July 27, 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 (00:02):
Is Maxwell House really the only coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
In the world?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Your father says, sir, and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as 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 Drive, from Horus to Benjamin Franklin, from.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Practically everyone has had something to say about procrastination in
a matter.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Who said it, it generally came out the same.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
It's no good in Springfield in the white frame house
on Maple Street. The Anderson's may not have a monopoly
on procrastination, but it's a pretty fair bet that they
hold a franchise for local distribution.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Like this, anything wrong?
Speaker 6 (01:14):
I hate too much, Bud, Yes, Ed, never marry a
woman like your mother.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I mean, who cooks as well as your mother? That's
what I mean. Ruin your figure?
Speaker 7 (01:27):
Okay, Jim, No one said you had to eat that
last piece of pie.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Well, I didn't want Bud to make a pig of himself.
May I have another cup of coffee?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Please any further instructions for.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Bud Bud, Yes, and be sure to marry a woman
who cooks exactly like your mother.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, that's more like it. Now. May I have another
cup of coffee?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Daddy? Do you know what I learned in school today?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
I haven't the faintest idea. May I have the cream
and sugar, Betty?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Please?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Sugar statny, just pass it, never mind the dietary information.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes, father do.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Sugar is energy and I'm in a very energetic move.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
I am here you are, well, it's wonderful, dear. You've
been promising to fix the leak in the roof for
two weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Please, let's not be rude. Kathy was telling me something,
and it's probably very important. Go ahead, kitten. What you
were telling me something about?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How do I know something about? I don't know. She
learned something in school today? Well, naturally, that's what she
was telling you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh I remember, daddy, Kathy? Do you know what I
learned in school today?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Why? No, little old lady passing by? What did you
learn in school today?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I learned that everybody in my whole class gets a
bigger alounce than I do.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, I guess I'll go back to the frying pan.
What were you saying, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Jim, you don't have to fix the roof. If you
don't want to, just let me call mister Pey.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I told you i'd fix it.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I will when.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, I'm certainly not going to crawl around on the
roof tonight.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Mister Payne says, you don't have to. You can fix
it from the inside.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, what when.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Are you going to fix the roof.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'll get around to it, Margaret, Just don't rush me.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Won't start raining until April anyway, And.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Of course April won't be here for two whole weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Well maybe Sunday afternoon when I'm feeling a little more arrested.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Jim, you're going to fix it tonight, Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
As soon as I finish reading the paper.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You will fix the roof before you read the paper.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Just a minute, Margaret, since when do you?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Well, it isn't worth arguing about makes such a big
fuss about one punion of the leak father.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Now what as long as you aren't going anywhere, is
it all right if I buy the car?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, let's put it this way.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No, yeah, but I just want to go over to
Jannie's for a while.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I thought you had a chemistry exam tomorrow. I do
Glad't you say you had to study for it?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well, sure, but I've got a study period in the morning,
and I.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Talk fine, that's just fine.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Did you hear that, Margaret, She's got a study period
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Isn't that good, Betty?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
How do you expect to get anywhere in the world
if you leave everything for the last minute.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well, I only have to brush up on a few formulas, then.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Brush up on them tonight. You know what they say,
procrastination is the thief of time.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Who says that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Everybody?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Neither does your father.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, I've asked you a hundred times.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
We'll talk about it later, after you fix the roof.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yes, come on, Bud, fine, I heard your mother. We've
got to fix the roof. How did I get into it?
But I've got homework to do. You can do your
homework later. But you just said holy cow. I said
nothing that even remotely resembled holy cow.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I wish you'd stop arguing. But you can study later.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Who said anything about studying? You said you had homework,
didn't you sure? For my gym class. I'm gonna practice
nip ups all right, Bud?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Upstairs?
Speaker 9 (05:30):
My gym teacher said it made the back muscle strong
for pitching upstairs. And he's a baseball coach, so he
ought to know bad.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yes, then upstairs. Now, now we'll say it and get
it over with. Holy cow, but your excuse us, myrid,
we have to go fix the root.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That'll be fine there yet?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Eat me? I watch sure? Why doesn't everybody come up
and watch? We'll sell tickets. Come on, Bud, it's in.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The far corner gym, near the gymney.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I know where it is. I ought to know where
it is. I've been told about it.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Often enough, Daddy offild Okay, honey, you'll be sure and
do that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Nothing I liked more on a job than seven or
eight foreman? Oh is that? Then? I said, we'll have
it finished before you can say herb Gorman? Who's he?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He and your mother went to different schools together. Oh,
I didn't know that, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You know what I learned in school today?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You've already told me Kathy, And the answer is no.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
He answer to what?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
May I have a larger allowance.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
How did you know? I was going to ask that.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
It's very simple, Kit. I'm the seventh son of a
seventh son. I was born with a veil.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'm a psychic.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
What does that mean?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
You still get thirty five cents a week?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Gee whiz, that's only a nickel a day, and you
know what you could buy with a nicol day.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I don't know, Cat, that's what's wrong with it.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well let's see now, good grief, look at the junk
up here. It's over on this side. Dad up here
can't even get to it. But it helped me move
some of this stuff out of the way like a
good feller.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay, you know how much Jimmy Woody gets fifty cent?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Shove that big box over the more, Bud. I'm not
supposed to move things that big dad. It'll ruin my
pitching arm. Bud. Shove, but the coach said, shove.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, sir, Laurie Hathaway gets forty cents and she's only
eight junk.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Three more boxes and we can open our own branch
at the Salvation Army.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
I'll bet Paul Petn't never had to shove boxes around an.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Attic who's he.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
He's a kid who's gonna pitch for Pittsburgh And they
gave him one hundred thousand dollars to sign.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
One hundred thousand dollars when he was on the eighteen
concentrate on the little boxes. But I'll take care of
the big.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Ones, Okay, then, Daddy, Kathy, you are not going to
get a larger allowance.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Why because thirty five cents is all you need?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Why because you're only a little girl, and little girls
don't need more than thirty five cents a week?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Why because, Kathy, if you.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Say why once more, I'm going to give you the
worst spanking of your entire life.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'll come, Kathy. I think you can reach it. Now, Dad,
all right, let me take a look at it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You still didn't tell me.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Why don't you go downstairs and practice.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I'm going to practice tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Practice tonight. You won't have to practice tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Then what'll I do tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You can play?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Why can't I play?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now, Kathy, go downstairs and practice? The go ahead?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
She whizz? Why do why always have to practice? He
never sells any good anything?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
But are you sure?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Mister Payne said this could be fixed from the.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Inside sure, he said it just had to be carked
like a vote.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's ridiculous. How can you calk a slate roof?
Speaker 8 (09:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Don't bother me now, Betty, I'm busy.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I ask you something. If I put off seeing Jennie
until tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's not procrastinating, Betty.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You said, never put off till tomorrow. What you can
do today? And if I see Jennie tonight and study tomorrow,
isn't that just as good as good as what the
other way?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
But will you go down to the medicine cabinet get
me about eighth aspirin?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Do you have a headache?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Father?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
No, but I'm expecting one, jem. Oh, well, can't said you.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Were having a little trouble. Haven't you fixed the leak yet?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Honey, I can't fix it from the inside. But I
got to go out on the roof and put in
some new slates, so I'll do it Sunday.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Well, all right, Jim, you'd rather read your paper.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm not going to read my paper. I've got work
to do. I'm going downstairs and finish my income text.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Father won't even let me have the car for an hour,
And I told.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
A minute, Jim, what did you just say.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
I said, I'm going downstairs and finish my income taxt
and don't tell me that isn't important.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
If nobody needs me for any Jim, do you mean
to say you haven't taken.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Care of your tax return.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm going to take care of it now.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But this is March fifteenth.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Well, you gave the children a long lecture about procrastination
and you haven't filed your tax returning.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Honey, I've still got lots of time.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
But it's March fifteenth, now.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I know.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
But it's only seven o'clock and the tax isn't doing
until midnight.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Father sounds pretty sure of himself, planning to fill out
that tax return in five short hours.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, let's wait and see.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
On the other hand, ladies, the head of the house
is perfectly sure of a great many things.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
One of them is coffee. That's right.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
That husband of yours is the world's greatest coffee expert,
day in day out. He's the final judge, the number
one expert on good coffee. It's true, we maxwell house
people are called experts too. More families do enjoy our
coffee than any other brand. But when you brew the coffee.
When you fill the cups. The expert with the final say,
(11:41):
so he's your husband, and tomorrow, if you'll serve him
Maxwell House, we're sure you'll win his warmest smile.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
And this company, honey, that's what I.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Call real coffee.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Yes, indeed, that's what he'll say. In fact, we'll give
you your money back if he does. The plain fact is
no coffee tastes like Maxwell House because no coffee is
made like Maxwell House. There's only one recipe for that
famous good to the last drop flavor, a recipe demanding
certain fine coffees blended just so, and only Maxwell House
(12:15):
has this recipe. So tomorrow, serve your husband our Maxwell House.
If he doesn't say best coffee ever, why just send
us the can an unused Porsche, and we will gladly
refund the price you pay.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Our address is right on every familiar blue ten.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
How about it, then, sir, tomorrow, won't you serve your
husband the coffee with the world's most famous flavor? And
Maxwell House coffee always good, real to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
No matter what anyone tells you.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
When Thomas Payne said these are the times that try
men's souls, he was not referring to March fifth.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
In those days, you see, they hadn't.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Thought of the income tax.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
But they've thought of it since seventh day, and they've
thought of that cute little hangover from the Spanish inquisition
the income tax. Blank myself, I'd rather try making a
nine the hard way.
Speaker 11 (13:16):
Three to three fund supply ukase subtract Line two from
in your blue head well applies six hundred dollars by
the total numbers.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Flavor if line hand is being over four hundred dollars
but not over one hundred thousand dollars under fifty two
dollars plus nine percent.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
If alternative tax computation is made on separate scheduled D
scheduled D time, its standard deduction in line two. In
disregard lines in sixteen and seventeen and the copy online
eighteen you entered online age which myself, Kathy, for a minute, please, I'm.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
In a dead okay.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I could only find that piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
It had the whole thing piece, Daddy. Isn't it pretty?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Pretty? Isn't the word for it?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Look, Kathy, I can even play it with my eyes closed.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
When you hear me, I thought that's the way you
were playing.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh no, I was.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What Kathy, wouldn't you like to do the rest of
your practicing.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Some But you said I shouldn't put off till tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, I just happened to think of something. What if
it rains, then where'll you'll be?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
In the basement?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
What I mean is if it rains, you won't be
able to do anything but practice. And if you practice now,
you have nothing to do all day ti more? If
it rains, will you will want have.
Speaker 14 (15:05):
Anything to.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Haven't you to me?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
What did I say? I don't know, Kathy? Good grief?
Speaker 13 (15:18):
What's going on up there? Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
But what are you doing? You see?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
If you can't make a little less noise and put
down a blanket or something, you're liable to break your back.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Okay, please, I'm talking to.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I wouldn't care if you were talking to Winston Churchill.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
The fine thing when.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
A man, Jim, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm doing my income taxt? Can't you see what I mean?
What am I doing?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
You can't find the papers, can't make hatter tailor these
idiotic instructions. Income tax to figure tentative tax on amount
shown in line five. If line three above includes partially
tax exempt.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Multiply amount on line twelve by two to obtain combined normal.
Speaker 15 (16:26):
Subtract line seventeen from line eight thirteen or fourteen an
interdifference in iron five.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Oh no, it isn't possible.
Speaker 15 (16:42):
Add the figures on lines fifteen and sixteen. Enter income
tax paid at the source on tax free coveted bond interest.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Kathy, Kathy, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Mad father, if you keep on taking all I not,
if you call me Margaret, how do you expect me
to Kathy? Stop that?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Kathy?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Hoy say something.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Jim earth Soul is shouting about it.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Honey, I'd better call Hector and get him to straighten
me out on this income tax business.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I can't make head or tail of it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I thought you said you could.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I said I thought I could.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But that's what I said.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You said I said I could, and I didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I said, I.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Thought, well I can't. So what difference does it make?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I can't even find a paper, what paper Ms Thomas
had it all written down? What went online fourteen and
what went online fifteen? And all I can find are
those cock eyed government instructions that tell you the disregard
both of them.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Well, I have an idea why don't you call Hector.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Thank you, Margaret. That's a very good suggestion. Glad you
thought of it.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yaddy said you wanted me, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I thought you were going to practice, Margaret, bud. It's
strengthening his back.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Kathy, run upstairs like a good girl, and tell your brother.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I'd like to see it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, and hurry, Kathleen before he kills himself.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yes, honey, really, he's doing nipops.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's a very graceful exercise.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
As you can see, Honey, won't have a bone left
in his body.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
He's a thirty.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm worried about it. Thought you said.
Speaker 14 (18:40):
I said I could and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Thomas written down fifteen.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I find guy.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Regard movea.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Creepers.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I don't even more get started talking.
Speaker 13 (19:08):
You've been on that phone for thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But what I said, I don't even more get started.
Speaker 16 (19:17):
Never having a child one of these years.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
To get Washington so upset.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
The fire, the whole Treasury depart Are they ringing?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
This? Something is ringing?
Speaker 16 (19:38):
And I hope it may They aren't back yet, back
from where Elizabeth told me this morning that the plane.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Well, this is a fine time that tells me.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Let me waste all that time. Now me, I use
the phone.
Speaker 13 (19:53):
No, the rest of my life in jail, right, Bobby,
Please try to come down the stairs like only one.
Speaker 14 (20:06):
Elephant what.
Speaker 13 (20:12):
I said, never mind, Margaret. If I don't find that paper,
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
With all the text figures on it. My head it
right on top of my desk.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Maybe somebody put it in the desk.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Yeah, I think if that paper got in front of
the desk.
Speaker 13 (20:28):
If you keep your desk like any other man, there's
nothing wrong with my desk.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You just can't find anything in it, that's all, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I've told you a dozen times I'll clean it out,
and I will.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You've been telling me that for two years.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I just happened half the time.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
For years.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Honey. This is not the time to argue about cleaning
out my desk. What do you want? Uh, I don't
want anything. Then why don't you leave me alone? Cathy
said you wanted to see me. Oh well, now I've
seen you. Goodbye, Jim. Oh, and stop doing nip ups.
(21:16):
But the last time I almost did it. The last
time you almost went through the floor.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Jim. If the paper is in the desk, all write.
Speaker 13 (21:23):
You every day from halfatras.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Alcatra Je.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
We do find the paper?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
How long.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
An hour?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
All right?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
We can have the desk cleaned out in twenty minutes, Margaret.
I'd have done it myself. But I don't know which
papers you want to keep him, which ones you want
thrown away?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Other people make out income taxes and they don't have
to go through things like this.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Now, Can I call it yady?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
No, Dear, you're going to help your father.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Big corporations with thousands of desks, they make out income
taxes every year.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Kathy, We're going to clean out daddy's desk.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I'll be right down.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Millions and millions of people make out income taxes, make
them out year after year.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They don't have to clean out their desks.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Bud, go out to the garage and get a large box, okay, Mom,
the largest one you can find.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
People who don't even have desks make out their income
tax without the least.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Bit of trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
All right, dear, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
It's the silliest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
One small piece of paper, Jim.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It isn't getting any earlier.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Okay, let's go mother, if I'm going to take that
chemistry exam tomorrow, Betty, but father said I ought to study.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You've got a study period in the morning, Remember chomping.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Isn't it funny?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Jim?
Speaker 7 (22:48):
It took two years and a missing piece of paper
to get you to clean out your desk?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Very funny. I'm practically hysterical.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Here we are. Now, where shall we begin?
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Let's see if I were a piece of paper, and
what drawer would I hide?
Speaker 7 (23:11):
As long as we're at it, we'll do a good job. Betty,
pull out all the drawers on that side and empty
them on the floor.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Margaret, you don't have to worry about a thing, dear.
We'll go through all the papers together and you can
pick out the ones you want to say. But go ahead, Betty,
start dumping creepers.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What on that? Margaret? You don't have to look so
happy about it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
No, you knew how long I've been wanting to do this. No,
all the doors are empty. So if that comes in
at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
What's this? What this?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh, dear, you weren't supposed to find that yet?
Speaker 13 (23:48):
What is it?
Speaker 16 (23:49):
Father?
Speaker 15 (23:50):
It's my income tax and it's all made out people, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Now, Jim, let's not jump to any conclusion.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You took that piece of paper, didn't you. Well you
send it over to Hector and had him make.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
Out the t.
Speaker 16 (24:04):
I guess I did, And then you let me spin.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
My own juice.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Margaret, Well, some other way I could have gotten the
clean out.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Of your head? Isn't this true?
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Every pound of coffee you buy, you're looking for the
most in flavor for your money. If you agree, take
this thought to your grosses this weekend on his shelves.
There's a coffee famous for flavor above all others.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It's our coffee, our.
Speaker 13 (25:01):
Max take home.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
After a cup the world's.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
Greatest coffee expert, your husband. When he smiles from ear
to ear and says best coffee ever, you'll know why
Maxwell House is world famous for flavor. Then keep track
of all the truly good cups of coffee you get
from that one pound.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
We think you'll be convinced for real value.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Maxwell House is to day's coffee by So this weekend,
look for the big white cup and drop on the
friendly blue tin. Take home Maxwell House coffee always good
to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
It's morning now, and the Andersons are at breakfast. It
should be a happy time of day.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
It generally is, as a matter of fact, but not
to day.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
No, indeed, not by a long shine like this. May
I have my coffee please? Jee? I'd rather not talk
about it, Margaret. Just let me have my coffee.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Right, dear there you are, go ahead, Kathy H two
S O four So if you're a cass K two
C three potassium night trade no harbaby, yep, forty years
old and I have to tease the.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Last is something wrong?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But I don't know. I must have slept funny last night.
My hold back?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You really?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
I wonder why I can't figure it out.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I take such good care of myself.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I have a cream please?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Here are daddy?
Speaker 12 (26:49):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
You know, Margaret, you'd have felt pretty silly if I'd
done the income tax myself, wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
There wasn't much danger that here.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
What do you mean coffee?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Well?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
You know the way you procrastinate twelve or even sugar?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Thank you very much? Does father know best? You? Bet?
Speaker 8 (27:27):
I do.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
When the kids don't want their hot cereal, I say, Mom,
tell him.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Hop along goes for post wheatmeal. Then you ought to
see him dig in. That's right, Dad, just tell the kids.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Postweetmeal is hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal and they
eat it too. Postweatmeal has wonderful nut like flavor, solid
whole wheat nourishment, cooks in three and a half minutes.
You'll see you'll all agree it's the best hot cereal
you ever ate. Join us again next week when we'll
(28:02):
be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as
Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Hawks
group in our cast, where Norma Jean Nilsen as Kathy,
June Whitley, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, 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 to the last drop. Father Knows Best was
(28:25):
transcribed in Hollywood and written by HEV Jane. Now stay
tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of
these stations.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Now here exciting and authentic police drama. It's Dragnet on
NBC
Is Maxwell House really the only coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
In the world?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Your father says, sir, and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as 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 Drive, from Horus to Benjamin Franklin, from.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Practically everyone has had something to say about procrastination in
a matter.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Who said it, it generally came out the same.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
It's no good in Springfield in the white frame house
on Maple Street. The Anderson's may not have a monopoly
on procrastination, but it's a pretty fair bet that they
hold a franchise for local distribution.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Like this, anything wrong?
Speaker 6 (01:14):
I hate too much, Bud, Yes, Ed, never marry a
woman like your mother.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I mean, who cooks as well as your mother? That's
what I mean. Ruin your figure?
Speaker 7 (01:27):
Okay, Jim, No one said you had to eat that
last piece of pie.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Well, I didn't want Bud to make a pig of himself.
May I have another cup of coffee?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Please any further instructions for.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Bud Bud, Yes, and be sure to marry a woman
who cooks exactly like your mother.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, that's more like it. Now. May I have another
cup of coffee?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Daddy? Do you know what I learned in school today?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
I haven't the faintest idea. May I have the cream
and sugar, Betty?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Please?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Sugar statny, just pass it, never mind the dietary information.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes, father do.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Sugar is energy and I'm in a very energetic move.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
I am here you are, well, it's wonderful, dear. You've
been promising to fix the leak in the roof for
two weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Please, let's not be rude. Kathy was telling me something,
and it's probably very important. Go ahead, kitten. What you
were telling me something about?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
How do I know something about? I don't know. She
learned something in school today? Well, naturally, that's what she
was telling you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Oh I remember, daddy, Kathy? Do you know what I
learned in school today?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Why? No, little old lady passing by? What did you
learn in school today?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I learned that everybody in my whole class gets a
bigger alounce than I do.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, I guess I'll go back to the frying pan.
What were you saying, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Jim, you don't have to fix the roof. If you
don't want to, just let me call mister Pey.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I told you i'd fix it.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I will when.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, I'm certainly not going to crawl around on the
roof tonight.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Mister Payne says, you don't have to. You can fix
it from the inside.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, what when.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Are you going to fix the roof.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'll get around to it, Margaret, Just don't rush me.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Won't start raining until April anyway, And.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Of course April won't be here for two whole weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Well maybe Sunday afternoon when I'm feeling a little more arrested.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Jim, you're going to fix it tonight, Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
As soon as I finish reading the paper.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
You will fix the roof before you read the paper.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Just a minute, Margaret, since when do you?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Well, it isn't worth arguing about makes such a big
fuss about one punion of the leak father.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Now what as long as you aren't going anywhere, is
it all right if I buy the car?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, let's put it this way.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No, yeah, but I just want to go over to
Jannie's for a while.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I thought you had a chemistry exam tomorrow. I do
Glad't you say you had to study for it?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Well, sure, but I've got a study period in the morning,
and I.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Talk fine, that's just fine.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Did you hear that, Margaret, She's got a study period
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Isn't that good, Betty?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
How do you expect to get anywhere in the world
if you leave everything for the last minute.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well, I only have to brush up on a few formulas, then.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Brush up on them tonight. You know what they say,
procrastination is the thief of time.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Who says that?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Everybody?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Neither does your father.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yes, I've asked you a hundred times.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
We'll talk about it later, after you fix the roof.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yes, come on, Bud, fine, I heard your mother. We've
got to fix the roof. How did I get into it?
But I've got homework to do. You can do your
homework later. But you just said holy cow. I said
nothing that even remotely resembled holy cow.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I wish you'd stop arguing. But you can study later.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Who said anything about studying? You said you had homework,
didn't you sure? For my gym class. I'm gonna practice
nip ups all right, Bud?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Upstairs?
Speaker 9 (05:30):
My gym teacher said it made the back muscle strong
for pitching upstairs. And he's a baseball coach, so he
ought to know bad.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yes, then upstairs. Now, now we'll say it and get
it over with. Holy cow, but your excuse us, myrid,
we have to go fix the root.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That'll be fine there yet?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Eat me? I watch sure? Why doesn't everybody come up
and watch? We'll sell tickets. Come on, Bud, it's in.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The far corner gym, near the gymney.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I know where it is. I ought to know where
it is. I've been told about it.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Often enough, Daddy offild Okay, honey, you'll be sure and
do that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Nothing I liked more on a job than seven or
eight foreman? Oh is that? Then? I said, we'll have
it finished before you can say herb Gorman? Who's he?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He and your mother went to different schools together. Oh,
I didn't know that, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You know what I learned in school today?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
You've already told me Kathy, And the answer is no.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
He answer to what?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
May I have a larger allowance.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
How did you know? I was going to ask that.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
It's very simple, Kit. I'm the seventh son of a
seventh son. I was born with a veil.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'm a psychic.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
What does that mean?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
You still get thirty five cents a week?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Gee whiz, that's only a nickel a day, and you
know what you could buy with a nicol day.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I don't know, Cat, that's what's wrong with it.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well let's see now, good grief, look at the junk
up here. It's over on this side. Dad up here
can't even get to it. But it helped me move
some of this stuff out of the way like a
good feller.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay, you know how much Jimmy Woody gets fifty cent?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Shove that big box over the more, Bud. I'm not
supposed to move things that big dad. It'll ruin my
pitching arm. Bud. Shove, but the coach said, shove.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, sir, Laurie Hathaway gets forty cents and she's only
eight junk.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Three more boxes and we can open our own branch
at the Salvation Army.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
I'll bet Paul Petn't never had to shove boxes around an.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Attic who's he.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
He's a kid who's gonna pitch for Pittsburgh And they
gave him one hundred thousand dollars to sign.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
One hundred thousand dollars when he was on the eighteen
concentrate on the little boxes. But I'll take care of
the big.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Ones, Okay, then, Daddy, Kathy, you are not going to
get a larger allowance.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Why because thirty five cents is all you need?
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Why because you're only a little girl, and little girls
don't need more than thirty five cents a week?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Why because, Kathy, if you.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Say why once more, I'm going to give you the
worst spanking of your entire life.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'll come, Kathy. I think you can reach it. Now, Dad,
all right, let me take a look at it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You still didn't tell me.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Why don't you go downstairs and practice.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I'm going to practice tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Practice tonight. You won't have to practice tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Then what'll I do tomorrow?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
You can play?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Why can't I play?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now, Kathy, go downstairs and practice? The go ahead?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
She whizz? Why do why always have to practice? He
never sells any good anything?
Speaker 4 (09:10):
But are you sure?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Mister Payne said this could be fixed from the.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Inside sure, he said it just had to be carked
like a vote.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's ridiculous. How can you calk a slate roof?
Speaker 8 (09:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Don't bother me now, Betty, I'm busy.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I ask you something. If I put off seeing Jennie
until tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's not procrastinating, Betty.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You said, never put off till tomorrow. What you can
do today? And if I see Jennie tonight and study tomorrow,
isn't that just as good as good as what the
other way?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
But will you go down to the medicine cabinet get
me about eighth aspirin?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Do you have a headache?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Father?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
No, but I'm expecting one, jem. Oh, well, can't said you.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Were having a little trouble. Haven't you fixed the leak yet?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Honey, I can't fix it from the inside. But I
got to go out on the roof and put in
some new slates, so I'll do it Sunday.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Well, all right, Jim, you'd rather read your paper.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm not going to read my paper. I've got work
to do. I'm going downstairs and finish my income text.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Father won't even let me have the car for an hour,
And I told.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
A minute, Jim, what did you just say.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
I said, I'm going downstairs and finish my income taxt
and don't tell me that isn't important.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
If nobody needs me for any Jim, do you mean
to say you haven't taken.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Care of your tax return.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm going to take care of it now.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But this is March fifteenth.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Well, you gave the children a long lecture about procrastination
and you haven't filed your tax returning.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Honey, I've still got lots of time.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
But it's March fifteenth, now.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I know.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
But it's only seven o'clock and the tax isn't doing
until midnight.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Father sounds pretty sure of himself, planning to fill out
that tax return in five short hours.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, let's wait and see.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
On the other hand, ladies, the head of the house
is perfectly sure of a great many things.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
One of them is coffee. That's right.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
That husband of yours is the world's greatest coffee expert,
day in day out. He's the final judge, the number
one expert on good coffee. It's true, we maxwell house
people are called experts too. More families do enjoy our
coffee than any other brand. But when you brew the coffee.
When you fill the cups. The expert with the final say,
(11:41):
so he's your husband, and tomorrow, if you'll serve him
Maxwell House, we're sure you'll win his warmest smile.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
And this company, honey, that's what I.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Call real coffee.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Yes, indeed, that's what he'll say. In fact, we'll give
you your money back if he does. The plain fact is
no coffee tastes like Maxwell House because no coffee is
made like Maxwell House. There's only one recipe for that
famous good to the last drop flavor, a recipe demanding
certain fine coffees blended just so, and only Maxwell House
(12:15):
has this recipe. So tomorrow, serve your husband our Maxwell House.
If he doesn't say best coffee ever, why just send
us the can an unused Porsche, and we will gladly
refund the price you pay.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Our address is right on every familiar blue ten.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
How about it, then, sir, tomorrow, won't you serve your
husband the coffee with the world's most famous flavor? And
Maxwell House coffee always good, real to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
No matter what anyone tells you.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
When Thomas Payne said these are the times that try
men's souls, he was not referring to March fifth.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
In those days, you see, they hadn't.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Thought of the income tax.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
But they've thought of it since seventh day, and they've
thought of that cute little hangover from the Spanish inquisition
the income tax. Blank myself, I'd rather try making a
nine the hard way.
Speaker 11 (13:16):
Three to three fund supply ukase subtract Line two from
in your blue head well applies six hundred dollars by
the total numbers.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Flavor if line hand is being over four hundred dollars
but not over one hundred thousand dollars under fifty two
dollars plus nine percent.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
If alternative tax computation is made on separate scheduled D
scheduled D time, its standard deduction in line two. In
disregard lines in sixteen and seventeen and the copy online
eighteen you entered online age which myself, Kathy, for a minute, please, I'm.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
In a dead okay.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I could only find that piece of paper.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
It had the whole thing piece, Daddy. Isn't it pretty?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Pretty? Isn't the word for it?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Look, Kathy, I can even play it with my eyes closed.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
When you hear me, I thought that's the way you
were playing.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh no, I was.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What Kathy, wouldn't you like to do the rest of
your practicing.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Some But you said I shouldn't put off till tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, I just happened to think of something. What if
it rains, then where'll you'll be?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
In the basement?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
What I mean is if it rains, you won't be
able to do anything but practice. And if you practice now,
you have nothing to do all day ti more? If
it rains, will you will want have.
Speaker 14 (15:05):
Anything to.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Haven't you to me?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
What did I say? I don't know, Kathy? Good grief?
Speaker 13 (15:18):
What's going on up there? Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
But what are you doing? You see?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
If you can't make a little less noise and put
down a blanket or something, you're liable to break your back.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Okay, please, I'm talking to.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I wouldn't care if you were talking to Winston Churchill.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
The fine thing when.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
A man, Jim, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I'm doing my income taxt? Can't you see what I mean?
What am I doing?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
You can't find the papers, can't make hatter tailor these
idiotic instructions. Income tax to figure tentative tax on amount
shown in line five. If line three above includes partially
tax exempt.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Multiply amount on line twelve by two to obtain combined normal.
Speaker 15 (16:26):
Subtract line seventeen from line eight thirteen or fourteen an
interdifference in iron five.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Oh no, it isn't possible.
Speaker 15 (16:42):
Add the figures on lines fifteen and sixteen. Enter income
tax paid at the source on tax free coveted bond interest.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Kathy, Kathy, Yeah, but.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Mad father, if you keep on taking all I not,
if you call me Margaret, how do you expect me
to Kathy? Stop that?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Kathy?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Hoy say something.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Jim earth Soul is shouting about it.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Honey, I'd better call Hector and get him to straighten
me out on this income tax business.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I can't make head or tail of it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I thought you said you could.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I said I thought I could.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But that's what I said.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You said I said I could, and I didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I said, I.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Thought, well I can't. So what difference does it make?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I can't even find a paper, what paper Ms Thomas
had it all written down? What went online fourteen and
what went online fifteen? And all I can find are
those cock eyed government instructions that tell you the disregard
both of them.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Well, I have an idea why don't you call Hector.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Thank you, Margaret. That's a very good suggestion. Glad you
thought of it.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yaddy said you wanted me, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I thought you were going to practice, Margaret, bud. It's
strengthening his back.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Kathy, run upstairs like a good girl, and tell your brother.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I'd like to see it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, and hurry, Kathleen before he kills himself.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yes, honey, really, he's doing nipops.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
It's a very graceful exercise.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
As you can see, Honey, won't have a bone left
in his body.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
He's a thirty.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm worried about it. Thought you said.
Speaker 14 (18:40):
I said I could and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Thomas written down fifteen.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I find guy.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Regard movea.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Creepers.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Mother.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I don't even more get started talking.
Speaker 13 (19:08):
You've been on that phone for thirty minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
But what I said, I don't even more get started.
Speaker 16 (19:17):
Never having a child one of these years.
Speaker 13 (19:29):
To get Washington so upset.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
The fire, the whole Treasury depart Are they ringing?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
This? Something is ringing?
Speaker 16 (19:38):
And I hope it may They aren't back yet, back
from where Elizabeth told me this morning that the plane.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Well, this is a fine time that tells me.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Let me waste all that time. Now me, I use
the phone.
Speaker 13 (19:53):
No, the rest of my life in jail, right, Bobby,
Please try to come down the stairs like only one.
Speaker 14 (20:06):
Elephant what.
Speaker 13 (20:12):
I said, never mind, Margaret. If I don't find that paper,
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
With all the text figures on it. My head it
right on top of my desk.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Maybe somebody put it in the desk.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Yeah, I think if that paper got in front of
the desk.
Speaker 13 (20:28):
If you keep your desk like any other man, there's
nothing wrong with my desk.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You just can't find anything in it, that's all, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I've told you a dozen times I'll clean it out,
and I will.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You've been telling me that for two years.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I just happened half the time.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
For years.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Honey. This is not the time to argue about cleaning
out my desk. What do you want? Uh, I don't
want anything. Then why don't you leave me alone? Cathy
said you wanted to see me. Oh well, now I've
seen you. Goodbye, Jim. Oh, and stop doing nip ups.
(21:16):
But the last time I almost did it. The last
time you almost went through the floor.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Jim. If the paper is in the desk, all write.
Speaker 13 (21:23):
You every day from halfatras.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Alcatra Je.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
We do find the paper?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
How long.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
An hour?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
All right?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
We can have the desk cleaned out in twenty minutes, Margaret.
I'd have done it myself. But I don't know which
papers you want to keep him, which ones you want
thrown away?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Other people make out income taxes and they don't have
to go through things like this.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Now, Can I call it yady?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
No, Dear, you're going to help your father.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Big corporations with thousands of desks, they make out income
taxes every year.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Kathy, We're going to clean out daddy's desk.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I'll be right down.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Millions and millions of people make out income taxes, make
them out year after year.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They don't have to clean out their desks.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Bud, go out to the garage and get a large box, okay, Mom,
the largest one you can find.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
People who don't even have desks make out their income
tax without the least.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Bit of trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
All right, dear, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
It's the silliest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.
One small piece of paper, Jim.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
It isn't getting any earlier.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Okay, let's go mother, if I'm going to take that
chemistry exam tomorrow, Betty, but father said I ought to study.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
You've got a study period in the morning, Remember chomping.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Isn't it funny?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Jim?
Speaker 7 (22:48):
It took two years and a missing piece of paper
to get you to clean out your desk?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Very funny. I'm practically hysterical.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Here we are. Now, where shall we begin?
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Let's see if I were a piece of paper, and
what drawer would I hide?
Speaker 7 (23:11):
As long as we're at it, we'll do a good job. Betty,
pull out all the drawers on that side and empty
them on the floor.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Margaret, you don't have to worry about a thing, dear.
We'll go through all the papers together and you can
pick out the ones you want to say. But go ahead, Betty,
start dumping creepers.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What on that? Margaret? You don't have to look so
happy about it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
No, you knew how long I've been wanting to do this. No,
all the doors are empty. So if that comes in
at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
What's this? What this?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh, dear, you weren't supposed to find that yet?
Speaker 13 (23:48):
What is it?
Speaker 16 (23:49):
Father?
Speaker 15 (23:50):
It's my income tax and it's all made out people, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Now, Jim, let's not jump to any conclusion.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You took that piece of paper, didn't you. Well you
send it over to Hector and had him make.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
Out the t.
Speaker 16 (24:04):
I guess I did, And then you let me spin.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
My own juice.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Margaret, Well, some other way I could have gotten the
clean out.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Of your head? Isn't this true?
Speaker 10 (24:46):
Every pound of coffee you buy, you're looking for the
most in flavor for your money. If you agree, take
this thought to your grosses this weekend on his shelves.
There's a coffee famous for flavor above all others.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It's our coffee, our.
Speaker 13 (25:01):
Max take home.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
After a cup the world's.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
Greatest coffee expert, your husband. When he smiles from ear
to ear and says best coffee ever, you'll know why
Maxwell House is world famous for flavor. Then keep track
of all the truly good cups of coffee you get
from that one pound.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
We think you'll be convinced for real value.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Maxwell House is to day's coffee by So this weekend,
look for the big white cup and drop on the
friendly blue tin. Take home Maxwell House coffee always good
to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
It's morning now, and the Andersons are at breakfast. It
should be a happy time of day.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
It generally is, as a matter of fact, but not
to day.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
No, indeed, not by a long shine like this. May
I have my coffee please? Jee? I'd rather not talk
about it, Margaret. Just let me have my coffee.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Right, dear there you are, go ahead, Kathy H two
S O four So if you're a cass K two
C three potassium night trade no harbaby, yep, forty years
old and I have to tease the.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Last is something wrong?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But I don't know. I must have slept funny last night.
My hold back?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You really?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
I wonder why I can't figure it out.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I take such good care of myself.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I have a cream please?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Here are daddy?
Speaker 12 (26:49):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
You know, Margaret, you'd have felt pretty silly if I'd
done the income tax myself, wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
There wasn't much danger that here.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
What do you mean coffee?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Well?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
You know the way you procrastinate twelve or even sugar?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Thank you very much? Does father know best? You? Bet?
Speaker 8 (27:27):
I do.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
When the kids don't want their hot cereal, I say, Mom,
tell him.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Hop along goes for post wheatmeal. Then you ought to
see him dig in. That's right, Dad, just tell the kids.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Postweetmeal is hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal and they
eat it too. Postweatmeal has wonderful nut like flavor, solid
whole wheat nourishment, cooks in three and a half minutes.
You'll see you'll all agree it's the best hot cereal
you ever ate. Join us again next week when we'll
(28:02):
be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as
Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Hawks
group in our cast, where Norma Jean Nilsen as Kathy,
June Whitley, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, 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 to the last drop. Father Knows Best was
(28:25):
transcribed in Hollywood and written by HEV Jane. Now stay
tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of
these stations.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Now here exciting and authentic police drama. It's Dragnet on
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