August 1, 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 (00:00):
Martha Doesnaxwell House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best. 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. It was
(00:48):
Oscar Wilde who said children begin by loving their parents.
As they grow older, they judge them, sometimes.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
They forgive them.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They're in a very small nutshell is It's the very
foundation of what has become probably the least important of
all American celebrations.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Now, you may think that Father's Day is merely a
time for the presentation of neckties that father won't wear,
socks that father can't use, or books that father hasn't
time to read. But in Springfield, in the white frame
house on Maple Street, the Andersons have an entirely different
conception of.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
The day, Like this jumpin Creepers. Why does it have
to be on Sunday, Betty, I.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Think that's a very selfish attitude, After all your father
has done for you.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
But I'm gonna buy him a necktie.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Why can't we just polish the car or something.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I don't mind spending Father's Day with Daddy.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
You keep out of this, Betty, Well, she doesn't have
anything else to do.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Anyway, I do too. I can do lots of things. Mother,
I have a date with Dick Andrews, and I'll have
to break it.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Why can't we just polish the car or something.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I can go over to Pattis and play, or I
can look at Jimmy Woody's television.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Kathy, We're going to devote the entire day to your father.
I know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The baby said I didn't have any place else to go,
and I do because I can go over to Paddy's
and play, or I can.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Mother.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Everybody else buys their father a necktire socks.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Why do we have to be different?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Because your father is one of the sweetest men in
the entire world, and I certainly.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Think, well, sure, but why do I have to break
a date just for that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
No matter what we buy for your father, we'll have
to buy with his money. I'll pay for it out
of my allowance, which you get from your father.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Mother, you just don't understand.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Why can't we just polish the car or something.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But the car is less than a week old and
your father has already polished it four times.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Well, this time we can do it.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Jamie Nigget's buying her father a neck tie and she
doesn't have to break her day for Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Betty, we'll not discuss it any further. Call Dick and
tell him you're sorry.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Do I have to? Yes, you have to, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Why can't we clean up the garage or something?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Betty, go in and call Dick.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Oh pooh.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Just because it's Father's Day, I have to ruin my
whole life.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Cleaning the garage should be a good Father's Day present.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Bud. Yes, Mom, you can forget about your silly butterflies
for one Sunday.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
But I promised Joe phill Up.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I thought you'd broken your date with Joe.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
I did. But if we clean the garage the first
thing in.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The morning, we're going to spend the day with your father.
We're going to wait on him hand and foot, cater
to his every wish. Sunday's going to be his day,
and that's final. So let's not talk about it anymore.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Na, you can't even talk for.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
That, Bud.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Anderson. You'll dry the dishes.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
But I didn't say anything. Mom. All I said was
you can't even talk.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It was the way you said it.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
But Mom, I didn't mean anything.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
All I said Jenny's coming.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right. Suppose we explained the whole thing to your father.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I'll dry the dishes.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And remember, not a word about Sunday. We wanted to
be a surprise, don't we.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Yeah, some surprised, but oh sure, mom, we sure do.
Speaker 9 (04:31):
Chicken.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Mother, If Jick Andrews never calls me again, it'll be
your fault.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
He borrowed a car for Sunday and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Let's not worry about it, Betty, you'll get another girl.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Mother, How can you say that?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
How can you say what?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Jeddy?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Hi? Dad? Well, how's the world's finest family?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Tonight?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Hi? Father?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Hi? Hello, honey, Hi dear. What's the matter with Camille?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Nothing much. Really, you're a little late, aren't you, Dear.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
What's in the package? Daddy?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Ice cream? Put it in the ice box like a
good girl.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh boy, want me to put your hat away there?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Thank you very much, it'll be a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Oh we had a slight misunderstanding. Nothing serious. Were you
held up at the office.
Speaker 10 (05:22):
No, I stopped off at Hanny's garage on my way home. Oh,
there's a very annoying rattle in the rear bumper. I'm
not even sure we ought to keep that.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Car jumping, casf Fish.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That old wreckervours made so much noise you couldn't hear yourself. Think,
but if this one makes one little squeeze, Betty.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
As long as we had to buy a new car,
we might as well have them put it in good shape.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Why don't you set the table like a good girl, Betty?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
How else can you set the table?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And you help her? Kathy?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yes, Mommy, you know Margaret speaking of Sunday?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
He said anything about Sunday.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Didn't I know? Huh? Well, I met Hector Smith downtown today.
He's fine. You know, he has a client over in play.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I haven't seen Elizabeth in ages. I'll have to call
her after dinner.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yes, heck has a client over in plane.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Maybe I get to wait until tomorrow. But have such
a lot to.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
Talk about, Margaret, Will you please let me tell you
about Hector?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Why?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Of course? Do you go right ahead?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
All right? Try to tell a woman anything. It's just like,
what was I talking about.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Plainfielder?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, you see I was listening, Yes, even if you weren't, Margaret.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
Hector was coming back from Plainfield the other day and
he decided to take a short cut.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Well you know how Hector is. He got lost.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh that's too bad? Is he all right now?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Nothing happened to him. He just got lost.
Speaker 10 (07:01):
I found himself on an old dirt road way back
in the hills. My Margaret, you don't have to keep
making those little noises. I know you're listening.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Go ahead, dear.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well he found a lake, just a little bit of
a thing.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
He says, it's the greatest spot for fish he's ever
seen in his life. They were actually leaping out of
the water fast, lake, trout everything, and every one of
them dying to get on a hook.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Margaret, doesn't that mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh yes, dear, I'm quite excited.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Anyway, We're going to run up their Sunday morning and
see what we can.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Do Sunday morning, Jim, you can't.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Why not?
Speaker 10 (07:38):
It's only about twenty miles. Heck's going to pick me
up at.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Five, and all I'll need is a few sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Jim Madison, I've never seen it to fail. Every time
we try to surprise you with anything, you have to
make other arrangements.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
My birthdays in February.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sunday is Father's Day.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Oh that thing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Betty and Bud broke their dates just so they could
spend the day with you.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
They didn't have to do that, but they did.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We had the nicest day arranged for you. We were
all going out for dinner. They were going to a
picture show when I know you'd.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Want to see, Honey, Doesn't it make any difference that
I'd rather go fishing. I don't care about Father's Day?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, we do. We want to show you how much
we love you, and we want you to have a
good time.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I know what you mean, Angel, But if I'd rather go.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Fishing, Jim, you're being very selfish about this whole thing.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Because I want to go fishing. What's selfish about going fishing?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
When a whole family decides to give up its pleasure
for an entire Sunday, the very least you can.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Do is give up mine? Is that what you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
No? I have another idea. How would it be if
we went with you?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Margaret?
Speaker 10 (08:57):
You wouldn't like it up there, believe me. Not the
place for women and children. It's a wild little lake
in the middle of nothing. Oh, come on in. Heck,
we're in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Elizabeth and Billy wanted to go. I'll that Hector would take.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Them, but he wouldn't. Nobody would. When you go fishing,
you fish. No place for a family.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'm busting them on anything, of course, not Hector.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
Come in him, Margaret. Gosh, I haven't seen you in
a dog's age.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Heck will you explain to Margaret that families don't go
on fishing trips?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Why don't they?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What there you see the heck?
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Come on outside. I want to show you the new car.
He showed it to me this afternoon. Well I want
to show.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
It to you again.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
What for?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Come on, heck, oh you want to I'll see.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
You later, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Don't you dare let him change your mind?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Hector, I'll be right out here if you want me. Honey,
all right, What the heck's the matter with you? Heck?
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Why you know what happens if you take a bunch
of women and kids on a fishing trip.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You catch nothing?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
I know, but look, Jim.
Speaker 10 (10:02):
Any self respecting fish wouldn't come within ten miles of us,
especially if you've got a peak of Kathy.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Jim, I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
You're absolutely right, But then why did you make a
crack like that in front of Margaret Well.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
To tell you the truth?
Speaker 12 (10:15):
Jim.
Speaker 11 (10:16):
If I can't take Elizabeth and Billy, I can't go.
Oh no, yeah, they had something all arranged for Sunday.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
It's Father's Day. Billy broke a date. They're doing it
all for me.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Heck is that lake as good as you said it was? Oh,
it's terrific, Jim. I've never seen fish like that. I'm
telling you. In five minutes, I saw twenty of them
jump out of the water.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Gee, I hate to give it up. Oh, let's go
with Elizabeth and Billy and Margaret and Jim.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
It won't make any difference. These fish are so big.
Speaker 11 (10:56):
Nothing will scare him, not even Cathy, not even Kathy.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Well, okay, we'll try it.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
We better take both cars.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
We'll have to leave around five. Okay, Yeah, well, I
gotta go home now. Tell Margaret I said goodbye with you.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
You bet? Oh?
Speaker 10 (11:15):
Heck, yeah, happy Father's Day.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Yeah, Well, I suppose it's not the first time a
man and his family didn't quite see eye to eye
on the best way to spend a happy Father's Day.
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Here's a point, however, everybody agrees on when it comes
to a cup of coffee. You and I and the
family next door all look for one thing flavor.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
We want the most in flavor for every penny we spend.
Speaker 13 (11:56):
An extra flavor is just what you do get in
our Maxwell House coffee, that wonderful, good to the last
drop flavor. No other coffee has to offer, no coffee
but Maxwell House. And there's a good reason why it's
our recipe, the only recipe on this green earth, for
that good to the last drop flavor. It calls for
(12:16):
certain fine varieties of coffee to be blended together just
so it's the one way, the one recipe for that
famous Maxwell House flavor, that wonderfully good flavor that's made
our coffee America's favorite brand. That's why you find so
much more enjoyment when your cup is filled with Maxwellhouse coffee.
(12:37):
So next time you bring home a pound of coffee,
make it that familiar blue tin of our Maxwell House
for more flavor for your money's worth. And more, start
enjoying coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
The sun comes up like a stab of light. Rose
fingers reach into the night. The darkness fades, the night
is gone, and day comes fast with a rising dawn.
A woodcock calls a soft wind, size and from its
nest to starling flies. This is the dawn, the break
of day, the time when come.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
Man, Will you please shut up?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Well, pardon me.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
The most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life,
getting up in the middle of the night to chase
after a bunch of stupid fish. But Elizabeth, we had
a nice day planned for you, one we'd all have enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But no, you have to.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Drag us up here so we can freeze to death.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Are you called Elizabeth?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Of course not.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
My teeth always chatter like this.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
Billy, get the blanket out of the car for your mother,
I said, get the blanket out of the car.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
No thanks, I'm.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Quite comfortable, Billy.
Speaker 14 (14:11):
Leave the boy alone, hector the poor child if he
had a father.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
With the slightest bit of consideration.
Speaker 11 (14:18):
Elizabeth, I didn't say you had to come along.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
This was your idea.
Speaker 14 (14:23):
Naturally, you haven't had an idea since the day I
met you.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
Now, Lucky Elizabeth, and I think of the man I
could have married and didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Lucky dog Hector.
Speaker 11 (14:36):
Sorry, Elizabeth, I was thinking of I think the Anderson's
are coming.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Well, it's about time. You'd think they'd have hurried a little.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Well, the Rhodes kind of rough, Elizabeth, and Jim has
a new car.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
I'd have to stop making excuses for them.
Speaker 14 (14:52):
They're just like everyone else we know, don't consider a
soul but themselves, especially that Margaret thinks hurt.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
You'll one of the most.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Wonderful things that ever lived.
Speaker 15 (15:02):
And if you ask me, Margaret Dollar, we're awfully sorry.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
I heck, we thought you were lost.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I'm awfully sorry. We're so late, Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Oh, Angel, we hadn't even noticed it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
We had to stop on account of Kathy. Her hat
blew out of the car, and we had an awful
time finding it.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Hi, Billy, Billy, wake up, Dear Eddie is here?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
She Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Hi Billy, Hi, Hey, this is quite a spot. Heck, yes, sir,
it's all right.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Jim, I saw a bass, so help me.
Speaker 11 (15:44):
It was that long, you're kiddy, Oh, I'm not, Jim, Well,
maybe that long.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Hey, there there there. Do you see that one? Jim?
Why I tell you, huh where right right there near
the dot?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I don't see anything, Jim.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
You aren't looking in the right place.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Well, what's the difference? The place I want to see
him is on the end of my line. Got all
your stuff?
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Heck, you ain't just a woofan the greatest assortment of
fish persuaders in the world, and it's all on the
dock waiting.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
For Papa Hector.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Where are you going fishing?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Why?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You'll do no such thing.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
There's a little thing like breakfast that comes first.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Breakfast, all honey, we haven't any time for breakfast, Elizabeth.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It's practically six thirty, Jim.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Elizabeth's right.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
My lands have got all that food to take out
of the car.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I'll get it, Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
I'll get it myself.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You just build a fire, honey. If we build you
a nice, big fire, then is it.
Speaker 14 (16:39):
All right if we go fishing after you've had your breakfast?
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Wait a minute, how about the kids? Why can't they
build a fire?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
And where'd they go anyway?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Kathy? Honey, Daddy, where's Bud? What?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Jim? Do you have to shout so loud?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
How else can I shot Kathy?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
What's he doing under a push?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Well? Wake him up?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Why?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Because it's time for breakfast?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Breakfast?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
You want me for breakfast?
Speaker 15 (17:11):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I figured that again?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
What happened to Billy?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Benny?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Father, where's Billy?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
What are you doing over there?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Just watching the lake? Well?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Let Betty watch it for a while alone.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
There's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Nobody ever steals a lake until after breakfast?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Hy Dad? What's cooking?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Nothing yet? Get some wood?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
You said it was time for breakfast, But.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
We've got to build a fire. Get some wood where
in our heck?
Speaker 10 (17:48):
At this point, our ancestors are probably spinning in their
graves where Well.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Gosh, what do I know about getting wood?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You're only confusing the boy.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
But you see that tree?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
You see all those trees, that's wood? What am I
supposed to do? Bite him down? Holy calm?
Speaker 10 (18:18):
Go into the woods, pick up dead branches, twigs, anything
that will burn, and bring them back here.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
There's nothing complicated about that, is there?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I guess not?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
And stop scratching, but I it.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
I said, stop scratching and get going. I told them
we ought to polish the car. Oh, I gotta make
like a beaver.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Want me to go someplace.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
Mister Anderson well leads with his chin every time, doesn't he.
Speaker 10 (19:00):
Billy, we have a slight problem. We are faced with
the task of providing heat without fuel.
Speaker 16 (19:09):
You don't say, you know, we had the same thing
once in a physics exam and it's a sense friction.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
That's how you do it. Now, you take two bodies.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Really shut up and get some wood. I said, get
some wood.
Speaker 16 (19:29):
Don't okay, but I thought mister Anderson said, stop.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Raising your voice.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Would Nobody has to get excited about it.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
I'll get all the woods you want, Jim, Margaret, as
soon as the boys get back with the wood.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Are those your things? Kathy's playing with?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Where on the edge of the dock?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Holy smoke, my tackle?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
All the rattle brick, Jim, don't frighten her.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Happy father, Kathy, grab the doc.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
We'll be right there.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Take it easy, Kathy, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You have to do something.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
We're coming, Kathy. We'll have you on two seconds. No, can't, Kathy,
Kathy give me your hand. Come on, honey, hold your
hand off. That's a good girl.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
You got her. Jim eggs my girl.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
No, No, we're all right.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Oh, kassy, daddy, I'm selling.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I know, honey, but you're all right now.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
You're all right, Hector, get the blanket out of the car.
The poor child's ringing.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
With I'll get it, missus. Man.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, go ahead, Bud, hurry, Okay?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Is she okay?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You do She's fine. Daddy scared me. That's why I'm selling.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Jim, Jim, I'll get my stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
It's gone jumping. Gee, hussed.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I was trying to catch a fish and you scared me.
Speaker 14 (21:01):
It's all right, baby, Margaret, take that child up to
the car immediately.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
She's got to get out of those wet clothes.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Thank you, Elizabeth. I can't even think straight. Of course,
her father is much more concerned about that smelly old
fishing tackle. Men.
Speaker 14 (21:19):
I don't know why they ever invented them anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Gosh, I'm awfully sorry.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Heck, my whole kit down at the bottom of the lake.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
Look at it?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
You mean you can see it? Where down?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
There must be thirty feet? Hey, where are you going?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I've got an idea. Heck, don't go away. Father's Day.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
There isn't bad enough having children. You have to have
Father's Day.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Can you still see it?
Speaker 10 (21:56):
Heck?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Yeah, practically smiling at me.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well, don't worry about it. We'll get it out all right.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
What would you say was the right bait for your
fishing tackle?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (22:10):
You mean first we'll fish for tackle, then we'll fish
for fish.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Eh, that's a good idea. You think you can do it?
Speaker 10 (22:17):
Of course we can see now that's about the biggest hook.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
I have got. Any sinkers?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Of course I have sinkers. Stop worrying. Heck, I'll get
down there all right.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Is that the heaviest line you got.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
Well, I didn't expect to catch any whales today.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
I know, Jim, But that stuff weighs a ton.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Heck, I give you my personal guarantee. If I hook it,
I'll land it.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Let me have a little room, Will.
Speaker 11 (22:41):
You allow for a little drift into the shore, Jim,
I'll put it right.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
On the button. Okay, low bridge? Nice casting? Huh?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
What do you have to put away out.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
There for so I can drag it across? I'll leave
me alone. Heck, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Ah, good morning, man, having any luck?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Sure? All bad? Can you see it?
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Heck?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
I think you're too far to the left.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well, maybe I can pull it over doing a little
bottom fishing.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Eh.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Look, fella, we're busy right now. We got troubles. Come
back some other time, man, Okay, just a minute, Come on, Jim,
we haven't got all day.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Make it easy. Heck, he might be a game warden
or something. Uh. You wouldn't happen to be a game
warden or anything, would you me?
Speaker 10 (23:34):
Oh no, I'm not a game warden, because if you are,
we've got our licenses and permits and things like that.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
We don't worry about those things up here. Oh, this
wouldn't be a private lake, would it. Oh no, no, no,
not a private lake at all. You know, for a
minute you had me worried.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
No, it's nothing like that. This is a government fish hatchery.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Oh no, poor father. If it isn't one thing, it's another.
That long trip all for nothing, just goes to show
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it always pays to.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Look before you leap.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
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Speaker 3 (25:20):
Once again, it's breakfast time in the white frame house
on Maple Street, but it's a lonely sort of breakfast
with none of the children at the table, just Margaret
and Jim, two lonely parents discussing the disastrous.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Effects of Father's Day like this.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
There's no sense being upset about it, Jim. Doctor Simmons
said it was nothing serious.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
I know, but you'd certainly think betty'd have enough sense
to recognize golden Rod after all these years.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
She didn't see it, Jim, And she still says it
wasn't golden Rod.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Well, it was something she's puffed up like a frog.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well buzz the one I'm worried about. He says, it
itches terribly.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
There's a giant brain for you. Goes to sleep in
a patch of poison. Ivy wallows in the stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
How's Kathy, Oh she'll be all right in a few days.
It's just a little cold, Jim, I don't understand. How
can you laugh at a time like this?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I don't know, Margaret. The whole thing is hysterical. It
was quite a fishing trip.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Hey fever, poison, ivy, a cold.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
This family caught everything except fish.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
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right now, which gives.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Me a great deal of pleasure.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
We were all quite thrilled when the National Father's Day
Committee named you screen Father of the Year. Well, this
is the committee's medal, and they've asked me to present
it to you with their blessings and warmest wishes.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Thank you very much, phil, ladies and gentlemen. Naturally, I'm
very proud of this honor, but not for myself alone.
As the father of four girls, I've spent a lot
of time and gnawed a lot of nails in the
waiting rooms of various hospitals in southern California. Now to
prospective fathers who are wearing themselves to a frazzle, pacing
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endlessly up and down in hospital corridors all over the country,
I have a most reassuring message. Fellas you see, they
do give medals to fathers. Thanks again, Bill, and good night.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra 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, always good till the last drop. Father Knows
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Speaker 4 (28:55):
By Ed James.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
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Speaker 4 (29:02):
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Speaker 11 (29:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best. 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. It was
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Oscar Wilde who said children begin by loving their parents.
As they grow older, they judge them, sometimes.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
They forgive them.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They're in a very small nutshell is It's the very
foundation of what has become probably the least important of
all American celebrations.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Now, you may think that Father's Day is merely a
time for the presentation of neckties that father won't wear,
socks that father can't use, or books that father hasn't
time to read. But in Springfield, in the white frame
house on Maple Street, the Andersons have an entirely different
conception of.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
The day, Like this jumpin Creepers. Why does it have
to be on Sunday, Betty, I.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Think that's a very selfish attitude, After all your father
has done for you.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
But I'm gonna buy him a necktie.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
Why can't we just polish the car or something.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I don't mind spending Father's Day with Daddy.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
You keep out of this, Betty, Well, she doesn't have
anything else to do.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Anyway, I do too. I can do lots of things. Mother,
I have a date with Dick Andrews, and I'll have
to break it.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Why can't we just polish the car or something.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I can go over to Pattis and play, or I
can look at Jimmy Woody's television.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Kathy, We're going to devote the entire day to your father.
I know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The baby said I didn't have any place else to go,
and I do because I can go over to Paddy's
and play, or I can.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Mother.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Everybody else buys their father a necktire socks.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Why do we have to be different?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Because your father is one of the sweetest men in
the entire world, and I certainly.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Think, well, sure, but why do I have to break
a date just for that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
No matter what we buy for your father, we'll have
to buy with his money. I'll pay for it out
of my allowance, which you get from your father.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Mother, you just don't understand.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Why can't we just polish the car or something.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
But the car is less than a week old and
your father has already polished it four times.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Well, this time we can do it.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Jamie Nigget's buying her father a neck tie and she
doesn't have to break her day for Sunday.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Betty, we'll not discuss it any further. Call Dick and
tell him you're sorry.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Do I have to? Yes, you have to, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Why can't we clean up the garage or something?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Betty, go in and call Dick.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Oh pooh.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Just because it's Father's Day, I have to ruin my
whole life.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Cleaning the garage should be a good Father's Day present.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Bud. Yes, Mom, you can forget about your silly butterflies
for one Sunday.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
But I promised Joe phill Up.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I thought you'd broken your date with Joe.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
I did. But if we clean the garage the first
thing in.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The morning, we're going to spend the day with your father.
We're going to wait on him hand and foot, cater
to his every wish. Sunday's going to be his day,
and that's final. So let's not talk about it anymore.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Na, you can't even talk for.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
That, Bud.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Anderson. You'll dry the dishes.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
But I didn't say anything. Mom. All I said was
you can't even talk.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It was the way you said it.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
But Mom, I didn't mean anything.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
All I said Jenny's coming.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right. Suppose we explained the whole thing to your father.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I'll dry the dishes.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And remember, not a word about Sunday. We wanted to
be a surprise, don't we.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Yeah, some surprised, but oh sure, mom, we sure do.
Speaker 9 (04:31):
Chicken.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Mother, If Jick Andrews never calls me again, it'll be
your fault.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
He borrowed a car for Sunday and everything.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Let's not worry about it, Betty, you'll get another girl.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Mother, How can you say that?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
How can you say what?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Jeddy?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Hi? Dad? Well, how's the world's finest family?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Tonight?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Hi? Father?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Hi? Hello, honey, Hi dear. What's the matter with Camille?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Nothing much. Really, you're a little late, aren't you, Dear.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
What's in the package? Daddy?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Ice cream? Put it in the ice box like a
good girl.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh boy, want me to put your hat away there?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Thank you very much, it'll be a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Oh we had a slight misunderstanding. Nothing serious. Were you
held up at the office.
Speaker 10 (05:22):
No, I stopped off at Hanny's garage on my way home. Oh,
there's a very annoying rattle in the rear bumper. I'm
not even sure we ought to keep that.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Car jumping, casf Fish.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That old wreckervours made so much noise you couldn't hear yourself. Think,
but if this one makes one little squeeze, Betty.
Speaker 10 (05:41):
As long as we had to buy a new car,
we might as well have them put it in good shape.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Why don't you set the table like a good girl, Betty?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
How else can you set the table?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And you help her? Kathy?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yes, Mommy, you know Margaret speaking of Sunday?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
He said anything about Sunday.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Didn't I know? Huh? Well, I met Hector Smith downtown today.
He's fine. You know, he has a client over in play.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I haven't seen Elizabeth in ages. I'll have to call
her after dinner.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yes, heck has a client over in plane.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Maybe I get to wait until tomorrow. But have such
a lot to.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
Talk about, Margaret, Will you please let me tell you
about Hector?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Why?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Of course? Do you go right ahead?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
All right? Try to tell a woman anything. It's just like,
what was I talking about.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Plainfielder?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well, you see I was listening, Yes, even if you weren't, Margaret.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
Hector was coming back from Plainfield the other day and
he decided to take a short cut.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Well you know how Hector is. He got lost.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Oh that's too bad? Is he all right now?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Nothing happened to him. He just got lost.
Speaker 10 (07:01):
I found himself on an old dirt road way back
in the hills. My Margaret, you don't have to keep
making those little noises. I know you're listening.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Go ahead, dear.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Well he found a lake, just a little bit of
a thing.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
He says, it's the greatest spot for fish he's ever
seen in his life. They were actually leaping out of
the water fast, lake, trout everything, and every one of
them dying to get on a hook.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Margaret, doesn't that mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Oh yes, dear, I'm quite excited.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Anyway, We're going to run up their Sunday morning and
see what we can.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Do Sunday morning, Jim, you can't.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Why not?
Speaker 10 (07:38):
It's only about twenty miles. Heck's going to pick me
up at.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Five, and all I'll need is a few sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Jim Madison, I've never seen it to fail. Every time
we try to surprise you with anything, you have to
make other arrangements.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
My birthdays in February.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sunday is Father's Day.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Oh that thing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Betty and Bud broke their dates just so they could
spend the day with you.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
They didn't have to do that, but they did.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
We had the nicest day arranged for you. We were
all going out for dinner. They were going to a
picture show when I know you'd.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Want to see, Honey, Doesn't it make any difference that
I'd rather go fishing. I don't care about Father's Day?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well, we do. We want to show you how much
we love you, and we want you to have a
good time.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I know what you mean, Angel, But if I'd rather go.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Fishing, Jim, you're being very selfish about this whole thing.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Because I want to go fishing. What's selfish about going fishing?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
When a whole family decides to give up its pleasure
for an entire Sunday, the very least you can.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Do is give up mine? Is that what you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
No? I have another idea. How would it be if
we went with you?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Margaret?
Speaker 10 (08:57):
You wouldn't like it up there, believe me. Not the
place for women and children. It's a wild little lake
in the middle of nothing. Oh, come on in. Heck,
we're in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Elizabeth and Billy wanted to go. I'll that Hector would take.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Them, but he wouldn't. Nobody would. When you go fishing,
you fish. No place for a family.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I'm busting them on anything, of course, not Hector.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
Come in him, Margaret. Gosh, I haven't seen you in
a dog's age.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Heck will you explain to Margaret that families don't go
on fishing trips?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Why don't they?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What there you see the heck?
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Come on outside. I want to show you the new car.
He showed it to me this afternoon. Well I want
to show.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
It to you again.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
What for?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Come on, heck, oh you want to I'll see.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
You later, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Don't you dare let him change your mind?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Hector, I'll be right out here if you want me. Honey,
all right, What the heck's the matter with you? Heck?
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Nothing?
Speaker 10 (09:54):
Why you know what happens if you take a bunch
of women and kids on a fishing trip.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You catch nothing?
Speaker 7 (10:00):
I know, but look, Jim.
Speaker 10 (10:02):
Any self respecting fish wouldn't come within ten miles of us,
especially if you've got a peak of Kathy.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Jim, I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
You're absolutely right, But then why did you make a
crack like that in front of Margaret Well.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
To tell you the truth?
Speaker 12 (10:15):
Jim.
Speaker 11 (10:16):
If I can't take Elizabeth and Billy, I can't go.
Oh no, yeah, they had something all arranged for Sunday.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
It's Father's Day. Billy broke a date. They're doing it
all for me.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Heck is that lake as good as you said it was? Oh,
it's terrific, Jim. I've never seen fish like that. I'm
telling you. In five minutes, I saw twenty of them
jump out of the water.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Gee, I hate to give it up. Oh, let's go
with Elizabeth and Billy and Margaret and Jim.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
It won't make any difference. These fish are so big.
Speaker 11 (10:56):
Nothing will scare him, not even Cathy, not even Kathy.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Well, okay, we'll try it.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
We better take both cars.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
We'll have to leave around five. Okay, Yeah, well, I
gotta go home now. Tell Margaret I said goodbye with you.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
You bet? Oh?
Speaker 10 (11:15):
Heck, yeah, happy Father's Day.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Yeah, Well, I suppose it's not the first time a
man and his family didn't quite see eye to eye
on the best way to spend a happy Father's Day.
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Here's a point, however, everybody agrees on when it comes
to a cup of coffee. You and I and the
family next door all look for one thing flavor.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
We want the most in flavor for every penny we spend.
Speaker 13 (11:56):
An extra flavor is just what you do get in
our Maxwell House coffee, that wonderful, good to the last
drop flavor. No other coffee has to offer, no coffee
but Maxwell House. And there's a good reason why it's
our recipe, the only recipe on this green earth, for
that good to the last drop flavor. It calls for
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certain fine varieties of coffee to be blended together just
so it's the one way, the one recipe for that
famous Maxwell House flavor, that wonderfully good flavor that's made
our coffee America's favorite brand. That's why you find so
much more enjoyment when your cup is filled with Maxwellhouse coffee.
(12:37):
So next time you bring home a pound of coffee,
make it that familiar blue tin of our Maxwell House
for more flavor for your money's worth. And more, start
enjoying coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
The sun comes up like a stab of light. Rose
fingers reach into the night. The darkness fades, the night
is gone, and day comes fast with a rising dawn.
A woodcock calls a soft wind, size and from its
nest to starling flies. This is the dawn, the break
of day, the time when come.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
Man, Will you please shut up?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Well, pardon me.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
The most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life,
getting up in the middle of the night to chase
after a bunch of stupid fish. But Elizabeth, we had
a nice day planned for you, one we'd all have enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
But no, you have to.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Drag us up here so we can freeze to death.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Are you called Elizabeth?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Of course not.
Speaker 8 (13:55):
My teeth always chatter like this.
Speaker 11 (13:58):
Billy, get the blanket out of the car for your mother,
I said, get the blanket out of the car.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
No thanks, I'm.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Quite comfortable, Billy.
Speaker 14 (14:11):
Leave the boy alone, hector the poor child if he
had a father.
Speaker 8 (14:16):
With the slightest bit of consideration.
Speaker 11 (14:18):
Elizabeth, I didn't say you had to come along.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
This was your idea.
Speaker 14 (14:23):
Naturally, you haven't had an idea since the day I
met you.
Speaker 11 (14:26):
Now, Lucky Elizabeth, and I think of the man I
could have married and didn't.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Lucky dog Hector.
Speaker 11 (14:36):
Sorry, Elizabeth, I was thinking of I think the Anderson's
are coming.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Well, it's about time. You'd think they'd have hurried a little.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Well, the Rhodes kind of rough, Elizabeth, and Jim has
a new car.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
I'd have to stop making excuses for them.
Speaker 14 (14:52):
They're just like everyone else we know, don't consider a
soul but themselves, especially that Margaret thinks hurt.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
You'll one of the most.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Wonderful things that ever lived.
Speaker 15 (15:02):
And if you ask me, Margaret Dollar, we're awfully sorry.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
I heck, we thought you were lost.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I'm awfully sorry. We're so late, Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Oh, Angel, we hadn't even noticed it.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
We had to stop on account of Kathy. Her hat
blew out of the car, and we had an awful
time finding it.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Hi, Billy, Billy, wake up, Dear Eddie is here?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
She Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Hi Billy, Hi, Hey, this is quite a spot. Heck, yes, sir,
it's all right.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Jim, I saw a bass, so help me.
Speaker 11 (15:44):
It was that long, you're kiddy, Oh, I'm not, Jim, Well,
maybe that long.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Hey, there there there. Do you see that one? Jim?
Why I tell you, huh where right right there near
the dot?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I don't see anything, Jim.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
You aren't looking in the right place.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Well, what's the difference? The place I want to see
him is on the end of my line. Got all
your stuff?
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Heck, you ain't just a woofan the greatest assortment of
fish persuaders in the world, and it's all on the
dock waiting.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
For Papa Hector.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Where are you going fishing?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Why?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You'll do no such thing.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
There's a little thing like breakfast that comes first.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Breakfast, all honey, we haven't any time for breakfast, Elizabeth.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It's practically six thirty, Jim.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Elizabeth's right.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
My lands have got all that food to take out
of the car.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I'll get it, Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
I'll get it myself.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You just build a fire, honey. If we build you
a nice, big fire, then is it.
Speaker 14 (16:39):
All right if we go fishing after you've had your breakfast?
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Wait a minute, how about the kids? Why can't they
build a fire?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
And where'd they go anyway?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Kathy? Honey, Daddy, where's Bud? What?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Jim? Do you have to shout so loud?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
How else can I shot Kathy?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
What's he doing under a push?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Well? Wake him up?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Why?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Because it's time for breakfast?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Breakfast?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
You want me for breakfast?
Speaker 15 (17:11):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I figured that again?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
What happened to Billy?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Benny?
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Father, where's Billy?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
What are you doing over there?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Just watching the lake? Well?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Let Betty watch it for a while alone.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
There's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Nobody ever steals a lake until after breakfast?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Hy Dad? What's cooking?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Nothing yet? Get some wood?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
You said it was time for breakfast, But.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
We've got to build a fire. Get some wood where
in our heck?
Speaker 10 (17:48):
At this point, our ancestors are probably spinning in their
graves where Well.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
Gosh, what do I know about getting wood?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You're only confusing the boy.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
But you see that tree?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
You see all those trees, that's wood? What am I
supposed to do? Bite him down? Holy calm?
Speaker 10 (18:18):
Go into the woods, pick up dead branches, twigs, anything
that will burn, and bring them back here.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
There's nothing complicated about that, is there?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I guess not?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
And stop scratching, but I it.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
I said, stop scratching and get going. I told them
we ought to polish the car. Oh, I gotta make
like a beaver.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Want me to go someplace.
Speaker 11 (18:43):
Mister Anderson well leads with his chin every time, doesn't he.
Speaker 10 (19:00):
Billy, we have a slight problem. We are faced with
the task of providing heat without fuel.
Speaker 16 (19:09):
You don't say, you know, we had the same thing
once in a physics exam and it's a sense friction.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
That's how you do it. Now, you take two bodies.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Really shut up and get some wood. I said, get
some wood.
Speaker 16 (19:29):
Don't okay, but I thought mister Anderson said, stop.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Raising your voice.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Would Nobody has to get excited about it.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
I'll get all the woods you want, Jim, Margaret, as
soon as the boys get back with the wood.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Are those your things? Kathy's playing with?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Where on the edge of the dock?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Holy smoke, my tackle?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
All the rattle brick, Jim, don't frighten her.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Happy father, Kathy, grab the doc.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
We'll be right there.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Take it easy, Kathy, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You have to do something.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
We're coming, Kathy. We'll have you on two seconds. No, can't, Kathy,
Kathy give me your hand. Come on, honey, hold your
hand off. That's a good girl.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
You got her. Jim eggs my girl.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
No, No, we're all right.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Oh, kassy, daddy, I'm selling.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I know, honey, but you're all right now.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
You're all right, Hector, get the blanket out of the car.
The poor child's ringing.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
With I'll get it, missus. Man.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh, go ahead, Bud, hurry, Okay?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Is she okay?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You do She's fine. Daddy scared me. That's why I'm selling.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
Jim, Jim, I'll get my stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
It's gone jumping. Gee, hussed.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I was trying to catch a fish and you scared me.
Speaker 14 (21:01):
It's all right, baby, Margaret, take that child up to
the car immediately.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
She's got to get out of those wet clothes.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Thank you, Elizabeth. I can't even think straight. Of course,
her father is much more concerned about that smelly old
fishing tackle. Men.
Speaker 14 (21:19):
I don't know why they ever invented them anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Gosh, I'm awfully sorry.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Heck, my whole kit down at the bottom of the lake.
Speaker 11 (21:36):
Look at it?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
You mean you can see it? Where down?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
There must be thirty feet? Hey, where are you going?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I've got an idea. Heck, don't go away. Father's Day.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
There isn't bad enough having children. You have to have
Father's Day.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Can you still see it?
Speaker 10 (21:56):
Heck?
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Yeah, practically smiling at me.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well, don't worry about it. We'll get it out all right.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
What would you say was the right bait for your
fishing tackle?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (22:10):
You mean first we'll fish for tackle, then we'll fish
for fish.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Eh, that's a good idea. You think you can do it?
Speaker 10 (22:17):
Of course we can see now that's about the biggest hook.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
I have got. Any sinkers?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Of course I have sinkers. Stop worrying. Heck, I'll get
down there all right.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Is that the heaviest line you got.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
Well, I didn't expect to catch any whales today.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
I know, Jim, But that stuff weighs a ton.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Heck, I give you my personal guarantee. If I hook it,
I'll land it.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Let me have a little room, Will.
Speaker 11 (22:41):
You allow for a little drift into the shore, Jim,
I'll put it right.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
On the button. Okay, low bridge? Nice casting? Huh?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
What do you have to put away out.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
There for so I can drag it across? I'll leave
me alone. Heck, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
Ah, good morning, man, having any luck?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Sure? All bad? Can you see it?
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Heck?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
I think you're too far to the left.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well, maybe I can pull it over doing a little
bottom fishing.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Eh.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Look, fella, we're busy right now. We got troubles. Come
back some other time, man, Okay, just a minute, Come on, Jim,
we haven't got all day.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Make it easy. Heck, he might be a game warden
or something. Uh. You wouldn't happen to be a game
warden or anything, would you me?
Speaker 10 (23:34):
Oh no, I'm not a game warden, because if you are,
we've got our licenses and permits and things like that.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
We don't worry about those things up here. Oh, this
wouldn't be a private lake, would it. Oh no, no, no,
not a private lake at all. You know, for a
minute you had me worried.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
No, it's nothing like that. This is a government fish hatchery.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Oh no, poor father. If it isn't one thing, it's another.
That long trip all for nothing, just goes to show
(24:19):
it always pays to.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Look before you leap.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
On that score, when it comes to buying a pound
of coffee, it always pays to look for flavor. Yes,
you want to be sure you get the most in
flavor for every penny you spend. And that's just what
you do get in every pound of our Maxwell house
coffee an extra measure of flavor, that wonderful, good to
the last drop flavor. No coffee but Maxwell House gives you.
(24:45):
We're proud as can be of that famous flavor. It's
the big reason why more people buy and enjoy our
Maxwell House than any other brand. And today, as always,
you can count on it every cup you pour, because
we'll never compromise on the quality of one single pound.
That's why, now more than ever, your coffee buy is
(25:06):
Maxwell House. Every pound, every cup, you can be sure
it's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Once again, it's breakfast time in the white frame house
on Maple Street, but it's a lonely sort of breakfast
with none of the children at the table, just Margaret
and Jim, two lonely parents discussing the disastrous.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Effects of Father's Day like this.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
There's no sense being upset about it, Jim. Doctor Simmons
said it was nothing serious.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
I know, but you'd certainly think betty'd have enough sense
to recognize golden Rod after all these years.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
She didn't see it, Jim, And she still says it
wasn't golden Rod.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Well, it was something she's puffed up like a frog.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well buzz the one I'm worried about. He says, it
itches terribly.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
There's a giant brain for you. Goes to sleep in
a patch of poison. Ivy wallows in the stuff.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
How's Kathy, Oh she'll be all right in a few days.
It's just a little cold, Jim, I don't understand. How
can you laugh at a time like this?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I don't know, Margaret. The whole thing is hysterical. It
was quite a fishing trip.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Hey fever, poison, ivy, a cold.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
This family caught everything except fish.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
The instant coffee with a famous flavor. That's instant Maxwell House,
the happiest combination in coffee. Wonderful, good to the last
drop flavor, combined with a convenience and thrift of coffee
made instantly in the cup, so easy, no pot, no grounds,
so thrifty, saves you real money compared to ordinary coffee.
So truly good, pure roaster, fresh flavor. Try Instant Maxwell House,
(27:14):
the instant coffee with a famous flavor, instantly good to
the last drop. Bob, I have a duty to perform
right now, which gives.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Me a great deal of pleasure.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
We were all quite thrilled when the National Father's Day
Committee named you screen Father of the Year. Well, this
is the committee's medal, and they've asked me to present
it to you with their blessings and warmest wishes.
Speaker 10 (27:50):
Thank you very much, phil, ladies and gentlemen. Naturally, I'm
very proud of this honor, but not for myself alone.
As the father of four girls, I've spent a lot
of time and gnawed a lot of nails in the
waiting rooms of various hospitals in southern California. Now to
prospective fathers who are wearing themselves to a frazzle, pacing
(28:12):
endlessly up and down in hospital corridors all over the country,
I have a most reassuring message. Fellas you see, they
do give medals to fathers. Thanks again, Bill, and good night.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra 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, always good till the last drop. Father Knows
(28:53):
Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
By Ed James.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Now stay tuned for Screen Gill Theater, which follows immediately
over most.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Of these stations. M H.
Speaker 11 (29:18):
Stay tuned for Screen Gill Theater next on NBC B
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