September 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 has really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, The Anderson's brought to you
by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always
good to the last drop. According to the renowned Victor Hugo,
(00:50):
no one ever keeps a secret so well as a child,
which proved just one thing.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
In his long and colorful career.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Victor Hugo never bought a birthday present.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
For his wife.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
You know, when you get right down to it, that
may be the major difference between Victor Hugo and our
friend Jim Anderson. Jim bought a dilly of a birthday
present for Margaret, and as a result, the white frame
house on Maple Street is literally crawling with secrecy like this.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But father, I didn't know you didn't want me to
take it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I told them distinctly, I didn't want it delivered until Monday.
Where am I going to hide it?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, there must be lots of places, Oh, sure, name
three places where I can hide a nine by fifteen rug.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
All you need is one place, all right?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Name one place? Well, it's like hiding a hippopotamus.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I'll be right in.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Never mind, I didn't come down the stairs dead. It
must have been somebody else. What was the hippopotamus?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Nobody said anything about anybody coming down the stairs, But
you said, what's that?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's mother's birth day present?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
The rug.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
She'll see it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I know she'll see it. That's why.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
What kind of a surprise is it gonna be if
she sees it?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Bud? Why don't you go away for a few days.
You need a vacation.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I do.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Ever, she isn't here, Kathy, Where is she?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Where do you think I ought to go?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Bud? Don't ever ask me that again.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Isn't anybody gonna tell me what's that? Why can't we
just put it in the attic? Mother never goes up there?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Because I know your mother. Just let me hide the
rug in the attic, and that's where she'll live.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
How about Joe Phillip's uncle's farm.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
That'd be a good place, But I think it'll be
a good place for what Daddy?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
For hiding a rug?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
What rug?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
That rug? Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I didn't mean to hide the rug. I'm in for
a vacation. Who said anything about a vacation?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You did? But let's start all over.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Do I have to go out in the hole again?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, just the garage wouldn't be any good. She's out
there ten times a day, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
How about in back of the furnace?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Sure, and have the whole thing burn up?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Daddy?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Hey, I know, why don't we unroll it and hide it.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Under the old rug? Because it'll stick out a foot
and a half on each end. That's why, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Couldn't we sort of fold it up a little?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Don't be a goon. There'd be a big lump.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh, I don't know. We could tell your mother it
was the body of an old friend.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Father.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
What if she peeked but she'd find out it wasn't
a body, and then what?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But I never mind, Daddy, what is it? Kathy?
Speaker 8 (03:54):
We better hide the rug or Mommy, you'll see it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's a good idea, thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
It's a good thing. We don't have to hide the
billiard table. Bye.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
We're gonna hide the billiard table.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Bud, give me a hand with the rug, okay. Kathy
opened the door of the playroom, like a good girl.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yes, daddy, what are you gonna do with the rug? Father?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We're going to hide it in the one place your
mother won't ever look. We'll open it up and lay
it on top of the billiard table.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Father.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's wonderful, sir, She'll never find it there the doors open, Daddy,
Thank your kidding. All right, Bud, let's go before your
mother gets home. I'll take this in.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Okay, heck, I'd have thought of the billiard table, but
I didn't know it was a green rug.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It happens to be blue blue.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
She'll spot it right away. Whoever heard of a blue
billiard table.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
We're going to put the cover over it.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Oh hey, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Good, Thank you, Albert Einstein.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Watch your stepfather. Kathy left her skates on the stairs.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I did not, certainly did.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I certainly didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Never mind, Bud, keep going.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Why don't you to stop arguing?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I wasn't arguing.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
You certainly were.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I certainly were.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
All right, Bud, this is fine. I've put it down.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Oh is that ever heavy?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Now? Betty? Why don't you and Kathy take the cover
off the table?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, come on, not head, you take the other side.
Isn't this fun and.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But and I can lift the rug. Oh my gosh,
come on, get that cover off.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Hurry up, Kathy, I am hurrying, But.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
We'll slip dad, we'll pick it up. Boom. Where are
you all right? Bud? Roll it out. I don't think
it's gonna work. It's got to work.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Aren't you gonna answer? Mommy.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
We'll send her a wire in the morning. But there's
too much on this hand. Pull it down.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, father, the cover's getting heavy.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Come on, Buddom, we'll.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Send you a wire in the morning.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Well, you said it's all set that.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
We'll be right up. Honey, all right the cover quick?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Dooom, one on earth are you doing down there?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Smooth it out and hurry it's all covered.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Father good Man Hecker Smith brought me home from the market,
and I thought, what have you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Been doing doing? Why?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Uh, just to sitting around, that's all.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, you certainly sit hard. You're all out of breath.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
I'm not mommy, and I lifted the whole hacky, I.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Guess I didn't. They're all in the playroom, Hector, come on.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Down, I don't mind. Heck, we're coming up.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Why, Jim, I thought you wanted Hector to see the
billiard table.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
No, I mean, heck isn't interested in billiard tables? Jim?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Have you torn the top again? Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
No, we put it on very carefully.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh you put what on very carefully.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Look, I gotta get home. And if you're gonna stay
down here all day, we didn't have to come down. Heck,
we were on our way up, weren't we kids?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You bad?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yes, sir, were we Dear?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
As long as he's down here, show Hector the table,
let him go home.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Heck, you don't want to see the billiard table? Do
you sure? I do? That's why I came over. But
it's just an ordinary billiard table, Jim. It's a matter
of pie, you got it? Stuff full of old bodies
or something.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
That's pretty good, isn't it? Betty? Full of old bodies?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
If a body meets somebody coming through the billiard table?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Is uh? This what happens when you buy a billiard table.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I don't know what's gotten into the Hector. I've never
seen the Maxo silly.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I wasn't acting silly.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I noticed that everything's all mixed up. But did you
ever show mister Smith the pictures?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
What pictures?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Any pictures? Heck, why don't you go upstairs with Bud?
I don't want to go upstairs with Budd.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Would you like to see.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
How I can multiply eight times three or twenty four
eight times four?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's enough, Kathy, But I know up tonight I said
that's enough.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yes, mommy, Hector, Honey, you know we're being very impolite.
Don't you think we ought to offer Hector a cup
of coffee? Jim? After all, he's a guest in our home.
I came in for one minute to see the billiot table.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Mother. I've got a wonderful idea. Let's go upstairs and
make some coffee.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Boy, that'll be fun, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
If that gets a little dull, we can watch the linoleum.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Colly, come along.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Children, let's all get hysterical together.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I love to make coffee, don't you.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Bu Oh sure, I'd rather do that than almost anything.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I would too, say, Jim, I was talking to a
doctor the other day. Wait a minute, when you head,
I don't know if I shouldn't you know? If you
get these things early enough, whoa a big help? You
turned out to be. Of all the times to show up.
I wanted to see the billiard table. What's wrong with that? Hector?
Don't you understand I couldn't show it to you. Why not?
(09:12):
Because it's got a rug on top of it, Jim,
this doctor, I was telling you. You don't believe me. Huh. Okay,
look you see a rug. Okay, so it's a rug
that makes you all right? Huh? I'm hiding it. H Yeah, Look, Jim, hector,
(09:40):
it's a surprise for the living room. That's fine, pile.
It'll probably tickle the heck out of the kitchen too. Yes, Margaret,
it's her birthday. Oh oh well, why didn't you say so?
I just did?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Yes, Margaret, come here.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I don't think I can take the children for another instance.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
We'll be right there, honey. Come on. Heck, okay, the
kids are in on the secret. Huh. They're all right.
They won't say anything about it. Yeah, Margaret might suspect something, say, heck,
how would it be if I hit the rug over
at your place? Fine, we have rugs hidden all over
the jarm heck, got a closet full of pancakes too.
(10:25):
It'll only be until Monday, Jim, Why do not you
jes give it to her? How can you surprise anybody
with a rug. Believe me, it isn't easy. And if
you want to bring it over to my place, Okay, Hi, honey,
everything under control.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Not quite. I sent the little monsters into the den.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Well let's see what they're up to. Heck, I uh, just.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
A minute, Jim, you go ahead, Hector, I'd like to
speak to Peter Pan.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Okay, I'll send up two red flares. If I need help,
I'll be right in. Heck, nice guy.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Heck all right, Jim, what what was all at hooptie
do in the playroom?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Hoopie do?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Something was going on in the playroom. I want to
know what it was.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Well, yes, there's only one thing I can tell you, Margaret.
It's a secret.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I see, after eighteen years, we have secrets.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Well, yes, I'm sorry, but that's it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
All right, let's both have secrets. Next time you talk
in your sleep, I'll take notes.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Fine you. I don't talk in my sleep? No, no,
all right? When did I ever talk in my.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Sleep last night?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I did? M hm, that's impossible.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
What did I say you mean last night?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yes, it's a secret.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Boy.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
There are enough secrets floating around the Anderson home today
to keep the ordinary family supplied.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
For a month.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
Well, what I have to say is no secret. My
business is coffee. Maxwell House coffee, rich, full bodied, truly
satisfying coffee. And I honestly believe that if you enjoy
really good coffee as much as I do, the coffee
for you is our Maxwell House. You see, you just
won't find that wonderful, good to the last drop flavor
(12:41):
in any other coffee, no coffee but Maxwell House. And
there's a good reason for that.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Coffee.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
You know, grows all over the world, and there are
all kinds of grades and varieties, but mark this Maxwell
House selects the very finest, extra flavorful varieties, the kinds
that are grown on on the mile high plateaus of
Latin America. For example, fancy Manizales coffees are chosen for
their fragrant mellowness, superb Medlins for extra richness, Choice Booker
(13:11):
among us coffees for fine full body. And it is
these choice varieties, blended in just the right proportions that
produces that world famous good to the last drop flavor
of Maxwell House coffee. No wonder then, no other coffee
tastes like Maxwell House. No other coffee is made like
(13:31):
Maxwell House. So if truly good coffee helps make your
day a better one, start enjoying our Maxwell House, the
coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more people than any
other brand at any price. It's the one coffee that's
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
It's the breathless moment.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Later, as Jim Anderson enters the dam of the white
frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
But this isn't the fun.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Loving, gay spirited rover boy we left a minute ago.
This is a grim faced and visibly shaken Jim Anderson,
a man with a whole new set of problems like this.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
So there they were, see with men on second and
third n get away with it and get a minute.
Please look, why don't you kids go into the kitchen
and to help your mother?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
He just kicked this out, She said, she was gonna scream, Well,
is anything wrong?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Father?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh? No, I tell you what. You all go into
the living room and wait for me. I I'd like
to talk to mister Smith for a minute.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Holy ca All we do is get kicked out of places.
Hurry up or you'll get kicked in places. Daddy, Come on,
noodle nose will stop pulling me. All you do is
We'll be in the living room when you want to spather.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Thank you, Betty, see you later, you bet Oh what
a spot? Does she know? I don't know? And what
are you so worried about? Hector? There comes a time
in the life of every married man. Jim, you know
what I just found out? What I talk in my sleep?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
For crying out loud? What do you mean old? For
crying out loud? That's a serious thing, and nuts? I
am Uh. How would you like to talk in your
sleep about what? That's the trouble? I don't know, Jim.
Look a guy like you who's never done anything wrong
in his whole life. How do you know I haven't?
(15:44):
You mean you have? Naturally you? Oh, I don't mean
anything big or serious or anything. But well, what if
I talked about the fish? What fish? The fish you
and I caught up at the lake. Only we didn't
catch them. We bought them at the market. Well they
weren't biting. Oh my god. Now why the poker game
(16:08):
last week? I lost twelve dollars, so I told Margaret
I lost two. Boy, you're a real devil, aren't you. Heck,
you don't understand what this means? A man's home is
his castle, his word is law. And then what happens?
He goes to sleep in zoie, He's defenseless. When was
(16:32):
he any other way? But I'll be afraid to fall asleep.
There's no telling what I'll say. Well, didn't did Margaret
give you a hint? She gave me nothing but a
dirty laugh. That's bad, you know. I feel just like
I'm going down for the third time. I can see
my whole life floating by. See anybody we know? Heck,
(16:57):
it isn't funny. It's the silliest thing I've ever heard,
is that? So I'm not afraid of what I've done,
because I haven't done anything really, But what if I
make up things?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
What if I have a dream and I'm chasing Betty Grabel?
Call me up. I'll join you. Hector, why don't you
go home? All you want to do is make jokes.
I wanted to go home ten minutes ago, But no,
I have to hear about talking in your sleep and
rugs and Jim, let go my coat will here, you'll
(17:30):
tear it. What if I told her about the rug? Well,
it's better than Betty Grabil, isn't it? Jim will you pleased. Hey,
wait a minute, I got an idea. If I talked
about the rug, the kids will never forgive me. Why
don't we find out what? Look, kids can find out anything,
especially from their mothers. What's that got to do? So
(17:51):
your kids try to find out if you talk about
the rug? But I still won't know if I said anything.
And if you didn't talk about the rug, they'll find
out what you did talk about clever huh. In other words,
I'm to make spies out of three innocent children. Good idea. Huh.
It isn't bad. I'm bad at all. Well, this time
(18:12):
I'm gonna go before I get mixed up on anything out.
Wait a minute, heck, I'll take you to the front door. Okay, Look,
heck exactly how do you think I ought to go
about this? Just lay it right on the line about
the rug? You mean? Sure?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Song?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Kids fly see your letter, Margaret, she can't hear you
from here. Heck, I'll tell you said goodbye. Okay, and Jim,
you don't have to worry. Leave everything to the kids.
He'll figure it out. You don't know, my kids, I'll
probably wind up in Alcatraz. Well, you know what they
say shareshal FM. What's that got to do with it?
(18:46):
Who knows? I had one year a high school of French? Well,
are they say any pow? I'll let you know what happens.
Don't bother. I'll read about it in the newspaper. Sometimes
I wish I had a job in a nice, quiet
life house.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Did you and mister Smith get everything straightened out? Father?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Well, we talked things over, yeady.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
But those girls can't be president and they came too,
can't they.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I didn't say they couldn't. I just said I'd move.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
That's all, kids, I've got something pretty serious to take
up with you. I may have told your mother about
the rug. Oh wait a minute, I'm not sure I did.
I said maybe you mean you don't know? That's right?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
But if you told.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Her, I said something in my sleep last night, and
I don't know what it was. Gosh, it might have
been about the rug, or it might have been about
other things.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
What other things?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Never mind?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Father, that's awful.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
What'd you do a thing like that for?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Because I wanted to see if the bedroom had an echo? Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
How could you tell if you were asleep?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I let's go back to the rug.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Father, Yes, would you mind if we well, I guess
we shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You shouldn't what well?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I was thinking if some of us pretended we knew
what you said, Mother might tell the rest of us.
And no, you wouldn't want us to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Why wouldn't I? I mean, if you want to, you
don't mind. I don't mind at all.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
You know what, I don't understand what's everybody talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I didn't understand it either. Look, Bud, we'll go into
the kitchen and you pretend you know what father said.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I don't know what anybody said.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You heard what father said last night?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You pretend you did what? For?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Betty? I think you'd better try something else?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Well, you better try it fast.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Mommy's coming, Jim.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I'm right here, honey.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
The coffee's already. If you where's Hector? He?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Oh? He said for me to tell you goodbye. He
had to go home.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Oh, dear, after I went to all that trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Come on, Bud, it isn't fair and you know it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Huh what did father say when last night?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Well, how do I know? Betty?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It's no use. Maybe we'd better just a.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Minute, father, mother. If a boy hears what his father
says when he's talking in his sleep. Does he have
the right to keep it a secret?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Why, Bud, did you hear your father last night?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Of course he did, didn't you, Bud?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I didn't hear anybody last night? But please, but I
told you, oh you mean? Oh oh sure I heard him.
I just remembered.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Betty believed me.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Yes, sir, I sure did hear him. Boy was he funny?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yes, dear, he was very funny.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I'm glad somebody enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
What was funny about it? Well, never mind, Bud, we
don't need you. Mother's going to tell us, aren't you Mother?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No, Angel, I'm not You're not, hm m. But if
Bud knows, it isn't the sort of thing one bandy's about,
is it, Bud?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Gosh?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
No, and Bud you are not to tell them either.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Oh you can count on that. We can count on
what I'm not allowed to tell.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Jim. This whole thing is pretty obvious. What is using
the children to find out what you said last night?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Well, good grief, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Is that what you're trying to do?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Kathy? Please?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
But I know a daddy you do.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Why didn't you say so?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Nobody asked me, Kathy, why don't you and I go
for a little walk?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, Jim. She doesn't know anything about it, Yes I do. Mommy,
you couldn't possibly you were sound asleep. Oh, I didn't
hear it last night. I heard it this afternoon when
you were telling Missus Hathaway and the phone.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Oh, you told Missus Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I did no such thing.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You said something about Daddy. Don't remember.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
You said, hello, Lucille, how Florie's cold? And then you said,
my goodness, isn't that awful?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And then you.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Said, Kathy, will you please get to the point.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I have to remember, don't I?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Well, go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Then she said, you'll never guess what Jim and the
children are getting me for.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
My birthday, Margarete, Oh, dear.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
And then she said, Helen Phillips was shopping at Gorman's
and she saw Jim go into the rug department.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Holy call.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And then she said, Kathy, why don't you stop it?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
We've heard enough?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yes, Daddy, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to spoil
your fun.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You knew all the time, didn't you, Yes, about the
rug all that excitement in the playroom. Yes, dear, Margaret.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
Yes, dear happy Billiard table.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
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Speaker 3 (25:50):
Good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's midnight in Springfield, and an autumn moon hangs low
and a star swept sky. Maple Street is quiet and dark,
except for a small light in the bedroom of the
Anderson home. There life goes on like this.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Jim, won't you please come to bed in.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
A little while, Honey, I want to read another two
or three chapters.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You said the same thing an hour ago, I did.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well. I uh, it's a very.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Interesting book, certainly must be, Jim, Miss Margaret, are you
and the children very angry with me?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Of course not. We aren't angry at all.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Then why won't you come to bed?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You go to sleep, and then I'll come to bed.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Jim, are you still worrying about that silly talking business.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'm not worried about it anything. You just go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Come over here, now, look, Margaret, come over here.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Good grief. Treat a man as though he didn't have
any Alright, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Sit down.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Would you like to know what you said last night?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
It isn't important, but if you want to tell me, well.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You had the most peaceful smile on your face. Must
have been a beautiful dream, honey. Please, Then you sighed,
and you said so softly. Anyone for tennis?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Good night, Margaret, Good night, dear boy. I'm fickle, you mean.
(28:07):
One day I'm in love with strawberry jello, a swell dish,
you bet, But next day I'm in love with.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Raspberry jella, another swell dish. And look, everybody loves all
six delicious jello flavors.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
My wife loves Jella because it's so easy to fix
and so easy on the grocery bill.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Easy to fix, thrifty to buy. That's Jello. That's my love.
It's your supply, folks. Remember it's Jello for Red Letter desserts.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
So off to the coward you go and reach.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
For j e ll.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Join us again next week when we'll be back. We
have Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson,
with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra in our
cast where Rhoda Williams as Betty, Jean Vanderpile, Ted Donaldson,
Norma Jean Nilsen, Herb Bikron, and yours truly Bill Foreman.
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
Of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
You will want to read an.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Interesting feature on Robert Young in the current issue of
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Speaker 9 (29:23):
Join mister Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons on NBC
Mother is Maxwell has really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, The Anderson's brought to you
by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always
good to the last drop. According to the renowned Victor Hugo,
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no one ever keeps a secret so well as a child,
which proved just one thing.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
In his long and colorful career.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Victor Hugo never bought a birthday present.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
For his wife.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
You know, when you get right down to it, that
may be the major difference between Victor Hugo and our
friend Jim Anderson. Jim bought a dilly of a birthday
present for Margaret, and as a result, the white frame
house on Maple Street is literally crawling with secrecy like this.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But father, I didn't know you didn't want me to
take it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I told them distinctly, I didn't want it delivered until Monday.
Where am I going to hide it?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, there must be lots of places, Oh, sure, name
three places where I can hide a nine by fifteen rug.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
All you need is one place, all right?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Name one place? Well, it's like hiding a hippopotamus.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I'll be right in.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Never mind, I didn't come down the stairs dead. It
must have been somebody else. What was the hippopotamus?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Nobody said anything about anybody coming down the stairs, But
you said, what's that?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's mother's birth day present?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
The rug.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
She'll see it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I know she'll see it. That's why.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
What kind of a surprise is it gonna be if
she sees it?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Bud? Why don't you go away for a few days.
You need a vacation.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I do.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Ever, she isn't here, Kathy, Where is she?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Where do you think I ought to go?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Bud? Don't ever ask me that again.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Isn't anybody gonna tell me what's that? Why can't we
just put it in the attic? Mother never goes up there?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Because I know your mother. Just let me hide the
rug in the attic, and that's where she'll live.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
How about Joe Phillip's uncle's farm.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
That'd be a good place, But I think it'll be
a good place for what Daddy?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
For hiding a rug?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
What rug?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
That rug? Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I didn't mean to hide the rug. I'm in for
a vacation. Who said anything about a vacation?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You did? But let's start all over.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Do I have to go out in the hole again?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, just the garage wouldn't be any good. She's out
there ten times a day, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
How about in back of the furnace?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Sure, and have the whole thing burn up?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Daddy?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Hey, I know, why don't we unroll it and hide it.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Under the old rug? Because it'll stick out a foot
and a half on each end. That's why, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Couldn't we sort of fold it up a little?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Don't be a goon. There'd be a big lump.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh, I don't know. We could tell your mother it
was the body of an old friend.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Father.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
What if she peeked but she'd find out it wasn't
a body, and then what?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But I never mind, Daddy, what is it? Kathy?
Speaker 8 (03:54):
We better hide the rug or Mommy, you'll see it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's a good idea, thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
It's a good thing. We don't have to hide the
billiard table. Bye.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
We're gonna hide the billiard table.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Bud, give me a hand with the rug, okay. Kathy
opened the door of the playroom, like a good girl.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yes, daddy, what are you gonna do with the rug? Father?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We're going to hide it in the one place your
mother won't ever look. We'll open it up and lay
it on top of the billiard table.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Father.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's wonderful, sir, She'll never find it there the doors open, Daddy,
Thank your kidding. All right, Bud, let's go before your
mother gets home. I'll take this in.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Okay, heck, I'd have thought of the billiard table, but
I didn't know it was a green rug.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It happens to be blue blue.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
She'll spot it right away. Whoever heard of a blue
billiard table.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
We're going to put the cover over it.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Oh hey, that's.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Good, Thank you, Albert Einstein.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Watch your stepfather. Kathy left her skates on the stairs.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I did not, certainly did.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I certainly didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Never mind, Bud, keep going.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Why don't you to stop arguing?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I wasn't arguing.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
You certainly were.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I certainly were.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
All right, Bud, this is fine. I've put it down.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Oh is that ever heavy?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Now? Betty? Why don't you and Kathy take the cover
off the table?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, come on, not head, you take the other side.
Isn't this fun and.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But and I can lift the rug. Oh my gosh,
come on, get that cover off.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Hurry up, Kathy, I am hurrying, But.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
We'll slip dad, we'll pick it up. Boom. Where are
you all right? Bud? Roll it out. I don't think
it's gonna work. It's got to work.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Aren't you gonna answer? Mommy.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
We'll send her a wire in the morning. But there's
too much on this hand. Pull it down.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, father, the cover's getting heavy.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Come on, Buddom, we'll.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Send you a wire in the morning.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Well, you said it's all set that.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
We'll be right up. Honey, all right the cover quick?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Dooom, one on earth are you doing down there?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Smooth it out and hurry it's all covered.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Father good Man Hecker Smith brought me home from the market,
and I thought, what have you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Been doing doing? Why?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Uh, just to sitting around, that's all.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, you certainly sit hard. You're all out of breath.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
I'm not mommy, and I lifted the whole hacky, I.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Guess I didn't. They're all in the playroom, Hector, come on.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Down, I don't mind. Heck, we're coming up.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Why, Jim, I thought you wanted Hector to see the
billiard table.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
No, I mean, heck isn't interested in billiard tables? Jim?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Have you torn the top again? Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
No, we put it on very carefully.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh you put what on very carefully.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Look, I gotta get home. And if you're gonna stay
down here all day, we didn't have to come down. Heck,
we were on our way up, weren't we kids?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You bad?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yes, sir, were we Dear?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
As long as he's down here, show Hector the table,
let him go home.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Heck, you don't want to see the billiard table? Do
you sure? I do? That's why I came over. But
it's just an ordinary billiard table, Jim. It's a matter
of pie, you got it? Stuff full of old bodies
or something.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
That's pretty good, isn't it? Betty? Full of old bodies?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
If a body meets somebody coming through the billiard table?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Is uh? This what happens when you buy a billiard table.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I don't know what's gotten into the Hector. I've never
seen the Maxo silly.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I wasn't acting silly.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I noticed that everything's all mixed up. But did you
ever show mister Smith the pictures?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
What pictures?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Any pictures? Heck, why don't you go upstairs with Bud?
I don't want to go upstairs with Budd.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Would you like to see.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
How I can multiply eight times three or twenty four
eight times four?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's enough, Kathy, But I know up tonight I said
that's enough.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yes, mommy, Hector, Honey, you know we're being very impolite.
Don't you think we ought to offer Hector a cup
of coffee? Jim? After all, he's a guest in our home.
I came in for one minute to see the billiot table.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Mother. I've got a wonderful idea. Let's go upstairs and
make some coffee.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Boy, that'll be fun, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
If that gets a little dull, we can watch the linoleum.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Colly, come along.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Children, let's all get hysterical together.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I love to make coffee, don't you.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Bu Oh sure, I'd rather do that than almost anything.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I would too, say, Jim, I was talking to a
doctor the other day. Wait a minute, when you head,
I don't know if I shouldn't you know? If you
get these things early enough, whoa a big help? You
turned out to be. Of all the times to show up.
I wanted to see the billiard table. What's wrong with that? Hector?
Don't you understand I couldn't show it to you. Why not?
(09:12):
Because it's got a rug on top of it, Jim,
this doctor, I was telling you. You don't believe me. Huh. Okay,
look you see a rug. Okay, so it's a rug
that makes you all right? Huh? I'm hiding it. H Yeah, Look, Jim, hector,
(09:40):
it's a surprise for the living room. That's fine, pile.
It'll probably tickle the heck out of the kitchen too. Yes, Margaret,
it's her birthday. Oh oh well, why didn't you say so?
I just did?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Yes, Margaret, come here.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I don't think I can take the children for another instance.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
We'll be right there, honey. Come on. Heck, okay, the
kids are in on the secret. Huh. They're all right.
They won't say anything about it. Yeah, Margaret might suspect something, say, heck,
how would it be if I hit the rug over
at your place? Fine, we have rugs hidden all over
the jarm heck, got a closet full of pancakes too.
(10:25):
It'll only be until Monday, Jim, Why do not you
jes give it to her? How can you surprise anybody
with a rug. Believe me, it isn't easy. And if
you want to bring it over to my place, Okay, Hi, honey,
everything under control.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Not quite. I sent the little monsters into the den.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Well let's see what they're up to. Heck, I uh, just.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
A minute, Jim, you go ahead, Hector, I'd like to
speak to Peter Pan.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Okay, I'll send up two red flares. If I need help,
I'll be right in. Heck, nice guy.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Heck all right, Jim, what what was all at hooptie
do in the playroom?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Hoopie do?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Something was going on in the playroom. I want to
know what it was.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Well, yes, there's only one thing I can tell you, Margaret.
It's a secret.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I see, after eighteen years, we have secrets.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Well, yes, I'm sorry, but that's it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
All right, let's both have secrets. Next time you talk
in your sleep, I'll take notes.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Fine you. I don't talk in my sleep? No, no,
all right? When did I ever talk in my.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Sleep last night?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I did? M hm, that's impossible.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
What did I say you mean last night?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yes, it's a secret.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Boy.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
There are enough secrets floating around the Anderson home today
to keep the ordinary family supplied.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
For a month.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
Well, what I have to say is no secret. My
business is coffee. Maxwell House coffee, rich, full bodied, truly
satisfying coffee. And I honestly believe that if you enjoy
really good coffee as much as I do, the coffee
for you is our Maxwell House. You see, you just
won't find that wonderful, good to the last drop flavor
(12:41):
in any other coffee, no coffee but Maxwell House. And
there's a good reason for that.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Coffee.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
You know, grows all over the world, and there are
all kinds of grades and varieties, but mark this Maxwell
House selects the very finest, extra flavorful varieties, the kinds
that are grown on on the mile high plateaus of
Latin America. For example, fancy Manizales coffees are chosen for
their fragrant mellowness, superb Medlins for extra richness, Choice Booker
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among us coffees for fine full body. And it is
these choice varieties, blended in just the right proportions that
produces that world famous good to the last drop flavor
of Maxwell House coffee. No wonder then, no other coffee
tastes like Maxwell House. No other coffee is made like
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Maxwell House. So if truly good coffee helps make your
day a better one, start enjoying our Maxwell House, the
coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more people than any
other brand at any price. It's the one coffee that's
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
It's the breathless moment.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Later, as Jim Anderson enters the dam of the white
frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
But this isn't the fun.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Loving, gay spirited rover boy we left a minute ago.
This is a grim faced and visibly shaken Jim Anderson,
a man with a whole new set of problems like this.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
So there they were, see with men on second and
third n get away with it and get a minute.
Please look, why don't you kids go into the kitchen
and to help your mother?
Speaker 2 (14:31):
He just kicked this out, She said, she was gonna scream, Well,
is anything wrong?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Father?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh? No, I tell you what. You all go into
the living room and wait for me. I I'd like
to talk to mister Smith for a minute.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Holy ca All we do is get kicked out of places.
Hurry up or you'll get kicked in places. Daddy, Come on,
noodle nose will stop pulling me. All you do is
We'll be in the living room when you want to spather.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Thank you, Betty, see you later, you bet Oh what
a spot? Does she know? I don't know? And what
are you so worried about? Hector? There comes a time
in the life of every married man. Jim, you know
what I just found out? What I talk in my sleep?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
For crying out loud? What do you mean old? For
crying out loud? That's a serious thing, and nuts? I
am Uh. How would you like to talk in your
sleep about what? That's the trouble? I don't know, Jim.
Look a guy like you who's never done anything wrong
in his whole life. How do you know I haven't?
(15:44):
You mean you have? Naturally you? Oh, I don't mean
anything big or serious or anything. But well, what if
I talked about the fish? What fish? The fish you
and I caught up at the lake. Only we didn't
catch them. We bought them at the market. Well they
weren't biting. Oh my god. Now why the poker game
(16:08):
last week? I lost twelve dollars, so I told Margaret
I lost two. Boy, you're a real devil, aren't you. Heck,
you don't understand what this means? A man's home is
his castle, his word is law. And then what happens?
He goes to sleep in zoie, He's defenseless. When was
(16:32):
he any other way? But I'll be afraid to fall asleep.
There's no telling what I'll say. Well, didn't did Margaret
give you a hint? She gave me nothing but a
dirty laugh. That's bad, you know. I feel just like
I'm going down for the third time. I can see
my whole life floating by. See anybody we know? Heck,
(16:57):
it isn't funny. It's the silliest thing I've ever heard,
is that? So I'm not afraid of what I've done,
because I haven't done anything really, But what if I
make up things?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
What if I have a dream and I'm chasing Betty Grabel?
Call me up. I'll join you. Hector, why don't you
go home? All you want to do is make jokes.
I wanted to go home ten minutes ago, But no,
I have to hear about talking in your sleep and
rugs and Jim, let go my coat will here, you'll
(17:30):
tear it. What if I told her about the rug? Well,
it's better than Betty Grabil, isn't it? Jim will you pleased. Hey,
wait a minute, I got an idea. If I talked
about the rug, the kids will never forgive me. Why
don't we find out what? Look, kids can find out anything,
especially from their mothers. What's that got to do? So
(17:51):
your kids try to find out if you talk about
the rug? But I still won't know if I said anything.
And if you didn't talk about the rug, they'll find
out what you did talk about clever huh. In other words,
I'm to make spies out of three innocent children. Good idea. Huh.
It isn't bad. I'm bad at all. Well, this time
(18:12):
I'm gonna go before I get mixed up on anything out.
Wait a minute, heck, I'll take you to the front door. Okay, Look,
heck exactly how do you think I ought to go
about this? Just lay it right on the line about
the rug? You mean? Sure?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Song?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Kids fly see your letter, Margaret, she can't hear you
from here. Heck, I'll tell you said goodbye. Okay, and Jim,
you don't have to worry. Leave everything to the kids.
He'll figure it out. You don't know, my kids, I'll
probably wind up in Alcatraz. Well, you know what they
say shareshal FM. What's that got to do with it?
(18:46):
Who knows? I had one year a high school of French? Well,
are they say any pow? I'll let you know what happens.
Don't bother. I'll read about it in the newspaper. Sometimes
I wish I had a job in a nice, quiet
life house.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Did you and mister Smith get everything straightened out? Father?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Well, we talked things over, yeady.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
But those girls can't be president and they came too,
can't they.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
I didn't say they couldn't. I just said I'd move.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
That's all, kids, I've got something pretty serious to take
up with you. I may have told your mother about
the rug. Oh wait a minute, I'm not sure I did.
I said maybe you mean you don't know? That's right?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
But if you told.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Her, I said something in my sleep last night, and
I don't know what it was. Gosh, it might have
been about the rug, or it might have been about
other things.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
What other things?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Never mind?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Father, that's awful.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
What'd you do a thing like that for?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Because I wanted to see if the bedroom had an echo? Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
How could you tell if you were asleep?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I let's go back to the rug.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Father, Yes, would you mind if we well, I guess
we shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You shouldn't what well?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I was thinking if some of us pretended we knew
what you said, Mother might tell the rest of us.
And no, you wouldn't want us to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Why wouldn't I? I mean, if you want to, you
don't mind. I don't mind at all.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
You know what, I don't understand what's everybody talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I didn't understand it either. Look, Bud, we'll go into
the kitchen and you pretend you know what father said.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I don't know what anybody said.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You heard what father said last night?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You pretend you did what? For?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Betty? I think you'd better try something else?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Well, you better try it fast.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Mommy's coming, Jim.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I'm right here, honey.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
The coffee's already. If you where's Hector? He?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Oh? He said for me to tell you goodbye. He
had to go home.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Oh, dear, after I went to all that trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Come on, Bud, it isn't fair and you know it.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Huh what did father say when last night?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Well, how do I know? Betty?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
It's no use. Maybe we'd better just a.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Minute, father, mother. If a boy hears what his father
says when he's talking in his sleep. Does he have
the right to keep it a secret?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Why, Bud, did you hear your father last night?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Of course he did, didn't you, Bud?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
I didn't hear anybody last night? But please, but I
told you, oh you mean? Oh oh sure I heard him.
I just remembered.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Betty believed me.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Yes, sir, I sure did hear him. Boy was he funny?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yes, dear, he was very funny.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I'm glad somebody enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
What was funny about it? Well, never mind, Bud, we
don't need you. Mother's going to tell us, aren't you Mother?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No, Angel, I'm not You're not, hm m. But if
Bud knows, it isn't the sort of thing one bandy's about,
is it, Bud?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Gosh?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
No, and Bud you are not to tell them either.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Oh you can count on that. We can count on
what I'm not allowed to tell.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Jim. This whole thing is pretty obvious. What is using
the children to find out what you said last night?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Well, good grief, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Is that what you're trying to do?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Kathy? Please?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
But I know a daddy you do.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Why didn't you say so?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Nobody asked me, Kathy, why don't you and I go
for a little walk?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, Jim. She doesn't know anything about it, Yes I do. Mommy,
you couldn't possibly you were sound asleep. Oh, I didn't
hear it last night. I heard it this afternoon when
you were telling Missus Hathaway and the phone.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Oh, you told Missus Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I did no such thing.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You said something about Daddy. Don't remember.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
You said, hello, Lucille, how Florie's cold? And then you said,
my goodness, isn't that awful?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And then you.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Said, Kathy, will you please get to the point.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I have to remember, don't I?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Well, go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Then she said, you'll never guess what Jim and the
children are getting me for.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
My birthday, Margarete, Oh, dear.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
And then she said, Helen Phillips was shopping at Gorman's
and she saw Jim go into the rug department.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Holy call.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And then she said, Kathy, why don't you stop it?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
We've heard enough?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yes, Daddy, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to spoil
your fun.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You knew all the time, didn't you, Yes, about the
rug all that excitement in the playroom. Yes, dear, Margaret.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
Yes, dear happy Billiard table.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
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(25:22):
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Speaker 3 (25:50):
Good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It's midnight in Springfield, and an autumn moon hangs low
and a star swept sky. Maple Street is quiet and dark,
except for a small light in the bedroom of the
Anderson home. There life goes on like this.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Jim, won't you please come to bed in.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
A little while, Honey, I want to read another two
or three chapters.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
You said the same thing an hour ago, I did.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well. I uh, it's a very.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Interesting book, certainly must be, Jim, Miss Margaret, are you
and the children very angry with me?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Of course not. We aren't angry at all.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Then why won't you come to bed?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You go to sleep, and then I'll come to bed.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Jim, are you still worrying about that silly talking business.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'm not worried about it anything. You just go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Come over here, now, look, Margaret, come over here.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Good grief. Treat a man as though he didn't have
any Alright, I'm here.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Sit down.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Would you like to know what you said last night?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
It isn't important, but if you want to tell me, well.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
You had the most peaceful smile on your face. Must
have been a beautiful dream, honey. Please, Then you sighed,
and you said so softly. Anyone for tennis?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Good night, Margaret, Good night, dear boy. I'm fickle, you mean.
(28:07):
One day I'm in love with strawberry jello, a swell dish,
you bet, But next day I'm in love with.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Raspberry jella, another swell dish. And look, everybody loves all
six delicious jello flavors.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
My wife loves Jella because it's so easy to fix
and so easy on the grocery bill.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Easy to fix, thrifty to buy. That's Jello. That's my love.
It's your supply, folks. Remember it's Jello for Red Letter desserts.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
So off to the coward you go and reach.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
For j e ll.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Join us again next week when we'll be back. We
have Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson,
with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra in our
cast where Rhoda Williams as Betty, Jean Vanderpile, Ted Donaldson,
Norma Jean Nilsen, Herb Bikron, and yours truly Bill Foreman.
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
Of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
You will want to read an.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Interesting feature on Robert Young in the current issue of
Parade Magazine.
Speaker 9 (29:23):
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