unconscious, Sure.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Go ahead, great well.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
And you want to go out to some old restaurant,
Sure go ahead.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Great, Well, you're going too.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
I'm not hungry hardly.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Now.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
Look, I want to move out of here and take
that room over the feed store.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Feed store.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
I can get it for just practically sweeping out the place.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yes, you could probably get your meals there too.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Maybe someday you'll learn I'm old enough to leave my
own life.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
But come back here.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Let him go, he'll cool off.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Well, what are we going to do about him, Jim?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Why? Nothing? Nothing, Sure, he'll work this out. I know
how he feels. He just doesn't understand that what we're
trying to do is best for him. I couldn't see
that when I was a kid either.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
But he's been going on like this for at least
a week. What if he would try to leave home, Bud.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Leave home. There's one kid you couldn't drive out of
here with a bull whip.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
Well, I know we always have been that way. Lately,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, I can tell you a real quick way to
put a stop to such talk. All we have to
do is agree with him that he's old enough to
live his own life. Then help him make arrangements to
move down to the feed store, and I guarantee you
that'll be the last we'll ever hear of that.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Well, maybe I'll go.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Up and have a little talk with him.

Speaker 9 (09:53):
Money.

Speaker 8 (09:54):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (09:55):
Angel?

Speaker 10 (09:55):
Would you like to buy some super keen awful delicious
real Snammy tab forty cents a box?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I thought it was fifty.

Speaker 9 (10:07):
I had to cut the price.

Speaker 10 (10:09):
I can't sell this old jump Well, the.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Certainly can't with that sales approach. How many to sold
so far?

Speaker 9 (10:17):
Well, counting the two you bought, I sold too.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
At least you haven't lost ground. You better work on
your mother there, I've got to run upstairs.

Speaker 10 (10:29):
Well all about it, mommy, you can buy as many boxes.

Speaker 9 (10:31):
As you want.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Well, I'm not exactly fond of taffy, but.

Speaker 9 (10:40):
I'll get it.

Speaker 8 (10:41):
Watch out, father, that's Ralph.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
I'll get it.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
I'll always wonder how she can tell who it is
before she ever answers the phone. Maybe her subconscious does mesh, Bud,
I want to talk to you.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
There's nothing to talk about.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
There might be, Daddy.

Speaker 9 (11:02):
Can I ask Bet a question?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I wouldn't bother him.

Speaker 9 (11:04):
Now, Hey, Bud, do you want to buy some taffy?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
No?

Speaker 9 (11:11):
See, Daddy, this stuff just won't sell.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
You better go change your clothes. If we're going on
to dinner.

Speaker 10 (11:16):
Okay, maybe I can sell a few boxes in front
of the restaurant.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Bud, come on, I'll open the door.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Let me in, and I'll tell you all that.

Speaker 8 (11:27):
Ralph he can be so pedestrian at times.

Speaker 9 (11:31):
Ralph too, you know what he did?

Speaker 2 (11:34):
No, and I have very little desire to find out.

Speaker 8 (11:37):
He asked me if it would be all right if
George Hobson went along with this, and I said, just
trying to be nice, you know, I said I'd be delighted.
And he said, why are you so delighted? Are you
just dying to have him go along?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
And I said, Princess, I'm a little busy right now.

Speaker 8 (11:54):
And one thing led to another, and first thing I know,
he said, maybe you'd rather go with George and leave
me home. I said, maybe I will, Betty, anyway, I
have a date with George.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
Now.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Well, I'm glad that's straightened on. Better go get dressed.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Now, having any luck yet, Jim, not much?

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Bud, Okay, okay, I'll unlocked the door.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
I might as well stay and listen to this. Margaret.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Okay, what do you want?

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Well, Bud, old man, your mother and I have been
talking over what you said, and we've come to the
conclusion that you're absolutely right about what about you having
arrived at that point in life when you were able
to go out on your own to make your own
decision to live your own life. Yeah, we not only

(12:46):
agree with you, but we're for it one hundred percent.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
No.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Wait, Jim Bud, you say you can get a room
in the feed store.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Well it's upstairs over it.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
I see. Well, now, just in case you don't get
a job right away, you might need a little rent
money for the first few months. So here's ten dollars.

Speaker 8 (13:10):
Now, do you want to buy some tappy boy?

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, you get out of here. Well let's see now,
But I guess that takes care of everything. Oh, yes,
you'll need a suitcase. I'll get that small one of mine.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Uh no, Dad, don't get the suitcase.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh change your mind. Huh heick.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
No, I've got a lot of stuff on need Mom's
big old trunk.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
We will return to the Andersons in a moment. Are
you in a hurry, mister? Are you in enough of
a hurry to risk your life? Statistics show that, by
far the largest percentage of all highway accidents are caused
by drivers who go over the speed limit. Speeding on
the highway gets you nowhere accepted a trouble. The faster
you drive, the less control you have over your car,

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the longer it takes you to stop, the greater strain
you put on your tires, and the more likely you
are to skid if the roads are bad. Weigh all
these facts against a few minutes you may save by
driving too fast and then slow down. Well, young Bud

(14:38):
Anderson has elaborate plans for his future. He's going to
rent a room over Angele's feed store for five dollars
a month. How are Jim and Margaret reacting to.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
This turn of events, Well, I think we can safely
say the reactions are mixed.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
Like this, Jim, he's dragging that old trunk in from
the garage.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
I thought you said if we're I need to let
him go, he'd stay home.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Now leave it to me. He won't get far with
that old trunk. He'll be lucky if it holds together
until he gets it upstairs.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Hey, Dad, I got the trunk.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Pull the door open.

Speaker 8 (15:13):
Know what's he dragging in?

Speaker 9 (15:16):
What do you hold that trunk up the stairs for?

Speaker 7 (15:19):
Out of the way?

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Hot ahead?

Speaker 5 (15:22):
But You shouldn't be pulling that trunk up here.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I tried pushing it, but it wouldn't work. Grab that
rope and stir it in, will your dad?

Speaker 2 (15:30):
For Pete's sake, what's the rope for?

Speaker 4 (15:33):
One end fell out of the trunk. I had to
tie it together.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
Where's that going, Kitten?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
I know this is going to be a shock to you,
but I want you to take it bravely. Bud is
moving out.

Speaker 10 (15:47):
Can I have his room, Kathy?

Speaker 5 (15:56):
Bud? Isn't it?

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yes? He is.

Speaker 9 (16:00):
That's Ralph. I'll get it.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Maybe it's something in the way, the phone ring, some
kind of cold that Ralph has rigged up?

Speaker 10 (16:10):
Where are you moving to, Bud?

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Never mind, Kathy, Buds just he has a fine room
up over Angle's feed store. Kitten. We'll all drop down
to see him now and then Christmas fourth of July.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
You know, you folks can come down at anytime you want.
It'll be okay with mister Engles.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, No, we don't want to clutter up your life.

Speaker 11 (16:31):
You'll be busy sweeping in all Mommy.

Speaker 9 (16:42):
If Bud can move someplace, why can I?

Speaker 6 (16:48):
No, Angel, Bud hasn't moved any place yet. He's just
talking about it.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh, he's doing more than talking. He's moving, aren't you Butt? Oh?

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Sure? Uh? Hang me that stuff on the bed there,
will you, Dad?

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, Catcher's mitt football, Bud.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
All you're putting in there is junk. You'll need handkerchiefs
and clean shirts.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Towels. Oh, he won't need towels, Margaret. There'll be plenty
of old feed sacks around the store.

Speaker 10 (17:16):
What are you gonna eat down there?

Speaker 4 (17:17):
But eat?

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (17:22):
I'll find something.

Speaker 10 (17:24):
You better buy some taffy thirty cents a box thirty cents.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
The bottom's really falling out of the taffy market.

Speaker 8 (17:35):
That was Ralph calling again. Now he's trying to scare me.
He says, if I go to the lecture with George,
then he'll go with Janie Leggett. And I'm supposed to
be simply terrified.

Speaker 9 (17:46):
Hey, this track would make a neat playhouse.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
Get out of my stuff.

Speaker 8 (17:50):
Men are so infantile, so positively infantile, Benny.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
If we're going out to dinner, I want you to
put on a dress.

Speaker 8 (17:59):
Is that why that packing the trunk to go out
to dinner?

Speaker 10 (18:04):
Bud's moving down to the feed store. What I wonder
if I should move or just take.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Bud's room, Betty, you heard me, Kathy, go in and
get cleaned up.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
We're going down to Emerson's grill.

Speaker 9 (18:19):
Emerson's grill.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
Oh boy, what's so great about that? All they got
down there is food.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
But you had better come with us.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
No, I gotta get down to the feed store. Do
a few things down there.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
That's right, Margaret, Bud's on his own now. He has
things to do. We don't want to interfere.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
I guess I got everything in the trunk.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
What do you mean there's only a few things in
the bottom.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
You really ought to fill it up, make it heavy,
put in some old books and a nice new broom
and angles might help you carry it up to the room.
You want to make a good impression on him.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Well, I got everything I need.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
I guess, Jim, come into our room a minute. What
is it, honey, I'll be gone, I guess just a minute.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
Bud come in here, Jim, Now, Margaret, dude, we can't.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
Let him start out like this. He's going to do it.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
No, he isn't. I wish you'd stop worrying. That's exactly
what's making him go on like this. I was a
boy once myself. I know so well what's going through
his mind. He wants us to plead with him to stay. Well,
let's do it, No, honey, you do it'll make him
all the more determined to go. Now. Please let me

(19:35):
handle this well.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
If you ask me, I think you should put your
foot down.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
A boy his age, just leave it to me, Margaret.

Speaker 9 (19:42):
I'm going, mother, what's going on?

Speaker 8 (19:45):
Is Bud gone completely? Daffy?

Speaker 5 (19:47):
I don't know. Ask your father, Yes, I'll be gone.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
All your horses, Bud.

Speaker 8 (19:53):
I can just hear my friends saying where's your brother?
And I have to say, oh, he's living in the
feed store.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Is not really moving Das I go, finish dressing, both
of you, I'll take care of Bud.

Speaker 9 (20:09):
See you later.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Bud.

Speaker 9 (20:12):
He's got as trunk at the top of the stairs.

Speaker 10 (20:14):
If it starts sliding down, he's gone.

Speaker 8 (20:18):
As if I didn't have enough problems with that, Ralph.

Speaker 9 (20:22):
Oh Tall, could I live with him at the feed store?
I could sleep in the trunk.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
For heaven's sake.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
But I want to see you before you go.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Okay, but hurry off.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm gone now. The rest of you finish dressing. We're
going to leave for dinner in ten minutes. Come on, Martin,
But you don't worry. I'm going to show you how
to handle a boy. I have this whole thing planned out,
So go along with me. Agree with everything I say?

Speaker 5 (21:00):
Well, I hope you know what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I do believe me. Well, all packed and ready to go,
are you, Bud?

Speaker 4 (21:09):
Yeah? I got everything.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Well that's fine. I'm sorry to see you leave, but
your mother and I have talked it over and we've
decided that it'll do you good to get out and
make your own way in the world.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Well, guy's got to live his own life.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yes, I suppose you're right.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Well, goodbye, Bud, look in on us if you ever
buy this way.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
Sure, how are you going to get your meals?

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Margaret? It might be a good idea, Bud, to take
a hot plate along in case you want to cook
your meals in the room. I don't suppose you have
a kitchen kitchen.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
You probably should take some can things along.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Yes, canned soup is good, and if you don't have electricity,
you can always eat it cold.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Cold soup.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Margaret.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Well, I'll have sandwiches and stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Oh, sure, there's nothing like a peanut butter sandwich for
breakfast and the can of water.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Can.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Well, you probably won't have glasses at first. You can
drink out of the empty soup cans. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Oh, by the.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Way, Margaret, remind me to wire mister Foster up at
the Virginia Lakes Resort. I reserved a cabin for five
this summer. I'll have to let him know there'll only
be four of us.

Speaker 6 (22:37):
Yeah, that's right, Oh, mister Foster, will it's going fishing with.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
You, Bud.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Oh gee, I might be able to get away for
a week.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Maybe. Oh no, you'll be sweeping out the feed store everybody.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
Maybe I could get Claude Messner to do it for me.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, no, we don't want to clutter up your life. Well, goodbye, son,
your mother and Betty and Kathy and I have to
be on our way to the Emerson Grill. Whoa, Dad,
We don't want to be late for that good pot roast,
brown gravy and mashed potatoes apple pie. Jim, geez, Dad,

(23:19):
And we don't want to hold you up. I know
you want to get down to your room. Open your
can of soup.

Speaker 7 (23:38):
Jim, please, we'll dead.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Come to think of it, telephone all answer it all
answer it.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
The poor boy.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
I'd had to be done that way, Margaret. He's ready
to stay home now. You couldn't have handled it any
other way.

Speaker 9 (23:56):
I'm ready. We're so bad. Gone to the feed store.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
No, I think your brother's changed his mind, kitten.

Speaker 7 (24:03):
Oh darn it.

Speaker 9 (24:05):
What did he have to do that for?

Speaker 10 (24:07):
It was just getting exciting.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
I don't know. Sometimes I think I don't know anything
about children.

Speaker 9 (24:14):
I'm ready.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
Where's Bud?

Speaker 10 (24:15):
Oh he's not leaving, after all, Daddy talked him out
of it.

Speaker 8 (24:20):
Well, thank goodness.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
Where is Bud? Is he still on the phone?

Speaker 9 (24:25):
He isn't down here, The phone is hung up.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Where'd he go? Jim? Come downstairs?

Speaker 7 (24:31):
Fine, Budd?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Well, Margaret, he probably went in the kitchen.

Speaker 8 (24:34):
That's one thing about Buddy. He's never lost. You can
always find him in the kitchen.

Speaker 9 (24:39):
He's not in the kitchen.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
Who left this note on the hall table? It's Bud's handwriting.
What's this, Jim, Bud's gone gone?

Speaker 10 (24:51):
Good old Bud.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
Look at this note. I'm leaving, never coming back. You
will ever see me again?

Speaker 9 (25:01):
Father, I thought you talked him out of that.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
Well, Jim, don't just stand there. We've got to find him.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
I can't believe you practically pushed him out of the house.

Speaker 9 (25:10):
I did not.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Betty, you and Kathy go out and look for it.
We'll search the house. Betty, you go south and Kathy
you go north.

Speaker 9 (25:18):
How far shall I go?

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Make a circle?

Speaker 9 (25:24):
How big a circle should I call? Ralph?

Speaker 5 (25:26):
Call ingle?

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Seat? Betty, you go outside, I'll do the phoning. Who's
in our car?

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Let's go.

Speaker 6 (25:35):
I'm hungry, but thank you.

Speaker 9 (25:41):
Wouldn't you know it sitting in the car waiting to
go and eat?

Speaker 2 (25:47):
What a relief, honey? What were you so excited about?
I told you he'd never leave home.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
The Andersons will be right back. Safe sensible driving means
more pleasure and convenience from your car and shows consideration
for your passengers and for others on the highway. Remember
that while you're behind the wheel of your car, you
are responsible for other people's lives. Remember what an accident
can mean and pain and injury, and then slow down.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Obey the traffic laws, and drive safely well.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
The five Anderson's are all accounted for the lure of
the independent life over Angeles. Feed store has faded for
Bud and the family is solidly united once again.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
And happily headed for Emerson's.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
Grilled like this, Bod, Why didn't you tell us you
were going out to the car?

Speaker 4 (27:06):
Where else would I go?

Speaker 8 (27:07):
That silly note on the hall table?

Speaker 9 (27:09):
What was the idea of leaving that?

Speaker 8 (27:12):
What a crazy thing? Never coming back, never see you again?

Speaker 10 (27:17):
Yeah, getting our hopes up, all for nothing?

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Hey, what about that note, Bud?

Speaker 8 (27:27):
Nobody in his right mind would write a thing like that.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
That wasn't my note?

Speaker 9 (27:32):
Then who was it?

Speaker 4 (27:33):
I answered the phone, and it was Ralph. He told
me to write that note for him and leave it
for you.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
That Ralph, what an utter child.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
I wonder where he'll go while he's never coming back.

Speaker 9 (27:49):
Hey, there's angle seet store.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Say that's an idea, Betty called Ralph. Tell him to
bring a broom.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, darring Robert Young as Jim Anderson. In
our cast were Rhoda Williams as Betty, Jean vander Piles,
had Donaldson, Norman Jean Nilson, Bill Forman, and Don Stanley speaking.
Father Knows Best, directed by Andrew Selove, was transcribed in
Hollywood and written by Paul West Roswell lodging. You'll enjoy

(28:47):
further adventures of Robert Young and Father Knows Best in
the July issue of Radio TV Mirror Magazine, now on
the stands. Be sure to read this delightful story about
Robert Young and his own family. Times mean Good Times
on NBC More Entertainment to wait you Friday when you
tune to this station for the Mario Lanza Show, Inside,

(29:08):
Bob and Ray, and The Roy Rogers Show.

Speaker 12 (29:11):
Yes, remember all three on NBC Tonight, It's Counterspy on NBC.
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