August 6, 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):
Mother, is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World when your father said so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as father.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A half hour.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
America's favorite coffee, Maxwellhouse, the.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Coffee that's always good to the last drought.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
It was Byron who said, all history attests that happiness
for man, the hungry sinner since Eve eight apples much
depends on dinner.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, if you were making plans for.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
A dinner party, you'd probably start with the fruit cocktail
or canafes, or stairs on the half show, something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
In Springfield, However.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
In the white frame House on Maple Streets, they do
things in a much more logical way.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
When Jim Anderson plans a dinner, he starts in a.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Basic concrete manner like this, All right, Bud, let me
have a cement. Here you are, Dad, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Now wait a minute. You didn't use the whole sack.
Didn't you want me to? But that's enough cement to
build a second boulder. Dam Oh gosh, I didn't know.
You just said the mix.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
We're building a barbecue pit, not another porch for the
White House.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Jim, I told you in the very beginning.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I mean, I know you don't approve, but I guarantee
that when I get through, we'll have the finest brick
barbecue in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Germans had a sale of portable barbecues, and there was
no reason.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
That's the trouble with this family. They're always buying things.
Wouldn't you much rather use something you've built yourself.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Not if someone else can build it better?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Margaret, Why do you assume that someone else can build
a barbecue better than I can?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Because you've built a barbecue?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
What was wrong with it?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
It fell apart?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, there was a reason for that. Now, the proper
material they sold me stale cement, that's all yeady. I've
got the bricks all piled up like you telling me,
Oh that's fine, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now what do you want me to do?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, how would you like to go inside and do
your homework? But I want to Hell, I'll go inside
and do my homework. You stay where you are. You've
got to get this thing built in a hurry, and
it's gonna take both of us to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He always gets to help you because he's a boy
and you love him more than you love me.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I do not, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Then why can't I help you?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Because I?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Oh, here, you take the magazine with the instructions and
read them off to us.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I'll that be Is that important?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Of course it's important. It's probably the most important part.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Of the whole job.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Why can't I help budsterr up the goop?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Because the goop is all stirred up?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Now do you want to read the instructions or would
you prefer to go inside and do your homework.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I'll read the instructions, daddy, all right, jam One second, honey,
we've got to get this thing going before the cement hardens.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What does it say, Kathy? Next?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Two parts of cement, one part he had dreaded.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Hydrated, nine nine parts graded sand.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You've already mixed the cement, Kathy? What comes next?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's all it says.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's on the next page.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Dopey, Oh, Bud, that's no way to speak to your sister.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, good grief. If she doesn't know enough to turn
a page.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Cure it is. What does it say, continue from page
seventy two?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's nice? What else does it say?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
After building concrete slab to desired size for bays.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What do you have to do that for the slab?
Butt is to hold the ashes and they drop through?
Why can't they just fall on the ground because it
isn't that kind of a barbecue.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Joe Phillotson, his father built a barbecue and they didn't
put a slab.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
On the bottom. They were too lazy to do it properly.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Now make a slab for the base, and let's not
have any more arguments.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
What are you gonna do? I have to speak to
your mother? Well, go ahead, Holy cow? Uh what were
you saying? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I was just wondering, well, we needed a barbecue at
this particular time.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I explained the whole thing to you less than ten
minutes ago. Phil Buckley and his wife are going to
be in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
And you've invited them to dinner.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I understand that, Jim, But Margaret, they live in an
apartment in New York. How often do you suppose they
get to eat charcoal broiled steaks grilled over an open fire.
How often do they have a chance to eat out
of doors with the sky for a roof and the
green grass for carpet.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
How often do you suppose they can get pneumonia?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
This is November, Jim, it's cold.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
This is not the sky for a roof in green
grass season.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I promised Phil Buckley barbecue steaks. And when I make
a promise, yes, you don't suppose they'd rather eat indoors,
do you not?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Unless they're normal human beings?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Well that's all right, then, nobody ever accused the district
supervisor being either normal or human.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
How about missus Buckley?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Well, anybody who can be happily married to a stuffed
shirt like Phil Buckley won't know the difference.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Gim well, Buckley keeps telling me what an outdoor man
he is.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Sits in a duck blind all winter fishes with the
icy spray bouncing over the poop deck or wherever it bounces.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
He'd probably be insultied if we even mentioned going indoors.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Of course, the steaks do seem to taste better outside.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You bet they do. The smell of charcoal smoke, steaks
sizzling on the grill. Bad. Haven't you finished that slab yet?
I'm just moving it out there? What's smooth enough? Now?
There you see, But it wasn't any trouble at all.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What's next, Kathy, lay three rows of bricks building at
the corners first?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, nothing very complicated about that. If you lay the
bricks all the way around, how do you get the
ashes out? This is a very reliable magazine. And if
they say to put the bricks all around, you put
them all around. Maybe they send the man out for
the ashes. Huh, that's not very funny. I wasn't trying
to be funny, dad, But if you put the bricks
(06:35):
all around, you start with that corner, and I'll start
with this corner.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
And when you get to Scotland give my regards to
loch Loman.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Live.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You're in a gay mood, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Goods lock Loman?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Daddy, Never mind, just concentrate on the instructions. Now, what
comes next?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Use a plum level and a forthlets great edge of
wood to keep in plumb. What's that?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Well, we'll skip that part. We don't have to be
too technical about it, do we.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
But the Phillips filled theirs without a magazine, and they
can take the ashes off.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But I asked you something. Oh I'm sorry, Dad, I
guess I wasn't listening. We well, fuck.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Uh, your father wasn't listening either.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now look here, Margaret, you said dewey Daddy.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Of course that's what I said. Well, Bud, do we
do we? What? Hand me a few bricks? Kathy? Please? Hey?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Where is everybody?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
We're in the backyard, betty.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Dad.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
If the ashes fall down and you've got bricks all
on the bottom, the magazine says three rows of bricks.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And that's what we put in. Unless you think you
know more about it than they do. I didn't say that, Dad.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
What's going on out here? We're building a bone.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I'm a kill before cats fur to make kitting bridges?
What I'm also with my side? Dad? Want me to help?
Good yard? Never mind? Now have it finished in two seconds?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Mother?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, dear?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Why the barbecue all of a sudden when mister Buckley
and his wife are coming to dinner on Saturday and
your father promised them a Saturday.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Now, what's the matter? Mother?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You can't have anybody for dinner on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh? I can't, can't I? Mother?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
That's homecoming day? Oh dear, I forgot all about it
about what.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I'm giving a party on Saturday after the football game.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, this is a fine time to tell me.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I did tell you, father, You even suggested the Chilian
beans dinner?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Is that this Saturday?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Thirty people and you have to pick that day for
a barbecue, Betty.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Your father didn't do it deliberately.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is business, Betty. I didn't know mister Buckley was coming,
but he is. And there isn't anything I can do
about it.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I'm ruined my whole life as a sham, Betty.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
There's no need to be upset, of course not.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
We'll have both parties, that's all. You have yours indoors
and we'll have ours outdoors. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh? Nothing, as long as you keep Kathy outdoors with you.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Now just a minute, Betty, the Buckley's Uh, there's no
reason why Kathy can't stay inside.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Father.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
She'll ruin everything, you know how she is. I didn't
do anything, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Will you please explain to her?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
This is the most.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Important party of my life and you want her to
spoil it?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Betty, mister Buckley is a very important man.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Any we're stuff, sure, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Margaret, No matter what happens, no matter what Betty says,
Kathy's not going to stay outside with us.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Mother, Please, you know what she did last time? She
started a football game in the living room. Oh, nobody
broke anything, did they?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
None of the girls talked to me for a week.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Father, if you only knew ready.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I think I can fix the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You do.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Jim and Lucilla Hathaway are going on a picnic next Saturday,
and I know they'll be glad to take Kathy with them.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Would you like that, dear gee, that'd be keen.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Oh well, that's a very sensible solution.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I'll fix a little lunch for Kathy and Bobby.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Wait a minute, how did I get into this? But
I don't want to go on a picnic.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I've got a date with Joe Phillips. Bud, you'll go
along and take care of your sisters.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
But why should I suffer just because she's a pass.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm not a pass.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
You certainly are I certainly aren't. I wasn't doing anything
to anybody. I was standing here and not hurting us all.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
But we won't discuss it anymore. But you spend the
day with a hat the ways and you'll have a
very good time.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Holy cow ah, that's settle. Now, let's get back to
the barbice.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What comes next, Kathy, after the mortar has hardened, filled
with water to the first line of bricks.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, that shouldn't be to what Why do you need
water in a barbecue? Kathy? Give me that magazine.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I just read what it said. Caddy.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
See. Oh no, what's the matter with that? Kathy?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You I didn't do anything, Jim, what is it?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
What did she do?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
She turned two pages, that's what she did. You know what?
We've built a bird bath.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
A cup of coffee is making some good.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
News these days.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
All over the country, grocers are featuring Maxwell How Coffee
at lower prices. Yees, lower prices on Maxwell House something
we've all been wanting to see. You your grosser and
the Maxwell House people now that wonderful, good to the
last drop flavor is yours to enjoy at the lowest
prices in months, rich satisfying flavor you can count.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
On cup after cup, day after day.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Because with Maxwell House Coffee, we have just one aim
to bring you the most in flavor and real enjoyment
every pound you buy, to bring you truly good coffee
at the lowest possible price. That's why Maxwell House gives
you so much more flavor for your money, your money's
worth and more in pleasure and satisfaction. And at today's prices,
(12:45):
it's more than ever today's coffee. Buy next time you
shop look for that familiar blue Maxwell House ten in
your store feature these days, at the lowest prices in months,
Bring home a pound and start enjoying coffee that's always
good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
It's Saturday in Springfield and there's great activity at the
Andersons indoors. Betty's party is proceeding at a great break outdoors. Well, outdoors,
things aren't going as well as they might like. This Ah,
the outdoor life, missus Buckley, that's the thing, living in
the open, close to nature.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
We're very happy with our apartment.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yes it has steam heat.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
And do miss telling me that you have some wonderful
plans for the future, mister.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Buckley, Right now I'm beginning to doubt that there is
any future. Yes, sir, this is the sort of thing
you New Yorkers miss, The peace and quiet of a
small community, a chance to look at the.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Blue sky and the green grass. The simple life.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
There is nothing in the world more complicated than the
simple life. What happened to those stakes you were talking about.
All right here, Phil, not a few minutes. I'll have
these coals just the way I want. You know, Jim,
this barbecue of yours has given me an idea, a
great idea till.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
It gets ideas from the strangest thing.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So I've been told, Margaret, what were you saying, Phil?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
This is a whole new approach to the family angle
of insurance protection, modernization, that's the ticket.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, I wouldn't say that this was the most modern
barbecue in the world.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
That's what I mean. Why buy an old fashioned policy?
Why cook the way the caveman did when they've invented stoves?
Follow me, Phil, You can't get.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
The charcoal flavor in a stole. It's the It's the smoke.
It makes the difference.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Jim is testing it now for the proper consistency. It
certainly looks thick enough.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I don't know what's gotten into this fire. It should
have been ready.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Well, stop poking at it.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You've put it out twice.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Now would you care for another blanket, mister Buckley?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Oh no, thank you, Right now.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm interested in food.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
You might not believe this pill, but but and I
built this barbecue with our own hands. I can believe
it very easily. It's the weirdest looking contraction I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You feel it likes everything to be efficient, don't you, Phil?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
It is the smoke annoying you, missus Buckley. Oh no,
it seems to.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Make things a little warmer. I think we're just about ready, Phil, good.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I was beginning to wonder whether you build a barbecuers
or a smudge part. Yes, sir, In ten minutes you'll
be digging into the greatest steak you've ever eaten. Ten minutes,
I'll be ready to take a bite out of a
passing cow.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Well, here we go.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And when these steaks hit the grill, just listen to
them sizzle. I tell you, Phil, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
There. Now they'll crackle and pop and sputter, fill the
air with the most magnificent aroma. When that's funny they
always have before.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Jim, don't take them inside.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I'll get it going in just a minute. Honey.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Let me take a look at that fire. Jim, get it.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You're getting all uncovered.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
You catch your death of cold.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It's going to be all right, Phil.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
It's just like sitting in an ice box. That's what
it is. Jim, where are you.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Right over here? Phil? Barbecue?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
You want to sell the confounded thing to the government
as a secret weapon. He's gonna get too close to
it close. I can't even find the thing.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Jim.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
There's a perfectly good stove in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Oh, oh, there you are.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
It looks like the draft is not operating quite the
way it should. Maybe if I poked the fire a
little more, leave it alone. How do you expect it
to get well if you keep picking at it. Those
children sitting they seem to be having a nice time indoors.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Jim, just a minute, honey, I think I know it's.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Wrong, you know, Phil, I think if we could just
raise the fire a little, would you like me to
get under it and push? Well, no, but I would
just YEA God's man, those steaks aren't even warm.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Why don't you lower the grill? Well, you see, we
had to build it in a hurry.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
It was a bird bath first, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
We had some technical problems to overcome, and we.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Had to take a few little shortcuts. So well, that's
the only place the grill goes. But if we can
raise the fire a little, why don't we just hold
some matches under the stakes.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Jim, I think this has gone quite far enough.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I mean, if you'll just give me a few more minutes.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Are you going to take the stakes inside? Or shall I?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Why don't we all go inside? No, you will.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
You'd better stay right here, Phil, all those kids running around,
they'd trample all over you. Well, that would be quicker
than dying of cold.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Put your blankets back on, Philla.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Jim, I'll take the steaks inside. I'll have them cooked
in two minutes. Well, please hurry, dear, you stay right
where you are and enjoy yourselves the simple life. When
I get home, I'm going to kiss every stall on
Fifth Avenue, try to do something unusual.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And what thanks do you get? Put matches under the steak,
he tells me. Big outdoor man shoots ducks in the
middle of the winter. I've never saw a duck in
his whole lot. Father. Oh Betty, can I speak to
you for a minute.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Isn't this a wonderful party?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Father?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
How's yours going?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Uh? Fine, Betty, that's fine. I mister Anderson. Oh hello, Tommy,
having a good time? Great? See Betty? The gang needs
some more Chilian beans.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Well, there's lots of it on the stove, grab a pot.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Okay, see you around the drug store, Misterdison. Yes, see
you're around the drug store.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Isn't he a goon?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Father? Yes, he certainly is. Betty. I yes, father, I know.
I promise to keep the buckleys outside. But we're freezing
to death.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Father.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
The barbecue doesn't work, the steaks won't cook.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
You've got to let us come in. That's all.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Father, you're going to ruin everything.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Everything is ruined. I'll be lucky if I don't get fired.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Father, If you'll just wait another few hours, he's.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Dead in another few hours.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Look, just get all of those things out of the oven.
Let me cook the steaks, and we'll discuss the rest
of it later.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But you can't take the biscuits out of the oven.
There'll be ice cold.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well, we're ice cold. Why should they be any better?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Father?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Oh no, they came back and off the poster and
they came back.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Ay, your dad, what's cooking? Very little? Believe me? What
are you doing here? We live here. You weren't supposed
to be home for three hours? What happened to the picnic?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Mister Hathaway said it was too cold for a picnic?
What are you doing with the steaks?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Father? If she goes anywhere near the living room and
says anything about a.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Football game, I hid the football, so stop worrying about it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Let me get at the stove. Why don't you use
the barbecue, dad? Why don't you take Kathy to the movies?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Go ahead, Bud, you heard what he said.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We haven't had our dinner yet.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Can eat popcorn?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Butt? Come on, I haven't had anything to eat since
one o'clock? What happened to the picnic lunch? We ate
that on the way over by.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Jim Money, we're there.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
The most ridiculous thing that's ever happened in my whole life, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I was just starting to cook the steaks. Mother.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It isn't time for you to come in.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
It most certainly is. It's raining.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Well, outside of an earthquake, what else can happen? Now?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
See here, Jim, I've stood just about it. Eh.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
What's that? What on the stove? What is it?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Oh? Chilian beans? Phil But if you'll be patient for
just another few minutes.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Chili? Did you hear that? Isabelle? Chili?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Doesn't it smell wonderful?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
You mean you like chili all the time?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Philip, was courting me.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
We never ate anything else.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Chilian beans and chopped onions. I haven't had anything like
that since. Oh, grab a plate, Isabelle, I already.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Have, Phil. I've got all these steaks.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
You can take the steaks and stuff them back in
the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yead, what is it, Bud?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I eat a steak, grab some of this chili. But
it's terrific.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I mean, mister Buckley off by myself, Betty.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
If I were two years younger, i'd marry you.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Don't listen to him, Betty.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
He tells that to all agols. Can I have some chili?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I have a steak ready in five minutes, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I don't want to steak out some chili.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Kathy, I don't think you should.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Oh a little chili isn't going to hurt her, Margaret,
you don't bind if I call you, Margaret?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Do you I know? Hey, buddy, hurry up, we're waiting
for you.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Oh just a minute, Tommy, they're gonna do Bertie in
a cave you.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Wait a minute. You mean you're going to square dance.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's just for the young people.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Well, we're young people.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Come on, but I haven't finished, not chili.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Bring it along, Come on, Isabelle.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I'm sorry, Margaret, but he's so impetuous.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Betty, you're holding up the whole works.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You want me to carry your play, Missus Buckley.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I can manage it, dear.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, I come too, Bendy, Oh sure, come on, we'll.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Be back later.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Well, Dad, there's a great thing. Nine dollars and sixty
cents for steak. They want chili, Dad, so help me, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
This is the last time I try to do anything
or anybody. Dad. What do you want, Bud? I eat
a steak, thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
I mean, if it'll help you out any Oh, all.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Right, Bud, go ahead, eat all of them, all of them.
Holy caw. Where are you going to get? Joe Phillips.
I'm gonna need help.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Bud, Jim.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yes, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
While we were waiting for you outside, I had a
long talk with the buck.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Please, it's good for you.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Do you know why missus Buckley made this trip to
Springfield At.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
This stage, I don't know anything.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Well, mister Buckley had told her so much about our
children that she wanted to meet them.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
She did.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They weren't interested in barbecues and steaks, they wanted to
spend the day with Kathy and Betty and Bud Well.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I was I supposed to know they They don't look
like the sort of people who like children, but.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
They do, Jim. They like them very much. They like
us all very much.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Well, what's so funny?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Just something missus Buckley?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
All right, go ahead, drop the other shoe. What did
she say now? You won't be angry, of course not.
What did she say?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, she said that mister Buckley had a great deal
of respect for your business ability.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yes, and isn't it too bad you're such a stuffed shirt.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You're mighty happy about the coffee news.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
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Speaker 3 (25:46):
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Speaker 8 (25:49):
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Speaker 3 (26:04):
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Speaker 8 (26:06):
Maxwell House, featured in stores everywhere these days at the
lowest prices in months. You can be sure it's always
good to the last drop. Now it's Sunday in Springfield
and in the Anderson backyard. Jim, he's the stubborn Rover boys,
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still determined.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
To make the barbecue work like this here you see
nothing wrong with it? Now, is there?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
No, dear, weren't the Buckley's fun mother boy?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Could he square dance?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
How do you suppose he learned a new thing like
square dancing?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Look at those hamburgers, Cook, Margaret, I ask you. Isn't
that beautiful?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Yes, dear, just beautiful.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I can't figure out what got into the darn thing yesterday. Well,
it's like a new baby, I guess. Invite a bunch
of people over to see it. What happens, probably cries
for the first time in his whole life.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Yes, I know what you mean.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Now you take last night smoke like a chimney. Probably
won't smoke again as long as we have it.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Bud, I've got the plate. Mom.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Just one of those things won't happen again in a
million years.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Go ahead, Bud, where are you taking the hamburgers into
the kitchen where they belonged?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Wait a minute, Margaret, there's nothing wrong with a barbecue.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
It's just what was that, dear I said? Never mind?
Speaker 9 (27:58):
Tell the kids that's it's a hot favorite with Hoppy.
That's hot post tweetmeal. And you won't have to coax
the youngsters to eat a hot cereal for breakfast if
you tell them how Hopolo and Cassidy loves hot post tweetmeal.
Hoppy knows it's chuck full of good, solid nourishment. He
goes for a rich nut like flavor, and you'll go
for the fact that post tweetmeal cooks in just three
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and a half minutes. So get hot post tweetmeal and
tell the kids it's Hoppy's favorite. You'll see you'll all
agree it's the best hot cereal you ever ate.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
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Roy Bargee 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
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Now Stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over
most of these stations.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
Mother, is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World when your father said so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as father.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A half hour.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
America's favorite coffee, Maxwellhouse, the.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Coffee that's always good to the last drought.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
It was Byron who said, all history attests that happiness
for man, the hungry sinner since Eve eight apples much
depends on dinner.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, if you were making plans for.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
A dinner party, you'd probably start with the fruit cocktail
or canafes, or stairs on the half show, something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
In Springfield, However.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
In the white frame House on Maple Streets, they do
things in a much more logical way.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
When Jim Anderson plans a dinner, he starts in a.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Basic concrete manner like this, All right, Bud, let me
have a cement. Here you are, Dad, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Now wait a minute. You didn't use the whole sack.
Didn't you want me to? But that's enough cement to
build a second boulder. Dam Oh gosh, I didn't know.
You just said the mix.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
We're building a barbecue pit, not another porch for the
White House.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Jim, I told you in the very beginning.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I mean, I know you don't approve, but I guarantee
that when I get through, we'll have the finest brick
barbecue in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Germans had a sale of portable barbecues, and there was
no reason.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
That's the trouble with this family. They're always buying things.
Wouldn't you much rather use something you've built yourself.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Not if someone else can build it better?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Margaret, Why do you assume that someone else can build
a barbecue better than I can?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Because you've built a barbecue?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
What was wrong with it?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
It fell apart?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, there was a reason for that. Now, the proper
material they sold me stale cement, that's all yeady. I've
got the bricks all piled up like you telling me,
Oh that's fine, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now what do you want me to do?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, how would you like to go inside and do
your homework? But I want to Hell, I'll go inside
and do my homework. You stay where you are. You've
got to get this thing built in a hurry, and
it's gonna take both of us to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
He always gets to help you because he's a boy
and you love him more than you love me.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I do not, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Then why can't I help you?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Because I?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Oh, here, you take the magazine with the instructions and
read them off to us.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I'll that be Is that important?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Of course it's important. It's probably the most important part.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Of the whole job.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Why can't I help budsterr up the goop?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Because the goop is all stirred up?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Now do you want to read the instructions or would
you prefer to go inside and do your homework.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I'll read the instructions, daddy, all right, jam One second, honey,
we've got to get this thing going before the cement hardens.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What does it say, Kathy? Next?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Two parts of cement, one part he had dreaded.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Hydrated, nine nine parts graded sand.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You've already mixed the cement, Kathy? What comes next?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's all it says.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's on the next page.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Dopey, Oh, Bud, that's no way to speak to your sister.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, good grief. If she doesn't know enough to turn
a page.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Cure it is. What does it say, continue from page
seventy two?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
That's nice? What else does it say?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
After building concrete slab to desired size for bays.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What do you have to do that for the slab?
Butt is to hold the ashes and they drop through?
Why can't they just fall on the ground because it
isn't that kind of a barbecue.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Joe Phillotson, his father built a barbecue and they didn't
put a slab.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
On the bottom. They were too lazy to do it properly.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Now make a slab for the base, and let's not
have any more arguments.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
What are you gonna do? I have to speak to
your mother? Well, go ahead, Holy cow? Uh what were
you saying? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I was just wondering, well, we needed a barbecue at
this particular time.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I explained the whole thing to you less than ten
minutes ago. Phil Buckley and his wife are going to
be in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
And you've invited them to dinner.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I understand that, Jim, But Margaret, they live in an
apartment in New York. How often do you suppose they
get to eat charcoal broiled steaks grilled over an open fire.
How often do they have a chance to eat out
of doors with the sky for a roof and the
green grass for carpet.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
How often do you suppose they can get pneumonia?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
This is November, Jim, it's cold.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
This is not the sky for a roof in green
grass season.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I promised Phil Buckley barbecue steaks. And when I make
a promise, yes, you don't suppose they'd rather eat indoors,
do you not?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Unless they're normal human beings?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Well that's all right, then, nobody ever accused the district
supervisor being either normal or human.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
How about missus Buckley?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Well, anybody who can be happily married to a stuffed
shirt like Phil Buckley won't know the difference.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Gim well, Buckley keeps telling me what an outdoor man
he is.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Sits in a duck blind all winter fishes with the
icy spray bouncing over the poop deck or wherever it bounces.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
He'd probably be insultied if we even mentioned going indoors.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Of course, the steaks do seem to taste better outside.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You bet they do. The smell of charcoal smoke, steaks
sizzling on the grill. Bad. Haven't you finished that slab yet?
I'm just moving it out there? What's smooth enough? Now?
There you see, But it wasn't any trouble at all.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What's next, Kathy, lay three rows of bricks building at
the corners first?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, nothing very complicated about that. If you lay the
bricks all the way around, how do you get the
ashes out? This is a very reliable magazine. And if
they say to put the bricks all around, you put
them all around. Maybe they send the man out for
the ashes. Huh, that's not very funny. I wasn't trying
to be funny, dad, But if you put the bricks
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all around, you start with that corner, and I'll start
with this corner.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
And when you get to Scotland give my regards to
loch Loman.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Live.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You're in a gay mood, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Goods lock Loman?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Daddy, Never mind, just concentrate on the instructions. Now, what
comes next?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Use a plum level and a forthlets great edge of
wood to keep in plumb. What's that?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Well, we'll skip that part. We don't have to be
too technical about it, do we.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
But the Phillips filled theirs without a magazine, and they
can take the ashes off.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But I asked you something. Oh I'm sorry, Dad, I
guess I wasn't listening. We well, fuck.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Uh, your father wasn't listening either.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now look here, Margaret, you said dewey Daddy.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Of course that's what I said. Well, Bud, do we
do we? What? Hand me a few bricks? Kathy? Please? Hey?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Where is everybody?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
We're in the backyard, betty.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Dad.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
If the ashes fall down and you've got bricks all
on the bottom, the magazine says three rows of bricks.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And that's what we put in. Unless you think you
know more about it than they do. I didn't say that, Dad.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
What's going on out here? We're building a bone.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I'm a kill before cats fur to make kitting bridges?
What I'm also with my side? Dad? Want me to help?
Good yard? Never mind? Now have it finished in two seconds?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Mother?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yes, dear?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Why the barbecue all of a sudden when mister Buckley
and his wife are coming to dinner on Saturday and
your father promised them a Saturday.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Now, what's the matter? Mother?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You can't have anybody for dinner on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh? I can't, can't I? Mother?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
That's homecoming day? Oh dear, I forgot all about it
about what.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I'm giving a party on Saturday after the football game.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, this is a fine time to tell me.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I did tell you, father, You even suggested the Chilian
beans dinner?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Is that this Saturday?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Thirty people and you have to pick that day for
a barbecue, Betty.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Your father didn't do it deliberately.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is business, Betty. I didn't know mister Buckley was coming,
but he is. And there isn't anything I can do
about it.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I'm ruined my whole life as a sham, Betty.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
There's no need to be upset, of course not.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
We'll have both parties, that's all. You have yours indoors
and we'll have ours outdoors. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh? Nothing, as long as you keep Kathy outdoors with you.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Now just a minute, Betty, the Buckley's Uh, there's no
reason why Kathy can't stay inside.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Father.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
She'll ruin everything, you know how she is. I didn't
do anything, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Will you please explain to her?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
This is the most.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Important party of my life and you want her to
spoil it?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Betty, mister Buckley is a very important man.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Any we're stuff, sure, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Margaret, No matter what happens, no matter what Betty says,
Kathy's not going to stay outside with us.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Mother, Please, you know what she did last time? She
started a football game in the living room. Oh, nobody
broke anything, did they?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
None of the girls talked to me for a week.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Father, if you only knew ready.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I think I can fix the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You do.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Jim and Lucilla Hathaway are going on a picnic next Saturday,
and I know they'll be glad to take Kathy with them.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Would you like that, dear gee, that'd be keen.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Oh well, that's a very sensible solution.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I'll fix a little lunch for Kathy and Bobby.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Wait a minute, how did I get into this? But
I don't want to go on a picnic.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I've got a date with Joe Phillips. Bud, you'll go
along and take care of your sisters.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
But why should I suffer just because she's a pass.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm not a pass.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
You certainly are I certainly aren't. I wasn't doing anything
to anybody. I was standing here and not hurting us all.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
But we won't discuss it anymore. But you spend the
day with a hat the ways and you'll have a
very good time.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Holy cow ah, that's settle. Now, let's get back to
the barbice.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What comes next, Kathy, after the mortar has hardened, filled
with water to the first line of bricks.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, that shouldn't be to what Why do you need
water in a barbecue? Kathy? Give me that magazine.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I just read what it said. Caddy.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
See. Oh no, what's the matter with that? Kathy?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
You I didn't do anything, Jim, what is it?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
What did she do?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
She turned two pages, that's what she did. You know what?
We've built a bird bath.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
A cup of coffee is making some good.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
News these days.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
All over the country, grocers are featuring Maxwell How Coffee
at lower prices. Yees, lower prices on Maxwell House something
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Speaker 3 (12:20):
On cup after cup, day after day.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Because with Maxwell House Coffee, we have just one aim
to bring you the most in flavor and real enjoyment
every pound you buy, to bring you truly good coffee
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Bring home a pound and start enjoying coffee that's always
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Speaker 4 (13:11):
It's Saturday in Springfield and there's great activity at the
Andersons indoors. Betty's party is proceeding at a great break outdoors. Well, outdoors,
things aren't going as well as they might like. This Ah,
the outdoor life, missus Buckley, that's the thing, living in
the open, close to nature.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
We're very happy with our apartment.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yes it has steam heat.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
And do miss telling me that you have some wonderful
plans for the future, mister.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Buckley, Right now I'm beginning to doubt that there is
any future. Yes, sir, this is the sort of thing
you New Yorkers miss, The peace and quiet of a
small community, a chance to look at the.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Blue sky and the green grass. The simple life.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
There is nothing in the world more complicated than the
simple life. What happened to those stakes you were talking about.
All right here, Phil, not a few minutes. I'll have
these coals just the way I want. You know, Jim,
this barbecue of yours has given me an idea, a
great idea till.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
It gets ideas from the strangest thing.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So I've been told, Margaret, what were you saying, Phil?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
This is a whole new approach to the family angle
of insurance protection, modernization, that's the ticket.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, I wouldn't say that this was the most modern
barbecue in the world.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
That's what I mean. Why buy an old fashioned policy?
Why cook the way the caveman did when they've invented stoves?
Follow me, Phil, You can't get.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
The charcoal flavor in a stole. It's the It's the smoke.
It makes the difference.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Jim is testing it now for the proper consistency. It
certainly looks thick enough.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I don't know what's gotten into this fire. It should
have been ready.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Well, stop poking at it.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You've put it out twice.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Now would you care for another blanket, mister Buckley?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Oh no, thank you, Right now.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm interested in food.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
You might not believe this pill, but but and I
built this barbecue with our own hands. I can believe
it very easily. It's the weirdest looking contraction I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You feel it likes everything to be efficient, don't you, Phil?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
It is the smoke annoying you, missus Buckley. Oh no,
it seems to.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Make things a little warmer. I think we're just about ready, Phil, good.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I was beginning to wonder whether you build a barbecuers
or a smudge part. Yes, sir, In ten minutes you'll
be digging into the greatest steak you've ever eaten. Ten minutes,
I'll be ready to take a bite out of a
passing cow.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Well, here we go.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
And when these steaks hit the grill, just listen to
them sizzle. I tell you, Phil, there's nothing like it.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
There. Now they'll crackle and pop and sputter, fill the
air with the most magnificent aroma. When that's funny they
always have before.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Jim, don't take them inside.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I'll get it going in just a minute. Honey.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Let me take a look at that fire. Jim, get it.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You're getting all uncovered.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
You catch your death of cold.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It's going to be all right, Phil.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
It's just like sitting in an ice box. That's what
it is. Jim, where are you.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Right over here? Phil? Barbecue?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
You want to sell the confounded thing to the government
as a secret weapon. He's gonna get too close to
it close. I can't even find the thing.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Jim.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
There's a perfectly good stove in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Oh, oh, there you are.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
It looks like the draft is not operating quite the
way it should. Maybe if I poked the fire a
little more, leave it alone. How do you expect it
to get well if you keep picking at it. Those
children sitting they seem to be having a nice time indoors.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Jim, just a minute, honey, I think I know it's.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Wrong, you know, Phil, I think if we could just
raise the fire a little, would you like me to
get under it and push? Well, no, but I would
just YEA God's man, those steaks aren't even warm.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Why don't you lower the grill? Well, you see, we
had to build it in a hurry.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
It was a bird bath first, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
We had some technical problems to overcome, and we.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Had to take a few little shortcuts. So well, that's
the only place the grill goes. But if we can
raise the fire a little, why don't we just hold
some matches under the stakes.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Jim, I think this has gone quite far enough.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I mean, if you'll just give me a few more minutes.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Are you going to take the stakes inside? Or shall I?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Why don't we all go inside? No, you will.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
You'd better stay right here, Phil, all those kids running around,
they'd trample all over you. Well, that would be quicker
than dying of cold.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Put your blankets back on, Philla.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Jim, I'll take the steaks inside. I'll have them cooked
in two minutes. Well, please hurry, dear, you stay right
where you are and enjoy yourselves the simple life. When
I get home, I'm going to kiss every stall on
Fifth Avenue, try to do something unusual.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And what thanks do you get? Put matches under the steak,
he tells me. Big outdoor man shoots ducks in the
middle of the winter. I've never saw a duck in
his whole lot. Father. Oh Betty, can I speak to
you for a minute.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Isn't this a wonderful party?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Father?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
How's yours going?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Uh? Fine, Betty, that's fine. I mister Anderson. Oh hello, Tommy,
having a good time? Great? See Betty? The gang needs
some more Chilian beans.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Well, there's lots of it on the stove, grab a pot.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Okay, see you around the drug store, Misterdison. Yes, see
you're around the drug store.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Isn't he a goon?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Father? Yes, he certainly is. Betty. I yes, father, I know.
I promise to keep the buckleys outside. But we're freezing
to death.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
Father.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
The barbecue doesn't work, the steaks won't cook.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
You've got to let us come in. That's all.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Father, you're going to ruin everything.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Everything is ruined. I'll be lucky if I don't get fired.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Father, If you'll just wait another few hours, he's.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Dead in another few hours.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Look, just get all of those things out of the oven.
Let me cook the steaks, and we'll discuss the rest
of it later.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But you can't take the biscuits out of the oven.
There'll be ice cold.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well, we're ice cold. Why should they be any better?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Father?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Oh no, they came back and off the poster and
they came back.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Ay, your dad, what's cooking? Very little? Believe me? What
are you doing here? We live here. You weren't supposed
to be home for three hours? What happened to the picnic?
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Mister Hathaway said it was too cold for a picnic?
What are you doing with the steaks?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Father? If she goes anywhere near the living room and
says anything about a.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Football game, I hid the football, so stop worrying about it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Let me get at the stove. Why don't you use
the barbecue, dad? Why don't you take Kathy to the movies?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Go ahead, Bud, you heard what he said.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We haven't had our dinner yet.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Can eat popcorn?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Butt? Come on, I haven't had anything to eat since
one o'clock? What happened to the picnic lunch? We ate
that on the way over by.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Jim Money, we're there.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
The most ridiculous thing that's ever happened in my whole life, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I was just starting to cook the steaks. Mother.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It isn't time for you to come in.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
It most certainly is. It's raining.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Well, outside of an earthquake, what else can happen? Now?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
See here, Jim, I've stood just about it. Eh.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
What's that? What on the stove? What is it?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Oh? Chilian beans? Phil But if you'll be patient for
just another few minutes.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Chili? Did you hear that? Isabelle? Chili?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Doesn't it smell wonderful?
Speaker 5 (21:45):
You mean you like chili all the time?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Philip, was courting me.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
We never ate anything else.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Chilian beans and chopped onions. I haven't had anything like
that since. Oh, grab a plate, Isabelle, I already.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Have, Phil. I've got all these steaks.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
You can take the steaks and stuff them back in
the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yead, what is it, Bud?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I eat a steak, grab some of this chili. But
it's terrific.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I mean, mister Buckley off by myself, Betty.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
If I were two years younger, i'd marry you.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Don't listen to him, Betty.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
He tells that to all agols. Can I have some chili?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I have a steak ready in five minutes, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I don't want to steak out some chili.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Kathy, I don't think you should.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Oh a little chili isn't going to hurt her, Margaret,
you don't bind if I call you, Margaret?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Do you I know? Hey, buddy, hurry up, we're waiting
for you.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Oh just a minute, Tommy, they're gonna do Bertie in
a cave you.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Wait a minute. You mean you're going to square dance.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's just for the young people.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Well, we're young people.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Come on, but I haven't finished, not chili.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Bring it along, Come on, Isabelle.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I'm sorry, Margaret, but he's so impetuous.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Betty, you're holding up the whole works.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You want me to carry your play, Missus Buckley.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I can manage it, dear.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, I come too, Bendy, Oh sure, come on, we'll.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Be back later.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Well, Dad, there's a great thing. Nine dollars and sixty
cents for steak. They want chili, Dad, so help me, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
This is the last time I try to do anything
or anybody. Dad. What do you want, Bud? I eat
a steak, thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
I mean, if it'll help you out any Oh, all.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Right, Bud, go ahead, eat all of them, all of them.
Holy caw. Where are you going to get? Joe Phillips.
I'm gonna need help.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Bud, Jim.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yes, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
While we were waiting for you outside, I had a
long talk with the buck.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Please, it's good for you.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Do you know why missus Buckley made this trip to
Springfield At.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
This stage, I don't know anything.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Well, mister Buckley had told her so much about our
children that she wanted to meet them.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
She did.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They weren't interested in barbecues and steaks, they wanted to
spend the day with Kathy and Betty and Bud Well.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I was I supposed to know they They don't look
like the sort of people who like children, but.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
They do, Jim. They like them very much. They like
us all very much.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Well, what's so funny?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Just something missus Buckley?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
All right, go ahead, drop the other shoe. What did
she say now? You won't be angry, of course not.
What did she say?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, she said that mister Buckley had a great deal
of respect for your business ability.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yes, and isn't it too bad you're such a stuffed shirt.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You're mighty happy about the coffee news.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
These days, grocers everywhere are featuring Maxwell House at lower prices, Yes,
lower prices on the coffee more people buy and enjoy
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(25:44):
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Speaker 3 (25:46):
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Speaker 3 (26:04):
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Speaker 8 (26:06):
Maxwell House, featured in stores everywhere these days at the
lowest prices in months. You can be sure it's always
good to the last drop. Now it's Sunday in Springfield
and in the Anderson backyard. Jim, he's the stubborn Rover boys,
(26:30):
still determined.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
To make the barbecue work like this here you see
nothing wrong with it? Now, is there?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
No, dear, weren't the Buckley's fun mother boy?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Could he square dance?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
How do you suppose he learned a new thing like
square dancing?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Look at those hamburgers, Cook, Margaret, I ask you. Isn't
that beautiful?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Yes, dear, just beautiful.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I can't figure out what got into the darn thing yesterday. Well,
it's like a new baby, I guess. Invite a bunch
of people over to see it. What happens, probably cries
for the first time in his whole life.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Yes, I know what you mean.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Now you take last night smoke like a chimney. Probably
won't smoke again as long as we have it.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Bud, I've got the plate. Mom.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Just one of those things won't happen again in a
million years.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Go ahead, Bud, where are you taking the hamburgers into
the kitchen where they belonged?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Wait a minute, Margaret, there's nothing wrong with a barbecue.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
It's just what was that, dear I said? Never mind?
Speaker 9 (27:58):
Tell the kids that's it's a hot favorite with Hoppy.
That's hot post tweetmeal. And you won't have to coax
the youngsters to eat a hot cereal for breakfast if
you tell them how Hopolo and Cassidy loves hot post tweetmeal.
Hoppy knows it's chuck full of good, solid nourishment. He
goes for a rich nut like flavor, and you'll go
for the fact that post tweetmeal cooks in just three
(28:20):
and a half minutes. So get hot post tweetmeal and
tell the kids it's Hoppy's favorite. You'll see you'll all
agree it's the best hot cereal you ever ate.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young Is, Jim Anderson with
Roy Bargee 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 to the last drop, Father knows
(28:58):
Best was transcribed in hollyo Wood and written by f J.
Now Stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over
most of these stations.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
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