July 25, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
In the world.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your 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.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
At any price.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Maxwell House always good to the last drop. Slap a
bunch of poets together, and at least one thing is
bound to emerge a new definition of love. In one
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of his flossier moments, Shakespeare wrote, love is a smoke
grazed with a fume of size, which is very nice
if you go in for that sort of thing. The
mess Ther's Thurber and White, on the other hand, viewed
the emotion with a more practical eye. Love, they said,
is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account
of another person in Springfield, in the White frame house
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on Maple Street, the Andersons probably have ideas of their
own on this ethereal subject, like well, like.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
This, I think I'll have a little more rice. Would
you mind passing it? Betty?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yes? Father, Jim, Honey, let's not start that business about
rice being fattening.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
It isn't.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
Well, you were the one who said that your.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Waist, Margaret, rice is not fattening.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It's the stuff you put on it, like butter. Put
butter on anything, it's fattening. But have you ever seen
me put butter on my rice? No, dear darn right,
you haven't, Kathy, Please pass the gravy, ay, Daddy, now that.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
You mention it, what's wrong with my waistline? I haven't
gained a pound in twenty years?
Speaker 7 (02:03):
What was that?
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Well, maybe two pounds?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Daddy? Look at bad?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Why I've been looking at him for fifteen years?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
He is needing his dinner?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Well, maybe he's got problems, Bud, Bud, Yes, dear.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Dear Bud, what's the matter.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
With you, Jim? Maybe he doesn't feel well.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
He's in love, Daddy, Mind your own affairs and eat
your dinner.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Well he is, But do you feel all right?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Bye?
Speaker 8 (02:46):
I'll answer.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Sit down.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
Don't call me to answer the phone.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
It didn't ring. Will you please sit down?
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Something wrong?
Speaker 9 (02:55):
I can still hear it, kind of like Bill's.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Jim. I think he is ill.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He's in love love huh.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
But if you don't feel well, go to your room.
If you do feel well, eat your dinner.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
Maybe it's the doorbell.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I didn't hear anything, Bud, I.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Just heard it again, Jim, something is wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I don't like to look in his eyes, you know,
for the first time in her life.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Kathy may be right. Look at that idiotic grin on me,
on your brother.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
He looks like a cross between Boris Karloff and a
contented cow. All right, Bud, let's stop all this ridiculous
moaning and groaning.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
What's wrong, Dad? Yes?
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Have you ever been in love? Why, Bud, I mean
really in love.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
With a girl?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Well, your mother wasn't exactly a rhinoceros.
Speaker 9 (04:10):
You ought to see her eyes, Dad, They're blue, the
bluest eyes you ever saw, both of them.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Only has two uh.
Speaker 9 (04:23):
The hair, the most beautiful hair, like the sun shining
on the home plate.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
But is this a girl or a double header between
the Yanks and Cleveland?
Speaker 8 (04:36):
It's a girl, the most wonderful girl in the whole world.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Fine, Now eat your dinner.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Food. How can you think of food at a time
like this. I don't think I'll ever eat again, not ever.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I remember when I first met your mother. I went
through the same thing. People thought I was going to
starve to death.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Indeed you no, I managed to pull through.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Daddy asked Kathy, how.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Long didn't you eat?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Oh? I don't know. I don't remember exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
I know I missed practically one entire lunch, Jim, Dad,
what is it?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Lock and bar?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Who?
Speaker 6 (05:22):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
When you and mom fell in love? What'd you do?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Don't you think you're getting a little nosy?
Speaker 8 (05:31):
No?
Speaker 9 (05:32):
I mean, how did you know you were in love?
How often did you see one another?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Oh? A few times a week something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Jim, you were there every night and you know it.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Margaret, you're being absolutely no help at all. But isn't
serious about this girl?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Are you? Bud boy?
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Am? I?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I mean, he isn't thinking about marriage or anything ridiculous
like that.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Are you?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
What is ridiculous about marriage?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Margaret? He's you're fifteen years old.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Oh, I don't mean for Bud Well.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
We weren't talking about Errol Flynn.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Naturally, Bud isn't going to do anything foolish, not yet at.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Any rate, of course, not when he gets a little older.
That'll be time enough for him to do something foolish.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
That's not what I meant.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And you know it. Bud is a sensible boy, aren't you,
dear Sure, and he knows that he's much too young.
He has a lot of time for girls, haven't.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
You, dear boy, have I?
Speaker 10 (06:39):
Bud?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Let's look at this thing in a more practical manner.
You know, going out with girls can be kind of expensive. Flowers, candy, movies.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Well, that's one of the things I wanted to talk
about Dad. You see, I only get a dollar in
a quarter a week. Yes, how can you take a
girl out on a dollar a quarter a week?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You can't?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Well, that's why I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
But if you're really sincere about this girl, if you
think your life and happiness depend on her, well do
what I did.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Go sit on her front porch.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Gosh, what kind of fun can you have on a
front porch?
Speaker 11 (07:18):
Oh, don't be stupid, GM.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
But when I was courting your mother, all we did
was sit on our front porch, didn't we, Honey, Yes, dear,
night after night, week after week, we just sat there
and held hands and looked at.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
The moon, a large, lovely, friendly moon.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Never got so sick and tired of looking at anything
in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
GM.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Well, let's face it, the same darn thing every night.
Just sit there and look at the moon.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
There were a great many other boys who were perfectly
willing to take.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Your place, But I wouldn't let them, would I?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You certainly wouldn't. You were the stubbornness thing I've ever known.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Sure, but I was cute and I knew a good
thing when I saw it.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Dad, Now, what when you were sure that Mom was
the right one for you? I mean, when you knew
that you couldn't live without her?
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Then what you do?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Well? What did we do, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
You made me get all dressed up in my best
bib and tucker, and you took me home to visit
your family.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
That's right. I can still feel my knees knocking. Was
I ever scared?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Not half as scared as I was.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
It turned out all right, though, didn't it. Honey? They
fell in love with you, just like I did. God,
where are you going?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
I'll be right back, Dad, I have to make a
phone call.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You come back here and eat your dinner.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Need the boy.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Alone, Gin, it's his first big It's got to get
used to it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Love, Betty, you haven't said a pleasant word all evening.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
What's gotten into you?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
She isn't eating her dinner either?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Why don't you do your homework?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I did it?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Do it over again?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Can't I just keep still?
Speaker 6 (09:22):
All right? But see that you do, Betty? Do you
feel all right?
Speaker 7 (09:26):
I feel fine.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
She had a fight with Billy Smith.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
I thought you were going to keep still.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If I did, nobody never get to know anything around here.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
We'd find out somehow, Betty, that you and Billy Smith
had another argument.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I never want to see him again as long as
I live.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I thought you were getting along fine.
Speaker 12 (09:51):
We were until he met that Eloise March, that little
snip who's Alloise March?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Just the worst little flirt in town.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
That's all you want?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Three can have her, Betty, I wouldn't get all upset
about it if I were you.
Speaker 12 (10:04):
I'm not upset. I'm not believed that upset. I just
wouldn't give a three cents for all the men in
the world.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I would.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
This Eloise March must be quite a character.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
She's a vampire, that's what she is.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Is she pretty? How do I know? I'm never even
seen her.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm through with men. I'm going to have a career. Instead,
I'm going to devolved.
Speaker 12 (10:34):
My whole life to be being a chemist or something.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I still love you, Betty, Oh.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Dear, taking it pretty hard, isn't she?
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
She and Billy have been friends for so long?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Do you think to do money?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Aren't you glad?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I don't do anything except break windows?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Yes, dear, you're a great help.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Well, it's all said dad. I called her, and she's
coming over.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Who's coming over?
Speaker 8 (11:08):
My girl?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
But why in the name of all that's holy.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Well, you said to bring her over, didn't you. I
said no such thing, But that's what you did.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
You said so, But this is not the time to
bring a girl around. We're having enough.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Trouble with girls, your sister and Eloise March.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
And how did you know?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
How did I know?
Speaker 8 (11:28):
What about Eloise March?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
What about Eloise March?
Speaker 8 (11:32):
That's my girl?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Oh no, Now that's wonderful coffee welcome words you can
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hear across your breakfast table from the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am,
he'll be there, that number one expert. Because he's your husband.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Naturally, we think we're pretty fair experts.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Our Maxwell House Coffee is America's favorite brand. But the
person with the final say, the one we both want
to please, is that husband of yours. And if you'll
make his breakfast coffee Maxwell House, We're mighty sure he'll
tell you that's wonderful coffee.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Matter of fact, if he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
We'll give you your money back. You see, we know
there's no coffee made like Maxwell House, and that's why
no coffee tastes like Maxwell House. It's the only coffee
with that famous good to the last drop flavor. Get
Maxwell House tomorrow and start serving it to your husband.
And if he doesn't say it's the best coffee he
ever tasted, why send us the can an unused portion,
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and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is on the front of every one of those familiar
blue tins. Tomorrow find out how much the world's greatest
coffee expert enjoys Maxwell House coffee, always good to.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
The last drop.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
These are powerless times in which we live, and days
of great decision throughout the world. Men of substance watch
the headlines with an anxious eye, keeping one ear to
the ground and the other glued to the radio, which
is a neat trick if you can do it. Jim
Anderson may not quite succeed, but in the living room
of the white frame house on Maple Street, he's giving
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it quite a try. Like this, Margaret, Why don't people
leave things where they belong?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Margaret?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (13:55):
What happened to my large map of Corea?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I don't know, dear, where did you put it?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
It was right here on the table.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Well, if it was on the.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Table, that's where it ought to be the living room, Jim, what.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
On earth are you doing?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
What's the matter?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
All those maps on the floor.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And Bud's friend is going to be here anymore.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Margaret, I'm waiting for a very important broadcast.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
It's coming from all over the world, even Moscow. I
don't want to miss a word. This is the only
radio in the house that's any good.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
And you know it all right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But I still don't see why you need eight million
maps scattered.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
All over the floor.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
There are five maps? Where's the one of Korea? I
had on the table?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Which table?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
This table?
Speaker 7 (14:35):
What is this?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
That's the map?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Of course you couldn't dream of lifting up a big,
heavy magazine.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Well, the magazine had no business being there in the
first place.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Dear, if I go into the kitchen, do you think
you can find your way back to the radio.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
If I get lost, I'll send up smoke signals one
of by land and two if by sea. He thinks
it's so funny. How did I know it was under
the magazine? People go around hiding your maps under magazines.
I think all a man has to do is go
around looking under magazines. But he's upstairs him The doorbell rang,
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But the doorbell rang.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I'm combing my hair.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
He's combing his hair.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Jim, what do you want me to do about it?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
You might answer the door.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Well, if you're going to be logical, wait until a
man has something really important to do.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Maps all over the floor. All right, keep your shirt on.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I'm coming, Dizzy little character probably hasn't got a brain
in her head anyway.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Hello, there is this the Anders residence. It certainly is.
Come on in.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I know he's marching. Don't tell me you're mister Anderson.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
How did you ever figure that out?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
On you anywhere? Mister Anderson? Really, I would love her.
Boys told me so much about.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
You, loverr boy has.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Oh yeah, that was nice of him.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Love boy Uh, Bud, your friend is here. The Thundering
Hurd will be down in a minute. He's fixing his makeup.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I don't mind.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Let's go into the living room and sit down.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
All right, my, you have a lovely home.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's so so ghost.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I was hoping you'd notice that we tried to make
it one of the ghostest homes.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And you certainly have.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Yes, Margaret, Bud's friend is here, please.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Missus.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Anderson will be right in. Then you can all go
into the den and have a nice little chat.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
My.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
All those great big maps, what are they?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Just maps of the world. I use them for reference
on the important news broadcasts.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
You do. Why?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
How clever?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I just listen to the broadcast. I don't deliver them.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
How clever to use maps, end of the whole world.
It's just like I told Bud, men are so so ghost,
aren't they ever?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Margaret, goodly boy?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I always do you look nice?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But I don't either. Why eyes doant just any thing?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
You sure threw them in the right place, didn't.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Yes, he's quite.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
A picture, why mister, and and speaking of pictures, why
don't you show miss marsh the pictures in the den
or someplace.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
But you said when you took Mom over the yard.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I must not have any arguments about it.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
There's going to be a very important broadcast March.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I was busy in the kitchen. Mom.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
This is Eloise.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I'd have known you anywhere. Missus Anderson. That has told
me so much about you.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
I'm sure he must have.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Father without the phone.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
No, it wasn't the phone. It was the doorbell.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'll be right down.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
It wasn't for you, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Why don't you take buddon Alloise into the den and
give them some milk and cookies or something.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Milk and cookies.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Holy cow, Dad.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Mister Anderson, you're so droll, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Why don't we show Elouise the pictures we took this
summer Bud.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
I'm sure she'd like that.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
But I thought when Dad took you over to.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
His house, excitement about Oh Betty, why don't you go
back upstairs?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
What for?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
We'll explain all about it later.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Go ahead, dear, Why can't I stay down here?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I know you must be Kathy.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Uh, that's Betty.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Oh, of course, Betty. I'd have known you anywhere. Bud's
told me so much about you. I'm Eluise, March.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
No, Margaret, why don't you all go into the den.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The nerve of her coming into this house after.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
What she did to me?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Why who did you, Bud?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Why don't you take Elouise?
Speaker 12 (19:53):
And she came here to sneer at me, that's what
she did.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I don't know what she's talking about. I swear I don't.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Oh, yes, you do.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You know just what I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
If you'd all just go into the den, you'll see here.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Betty, you have no right to talk to Eloise that way.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I'll talk to her anyway I choose, you will not.
I certainly will.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Betty, if you'll just go upstairs like a good girl,
Why don't you.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
All go into the den?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I look at her power and paint.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
Ninch thick and Billy Smith, and she's.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
So wonderful Billy Smith.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
But Honey, you know, I don't care about anybody but you.
You told the same thing to Billy Smith.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I never did, Bud.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
And Katie Logot's sister said you told the same thing
to Russell Spencer.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Eloie's you didn't.
Speaker 12 (20:36):
She certainly did, Betty. And he was going steady with
Mariam Swift all the time, and.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
You knew it I did not know it, but Jimmy
won't do any good.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
It has to They're going to start the broadcast any minute.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Look, if you'll all just go into the Dean eloise,
how could you.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
How could I watch say what you said when you
said you never said what you said before?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Well I never did say it before.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
You certainly did, Budzie, how can you stand there a
little talk like that?
Speaker 8 (21:06):
You told me you never went out with older men.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Billy Smith's eighteen, and you went out with him.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Only three or four times. And that doesn't mean anything,
does it.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
You've only been out with me twice.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Bud.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
You're standing on my mask just because I go out
with the boys three or four times.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
What does that prove?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Eddy?
Speaker 9 (21:25):
You went out with Billy Smith and you told me
you didn't go out with Billy Smith.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Not since Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Bud, you're walking all over Alaska ready.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
Just because he's older than I am and gets a
bigger allowance.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
He does, so.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Does everybody else. Why don't you go out with them?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Don't worry?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
She will say, why don't you all go into the telephone.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's where I'm going.
Speaker 12 (21:57):
Good and Bud Anderson, you're just the nastiest boy I've
ever known in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Bud, why don't you take miss March to the door.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
She just said I was nasty.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
He doesn't have to take me to the door now
or ever.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
And that goes for me too, if you'll just go
into the den.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm sorry I ever came into this house, that's what.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
And I'm sorry I said it was gosh because it isn't.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Well, holy cow, I heard you, all right, Betty answer
the phone.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Brazen little snip.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
She was.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
And I spent my whole allowance on a box of
candy for her.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
If no one has an objection, Now may I listen
to the broadcast?
Speaker 8 (22:56):
A whole dollar and a quarter gone, Bud?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Why don't you go into the kitchen and fix yourself
a sandwich?
Speaker 8 (23:03):
A sandwich? How can you eat with a broken.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Heart easier than with an upper plate.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I'll stop acting like an idiot and behave yourself.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Women just a curse of humanity, Yes, dear, we're awful.
Oh I didn't mean you, Mom, Margaret?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Will you take that boy out and drown him? I've
got to have quiet in here for.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
The broadcast, all right, Bud, Let's go inside now.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Father, it was Billy. It was Billy Smith.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
He explained all about Aloise Mark Bretty.
Speaker 12 (23:37):
Please, he's a psychology major and he was just using
her for research.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh no, that's fine, dear, And he's coming over right
away with Russell Spencer and Marion Swift.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Now I've had enough of this circus tonight.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
This is my house too. I live here just as
much as anybody gonna listen.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
To this broadcast. Father, I don't care what you told him.
I'm going to hear the broadcast, and that's final that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It is no reason why you and your friends can't
go down to the playroom, but.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
We'll have to sneak around on our titchow.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
At nine o'clock. Due to this unforeseen difficulty, the news.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Broadcast originally scheduled for this period will not be heard.
In its place, we bring you that heartwarming tale of
young love, the Romance of Susan Blake. Oh no, well,
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at a time like that, I guess they're just as
much for Father Tuesday. But I know one place where
he's always got some mighty important words. When it come
come to coffee, he can tell you exactly where to
get the most in flavor for your money.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Sure father knows best. He's the world's greatest coffee expert,
just like that man of yours.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
And we think it will really pay you to get
your husband's expert opinion on our Maxwell House coffee, because
when he tries a cup and says, best coffee I
ever tasted, you'll know Maxwell House gives you the most
for your money, the most in flavor, the most in
pure pleasure. Get a pound of Maxwell House tomorrow. See
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how your husband takes to that wonderful, good, to the
last drop flavor, and count all the cups of truly
good coffee you get from that one pound. We think
you'll be convinced your coffee buy is Maxwell House coffee
because it's always good to the last drop. It's midnight
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in Springfield and all us quiet in the white frame
house on Maple Street.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
That is, all should be nice and quiet.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
But you know how it is with the Anderson's noon
or midnight, there's never a dull moment like this. Jim, Jim,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Wake up?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (26:16):
What for?
Speaker 7 (26:17):
I just heard something downstairs.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I'll go to sleep, Margaret. It's probably nothing but a burglar.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Jim, are you going downstairs? Or do you want me
to call bud?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
No, never mind, I'll go.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Be very careful, dear, please.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Sure, I'll be careful.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
If it is a burglar, just call the police.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
That's a very good idea, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Wake a man out of a sound sleep and then
expect him to go roaming around in the dark. Oh you,
one of these nights, I'm gonna fall down the stairs
and break my neck. Serve him right too, Call the police.
What did you think I was gonna do? Wrestle with him?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
All right? Oh?
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Hi, your dad? What's up?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I am? What are you doing down here?
Speaker 8 (27:06):
I was hungry? You want a sandwich?
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Oh? Thank you? What uh happened to your broken heart?
Speaker 9 (27:13):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I don't know. I was an awful boob, was I?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
No, not exactly. But you're getting there. Hurry up and
get back to bed. Your mother's worried enough for one night.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Okay? Oh say dad?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Did you put a dollar on my dresser?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
We'll talk about it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Bad now?
Speaker 7 (27:36):
What?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Thanks for everything?
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Go to bed, you bed, Good night, dad, Good night,
love her boy.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
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forty Percent Brand Flakes have become America's largest selling brand flakes.
Every one out serving of Post forty Percent brand Flakes
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Speaker 4 (28:34):
Far Join us again next week when.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
We'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is,
Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
And yours truly, Bill Foreman.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand, and of
cork always good to the last drop. Father Knows Best
was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now
stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most
of these stations.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Now it's Dragnet next Tuesday.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
Life with Bob Hope on NBC
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
In the world.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 5 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your 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.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
At any price.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Maxwell House always good to the last drop. Slap a
bunch of poets together, and at least one thing is
bound to emerge a new definition of love. In one
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of his flossier moments, Shakespeare wrote, love is a smoke
grazed with a fume of size, which is very nice
if you go in for that sort of thing. The
mess Ther's Thurber and White, on the other hand, viewed
the emotion with a more practical eye. Love, they said,
is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account
of another person in Springfield, in the White frame house
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on Maple Street, the Andersons probably have ideas of their
own on this ethereal subject, like well, like.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
This, I think I'll have a little more rice. Would
you mind passing it? Betty?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yes? Father, Jim, Honey, let's not start that business about
rice being fattening.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
It isn't.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
Well, you were the one who said that your.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Waist, Margaret, rice is not fattening.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It's the stuff you put on it, like butter. Put
butter on anything, it's fattening. But have you ever seen
me put butter on my rice? No, dear darn right,
you haven't, Kathy, Please pass the gravy, ay, Daddy, now that.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
You mention it, what's wrong with my waistline? I haven't
gained a pound in twenty years?
Speaker 7 (02:03):
What was that?
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Well, maybe two pounds?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Daddy? Look at bad?
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Why I've been looking at him for fifteen years?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
He is needing his dinner?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Well, maybe he's got problems, Bud, Bud, Yes, dear.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Dear Bud, what's the matter.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
With you, Jim? Maybe he doesn't feel well.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
He's in love, Daddy, Mind your own affairs and eat
your dinner.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Well he is, But do you feel all right?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Bye?
Speaker 8 (02:46):
I'll answer.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Sit down.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
Don't call me to answer the phone.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
It didn't ring. Will you please sit down?
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Something wrong?
Speaker 9 (02:55):
I can still hear it, kind of like Bill's.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Jim. I think he is ill.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He's in love love huh.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
But if you don't feel well, go to your room.
If you do feel well, eat your dinner.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
Maybe it's the doorbell.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I didn't hear anything, Bud, I.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Just heard it again, Jim, something is wrong.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I don't like to look in his eyes, you know,
for the first time in her life.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Kathy may be right. Look at that idiotic grin on me,
on your brother.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
He looks like a cross between Boris Karloff and a
contented cow. All right, Bud, let's stop all this ridiculous
moaning and groaning.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
What's wrong, Dad? Yes?
Speaker 8 (03:50):
Have you ever been in love? Why, Bud, I mean
really in love.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
With a girl?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Well, your mother wasn't exactly a rhinoceros.
Speaker 9 (04:10):
You ought to see her eyes, Dad, They're blue, the
bluest eyes you ever saw, both of them.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Only has two uh.
Speaker 9 (04:23):
The hair, the most beautiful hair, like the sun shining
on the home plate.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
But is this a girl or a double header between
the Yanks and Cleveland?
Speaker 8 (04:36):
It's a girl, the most wonderful girl in the whole world.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Fine, Now eat your dinner.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Food. How can you think of food at a time
like this. I don't think I'll ever eat again, not ever.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I remember when I first met your mother. I went
through the same thing. People thought I was going to
starve to death.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Indeed you no, I managed to pull through.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Daddy asked Kathy, how.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Long didn't you eat?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Oh? I don't know. I don't remember exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
I know I missed practically one entire lunch, Jim, Dad,
what is it?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Lock and bar?
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Who?
Speaker 6 (05:22):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
When you and mom fell in love? What'd you do?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Don't you think you're getting a little nosy?
Speaker 8 (05:31):
No?
Speaker 9 (05:32):
I mean, how did you know you were in love?
How often did you see one another?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Oh? A few times a week something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Jim, you were there every night and you know it.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Margaret, you're being absolutely no help at all. But isn't
serious about this girl?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Are you? Bud boy?
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Am? I?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I mean, he isn't thinking about marriage or anything ridiculous
like that.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Are you?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
What is ridiculous about marriage?
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Margaret? He's you're fifteen years old.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Oh, I don't mean for Bud Well.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
We weren't talking about Errol Flynn.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Naturally, Bud isn't going to do anything foolish, not yet at.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Any rate, of course, not when he gets a little older.
That'll be time enough for him to do something foolish.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
That's not what I meant.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And you know it. Bud is a sensible boy, aren't you,
dear Sure, and he knows that he's much too young.
He has a lot of time for girls, haven't.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
You, dear boy, have I?
Speaker 10 (06:39):
Bud?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Let's look at this thing in a more practical manner.
You know, going out with girls can be kind of expensive. Flowers, candy, movies.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Well, that's one of the things I wanted to talk
about Dad. You see, I only get a dollar in
a quarter a week. Yes, how can you take a
girl out on a dollar a quarter a week?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You can't?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Well, that's why I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
But if you're really sincere about this girl, if you
think your life and happiness depend on her, well do
what I did.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Go sit on her front porch.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Gosh, what kind of fun can you have on a
front porch?
Speaker 11 (07:18):
Oh, don't be stupid, GM.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
But when I was courting your mother, all we did
was sit on our front porch, didn't we, Honey, Yes, dear,
night after night, week after week, we just sat there
and held hands and looked at.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
The moon, a large, lovely, friendly moon.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Never got so sick and tired of looking at anything
in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
GM.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Well, let's face it, the same darn thing every night.
Just sit there and look at the moon.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
There were a great many other boys who were perfectly
willing to take.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Your place, But I wouldn't let them, would I?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You certainly wouldn't. You were the stubbornness thing I've ever known.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Sure, but I was cute and I knew a good
thing when I saw it.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Dad, Now, what when you were sure that Mom was
the right one for you? I mean, when you knew
that you couldn't live without her?
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Then what you do?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Well? What did we do, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
You made me get all dressed up in my best
bib and tucker, and you took me home to visit
your family.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
That's right. I can still feel my knees knocking. Was
I ever scared?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Not half as scared as I was.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
It turned out all right, though, didn't it. Honey? They
fell in love with you, just like I did. God,
where are you going?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
I'll be right back, Dad, I have to make a
phone call.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You come back here and eat your dinner.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
Need the boy.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Alone, Gin, it's his first big It's got to get
used to it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Love, Betty, you haven't said a pleasant word all evening.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
What's gotten into you?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
She isn't eating her dinner either?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Why don't you do your homework?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I did it?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Do it over again?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Can't I just keep still?
Speaker 6 (09:22):
All right? But see that you do, Betty? Do you
feel all right?
Speaker 7 (09:26):
I feel fine.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
She had a fight with Billy Smith.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
I thought you were going to keep still.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If I did, nobody never get to know anything around here.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
We'd find out somehow, Betty, that you and Billy Smith
had another argument.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I never want to see him again as long as
I live.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I thought you were getting along fine.
Speaker 12 (09:51):
We were until he met that Eloise March, that little
snip who's Alloise March?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Just the worst little flirt in town.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
That's all you want?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Three can have her, Betty, I wouldn't get all upset
about it if I were you.
Speaker 12 (10:04):
I'm not upset. I'm not believed that upset. I just
wouldn't give a three cents for all the men in
the world.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I would.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
This Eloise March must be quite a character.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
She's a vampire, that's what she is.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Is she pretty? How do I know? I'm never even
seen her.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm through with men. I'm going to have a career. Instead,
I'm going to devolved.
Speaker 12 (10:34):
My whole life to be being a chemist or something.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I still love you, Betty, Oh.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Dear, taking it pretty hard, isn't she?
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
She and Billy have been friends for so long?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Do you think to do money?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Aren't you glad?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I don't do anything except break windows?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Yes, dear, you're a great help.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Well, it's all said dad. I called her, and she's
coming over.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Who's coming over?
Speaker 8 (11:08):
My girl?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
But why in the name of all that's holy.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Well, you said to bring her over, didn't you. I
said no such thing, But that's what you did.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
You said so, But this is not the time to
bring a girl around. We're having enough.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Trouble with girls, your sister and Eloise March.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
And how did you know?
Speaker 6 (11:27):
How did I know?
Speaker 8 (11:28):
What about Eloise March?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
What about Eloise March?
Speaker 8 (11:32):
That's my girl?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Oh no, Now that's wonderful coffee welcome words you can
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hear across your breakfast table from the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am,
he'll be there, that number one expert. Because he's your husband.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Naturally, we think we're pretty fair experts.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Our Maxwell House Coffee is America's favorite brand. But the
person with the final say, the one we both want
to please, is that husband of yours. And if you'll
make his breakfast coffee Maxwell House, We're mighty sure he'll
tell you that's wonderful coffee.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Matter of fact, if he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
We'll give you your money back. You see, we know
there's no coffee made like Maxwell House, and that's why
no coffee tastes like Maxwell House. It's the only coffee
with that famous good to the last drop flavor. Get
Maxwell House tomorrow and start serving it to your husband.
And if he doesn't say it's the best coffee he
ever tasted, why send us the can an unused portion,
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and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is on the front of every one of those familiar
blue tins. Tomorrow find out how much the world's greatest
coffee expert enjoys Maxwell House coffee, always good to.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
The last drop.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
These are powerless times in which we live, and days
of great decision throughout the world. Men of substance watch
the headlines with an anxious eye, keeping one ear to
the ground and the other glued to the radio, which
is a neat trick if you can do it. Jim
Anderson may not quite succeed, but in the living room
of the white frame house on Maple Street, he's giving
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it quite a try. Like this, Margaret, Why don't people
leave things where they belong?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Margaret?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (13:55):
What happened to my large map of Corea?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I don't know, dear, where did you put it?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
It was right here on the table.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Well, if it was on the.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Table, that's where it ought to be the living room, Jim, what.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
On earth are you doing?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
What's the matter?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
All those maps on the floor.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And Bud's friend is going to be here anymore.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Margaret, I'm waiting for a very important broadcast.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
It's coming from all over the world, even Moscow. I
don't want to miss a word. This is the only
radio in the house that's any good.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
And you know it all right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
But I still don't see why you need eight million
maps scattered.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
All over the floor.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
There are five maps? Where's the one of Korea? I
had on the table?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Which table?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
This table?
Speaker 7 (14:35):
What is this?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
That's the map?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Of course you couldn't dream of lifting up a big,
heavy magazine.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Well, the magazine had no business being there in the
first place.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Dear, if I go into the kitchen, do you think
you can find your way back to the radio.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
If I get lost, I'll send up smoke signals one
of by land and two if by sea. He thinks
it's so funny. How did I know it was under
the magazine? People go around hiding your maps under magazines.
I think all a man has to do is go
around looking under magazines. But he's upstairs him The doorbell rang,
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But the doorbell rang.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I'm combing my hair.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
He's combing his hair.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Jim, what do you want me to do about it?
Speaker 7 (15:28):
You might answer the door.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Well, if you're going to be logical, wait until a
man has something really important to do.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Maps all over the floor. All right, keep your shirt on.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I'm coming, Dizzy little character probably hasn't got a brain
in her head anyway.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Hello, there is this the Anders residence. It certainly is.
Come on in.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I know he's marching. Don't tell me you're mister Anderson.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
How did you ever figure that out?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
On you anywhere? Mister Anderson? Really, I would love her.
Boys told me so much about.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
You, loverr boy has.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Oh yeah, that was nice of him.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Love boy Uh, Bud, your friend is here. The Thundering
Hurd will be down in a minute. He's fixing his makeup.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I don't mind.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Let's go into the living room and sit down.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
All right, my, you have a lovely home.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's so so ghost.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I was hoping you'd notice that we tried to make
it one of the ghostest homes.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And you certainly have.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Yes, Margaret, Bud's friend is here, please.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Missus.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Anderson will be right in. Then you can all go
into the den and have a nice little chat.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
My.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
All those great big maps, what are they?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Just maps of the world. I use them for reference
on the important news broadcasts.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
You do. Why?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
How clever?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I just listen to the broadcast. I don't deliver them.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
How clever to use maps, end of the whole world.
It's just like I told Bud, men are so so ghost,
aren't they ever?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Margaret, goodly boy?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I always do you look nice?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But I don't either. Why eyes doant just any thing?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
You sure threw them in the right place, didn't.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Yes, he's quite.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
A picture, why mister, and and speaking of pictures, why
don't you show miss marsh the pictures in the den
or someplace.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
But you said when you took Mom over the yard.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I must not have any arguments about it.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
There's going to be a very important broadcast March.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I was busy in the kitchen. Mom.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
This is Eloise.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I'd have known you anywhere. Missus Anderson. That has told
me so much about you.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
I'm sure he must have.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Father without the phone.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
No, it wasn't the phone. It was the doorbell.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'll be right down.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
It wasn't for you, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Why don't you take buddon Alloise into the den and
give them some milk and cookies or something.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Milk and cookies.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Holy cow, Dad.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Mister Anderson, you're so droll, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Why don't we show Elouise the pictures we took this
summer Bud.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
I'm sure she'd like that.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
But I thought when Dad took you over to.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
His house, excitement about Oh Betty, why don't you go
back upstairs?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
What for?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
We'll explain all about it later.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Go ahead, dear, Why can't I stay down here?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I know you must be Kathy.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Uh, that's Betty.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Oh, of course, Betty. I'd have known you anywhere. Bud's
told me so much about you. I'm Eluise, March.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
No, Margaret, why don't you all go into the den.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The nerve of her coming into this house after.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
What she did to me?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Why who did you, Bud?
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Why don't you take Elouise?
Speaker 12 (19:53):
And she came here to sneer at me, that's what
she did.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I don't know what she's talking about. I swear I don't.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Oh, yes, you do.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
You know just what I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
If you'd all just go into the den, you'll see here.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Betty, you have no right to talk to Eloise that way.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I'll talk to her anyway I choose, you will not.
I certainly will.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Betty, if you'll just go upstairs like a good girl,
Why don't you.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
All go into the den?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I look at her power and paint.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
Ninch thick and Billy Smith, and she's.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
So wonderful Billy Smith.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
But Honey, you know, I don't care about anybody but you.
You told the same thing to Billy Smith.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I never did, Bud.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
And Katie Logot's sister said you told the same thing
to Russell Spencer.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Eloie's you didn't.
Speaker 12 (20:36):
She certainly did, Betty. And he was going steady with
Mariam Swift all the time, and.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
You knew it I did not know it, but Jimmy
won't do any good.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
It has to They're going to start the broadcast any minute.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Look, if you'll all just go into the Dean eloise,
how could you.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
How could I watch say what you said when you
said you never said what you said before?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Well I never did say it before.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
You certainly did, Budzie, how can you stand there a
little talk like that?
Speaker 8 (21:06):
You told me you never went out with older men.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Billy Smith's eighteen, and you went out with him.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Only three or four times. And that doesn't mean anything,
does it.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
You've only been out with me twice.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Bud.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
You're standing on my mask just because I go out
with the boys three or four times.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
What does that prove?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Eddy?
Speaker 9 (21:25):
You went out with Billy Smith and you told me
you didn't go out with Billy Smith.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Not since Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Bud, you're walking all over Alaska ready.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
Just because he's older than I am and gets a
bigger allowance.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
He does, so.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Does everybody else. Why don't you go out with them?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Don't worry?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
She will say, why don't you all go into the telephone.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's where I'm going.
Speaker 12 (21:57):
Good and Bud Anderson, you're just the nastiest boy I've
ever known in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Bud, why don't you take miss March to the door.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
She just said I was nasty.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
He doesn't have to take me to the door now
or ever.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
And that goes for me too, if you'll just go
into the den.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm sorry I ever came into this house, that's what.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
And I'm sorry I said it was gosh because it isn't.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Well, holy cow, I heard you, all right, Betty answer
the phone.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Brazen little snip.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
She was.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
And I spent my whole allowance on a box of
candy for her.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
If no one has an objection, Now may I listen
to the broadcast?
Speaker 8 (22:56):
A whole dollar and a quarter gone, Bud?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Why don't you go into the kitchen and fix yourself
a sandwich?
Speaker 8 (23:03):
A sandwich? How can you eat with a broken.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Heart easier than with an upper plate.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I'll stop acting like an idiot and behave yourself.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Women just a curse of humanity, Yes, dear, we're awful.
Oh I didn't mean you, Mom, Margaret?
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Will you take that boy out and drown him? I've
got to have quiet in here for.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
The broadcast, all right, Bud, Let's go inside now.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Father, it was Billy. It was Billy Smith.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
He explained all about Aloise Mark Bretty.
Speaker 12 (23:37):
Please, he's a psychology major and he was just using
her for research.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh no, that's fine, dear, And he's coming over right
away with Russell Spencer and Marion Swift.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Now I've had enough of this circus tonight.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
This is my house too. I live here just as
much as anybody gonna listen.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
To this broadcast. Father, I don't care what you told him.
I'm going to hear the broadcast, and that's final that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It is no reason why you and your friends can't
go down to the playroom, but.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
We'll have to sneak around on our titchow.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
At nine o'clock. Due to this unforeseen difficulty, the news.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Broadcast originally scheduled for this period will not be heard.
In its place, we bring you that heartwarming tale of
young love, the Romance of Susan Blake. Oh no, well,
(24:51):
at a time like that, I guess they're just as
much for Father Tuesday. But I know one place where
he's always got some mighty important words. When it come
come to coffee, he can tell you exactly where to
get the most in flavor for your money.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Sure father knows best. He's the world's greatest coffee expert,
just like that man of yours.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
And we think it will really pay you to get
your husband's expert opinion on our Maxwell House coffee, because
when he tries a cup and says, best coffee I
ever tasted, you'll know Maxwell House gives you the most
for your money, the most in flavor, the most in
pure pleasure. Get a pound of Maxwell House tomorrow. See
(25:33):
how your husband takes to that wonderful, good, to the
last drop flavor, and count all the cups of truly
good coffee you get from that one pound. We think
you'll be convinced your coffee buy is Maxwell House coffee
because it's always good to the last drop. It's midnight
(25:58):
in Springfield and all us quiet in the white frame
house on Maple Street.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
That is, all should be nice and quiet.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
But you know how it is with the Anderson's noon
or midnight, there's never a dull moment like this. Jim, Jim,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Wake up?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (26:16):
What for?
Speaker 7 (26:17):
I just heard something downstairs.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
I'll go to sleep, Margaret. It's probably nothing but a burglar.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Jim, are you going downstairs? Or do you want me
to call bud?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
No, never mind, I'll go.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Be very careful, dear, please.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Sure, I'll be careful.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
If it is a burglar, just call the police.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
That's a very good idea, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Wake a man out of a sound sleep and then
expect him to go roaming around in the dark. Oh you,
one of these nights, I'm gonna fall down the stairs
and break my neck. Serve him right too, Call the police.
What did you think I was gonna do? Wrestle with him?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
All right? Oh?
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Hi, your dad? What's up?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I am? What are you doing down here?
Speaker 8 (27:06):
I was hungry? You want a sandwich?
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Oh? Thank you? What uh happened to your broken heart?
Speaker 9 (27:13):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I don't know. I was an awful boob, was I?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
No, not exactly. But you're getting there. Hurry up and
get back to bed. Your mother's worried enough for one night.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Okay? Oh say dad?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Did you put a dollar on my dresser?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
We'll talk about it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Bad now?
Speaker 7 (27:36):
What?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Thanks for everything?
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Go to bed, you bed, Good night, dad, Good night,
love her boy.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
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(28:25):
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Speaker 4 (28:34):
Far Join us again next week when.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
We'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is,
Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
And yours truly, Bill Foreman.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand, and of
cork always good to the last drop. Father Knows Best
was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now
stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most
of these stations.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Now it's Dragnet next Tuesday.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
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