August 5, 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 (00:02):
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the
world where your father says so and your father knows best.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
When it comes to retribution, we all know dozens of interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Proverbs, don't we.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I mean things like as ye sow, so shall ye read?
Or he the dick of the pit shall fall into it?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Things like that.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Well, in Springfield, in a certain white frame house on
Maple Street, father is about to make a bed, not
a real bed, of course, but knowing Jim Anderson as
we do, the chances are six to and even that
if he makes a bed, he'll wind up sleeping in
it like this.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Never mind, Kathy, you can go to the circus some other.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Time, but Danny's circus Just a minute, kitten. The child's
absolutely right, Margaret. We promised her a trip to the
circus as part of her birthday present, and Ed Davis
had no right to go back on our word.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
What was that again?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Never mind? You just eat your.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Breakfast, But how could mister Davison's breakfast, Betty? And don't
bother about things that don't concern you, chumping creepers.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
When a man says he's going to take somebody to
the circus, he ought to take.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Them he has to go to the doctor's, Jim, I
told you that last night, honey. When you make a
promise to a child, he didn't make the promise you did.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That's not the point. He said he was going to
take Patty anyway. And I wouldn't have given my word
to Kathy in the first place if he hadn't said, well,
why can't he go to the doctor some other time?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Why don't you take her?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Stop changing the subject.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
If a man says, and that's a very good idea,
why don't you, Why don't I what take Kathy to
the circus?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Margaret, let's not be ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I don't think it's ridiculous at all. I'm nine years old.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
In my whole life, I've never even been to the
circus except four or five times.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Honey. You know how busy I'm going to be this afternoon.
Why I've got to I've got all kinds of things
to do, important things.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You don't want to take me to the circus?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yes, I do, kitt and really I do. But Margaret,
why don't you take her? You'd have fun?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Ethel Davis and I have a very important Red Cross meeting.
You know that we've been planning on it for weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well, I certainly think, Betty, you haven't been to a
circus in years.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Me.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Why, father, you'd have.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
A wonderful time. Why this is the greatest circus they've
ever had in Springfield. Rings and hundreds of aerialists and
elephants and lions and tigers.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Jim, you know she's allergic to animals. She sneezes.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. It's all
in her mind, and you know it.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It isn't, Father, I am allergic.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, why sneeze?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
There isn't an animal within two blocks of this place.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I sneeze when I just think of it. I'll see here,
bet you're getting her all upset.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm not getting her upset. But every time she has
to do something?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
What but good morning everybody? How's every little old thing?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But how would you like to go to the circuits?
The circuits? Hey, where are we going? You can take
Kathy this afternoon, Oh boy, but you will have a
wonderful time, the clowns and the acrobats and the whatever
they have. You mean, just the two of us, that's right,
(04:06):
Just you and Kathy sitting there watching the tumblers tumbling
and the acrobat's acrobating.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Yeah. Please, if you only knew, Hey, I can't go.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You not only can go, but you're going, but I can.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I've got a meeting. All the student managers have a
football meeting this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But somebody's got to take Kathy to the circus.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
But the football season starts in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And if I'm not a just a minute, Jim, honey,
there's nothing vital about a high school football meeting. And
as long as I promise Kathy, you are going to
take here exactly, and if I weren't so busy myself.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Now, look, it's all settled there. You made a promise
and you're going to keep it, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Margaret. This is the first Saturday in three weeks it
hasn't rained.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And you can play golf next week, can't you, Dear?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yes, I guess I can.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
There. Now, that's all decided and we can get back
to breakfast. Go ahead, Katy, thank you. No, I'm going
to circus. I'm going to circus.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh past the cream and sugar. Please the sugar.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Bo Did you take the sugar over to missus Phillips
last night?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Fuck sugar.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I asked your father to buy ten pounds of sugar.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well I did, and I it's in the back of
the car.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Oh that's going to do, Helen Phillips a lot of good.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But I'll get it, Margaret. Let the boy eat his breakfast.
You'll need his strength for that football meeting this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Jim, there's no point being bitter.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm not being bitter, but it's a fine thing when
I'm the only one in the whole family with courage
enough to take Kathy to the circus.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Bring the sugar in here, dear. I want to see
Helen anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Okay, find bunch of kids. I've got think them a
million things to do whenever anything like this comes up.
And that Ed Davis, wait till I see that guy. Hey, Jim, wow,
speak of the devil. If it isn't my friend Ed Davis, Jim,
waitill you hear what I've got fixed? Up for us
(06:06):
this afternoon. I've already heard. Thank you. You don't know
the half of it, Jim. We're going to make a fortune.
Oh what did you do? Fix it? So the elephants
give me peanuts? Why my pal my old friend ed Davis?
What's the matter with you? Nothing's the matter with me.
But if you don't want to get hit over the
head with ten pounds of sugar, just stand back a little. Well,
(06:28):
that's a fine way to talk to a man who
just dug up the two greatest pigeons in the history
of golf. Fine, I'll tell him when he comes in.
What's the trouble, Jim? Don't you feel well? I feel great.
I feel so great that I've canceled my golf game
and I'm going to take Kathy to the circus. Oh no,
not today, pall You can't. I can't. Huh, But I
need you well, why didn't you think of that before you? Hey,
(06:52):
wait a man, I thought you were going to the
doctor's this afternoon. I had to get loose some way,
didn't I you mean this whole thing about the doctor?
You never had a why you No, wait a second, Jim,
I've got these two guys lined up, and if we
can't take them for twenty bucks a piece, then my
name isn't Ed Davis as far as I'm concerned, it's
(07:15):
Benedict Arnold. Gosh. I had never dreamed you'd have to go.
I mean, I figured, well, why can't Betty take her
or Bud? Because Betty's allergic to animals? But as a
football meeting, and I hope you take six putts on
every green. Now, look, let's not get excited, pal, we'll
figure something out. Oh sure, you're great at figuring things out.
(07:35):
You're a real humdinger. You know, if there were anything
wrong with you, Betty your bud did have to take her,
wouldn't they? There isn't anything wrong with me. Besides, they
won't go for that doctor thing twice. Maybe if you
had a toothache, he and I feel bad enough the
way I am. That's it. You've got a toothache. I
haven't got a toothache, And what's more, I don't want one. Jim.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel. You go inside
(07:57):
and tell Margaret you've got an awful toothache.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
What for?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I called you on the phone. Make an appointment for
this afternoon, and we're in you're in the real estate business.
Since when do you fix teeth? We pretend I'm Doc Waters.
It's a natural, Jim, and can't miss ed. Didn't your
father ever explain to you about truth and honesty and
how telling lies can get you into all kinds of trouble? Chure?
(08:22):
What do you say, Pal? Will it work? Well? It
can't miss? Well? You put on a big toothdache act
and then tell Margaret you're expecting a call from Doc
Waterers about an appointment. Ed. Isn't that kind of sneaky?
Of course, it's kind of sneaky. Are we gonna do it? Okay,
(08:46):
give me time to get the things started, you bet, Pal,
see you later. I don't know the things you have
to do to play a few mousy holes of golf.
He's the worst liar in Springfield. I'm just as bad.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Did you find it, Jim?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Sure it was right in the back seat. I told you.
Oh no, I just had a little Oh what is it, Jim?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You sound like you're dying.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh, just tooth. All of a sudden, I got this sharp?
Oh hurts han Dad. Of course not. I'm just practicing
for when it does hurt.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
How come you have to practice a thing like that. Oh,
you'll not get any sympathy from me, Jim Mans And
I've been telling you for months to see Dodtor Walters
about that too.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I tried to make an appointment yesterday, but he's a
busy guy. As a matter of fact, he's going to
call me if he can squeeze me in this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Why didn't you tell us that before?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh? I guess I forgot until my tooth started to
hurt again. But he promised to call me if he
can squeeze me in this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Well, i'd better run over to Helen's with the sugar.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I said, he's gonna call me if he can squeeze
me in this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I know you've said it three times. When you all finished,
Betty stock the dishes and we'll do them later, Okay,
I'll long be gone a minute to.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Two, Margaret. What if doctor Wallace calls while you're Margaret?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
She didn't hear you?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Dad? Oh fine, I go to all that trouble and
all right, Kathy, Now what's the matter.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Who's gonna take me to the circus? Now?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, but you know I wouldn't ask you to do
something I wouldn't do myself. Don't you do? I? Of
course you do naturally. If the dentist can't take me,
I'll be glad to go with Kathy.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
But if I can't, well then I'm stuck.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
You won't be stuck at all. Why I'll give you
an extra five dollars for ice cream and stuff.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Five dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
You know, maybe it is in my mind the sneezing.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
I mean, oh no, you don't. He said I was
gonna go father.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm much older than Budd, and I'll be able to
look after Kathy much better, won't I?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Cathy?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Well, wait a minute, Kathy, who took care of you
when you fell down and skinned your knee?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, it's an established fact that girls take better care
of girls than any other kind of people.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Who said, who said Kathy was a girl?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Hi am too, girl. Now just a second, we can
settle this very amicably.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You can all go, oh boy, do we each get
five dollars?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
No? You and Bud can share it between you.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Holy cow, Well it's better than nothing. What do I get?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You get to go to the circus?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That's right, Well that must be doctor I mean better
see who it is.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
I'll answer it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Dad. You stay where you are.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Father, you shouldn't run around like that with a two hands.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'll be all right. Hello. Oh hello, doctor Wallers. I've
been hoping you'd call doctor Wallers. Second. Dr Wallers say, kids,
it's Dr Wallers. No, kiddy, Well that's fine doctor. You
can squeeze me in after all that, Doctor wonderful. Okay,
(12:15):
Dr Wallers. I'll be there at two o'clock. Okay, on
the first, I mean your office at two o'clock. Thank you, doctor, goodbye?
Did you hear that? Kids? You'll be able to take
me at two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Mother, why don't you lie down in the meantime, we'll
get you an ice pack and some ass bros.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Why I'm all right, beddy. After all, it's just a
little toothache. And well, we don't let little things like
that get us down, do we.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I think Mom's back.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Mommy, we're all going to the circus. Daddy and Bunny,
me and I I said you first. Yeah, you seem
like a happy little group.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Honey. Doc Waller just called and he did. He certainly did,
didn't he? Kids?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Somehow strange?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't see anything strange about it. I told you
he was going to call din't I I know?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
But you see, Helen Phillips had an appointment with him
at three o'clock and she decided to have her hair
done instead, so I called doctor Walters from her house.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Margaret, you didn't, yes.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Dear, you have an appointment with doctor Walters at three
oh no.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
So mother went ahead and called doctor Walters herself. Poor father,
but then he should know why. Now life's like that,
just full of surprises. Take yourself, for example, You're in
for a most pleasant surprise first time you pour yourself
a fragrant, truly good cup of our Maxwell House coffee. Yes, ma'am,
(13:57):
you've probably tried a number of different brands that didn't
quite make the grade. But one sip of Maxwell House
and you know, you'll know this is coffee as coffee
should taste. And the point is no other coffee, no coffee,
but Maxwell House has that wonderfully good to the last
drop flavor. And here's why.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You see.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Throughout the world there are countless varieties and grades of
coffee beans, but some are far superior to others, and
only the extra flavor varieties are good enough for the
treasured Maxwell House blend from the mile high plateaus of
Latin America. The Maxwell House people select fancy Manizales coffees
for fragrant mellowness, superb Medolins for extra richness, choice Buceramongus
(14:44):
coffees for.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Fine full body.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Then these luxury coffees are blended together in just the
right proportions to create that one and only good to.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
The last drop flavor.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
In a word, no other coffee tastes like Maxwell House,
because no other coffee is made like Maxwell House. That's
why Maxwell House is bought and enjoyed by more people
than any other brand at any price. This weekend, then
start enjoying the coffee with the world's most famous flavor,
(15:16):
Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Remember what we said in the beginning, I mean about
reaping what you saw and falling into pits and things.
It's your worked out that way, didn't it. Jim Anderson
(15:39):
made a bed, poor fellow, and from the way it looks,
someone's been eating crackers in it. In other words, Father
is in a mess, But then he usually is.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Isn't it, Honey? There isn't any point going to the
dentist if my tooth stopped hurting, is there, Jim?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The laundryman will be here any minute? And if you
don't get these things sort and.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I'm trying to tell you my tooth doesn't hurt anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Do the small house, o, mother? No, dare put them
over here?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Isn't it get any time to go to the circus?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Stop worrying about it, will you? We've got over an hour.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I don't mind going to the dentist or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I know, darn well.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
What's the use. I won't even be able to tell
him which tooth it is.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Can he sort of poke around and find out for himself?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Nobody asks you, so sort the socks and keep still.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Holy cow, Jim, you've been complaining about that tooth for
over a year, and I certainly think, well, what's.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The sense of having it fixed when it doesn't hurt?
Maybe it fixed itself.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Teeth do not fix themselves.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Maybe mine are different.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Grandma William's teeth aart.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
She sends him to the dentist while she goes to
the movie.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Besides, I really promised Kathy that I'd take her to
the circuits, didn't I kid?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
I don't think so. You just said I could go.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know, I'll bet darc Wallers can call well ten
people who really need appointments this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Darling, it won't do you the least bit of good.
You're going to see doctor Wallers at three o'clock if
I have to drag you down.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
There, Honey. It's not that I'm afraid to go to
the dentist, of course not. But my tooth doesn't hurt.
It feels wonderful.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
That makes me very happy, dear. But I think this
bundle is ready to be tied. So's father.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's a fine thing when a bunch of children can
sit around and make fun of their father.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I didn't say anything me either, and I'm not sitting around.
I mean, I wasn't making fun of you, father.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Look, let's put it another way. I've well, I've been
worried about what, dear, about the children going to the
circus alone.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
We did it last year, I know.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
But you were younger then, Jim. I mean it, Margaret,
What if something happens? What if they get lost? We
won't get lost, father, Why don't you sort the laundry?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Jumping creepers?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
After all? Kathy's practically a baby.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
People are always stealing babies.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Who'd want to steal Kathy?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
But if they did, we'd get a fortune for taking
her back. Betty, Please, I think they're both very mean
and just with that. When we go to the circus,
I hope I do get lost.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
There you are, she wants to get lost. How can
you expect two children like Betty and Bud to cope
with a situation like that? She won't get lost, But
how can you be sure we've got handcuffs? What if
Betty starts to sneeze?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
What then I won't sneeze?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Father? But what if you do?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well, she can blow her nose?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
There you are?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
There, it's very simple.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I think i'd better go along, just a place safe.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You'll go to the dentist, but honey, mother will take
you to the circus some other times.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Now, look, Margaret, but how can there be twelve and
a half pairs of socks?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
But that was the door.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
It was Kathy's door.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But you're standing right there. Well, it's a matter of principal, Dad.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
That was the back door.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And I'm supposed to answer the answer the door.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Holy cow, Now I have to answer both doors.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Daddy makes such a big fuss about a simple thing
like answering a door, you expect him to take care
of a small child at the circus, Daddy, What is it? Kitten?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I went to Dennis and he didn't hurt me very much.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Kathy, I'm not afraid to go to the dentist. I
am oh, hello, Ed, come on in. Well you're a
busy little bunch, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
That. I don't mind opening the back door. But Kathy
and I tossed for it and take it up later.
But you always stick.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Up for her?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
And why should I answer both bud doors?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Do you have arguments like this at your househead? We
managed say, Jim, I am driving right past Doc Walters
and I'll be glad to drop you off.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Well, thanks, Ed, But how did you know Jim was
going to the dentist?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
How?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yes, How you haven't talked to him since he made
the appointment?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That's right, I haven't have I I told it about
it yesterday, honey, didn't I? Yes, Yes, he told me
about it yesterday. That's how I.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Knew, Jim.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Are you an egg?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Excuse me, honey? I want to show add something out
in the garage. I'll see you later, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
If it's an old skeleton, be sure to put it back.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, dear, I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
So long everybody by its Davis?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Do we have a skeleton in the garage? Never mind?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Angel Ah. You're a bright character, aren't you. Well, I
didn't see any point in taking both cars. And you
don't think she suspects anything? Do you? Of course not?
How could she? Well, you and your brilliant ideas. Do
(21:13):
you know why I've got to be at the dentist
at three o'clock? You do? Yes, I do. I made
an appointment. Well why'd you do a silly thing like that? Now? Look,
we weren't supposed to make a real appointment, I ed,
Why don't you go play golf? What about you? If
I'm lucky, I'll go to the circus. If I'm not. Yeah,
(21:36):
that drill. I get weak just thinking about it. That's Jim.
I had no idea that enough when the tooth hurts,
But to sit there with a practically good tooth, well,
I guess i'd better be going. Yes, you do that,
See you later, Jim. Sure I have a wonderful time. Ed,
Thanks pal, and don't break more than one leg. Okay,
(21:58):
of course you can break it two or three places.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Jennie Nigget's on the phone for me.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oh no, but her cousin Richard's in town. Did she
wants us to double date? And is it all right
if I don't go to the circus this afternoon?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Of course, it's all right. And why don't you take
Bud with you?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Father? Really?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Well, I was just hoping, Jim.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I explained to Betty that she had given her word
to Kathy. But father said I could go. Betty. I'll
feel a lot easier if you and but are taking
care of Kathy.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But mother would be there, honey, So why worry? After all,
I'm certainly capable.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
You are going to the dentist.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
But Margaret, I can take care of Kathy alone, Mom,
honest I can.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
We'll take very good care of her, won't we.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
But sure, Jim, for the last time, can I please
go with Jennie?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Mother?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Please? I don't know what to say between you and
your father.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Why don't you let her go? Honey? As long as
it's that important?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Well, all right, Oh, thank you? Mother? Creepers Waill I
tell Jannie.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Hot what are you so happy about?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I get the whole five bucks. Oh, Margaret, he's going
to eat himself sick at that circus. No, I won't, Dad.
You heard what he said. He's going to garge himself
with five dollars worth of junk.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
He won't have five dollars, Daddy. He promised to buy
me a bag of peanuts.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Well, that's mighty generous of him. You sure you can
spare it, Bud?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Sure, They're only a dime, Margaret. The more I think
of it, the less I like it going to the
dentist to me. Oh, no, I mean, well, Bud works
so hard to become a student manager of the football team,
and if he has to miss that meeting this afternoon meeting.
You said there was an important football meeting of all
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the student managers. I did.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Oh, I guess I made a mistake. It's Monday, I see.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
But I'll have the car, and we certainly can't have
them riding their bicycles through all the traffic, can we.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
We're gonna take the bus.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
The bus.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Uh think hard, dear, what you must have another three
or four frantic reasons?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Why, Margaret, the way you talk any wanted to.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Think they sat in Ney, would wouldn't they?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well, it's a fine thing when a grown man can't
make up his own mind when he wants to go
to the dentist.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I mean this circus, I know, dear, isn't it awful?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Look, honey, the circus is only going to be here?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Hey? What, hied?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
John?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I was talking to your mother, Philip. I wouldn't care
if it was Joe Mikacropolis.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Who's Joe Mickey Croolis?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
How do I know?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Come on in, Joe, Okay, say the Chicago Bears are
playing an exhibition game and plane buildess afternoon, Yes, sir,
it happened very suddenly. They had a cancelation And well, anyway,
how would it be if you and Joe.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Jim, don't you dare good? Mom?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
The Chicago Bears.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Honey, Kathy is going to the circus with Bud and
you are going to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well, hey, Bud, I just found it.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
Oh, excuse me, Coloe, missus Anderson, hellout, Joe, colomister Anderson.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Joe, I was just telling Bud.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Excuse me, mister Anderson, but this is awful important.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Can't be that important?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Oh but it is, mister Anderson. I just found out.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
You know what, I just found out what the Chicago
Bears are playing in Plainfane.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Fine, Jim, you're not being fair. What's the important news, Joe?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
It is important, well.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Of course it is.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Stop being so sensitive, Joe. What is it?
Speaker 8 (25:48):
The Chicago Bears are playing in Plainville?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
That's what I just said.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I know. I was just telling Bud, I'd be glad
to buy you boys a couple of tickets.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
But Jim Anderson, if you knew what I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Right now, Margaret, whatever do you mean?
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Holy cow?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Might as well forget it, Bud. Your father's going to
the dentist.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
But mom, oh, that's another thing.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
I guess I forgot. You forgot what my mother said
to tell you. She couldn't get an appointment to have
her hair done, so she's going to the dentist after all.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
No, the most for your money, isn't that what you
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look for when you go shopping, ma'am? And with coffee,
the most in value means the most in flavor. Now,
there is one coffee that's world famous for flavor, Our
Maxwell House Coffee, bought and enjoyed by more people than
any other brand at any price. That's why I say,
serve our Maxwell House coffee to your family. You'll see
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there's a richly satisfying flavor, a taste of contentment in
every cup that'll make your family say best coffee ever.
Then just count all the truly good cups you get
from each pound. You'll agree that Maxwell House is today's coffee.
By at your grocer's tomorrow or Saturday. Then for the
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most in value, the most in flavor. Look for the
sign of good coffee, the big white cup, and drop
on our familiar blue tin of Maxwell House. Serve your
family the one coffee that's always good to the last drop.
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It's evening now, and all is well for the Andersens,
well most of the Andersens, anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
There's Betty, Oh.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Mother, you've never seen anything as well. Wonderful is Richard.
He's got the curneest hair eye.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
But boy, what a team rock sock slam bang. It's
the greatest football team I ever saw.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Kathy, oh, mommy, it was the most wonderful circus in
the whole.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
World, all the elephants and the lions in the clouds.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
And of course father, oh wow, what's the matter with father?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
He'll be all right, dear, I'll bet I know he
ate too much at the circus.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
He didn't either, He's got a toothache.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Join us again next week, when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra. In our cast
were Rhoda Williams as Betty, Dorothy Lovett, Ted Donaldson, Norma
ge Nilson, Barney Phillips, Gil Stratton Junior, and Yours truly,
Bill Forman. So until next Thursday, good night and good
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luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand
of coffee, always good to the last drop. Father Knows
Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed Jane.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Join mister Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons, tonight on NBC
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the
world where your father says so and your father knows best.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
When it comes to retribution, we all know dozens of interesting.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Proverbs, don't we.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I mean things like as ye sow, so shall ye read?
Or he the dick of the pit shall fall into it?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Things like that.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Well, in Springfield, in a certain white frame house on
Maple Street, father is about to make a bed, not
a real bed, of course, but knowing Jim Anderson as
we do, the chances are six to and even that
if he makes a bed, he'll wind up sleeping in
it like this.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Never mind, Kathy, you can go to the circus some other.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Time, but Danny's circus Just a minute, kitten. The child's
absolutely right, Margaret. We promised her a trip to the
circus as part of her birthday present, and Ed Davis
had no right to go back on our word.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
What was that again?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Never mind? You just eat your.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Breakfast, But how could mister Davison's breakfast, Betty? And don't
bother about things that don't concern you, chumping creepers.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
When a man says he's going to take somebody to
the circus, he ought to take.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Them he has to go to the doctor's, Jim, I
told you that last night, honey. When you make a
promise to a child, he didn't make the promise you did.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That's not the point. He said he was going to
take Patty anyway. And I wouldn't have given my word
to Kathy in the first place if he hadn't said, well,
why can't he go to the doctor some other time?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Why don't you take her?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Stop changing the subject.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
If a man says, and that's a very good idea,
why don't you, Why don't I what take Kathy to
the circus?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Margaret, let's not be ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I don't think it's ridiculous at all. I'm nine years old.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
In my whole life, I've never even been to the
circus except four or five times.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Honey. You know how busy I'm going to be this afternoon.
Why I've got to I've got all kinds of things
to do, important things.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You don't want to take me to the circus?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yes, I do, kitt and really I do. But Margaret,
why don't you take her? You'd have fun?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Ethel Davis and I have a very important Red Cross meeting.
You know that we've been planning on it for weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well, I certainly think, Betty, you haven't been to a
circus in years.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Me.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Why, father, you'd have.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
A wonderful time. Why this is the greatest circus they've
ever had in Springfield. Rings and hundreds of aerialists and
elephants and lions and tigers.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Jim, you know she's allergic to animals. She sneezes.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. It's all
in her mind, and you know it.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It isn't, Father, I am allergic.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, why sneeze?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Now?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
There isn't an animal within two blocks of this place.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I sneeze when I just think of it. I'll see here,
bet you're getting her all upset.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm not getting her upset. But every time she has
to do something?
Speaker 6 (03:35):
What but good morning everybody? How's every little old thing?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But how would you like to go to the circuits?
The circuits? Hey, where are we going? You can take
Kathy this afternoon, Oh boy, but you will have a
wonderful time, the clowns and the acrobats and the whatever
they have. You mean, just the two of us, that's right,
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Just you and Kathy sitting there watching the tumblers tumbling
and the acrobat's acrobating.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Yeah. Please, if you only knew, Hey, I can't go.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You not only can go, but you're going, but I can.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I've got a meeting. All the student managers have a
football meeting this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But somebody's got to take Kathy to the circus.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
But the football season starts in two weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And if I'm not a just a minute, Jim, honey,
there's nothing vital about a high school football meeting. And
as long as I promise Kathy, you are going to
take here exactly, and if I weren't so busy myself.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Now, look, it's all settled there. You made a promise
and you're going to keep it, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Margaret. This is the first Saturday in three weeks it
hasn't rained.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And you can play golf next week, can't you, Dear?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yes, I guess I can.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
There. Now, that's all decided and we can get back
to breakfast. Go ahead, Katy, thank you. No, I'm going
to circus. I'm going to circus.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh past the cream and sugar. Please the sugar.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Bo Did you take the sugar over to missus Phillips
last night?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Fuck sugar.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I asked your father to buy ten pounds of sugar.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well I did, and I it's in the back of
the car.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Oh that's going to do, Helen Phillips a lot of good.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
But I'll get it, Margaret. Let the boy eat his breakfast.
You'll need his strength for that football meeting this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Jim, there's no point being bitter.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm not being bitter, but it's a fine thing when
I'm the only one in the whole family with courage
enough to take Kathy to the circus.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Bring the sugar in here, dear. I want to see
Helen anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Okay, find bunch of kids. I've got think them a
million things to do whenever anything like this comes up.
And that Ed Davis, wait till I see that guy. Hey, Jim, wow,
speak of the devil. If it isn't my friend Ed Davis, Jim,
waitill you hear what I've got fixed? Up for us
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this afternoon. I've already heard. Thank you. You don't know
the half of it, Jim. We're going to make a fortune.
Oh what did you do? Fix it? So the elephants
give me peanuts? Why my pal my old friend ed Davis?
What's the matter with you? Nothing's the matter with me.
But if you don't want to get hit over the
head with ten pounds of sugar, just stand back a little. Well,
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that's a fine way to talk to a man who
just dug up the two greatest pigeons in the history
of golf. Fine, I'll tell him when he comes in.
What's the trouble, Jim? Don't you feel well? I feel great.
I feel so great that I've canceled my golf game
and I'm going to take Kathy to the circus. Oh no,
not today, pall You can't. I can't. Huh, But I
need you well, why didn't you think of that before you? Hey,
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wait a man, I thought you were going to the
doctor's this afternoon. I had to get loose some way,
didn't I you mean this whole thing about the doctor?
You never had a why you No, wait a second, Jim,
I've got these two guys lined up, and if we
can't take them for twenty bucks a piece, then my
name isn't Ed Davis as far as I'm concerned, it's
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Benedict Arnold. Gosh. I had never dreamed you'd have to go.
I mean, I figured, well, why can't Betty take her
or Bud? Because Betty's allergic to animals? But as a
football meeting, and I hope you take six putts on
every green. Now, look, let's not get excited, pal, we'll
figure something out. Oh sure, you're great at figuring things out.
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You're a real humdinger. You know, if there were anything
wrong with you, Betty your bud did have to take her,
wouldn't they? There isn't anything wrong with me. Besides, they
won't go for that doctor thing twice. Maybe if you
had a toothache, he and I feel bad enough the
way I am. That's it. You've got a toothache. I
haven't got a toothache, And what's more, I don't want one. Jim.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel. You go inside
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and tell Margaret you've got an awful toothache.
Speaker 8 (07:59):
What for?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I called you on the phone. Make an appointment for
this afternoon, and we're in you're in the real estate business.
Since when do you fix teeth? We pretend I'm Doc Waters.
It's a natural, Jim, and can't miss ed. Didn't your
father ever explain to you about truth and honesty and
how telling lies can get you into all kinds of trouble? Chure?
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What do you say, Pal? Will it work? Well? It
can't miss? Well? You put on a big toothdache act
and then tell Margaret you're expecting a call from Doc
Waterers about an appointment. Ed. Isn't that kind of sneaky?
Of course, it's kind of sneaky. Are we gonna do it? Okay,
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give me time to get the things started, you bet, Pal,
see you later. I don't know the things you have
to do to play a few mousy holes of golf.
He's the worst liar in Springfield. I'm just as bad.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Did you find it, Jim?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Sure it was right in the back seat. I told you.
Oh no, I just had a little Oh what is it, Jim?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You sound like you're dying.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh, just tooth. All of a sudden, I got this sharp?
Oh hurts han Dad. Of course not. I'm just practicing
for when it does hurt.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
How come you have to practice a thing like that. Oh,
you'll not get any sympathy from me, Jim Mans And
I've been telling you for months to see Dodtor Walters
about that too.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I tried to make an appointment yesterday, but he's a
busy guy. As a matter of fact, he's going to
call me if he can squeeze me in this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Why didn't you tell us that before?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh? I guess I forgot until my tooth started to
hurt again. But he promised to call me if he
can squeeze me in this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Well, i'd better run over to Helen's with the sugar.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I said, he's gonna call me if he can squeeze
me in this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I know you've said it three times. When you all finished,
Betty stock the dishes and we'll do them later, Okay,
I'll long be gone a minute to.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Two, Margaret. What if doctor Wallace calls while you're Margaret?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
She didn't hear you?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Dad? Oh fine, I go to all that trouble and
all right, Kathy, Now what's the matter.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Who's gonna take me to the circus? Now?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, but you know I wouldn't ask you to do
something I wouldn't do myself. Don't you do? I? Of
course you do naturally. If the dentist can't take me,
I'll be glad to go with Kathy.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
But if I can't, well then I'm stuck.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
You won't be stuck at all. Why I'll give you
an extra five dollars for ice cream and stuff.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Five dollars.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
You know, maybe it is in my mind the sneezing.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
I mean, oh no, you don't. He said I was
gonna go father.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm much older than Budd, and I'll be able to
look after Kathy much better, won't I?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Cathy?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Well, wait a minute, Kathy, who took care of you
when you fell down and skinned your knee?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Well, it's an established fact that girls take better care
of girls than any other kind of people.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Who said, who said Kathy was a girl?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Hi am too, girl. Now just a second, we can
settle this very amicably.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You can all go, oh boy, do we each get
five dollars?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
No? You and Bud can share it between you.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Holy cow, Well it's better than nothing. What do I get?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You get to go to the circus?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That's right, Well that must be doctor I mean better
see who it is.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
I'll answer it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Dad. You stay where you are.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Father, you shouldn't run around like that with a two hands.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I'll be all right. Hello. Oh hello, doctor Wallers. I've
been hoping you'd call doctor Wallers. Second. Dr Wallers say, kids,
it's Dr Wallers. No, kiddy, Well that's fine doctor. You
can squeeze me in after all that, Doctor wonderful. Okay,
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Dr Wallers. I'll be there at two o'clock. Okay, on
the first, I mean your office at two o'clock. Thank you, doctor, goodbye?
Did you hear that? Kids? You'll be able to take
me at two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Mother, why don't you lie down in the meantime, we'll
get you an ice pack and some ass bros.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Why I'm all right, beddy. After all, it's just a
little toothache. And well, we don't let little things like
that get us down, do we.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I think Mom's back.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Mommy, we're all going to the circus. Daddy and Bunny,
me and I I said you first. Yeah, you seem
like a happy little group.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Honey. Doc Waller just called and he did. He certainly did,
didn't he? Kids?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Somehow strange?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't see anything strange about it. I told you
he was going to call din't I I know?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
But you see, Helen Phillips had an appointment with him
at three o'clock and she decided to have her hair
done instead, so I called doctor Walters from her house.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Margaret, you didn't, yes.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Dear, you have an appointment with doctor Walters at three
oh no.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
So mother went ahead and called doctor Walters herself. Poor father,
but then he should know why. Now life's like that,
just full of surprises. Take yourself, for example, You're in
for a most pleasant surprise first time you pour yourself
a fragrant, truly good cup of our Maxwell House coffee. Yes, ma'am,
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you've probably tried a number of different brands that didn't
quite make the grade. But one sip of Maxwell House
and you know, you'll know this is coffee as coffee
should taste. And the point is no other coffee, no coffee,
but Maxwell House has that wonderfully good to the last
drop flavor. And here's why.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You see.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
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Speaker 4 (14:45):
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Speaker 3 (14:47):
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Speaker 2 (14:54):
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Speaker 3 (14:56):
In a word, no other coffee tastes like Maxwell House,
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start enjoying the coffee with the world's most famous flavor,
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Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Remember what we said in the beginning, I mean about
reaping what you saw and falling into pits and things.
It's your worked out that way, didn't it. Jim Anderson
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made a bed, poor fellow, and from the way it looks,
someone's been eating crackers in it. In other words, Father
is in a mess, But then he usually is.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Isn't it, Honey? There isn't any point going to the
dentist if my tooth stopped hurting, is there, Jim?
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The laundryman will be here any minute? And if you
don't get these things sort and.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I'm trying to tell you my tooth doesn't hurt anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Do the small house, o, mother? No, dare put them
over here?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Isn't it get any time to go to the circus?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Stop worrying about it, will you? We've got over an hour.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I don't mind going to the dentist or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
I know, darn well.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
What's the use. I won't even be able to tell
him which tooth it is.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Can he sort of poke around and find out for himself?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Nobody asks you, so sort the socks and keep still.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Holy cow, Jim, you've been complaining about that tooth for
over a year, and I certainly think, well, what's.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The sense of having it fixed when it doesn't hurt?
Maybe it fixed itself.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Teeth do not fix themselves.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Maybe mine are different.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Grandma William's teeth aart.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
She sends him to the dentist while she goes to
the movie.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Besides, I really promised Kathy that I'd take her to
the circuits, didn't I kid?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
I don't think so. You just said I could go.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You know, I'll bet darc Wallers can call well ten
people who really need appointments this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Darling, it won't do you the least bit of good.
You're going to see doctor Wallers at three o'clock if
I have to drag you down.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
There, Honey. It's not that I'm afraid to go to
the dentist, of course not. But my tooth doesn't hurt.
It feels wonderful.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
That makes me very happy, dear. But I think this
bundle is ready to be tied. So's father.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's a fine thing when a bunch of children can
sit around and make fun of their father.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I didn't say anything me either, and I'm not sitting around.
I mean, I wasn't making fun of you, father.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Look, let's put it another way. I've well, I've been
worried about what, dear, about the children going to the
circus alone.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
We did it last year, I know.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
But you were younger then, Jim. I mean it, Margaret,
What if something happens? What if they get lost? We
won't get lost, father, Why don't you sort the laundry?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Jumping creepers?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
After all? Kathy's practically a baby.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
People are always stealing babies.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Who'd want to steal Kathy?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
But if they did, we'd get a fortune for taking
her back. Betty, Please, I think they're both very mean
and just with that. When we go to the circus,
I hope I do get lost.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
There you are, she wants to get lost. How can
you expect two children like Betty and Bud to cope
with a situation like that? She won't get lost, But
how can you be sure we've got handcuffs? What if
Betty starts to sneeze?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
What then I won't sneeze?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Father? But what if you do?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well, she can blow her nose?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
There you are?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
There, it's very simple.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I think i'd better go along, just a place safe.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
You'll go to the dentist, but honey, mother will take
you to the circus some other times.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Now, look, Margaret, but how can there be twelve and
a half pairs of socks?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
But that was the door.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
It was Kathy's door.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But you're standing right there. Well, it's a matter of principal, Dad.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
That was the back door.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And I'm supposed to answer the answer the door.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Holy cow, Now I have to answer both doors.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Daddy makes such a big fuss about a simple thing
like answering a door, you expect him to take care
of a small child at the circus, Daddy, What is it? Kitten?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I went to Dennis and he didn't hurt me very much.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Kathy, I'm not afraid to go to the dentist. I
am oh, hello, Ed, come on in. Well you're a
busy little bunch, aren't you.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
That. I don't mind opening the back door. But Kathy
and I tossed for it and take it up later.
But you always stick.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Up for her?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
And why should I answer both bud doors?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Do you have arguments like this at your househead? We
managed say, Jim, I am driving right past Doc Walters
and I'll be glad to drop you off.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Well, thanks, Ed, But how did you know Jim was
going to the dentist?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
How?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yes, How you haven't talked to him since he made
the appointment?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That's right, I haven't have I I told it about
it yesterday, honey, didn't I? Yes, Yes, he told me
about it yesterday. That's how I.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Knew, Jim.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Are you an egg?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Excuse me, honey? I want to show add something out
in the garage. I'll see you later, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
If it's an old skeleton, be sure to put it back.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, dear, I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
So long everybody by its Davis?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Do we have a skeleton in the garage? Never mind?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Angel Ah. You're a bright character, aren't you. Well, I
didn't see any point in taking both cars. And you
don't think she suspects anything? Do you? Of course not?
How could she? Well, you and your brilliant ideas. Do
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you know why I've got to be at the dentist
at three o'clock? You do? Yes, I do. I made
an appointment. Well why'd you do a silly thing like that? Now? Look,
we weren't supposed to make a real appointment, I ed,
Why don't you go play golf? What about you? If
I'm lucky, I'll go to the circus. If I'm not. Yeah,
(21:36):
that drill. I get weak just thinking about it. That's Jim.
I had no idea that enough when the tooth hurts,
But to sit there with a practically good tooth, well,
I guess i'd better be going. Yes, you do that,
See you later, Jim. Sure I have a wonderful time. Ed,
Thanks pal, and don't break more than one leg. Okay,
(21:58):
of course you can break it two or three places.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Jennie Nigget's on the phone for me.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Oh no, but her cousin Richard's in town. Did she
wants us to double date? And is it all right
if I don't go to the circus this afternoon?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Of course, it's all right. And why don't you take
Bud with you?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Father? Really?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Well, I was just hoping, Jim.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I explained to Betty that she had given her word
to Kathy. But father said I could go. Betty. I'll
feel a lot easier if you and but are taking
care of Kathy.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But mother would be there, honey, So why worry? After all,
I'm certainly capable.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
You are going to the dentist.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
But Margaret, I can take care of Kathy alone, Mom,
honest I can.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
We'll take very good care of her, won't we.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
But sure, Jim, for the last time, can I please
go with Jennie?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Mother?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Please? I don't know what to say between you and
your father.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Why don't you let her go? Honey? As long as
it's that important?
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Well, all right, Oh, thank you? Mother? Creepers Waill I
tell Jannie.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Hot what are you so happy about?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Now?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I get the whole five bucks. Oh, Margaret, he's going
to eat himself sick at that circus. No, I won't, Dad.
You heard what he said. He's going to garge himself
with five dollars worth of junk.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
He won't have five dollars, Daddy. He promised to buy
me a bag of peanuts.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Well, that's mighty generous of him. You sure you can
spare it, Bud?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Sure, They're only a dime, Margaret. The more I think
of it, the less I like it going to the
dentist to me. Oh, no, I mean, well, Bud works
so hard to become a student manager of the football team,
and if he has to miss that meeting this afternoon meeting.
You said there was an important football meeting of all
(23:50):
the student managers. I did.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Oh, I guess I made a mistake. It's Monday, I see.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
But I'll have the car, and we certainly can't have
them riding their bicycles through all the traffic, can we.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
We're gonna take the bus.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
The bus.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Uh think hard, dear, what you must have another three
or four frantic reasons?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Why, Margaret, the way you talk any wanted to.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Think they sat in Ney, would wouldn't they?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well, it's a fine thing when a grown man can't
make up his own mind when he wants to go
to the dentist.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I mean this circus, I know, dear, isn't it awful?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Look, honey, the circus is only going to be here?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Hey? What, hied?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
John?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I was talking to your mother, Philip. I wouldn't care
if it was Joe Mikacropolis.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Who's Joe Mickey Croolis?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
How do I know?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Come on in, Joe, Okay, say the Chicago Bears are
playing an exhibition game and plane buildess afternoon, Yes, sir,
it happened very suddenly. They had a cancelation And well, anyway,
how would it be if you and Joe.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Jim, don't you dare good? Mom?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
The Chicago Bears.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Honey, Kathy is going to the circus with Bud and
you are going to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well, hey, Bud, I just found it.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
Oh, excuse me, Coloe, missus Anderson, hellout, Joe, colomister Anderson.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Joe, I was just telling Bud.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Excuse me, mister Anderson, but this is awful important.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Can't be that important?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Oh but it is, mister Anderson. I just found out.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
You know what, I just found out what the Chicago
Bears are playing in Plainfane.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Fine, Jim, you're not being fair. What's the important news, Joe?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
It is important, well.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Of course it is.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Stop being so sensitive, Joe. What is it?
Speaker 8 (25:48):
The Chicago Bears are playing in Plainville?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
That's what I just said.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I know. I was just telling Bud, I'd be glad
to buy you boys a couple of tickets.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
But Jim Anderson, if you knew what I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Right now, Margaret, whatever do you mean?
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Holy cow?
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Might as well forget it, Bud. Your father's going to
the dentist.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
But mom, oh, that's another thing.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
I guess I forgot. You forgot what my mother said
to tell you. She couldn't get an appointment to have
her hair done, so she's going to the dentist after all.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
No, the most for your money, isn't that what you
(26:46):
look for when you go shopping, ma'am? And with coffee,
the most in value means the most in flavor. Now,
there is one coffee that's world famous for flavor, Our
Maxwell House Coffee, bought and enjoyed by more people than
any other brand at any price. That's why I say,
serve our Maxwell House coffee to your family. You'll see
(27:09):
there's a richly satisfying flavor, a taste of contentment in
every cup that'll make your family say best coffee ever.
Then just count all the truly good cups you get
from each pound. You'll agree that Maxwell House is today's coffee.
By at your grocer's tomorrow or Saturday. Then for the
(27:30):
most in value, the most in flavor. Look for the
sign of good coffee, the big white cup, and drop
on our familiar blue tin of Maxwell House. Serve your
family the one coffee that's always good to the last drop.
(27:51):
It's evening now, and all is well for the Andersens,
well most of the Andersens, anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
There's Betty, Oh.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Mother, you've never seen anything as well. Wonderful is Richard.
He's got the curneest hair eye.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
But boy, what a team rock sock slam bang. It's
the greatest football team I ever saw.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Kathy, oh, mommy, it was the most wonderful circus in
the whole.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
World, all the elephants and the lions in the clouds.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
And of course father, oh wow, what's the matter with father?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
He'll be all right, dear, I'll bet I know he
ate too much at the circus.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
He didn't either, He's got a toothache.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Join us again next week, when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra. In our cast
were Rhoda Williams as Betty, Dorothy Lovett, Ted Donaldson, Norma
ge Nilson, Barney Phillips, Gil Stratton Junior, and Yours truly,
Bill Forman. So until next Thursday, good night and good
(29:18):
luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand
of coffee, always good to the last drop. Father Knows
Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed Jane.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
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