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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The world when your father says so, and your father
knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young his father. A half hour visit with your new neighbors,
the Andersons, brought to you by Maxwell House, the coffee
that's bought and enjoyed by more people than any other
brand of coffee at any price. Maxwell House always good
to the last drop. In every family, there are special days,
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days which, though simple, will live forever in our memories.
There's the day Junior had his first haircut, the day
Dad backed into the garage door, or the day mother
didn't back into the garage door in Springfield, in the
white frame house on Maple Street, it's dinner time, and
one of those days is in the making. It will
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be known as long as an Anderson remains as the
day father received the Christmas bills like this. It's outrageous,
That's what it is, the most outrageous thing I've ever
seen in my entire life.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Passed the potatoes to your father, Betty.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yes, mother, the date is father, thank you, It's gotten.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So that Christmas is in the period of joy and celebration.
It's a plot to collect all the money overlooked by
the government. I've never seen such an assortment of bills.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Kathy, won't you please eat your dinner? But I have
to watch daddy. I'm sure he'd much rather you ate
your dinner that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I want to see the steam come out of his ears.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So what.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, but said when you saw those bill?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Holy cow, Kathy. I didn't mean it really would. I
was just, you know, shows cold out today.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
It wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Well for certain people, it's going to get warmer, much warmer. Now.
The bread please?
Speaker 7 (02:18):
Here you are, Dan, Thank you, say Dan?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Look at this? Seventeen dollars and seventy cents for mucklucks?
What the devil of mucklucks? The knitted slippers, dear, for
seventeen dollars and seventy cents.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
That's for six pair, Jim, I send them to my
sister Kathleen and her family.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh fine, And why did she send us five napkin
rings painted by hand in the kindergarten of a school
for backward children.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Jim, that's not the proper attitude to take.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Oh it isn't, isn't it. You don't see that brother
in law of you're shelling out any seventeen seventy for mucklucks.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I tell you, Margaret, we've got to realize that we
aren't the Morgans of the Rockefellers. We're just plain simple people,
and we've got to act that way.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Yes, dear say Dan.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
When I was a boy, thrift was an important part
of a daily life. The family worked together to see
how little it could spend, not how much they tried
to help put something away for a rainy day, not us.
This family lives in a continual cloudburst. Dan, What is it?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
But as long as we're talking about money, I need
five dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh that's fine, that's just great. I give out with
a long lecture on thrift and economy, and all it
does is remind my son that he needs five dollars. Now,
why do you need five dollars.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
To be a birdwatcher? Oh? What a birdwatcher? You watch birds?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I wouldn't care if you watched elephants. Why does it
have to call five dollars?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Well, you have to buy a manual. It tells you
how to watch, and you get a button. And they
have meetings every Tuesday. And Thursday night. No, but dad,
watching birds makes you alert. No, it gives you a
better understanding of your feathered friend. No, and it's educational.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
No.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Oh gosh, you certainly want me to be educated, don't you. Yeah,
then I can go.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
No.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Would you care for some more coffee? Dear?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I certainly would, thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I'll bet Evelyn then he's a bird watcher.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
You keep out of this, Kathy.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
That got a girl?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
I have not you. Just wait, Kathy, that's all just wait.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That got a girl?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, all right, Kathy, stop that and drink your milk.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
But I did.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It's all gone.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, get some more milk and drink it. Jeeve with
and behave yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Now, where was I the part about putting something away
for a rainy day?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Thank you rainy day? Oh look, I don't want you
to think I'm being stingy or that I don't want
you to enjoy a healthy, normal life. But what's that?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
What's what, dear?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
On the buffet? Is that another album of records? Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You ought to hear them, father, they're simply dreaming, you see,
That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
A new album And we've got so many records. Now
we can join a disc Jockey's Union.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Did disc jockeys have a union? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
How do I know who?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You just said?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I said, if they had a union, we could join it.
Why because we have so many records?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Are you going to be a disc jockey, daddy?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
No, I'm not going to be a disc jockey. Why
not because I'm an insurance jockey. I mean, Oh, Kathy.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
Drink your milk I did twice.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well eat your cake.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't have any cake.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
What have you got jello? Well eat it and be quiet?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Gee whars father, there's no need to get excited about
the record.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Don't tell me what to get excited about and what
not to get excited about. You have no right to
waste money on more records. But five dollars for bird
watchers and five dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
For records they cost seven fifty.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Seven fifty Betty Anderson, you mean those records cost seven
dollars and fifty cents. Yes, father, Oh that's fine, just fine.
We've got records you haven't touched in five years. But
they're no good. You've got to buy new ones for
seven dollars and fifty cents. But father, when I was
a boy, I couldn't buy a new record till the
old wore out. But father I played Dardanellis along the
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fuzz on the turntable, came through and stop butt fothering me.
You have no right to weigh seven dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
On record, But father I didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I borrowed them from Jamie Leggott.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't care where you got them. You have no
right to. Oh well, where was.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I a rainy day?
Speaker 10 (07:25):
Dear?
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Page two?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
All right, laugh, go ahead. The whole thing is a
big joke. It's very funny. I'm telling you right now.
We're spending too much money and we're going to cut down.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
Jim, I don't think we're extravagant any of this.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Okay, you're not extravagant. You just spend too much money.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
But we don't waste anything, dear, And we don't spend
money unnecessarily.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh we don't, don't we. I suppose five dollars to
watch birds isn't unnecessary. If but has to watch birds,
he can say it on the front porch and watch
them for ten years. It won't cost them a dime.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Holy call.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
This family has to learn to conserve. We've got to
make things do here. Look at this, another pair of
shoes for Kathy. That's the third pair in six months.
But Daddy, I'm growing well, you have to grow so fast. Father.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Oh it's all right, Dear.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Your fault is only joking.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Sure, I'm only joking, Kathy. But there's one thing I'm
not joking about. This family has to stop spending so
much money, and we've got to stop running around. We're
going to stay home and enjoy the simple things of life.
We've got magazines to read, books to read. I spend
one hundred and ninety dollars for the encyclopedia, and nobody's
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ever gotten past marrib to Mushy Jim.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
This is one thing you don't seem to understand, O,
Dear Bud the phone.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
It's Kathie's turn, it is.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Not, but I'll have twera anyway, s b I care
What is it you were saying, Margaret?
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Well, I was saying that it's one thing you don't
seem to understand that no one is even mentioned going
out tonight. Everyone was quite satisfied and quite happy. And
this entire discussion seems to be absolutely pointless.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Is that so if I didn't put my foot down
every once in a while, this whole family would go
to pop. Nobody would ever stay home. Daddy, it's for you,
Thank you, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's mister Smith, Daddy, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Hello. Heck, no, we were just finishing on dinner the drugstore. Well,
I hadn't thought about going down there, but pick up
cards for what you mean? The game is tonight? Oh well, look, heck,
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maybe you'd better not figure on me for tonight. Well, frankly,
I forgot all about it, and I got myself into
a situation here. Yes, I know. Heck, but couldn't you
get George Phillips out of town? Huh? Just a minute? Heck, Kathy,
there's somebody at the door. Okay, sorry, heck, well, look
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there must be somebody else you can get for the game.
There isn't.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, I'll do whatever I can. Heck, but it's going
to be tough. Okay, okay, But if i'm not there
by eight, we'll live.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
You better call me, okay, heck, I'll see you. God,
the things I get myself into.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Is there anything wrong, dear, No, nothing wrong.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
Let's see what were we talking about? Nobody goes out tonight?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, of course I don't mean that we have to
live like hermits.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Of course, not, dear.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
There are circumstances when it will be necessary and proper
for us to spend an evening away from home, a
special picture that we won't want to miss, or meeting
or something.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You're so right, dear, But after that long lecture you
just finished, Naturally, you don't mean tonight, do you, dear?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Oh no, naturally, not tonight. We'll all spend a quiet
evening at home tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
That's Kathy, yay, I please have a dollar and a quarter.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
You certainly may not for dad, you see, Margaret, that's
just what I meant about discipline. This entire discussion about
thrifting economy was absolutely wasted everything I said when in
one ear and out the other. I spent fifteen minutes
explaining that we had to take it easy, that we
had to cut down on our spending. And what happens
as soon as I stopped to take a deep breath.
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Bud needs five dollars to watch birds, and Kathy needs
a dollar and a quarter. Why on earth you suddenly
need a dollar a quarter to pay the paper boy?
Speaker 11 (12:05):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (12:24):
You know, for all his talking, Father wouldn't think of
doing without that paper. It's one of those things that
means so much to every day that comes along. And
something else we count on you and I day in
and day out is coffee, I mean really good coffee,
like our Maxwell House coffee is sit down to and
enjoy cup after cup that good to the last drop flavor.
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You won't find it in any other coffee, no coffee
but Maxwell House.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
And as you'd expect, there's a very real.
Speaker 10 (12:55):
Reason why it's a recipe, the only recipe there is
that good to the last drop flavor. It's mighty important,
that recipe of ours, because the flavor of the coffee
you enjoy depends on the blend, the kind of coffee's
in it, and how they're put together. Now, coffee grows
in many different varieties, and you can blend them in
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all sorts of ways, but there's only one way, one
recipe for our famous Maxwell House flavor. And when all's
said and done, it's this recipe of ours that makes
the difference, the big difference between just another coffee and
the wonderfully good flavor of America's favorite brand. It's a
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difference you will taste for yourself the very first time
you pour a cup of our Maxwell House coffee, and
I hope you will tomorrow, hope you will start enjoying
the coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
In the white frame house on Maple Street. An hour
has passed, and a long, long hour it's been. For
Jim Anderson. The minutes have dragged by an endless procession.
His active mind is buzzing with a weird assortment of
masculine schemes, every one of them taken from the file
headed how to get out of the house. A dozen
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fantastic plans have already been tried, and none of them
has worked. But you've got to give Jim credit. The
kid's still in there pitching like this, Margaret, Yes, dear,
do you have the correct time?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I think so. It's five minutes of eight.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Uh huh, just what I thought. This dogun watch is
on the blink again, just won't keep time.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well, what time do you have, dear?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Seven of.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
For Jim, that's a difference of only two minutes.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Only two minutes, Margaret, Do you realize the things that
have happened in two minutes. Wars have been won and lost,
the entire course of civilization has been changed. I better
have it fixed, all right, dear. A matter of fact,
as long as I'm not doing anything right now, I
might as well run down to the jewelers and it
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might take some time. You know how fussy jewelers can
be about a watch, So uh, maybe you better not
wait up for me.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Jim, Yes, Jim, Christmas is over.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
The jewelers all close at five thirty they do?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You mean all of them?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Yes, Jim.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Oh you want to see the watch Joe Phillips got
for Christmas? Dad? Boy? Is that a watch?
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Shadow proof, shark proof, waterproof, heat proof, And it's guaranteed
to last in my lifetime?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
But it won't. Why not?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
He lost it?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
But instead of making bad jokes, why don't you go
upstairs and do your homework.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
That wasn't a joke, Dad, You can say that again.
You mean the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But go upstairs and do your homework.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Okay? You You wouldn't want to help me, would you?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
That's right?
Speaker 8 (16:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (16:15):
I saw a figure you wouldn't. Well, I'll see you.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Later, Margaret. I think I'll go out for a little walk.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Why, Jim, it's snowing.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Well, there's nothing wrong with a little snow. Does a
man good to get out in the snow once in
a while. The air crisp and clear, the ground all
white and peaceful.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Jim Anderson, you're not going to tramp around in the
snow at your age.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I have enough to do without taking care of a
sick husband.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
And stop pacing up and down the room like a
caged lion.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Father. Yes, Benny, I'll play checkers with you.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
If you like.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Thank you, But i'd rather see you doing your homework.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Why I don't have any homework. I finished it this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Well, go sew something or read a book. Don't tell
me you read a book.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I'll spot you two kings.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I don't need to be spotted two kings, and I
don't want to play checkers, Margaret, Yes, dear, do you
need anything at the drug store?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
No, dear, not a thing.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
We uh we're kind of low on toothpaste this morning.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I got some this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh yeah, uh, soap holding up all right?
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Just fine?
Speaker 11 (17:37):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Say I think I'll run out and get something to smoke, Yes, sir,
that's just what I'll do.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Jim that I bought you a carton of cigarettes this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
And there's a whole human door full of pipe tobacco.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I you know, it's a funny thing, but I just
feel like smoking a cigar.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Jim, I I didn't know you smoked cigar.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Well, of course, after all, there's nothing like a good cigar.
You know what Roger Kipling said. The woman is only
a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Yeah,
I'll get it.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Jim, be careful.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Who the Dickens moved the lamp over to this side?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Oh Jim, how could do you?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Well? How do you expect me to keep track of
where the lamps are if you keep moving them around
all the time? Anyway, Well, I'm sorry, Margaret, I was
just Betty. Be a good girl and clean up this mess,
will you?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Father, don't worry about the lamp, Margaret. We'll get it
fixed or something.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Or good lamp, just look at it.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Stick lamps right in your way when you're in a hurry,
Naturally they get knocked down. Oh hello, heck, what do
you mean? Am I still here? Of course not. I
left for your house twenty minutes ago. Heck, I'm doing
everything I can. I can't do it. Heck, I can't
just walk out because I can't. That's why I am trying. Well,
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stop worrying about it. I'll figure something out. Okay, yeah,
call me later. So long.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Who was that deer?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
It was Hector, Honey. He just wanted to talk to
me about.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
What, dear? Is anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Oh? No, he wanted me to come over there. He
probably wants to talk to me about something.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Like what, dear.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Well, well, it's probably very complicated. You'd be surprised, I'll
bet I would. Are you through with the newspaper, dear?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, I guess I'll sit down and read the paper.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
That's a very good idea, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
We're in the den, Kathy, Daddy, I just thought of
something wonderful to save money. How much does water caught?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Not very much, dear? Why?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Well, it caused something to get it hot, doesn't it?
Speaker 8 (20:05):
So?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I thought, if I only took one death a week, are.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You supposed to be taking a bath now?
Speaker 11 (20:11):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
We'll take it.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
But you said we had to save money, and I
thought it I.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Only took Kathy, go upstairs and take your bath.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Gee, wiz, you heard your father, Kathy? Now go ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
First, they want to save money, then they don't want
to save money. Why don't they make up their minds?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Say? Did you see this in the paper? They're having
a big meeting in the school auditorium tomorrow night. Oh yeah,
that's right, it's tomorrow, jim. Father.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
I put all the broken pieces on the service porch,
but I don't think they can fix the lamp.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
It's a mess.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Thank you, Benny, you're welcome. Were you gonna say something? Dar?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Oh? No, no, it's all right.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Mother.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yes, Betty, have you seen the records?
Speaker 8 (20:59):
I borrell?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
No, dear, I haven't. Where did you leave them? Well?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I put them over there on father's chair. Father, you're
sitting on them.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I am Oh, I thought it felt kind of funny.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh father, how could you seven dollars and fifty cents
worth of South Pacific?
Speaker 8 (21:22):
And look at it?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
They're only cracked a little, Betty, Look at this one.
Only the front part of it's broken off. You can
still play the whole chorus, and that's all anybody listens
to anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
She'll never talk to me again, and I don't blame her.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oh Betty, will you please stop that moaning and groaning.
I'll buy Janny another album and stop looking at me
as though I went around beating little children. Yes, father
man tries to spend a quiet evening at home, and
what happens? Lamps fall down, people's stuff, records under his cushion.
I'll get it, Jim. Please be careful, Margaret. They don't
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make a prack just of knocking lamps down. Anybody listening
to you would think I broke a lamp every day, Yes, dear,
but be careful just to say never liked the dying
lamp anyway. Phillia's looking lamp ever saw him a lot? Oh, yes,
I'm still here. Look, henk, I told you in the
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very beginning, I didn't think I could make it. Well,
I did try. I tried everything but chloroform. It won't
do any good to call me back later. Why don't
you just forget the whole thing, yem? Just a minute? Heck,
what is it, Margaret?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Is that hector again?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yes, dear, it's a uh hector?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Well, Jim, if it's really that urgent, why don't you
run over there?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
You you wouldn't mind.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
No, But if they can't get anyone else, why don't
you have them come over.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Here for the game.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's a game over here.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
There's no reason why they can't play poker here There isn't,
of course not.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh well, say, heck, how about playing over here? It
would huh well fine, oh of course not. Margaret won't
mind at all. Okay, see in a little while, come I.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Margaret, yes, Jim I.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Well you see, i'd forgotten all about this date I
had with the boys, and well I told them to
get somebody.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Dear, Bud, you want me, mom, Yes, dear, I want
you to go to the delicate Testen.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Okay, I'll be down in a minute.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Why does he have to go to the delicate Tsen.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Well, you'll be busy getting the card things ready, dear,
and there isn't a thing in the house.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
We'll have to serve something.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, it doesn't have to be anything elaborate.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Oh no, but we'll need a few slices of ham,
some liver, worst and ballogna.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
And cheese, a few loads of bread, potato chips, pickles.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Why do we need pickles. There's no sense in running
hogwild just because a couple of men are coming over
to play poker. I told you at dinner, Margaret, we've
got to cut down on our expenses, all.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Right, Dear. No pickles that your old father knows bead.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Well pickles are no pickles. I'm inclined to think it's
mother knows best when it comes to shopping for the
family groceries.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I take coffee for instance.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
Mother knows that when she buys coffee, it's just one
thing that means real value. It's the flavor you get
for your money that really counts. And these days she
understands it more important than ever to get the most
flavor for every penny you spend. And that's just what
you do get in our Maxwell House coffee. You get
a full measure of that wonderful Maxwell House flavor, good
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to the last drop, flavor no other coffee gives you.
And that's why more people buy our Maxwell House than
any other brand of coffee. So when you put out
good money for coffee, be sure you get the most
in value in flavor and freshness. You always will when
you open up a pound of Maxwell House, the coffee
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that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
The lights are out in the white frame house on
Maple Street. The children are asleep, the guests are gone,
the last chip has been put away, and the Polker
game is a thing of the past. Jim Oh you're
still awake, dear.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Yet I've just been lying here thinking, how did the
game go?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Fine? Just fine? I guess I showed that Hector Smith
how poker should be played, bluffing right out of two
of the biggest pots you ever saw.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Jim, Yes, Jin, you know I've been wondering about this
sudden wave of economy.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
There isn't anything wrong, is there?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Oh? No? I well it was those darn Christmas bills.
They really got me down.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Tonight didn't help much, did it. I mean we'll have
to buy a new lamp and records for Jane.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well it won't amount too much.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
No, I suppose, not including the food and drinks.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I figured that the quiet evening at home came to
just thirty two fifty.
Speaker 9 (26:51):
Thirty six fifty, No, dear, thirty two fifty.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
I can get a new Lamford. Oh you mean you?
Speaker 7 (27:11):
I certainly did four dollars and twenty tuesdays.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Good night, Mike, Good night, dear.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
If you like good things, the easy way.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Good things, the easy way, instant Maxwelle house, that's for you.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Good good coffee.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
It's easy too, no time, no trouble, no grounds, not fluff,
and it's good.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
To the very last.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
You know that.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
Yes, instant Maxwell House means great coffee instantly in your cup.
Here's real instant coffee, all pure Maxwell House coffee in
instant form. Enjoy instant Maxwell House instantly.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Good to the very last, Jube no good.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson with
Roy Boggie and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly,
Bill Forman. Don't forget. Membership cards for the Robert Young
Good Drivers Club are waiting for you at your local
NBC station. Get a man to man or Dad's daughter
(28:40):
pledge and sign up today. Be a good driver. Get
your membership card in the Robert Young Good Driver's Club
today now until next Thursday. Good night and good luck
from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee,
always good to the last drop. Father Knows Best, transcribed
(29:00):
in Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now stay tuned
in for Screen Gill Theater, which follows immediately over most
of these stations. Here are three top stars on Screen
Gill Theater next on NBC