October 7, 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 (00:01):
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Welcome and Bringfield and another half hour is it with
the folks in the white frame Hugh House on Maple Street.
Sit back and enjoy life with the Andersons, Kathy, Bud, Betty,
Margaret and Jim has the head of this typical American
household again sets out to prove that father knows best. Now. Ordinarily,
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a Saturday morning at the White Frame House on Maple
Street is the time when the Anderson family takes a
change of pace from the week's work, and the tempo
of life is generally relaxed and rather easy going. And
it might have been that way this Saturday morning if
daughter Betty had not come in with what sounded like
a harmless piece of news like this, Mother.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Mother, we're in the den, Betty, Mother, guess what I
just came from Jamie Niggots And guess what?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, what's happened now, Princess, Your mother and I are
going over last month's bills. Don't tell us anything that
costs money.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Will you remember me telling you about Jamie's aunt.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
The rich one.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's what we need, a rich aunt.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh, father, please, all right, all right. Jamie Niggott's aunt
bought a mink coat.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, good for her.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh it's full length, clear down to here. It must
have cost simply thousands.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Well, I suppose it would be nice to have a
coat like that the person could afford it.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Oh, it's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Father, Why don't you buy mother a mink coat?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Why? Sure? Next time you're downtown, honey, pick up two
or three.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh, Father, I'm in earnest.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'm in debt, princess, with a stack of bills piled
up here. It's not exactly the time to talk about
by buying a mink coat.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Don't worry, dear. I'm perfectly happy with the coat I.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Have, of course, But it seems to me that any
man who cared at all about his wife would at
least think about buying her a mink coat.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, I've thought about it. Well, what happens when a
woman gets a mink coat.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I'd have to get all new dresses to wear with it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And with new dresses and a mink coat, your mother
couldn't be seen riding in our three year old car.
We'd have to get a new car.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh, I give up every time I make a sensible suggestion.
Father has to be a comedian. I'm going upstairs.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I love those sensible suggestions.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I wonder what it would be like to have a
mink coat in the closet.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
For that matter, we already have fur in the house.
There's that neck piece of yours that we bought in Chicago,
and those fur mittens of mine. I can for the
life and me see why women feel that a coat
made out of the skins of a bad tempered member
of the weasel family can suddenly create a whole new
pattern of life.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I didn't say that, dear. All I said was that Mom, Mom, I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
In a den, Bud.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Where were we on these bills? Are? Mom? Oh? Hi?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Hello, Bud?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Hi? Dad? You home? No, I'm down harvesting onions in Bermuda. Oh,
your mother and I are checking over some bills here, Bud.
What is it? Joe and I just decided something. Well, good,
Now we're not going to take any more money from
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our folks anymore. Now there's the brightest thought of the day.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
What brings this on, Bud.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Nothing. We just decided, and a very good decision. Let's
not question it.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
So the way it is, having an allowance, we can
only spend so much and then we're broke.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yes, this I understand.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
But if we quit having an allowance and get Joe
jobs and earn our own money, then there's no limit.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
To how much we can spend. Well, I'm not quite
sure I follow your reasoning there, but you go ahead.
I'm all for it.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't think you can earn all your money and
go to school.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But sure I can.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
I already got a job at Snow's drugstore, two afternoons
a week.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'm on the.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Board, switchboard, sandwich board.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
You know, ham on wheat, hold the mustard, grind a
cow and hold the weepers. Grind a cow and hold
the weepers, hamburg and onions. I know all that stuff,
and I'll make enough to pay for everything except my
lunches at school.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well, I'll give you enough for you.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
No, we're gonna do this, dad. I'm gonna get another
job and that'll pay for my lunches, all right, if
you say so.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Guys, gotta get used to paddling his own canoe.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Hey, what is it bad?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Maybe I could save up enough to buy a canoe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I'm hungry. What's in the kitchen to eat?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
There's nothing out there? I look, Hi, Mommy, Hi Daddy?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Helloing, Oh kidding.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I need some clothes, clothes.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Oh, we're back on the other side of the ledger.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You have plenty of clothes, but I need something I
can trade. Patty Davis and I are studying a swapshop.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Swatshop, don't you mean swapshop?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Where we trade clothes.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Can I have some clothes to trade?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Mommy, Well, look around in the attic, but don't take
anything good.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'll just take some old stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Patty answered the door. Will you probably for you anyway?
I'll get it.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
No where were we, Dear?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I have lost track. I don't know how you get
anything done around.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It isn't easy, Dear, Have you got who you've brought
it over?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Mother? Mother, give me your father.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
What in the world did Jenny bring over?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It can't be in anything less than Perry Como.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Mother, Look here it is, isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's Janie's auntsman coat.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Hello, missus Anderson, mister Anderson, Hello Janney.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh there, I say, that's a nice looking coat.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Jenny, nice looking, he says, nice looking. Oh feel it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Mother, just feel it.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
M Jim.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I brought it over to ask you a favor.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Betty.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
My aunt's out of town for the weekend, and she
left the coat with us, and now we're all going
away and mother doesn't want to leave the coat with
nobody in the house.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
That is a problem.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
What you need is a coach sitter, well sort of.
You see.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
My aunt paid over three thousand dollars for it.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Would you mind if I left it here, mister Anderson?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh, please, father, please.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Well, it's all right with me if there's room in
the closet.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Oh, you're sweet.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Father.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Put it on, missus Anderson. Oh, I don't think I should.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Oh go on, mother, let's see how you look in
at Well.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Here, I'll hold it for you. Oh, too.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Careful, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh you look simply divine.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Mother.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Isn't it terrific? Oh you should put this on, Jim.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
There's much point in it. Very few men are wearing
mink coats these days.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, my father is waiting for me out in front.
Thanks a lot for keeping the coat. We'll pick it
up this afternoon. Oh, there's no hurry, Janey.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Imagine three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You look great in it, Honey.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I can imagine with this house dress.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Turn around, mother, let's see it in the back.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh, isn't it positively the most perfectly, excruciatingly fantastically wonderful
coat you've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
It's too lovely for words. Real, man, I feel just
like a queen.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Hey, Mom, you better come out in the kitchen. The
saint's plogged up.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I certainly turned my coach into a pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
What you're wearing a coat in the house for bud?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Do you know what kind of a coat that he is?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Some kind of brown?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That's wild mink? Three thousand dollars words?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
What, oh boy? A fur coat?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Is that? What it costs?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Three thousand bucks?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Three thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I gotta go tell Patty David.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't know if we should hang that in the
front closet or not. That's an awful lot of money.
I hope it's ensured. You'd you'd better find a place
to hide it.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Betty, Well, don't worry. I'll find a place for us.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Why guy could make dough raising minks?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I wonder how you raise wild minks? Probably not easy.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
I guess when the mink starts thinking how much dough
they're gonna get for us?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Hide, that's what makes them wild. Wouldn't be at all surprised, now,
but your mother and I were trying to get some.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Oh, it must be a conspiracy to keep us away
from these bills.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hello, oh, hello, Ed, congratulations on what who told you that? Now? Ed?
Wait a minute, what's dear? I'm going over to Joe's. Yeah,
but Ed, I can't hear you.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
With all that racket over there. No, I can't get
away today.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But I wish you'd explain what you're all right? Goodbye?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Why the furrowed brow ed.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Davis called me up to congratulate me on selling that
two million dollar insurance deal to the steel company. I
haven't sold that policy yet, probably never will. I've been
working on it for years.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
What made him think you'd sold it?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Search me? He had a bunch of fellows from the
downtown Businessmen's Club over there wanted me to play golf
with him this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Do you suppose he was Ed?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Doesn't drink. If that's Ed calling back, I'm going to hello.
Oh yes, she's here just a moment.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It's sir for you, Lenny, Oh hello, yes, oh yes,
And this is Wynn Sheridan.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I remember this is Wynn Sheridan.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Next Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Well, I oh, I'm terribly sorry that I have a
PTA meeting that afternoon. Why yes, I'd love to well, Well,
thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Goodbye?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Did you say Win Sheridan?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Now, how do you explain that.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I met her just once, a long time ago. Now
she wants me to come to a Bridge luncheon.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
He's the biggest automobile dealer in town.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
She's the social leader of Springfield. Why is she calling
me all of a sudden and so sweet on the phone?
You'd think I was a member.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Of the royal family, ed Davis.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
And now this, dear, there's no explanation for it, but oh,
it seems to have started since that mint coat arrived.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You're right, something happened, but there's a difference. Things are
not the same.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
But why it makes us feel like a couple of idiots.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Exactly one thing we do know, honey. Right now, we're
two of the most popular idiots in town. Act two
above an ovest in just a moment. Folks are always
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trying to think of new ways to make money multiply.
It'd be nice if you could just grow your own money.
Yet there is a way to make money grow through
United States savings bonds. When you invest in United States
savings bonds, you get back four dollars for every three
you invest, and savings bonds are one of your best
investments because every dollar you lend Uncle Sam helps to
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ensure our freedom, and freedom for your country means personal
security for you. Your savings bonds are more than a
dollars and cents investment. They're an investment in a way
of life. Show Uncle Sam you believe in him, You'll
show you his gratitude with interest. Watch your money grow
with United States Savings bonds. Well, has life been a
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little dull around your house? Not much happening. If you
want to live and things up, take a tip from
the Andersons. Have a friend of yours leave a mink
coat in your closet. Ever since Betty's friend Jamie brought
her aunt's very expensive Miak coat to the Andersons for
safe keeping, Margaret and Jim have been flooded with invitations
and favors from people who a few hours ago were
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almost total strangers. How did Jim and Margaret feel about
all this? Well, they don't understand it. They like it.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Oh this is perfect, Jim.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Next Friday, we're invited to the Carmichaels for dinner in
this symphony afterwards.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
When did that come?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Just now? While you were out in the kitchen, messenger
brought it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Carmichael. I've met him and he owns the big music
store downtown.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Dear, I'll just have to buy a new dress to wear. Well, sure,
go ahead, possibly a pair of slippers.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
My gold ones are almost worn out.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, okay, I think it's simply.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Too utterly exciting the way things are happening to you
and mother.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
What's the score so far?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Well, nine invitations, two boxes of candy, and one electric rotisserie?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Where did the rotisserie come from?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Man brought it from the Acne Appliance company insisted on
leaving it for me to try out, no obligation and
all that.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well, you see, father, life is different when you have
a mink coat.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
But we don't have a mink coat. We're just sitting
with one anyway. It doesn't explain our sudden popularity.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, why question it?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Who's questioning it?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Gee?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I wish I could think of a real good place
to hide the coat every place I put it. I
asked myself, where would I look for a mink coat
if I knew one was hidden?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And that's always the place?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yes, Well, Jim, a car just in the driveway. Look
through the window here.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh wow, who do we know who drives a car
like that?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
You'd better go out and.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
See what it is, Dear, I must have the wrong house.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I didn't know they made cars that long.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
What a dream can't you picture yourself driving down the street,
and that.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
One person couldn't operate it. You'd have to have a crew.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
The man seems to be arguing with father about something.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
What in the world the man's leaving getting into another car.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Here comes father.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We'll find out what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Jim carrying it too far? We've got to do something
about this.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
That's Sultan's chariot out there? Nothing I could say had
the slightest effect. The fellow insisted that we take it.
Oh no, really, father, he said, try it out, keep
it as long as you like. He wouldn't take no
for an answer.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Who sent it out?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Somebody? The wind Sheridan wind Sheridan.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
And Missus wind Sheridan called me.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Remember, Margaret is beginning to lift. I think the light
is beginning to filter through.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Who part that gold plated rocket ship in our driveway?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Wind Sheridan belongs to the Downtown Businessman's Club. He must
have been over at Ed Davis's when Ed called to
congratulate me on selling that fabulous policy that I didn't sell.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Where did that millionaire's hot rod come from?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
That bunch of businessmen flashed the word around town? That
we had hit the jackpot rolling in money.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
But who told the businessman? It must have been Ed Davis,
who told Ed Davis?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Who owns the boss.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Just listen, buddy, you'll get the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I've been listening, and I haven't got anything yet. No
one could have told Ed that I sold that policy.
He must have jumped to the conclusion from wait a minute,
where is Kathy?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Look no further, dear, the solution has arrived.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You call me, daddy, kitten. What did you tell mister Davis?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I told him we had a meat coat at our
house that cost three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, there you have it. That explains everything.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Did I tell something I shouldn't have?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Daddy, No kidding, You just didn't tell quite enough, principally
that the three thousand dollar coat was not ours.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Oh yeah, forgot that.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Oh I can't figure what you're talking about. I'm going
down and see about a job.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'll go back and tell mister Davis, I got some
clothes to trade with Patty anyway. Of all the silly things,
what are you gonna do with the car and all
those things?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Oh? Send them all back.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Father, Look out the window.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh for Pete's sake. What are they bringing in?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
You'd better open the door, do you.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I tell you there's never a dull moment with a
mink coat around.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
What in the world are those men carrying?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yes, mister Anderson, Yes, delivery from the Carmichael Music Company.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Well you'll have to take it back, my friend. There's
been a little mistake.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You, miss Anderson, Yes, no mistake. Bring it in, boys,
But we didn't order anything from the Carmichael Music Company.
I don't know anything about the orders. We just deliver.
Where do you want this? O? What is it? Combination radio, television,
phonograph and barbecue and high fidelity?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
The room isn't dig enough for it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I don't make the rooms, miss, We just delivered. Well,
you can't stand there holding it. Oh, you're so right.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
You better put it down here in the living room.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Hey, why do they send a thing like this out
on free trial? I'll never know? You know how much
this thing costs, mister Anderson? Oh no, seventeen hundred and
fifty bucks. That's without the charcoal. Seventeen hundred. You must
be loaded.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Goodbye. Well, what do we do with it?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well? What can we do with it? Hook it up
play it. We may as well enjoy all these things
they were forced on us. If they insist that we
take a free trial, okay, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, before I do anything else, I've got to find
a place to put that coat.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Imagine us with a new car, a block long and
a seventeen hundred dollars radio.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Oh what can we do about it? Honey? But things
are here, we're not out anything. Let's have fun.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Oh no, not again.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Look out the window, honny. If they're carrying something or
driving something, we'll turn out the lights and hide. No.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No, as far as I can see, it's just a
man with a brief game.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Well let him in. The worst we can get is
a free trial and a briefcase.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Whatever it is, dear, just explain to him.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you? Mister Anderson?
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Yes, I'm from the text Collector's office, tax collector?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
May I come in? Why? Yes? Yes, thank you? Clawson?
Is my name? Here's my car? Oh? Well what that is?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
I was sent out to reappraise your personal property.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Well, come into the living room, missus. Uh, missus Anderson,
mister Clawson, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Did I hear you say you were from the tax
collector's office.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
That is correct.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Our office understands there has been, shall we say, a
considerable improvement in your financial status.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Well, I'm afraid you made the trip out here for nothing,
mister Clawson. The story about our financial improvements was just
one of those rumors. No truth to it at all,
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
It all started with the silliest sort of mistake.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That car in your driveway.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
It's new, isn't it. Yes, it's worth as it stands,
about six thousand, six thousand. The tax on that would
be no, no, wait wait this that car isn't ours.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
They sent it out on approval.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Well, it will be yours after you buy it. It's
all the same to us.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
But we're not going to buy it. Then why did
you have it sent out?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
We didn't have it sent out.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Someone just drove a six thousand dollars car into your
driveway and left me. That's just what happened, mister Anderson.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You are pulling my leg. No I'm not. That's the truth.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
I've been with the tax office for twelve years and
I've heard a lot of stories.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
This one isn't bad. Now, let me get my papers
out here and write this down.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
One super deluxe ten passenger sedan six thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But mister Clawson, oh, quite.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
A radio phonograph combination you have there.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Now wait, hold on, that's new, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
But it's not our worth about sixteen hundred dollars, I
should say, how did you make your money, mister Anderson?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oil? Look, I haven't made any money. The car and
this radio they were sent out to us. We knew
nothing about it. Well, I would like to believe that,
mister Clawson. I'm fairly well respected in the community. I'm
an honest man. I believe in being open and above
board about everything.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Oh father, I.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Found a wonderful place to hide the mink coat.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Hide the mink coat.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Oh no, oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I didn't know there was anyone here.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Well, young lady, you spilled the beans. Now let's quit
playing games. Mister Anderson. What do you have beside the
mink coat? Any diamond necklaces?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Mister Clawson, believe me, the mink coat is not ours.
Oh come now, a man with your money, Betty, this
is the tax man.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Tell him it's not our coat.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
We're just keeping it for a friend of mine while
she's out of town.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
You know, there are times when I wish I had
gone into another line of work.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
How much did you pay for the coat?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
We didn't pay for the coat, but you do have it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yes, that's all I want to know. Now you just
tell me how much you have. Don't open the door.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Well, we better see who it is.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Father.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Hi, Betty, Janie Father, it's James.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Oh bless that girl. Quit. What's the matter.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's tax collectors here, Jennie.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
This is mister Clawson from the tax office. Will you
please tell him.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I'll go get the coat.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Does this mink coat we're talking about belong to you.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Young lady. No, it belongs to my aunt.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I'm Janie Leggett.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
If you come over to our house, my father will
tell you here it is. Well, thanks a lot for
keeping it for us, mister Anderson. Well, dad's waiting. I
got to run by sy.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Well, mister Clawson, are you convinced on the coat?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yes? But the car and then all you started with
the coat.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Our small daughter told the neighbors we had a three
thousand dollar mink coat, and the word spread that mister
Anderson had sold a big insurance policy.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
We were the most popular people in town.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Oh, I think I understand now. I have a small
daughter myself. You see, we're not rich, mister Claws.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
In fact, sometimes it's hard to make the money stretch. Oh,
I know just how it is. Just this morning, missus
Anderson and I were going over the bills. We're so
far away from owning.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
A car like that one out there or this expensive radio. Oh,
money doesn't go as far as.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It used to. Hey dad, mom, I got a job.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Now I can buy my lunch at school.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
But you'd better explain that.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Hey, mommy, I've been over the swapshop. I got me
some real good clothes, having any holes at all.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Now wait a minute, Kathy, Oh, mister Anderson, what lunch?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Oh clothes?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I have kids of my own. You know. Here, let
me give you five dollars to tide you over. It's
not as bad as it looks. It's a pause. You
keep the five. Someday you may want to buy your
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wife a mink coat. The Anderson's will be back in
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a busy Saturday at the White Frame House on Maple Street.
The mink coat is going back to its owner, and
quiet again settles on the Anderson family. Children are in bed,
Margaret and Jim are having their quiet talk.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
What a day, Oh, it was a lively one.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I never want to hear another telephone or another door bell.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
I'm glad you set the car in the radio back.
This evening seems like we're back to normal.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Now you know. I'm glad you're not crazy about mink coats.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Hope that I am.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
In fact, Wilson's Department store is having a sale on
mink tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I'm going down.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Ooh, what are you going to buy some kitchen curtains?
You're a smart girl.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I'm not so sure if I am or not.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
When the guardiff again next week, but we'll be back
with Father and O's Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
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Welcome and Bringfield and another half hour is it with
the folks in the white frame Hugh House on Maple Street.
Sit back and enjoy life with the Andersons, Kathy, Bud, Betty,
Margaret and Jim has the head of this typical American
household again sets out to prove that father knows best. Now. Ordinarily,
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a Saturday morning at the White Frame House on Maple
Street is the time when the Anderson family takes a
change of pace from the week's work, and the tempo
of life is generally relaxed and rather easy going. And
it might have been that way this Saturday morning if
daughter Betty had not come in with what sounded like
a harmless piece of news like this, Mother.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Mother, we're in the den, Betty, Mother, guess what I
just came from Jamie Niggots And guess what?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Well, what's happened now, Princess, Your mother and I are
going over last month's bills. Don't tell us anything that
costs money.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Will you remember me telling you about Jamie's aunt.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
The rich one.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's what we need, a rich aunt.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh, father, please, all right, all right. Jamie Niggott's aunt
bought a mink coat.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, good for her.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh it's full length, clear down to here. It must
have cost simply thousands.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Well, I suppose it would be nice to have a
coat like that the person could afford it.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Oh, it's so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Father, Why don't you buy mother a mink coat?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Why? Sure? Next time you're downtown, honey, pick up two
or three.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh, Father, I'm in earnest.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'm in debt, princess, with a stack of bills piled
up here. It's not exactly the time to talk about
by buying a mink coat.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Don't worry, dear. I'm perfectly happy with the coat I.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Have, of course, But it seems to me that any
man who cared at all about his wife would at
least think about buying her a mink coat.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, I've thought about it. Well, what happens when a
woman gets a mink coat.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I'd have to get all new dresses to wear with it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And with new dresses and a mink coat, your mother
couldn't be seen riding in our three year old car.
We'd have to get a new car.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh, I give up every time I make a sensible suggestion.
Father has to be a comedian. I'm going upstairs.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I love those sensible suggestions.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I wonder what it would be like to have a
mink coat in the closet.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
For that matter, we already have fur in the house.
There's that neck piece of yours that we bought in Chicago,
and those fur mittens of mine. I can for the
life and me see why women feel that a coat
made out of the skins of a bad tempered member
of the weasel family can suddenly create a whole new
pattern of life.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I didn't say that, dear. All I said was that Mom, Mom, I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
In a den, Bud.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Where were we on these bills? Are? Mom? Oh? Hi?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Hello, Bud?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Hi? Dad? You home? No, I'm down harvesting onions in Bermuda. Oh,
your mother and I are checking over some bills here, Bud.
What is it? Joe and I just decided something. Well, good,
Now we're not going to take any more money from
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our folks anymore. Now there's the brightest thought of the day.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
What brings this on, Bud.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Nothing. We just decided, and a very good decision. Let's
not question it.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
So the way it is, having an allowance, we can
only spend so much and then we're broke.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yes, this I understand.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
But if we quit having an allowance and get Joe
jobs and earn our own money, then there's no limit.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
To how much we can spend. Well, I'm not quite
sure I follow your reasoning there, but you go ahead.
I'm all for it.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't think you can earn all your money and
go to school.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But sure I can.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
I already got a job at Snow's drugstore, two afternoons
a week.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'm on the.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Board, switchboard, sandwich board.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
You know, ham on wheat, hold the mustard, grind a
cow and hold the weepers. Grind a cow and hold
the weepers, hamburg and onions. I know all that stuff,
and I'll make enough to pay for everything except my
lunches at school.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well, I'll give you enough for you.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
No, we're gonna do this, dad. I'm gonna get another
job and that'll pay for my lunches, all right, if
you say so.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Guys, gotta get used to paddling his own canoe.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Hey, what is it bad?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Maybe I could save up enough to buy a canoe.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I'm hungry. What's in the kitchen to eat?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
There's nothing out there? I look, Hi, Mommy, Hi Daddy?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Helloing, Oh kidding.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I need some clothes, clothes.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Oh, we're back on the other side of the ledger.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You have plenty of clothes, but I need something I
can trade. Patty Davis and I are studying a swapshop.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Swatshop, don't you mean swapshop?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Where we trade clothes.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Can I have some clothes to trade?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Mommy, Well, look around in the attic, but don't take
anything good.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'll just take some old stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Patty answered the door. Will you probably for you anyway?
I'll get it.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
No where were we, Dear?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I have lost track. I don't know how you get
anything done around.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It isn't easy, Dear, Have you got who you've brought
it over?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Mother? Mother, give me your father.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
What in the world did Jenny bring over?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
It can't be in anything less than Perry Como.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Mother, Look here it is, isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's Janie's auntsman coat.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Hello, missus Anderson, mister Anderson, Hello Janney.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh there, I say, that's a nice looking coat.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Jenny, nice looking, he says, nice looking. Oh feel it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Mother, just feel it.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
M Jim.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I brought it over to ask you a favor.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Betty.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
My aunt's out of town for the weekend, and she
left the coat with us, and now we're all going
away and mother doesn't want to leave the coat with
nobody in the house.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
That is a problem.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
What you need is a coach sitter, well sort of.
You see.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
My aunt paid over three thousand dollars for it.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Would you mind if I left it here, mister Anderson?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh, please, father, please.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Well, it's all right with me if there's room in
the closet.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Oh, you're sweet.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Father.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Put it on, missus Anderson. Oh, I don't think I should.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Oh go on, mother, let's see how you look in
at Well.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Here, I'll hold it for you. Oh, too.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Careful, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh you look simply divine.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Mother.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Isn't it terrific? Oh you should put this on, Jim.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
There's much point in it. Very few men are wearing
mink coats these days.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, my father is waiting for me out in front.
Thanks a lot for keeping the coat. We'll pick it
up this afternoon. Oh, there's no hurry, Janey.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Imagine three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
You look great in it, Honey.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I can imagine with this house dress.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Turn around, mother, let's see it in the back.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh, isn't it positively the most perfectly, excruciatingly fantastically wonderful
coat you've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
It's too lovely for words. Real, man, I feel just
like a queen.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Hey, Mom, you better come out in the kitchen. The
saint's plogged up.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I certainly turned my coach into a pumpkin.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
What you're wearing a coat in the house for bud?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Do you know what kind of a coat that he is?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Some kind of brown?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
That's wild mink? Three thousand dollars words?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
What, oh boy? A fur coat?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Is that? What it costs?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Three thousand bucks?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Three thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I gotta go tell Patty David.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't know if we should hang that in the
front closet or not. That's an awful lot of money.
I hope it's ensured. You'd you'd better find a place
to hide it.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Betty, Well, don't worry. I'll find a place for us.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Why guy could make dough raising minks?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I wonder how you raise wild minks? Probably not easy.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
I guess when the mink starts thinking how much dough
they're gonna get for us?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Hide, that's what makes them wild. Wouldn't be at all surprised, now,
but your mother and I were trying to get some.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Oh, it must be a conspiracy to keep us away
from these bills.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hello, oh, hello, Ed, congratulations on what who told you that? Now? Ed?
Wait a minute, what's dear? I'm going over to Joe's. Yeah,
but Ed, I can't hear you.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
With all that racket over there. No, I can't get
away today.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But I wish you'd explain what you're all right? Goodbye?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Why the furrowed brow ed.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Davis called me up to congratulate me on selling that
two million dollar insurance deal to the steel company. I
haven't sold that policy yet, probably never will. I've been
working on it for years.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
What made him think you'd sold it?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Search me? He had a bunch of fellows from the
downtown Businessmen's Club over there wanted me to play golf
with him this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Do you suppose he was Ed?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Doesn't drink. If that's Ed calling back, I'm going to hello.
Oh yes, she's here just a moment.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It's sir for you, Lenny, Oh hello, yes, oh yes,
And this is Wynn Sheridan.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I remember this is Wynn Sheridan.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Next Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Well, I oh, I'm terribly sorry that I have a
PTA meeting that afternoon. Why yes, I'd love to well, Well,
thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Goodbye?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Did you say Win Sheridan?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Now, how do you explain that.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I met her just once, a long time ago. Now
she wants me to come to a Bridge luncheon.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
He's the biggest automobile dealer in town.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
She's the social leader of Springfield. Why is she calling
me all of a sudden and so sweet on the phone?
You'd think I was a member.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Of the royal family, ed Davis.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
And now this, dear, there's no explanation for it, but oh,
it seems to have started since that mint coat arrived.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You're right, something happened, but there's a difference. Things are
not the same.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
But why it makes us feel like a couple of idiots.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Exactly one thing we do know, honey. Right now, we're
two of the most popular idiots in town. Act two
above an ovest in just a moment. Folks are always
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trying to think of new ways to make money multiply.
It'd be nice if you could just grow your own money.
Yet there is a way to make money grow through
United States savings bonds. When you invest in United States
savings bonds, you get back four dollars for every three
you invest, and savings bonds are one of your best
investments because every dollar you lend Uncle Sam helps to
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ensure our freedom, and freedom for your country means personal
security for you. Your savings bonds are more than a
dollars and cents investment. They're an investment in a way
of life. Show Uncle Sam you believe in him, You'll
show you his gratitude with interest. Watch your money grow
with United States Savings bonds. Well, has life been a
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little dull around your house? Not much happening. If you
want to live and things up, take a tip from
the Andersons. Have a friend of yours leave a mink
coat in your closet. Ever since Betty's friend Jamie brought
her aunt's very expensive Miak coat to the Andersons for
safe keeping, Margaret and Jim have been flooded with invitations
and favors from people who a few hours ago were
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almost total strangers. How did Jim and Margaret feel about
all this? Well, they don't understand it. They like it.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Oh this is perfect, Jim.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Next Friday, we're invited to the Carmichaels for dinner in
this symphony afterwards.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
When did that come?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Just now? While you were out in the kitchen, messenger
brought it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Carmichael. I've met him and he owns the big music
store downtown.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Dear, I'll just have to buy a new dress to wear. Well, sure,
go ahead, possibly a pair of slippers.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
My gold ones are almost worn out.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Well, okay, I think it's simply.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Too utterly exciting the way things are happening to you
and mother.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
What's the score so far?
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Well, nine invitations, two boxes of candy, and one electric rotisserie?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Where did the rotisserie come from?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Man brought it from the Acne Appliance company insisted on
leaving it for me to try out, no obligation and
all that.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Well, you see, father, life is different when you have
a mink coat.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
But we don't have a mink coat. We're just sitting
with one anyway. It doesn't explain our sudden popularity.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, why question it?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Who's questioning it?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Gee?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I wish I could think of a real good place
to hide the coat every place I put it. I
asked myself, where would I look for a mink coat
if I knew one was hidden?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And that's always the place?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yes, Well, Jim, a car just in the driveway. Look
through the window here.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh wow, who do we know who drives a car
like that?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
You'd better go out and.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
See what it is, Dear, I must have the wrong house.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I didn't know they made cars that long.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
What a dream can't you picture yourself driving down the street,
and that.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
One person couldn't operate it. You'd have to have a crew.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
The man seems to be arguing with father about something.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
What in the world the man's leaving getting into another car.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Here comes father.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We'll find out what it's all about.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Jim carrying it too far? We've got to do something
about this.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
That's Sultan's chariot out there? Nothing I could say had
the slightest effect. The fellow insisted that we take it.
Oh no, really, father, he said, try it out, keep
it as long as you like. He wouldn't take no
for an answer.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Who sent it out?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Somebody? The wind Sheridan wind Sheridan.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
And Missus wind Sheridan called me.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Remember, Margaret is beginning to lift. I think the light
is beginning to filter through.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Who part that gold plated rocket ship in our driveway?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Wind Sheridan belongs to the Downtown Businessman's Club. He must
have been over at Ed Davis's when Ed called to
congratulate me on selling that fabulous policy that I didn't sell.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Where did that millionaire's hot rod come from?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
That bunch of businessmen flashed the word around town? That
we had hit the jackpot rolling in money.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
But who told the businessman? It must have been Ed Davis,
who told Ed Davis?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Who owns the boss.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Just listen, buddy, you'll get the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I've been listening, and I haven't got anything yet. No
one could have told Ed that I sold that policy.
He must have jumped to the conclusion from wait a minute,
where is Kathy?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Look no further, dear, the solution has arrived.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
You call me, daddy, kitten. What did you tell mister Davis?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I told him we had a meat coat at our
house that cost three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, there you have it. That explains everything.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Did I tell something I shouldn't have?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Daddy, No kidding, You just didn't tell quite enough, principally
that the three thousand dollar coat was not ours.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Oh yeah, forgot that.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Oh I can't figure what you're talking about. I'm going
down and see about a job.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'll go back and tell mister Davis, I got some
clothes to trade with Patty anyway. Of all the silly things,
what are you gonna do with the car and all
those things?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Oh? Send them all back.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Father, Look out the window.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh for Pete's sake. What are they bringing in?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
You'd better open the door, do you.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I tell you there's never a dull moment with a
mink coat around.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
What in the world are those men carrying?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yes, mister Anderson, Yes, delivery from the Carmichael Music Company.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Well you'll have to take it back, my friend. There's
been a little mistake.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You, miss Anderson, Yes, no mistake. Bring it in, boys,
But we didn't order anything from the Carmichael Music Company.
I don't know anything about the orders. We just deliver.
Where do you want this? O? What is it? Combination radio, television,
phonograph and barbecue and high fidelity?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
The room isn't dig enough for it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I don't make the rooms, miss, We just delivered. Well,
you can't stand there holding it. Oh, you're so right.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
You better put it down here in the living room.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Hey, why do they send a thing like this out
on free trial? I'll never know? You know how much
this thing costs, mister Anderson? Oh no, seventeen hundred and
fifty bucks. That's without the charcoal. Seventeen hundred. You must
be loaded.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Goodbye. Well, what do we do with it?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well? What can we do with it? Hook it up
play it. We may as well enjoy all these things
they were forced on us. If they insist that we
take a free trial, okay, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, before I do anything else, I've got to find
a place to put that coat.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Imagine us with a new car, a block long and
a seventeen hundred dollars radio.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Oh what can we do about it? Honey? But things
are here, we're not out anything. Let's have fun.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Oh no, not again.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Look out the window, honny. If they're carrying something or
driving something, we'll turn out the lights and hide. No.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No, as far as I can see, it's just a
man with a brief game.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Well let him in. The worst we can get is
a free trial and a briefcase.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Whatever it is, dear, just explain to him.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you? Mister Anderson?
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Yes, I'm from the text Collector's office, tax collector?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
May I come in? Why? Yes? Yes, thank you? Clawson?
Is my name? Here's my car? Oh? Well what that is?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
I was sent out to reappraise your personal property.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Well, come into the living room, missus. Uh, missus Anderson,
mister Clawson, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Did I hear you say you were from the tax
collector's office.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
That is correct.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Our office understands there has been, shall we say, a
considerable improvement in your financial status.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Well, I'm afraid you made the trip out here for nothing,
mister Clawson. The story about our financial improvements was just
one of those rumors. No truth to it at all,
absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
It all started with the silliest sort of mistake.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That car in your driveway.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
It's new, isn't it. Yes, it's worth as it stands,
about six thousand, six thousand. The tax on that would
be no, no, wait wait this that car isn't ours.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
They sent it out on approval.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Well, it will be yours after you buy it. It's
all the same to us.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
But we're not going to buy it. Then why did
you have it sent out?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
We didn't have it sent out.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Someone just drove a six thousand dollars car into your
driveway and left me. That's just what happened, mister Anderson.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You are pulling my leg. No I'm not. That's the truth.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
I've been with the tax office for twelve years and
I've heard a lot of stories.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
This one isn't bad. Now, let me get my papers
out here and write this down.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
One super deluxe ten passenger sedan six thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But mister Clawson, oh, quite.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
A radio phonograph combination you have there.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Now wait, hold on, that's new, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
But it's not our worth about sixteen hundred dollars, I
should say, how did you make your money, mister Anderson?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oil? Look, I haven't made any money. The car and
this radio they were sent out to us. We knew
nothing about it. Well, I would like to believe that,
mister Clawson. I'm fairly well respected in the community. I'm
an honest man. I believe in being open and above
board about everything.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Oh father, I.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Found a wonderful place to hide the mink coat.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Hide the mink coat.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Oh no, oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I didn't know there was anyone here.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Well, young lady, you spilled the beans. Now let's quit
playing games. Mister Anderson. What do you have beside the
mink coat? Any diamond necklaces?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Mister Clawson, believe me, the mink coat is not ours.
Oh come now, a man with your money, Betty, this
is the tax man.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Tell him it's not our coat.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
We're just keeping it for a friend of mine while
she's out of town.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
You know, there are times when I wish I had
gone into another line of work.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
How much did you pay for the coat?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
We didn't pay for the coat, but you do have it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yes, that's all I want to know. Now you just
tell me how much you have. Don't open the door.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Well, we better see who it is.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Father.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Hi, Betty, Janie Father, it's James.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Oh bless that girl. Quit. What's the matter.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's tax collectors here, Jennie.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
This is mister Clawson from the tax office. Will you
please tell him.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I'll go get the coat.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Does this mink coat we're talking about belong to you.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Young lady. No, it belongs to my aunt.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I'm Janie Leggett.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
If you come over to our house, my father will
tell you here it is. Well, thanks a lot for
keeping it for us, mister Anderson. Well, dad's waiting. I
got to run by sy.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Well, mister Clawson, are you convinced on the coat?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yes? But the car and then all you started with
the coat.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Our small daughter told the neighbors we had a three
thousand dollar mink coat, and the word spread that mister
Anderson had sold a big insurance policy.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
We were the most popular people in town.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Oh, I think I understand now. I have a small
daughter myself. You see, we're not rich, mister Claws.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
In fact, sometimes it's hard to make the money stretch. Oh,
I know just how it is. Just this morning, missus
Anderson and I were going over the bills. We're so
far away from owning.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
A car like that one out there or this expensive radio. Oh,
money doesn't go as far as.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It used to. Hey dad, mom, I got a job.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Now I can buy my lunch at school.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
But you'd better explain that.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Hey, mommy, I've been over the swapshop. I got me
some real good clothes, having any holes at all.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Now wait a minute, Kathy, Oh, mister Anderson, what lunch?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Oh clothes?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I have kids of my own. You know. Here, let
me give you five dollars to tide you over. It's
not as bad as it looks. It's a pause. You
keep the five. Someday you may want to buy your
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wife a mink coat. The Anderson's will be back in
just a moment. Friday evening brings more wonderful entertainment on
the NBC Radio Network when Bob Hope presents his fun
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filled show for your listening pleasure. Tomorrow evening, you'll hear
Bob's guest star, Virginia Mayo in an hilarious take off
on a dramatic situation. Be sure to listen and then
stay tuned for music and mirth. On the Phil Harris
Alice Fay Show, It's a laugh riot from beginning to end.
When Phil teams with Elliott Lewis for another session of
zaniattics and hilarious situations, you'd hear songs by Phil and
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Alice Faye two for a really enjoyable half hour of
stellar entertainment. Make NBC Radio your entertainment headquarters. Tomorrow night.
Just set your die out of this station for the
finest of all radio listening. Well, it's the end of
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a busy Saturday at the White Frame House on Maple Street.
The mink coat is going back to its owner, and
quiet again settles on the Anderson family. Children are in bed,
Margaret and Jim are having their quiet talk.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
What a day, Oh, it was a lively one.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I never want to hear another telephone or another door bell.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
I'm glad you set the car in the radio back.
This evening seems like we're back to normal.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Now you know. I'm glad you're not crazy about mink coats.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Hope that I am.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
In fact, Wilson's Department store is having a sale on
mink tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
I'm going down.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Ooh, what are you going to buy some kitchen curtains?
You're a smart girl.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I'm not so sure if I am or not.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
When the guardiff again next week, but we'll be back
with Father and O's Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
Father Knows Best is an NBC Radio Network production in
cooperation with Cavalier Enterprises. In our cast for Helen Strom
as Kathy, Jean Vander Pyle, Rote Williams, Ted Donaldson, Mary Lee,
Rob and Parley Bear. Father nos Best, based on characters
created by Ed James, is written by Paul West and
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Roswell Rodgers, directed by Arthur Jacobson, and transcribed in Hollywood.
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