July 23, 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):
Now there is Maxwell House really the only coffee in
the world.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young,
his 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. In
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every week, there are seven days in every day. There
are twenty four hours. In every hour, there are sixty
minutes or three thousand, six hundred seconds. That's a lot
of time, isn't it? Time enough to do almost anything, unless,
of course, you happen to be a father. If you're
a father like Jim Anderson, there's never enough time, never
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enough minutes or hours or days. That's why, as a
conscientious father, you're forced to take steps like this, And so,
gentlemen of the Springfield Service Club, let's take a look
at the record. Let's put a microscope on the past
year and see exactly how much cooperation I've received. Jim, Honey,
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if you're going to keep interrupting me.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm sorry, dear, but microscope sounds so funny, don't you
mean magnifying glass.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, you're being very technical, Margaret. It's just a figure
of speech. So what difference does it make which one
I use?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Not a great deal, I suppose, except that when you
say microscope, you think of germs.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And that's exactly what they are, a bunch of germs.
Elect a man president and then don't lift a finger
to help him.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I know, dear, But as long as you're going to rese.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Supposed to be such a great honor, I'd better wear
this tie.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Huh, yes, dear, And I've laid your shirt out in
the bed.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
President of the Service Club. It's just another way of saying,
I'm too tired. Let Jim do it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Jim, if you want me to hear the rest of your.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Speech, you can get another president. He can do all
the work. I'm going to stay home with my family.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Where was I You were looking at the record?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh yeah, uh. Let's take a look at the record.
Let's put a magnifying glass on the past year and
see exactly. Yes, Margaret, you were right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Microscope sounds better.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Thank you. Let's take a look at the record. Let's
put a microscope on the past year and see exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Very peculiar picture. I mean putting a whole year into
a tiny little microscope. But it does sound better when
you say it, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yes, dear, this is a large microscope, the year size.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, let's not worry about it. It isn't very important.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, I won't interrupt you again, Margaret, if there's anything else.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You'd rather do, Jim, I'm trying my best to listen.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh that's what you were doing.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Of course, if you don't want me to hear the speech, I.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Do want you to hear the speech. But we've been
at it for fifteen minutes and I haven't been able
to get past the introduction. I'm so confused. I don't
know if I'm getting dressed or undressed.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Brother, I'm in the bedroom, Betty, I think the string
beans are burned. Oh, dear, I forget all about them.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I'll be right down, okay, between the string beans and
Kathy's bath and Betty's fingernails.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Jim, just because you're going out to dinner, that doesn't
mean that we don't have to eat.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I have three growing children to take care of them.
They're going to be fed in spite of you and
the service cloths.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I suppose I burned the string beans.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, they certainly didn't burn by themselves.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Now there's logic for you. I'm going to dinner, so
I'm responsible for everything that happens in the house. Blue sock,
blue sock, blue socks? Why is it? I can never bud?
You want me what happened to my Oh? What's that? Dad?
Never mind? I found it? Why I said, never mind?
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I found it my other blue sock. I haven't got it.
I know you haven't. I just found it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yes, that's nice.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I thought you'd be happy. I'll give you ten to
one right now. He doesn't know what I'm talking about.
And so, gentlemen of the Springfield Service Club, let us
take a look at the record. Let's put a microscope
on the past year. Let's put a magnifying glass on
the past year. Let's take a close look at the
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past year. Look at the record, Look at the year.
M Well, yaddy, Oh no, not this, daddy?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Are you still here?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Me? Of course not. Didn't your mother tell you I
left five minutes ago? What if you look out the window,
you can see me just turning the corner.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
You're kidding me?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Somebody tells you, daddy, chatty. I haven't time to talk.
I got to leave him very few minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
He's now wonderful. What oh I mean going out for
dinner and everything. That's what I meant, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It is huh oh, yes, I wonder here Kathy's daddy.
I got to change my shirt and my trousers. So
if you don't mind, right, Kathy, get out and close
the door. Please.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
But I don't mind, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well I do. Please get out and close the door.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Gee wiss. Nobody ever lets me stay anyplace.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
All I do is get out, just like living in
an alley. That's what it is. Give a man the
privacy of a goldfish. Let's take a close look at
the past year and see exactly how much cooperation I
have received as president of the local service Club. I've
neglected my family, my business, even my golf for the
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sake of this organization. Examine your own consciences and ask yourselves,
what did I do to help?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Now?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
What happened to the darn things? You can never find
anything around here, Margaret, She isn't here, father, she was
here two seconds ago. She's trying to.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Buy some string beans from missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Oh, thank you You're welcome, string beans. I can't find
my cuff links, and she's gallivanting all over the neighborhood
chasing string beans. Examine your own consciences and ask yourselves
in the past year, what did I do to help?
What did I do to help? What did I do
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to help? What did I do to help? Bod? He's
taking those cufflings again? So help me, Bod. Come in here, Okay, Dad,
I'll be right in. If I've told him once, I've
told him a thousand times, I couldn't have made it
any plainer. You want me for something, Dad? How many
times have I told you to leave my cuff links alone?
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Which cufflinks? My gold cuff links, the ones the Service
club gave me all those? Well, I don't know. You
don't know what how many times you told me? Then?
Why did you? Why did I fall take them? Oh?
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I didn't. But if you didn't take them, where are they?
Maybe Kathy took them?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, if it isn't Millicent's Mayflower Girl, Detective, come in, Millie.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Did you call me Daddy's Kathy?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Aside from the fact that it isn't polite to drop
eves on people, what did you do with my cufflinks?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I didn't drop anything on anybody.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
What did you do with my cufflinks?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
What cufflinks?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Daddy his gold cufflings at the service club gave him.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I didn't ask.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You, Kathy, where are my cufflinks?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
The gold cup links at the service club gave you?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yes, I don't know, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Gosh, Daddy, if I knew where they were, I'd be
the first one to tell you.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I can't afford to have you. I mean, you're almost
late now, I.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Am not almost late. Then there's ant until seven thirty.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
But you always leave here before seven. You have to
leave before seven. Why so you won't be late?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Kathy? Why are you so anxious to get me out
of the house.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I didn't say I was anxious.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Father. Just a minute, Betty, Kathy, what fiend? These little
scheme is percolating in the back of your equally fiend,
these little minds? Why, Daddy, you're up to something. You're
up to no good, and I want to know what
it is. Now, what's the matter.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You're gonna spank me.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I'm not going to spank you. I don't even know
what you did.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Dad is all right?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
If I go back to my room. No, you stay
right where you are. I have homework to do. You
can do it later. Right now, we've got to find
my cuffling.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Holy call, father, Now, don't forget what what's the matter
with her?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Daddy's gonna spank me?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
What for?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I don't know, Betty.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Did you see Dad's couplings? No? Father, don't forget.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You promised to drop the bridge, tables and chairs off
at the sorority house tonight.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I said no such thing. It was tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Father. They need them in the morning.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Can you promise.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I don't want you to thank me.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
What if you don't ever find your couplings, then what
happens to my own work?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You said you take them, and they're counting on it,
and you don't want.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
To speak to be a kid, I'm going to be
a hermit. That's what I'm going to be. I'm going
to draw a long white beard and live on top
of a mountain in Tibet.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Mother, he said he'd take the table and chairs over,
and now he says he won't.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Margaret's so helpy.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I didn't, Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
He said he was gonna spank me.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I said, no such thing, did I but I was
sitting in my own room, running my own bed.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
He said last night he take the chairs on, Betty.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well that's better, Jim. I've never seen it to fail.
If I set one foot out of the house, absolute
bedlom sets in.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's not true. True. But if you're going to walk
out in the middle of.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
An emergency, what emergency?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What emergency? The place is crawling with him? Why don't
you take them one at a time?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
All right, I will, Bud.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
All I want to do is my homework.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Go down to the kitchen and watch the stream beats.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Betty, Father prowlised me, you'd better set the table in
the breakfast room. But father said, we'll take care of
the chairs later.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No, my two little ones.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Margaret, you realize that this whole thing is absolutely ridiculous, Kathy, Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Mommy, Why were you crying?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I didn't want Daddy to be here at seven o'clock?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Why?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Because that's when she's coming here to speak to him.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Who is my teacher? Oh? That's what it was, you see, Margaret.
I had a feeling from the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Jim, what was your little problem?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
My gold cufflings are gone. They've disappeared, vanished, that's all.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
What are those in your cuffs?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
What?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Who?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
How did they get there? Jim?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I told you i'd laid your shirt out, I'd put
the cup links in the shirt to save you a
little time.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Well, Margaret, let's face it, that's a pretty silly place
to hide cufflings. Breakfast, ready, Donnie, here's your coffee.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
He'll be done in a minute.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
M best coffee I ever tasted?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
That man you serve coffee too. Here's something about him
you ought to know. He's the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am,
your husband is the number one expert on coffee. Of course,
we Maxwell House people. We think we're pretty fair experts.
Our coffee is America's favorite brand. But the final judge,
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the real expert, is that man of yours. And if
you'll pour him a cup of Maxwell House, we're mighty
sure he'll say best coffee I ever tasted. In fact,
if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back. You see,
we know there's no coffee taste like Maxwell House because
no coffee's made like Maxwell House. No other coffee has
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that wonderful good to the last drop flavor. Get Maxwell
House tomorrow, start serving it to your husband, and if
he doesn't say it's the best coffee there is, why
you return the cans an unused portion to us, and
we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address is
right on the front of that familiar blue tin. Tomorrow,
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see how much the world's greatest coffee expert your husband
enjoys Maxwell House coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's seven o'clock in Springfield, of course, it's seven o'clock
in other places as well. But in other places the
hour doesn't contain the same drum, the same suspense that
it does in the Anderson Dam. There, seven o'clock is
a magic hour, fraught with excitement and just a small
touch of mystery. Like this, Kathy, Yes, Daddy, what did
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you do in school?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I didn't do anything, Jim, Why do you immediately assume
that Kathy has done something wrong?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Well? Why else would her teacher want to see me?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Maybe she doesn't want to see you specifically, Yes, she.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Does, Mommy.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
She said she had to see daddy and she'd be
here at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And naturally she'd have to pick tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Kathy, why didn't you tell us about this earlier?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, don't you have anything to say?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I'm trying to think of something, Bud.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
We're very busy in here. We've got problems. So by
if I don't finish my homework, how can I go
to the movies with Joe Phillips? You can't? Well, then
why can't I?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
God, please go back to the kitchen and watch the
string beans. We don't want them to burn again?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Do we go ahead? Bud? Holy cow? Fifteen years old?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
And what am I a string bean watcher?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Look, Kathy, I want you to think hard. Have you
done anything wrong in school? Have you kicked any football?
Is there anybody's window?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You mean today?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I mean Annie, jim Missus Lindsay would be here anymore, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I want to find out before she gets here. If
Kathy's done anything, and I can get it straightened out
in advance, then I won't have to hang around and
gab with missus Lindsey. Kathy, Please try to think. What
could your teacher possibly want to see me about?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Maybe Missus Woody called her, but I didn't mean to
do anything.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You and Jimmy had another fight?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Huh, he said, I was a tomboy and I'm not
a tomboy, and I just showed him I wasn't. That's all. Oh,
I punched him in the.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Nose, Kathleen, after all the promises you made, well, he
didn't have.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Any right to say I was a tomboy, diddy daddy.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I don't know, Kathy. Is that all that happened except
for his shirt? What happened to his shirt?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I was only trying.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
To lift him back in his feet and I couldn't
help it.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Is it just ripped?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Margaret? What's the Woody's number, Jim?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Don't you think if I called Dorith.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I'll get it straightened out in two seconds? What's the number?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It's in the little book, dear, next to the phone.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
By the time missus Lindsay gets here, there won't be
anything to talk about, and that'll be all right with me.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Kathy, Why can't you ever learn to behave like a lady.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I was trying to be a lady, Mommy.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I tried to help them all.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, there it is. Get the little monster a new
shirt and everything will be right his rain. Hello, Dorothy,
this is Jim Anderson, just frying. Thanks, say Dorothy, we're
awfully sorry, but no, I hadn't heard about the school
paper drive. I was just no, Look, Dorothy, I was
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just yeah, yes, I know how successful it was, but
I don't have the time this year. To Dorothy. I
just called to explain about Jimmy's shirt. You see Kathy.
What didn't Jimmy say any about it? Well, I'm afraid
it was Kathy's fault. And Dorothy, if you'll just buy
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him another shirt and send me the bill, then I
know it takes an experienced man, but I give you
my word, Dorothy, Okay, as long as you put it
that way, yes, I'll call a meeting for next Monday night.
You'll welcome, Dorothy. Good night, paper drive. Eight thousand men
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in the neighborhood. And she has to pick on me,
all right, Jim. Dorothy didn't know anything about Jimmy's shirt,
But shake hands with the chairman of the school paper drive.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Jim. It won't do any good to give up your
office in the service cop if you're going to turn around.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
It wasn't my idea, Margaret, she said, I owed it
to her on account of Jimmy's shirt. Well, what could
I do?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, it'll only be for a month and Daniel have
all your eating to spend with us.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Father one night, put the bridge, tables and chairs in
the back of the car.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
What for you said you'd deliver them.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I said, I deliver them tomorrow, not tonight, Mother, Margaret.
It's clear over on the other side of town. It'll
take me all night, I.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Know, dear, But after all Betty promised.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Please Father, all right, I'll take them over after I
leave the dinner.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh, thank you, Father, you're alam.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I'm getting just a little tired of being led to
the slaughter. Daddy asked Kathy.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Maybe it was Stevie Long.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
What about Stevie Long?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I didn't know it was his good sweater, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Kathy, did you tear Stevie's sweater?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Oh no, mommy, I was trying to fix it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I can just see that.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I didn't know that was the thread that held the
sleeve on. And all I did was pull it a
little bit, and Steve Hee just stood there and let you.
I suppose he wasn't even there. I was holding the
sweater while he went inside to get the baseball.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What baseball?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
The one I hit through the living room window.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Kathy, you said you hadn't broken any windows.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You said today, this was yesterday, Oh, Kathleen. Anyway you
said with the football and this was a baseball.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Kathy winning going to realize that you're not a boy.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Is there any other child in Springfield who gets into
half as much mischief as you do? Don't you know
how to say anything? But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The lungs number is next to the phone, Dear.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I know the lungs number. This is the fifth time
we've had to pay for that same window. I don't
know their number. By now.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
This isn't the same window, Daddy, it's the big one
in the front.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Well, that makes it much better. I don't know why
I ever went into the insurance business. I should have
opened a glass factory. Well, Harry, now this is Jim Anderson. Well,
I have not a chance to play much golf lately.
I've been sort of tied up with no Harry, Harry,
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I just want to explain about the living room window.
You see, Kathy was playing baseball. Yes, I know it's insured,
But if I can just tell missus lindsay that we've
got the whole thing. No, it isn't all right, Harry,
I just assume, Harry, I haven't got time to be
on the Greens Committee. I'm going to resign as president
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of the cir Look, Harry, I know that it, but
I don't have one evening a week. I got a family, Harry,
and I don't see them from Look. Can I just
send you a check for the window? Okay, Harry, eight
o'clock at your house on Wednesday? Yes, Harry, Okay, good night.
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I don't know. Every time I pick up the phone,
I'm a member of something else.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Everything out with Harry.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh sure, it was a plate glass window, and he's
already collected the insurance. And now I'm a member of
the Greens Committee, the golf club.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Jim, if this keeps out.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Every Wednesday night, what to do with the grass, where
to put the cups? And who ran away with the
trap in front of the fifteenth Green, I'll probably wind
up in the back of a lawnmower. Daddy, I don't
want to hear another word out of you, but I
just thought.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Of something, Jim. She's only trying to help you.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Oh sure, she's helping me. Just fine. I'm a paper
collector and a grass cutter, and I still don't know
what missus Lindsey wants I do? Mom?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
The string beans are boiling over, dear.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'll be right there, bud. Now, Kathy, tell your father
what you didn't then wash your hats dinners?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Almost yes, Mommy, Well what what did you do?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I think I know what I did. But it wasn't
my fault, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Nothing is ever your fault. I've never seen a child
who could do more things that weren't her fault.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Well, how did I know her father wasn't through with them?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Wasn't through with what?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
The neck ties?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
What neckties?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
The ones I told Laurie Hathaway to use.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
For what to tie up?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
The goat.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Goat?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
The one I found in the lot.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
You brought a goat over to the Hathaways.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
You wouldn't let me keep it here, would you?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And I didn't know what was going to eat all
mister Hathaway's flowers.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh, Kathy, what am I gonna do with you?
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Spank me?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Now? I've got to call the Hathaways. And I don't
care what committee he wants me to be on. I'm
gonna pay for the flowers and the ties, and that's all.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Daddy. Can you uh think of anything else?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
You mean lately? Oh, it's missus Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Call me Jim never mind, I never mind.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Hello, Missus Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Have Athleen, you sweet child? Come in, Missus Lindsey. I uh,
I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Thank you, mister Anderson. This is a very great pleasure.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yes, shall we uh go into the living room?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I'm sorry, Missus Lindsey about what dear about?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Whatever idea?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Missus lindsay, I've been calling people all night.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Why Kathleen, you haven't done anything?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Haven't?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I not that I know of gosh.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh wait a minute. If she hasn't done anything, what
did you want to see me about?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Mister Anderson? I have the most wonderful news for you.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You've been elected president of the PTA congratult Oh no.
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Speaker 3 (26:30):
To the last drop. The night is dark, the clock
strikes two, and the white frame house on Maple Street
stands hushed beneath the starless sky. In the Anderson's quiet bedroom,
a figure moves and Margaret stirs softly on her downy
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couch like this. Jem, Oh, no, not wake you, honey.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I was just dozy, Jim.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
That's them.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Don't be too upset about tonight.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You mean about Kathy, I mean about.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Giving up the presidency of the Service Club. I know
it meant a great deal to you.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Mm they like your speech.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Oh yes, they loved it.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
M that's nice.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
They thought it was just great. And you know what,
mm mm what there I was re elected.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Night. Jim, You're not deea.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Cow.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's a hot favorite with Hoppy.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
That's hot post wweetmeal, and you won't have to coax
the youngsters to eat a hot cereal for breakfast if
you tell them how Hopoloon Cassidy loves hot post tweetmeal.
Hoppy knows it's chuck full of good, solid nourishment.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
He goes for the rich, nut.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Like flavor, and you will go for the fact that
post wweetmeal cooks in just three and a half minutes.
So get hot post wweetmeal and tell the kids it's
Hoppy's favorite. You'll see you'll all agree it's the best
hot cereal you ever ate. Join us again next week
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when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert
Young as Jim Anderson, with Roy Barkie and the Maxwell
House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Forman. So until next Thursday,
good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
America's favorite brand of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
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Ed Jane.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over
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Now there is Maxwell House really the only coffee in
the world.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young,
his 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. In
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every week, there are seven days in every day. There
are twenty four hours. In every hour, there are sixty
minutes or three thousand, six hundred seconds. That's a lot
of time, isn't it? Time enough to do almost anything, unless,
of course, you happen to be a father. If you're
a father like Jim Anderson, there's never enough time, never
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enough minutes or hours or days. That's why, as a
conscientious father, you're forced to take steps like this, And so,
gentlemen of the Springfield Service Club, let's take a look
at the record. Let's put a microscope on the past
year and see exactly how much cooperation I've received. Jim, Honey,
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if you're going to keep interrupting me.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm sorry, dear, but microscope sounds so funny, don't you
mean magnifying glass.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, you're being very technical, Margaret. It's just a figure
of speech. So what difference does it make which one
I use?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Not a great deal, I suppose, except that when you
say microscope, you think of germs.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And that's exactly what they are, a bunch of germs.
Elect a man president and then don't lift a finger
to help him.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I know, dear, But as long as you're going to rese.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Supposed to be such a great honor, I'd better wear
this tie.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Huh, yes, dear, And I've laid your shirt out in
the bed.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
President of the Service Club. It's just another way of saying,
I'm too tired. Let Jim do it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Jim, if you want me to hear the rest of your.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Speech, you can get another president. He can do all
the work. I'm going to stay home with my family.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Where was I You were looking at the record?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh yeah, uh. Let's take a look at the record.
Let's put a magnifying glass on the past year and
see exactly. Yes, Margaret, you were right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Microscope sounds better.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Thank you. Let's take a look at the record. Let's
put a microscope on the past year and see exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Very peculiar picture. I mean putting a whole year into
a tiny little microscope. But it does sound better when
you say it, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yes, dear, this is a large microscope, the year size.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, let's not worry about it. It isn't very important.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, I won't interrupt you again, Margaret, if there's anything else.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You'd rather do, Jim, I'm trying my best to listen.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Oh that's what you were doing.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Of course, if you don't want me to hear the speech, I.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Do want you to hear the speech. But we've been
at it for fifteen minutes and I haven't been able
to get past the introduction. I'm so confused. I don't
know if I'm getting dressed or undressed.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Brother, I'm in the bedroom, Betty, I think the string
beans are burned. Oh, dear, I forget all about them.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I'll be right down, okay, between the string beans and
Kathy's bath and Betty's fingernails.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Jim, just because you're going out to dinner, that doesn't
mean that we don't have to eat.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I have three growing children to take care of them.
They're going to be fed in spite of you and
the service cloths.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I suppose I burned the string beans.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, they certainly didn't burn by themselves.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Now there's logic for you. I'm going to dinner, so
I'm responsible for everything that happens in the house. Blue sock,
blue sock, blue socks? Why is it? I can never bud?
You want me what happened to my Oh? What's that? Dad?
Never mind? I found it? Why I said, never mind?
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I found it my other blue sock. I haven't got it.
I know you haven't. I just found it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yes, that's nice.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I thought you'd be happy. I'll give you ten to
one right now. He doesn't know what I'm talking about.
And so, gentlemen of the Springfield Service Club, let us
take a look at the record. Let's put a microscope
on the past year. Let's put a magnifying glass on
the past year. Let's take a close look at the
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past year. Look at the record, Look at the year.
M Well, yaddy, Oh no, not this, daddy?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Are you still here?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Me? Of course not. Didn't your mother tell you I
left five minutes ago? What if you look out the window,
you can see me just turning the corner.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
You're kidding me?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Somebody tells you, daddy, chatty. I haven't time to talk.
I got to leave him very few minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
He's now wonderful. What oh I mean going out for
dinner and everything. That's what I meant, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It is huh oh, yes, I wonder here Kathy's daddy.
I got to change my shirt and my trousers. So
if you don't mind, right, Kathy, get out and close
the door. Please.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
But I don't mind, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well I do. Please get out and close the door.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Gee wiss. Nobody ever lets me stay anyplace.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
All I do is get out, just like living in
an alley. That's what it is. Give a man the
privacy of a goldfish. Let's take a close look at
the past year and see exactly how much cooperation I
have received as president of the local service Club. I've
neglected my family, my business, even my golf for the
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sake of this organization. Examine your own consciences and ask yourselves,
what did I do to help?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Now?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
What happened to the darn things? You can never find
anything around here, Margaret, She isn't here, father, she was
here two seconds ago. She's trying to.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Buy some string beans from missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Oh, thank you You're welcome, string beans. I can't find
my cuff links, and she's gallivanting all over the neighborhood
chasing string beans. Examine your own consciences and ask yourselves
in the past year, what did I do to help?
What did I do to help? What did I do
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to help? What did I do to help? Bod? He's
taking those cufflings again? So help me, Bod. Come in here, Okay, Dad,
I'll be right in. If I've told him once, I've
told him a thousand times, I couldn't have made it
any plainer. You want me for something, Dad? How many
times have I told you to leave my cuff links alone?
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Which cufflinks? My gold cuff links, the ones the Service
club gave me all those? Well, I don't know. You
don't know what how many times you told me? Then?
Why did you? Why did I fall take them? Oh?
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I didn't. But if you didn't take them, where are they?
Maybe Kathy took them?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well, if it isn't Millicent's Mayflower Girl, Detective, come in, Millie.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Did you call me Daddy's Kathy?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Aside from the fact that it isn't polite to drop
eves on people, what did you do with my cufflinks?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I didn't drop anything on anybody.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
What did you do with my cufflinks?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
What cufflinks?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Daddy his gold cufflings at the service club gave him.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I didn't ask.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You, Kathy, where are my cufflinks?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
The gold cup links at the service club gave you?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yes, I don't know, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Gosh, Daddy, if I knew where they were, I'd be
the first one to tell you.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I can't afford to have you. I mean, you're almost
late now, I.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Am not almost late. Then there's ant until seven thirty.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
But you always leave here before seven. You have to
leave before seven. Why so you won't be late?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Kathy? Why are you so anxious to get me out
of the house.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I didn't say I was anxious.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Father. Just a minute, Betty, Kathy, what fiend? These little
scheme is percolating in the back of your equally fiend,
these little minds? Why, Daddy, you're up to something. You're
up to no good, and I want to know what
it is. Now, what's the matter.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You're gonna spank me.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I'm not going to spank you. I don't even know
what you did.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Dad is all right?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
If I go back to my room. No, you stay
right where you are. I have homework to do. You
can do it later. Right now, we've got to find
my cuffling.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Holy call, father, Now, don't forget what what's the matter
with her?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Daddy's gonna spank me?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
What for?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I don't know, Betty.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Did you see Dad's couplings? No? Father, don't forget.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You promised to drop the bridge, tables and chairs off
at the sorority house tonight.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I said no such thing. It was tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Father. They need them in the morning.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Can you promise.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I don't want you to thank me.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
What if you don't ever find your couplings, then what
happens to my own work?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You said you take them, and they're counting on it,
and you don't want.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
To speak to be a kid, I'm going to be
a hermit. That's what I'm going to be. I'm going
to draw a long white beard and live on top
of a mountain in Tibet.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Mother, he said he'd take the table and chairs over,
and now he says he won't.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Margaret's so helpy.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I didn't, Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
He said he was gonna spank me.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I said, no such thing, did I but I was
sitting in my own room, running my own bed.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
He said last night he take the chairs on, Betty.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well that's better, Jim. I've never seen it to fail.
If I set one foot out of the house, absolute
bedlom sets in.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
That's not true. True. But if you're going to walk
out in the middle of.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
An emergency, what emergency?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What emergency? The place is crawling with him? Why don't
you take them one at a time?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
All right, I will, Bud.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
All I want to do is my homework.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Go down to the kitchen and watch the stream beats.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Betty, Father prowlised me, you'd better set the table in
the breakfast room. But father said, we'll take care of
the chairs later.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No, my two little ones.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Margaret, you realize that this whole thing is absolutely ridiculous, Kathy, Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Mommy, Why were you crying?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I didn't want Daddy to be here at seven o'clock?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Why?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Because that's when she's coming here to speak to him.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Who is my teacher? Oh? That's what it was, you see, Margaret.
I had a feeling from the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Jim, what was your little problem?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
My gold cufflings are gone. They've disappeared, vanished, that's all.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
What are those in your cuffs?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
What?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Who?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
How did they get there? Jim?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I told you i'd laid your shirt out, I'd put
the cup links in the shirt to save you a
little time.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Well, Margaret, let's face it, that's a pretty silly place
to hide cufflings. Breakfast, ready, Donnie, here's your coffee.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
He'll be done in a minute.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
M best coffee I ever tasted?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
That man you serve coffee too. Here's something about him
you ought to know. He's the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am,
your husband is the number one expert on coffee. Of course,
we Maxwell House people. We think we're pretty fair experts.
Our coffee is America's favorite brand. But the final judge,
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the real expert, is that man of yours. And if
you'll pour him a cup of Maxwell House, we're mighty
sure he'll say best coffee I ever tasted. In fact,
if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back. You see,
we know there's no coffee taste like Maxwell House because
no coffee's made like Maxwell House. No other coffee has
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that wonderful good to the last drop flavor. Get Maxwell
House tomorrow, start serving it to your husband, and if
he doesn't say it's the best coffee there is, why
you return the cans an unused portion to us, and
we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address is
right on the front of that familiar blue tin. Tomorrow,
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see how much the world's greatest coffee expert your husband
enjoys Maxwell House coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's seven o'clock in Springfield, of course, it's seven o'clock
in other places as well. But in other places the
hour doesn't contain the same drum, the same suspense that
it does in the Anderson Dam. There, seven o'clock is
a magic hour, fraught with excitement and just a small
touch of mystery. Like this, Kathy, Yes, Daddy, what did
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you do in school?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I didn't do anything, Jim, Why do you immediately assume
that Kathy has done something wrong?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Well? Why else would her teacher want to see me?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Maybe she doesn't want to see you specifically, Yes, she.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Does, Mommy.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
She said she had to see daddy and she'd be
here at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And naturally she'd have to pick tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Kathy, why didn't you tell us about this earlier?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Well, don't you have anything to say?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I'm trying to think of something, Bud.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
We're very busy in here. We've got problems. So by
if I don't finish my homework, how can I go
to the movies with Joe Phillips? You can't? Well, then
why can't I?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
God, please go back to the kitchen and watch the
string beans. We don't want them to burn again?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Do we go ahead? Bud? Holy cow? Fifteen years old?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
And what am I a string bean watcher?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Look, Kathy, I want you to think hard. Have you
done anything wrong in school? Have you kicked any football?
Is there anybody's window?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You mean today?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I mean Annie, jim Missus Lindsay would be here anymore, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I want to find out before she gets here. If
Kathy's done anything, and I can get it straightened out
in advance, then I won't have to hang around and
gab with missus Lindsey. Kathy, Please try to think. What
could your teacher possibly want to see me about?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Maybe Missus Woody called her, but I didn't mean to
do anything.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You and Jimmy had another fight?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Huh, he said, I was a tomboy and I'm not
a tomboy, and I just showed him I wasn't. That's all. Oh,
I punched him in the.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Nose, Kathleen, after all the promises you made, well, he
didn't have.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Any right to say I was a tomboy, diddy daddy.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I don't know, Kathy. Is that all that happened except
for his shirt? What happened to his shirt?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I was only trying.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
To lift him back in his feet and I couldn't
help it.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Is it just ripped?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Margaret? What's the Woody's number, Jim?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Don't you think if I called Dorith.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I'll get it straightened out in two seconds? What's the number?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
It's in the little book, dear, next to the phone.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
By the time missus Lindsay gets here, there won't be
anything to talk about, and that'll be all right with me.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Kathy, Why can't you ever learn to behave like a lady.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I was trying to be a lady, Mommy.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I tried to help them all.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, there it is. Get the little monster a new
shirt and everything will be right his rain. Hello, Dorothy,
this is Jim Anderson, just frying. Thanks, say Dorothy, we're
awfully sorry, but no, I hadn't heard about the school
paper drive. I was just no, Look, Dorothy, I was
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just yeah, yes, I know how successful it was, but
I don't have the time this year. To Dorothy. I
just called to explain about Jimmy's shirt. You see Kathy.
What didn't Jimmy say any about it? Well, I'm afraid
it was Kathy's fault. And Dorothy, if you'll just buy
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him another shirt and send me the bill, then I
know it takes an experienced man, but I give you
my word, Dorothy, Okay, as long as you put it
that way, yes, I'll call a meeting for next Monday night.
You'll welcome, Dorothy. Good night, paper drive. Eight thousand men
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in the neighborhood. And she has to pick on me,
all right, Jim. Dorothy didn't know anything about Jimmy's shirt,
But shake hands with the chairman of the school paper drive.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Jim. It won't do any good to give up your
office in the service cop if you're going to turn around.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
It wasn't my idea, Margaret, she said, I owed it
to her on account of Jimmy's shirt. Well, what could
I do?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Well, it'll only be for a month and Daniel have
all your eating to spend with us.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Father one night, put the bridge, tables and chairs in
the back of the car.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
What for you said you'd deliver them.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I said, I deliver them tomorrow, not tonight, Mother, Margaret.
It's clear over on the other side of town. It'll
take me all night, I.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Know, dear, But after all Betty promised.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Please Father, all right, I'll take them over after I
leave the dinner.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh, thank you, Father, you're alam.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I'm getting just a little tired of being led to
the slaughter. Daddy asked Kathy.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Maybe it was Stevie Long.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
What about Stevie Long?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I didn't know it was his good sweater, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Kathy, did you tear Stevie's sweater?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Oh no, mommy, I was trying to fix it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I can just see that.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I didn't know that was the thread that held the
sleeve on. And all I did was pull it a
little bit, and Steve Hee just stood there and let you.
I suppose he wasn't even there. I was holding the
sweater while he went inside to get the baseball.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
What baseball?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
The one I hit through the living room window.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Kathy, you said you hadn't broken any windows.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You said today, this was yesterday, Oh, Kathleen. Anyway you
said with the football and this was a baseball.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Kathy winning going to realize that you're not a boy.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Is there any other child in Springfield who gets into
half as much mischief as you do? Don't you know
how to say anything? But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
The lungs number is next to the phone, Dear.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I know the lungs number. This is the fifth time
we've had to pay for that same window. I don't
know their number. By now.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
This isn't the same window, Daddy, it's the big one
in the front.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Well, that makes it much better. I don't know why
I ever went into the insurance business. I should have
opened a glass factory. Well, Harry, now this is Jim Anderson. Well,
I have not a chance to play much golf lately.
I've been sort of tied up with no Harry, Harry,
(21:33):
I just want to explain about the living room window.
You see, Kathy was playing baseball. Yes, I know it's insured,
But if I can just tell missus lindsay that we've
got the whole thing. No, it isn't all right, Harry,
I just assume, Harry, I haven't got time to be
on the Greens Committee. I'm going to resign as president
(21:56):
of the cir Look, Harry, I know that it, but
I don't have one evening a week. I got a family, Harry,
and I don't see them from Look. Can I just
send you a check for the window? Okay, Harry, eight
o'clock at your house on Wednesday? Yes, Harry, Okay, good night.
(22:21):
I don't know. Every time I pick up the phone,
I'm a member of something else.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Everything out with Harry.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh sure, it was a plate glass window, and he's
already collected the insurance. And now I'm a member of
the Greens Committee, the golf club.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Jim, if this keeps out.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Every Wednesday night, what to do with the grass, where
to put the cups? And who ran away with the
trap in front of the fifteenth Green, I'll probably wind
up in the back of a lawnmower. Daddy, I don't
want to hear another word out of you, but I
just thought.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Of something, Jim. She's only trying to help you.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Oh sure, she's helping me. Just fine. I'm a paper
collector and a grass cutter, and I still don't know
what missus Lindsey wants I do? Mom?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
The string beans are boiling over, dear.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'll be right there, bud. Now, Kathy, tell your father
what you didn't then wash your hats dinners?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Almost yes, Mommy, Well what what did you do?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I think I know what I did. But it wasn't
my fault, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Nothing is ever your fault. I've never seen a child
who could do more things that weren't her fault.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Well, how did I know her father wasn't through with them?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Wasn't through with what?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
The neck ties?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
What neckties?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
The ones I told Laurie Hathaway to use.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
For what to tie up?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
The goat.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Goat?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
The one I found in the lot.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
You brought a goat over to the Hathaways.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
You wouldn't let me keep it here, would you?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And I didn't know what was going to eat all
mister Hathaway's flowers.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Oh, Kathy, what am I gonna do with you?
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Spank me?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Now? I've got to call the Hathaways. And I don't
care what committee he wants me to be on. I'm
gonna pay for the flowers and the ties, and that's all.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Daddy. Can you uh think of anything else?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
You mean lately? Oh, it's missus Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Call me Jim never mind, I never mind.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Hello, Missus Lindsey.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Have Athleen, you sweet child? Come in, Missus Lindsey. I uh,
I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Thank you, mister Anderson. This is a very great pleasure.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yes, shall we uh go into the living room?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
I'm sorry, Missus Lindsey about what dear about?
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Whatever idea?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Missus lindsay, I've been calling people all night.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Why Kathleen, you haven't done anything?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Have you?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Haven't?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I not that I know of gosh.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Oh wait a minute. If she hasn't done anything, what
did you want to see me about?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Mister Anderson? I have the most wonderful news for you.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
You've been elected president of the PTA congratult Oh no.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
What is it that puts so much real enjoyment in
a steaming cup of coffee?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Why? It's flavor.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Yes, and when you buy coffee you certainly want to
get the most in flavor for your money. Now that's
something the world's greatest coffee expert can help you find
your husband. He's the expert we mean, just serve him
a cup of maxwell House coffee, and then when he
says best coffee I ever tasted, you'll know Maxwell House
(26:08):
has the flavor that it's your coffee.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Buy find out tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Buy a pound of Maxwell House, start serving it to
your husband, and count all the truly good cups of
coffee you get from that one pound at your own table.
Find out how much more you get for your money
with Maxwell House coffee always good.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
To the last drop. The night is dark, the clock
strikes two, and the white frame house on Maple Street
stands hushed beneath the starless sky. In the Anderson's quiet bedroom,
a figure moves and Margaret stirs softly on her downy
(26:52):
couch like this. Jem, Oh, no, not wake you, honey.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I was just dozy, Jim.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
That's them.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Don't be too upset about tonight.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
You mean about Kathy, I mean about.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Giving up the presidency of the Service Club. I know
it meant a great deal to you.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Mm they like your speech.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Oh yes, they loved it.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
M that's nice.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
They thought it was just great. And you know what,
mm mm what there I was re elected.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Night. Jim, You're not deea.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
Cow.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's a hot favorite with Hoppy.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
That's hot post wweetmeal, and you won't have to coax
the youngsters to eat a hot cereal for breakfast if
you tell them how Hopoloon Cassidy loves hot post tweetmeal.
Hoppy knows it's chuck full of good, solid nourishment.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
He goes for the rich, nut.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Like flavor, and you will go for the fact that
post wweetmeal cooks in just three and a half minutes.
So get hot post wweetmeal and tell the kids it's
Hoppy's favorite. You'll see you'll all agree it's the best
hot cereal you ever ate. Join us again next week
(28:41):
when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert
Young as Jim Anderson, with Roy Barkie and the Maxwell
House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Forman. So until next Thursday,
good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
America's favorite brand of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
(29:03):
Ed Jane.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over
most of these stations.
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