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September 28, 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, Why did Daddy switch to post them? Your father says,
there's no caffeine in post them. Nothing does fall your sleep,
and your father knows best.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yes, if Foller knows best. Transcribe in Hollywood, starring Robert
Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors,
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(00:46):
was James A. Garfield who said, if wrinkles must be
written upon our brows, let them not be written upon
the heart. The spirit should not grow old. What does
this have to do with the James Anderson family of Springfield, Well,
really nothing, because here.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Is a family wherein the spirit.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Burns warm and brighten. But sometimes a man's mind plays
little tricks on him, and on such occasions he needs
a little nudging to return to a belief in his
own basic opinions. For example, the other evening, when the
white frame house on Maple Street was bustling with the
activities of Bud and Betty as they made preparations to
attend the wedding Jim received a phone call which was

(01:24):
to send him on a mental roller coaster ride like this. Wow,
that sounds great, George. We'd liked it very much. Well,
that's fine with us, and we'll see you around eight.
Then fine, goodbye, Margaret. Better get out your tennis shoes
and your Jim bloomers.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'd better do.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
What take a light workout and a quick rubdown, pack,
plenty of liniment and a few splints.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
What in the world are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
You and I are going to play a little badminton tonight, badminton?

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh, dear you out of your mind, not at all.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
That was George Phillips on the phone. And they've invited
us over for a few games this evening. Oh no,
post to be over there around eight.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
You're curious about this, are you?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well, certainly, why shouldn't I be?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Well, after all, we're not exactly teenagers.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
So what have you got? Some rubber soled shoes of
some kind you can wear?

Speaker 1 (02:12):
For heaven's sake, Jim, we can't do this.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Why not they invited us?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, it's a very flattering invitation, but it came a
few years too late.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Now where did you get an idea like that you
talk us though over a couple of doddering old octagenarians.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, you look as young as the day.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
I married you, Thank you, dear, But I really you know.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
As well as I do that old saying that you're
only as old as you feel. I don't feel any
older than I ever did.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
As a matter of fact, I think I feel better
than I have in.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
My whole life, Dear, even if I felt up to this.
I don't know how to play badminton.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Neither do the Phillips. We're just going to get some
fun out of it, a little much needed exercise. Well,
and this is a good night to get out. Didn't
you say the kids were all going to be gone
this evening?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yes, Betty and beat are going to Evelyn Brickert's wedding,
and Kathy's going to spend the evening with Patty Davis.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
All right, then what are we waiting for?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well? I feel we both should have our heads examined
for this.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
But all right, good?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Uh, where do you think those old tennis shoes of mine? Are?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Probably in your closet where they've always been.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, that's a good place to start looking.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Are you coming up in a minute. I've got to
put away a few things in the kitchen first.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Okay, better hurry.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Gee, you sound sharp tonight, Father.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Thank you, Princess. I feel great.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
I wish I felt that good. I'm completely but completely
worn out getting ready for this wedding.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, you can feel good if you want to. It's
all a matter of your mental attitude.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Well, I must have an awful tired attitude.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Then, Oh, out, what's that?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh that's Bud. He's in the bathroom shaving.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Shaving, Bud. He doesn't shave yet.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
He just started tonight.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
I didn't think this historic moment would arrive for a
few years yet.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well, it hasn't really all he's God is a little
bit of fuzz. But he says, if a boy is
old enough to wear a tuxedough, he's old enough to shave.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh doesn't sound like he's exactly enjoying.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
I've been trying to get him out of there so
I can take a shower.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
How long has he been at this operation?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
For hours?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
We're both going to be late if he doesn't hurry, Bud,
hurry up, Bud, get away.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I'm shaving.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
I need to get in there and shave myself.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Bud, are you about finished in there, that you dad? Yeah,
you're holding up the works. Boy, I'll be out in
a second.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
The length of time it's taken him, you'd think he
had a beard.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Okay, next, Well, what was going on in there?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
All those low moans?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Own? Nothing? Just combing my hair? You must have been
using a fairly sharp comb. What's all the adezy plaster
on your face? Oh? Nothing?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Why don't you tell him you were shaving?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
All right? Gabby? Who asked you anything?

Speaker 3 (05:05):
You better get in in shower while you have a chance. Betty.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
All right, but go on and tell him what you
were doing.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Bud, go on, I get lost, Bud. You don't need
to be so secretive about shaving. That's something all of
us men have to put up with us men.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Sure. As a matter of.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Fact, if you told me what you were doing, I
could have given you a few pointers. How can you
stand to go through that every day? Dad? Well, there's
one way of avoiding it. Don't cut yourself. You mean
you can shave without cutting yourself.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
It's possible.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Mommy, she's downstairs kitting.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
She'll be right up.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
But you better start getting into that tuxedo. You rented
the tie alone will take a good hour and a quarter. Yeah,
I better.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Where did you say?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Mommy? Was daddy downstairs?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
You'll be up anything I can help you with.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I don't know. What do you think I ought to
take over to Paddies to play with?

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh? Better take some doll Sure?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
What do you think I am a child?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Well? I was under that impression. I'm pretty sure you're
not a dog or a kangaroo or jaddy.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Dolls are for little girls.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I see, what are you an old lady?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh, daddy, don't be corny.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, so now I'm getting that from you too.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Dear, I forgot to mention you got a letter today
and mommy, what should I take over to Patties tonight? Well,
you'd better take some pajamas and a toothbrush I mean
to play with. Oh, well, why don't you take your
sewing set? Yeah, I forget about that. I'll get that out.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think our little girl is starting to grow up.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
She's given up.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Dolls and she's discovered that I'm corny. Oh those are
two sure signs right there.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
I'm afraid they're all growing up. I was just thinking
today about this wedding they're going to. That's the third
one of Betty's friends. It's gotten married lately. Next thing
we know, it'll be Betty.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, I guess we are going to have to face
that sooner or later.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Bud's the only one who doesn't seem to grow any older.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
You think not.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
You should have seen what he was doing about fifteen
minutes ago, shaving shaving.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Oh no, he's.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Got the scars to prove it.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh dear, the years are certainly slipping by fast.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, fella doesn't realize.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh, here's that letter I was telling you about.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
What letter is this?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
We came today? I've got to give it to you.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, what do you know?

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Look here it's from old Eddie Gilbert.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
I thought you'd be surprised.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I haven't even thought about Eddie in years.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Wonder what he's up to these days.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, i'd better see if Betty's got some rubber soled shoes.
I can wear it and taking a shower.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Old Eddie Gilbert, I don't think i've seen him since
we graduated from high school.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
What a guy. I remember. He had more energy than.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
O.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Don't say, Betty, do you have any rubber soil shoes
of any kind? Rubber sold shoes?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Mother?

Speaker 1 (08:08):
I hardly think that'd be the thing for the bridesmaid
to wear. I don't mean you, I want to borrow them.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Well, and he works for the gas company.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
What do you want rubber sold shoes for? I know
your father and I are going to play badminton tonight. What,
Oh you're kidding? Ask your father?

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well, what'd you say? I was reading here?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Father?

Speaker 1 (08:28):
You're not really going to play badminton?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well?

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Certainly, why shouldn't we Well, it just seems that you're
too old.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, I guess it's all right.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
It seems that we're too what nothing.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Gee, I've got to get dressed or I'll never make
the wedding. We better get ready to dear if we're
supposed to be over there by eight?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Uh, Margaret, are you sure you feel up to this?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't know. I feel right now.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
I don't want to urge you into this. Know he
was taking chances?

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Well, I doubt if they'll be up to much of
a game either. What does Eddie have to say?

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (09:03):
I haven't finished his lettery yet, says he might have
to make a trip over here to Springfield in a
day or so.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Says he'll drop in if.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
He does it'll be nice.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, it sure be good to see old Eddie again,
Old fireball Eddie.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Do you think this skirt and a sweater would be
the thing to wear?

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah? And he says he's been having a little trouble
with rheumatism lately. I can't imagine anything like that catching
up with an active guy like Eddie.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Of course, he's not as young as he used to be.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Well, do you mean he's no older than I am?
In fact, he's a year younger.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Ah, well even so, oh, no, listen to this.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
He's a grandfather, is he's got three grandchildren?

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Well, they just can't be.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, let's see, didn't you say once that he had
one daughter a year or two older than Betty, and
then another one just a little younger.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
He says.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
The kids call him Grams.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
This.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
I just can't believe, mother, Grams Margaret, he's a year
young more than I am.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yes, that's what you said, mother. Will you hit me up? Certainly?

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Gras mother?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Do you think there's anything to that catching the bride's bouquet?
I mean about being the next one to get married. No,
it's an old tradition. I don't suppose it always works. Outram, Well,
everyone's gonna sort of throw the bouquet in my direction.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Oh, who's gonna referee?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Well, look at our handsome young man here.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, how do I look? Mom?

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Well you look fine, Bud, real nice? Better fix that tie?
You look like a windmill.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yeah, I couldn't get a tide ride.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Somebody will have to do that for me.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
And don't hunch up your shoulders like that. Just because
you've got a tuckxedo on. You don't have to go
out of your way to look uncomfortable.

Speaker 6 (10:51):
Well, it does make you feel kind of stiff, like, well, relax.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
I want my children to have an uncle Lake and
be proud of I'm gonna have two boys and a girl.
Marcia says she's gonna have three girls. But I think
two boys and a girl would be nicer, don't you, mother? Well,
only cah I would be there, uncle, wouldn't I?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Uncle? Bud?

Speaker 1 (11:15):
I wish you had a more dignified name.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
Hey, Kathy will be their end, and Kathy, imagine having
that trim for a man?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Father, why do you.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Want them to call you?

Speaker 3 (11:32):
But what's that I want who to call? What?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Your grandchildren?

Speaker 3 (11:36):
My grandchildren?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Do you want them to call you grandfather or grandpa,
or I think you too had better get going or
you'll be late. Oh creepers, Yes, look what time is
getting to be? Come on? But okay, oh Betty, you
were going to find some rubber soil shoes for me.
Look around my father, mother, you'd find some. Jim, you'll
never get ready, just sitting there on the bed staring

(11:59):
at it. Better, don't you have to shave h Margaret?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Maybe you'd better call a Phillips and tell them something
came up and we can't make it.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Can't make it.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I feel a little tired.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
I think.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Have we got any vitamin pills around the house. I
guess plenty of us feel a little like Jim does,
kinda all before our time. Well, here's a man with
a few cheering words for us, Ed Prentice.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Say, if you feel kind of logi and dull, sort
of droopy, fresh out of energy, well, usually there's nothing
wrong with you that a good night's sleep won't cure.
Trouble is, how do you get a good night's sleep?
Is that your problem? Well, friend, could be the caffeine
in your coffee. That caffeine could be keeping you up

(13:01):
nights and then letting you down days. If you're a
victim of mister coffiners, here's your answer in one word,
post them, that's right, post them, instant post him. You
just switch to instant post him and see what a
difference post Tom makes in your sleep, in your nerves.

(13:22):
That's because post them is caffeine free, contains not one
iota of caffeine. Course, caffeine doesn't bother everybody lots can
handle it. But if you can't, you can switch to
post them.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
And love it.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Yes, sir, good old instant post him. Get a jar
tomorrow and drink post them for just ten days now,
I mean, drink post them exclusively, and.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Then you'll be the judge. Bet you'll be.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
A postum fan for the rest of your life.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well, there have been a few changes in the Anderson
household since last night. Jim Anderson, the sprightly young father,
seems to have a slightly different outlook on life this
Saturday morning, if he comes carefully downstairs, makes his way
through the house, and slowly seats himself at the breakfast.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Table like this.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well, good morning, dear Mary Margaret.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Where are the children?

Speaker 1 (14:30):
They slept later than usual this morning, but I've called them.
They'll be down a minute.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Dear.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Baba, dark blue suit.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Oh well, I think it's time I started wearing more
conservative clothes. After all, when a man reaches my age,
he can't dress like a schoolboy.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
I don't recall it you ever dressed like a schoolboys?

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Tweed suits and things. They're all right for younger men.
The man gets on in years, he has to dress accordingly.
Time takes its it's oh, Margaret, the fire is burning low.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Now how did this fire get so low all of
a sudden? Yesterday you were burning like a blast furnace.
What happened to jumping Jim the Badminton boy?

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Now that was yesterday, Honey, I'm considerably older this morning.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
M Well, it's been a long time since yesterday.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Look, honey, let's face the facts. We're getting on in years.
We're not kids anymore. The old body wears out.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
You know who's old body are you talking about.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
We can't go on pretending we're youngsters. We're middle aged.
We're past middle age. Oh oh, for goodness, look at
the way that children are growing up. Any day now,
betty'll be getting married, flying away. But he'll be married
before we know. Itton he'll fly away. Next it'll be Kathy,
she'll be flying away.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
And who's left just.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
You and me and our old flying school.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
It's something we have to think about seriously.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Our time is running out, dear.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Just yesterday, you're insisting that it's all in our mental attitude,
that we have to keep young in spirit.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, I say a lot of things.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
You know what's wrong with you, don't you?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Time?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's all the minutes, the hours, the days getting older
all the time.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
You can't stop it.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
It's that letter from your friend Eddie Gilbert. That's what
started the whole thing. The minute you read that he
was a grandfather.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
He's a year.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Younger than I am.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well, what of it?

Speaker 2 (16:24):
He's an old man with rheumatism, his children both married
and gone, grandchildren that call him gramps.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Eddie Gilbert. He's younger than I am.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
You said that, Dear, I had kind.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Of a twinge in my hip when I got out
of bed this morning.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
You suppose it's rheumatism, Oh, dem.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Kind of a sharp sticking pain. I know, I know,
you know.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
I forgot to take the laundry tag out of your pajamas.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Well, it felt like rheumatism.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Why would you like for breakfast, dear, Bacon and eggs.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
No, I think I'll just have some dry toast and prunes.
E I did you at the table? No, I'm running
a hot dog concession of Pony Island?

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Am I at a table?

Speaker 1 (17:21):
I just asked treat your father gently this morning, Bud.
He's not long for this world.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
You going someplace dead? No, Bud, I'm just sitting here
waiting for my breakfast. I'm gonna get the morning paper.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Come on, dear, smile.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
What's funny? You know, Margaret, it's the kids growing up
that makes us feel old.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
I've come to that conclusion.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
But you're just as young as you feel.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
You said that yourself, Well that was me.

Speaker 6 (17:49):
Take a look at this dad story here in the
paper about a guy shaving got tired of fighting with
his whiskers every day, so he put weed killer on
his face. I guess it didn't work too good. They
got them all bandaged up.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
I can imagine.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
I don't think I have to shave for a while yet. Dad. Oh,
I was pretty sure.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
I could see some whiskers on my face last night,
but I.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Can't find him this morning. Here's your post them m
that smell pretty good. Hi Daddy, Good morning, kitten. What
do you have on your head?

Speaker 1 (18:23):
This is my Captain video space helmet. I'm gonna wear
it when I go to the moon.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Oh when are you planning to leave?

Speaker 1 (18:33):
I don't know exactly, but they say we're going to
the moon, anything now, and I gotta be ready.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Hey, let me see that.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Don't take it off. I'll lose my oxygen pressure.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Let me try it, kitten.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
You'll get it stuck in his big old head.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
I will not. Don't be such a little stingy face.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
It's my space helmet.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I'm not gonna hurt it.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
You will, too, quit poly, Just let me see it,
will well, dear. Now those are the grown up children
you were talking about.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Daddy.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
He's breaking my arm.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm not even touching her. All right, you too, break
it up and come to the table.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Okay, tell Bud to stop it.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Bud, stop it. I'm starved.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Let's see, Bud, we don't read at the table. Put
the comics away, okay, Okay, I don't.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Know, honey. Maybe I will have just one egg.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
And a little bacon, all right, dear, And that's to me, probably, Joe.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I'll get it i'll get it.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Now, don't knock the table over. I'll get it.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
It's probably well, I've got it. I've got it.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Quit pulling, I've got it. I've got it.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Well, why don't you do something, dear?

Speaker 2 (19:41):
I think I'll take off his coat and best Margaret? Uh,
make it two eggs instead of one.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Oh, yes, he's here. It's for you, father me.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Who is it?

Speaker 1 (19:56):
He didn't say it's a man?

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yes, Eddie Eddie Gilbert. Sure I remember you got your
letter yesterday. How are you feeling good? Good? Sure, we're
going to be home. We'll be glad to see you. Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Can I come down to pick you up? All right?
Six or seven Maple Street.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's right, fine, Eddie, goodbye?

Speaker 3 (20:26):
I was old Eddie Gilbert. He's on his way out.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Who's Eddie Gilbert?

Speaker 2 (20:30):
He's an old friend of mine, Princess. We went to
school together. I haven't seen him in years. He's a grandfather.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Now, well, gee, daddy, if you went to school together,
how come he's so much older than you are?

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Oh he's not older.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
God.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
In fact, he's a year younger than your father.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
But you must remember I'm not young anymore? Are you kidding?
My father.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
There are boys at college. You look older than you do, Betdie, Well,
isn't it true?

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Mother?

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Isn't father just as young as he's always been. That's
what I keep telling him, But he won't believe it.
That's what I keep telling him too well.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Now, kids, the last.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Time father and I were over at screw together, the
girls were simply swooning. Wanted to know where I caught
that gorgeous man.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Oh, Betty, stop it.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
I mean it, father, so do Why they thought you
were my new boyfriend? That's what they thought.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
What are you talking about, shrimp?

Speaker 6 (21:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Can we all get back to the table now? Breakfast design?

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, come on, kids, get a well, it's hot. First
come first, sir. Let's get with it.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Move over, knocked ahead quick.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Portion for the wedding was divine last night. Father, who
caught the bride's bouquet? Oh that Janey Liggett. She jumped
right up in front of me. I had it right
in my hands.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
You should have seen it. It looked like a basketball game,
everybody jumping for the ball.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
The guy could have got killed in there.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
I had it right in my hands.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
That Janie Leggot. What a Sinnish. He'd make.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Wonderful breakfast. Honey, thank you, dear.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
I don't know what I put on this darn blue
suit for.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Oh if your friend's coming, father, I've got to get dressed.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Let me looked out. You're stepping all over me.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well move your big seat. Where's my yellow blouse?

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Mother?

Speaker 1 (22:17):
In your drawer?

Speaker 6 (22:18):
Well, I better put another shirt on, haunted, where's in
your drawer?

Speaker 1 (22:22):
You better go change your dress. Angel, Okay, I'll put
on my blue one. It's in the drawer.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
The kids, I tell you, Margaret, they keep a person young.
I really feel sorry for old Eddie Gilbert. Why, dear, Well,
his children have grown and gone away. He and his
wife left alone. That's probably why he's turned into an
old man before his time. Nothing left to live for.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well, maybe he's like you, dear, old one day and
young the next.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
No, when the children are grown, that's the end of
the line. I could tell by the tone of Eddie's letter. Rheumatism.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know, old rock and chairs got him.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh there he is, dear.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
We'll let me get my coat in Vesta.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
I got a dread meeting old Eddie face to face.
He was such a youthful, bubbling sort of fellow when
he was young.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Oh, hurry, Dale, let's not keep him waiting, ye, come on, honey.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
And try not to notice his age, you know now, I'll.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Try, dear. Well, look through the window. Is that his
car out in front?

Speaker 3 (23:22):
That English sports job? No? Not Eddie.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well Anderson. I'm Gilbert, not Eddie Gilbert. Sure don't you
remember me, Jim? Yes, but where's the I mean, you
haven't changed me, either of you. You look just like
you did in school.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
I'm Margaret Anderson, mister Gilbert.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
How do you do? Delighted to me? Margaret? This is Eddie?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yes, dear, we've met.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well, come on in, give me a coat, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Thanks Jim, and you look great, well so do you?
I thought.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
I mean, well it's been so long.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Now I'll go up and help the children.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
How many do you have now, Jim? Three?

Speaker 3 (24:10):
They He'll be down in a minute. Come on in
the living room.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, you know, I just can't get over it. Can't
get over what Jim you from your letter? I expected well.

Speaker 7 (24:22):
You'd be sort of older. Why because I'm a grandfather. Well, yes,
I don't feel.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Like a grandfather. I don't feel any older than I
did when we were in school. It's all in your
attitude of mind, Jim. A man is just as young
as he feels.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
Well.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
I've always believed that I had a touch of rheumatism,
but I got that wh'm Gladys and I were out
ice skating, fell through the ice, you know. But it's
gone now. Never felt better. But Eddie, what do you
do now that the children have grown up and gone?

Speaker 1 (24:56):
What do we do?

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Man? We're living.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
We told the kids, Look, we love you.

Speaker 7 (25:00):
Both will always be around if you need us, but
we're not going to be babieshitter for our grandchildren. Gladys
and I are doing all the things we couldn't do before.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
We're free.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Man, we're having more fun than we ever had in
our lives.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
I guess I never thought of it that way, you know, Jim.

Speaker 7 (25:15):
I'll confess I hesitated about coming out to see it.
It's been a long time, and well, I was afraid
maybe you'd well change.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
I never felt younger, Eddie. You look great, Jim. But
like I always say, it's all in your attitude of mine.
We never go old while the heart is young.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
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so good for you.

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(26:22):
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(26:43):
are so good and so good for you.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
For a while, it looked as though Father Time had
Jim Anderson by the coattails, but the old man with
the hour glass apparently just couldn't stand the gaff. At
the White Frame House on Maple Street, witness the scene
taking place in the front hall, Margaret, Are you ready?
Where are you going? Dad? Oh?

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Your mother and I are going over to the Phillips
for a while.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
What's in the suitcase?

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Oh, just a few things we're taking along.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
You have a gleam in your eye. Father. What are
you up to now?

Speaker 2 (27:21):
The thing? Your mother and I are simply going out
for a little relaxation.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, I'm ready, Dear.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
What's in the suitcase. That's our equipment. We're going over
to the Phillips to play in badminton. After that, we're
going bowling and we're going horseback riding after that.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Good night, children, come on, girl, let's go.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Boys. Joining us again next week, so we'll be back
with Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
Until then, good night and good luck from the makers
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This is Robert Young. Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 3 (28:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Bob and Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written
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