July 26, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Mother, is Maxwelle House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
To the last drop.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I think it was Damon Runyon who said, when I
was twenty, I was convinced that my father was the
stupidest man in the world. When I was thirty, I
marveled at how much he had learned in the short
space of ten years. That's the way it is with
most of us, isn't it. Father brings home the bacon,
pays the rent, but he gets mighty little credit from
the rest of us. That's where the Anderson children are different.
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They think their father is a pretty wonderful guy. As
a matter of fact, they've even entered his name and
the father of the Year contest. Now they've got to
write a composition extolling his virtues, and that's exactly what
they're doing.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Like this, how about saying he's a terrific baseball player,
but he isn't.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
He's tall.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
That's fine. We think our father should be named the
Father of the Year because he's tall. That's a great reason.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Well, it's better than nothing.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
There must be something we can think of.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
He's generous, Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I get thirty five cents a week and everybody else
in my clever mind, Kathy, he gets a.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Half a dollar.
Speaker 8 (02:02):
How about he lets me borrow his neckties?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
But it's gotta be something big, like like what that's
the trouble? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
How about he lets bread borrow the socks? They're big, Caddy,
are they?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Well? If it isn't blinking a nod?
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Hi, Mom, what are we three cooking up now?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
We're having a terrible time. I can see that.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We can't figure out what's good about daddy.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Kathy, Mother, it sounds terrible when she says it like that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It certainly does. But we can't think of anything unusual
about your father.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
We don't mean he has to have three heads or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's really We've.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Got a lot of things written down, but we've got
to say it in twenty five words or less.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Betty, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
For the Father of the Year contest. We think Dad
ought to win.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh well, I'm sure he'll be very pleased.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Only we can't figure out why he should.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
That isn't what she means, mother, She means we can't
figure out what to say.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Let's see if we can't figure it out together. Your
father works very hard to give us all the things
we need, doesn't he. Well, he does his best to
keep us happy and healthy, even if we don't always
think he's right.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
What kind of a reason is that?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think it's a very good reason. He shares all
our little problems and keeps his own worries and troubles
to himself. He's considerate, unselfish, generous.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
I only get thirty five cents a.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Week, Kathy, I do.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He's generous in a different way. Angel. He gives us
all his love and all his attention. He devotes his
entire life to making us the sort of people the
entire community we'll respect and admire. Does that solve your problem?
Speaker 8 (04:05):
He's quite a guy, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yes, dear, he's quite a guy.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
But how can we say all that in twenty five
words or less?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well, Fred, I'm home Daddy.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Hi, father, we're in the den, Dad, well, the mother
handing all the little chicks.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Hello, dear, Hello, honey. You know you don't kiss me.
I beg your.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Pardon here you are getting thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'm here too, You aren't that?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Aren't you that better?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Much?
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Want me to hang your coat up there?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
I'll be back in a second.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
That's fine, Margaret. What's going on around here?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Why? Nothing, dear.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
We just think you're wonderful, that's all. We think you're
the most wonderful daddy in the whole world.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh uh, who did what to who? And how much
is it going to cost me?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
We didn't do anything father, to anybody?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Somebody must have done something.
Speaker 9 (05:19):
Here, you're dad.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
I've brought you the evening paper.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
What are you kids after?
Speaker 7 (05:23):
We aren't after anything, father, are we? Kathy?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, I only get thirty five since a week and
a daddything.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Jim, It's really very simple. The children and I have
been reviewing your qualifications, and I'd say they were definitely impressed.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I see. Do you think I'll be elected?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, Daddy, there you are. It's practically unanimous.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Fine, Now suppose you tell me one other thing. What
am I running for?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh didn't you know, mother? Why don't you tell him, dear?
It'll make him very proud?
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Good mom.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
If we tell him, it won't be any fun.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh, go ahead, tell him he's a good guy.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Well I'll tell it. Father. Yes, Betty, we nominated you
as Springfield's father of the Year.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What isn't that nice, dear?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, I naturally, I didn't expect anything like that.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
We figured you ought to win it hands down.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Only we can't figure.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Out why call.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That sounds more like my family.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
What Kathy means, dear, is if they can't seem to
compress your virtues into twenty five words or.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Less, Well, that's a I mean, you can hardly expect
me to help you with a thing like that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, we don't want you to help, father.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We'll think of something, and if we can't, we'll make
something up.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Holy call, Kathy, Why don't you.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Know what I do?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Nothing? Go answer the phone?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Gee whiz. Every time I say something, everybody asks to
get mad.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
What's this father of the Year thing about? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's a contest being run by the PTA Jim. They
think the children of Springfield ought to know best about
their fathers.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
And the winner gets the plaque and.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Gets his picture in the paper and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It's a very nice idea, but well.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Go it's for you, okay, excuse me, Dad, I'll be like.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
That and hurry up. We've got work to do.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
See it wasn't even for me.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Why couldn't bud Kathleen?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Gee whizz?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Father? Is it all right if we use these for
scratch paper?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, seeing that it's those long.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Kathy, those are my subscriptions that I need them, father, But.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I need them.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Wait a minute, subscriptions for what the.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Young and Old Weekly? I have to sell.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Four subscriptions, Kathy?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
How many times must I tell you not to bother
the neighbors with those ridiculous subscriptions?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
These are ridiculous, Daddy. They're two dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I wouldn't care.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
And if I draw the best bird, I win a buzzsaw.
You win a what an electric buzz saw?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's portable, dear, And it's a drill too, and it
makes holes up to a quarter.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Of an inch, Kathy.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
And I can draw a bird just as good as
Patty Davis. Cancel? Why should I?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
The last time you got mixed up in one of
these subscriptions, Jim.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It won't hurt if all she has to sell.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Is for But you know the way these people operate,
it's just a come on, no, what isn't daddy? It's
the contest, Kathy. I don't want you running around the
neighborhood with a portable buzzsaw, Jim. And besides, I don't
want my child taking advantage of by every fly by
night outfit that comes to Springfield.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But everybody else is doing it, Jim. If it's going
to make her happy.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Please Daddy all right, go ahead?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, thank you, Daddy is the most wonderful daddy in
the whole world.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Me.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I have the two dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Now, I didn't say.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Here you are, thank you Daddy, young.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And old weekly anytime anybody in this family has to
sell any Jim, it's only two dollars. That isn't the point, Dad,
it was Joe Phillips. Fine. That makes me very happy.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
The point is, but I haven't told you yet. He
wants me to go away. You mean I can, But.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Would you please go where?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Up to his cousin's farm for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh how wonderful.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Wait a minute, didn't we have a deal about cleaning
up the leaves.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Holy cow, Dad.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I let you use the card Tuesday night, on condition
that you take care of the leaves on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And if you think, Jim, it'll do him so much
good to get out in the fresh air.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Honey. He's got to learn that he has certain responsibilities,
the same as anyone else, of.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Course, Jim, But just this one, Gosh, Dad, all the
other fella's father said they could.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I am not all the other fella's fathers.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And when would you be back Monday morning in time
for school?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well?
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Please, Dad, I.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Still don't like the idea.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
But all right, hot dog boy, are we gonna have
a time?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Just a minute? Where are you going over to Joe's?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
I'll be back in time for dinner?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
But I thought you and the girls were going to
write to what was that dead? Never mind?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Don't be late, man, I won't.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I don't know, daddy, What is it, kitten?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Do you suppose we could use two subscriptions.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Kathy, don't be a pig.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
We could have one magazine for upstairs and one for downstairs.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
This is the last magazine I buy this year? Is
that clear?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yes? Datty, Betty?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
See who it is? We don't want to take Betty
away from her work?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Do we thank you?
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Father?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
At least I've got one child who appreciates her father. Yes, sir,
sticks right to it. Yes, Miss Betty Anderson?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yes, but you can call me Joel. I mean, does
miss Betty Anderson live here? I got a package for her.
I'll take it. You sign here? All right? There you are? Thanks?
Call him Joe. Betty ain't. Yes, Father, there's a package.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
For you for me?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
What's daddy?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I don't know, Dear. I seem to have left my
super X ray penetrating eyeglasses at the office.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Where is it?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Father?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Let me see? You see too?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Wait a minute, why all the excitement? You've gotten packages before?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I know?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
But bother Hey, let me see. Isn't that gorgeous?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Who said it?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
I don't know? There ought to be a card?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
What is it, Jim, Margaret? I think you ought to
see this.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
I'll be right in, dear here it is.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
It's mother, It's from Donald.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Martin, and you're going to send it right back.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Isn't it?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Send it back?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
What right does a young squirt like Donald Martin have
to send you a diamond pin?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
A diamond pin? Jim you're joking.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, look at it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
He couldn't possibly. Why, Jim, that isn't real.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It looks real, dear.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
If those were genuine diamonds, the pin would cost hundreds
of dollars, it would, can't I.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Please keep it?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Even if it's imitation. What right does he?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
There have no harm in accepting an inexpensive gift from
a friend, is there?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
But you only met him a few weeks ago.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
We've had three days.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I still say you ought to send it back.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Mother, Please, Jim, don't you think you're being a little
old fashioned.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I don't see anything old fashioned about it. Young ladies
don't accept jewelry from young men.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
But father, it's costume jewelry.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I wouldn't care. Well, there's no point in my arguing
against the entire family.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
You mean it's all right if I keep it.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I suppose so. If I don't say yes, I'll never
hear the end of it.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Oh, thank you, father and mother. You're wonderful.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Where are you going, dear?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Oh dare Yeah, it looks on my black helvet. I
won't see how it looks too.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Did I miss something?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
No? I was just thinking. The only way I'll get
to be the father of the Year is to fill
in the entry blank myself, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
If you want to enjoy good coffee, remember this important fact.
Our Maxwell House is three times richer in flavor coffees
than hundreds of other brands, tend to twelve times richer than.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Some, three times richer in flavor coffee. So that's why
Maxwell House tastes so good.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
You see, experts classify all the world's coffees into just
two groups, filler coffees, which are long on bulk and
short on flavor, and the much rarer flavor coffees, which
add real zest and body to a blend. Now, Maxwellhouse
buys more flavor coffees than anyone else in the whole world,
and our Maxwell House is made first and foremost from
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three choice flavor coffees. Indeed, Maxwell House is three times
richer in flavor coffees than hundreds of other brands, ten
to twelve times richer than some. And when you add
the traditional Maxwell House skills in blending and roasting to
these superb flavor coffees, it's no wonder only Maxwell House
coffee has that famous good to the last drop flavor.
Speaker 10 (15:02):
I've always said Maxwell House is the best coffee ever.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Lots of folks feel that way, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
In fact, more people buy and enjoy our Maxwell House
coffee than any other brand at any price.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
Well, naturally, Maxwell House is the one coffee that's always
good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own
country and in his own house. Well, substitute father for profit,
and you've got Jim Anderson. Late this gloomy Monday afternoon,
he's trudging slowly up the walk that leads to his home,
wondering sadly about the sudden demise of his candidacy as
Father of the Year. Naturally, it isn't because his kids
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aren't genuinely fond of him. He's been telling himself that
all day. But well, let's just say that he isn't
a very happy man like this.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Jim Hey, Jim, hm, oh, hello, Sam, have you got
a minute. I'd like to read something to you. Sure,
what do you want to read?
Speaker 9 (16:08):
It's this Father of the Year contest.
Speaker 12 (16:10):
Your kids put you in that, didn't they?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
They mentioned something about it.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
Wait, did you hear what Jimmy wrote about me? Listen
to this. I think my father should be named the.
Speaker 12 (16:20):
Father of the year because he's strong as Hercules, wise
as Solomon, rich as Rockefeller. Get this, handsome as Clark Gable.
Oh no, that's what it says, handsome as Clark Gable.
And I think he's the finest father that ever lived.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
How do you like that?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
It's a little reserve, isn't it. I mean, why have
a heart?
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Jimmy only had twenty five words.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Well, he got in some pretty good licks at that
Hercules Solomon.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Don't forget Clark Gable.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Sam, I'd say you were a lead pipe.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Sin stop pulling my leg, will you?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
But it's real nice to know your kid thinks you're
a great guy, isn't it. Yes, sure is Gosh.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
With three of them over at your place, what they
say about you?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Oh, I don't know. They they said I'd better not
look at it might get me too conceited.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
I'll bet they really laid it on thick.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yes, I guess they did. Well, I'd better be getting inside, okay,
jim I just thought you'd get a kick out of this. Oh,
I did see you later, Clark.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Missed the table to you?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well, after all, it wasn't very important. They just got busy.
I suppose I can't expect a bunch of normal kids.
Clark Gable, Honey, I'm home, Jim. No, there it's Clarence mcphilpott's.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'm into the den. Clarence.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
We need you, Yes, madam, you have but two command
and mcphil Pott's the fearless. What's the matter, honey? What's wrong?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Hello?
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Father?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Jim? I think you ought to have a little talk
with Betty?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
All right? Wait'll I take my coat.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Off and then you can talk to Bud.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
He'll tell you and Betty. Crying isn't going to do
you any good, I know, mother.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh, father, No, let's take it easy, Princess. Everything's going
to work out, Jim.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The whole dinner's going.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
To brush with Chris.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Go ahead, Honey, I'll take over in here, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Bud's doing his homework in the dining room.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
When you're ready, I'll call him.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Hey, they told me not to wear this suit out
in the rain, But if you'd like to cry on
my shoulders. Oh that's better, isn't it?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Father?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
What am I going to do about?
Speaker 9 (18:57):
What?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Sweetheart?
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Double Martin?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh? What about him?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
The pin was real diamond?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Well, he must be a very wealthy young man.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
He is wealthy at all.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
He charged it to his father, and his father came
and took it, bade.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well, that's a pretty serious problem, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I've never been so embarrassed in my life, you.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Know, Princess. That's the nice part of being young. When
a thing like this happens, you can laugh at it.
Speaker 13 (19:35):
I'm not laughing, I know, baby, but you should.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
This isn't the worst thing that's ever happened. Now, I'll
tell you what. We'll forget all about Donald Martin, and
then after dinner, maybe we'll all go to the movies.
How would you like that, father?
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Would you find very much if I didn't go to
the movies.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I mean, I thought you liked the movies.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
I do.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I just thought of something I have to do.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
All right, So we are. Do you do anything that's
going to make you happy. Just remember you're still my little.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Girl, Thank you, father, I'll remember fine.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Now.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
The crooks, that's all they are a bunch of crooks.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Uh excuse me, dear, I'd better investigate the crime weave.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm all right now, bother, of course you are.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Well, what's going on out here?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Daddy, you know those men you said were crooks, Well,
there are a bunch of crooks.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What happened kitten?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
My subscriptions?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I turned them in and the man said I had
to sell four more because it was a tie for first.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I see how many children were in the contest.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Six hundred and two.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
And how many were tied for first six hundred and two. Well,
at least it came out even.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
You know what.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
They're nothing but crooks.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
That's a very clever deduction.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
I'll show them the crooks. Can you come here, I'm
talking to daddy.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
She'll be writ in, Betty, thank you. I've got to
talk to Bud for a few minutes. Then you and
I will sit down and you can tell me all
about it.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Okay, but just wait.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
They ask me to do anything the crooks.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh dear, nothing but tragedies. Well what happened to you? Oh?
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Hi, Dad, I guess I got into a fight.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It sure looks that way. Have you put anything on
your eye?
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Put it?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Holy cow? Dad? What right did he have.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
After a minute? One thing at a time. You know,
I haven't seen you since Saturday. Did you have a
nice weekend?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
That's when I had the fight. What right did he
have for bud?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You didn't have a fight up at the farm.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I'm sure I did. The whole thing was a racket.
He wanted us to work because the hired man quit.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Who did Joe Phillip's cousin. You didn't fight with him,
did you?
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Oh? Gosh, no, it was Charlie.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Who is Charlie?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
He said, I wasn't working as hard as he was,
And look at these blisters? How could I get blisters
if I wasn't working hard?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
In other words, you didn't have a very good time.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
All we did was work for two whole days.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And you've still got the leaves to do, haven't you.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Oh that's what I wanted to talk to you about.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Dad.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Can I do him next weekend? I'm so tired I
can hardly move well.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
How would it be if we both got up a
little early on Wednesday?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
You mean we can do them together?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
It won't take us very long that way, will it?
Oh gosh, no, all right, we've got a date for Wednesday.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Oh thanks, Dad?
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Boy?
Speaker 8 (22:49):
Is that a relief? And you know what?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
What?
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Just for that?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
The first time it snows this wonder, I'll shovel the
driveway for half price.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
That's my boy.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Fine, Now what does she want?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Why don't you go in and find out?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
What do you want?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Come in here. We want to show you something.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Holy cal I'm doing my homework, but it's important.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Well bring it in here.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Fine, Jim.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
What's going on out there? Not a thing, honey, we're
just breaking in a new set of ear drums. Go ahead,
budd see what your sister wants.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Good night.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Just because she's a girl, I have to stop whatever
I'm doing every time she gets a dopey idea.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I don't know. It's a tough life.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Well did you get the children all straightened up?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Oh? Sure, I'm a great little fixer I am.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Of course, I'm just as much to blame as Betty
about the pen, but I could have sworn. Excuse me, dear,
I've got to put these biscuits in the oven.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
There.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
You know, honey, I'm not much of a father.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Why I'm not.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
If I were a decent father, I wouldn't permit these
things to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Jim. They aren't babies any longer. They're growing up. They've
got to learn these things their own way, and.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
When they stumble and fall, I'm supposed to stand by
and watch. Is that? It?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Of course not? But how can I make you understand?
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Father? We figured it out, Daddy, Kathy Well.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Put some biscuits in the oven, and the children gather
like flies, don't they?
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Father?
Speaker 7 (24:27):
May we read something to you? Please?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Not if it's about a sale.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
It isn't about a sail, Dad, all right, read on McDuff.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
It's to the pta.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
We think our father should be named the Father of
the Year because he's our guide post on the road
of life. Yet when we stray from paths he's marked
so well. He doesn't say.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I told you so. That's very lovely.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Dear Betty wrote it and I agreed with it.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
And it's exactly twenty five words.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Aren't you going to say something? Jim?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I am. Thank you very much, all three of you.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
We mean every word of it.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Father, I'm sure you do. That's what makes it Margaret, Yeah, dear,
would you say I looked anything like Clark Gable.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Morning, noon, and night. Few pleasures give so much downright
satisfaction as a steaming cup of truly good coffee. That's
why it pays to remember this fact. Maxwell House is
three times richer in flavor coffees than hundreds of other brands.
Flavor coffees, you know, are the extra choice, premium varieties,
the ones that add real, full bodied richness to a blend.
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And Maxwell House is three times richer in these fine
flavor coffees than hundreds of other brands. That fact, plus
the one and only Maxwell House technique of blending and roasting,
explains why Maxwell House alone has that wonderful, good to
the last drop flavor. So, for fragrant heartwarmingly good coffee
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coffee at its flavorful best, take home a pound of
our Maxwell House coffee. Start enjoying the one coffee that's
always good to the last drop. Once again, It's breakfast
time in the white frame house on Maple Street. It's
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a bright, sunshiny day, and the Anderson kitchen is a
cheerful spot with bacon sizzling on the grill and conversation
rack cling at the table like this.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
But Father, if you win, we'll all have to go
to the dinner fine, And how would you feel if
you were the father of the year and your very own.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Daughter, Betty, You are not going to get a strapless
evening gown, So let's not just go jumping creepers.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Even up around Joe Phillips's cousin's farm, all the kids
had gasoline scooters good.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
And one kid was only eleven.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
May I have another cup of coffee? Please?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
There, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
What he says next year he's gonna get a whole
dollar for his allowance, and all I get is thirty
five cents.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
There you are, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
If I were going to be the father of the year,
I'd be ashamed to.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Have my daughter wear an old evening gown with straps
on it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
May I have the cream and sugar?
Speaker 8 (27:47):
How would you like to ride around on a bicycle.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Pass the cream and sugar to your father?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
There's one kid in the third grade, and even he
gets more than thirty five.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Fans your yard dead, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
I don't mean it has to be black or anything
like that.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
Our toast, jim Have you heard the big news?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Why, there's a new, quick and easy way to make
perfect coconut cream pie. How with new jello coconut cream
pudding and pie filling.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
How easy is it?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
If you just add milk and bring to a boil.
It takes about five minutes. It's delicious. And economical too.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
See you later.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I got to tell my wife about this.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
And your wife about jello, coconut cream pudding and pie
filling for Red Letter desserts. Join us again next week
when we'll be back with Father Knows That, starring Robert
Young Is Jim Anderson with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell
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House Orchestra in our cast where Rhoda Williams as Betty,
Jean vanderfile Ted Donaldson, Norma ge Nilson, Stanley Farrar, and.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yours truly, Bill Forma.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
So until next Thursday, goodnight and good luck from the
makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee, always
good to the last drop. Father Knows Best was transcribed
in Hollywood and written by Ed Jane. Join mister Keene,
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Tracer of Lost Persons, tonight on NBC
Mother, is Maxwelle House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
To the last drop.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I think it was Damon Runyon who said, when I
was twenty, I was convinced that my father was the
stupidest man in the world. When I was thirty, I
marveled at how much he had learned in the short
space of ten years. That's the way it is with
most of us, isn't it. Father brings home the bacon,
pays the rent, but he gets mighty little credit from
the rest of us. That's where the Anderson children are different.
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They think their father is a pretty wonderful guy. As
a matter of fact, they've even entered his name and
the father of the Year contest. Now they've got to
write a composition extolling his virtues, and that's exactly what
they're doing.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Like this, how about saying he's a terrific baseball player,
but he isn't.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
He's tall.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
That's fine. We think our father should be named the
Father of the Year because he's tall. That's a great reason.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Well, it's better than nothing.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
There must be something we can think of.
Speaker 7 (01:46):
He's generous, Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I get thirty five cents a week and everybody else
in my clever mind, Kathy, he gets a.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Half a dollar.
Speaker 8 (02:02):
How about he lets me borrow his neckties?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
But it's gotta be something big, like like what that's
the trouble? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
How about he lets bread borrow the socks? They're big, Caddy,
are they?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Well? If it isn't blinking a nod?
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Hi, Mom, what are we three cooking up now?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
We're having a terrible time. I can see that.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We can't figure out what's good about daddy.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Kathy, Mother, it sounds terrible when she says it like that.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It certainly does. But we can't think of anything unusual
about your father.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
We don't mean he has to have three heads or anything.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's really We've.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Got a lot of things written down, but we've got
to say it in twenty five words or less.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Betty, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
For the Father of the Year contest. We think Dad
ought to win.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh well, I'm sure he'll be very pleased.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Only we can't figure out why he should.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
That isn't what she means, mother, She means we can't
figure out what to say.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
That's what I said.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Let's see if we can't figure it out together. Your
father works very hard to give us all the things
we need, doesn't he. Well, he does his best to
keep us happy and healthy, even if we don't always
think he's right.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
What kind of a reason is that?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think it's a very good reason. He shares all
our little problems and keeps his own worries and troubles
to himself. He's considerate, unselfish, generous.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
I only get thirty five cents a.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Week, Kathy, I do.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He's generous in a different way. Angel. He gives us
all his love and all his attention. He devotes his
entire life to making us the sort of people the
entire community we'll respect and admire. Does that solve your problem?
Speaker 8 (04:05):
He's quite a guy, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yes, dear, he's quite a guy.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
But how can we say all that in twenty five
words or less?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well, Fred, I'm home Daddy.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Hi, father, we're in the den, Dad, well, the mother
handing all the little chicks.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Hello, dear, Hello, honey. You know you don't kiss me.
I beg your.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Pardon here you are getting thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I'm here too, You aren't that?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Aren't you that better?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Much?
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Want me to hang your coat up there?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
I'll be back in a second.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
That's fine, Margaret. What's going on around here?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Why? Nothing, dear.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
We just think you're wonderful, that's all. We think you're
the most wonderful daddy in the whole world.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh uh, who did what to who? And how much
is it going to cost me?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
We didn't do anything father, to anybody?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Somebody must have done something.
Speaker 9 (05:19):
Here, you're dad.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
I've brought you the evening paper.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
What are you kids after?
Speaker 7 (05:23):
We aren't after anything, father, are we? Kathy?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, I only get thirty five since a week and
a daddything.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Jim, It's really very simple. The children and I have
been reviewing your qualifications, and I'd say they were definitely impressed.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I see. Do you think I'll be elected?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, Daddy, there you are. It's practically unanimous.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Fine, Now suppose you tell me one other thing. What
am I running for?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh didn't you know, mother? Why don't you tell him, dear?
It'll make him very proud?
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Good mom.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
If we tell him, it won't be any fun.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh, go ahead, tell him he's a good guy.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Well I'll tell it. Father. Yes, Betty, we nominated you
as Springfield's father of the Year.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What isn't that nice, dear?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Well, I naturally, I didn't expect anything like that.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
We figured you ought to win it hands down.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Only we can't figure.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Out why call.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
That sounds more like my family.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
What Kathy means, dear, is if they can't seem to
compress your virtues into twenty five words or.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Less, Well, that's a I mean, you can hardly expect
me to help you with a thing like that.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, we don't want you to help, father.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We'll think of something, and if we can't, we'll make
something up.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Holy call, Kathy, Why don't you.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Know what I do?
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Nothing? Go answer the phone?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Gee whiz. Every time I say something, everybody asks to
get mad.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
What's this father of the Year thing about? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It's a contest being run by the PTA Jim. They
think the children of Springfield ought to know best about
their fathers.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
And the winner gets the plaque and.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Gets his picture in the paper and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
It's a very nice idea, but well.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Go it's for you, okay, excuse me, Dad, I'll be like.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
That and hurry up. We've got work to do.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
See it wasn't even for me.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Why couldn't bud Kathleen?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Gee whizz?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Father? Is it all right if we use these for
scratch paper?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, seeing that it's those long.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Kathy, those are my subscriptions that I need them, father, But.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
I need them.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Wait a minute, subscriptions for what the.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Young and Old Weekly? I have to sell.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Four subscriptions, Kathy?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
How many times must I tell you not to bother
the neighbors with those ridiculous subscriptions?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
These are ridiculous, Daddy. They're two dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I wouldn't care.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
And if I draw the best bird, I win a buzzsaw.
You win a what an electric buzz saw?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's portable, dear, And it's a drill too, and it
makes holes up to a quarter.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Of an inch, Kathy.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
And I can draw a bird just as good as
Patty Davis. Cancel? Why should I?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
The last time you got mixed up in one of
these subscriptions, Jim.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It won't hurt if all she has to sell.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Is for But you know the way these people operate,
it's just a come on, no, what isn't daddy? It's
the contest, Kathy. I don't want you running around the
neighborhood with a portable buzzsaw, Jim. And besides, I don't
want my child taking advantage of by every fly by
night outfit that comes to Springfield.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But everybody else is doing it, Jim. If it's going
to make her happy.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Please Daddy all right, go ahead?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Oh, thank you, Daddy is the most wonderful daddy in
the whole world.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Me.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I have the two dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Now, I didn't say.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Here you are, thank you Daddy, young.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
And old weekly anytime anybody in this family has to
sell any Jim, it's only two dollars. That isn't the point, Dad,
it was Joe Phillips. Fine. That makes me very happy.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
The point is, but I haven't told you yet. He
wants me to go away. You mean I can, But.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Would you please go where?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Up to his cousin's farm for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh how wonderful.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Wait a minute, didn't we have a deal about cleaning
up the leaves.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Holy cow, Dad.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I let you use the card Tuesday night, on condition
that you take care of the leaves on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
And if you think, Jim, it'll do him so much
good to get out in the fresh air.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Honey. He's got to learn that he has certain responsibilities,
the same as anyone else, of.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Course, Jim, But just this one, Gosh, Dad, all the
other fella's father said they could.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I am not all the other fella's fathers.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And when would you be back Monday morning in time
for school?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well?
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Please, Dad, I.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Still don't like the idea.
Speaker 8 (10:20):
But all right, hot dog boy, are we gonna have
a time?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Just a minute? Where are you going over to Joe's?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
I'll be back in time for dinner?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
But I thought you and the girls were going to
write to what was that dead? Never mind?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Don't be late, man, I won't.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I don't know, daddy, What is it, kitten?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Do you suppose we could use two subscriptions.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Kathy, don't be a pig.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
We could have one magazine for upstairs and one for downstairs.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
This is the last magazine I buy this year? Is
that clear?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yes? Datty, Betty?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
See who it is? We don't want to take Betty
away from her work?
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Do we thank you?
Speaker 9 (11:04):
Father?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
At least I've got one child who appreciates her father. Yes, sir,
sticks right to it. Yes, Miss Betty Anderson?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yes, but you can call me Joel. I mean, does
miss Betty Anderson live here? I got a package for her.
I'll take it. You sign here? All right? There you are? Thanks?
Call him Joe. Betty ain't. Yes, Father, there's a package.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
For you for me?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
What's daddy?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I don't know, Dear. I seem to have left my
super X ray penetrating eyeglasses at the office.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Where is it?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Father?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Let me see? You see too?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Wait a minute, why all the excitement? You've gotten packages before?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I know?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
But bother Hey, let me see. Isn't that gorgeous?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Who said it?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
I don't know? There ought to be a card?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
What is it, Jim, Margaret? I think you ought to
see this.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
I'll be right in, dear here it is.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
It's mother, It's from Donald.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Martin, and you're going to send it right back.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Isn't it?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Send it back?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
What right does a young squirt like Donald Martin have
to send you a diamond pin?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
A diamond pin? Jim you're joking.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, look at it.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
He couldn't possibly. Why, Jim, that isn't real.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
It looks real, dear.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
If those were genuine diamonds, the pin would cost hundreds
of dollars, it would, can't I.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Please keep it?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Even if it's imitation. What right does he?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
There have no harm in accepting an inexpensive gift from
a friend, is there?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
But you only met him a few weeks ago.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
We've had three days.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I still say you ought to send it back.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Mother, Please, Jim, don't you think you're being a little
old fashioned.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I don't see anything old fashioned about it. Young ladies
don't accept jewelry from young men.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
But father, it's costume jewelry.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I wouldn't care. Well, there's no point in my arguing
against the entire family.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
You mean it's all right if I keep it.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I suppose so. If I don't say yes, I'll never
hear the end of it.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Oh, thank you, father and mother. You're wonderful.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Where are you going, dear?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Oh dare Yeah, it looks on my black helvet. I
won't see how it looks too.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Did I miss something?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
No? I was just thinking. The only way I'll get
to be the father of the Year is to fill
in the entry blank myself, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
If you want to enjoy good coffee, remember this important fact.
Our Maxwell House is three times richer in flavor coffees
than hundreds of other brands, tend to twelve times richer than.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Some, three times richer in flavor coffee. So that's why
Maxwell House tastes so good.
Speaker 11 (14:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
You see, experts classify all the world's coffees into just
two groups, filler coffees, which are long on bulk and
short on flavor, and the much rarer flavor coffees, which
add real zest and body to a blend. Now, Maxwellhouse
buys more flavor coffees than anyone else in the whole world,
and our Maxwell House is made first and foremost from
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three choice flavor coffees. Indeed, Maxwell House is three times
richer in flavor coffees than hundreds of other brands, ten
to twelve times richer than some. And when you add
the traditional Maxwell House skills in blending and roasting to
these superb flavor coffees, it's no wonder only Maxwell House
coffee has that famous good to the last drop flavor.
Speaker 10 (15:02):
I've always said Maxwell House is the best coffee ever.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Lots of folks feel that way, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
In fact, more people buy and enjoy our Maxwell House
coffee than any other brand at any price.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
Well, naturally, Maxwell House is the one coffee that's always
good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own
country and in his own house. Well, substitute father for profit,
and you've got Jim Anderson. Late this gloomy Monday afternoon,
he's trudging slowly up the walk that leads to his home,
wondering sadly about the sudden demise of his candidacy as
Father of the Year. Naturally, it isn't because his kids
(15:48):
aren't genuinely fond of him. He's been telling himself that
all day. But well, let's just say that he isn't
a very happy man like this.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Jim Hey, Jim, hm, oh, hello, Sam, have you got
a minute. I'd like to read something to you. Sure,
what do you want to read?
Speaker 9 (16:08):
It's this Father of the Year contest.
Speaker 12 (16:10):
Your kids put you in that, didn't they?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
They mentioned something about it.
Speaker 9 (16:15):
Wait, did you hear what Jimmy wrote about me? Listen
to this. I think my father should be named the.
Speaker 12 (16:20):
Father of the year because he's strong as Hercules, wise
as Solomon, rich as Rockefeller. Get this, handsome as Clark Gable.
Oh no, that's what it says, handsome as Clark Gable.
And I think he's the finest father that ever lived.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
How do you like that?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
It's a little reserve, isn't it. I mean, why have
a heart?
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Jimmy only had twenty five words.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Well, he got in some pretty good licks at that
Hercules Solomon.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Don't forget Clark Gable.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Sam, I'd say you were a lead pipe.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Sin stop pulling my leg, will you?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
But it's real nice to know your kid thinks you're
a great guy, isn't it. Yes, sure is Gosh.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
With three of them over at your place, what they
say about you?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Oh, I don't know. They they said I'd better not
look at it might get me too conceited.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
I'll bet they really laid it on thick.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yes, I guess they did. Well, I'd better be getting inside, okay,
jim I just thought you'd get a kick out of this. Oh,
I did see you later, Clark.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Missed the table to you?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well, after all, it wasn't very important. They just got busy.
I suppose I can't expect a bunch of normal kids.
Clark Gable, Honey, I'm home, Jim. No, there it's Clarence mcphilpott's.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'm into the den. Clarence.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
We need you, Yes, madam, you have but two command
and mcphil Pott's the fearless. What's the matter, honey? What's wrong?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Hello?
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Father?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Jim? I think you ought to have a little talk
with Betty?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
All right? Wait'll I take my coat.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Off and then you can talk to Bud.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
He'll tell you and Betty. Crying isn't going to do
you any good, I know, mother.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Oh, father, No, let's take it easy, Princess. Everything's going
to work out, Jim.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The whole dinner's going.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
To brush with Chris.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Go ahead, Honey, I'll take over in here, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Bud's doing his homework in the dining room.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
When you're ready, I'll call him.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Hey, they told me not to wear this suit out
in the rain, But if you'd like to cry on
my shoulders. Oh that's better, isn't it?
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Father?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
What am I going to do about?
Speaker 9 (18:57):
What?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Sweetheart?
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Double Martin?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh? What about him?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
The pin was real diamond?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Well, he must be a very wealthy young man.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
He is wealthy at all.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
He charged it to his father, and his father came
and took it, bade.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well, that's a pretty serious problem, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I've never been so embarrassed in my life, you.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Know, Princess. That's the nice part of being young. When
a thing like this happens, you can laugh at it.
Speaker 13 (19:35):
I'm not laughing, I know, baby, but you should.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
This isn't the worst thing that's ever happened. Now, I'll
tell you what. We'll forget all about Donald Martin, and
then after dinner, maybe we'll all go to the movies.
How would you like that, father?
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Would you find very much if I didn't go to
the movies.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I mean, I thought you liked the movies.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
I do.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I just thought of something I have to do.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
All right, So we are. Do you do anything that's
going to make you happy. Just remember you're still my little.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Girl, Thank you, father, I'll remember fine.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Now.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
The crooks, that's all they are a bunch of crooks.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Uh excuse me, dear, I'd better investigate the crime weave.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I'm all right now, bother, of course you are.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Well, what's going on out here?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Daddy, you know those men you said were crooks, Well,
there are a bunch of crooks.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What happened kitten?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
My subscriptions?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I turned them in and the man said I had
to sell four more because it was a tie for first.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I see how many children were in the contest.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Six hundred and two.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
And how many were tied for first six hundred and two. Well,
at least it came out even.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
You know what.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
They're nothing but crooks.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
That's a very clever deduction.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
I'll show them the crooks. Can you come here, I'm
talking to daddy.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
She'll be writ in, Betty, thank you. I've got to
talk to Bud for a few minutes. Then you and
I will sit down and you can tell me all
about it.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Okay, but just wait.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
They ask me to do anything the crooks.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh dear, nothing but tragedies. Well what happened to you? Oh?
Speaker 8 (21:32):
Hi, Dad, I guess I got into a fight.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It sure looks that way. Have you put anything on
your eye?
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Put it?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Holy cow? Dad? What right did he have.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
After a minute? One thing at a time. You know,
I haven't seen you since Saturday. Did you have a
nice weekend?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
That's when I had the fight. What right did he
have for bud?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You didn't have a fight up at the farm.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I'm sure I did. The whole thing was a racket.
He wanted us to work because the hired man quit.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Who did Joe Phillip's cousin. You didn't fight with him,
did you?
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Oh? Gosh, no, it was Charlie.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Who is Charlie?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
He said, I wasn't working as hard as he was,
And look at these blisters? How could I get blisters
if I wasn't working hard?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
In other words, you didn't have a very good time.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
All we did was work for two whole days.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And you've still got the leaves to do, haven't you.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Oh that's what I wanted to talk to you about.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Dad.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Can I do him next weekend? I'm so tired I
can hardly move well.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
How would it be if we both got up a
little early on Wednesday?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
You mean we can do them together?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
It won't take us very long that way, will it?
Oh gosh, no, all right, we've got a date for Wednesday.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
Oh thanks, Dad?
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Boy?
Speaker 8 (22:49):
Is that a relief? And you know what?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
What?
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Just for that?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
The first time it snows this wonder, I'll shovel the
driveway for half price.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
That's my boy.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Fine, Now what does she want?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Why don't you go in and find out?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
What do you want?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Come in here. We want to show you something.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Holy cal I'm doing my homework, but it's important.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Well bring it in here.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Fine, Jim.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
What's going on out there? Not a thing, honey, we're
just breaking in a new set of ear drums. Go ahead,
budd see what your sister wants.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Good night.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Just because she's a girl, I have to stop whatever
I'm doing every time she gets a dopey idea.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I don't know. It's a tough life.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Well did you get the children all straightened up?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Oh? Sure, I'm a great little fixer I am.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Of course, I'm just as much to blame as Betty
about the pen, but I could have sworn. Excuse me, dear,
I've got to put these biscuits in the oven.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
There.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
You know, honey, I'm not much of a father.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Why I'm not.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
If I were a decent father, I wouldn't permit these
things to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Jim. They aren't babies any longer. They're growing up. They've
got to learn these things their own way, and.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
When they stumble and fall, I'm supposed to stand by
and watch. Is that? It?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Of course not? But how can I make you understand?
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Father? We figured it out, Daddy, Kathy Well.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Put some biscuits in the oven, and the children gather
like flies, don't they?
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Father?
Speaker 7 (24:27):
May we read something to you? Please?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Not if it's about a sale.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
It isn't about a sail, Dad, all right, read on McDuff.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
It's to the pta.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
We think our father should be named the Father of
the Year because he's our guide post on the road
of life. Yet when we stray from paths he's marked
so well. He doesn't say.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I told you so. That's very lovely.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Dear Betty wrote it and I agreed with it.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
And it's exactly twenty five words.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Aren't you going to say something? Jim?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I am. Thank you very much, all three of you.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
We mean every word of it.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Father, I'm sure you do. That's what makes it Margaret, Yeah, dear,
would you say I looked anything like Clark Gable.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Morning, noon, and night. Few pleasures give so much downright
satisfaction as a steaming cup of truly good coffee. That's
why it pays to remember this fact. Maxwell House is
three times richer in flavor coffees than hundreds of other brands.
Flavor coffees, you know, are the extra choice, premium varieties,
the ones that add real, full bodied richness to a blend.
(26:10):
And Maxwell House is three times richer in these fine
flavor coffees than hundreds of other brands. That fact, plus
the one and only Maxwell House technique of blending and roasting,
explains why Maxwell House alone has that wonderful, good to
the last drop flavor. So, for fragrant heartwarmingly good coffee
(26:31):
coffee at its flavorful best, take home a pound of
our Maxwell House coffee. Start enjoying the one coffee that's
always good to the last drop. Once again, It's breakfast
time in the white frame house on Maple Street. It's
(26:52):
a bright, sunshiny day, and the Anderson kitchen is a
cheerful spot with bacon sizzling on the grill and conversation
rack cling at the table like this.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
But Father, if you win, we'll all have to go
to the dinner fine, And how would you feel if
you were the father of the year and your very own.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Daughter, Betty, You are not going to get a strapless
evening gown, So let's not just go jumping creepers.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Even up around Joe Phillips's cousin's farm, all the kids
had gasoline scooters good.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
And one kid was only eleven.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
May I have another cup of coffee? Please?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (27:28):
There, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
What he says next year he's gonna get a whole
dollar for his allowance, and all I get is thirty
five cents.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
There you are, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
If I were going to be the father of the year,
I'd be ashamed to.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Have my daughter wear an old evening gown with straps
on it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
May I have the cream and sugar?
Speaker 8 (27:47):
How would you like to ride around on a bicycle.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Pass the cream and sugar to your father?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
There's one kid in the third grade, and even he
gets more than thirty five.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Fans your yard dead, Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
I don't mean it has to be black or anything
like that.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
Our toast, jim Have you heard the big news?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Why, there's a new, quick and easy way to make
perfect coconut cream pie. How with new jello coconut cream
pudding and pie filling.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
How easy is it?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
If you just add milk and bring to a boil.
It takes about five minutes. It's delicious. And economical too.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
See you later.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I got to tell my wife about this.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
And your wife about jello, coconut cream pudding and pie
filling for Red Letter desserts. Join us again next week
when we'll be back with Father Knows That, starring Robert
Young Is Jim Anderson with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell
(29:03):
House Orchestra in our cast where Rhoda Williams as Betty,
Jean vanderfile Ted Donaldson, Norma ge Nilson, Stanley Farrar, and.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yours truly, Bill Forma.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
So until next Thursday, goodnight and good luck from the
makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee, always
good to the last drop. Father Knows Best was transcribed
in Hollywood and written by Ed Jane. Join mister Keene,
(29:42):
Tracer of Lost Persons, tonight on NBC
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