August 10, 2025 • 28 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Is Naxville House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World, Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. 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. Come, let us bid the morn awake,
(00:48):
sad winter now declines, and every bird of chooser mate
Today's Saint Valentine's Ah. Yes, the day of love and lovers,
Saint Valentine's Day. It was quite an abandoned spring fore
you this year, especially in a certain white frame house
on Maple Street. There, as usual, the day contained its
normal quota of confusion, and they are also as usual.
(01:10):
It all began with breakfast like this.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But are you sure your father didn't go back to bed.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Yes, ma'am, he was almost finished shaving.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Every time I plan anything special for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Tommy, he's fifteen Valentines alive.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, who got fifteen Valentines?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm going to How do you know?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Because I've got seventy five cents and I'm gonna buy.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Them, Darling, you don't buy Valentine's for yourself?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You don't, of course not.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm going to Kathy.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I'm gonna get more Valentines than any girl in my
whole class.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Of all the girls I ever see, the one I
love the best is me.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And Shakespeare rolled over and died. Never mind, Betty, I
ever see what grammar?
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Well, it's poetry. Didn't you ever hear of poetic license?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Good grief? Do you need a license for that? Now?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Good morning, Daddy, Morning God.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The gay young Anderson's bright eyed and cheerful.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Good morning Jim, Hello honey, getting ready to sally forth
into the world for another day of pop over?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
If they aren't burnt to a crisp pop over?
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Well, why we haven't had those for breakfast since? Wait
a minute, how come popovers on Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Is there any law that says we can no hope?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But is it somebody's birthday?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Father? Do you mean to say, all right, Betty, just
eat your breakfast?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But if he I said eat your breakfast, jumping creepers.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Our anniversaries in April. Your birthday's in October.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Jim, will you please eat your popovers before they get cold.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
I have eaten my last forkful until somebody tells me
what today is.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's February fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well that's more like it. May I have my coffee please?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Mother? He still doesn't know, of course he does, Dear,
he's just teasing you are.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Thank you, my love, popovers and coffee.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
What a wonderful way to start off so auspicious a
day as February fourteenth. Dad, The sun is shining, the
snow is listening. The icicles are icicling, Dad. The coffee
is bubbling, the popovers are popping.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Dad.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I seem to hear the strangest noises. Dad.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
All right, Bud, it's Saint Valentine's Day. Now, what do
you want?
Speaker 7 (03:27):
It's Saint Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
HV.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Calvinborne Jr.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Well, I just wanted to tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Bud forgot to say you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Never mind, Dear, but.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Day said thank you, and Bud didn't say.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Drink your milk, Kathleen.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Why do you have to say you're welcome when you're
nine and when you're fifty.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You heard your mother Kathy, drink your milk and stop arguing.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Gee whiz, everybody has somebody and all I have is milk.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
Father, Betty, with all the fuss you've been making around
here about the sweetheart ball tonight, how could anybody, and
he's right.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Mind, not know what the day was? You mean you knew,
of course I knew.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, if people know what a day is, they generally
do something about it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Betty, I wish you'd just to eat your break Wait
a minute, honey, what's this all about. It isn't anything, really, Jim.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Mister Davis is giving missus Davis an orchid for a Valentine.
That's all she told Mommy this morning. Well, when she
came over to borrow an egg, and mister Phillips is
giving one.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
To Missus Phillips.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
He's giving her an egg.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
He's giving her.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
An orchid, a big purple.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Orchid, and so's mister Smith.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's ridiculous. Why would mister Smith want to give an
orchid to missus Phillips.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Maybe he likes her.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You'd better have a better read than that, Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
You're getting the children all confused.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I am.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
I was sitting here very quietly watching the popovers popping over.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Mother got up an hour earlier this morning just to
make a special breakfast.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
For you.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
She didn't have to do that. I'd have been perfectly
happy with just.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Because it's Saint Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Is that right, honey?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Isn't anything, dear, I just thought you'd like popovers for
a change.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, thank you, Margaret, I'm very grateful.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Then why don't you buy her an orcid? Well, that's
what everybody means. Why don't they say.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It, Jim, I want you to know I had nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I know that, honey, But it's been.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So long since I've had an orchid. I wouldn't know
what to do with this.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Just a minute. It hasn't been that long you had
an orchid? Well, it wasn't very long.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Ago when Caffy was born.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Right, that's only nine years.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Besides, why the big celebration Saint Valentine's Day is for kids?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Excuse me where you're going?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I have to look for my fountain pan or don't
you think you ought to finish your breakfast first?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I couldn't eat another thing, mother, I'm fault.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I don't know what's gotten into that girl. She doesn't
need enough to keep a bird alive.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That isn't what Billy Smith says. Never mind, Kathy, he says,
she eats like a horse.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Kathy, I drank my milk. Well drink betties. Shee whiz Margaret.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
You know I love you, and if I knew how
to make popovers, i'd get up early and make them
for you.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But I can't find my pan.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But there's no reason why a couple have grown.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
A moment, dear. But then he can't find her pen.
Why don't you go in and help her look for it?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Why do I.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Always stop arguing and do as you're told? Holy call?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Anything that gets lost around here I have to find it.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Isn't a question of the orchid. It's the principle of
the thing.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
If I lose anything, nobody helps me find it, you'd
think I was a singing eye boy or something.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I'm in here.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
What's the big idea, Betty? I don't even know what
your pen? Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Stop making so much noise.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
You've got the pen right in your hand.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, stop shouting. We got to do something about the orchid.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
What an orchid?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The one mother isn't going to.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Get Look, Betty, if you don't want to make sense.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
When you heard bother, he isn't going to buy one.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
He practically said, so, Well, do you want your mother
to be the only woman in the neighborhood without an orchid?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
What's the difference?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
There's a lot of difference. And if father won't buy it,
we'll have to.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
You're crazy. They cost seven dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I know, but I don't have to have my hair
fixed for the sweetheart ball.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You said you did, well.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So I've got five dollars. How much have you got?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Oh, now, wait a minute, Betty, I've been saving up
for months. How much but I have to buy Valentine
presents for five girls?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
How much?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Well, a dollar is seventy five?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
That still isn't enough.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
It's all I've got.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
And if you think I'm gonna go out and borrow
seventy five cents like I did last time.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Seventy five cents?
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Cady, what are you kids doing out there?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
We have to talk to Cathy.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'll be right here.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You gotta make it snappy. You'll all be late for school.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It'll only take a minute.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Bother, what if she I mean, what if she won't
give it to us?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
She'll give it to us or else.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I don't know where your pen is, Betty, never mind
the pan.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Where's your money?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm not going to tell you because if I tell Kathy,
we've got to have seventy five cents, I don't care.
It's my money and I'm gonna buy Valentine's and you
don't have any raw, Kathy, this is an emergency.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It is, It certainly is.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
What's an emergency?
Speaker 7 (09:13):
An emergency means that you have to give us seventy
five cents.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well I won't, Kathy. I'm giving five dollars and Bud's
giving a dollar seventy five.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Hold it. Dad's coming, but you didn't tell me. Tell
you outside?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Come on, Bud, Okay, Hi Dad.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Look, I don't know what your kids are cooking up.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
We aren't cooking anything up. Father. They say I have
to buy Father.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
We have to hurry off, but we'll be late.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I want to drive her code, Bud.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We'll put it on outside.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Okay, Beddy, why don't you We'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Father. Come on, Kathy, stop pulling me.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Why do you always have to call me blong?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Dad?
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Buy?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I don't know. They get worse every.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Day, Dim and Davis is here Oh, I'll be right
in the bigger they get, the more trouble they are.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Hi, Jim, Hello, Ed, what's up? Oh? Ethel wanted me
to bring back the egg she borrowed from Margaret.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Isn't that silly?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
What's the big rush?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Well, now she wants a cup of sugar, Jim, while you.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And Ed said the affairs of the world.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I'll take the sugar over to Margaret. I'll take it over.
What's your coat on? Honey?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Will it take me a minute?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Margaret won't do any good, Ed, she's gone women. Has
Margaret heard about the orchid?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Yes, I was given a full treatment this morning. Never
heard anything so cock eyed in my life. One dizzy
character orders an orchid for his wife and the whole.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Neighborhood has to go for broker. What do you mean, ah?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Lucille Halthaway was talking to Joe the florist, and this
guy calls up.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And orders an orchid, a seven point fifty orchid? What guy?
Who knows?
Speaker 8 (10:48):
But Joe told Lucille, and she told Elizabeth Smith, and
that's all it took.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Every husband on the street is getting hooked for an orchid.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Not everybody everybody. Well, gosh ed boy, but.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
I like to meet the character who started this. You
got yours yet? I better go call the florist right now.
I was just talking to Sam Woodie and he says, Joe,
and he has two or three orchids left.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I'm going down and get one of them. Now, you
want to come along?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
No, I think I'll just call him.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Well, I wouldn't take any chances. You'd better come up
with an arket.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Or you're a dead duck. Okay, I'll take care of
it right away. And thanks for the tip, glad to help. Jim.
You know how it is. Husbands have to stick together.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Or get stuck together. Why does everybody have to buy
an orchid? Husbands a bunch of sheep, that's what they are.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Leave it to them to find a way to get everything.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh, Joe, so this is Jim Anderson? Fine? Thanks? I yes,
I know. Look, Joe, if I know Ed Davis just
told me.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
But look, Joe, if anybody wants to know who bought
the first orchid, for crying out loud, don't tell him
it was me.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
As matters stand now, father is the only one in
the house who knows about that orchid.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And so often that's true.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
The head of a house is the only one to
go to for the right answer. For example, ladies, when
it comes to coffee, the world's greatest expert is that
man of yours. Yes, your husband is the number one
coffee authority. Of course, we have a reputation as experts too.
After all, more families buy our Maxwell House coffee than
(12:35):
any other brand. But when you pour the coffee, why,
your husband is the only expert who matters. And if
you want to be rewarded with his warmest smile, just
serve him.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Our Maxwell House tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
We're sure he'll beam and say best coffee I ever tasted. Yes,
that's our promise. He'll say that, or we'll give you
your money back. You see, only Maxwell House has that wonderful,
good to the last drop flavor, a flavor that can
come only from our Maxwell House recipe. It's a very
special recipe, demanding certain fine coffees blended just so. No
(13:11):
wonder then, no other coffee tastes like Maxwell House. It's
because no other coffee is made like Maxwell House. Tomorrow,
serve your husband our Maxwell House coffee. If he doesn't
say best coffee ever, we'll gladly rEFInd every penny you paid.
Just send us the can an unused portion. Our address
is right on every familiar blue tin. Fair enough, then tomorrow,
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serve your expert, your husband the coffee with the world's
most famous flavor, Maxwell House coffee, always good to the
last drop. Now it's five o'clock, an hour of mystery
(13:56):
and excitement.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
How do I know?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well? I know many things.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Of men who walk by night with danger by their side,
of men who walk by eventide with orchids clutched beneath
their arms.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yes, Jim, there's a smile on your face and a
song in your heart as you stride across the kitchen floor.
But how long will this happiness last? You open the
refrigerator door, and the smile fades, the song disappears. What
is it you see, Jim? Crisp and cool between a
head of lettuce and an old, tired meat load. That's right, Jim,
(14:34):
it's another orchid.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Now how did that get there? Hmm? I told you
I was going to pick it up. Why would he?
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Margaret try to surprise anybody around here?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Honey, Margaret, is that you fadder? No, it's the iceman.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Mother isn't home yet.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Was that for me? Or the iceman?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
The old daddy?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, at least that worked out, all right. Where's your mother?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
She hasn't gotten back from downtown yet, Daddy. We've got
a surprise for you.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Guess what you burned down the school, daddy?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Father, I don't know how to tell you this.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Just a minute. Do you know anything about that orchid
in the ice box?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Well, that's what I was trying to tell you. We
bought it.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You bought an orchid?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
What for for mother? Oh? Betty?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well you said you wouldn't and we didn't want her
to be the only mother in Springfield without an orchid.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Betty, I never said I wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Why, Father, when we were having breakfast this morning, I
never said I wouldn't buy an orchid.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
You must know I was the first. Oh, never mind,
I ordered an orchid for your mother over a week ago.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You did, Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Oh, jumping creepers. Then I didn't even have my hair
were done, and I only got nine Valentinees.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well that makes sense, not to me, but it makes sense.
I suppose.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
We gave but all our money and he bought the
orchid for mother.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Fine, Now she can have one for each shoulder.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Father, why didn't you tell us.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Because I didn't think it was any of your business?
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I want my seventy five cents.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I have to stop that yowling, or I'll give you
something the yowl about.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yes, Daddy, this isn't just.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
A question of the money involved.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
The two of you and Bud probably sacrificed a great
deal to buy that orchid for your mother, and it
was absolutely unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I have to go to the dance looking like an
old witch.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Stop worrying about your hair. It looks fine.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
We only bought the orchid because we.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Love Mommy, That's what I mean. Why should you presume
that you love her more than I do?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
We don't, Father, just.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's what you said. Father doesn't love mother enough to
buy her an orchid, so we'll have to.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We never thought of it like that.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Do you think i'd have let your mother down when
everybody else was getting an orchid?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Then why didn't you.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Trust me because we're stupid?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Because you didn't think that's all father?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes, Betty, does my hair really look all right?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That's fine.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
I make a big speech about faith and confidence. You
want to know if your hair is all right?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Daddy? What is it?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Kathy?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I trust you?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Do you trust me.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
As far as I can throw the piano? I don't know, right.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Because if you do. Paddy took my seventy five cents,
and I'd like to make a deal.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
About my allowance.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Answered the door, and when you come back, we'll sit
down and talk about something else.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Okay, how what answer the door?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I said, I'd like to make a deal, and he said, Father,
will it help any if I say I'm sorry?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
How much of this orchid money was yours?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Five dollars?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Well, I guess you've suffered enough. Suppose we just forget
the whole thing. Hello, kathy's your father home?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Daddy, it's mister day.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Oh, come on in, ed Jim harm in an awful jam. Oh,
it's the latter. You don't know what I've been through.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I've turned this town upside down and I can't find
an orchid.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I thought you were getting one from Joe. He sold out.
Everybody sold out. I'm afraid to go home.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Father.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
Yes, Beppy, I had the same idea. Kathy, you want me, Daddy,
be a good girl and bring me those two boxes
in the refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, father, isn't it one?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Isn't what? Wonderful?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Sit down, ed, take it easy, relaxed, Relax, He says.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
My wife will probably leave for Reno in the morning.
And he says, relax. Couldn't find any orchids anywhere? Arcids?
One arcid. That's all I wanted.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
You don't say, Jim, Will you please take that silly
looking grin off your face.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
You don't seem to understand. I'm in trouble. I can't
go home, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'm cunning, daddy ed.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Whether you know it or not, we are living in
an age of miracles. The skyscraper, the airplane, the horseless carriage,
ym now, miracle of miracles.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
There you are, ed.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
What orchids you mean re live? Orchids?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Just ran them up out of a couple of old lampshades.
Take your pick, Jim, I don't know what to say. Well,
suppose you start with here you are, girls, here's your
seven dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
I'll give them ten further seven to fifty.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You'll be fine, ed.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Girls, Yes, father, I'll settle for my seventy five cents.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Back Jim, I really don't know what to say. You
know you saved my life, don't you. Well? You know
how it is.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
We always like to keep a couple of spare orchids
floating around the house.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Isn't that homey? Touch Here? You are girls.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Seven dollars and fifty cents, and I'll never be able to.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Thank you enough. Margaret, it's me Dad. I'm gonna get
out of here before you change your mind. Anytime. I
can do anything for you, Jim, just let me know
see you later. Ed are your budd, mister David? Oh
what a day? What a day?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
What's he so excited about?
Speaker 10 (20:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He was just Bud. What's in the box?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
The box? Oh it's an orchid?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
What good? Didn't you tell me to buy an orchid?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I want my seventy five cents back.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Wait? Didn't you put an orchid in the ice box
before I.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Just got home? Remember, Betty?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
You told me I.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Thought that was the orchid we bought. Was the one
we just sold? Mister Davis, I.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Didn't put any orchids in the ice box. I bought
this one from Joe this morning. There's something very fishy going.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
On around here.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
We bought two orchids, we sold one and we've still
got two left.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Maybe the floorst made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I guess the best thing to do is call Joe
and find out if he knows anything about it.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Would I get my seventy five cents back?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Stop worrying about your seventy five cents?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
But I need it, Kathy, leave father alone. He's having
enough trouble.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Hey, do we get our money back?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Wait until we find out?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Boy?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Would that be something?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Hello, Joe?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Ask him if we get the money back?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Just a minute, Joe bud, Yes, Dad, go away?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
But aren't you going to ask him?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I said, go away?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
How would it be if I just shut up?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
All right? Hello Joe, I'll shut up. Jim Anderson?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Did you send an arcand out to my house? I
know I ordered one, but I picked it up myself
less than half an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I see, what do you say? Father? Who? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I imagine you must be who?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
What do you say? Father?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Who?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Beddy?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Just a minute, Joe Beddy in just one more minute.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I'm sorry, father, Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
This is like trying to out talk a riveting machine.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Joe, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
But if you.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Don't know, I was talking to my kids, Joe, Bill Pohler.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
He didn't get one. Huh, okay, I'll send butt over
with it right away, not at all, Joe, see you later. Well,
that takes care of that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
What do you say, father?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Joe thinks they made a mistake while he was out
to lunch. Who did they did?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But take your arcand across the street to the Poulters.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
What for for.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Mister Poulter to give to missus Poulter?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
What do I want to do that for?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Because that's what Joe said to do, and.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Then I get my money back.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Yes, hot dog, I'll be back in two minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
See if you can't take a little longer like an hour?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Okay, Betty, the next time you start anything like this,
so help me.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll divorcer Kathy.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
That's exactly what I'll do. I'll divorce her.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Divorce who mommy?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Hello mother?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Hello, Honney. We didn't hear you come in.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I came in the back way. Hello, dear held On.
Who's going to get a divorce?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Betty? And I?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Oh, well, you've certainly got a nice day for it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
How did we do?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Daddy showing this a fry, Kathy, what are we waiting for?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Betty? She's absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Just because I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
The littlest one in the family, everybody thinks that I am.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Jim, would you mind telling me what this is all about?
I've got to get dinner start.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
I'll do better than tell you, Honey, I'll show you
what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
There you are, Jim.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Did you take that orchard out of the icebox?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Oh? You saw it?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Huh, of course I saw it. Kathy put it back
where it was like a good girl.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yes, mommy.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Well, aren't you going to say something?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
It'll be absolutely ruined before Betty even has a chance
to wear it.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Nay, Betty got to do with it.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I thought you knew. That's the OrCAD Billy Smith brought
for Betty to wear to the Sweetheart Ball.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Oh no, tomorrow or Saturday.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You'll be buying the coffee you'll serve all next week,
and for your family's pleasure. You'll want the coffee that
gives them most in flavor for your money. So take
home the one coffee with the world's most famous flavor, Our.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Maxwell House Coffee.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
That's Maxwell House Coffee, always good to the last drop.
Once again, it's breakfast time in Springfield, and once again
we find the Anderson's engaged in their favorite occupation.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yep, they're eating again like this.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh it was wonderful, mother, Just the most wonderful dance
you've ever seen. May I please have the sugar? Nine Valentines?
Isn't Dad?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Isn't Daddy?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I think it's very good.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And I've still got my seventy five cents.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's even better, Margaret. Do you suppose Hetty Green looked
anything like Kathy when she was a child. I wouldn't know, Dear,
before your time?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
One or two days more coffee? Why?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Sure? There you are? Thank you boy.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
It was mister Poulterer ivery excited about the arcid he
gave me a whole dollar for a tip.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Bod you didn't take money from mister Poulter.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I didn't. I could have sworn I did.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
That turned out to be a pretty fine Valentine Day,
after all, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
It was wonderful, dear, and I certainly think you showed
great originality.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I did.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I'll bet that's the biggest box of candy anyone ever got. Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
May I have the cream? Please?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Here? You are?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Father? Thank you? What do you serve on hot cereal
at breakfast time? Do you hear this?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I don't want any old cereal when.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You'd rather hear this?
Speaker 10 (27:09):
Good mars Well to get your children to eat a
hot cereal in the morning, get them post tweetmeal. Just
tell them post sweetmeal is hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal,
and they eat it too. Post tweetmeal is chuck full
of solid whole wheat nourishment, has a wonderful nut like flavor,
and it cooks in three and a half minutes. You'll see,
you'll all agree it's the best hot cereal you ever eat.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Join us again next week, when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson with
Roy Barkie in the.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Maxwell House Orchestra.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
In our cast, where Norman geen Nielson is Kathy June
Whitley wrote of Williams, Ted Donaldson, Barney Phillips, and yours truly,
Bill Forman. So until next Thursday, good night and good
luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand
of coffee.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Always good till the last drop.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
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.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
For authentic police drumma here Dragnet on NBC
Mother, Is Naxville House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World, Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. 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. Come, let us bid the morn awake,
(00:48):
sad winter now declines, and every bird of chooser mate
Today's Saint Valentine's Ah. Yes, the day of love and lovers,
Saint Valentine's Day. It was quite an abandoned spring fore
you this year, especially in a certain white frame house
on Maple Street. There, as usual, the day contained its
normal quota of confusion, and they are also as usual.
(01:10):
It all began with breakfast like this.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But are you sure your father didn't go back to bed.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Yes, ma'am, he was almost finished shaving.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Every time I plan anything special for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Tommy, he's fifteen Valentines alive.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, who got fifteen Valentines?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm going to How do you know?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Because I've got seventy five cents and I'm gonna buy.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Them, Darling, you don't buy Valentine's for yourself?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You don't, of course not.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm going to Kathy.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I'm gonna get more Valentines than any girl in my
whole class.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Of all the girls I ever see, the one I
love the best is me.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And Shakespeare rolled over and died. Never mind, Betty, I
ever see what grammar?
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Well, it's poetry. Didn't you ever hear of poetic license?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Good grief? Do you need a license for that? Now?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Good morning, Daddy, Morning God.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
The gay young Anderson's bright eyed and cheerful.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Good morning Jim, Hello honey, getting ready to sally forth
into the world for another day of pop over?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
If they aren't burnt to a crisp pop over?
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Well, why we haven't had those for breakfast since? Wait
a minute, how come popovers on Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Is there any law that says we can no hope?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But is it somebody's birthday?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Father? Do you mean to say, all right, Betty, just
eat your breakfast?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But if he I said eat your breakfast, jumping creepers.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Our anniversaries in April. Your birthday's in October.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Jim, will you please eat your popovers before they get cold.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
I have eaten my last forkful until somebody tells me
what today is.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's February fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well that's more like it. May I have my coffee please?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Mother? He still doesn't know, of course he does, Dear,
he's just teasing you are.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Thank you, my love, popovers and coffee.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
What a wonderful way to start off so auspicious a
day as February fourteenth. Dad, The sun is shining, the
snow is listening. The icicles are icicling, Dad. The coffee
is bubbling, the popovers are popping.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Dad.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I seem to hear the strangest noises. Dad.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
All right, Bud, it's Saint Valentine's Day. Now, what do
you want?
Speaker 7 (03:27):
It's Saint Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
HV.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Calvinborne Jr.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Well, I just wanted to tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Bud forgot to say you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Never mind, Dear, but.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Day said thank you, and Bud didn't say.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Drink your milk, Kathleen.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Why do you have to say you're welcome when you're
nine and when you're fifty.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You heard your mother Kathy, drink your milk and stop arguing.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Gee whiz, everybody has somebody and all I have is milk.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
Father, Betty, with all the fuss you've been making around
here about the sweetheart ball tonight, how could anybody, and
he's right.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Mind, not know what the day was? You mean you knew,
of course I knew.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, if people know what a day is, they generally
do something about it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Betty, I wish you'd just to eat your break Wait
a minute, honey, what's this all about. It isn't anything, really, Jim.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Mister Davis is giving missus Davis an orchid for a Valentine.
That's all she told Mommy this morning. Well, when she
came over to borrow an egg, and mister Phillips is
giving one.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
To Missus Phillips.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
He's giving her an egg.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
He's giving her.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
An orchid, a big purple.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Orchid, and so's mister Smith.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's ridiculous. Why would mister Smith want to give an
orchid to missus Phillips.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Maybe he likes her.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You'd better have a better read than that, Jim.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
You're getting the children all confused.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I am.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
I was sitting here very quietly watching the popovers popping over.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Mother got up an hour earlier this morning just to
make a special breakfast.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
For you.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
She didn't have to do that. I'd have been perfectly
happy with just.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Because it's Saint Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Is that right, honey?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Isn't anything, dear, I just thought you'd like popovers for
a change.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, thank you, Margaret, I'm very grateful.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Then why don't you buy her an orcid? Well, that's
what everybody means. Why don't they say.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
It, Jim, I want you to know I had nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I know that, honey, But it's been.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So long since I've had an orchid. I wouldn't know
what to do with this.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Just a minute. It hasn't been that long you had
an orchid? Well, it wasn't very long.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Ago when Caffy was born.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Right, that's only nine years.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Besides, why the big celebration Saint Valentine's Day is for kids?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Excuse me where you're going?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I have to look for my fountain pan or don't
you think you ought to finish your breakfast first?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I couldn't eat another thing, mother, I'm fault.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I don't know what's gotten into that girl. She doesn't
need enough to keep a bird alive.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That isn't what Billy Smith says. Never mind, Kathy, he says,
she eats like a horse.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Kathy, I drank my milk. Well drink betties. Shee whiz Margaret.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
You know I love you, and if I knew how
to make popovers, i'd get up early and make them
for you.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But I can't find my pan.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
But there's no reason why a couple have grown.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
A moment, dear. But then he can't find her pen.
Why don't you go in and help her look for it?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Why do I.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Always stop arguing and do as you're told? Holy call?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Anything that gets lost around here I have to find it.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Isn't a question of the orchid. It's the principle of
the thing.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
If I lose anything, nobody helps me find it, you'd
think I was a singing eye boy or something.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I'm in here.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
What's the big idea, Betty? I don't even know what
your pen? Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Stop making so much noise.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
You've got the pen right in your hand.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, stop shouting. We got to do something about the orchid.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
What an orchid?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
The one mother isn't going to.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Get Look, Betty, if you don't want to make sense.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
When you heard bother, he isn't going to buy one.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
He practically said, so, Well, do you want your mother
to be the only woman in the neighborhood without an orchid?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
What's the difference?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
There's a lot of difference. And if father won't buy it,
we'll have to.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
You're crazy. They cost seven dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I know, but I don't have to have my hair
fixed for the sweetheart ball.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You said you did, well.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
So I've got five dollars. How much have you got?
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Oh, now, wait a minute, Betty, I've been saving up
for months. How much but I have to buy Valentine
presents for five girls?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
How much?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Well, a dollar is seventy five?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
That still isn't enough.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
It's all I've got.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
And if you think I'm gonna go out and borrow
seventy five cents like I did last time.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Seventy five cents?
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Cady, what are you kids doing out there?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
We have to talk to Cathy.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I'll be right here.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You gotta make it snappy. You'll all be late for school.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It'll only take a minute.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Bother, what if she I mean, what if she won't
give it to us?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
She'll give it to us or else.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I don't know where your pen is, Betty, never mind
the pan.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Where's your money?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm not going to tell you because if I tell Kathy,
we've got to have seventy five cents, I don't care.
It's my money and I'm gonna buy Valentine's and you
don't have any raw, Kathy, this is an emergency.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It is, It certainly is.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
What's an emergency?
Speaker 7 (09:13):
An emergency means that you have to give us seventy
five cents.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well I won't, Kathy. I'm giving five dollars and Bud's
giving a dollar seventy five.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Hold it. Dad's coming, but you didn't tell me. Tell
you outside?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Come on, Bud, Okay, Hi Dad.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Look, I don't know what your kids are cooking up.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
We aren't cooking anything up. Father. They say I have
to buy Father.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
We have to hurry off, but we'll be late.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I want to drive her code, Bud.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
We'll put it on outside.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Okay, Beddy, why don't you We'll see you later.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Father. Come on, Kathy, stop pulling me.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Why do you always have to call me blong?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Dad?
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Buy?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I don't know. They get worse every.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Day, Dim and Davis is here Oh, I'll be right
in the bigger they get, the more trouble they are.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Hi, Jim, Hello, Ed, what's up? Oh? Ethel wanted me
to bring back the egg she borrowed from Margaret.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Isn't that silly?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
What's the big rush?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Well, now she wants a cup of sugar, Jim, while you.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And Ed said the affairs of the world.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I'll take the sugar over to Margaret. I'll take it over.
What's your coat on? Honey?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Will it take me a minute?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
Margaret won't do any good, Ed, she's gone women. Has
Margaret heard about the orchid?
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Yes, I was given a full treatment this morning. Never
heard anything so cock eyed in my life. One dizzy
character orders an orchid for his wife and the whole.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Neighborhood has to go for broker. What do you mean, ah?
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Lucille Halthaway was talking to Joe the florist, and this
guy calls up.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And orders an orchid, a seven point fifty orchid? What guy?
Who knows?
Speaker 8 (10:48):
But Joe told Lucille, and she told Elizabeth Smith, and
that's all it took.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Every husband on the street is getting hooked for an orchid.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Not everybody everybody. Well, gosh ed boy, but.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
I like to meet the character who started this. You
got yours yet? I better go call the florist right now.
I was just talking to Sam Woodie and he says, Joe,
and he has two or three orchids left.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I'm going down and get one of them. Now, you
want to come along?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
No, I think I'll just call him.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Well, I wouldn't take any chances. You'd better come up
with an arket.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Or you're a dead duck. Okay, I'll take care of
it right away. And thanks for the tip, glad to help. Jim.
You know how it is. Husbands have to stick together.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Or get stuck together. Why does everybody have to buy
an orchid? Husbands a bunch of sheep, that's what they are.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Leave it to them to find a way to get everything.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh, Joe, so this is Jim Anderson? Fine? Thanks? I yes,
I know. Look, Joe, if I know Ed Davis just
told me.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
But look, Joe, if anybody wants to know who bought
the first orchid, for crying out loud, don't tell him
it was me.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
As matters stand now, father is the only one in
the house who knows about that orchid.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And so often that's true.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
The head of a house is the only one to
go to for the right answer. For example, ladies, when
it comes to coffee, the world's greatest expert is that
man of yours. Yes, your husband is the number one
coffee authority. Of course, we have a reputation as experts too.
After all, more families buy our Maxwell House coffee than
(12:35):
any other brand. But when you pour the coffee, why,
your husband is the only expert who matters. And if
you want to be rewarded with his warmest smile, just
serve him.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Our Maxwell House tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
We're sure he'll beam and say best coffee I ever tasted. Yes,
that's our promise. He'll say that, or we'll give you
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(13:56):
and excitement.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
How do I know?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well? I know many things.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Of men who walk by night with danger by their side,
of men who walk by eventide with orchids clutched beneath
their arms.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Yes, Jim, there's a smile on your face and a
song in your heart as you stride across the kitchen floor.
But how long will this happiness last? You open the
refrigerator door, and the smile fades, the song disappears. What
is it you see, Jim? Crisp and cool between a
head of lettuce and an old, tired meat load. That's right, Jim,
(14:34):
it's another orchid.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Now how did that get there? Hmm? I told you
I was going to pick it up. Why would he?
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Margaret try to surprise anybody around here?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Honey, Margaret, is that you fadder? No, it's the iceman.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Mother isn't home yet.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Was that for me? Or the iceman?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
The old daddy?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Well, at least that worked out, all right. Where's your mother?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
She hasn't gotten back from downtown yet, Daddy. We've got
a surprise for you.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Guess what you burned down the school, daddy?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Father, I don't know how to tell you this.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Just a minute. Do you know anything about that orchid
in the ice box?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Well, that's what I was trying to tell you. We
bought it.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You bought an orchid?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
What for for mother? Oh? Betty?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well you said you wouldn't and we didn't want her
to be the only mother in Springfield without an orchid.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Betty, I never said I wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Why, Father, when we were having breakfast this morning, I
never said I wouldn't buy an orchid.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
You must know I was the first. Oh, never mind,
I ordered an orchid for your mother over a week ago.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You did, Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Oh, jumping creepers. Then I didn't even have my hair
were done, and I only got nine Valentinees.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well that makes sense, not to me, but it makes sense.
I suppose.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
We gave but all our money and he bought the
orchid for mother.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Fine, Now she can have one for each shoulder.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Father, why didn't you tell us.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Because I didn't think it was any of your business?
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I want my seventy five cents.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I have to stop that yowling, or I'll give you
something the yowl about.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yes, Daddy, this isn't just.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
A question of the money involved.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
The two of you and Bud probably sacrificed a great
deal to buy that orchid for your mother, and it
was absolutely unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I have to go to the dance looking like an
old witch.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Stop worrying about your hair. It looks fine.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
We only bought the orchid because we.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Love Mommy, That's what I mean. Why should you presume
that you love her more than I do?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
We don't, Father, just.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's what you said. Father doesn't love mother enough to
buy her an orchid, so we'll have to.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We never thought of it like that.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Do you think i'd have let your mother down when
everybody else was getting an orchid?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Then why didn't you.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Trust me because we're stupid?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Because you didn't think that's all father?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yes, Betty, does my hair really look all right?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
That's fine.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
I make a big speech about faith and confidence. You
want to know if your hair is all right?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Daddy? What is it?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Kathy?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I trust you?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Do you trust me.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
As far as I can throw the piano? I don't know, right.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Because if you do. Paddy took my seventy five cents,
and I'd like to make a deal.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
About my allowance.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Answered the door, and when you come back, we'll sit
down and talk about something else.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Okay, how what answer the door?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I said, I'd like to make a deal, and he said, Father,
will it help any if I say I'm sorry?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
How much of this orchid money was yours?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Five dollars?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Well, I guess you've suffered enough. Suppose we just forget
the whole thing. Hello, kathy's your father home?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Daddy, it's mister day.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Oh, come on in, ed Jim harm in an awful jam. Oh,
it's the latter. You don't know what I've been through.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I've turned this town upside down and I can't find
an orchid.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I thought you were getting one from Joe. He sold out.
Everybody sold out. I'm afraid to go home.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Father.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
Yes, Beppy, I had the same idea. Kathy, you want me, Daddy,
be a good girl and bring me those two boxes
in the refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, father, isn't it one?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Isn't what? Wonderful?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Sit down, ed, take it easy, relaxed, Relax, He says.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
My wife will probably leave for Reno in the morning.
And he says, relax. Couldn't find any orchids anywhere? Arcids?
One arcid. That's all I wanted.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
You don't say, Jim, Will you please take that silly
looking grin off your face.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
You don't seem to understand. I'm in trouble. I can't
go home, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'm cunning, daddy ed.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Whether you know it or not, we are living in
an age of miracles. The skyscraper, the airplane, the horseless carriage,
ym now, miracle of miracles.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
There you are, ed.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
What orchids you mean re live? Orchids?
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Just ran them up out of a couple of old lampshades.
Take your pick, Jim, I don't know what to say. Well,
suppose you start with here you are, girls, here's your
seven dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
I'll give them ten further seven to fifty.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You'll be fine, ed.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Girls, Yes, father, I'll settle for my seventy five cents.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Back Jim, I really don't know what to say. You
know you saved my life, don't you. Well? You know
how it is.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
We always like to keep a couple of spare orchids
floating around the house.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Isn't that homey? Touch Here? You are girls.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Seven dollars and fifty cents, and I'll never be able to.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Thank you enough. Margaret, it's me Dad. I'm gonna get
out of here before you change your mind. Anytime. I
can do anything for you, Jim, just let me know
see you later. Ed are your budd, mister David? Oh
what a day? What a day?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
What's he so excited about?
Speaker 10 (20:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He was just Bud. What's in the box?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
The box? Oh it's an orchid?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:44):
What good? Didn't you tell me to buy an orchid?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I want my seventy five cents back.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Wait? Didn't you put an orchid in the ice box
before I.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Just got home? Remember, Betty?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
You told me I.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Thought that was the orchid we bought. Was the one
we just sold? Mister Davis, I.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Didn't put any orchids in the ice box. I bought
this one from Joe this morning. There's something very fishy going.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
On around here.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
We bought two orchids, we sold one and we've still
got two left.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Maybe the floorst made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I guess the best thing to do is call Joe
and find out if he knows anything about it.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Would I get my seventy five cents back?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Stop worrying about your seventy five cents?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
But I need it, Kathy, leave father alone. He's having
enough trouble.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Hey, do we get our money back?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Wait until we find out?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Boy?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Would that be something?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Hello, Joe?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Dad?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Ask him if we get the money back?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Just a minute, Joe bud, Yes, Dad, go away?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
But aren't you going to ask him?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I said, go away?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
How would it be if I just shut up?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
All right? Hello Joe, I'll shut up. Jim Anderson?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Did you send an arcand out to my house? I
know I ordered one, but I picked it up myself
less than half an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I see, what do you say? Father? Who? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I imagine you must be who?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
What do you say? Father?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Who?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Beddy?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Just a minute, Joe Beddy in just one more minute.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I'm sorry, father, Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
This is like trying to out talk a riveting machine.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Joe, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
But if you.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Don't know, I was talking to my kids, Joe, Bill Pohler.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
He didn't get one. Huh, okay, I'll send butt over
with it right away, not at all, Joe, see you later. Well,
that takes care of that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
What do you say, father?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Joe thinks they made a mistake while he was out
to lunch. Who did they did?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But take your arcand across the street to the Poulters.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
What for for.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Mister Poulter to give to missus Poulter?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
What do I want to do that for?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Because that's what Joe said to do, and.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Then I get my money back.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Yes, hot dog, I'll be back in two minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
See if you can't take a little longer like an hour?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Okay, Betty, the next time you start anything like this,
so help me.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll divorcer Kathy.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
That's exactly what I'll do. I'll divorce her.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Divorce who mommy?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Hello mother?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Hello, Honney. We didn't hear you come in.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I came in the back way. Hello, dear held On.
Who's going to get a divorce?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Betty? And I?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Oh, well, you've certainly got a nice day for it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
How did we do?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Daddy showing this a fry, Kathy, what are we waiting for?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Betty? She's absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Just because I'm.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
The littlest one in the family, everybody thinks that I am.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Jim, would you mind telling me what this is all about?
I've got to get dinner start.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
I'll do better than tell you, Honey, I'll show you
what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
There you are, Jim.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Did you take that orchard out of the icebox?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Oh? You saw it?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Huh, of course I saw it. Kathy put it back
where it was like a good girl.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yes, mommy.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Well, aren't you going to say something?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
It'll be absolutely ruined before Betty even has a chance
to wear it.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Nay, Betty got to do with it.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I thought you knew. That's the OrCAD Billy Smith brought
for Betty to wear to the Sweetheart Ball.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Oh no, tomorrow or Saturday.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You'll be buying the coffee you'll serve all next week,
and for your family's pleasure. You'll want the coffee that
gives them most in flavor for your money. So take
home the one coffee with the world's most famous flavor, Our.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Maxwell House Coffee.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
That's Maxwell House Coffee, always good to the last drop.
Once again, it's breakfast time in Springfield, and once again
we find the Anderson's engaged in their favorite occupation.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yep, they're eating again like this.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh it was wonderful, mother, Just the most wonderful dance
you've ever seen. May I please have the sugar? Nine Valentines?
Isn't Dad?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Isn't Daddy?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I think it's very good.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And I've still got my seventy five cents.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's even better, Margaret. Do you suppose Hetty Green looked
anything like Kathy when she was a child. I wouldn't know, Dear,
before your time?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
One or two days more coffee? Why?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Sure? There you are? Thank you boy.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
It was mister Poulterer ivery excited about the arcid he
gave me a whole dollar for a tip.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Bod you didn't take money from mister Poulter.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
I didn't. I could have sworn I did.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
That turned out to be a pretty fine Valentine Day,
after all, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
It was wonderful, dear, and I certainly think you showed
great originality.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I did.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I'll bet that's the biggest box of candy anyone ever got. Uh?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
May I have the cream? Please?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Here? You are?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Father? Thank you? What do you serve on hot cereal
at breakfast time? Do you hear this?
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I don't want any old cereal when.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
You'd rather hear this?
Speaker 10 (27:09):
Good mars Well to get your children to eat a
hot cereal in the morning, get them post tweetmeal. Just
tell them post sweetmeal is hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal,
and they eat it too. Post tweetmeal is chuck full
of solid whole wheat nourishment, has a wonderful nut like flavor,
and it cooks in three and a half minutes. You'll see,
you'll all agree it's the best hot cereal you ever eat.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Join us again next week, when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson with
Roy Barkie in the.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Maxwell House Orchestra.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
In our cast, where Norman geen Nielson is Kathy June
Whitley wrote of Williams, Ted Donaldson, Barney Phillips, and yours truly,
Bill Forman. So until next Thursday, good night and good
luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand
of coffee.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Always good till the last drop.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
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.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
For authentic police drumma here Dragnet on NBC
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