August 4, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Young as Father.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Welcome to the Greenfield and another half hour is it with
the folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street,
Sit back and jo My life with the Anderson, Kathy,
but Betty, Margaret and Jim has the head of this
typical American household again sets out to prove that Father
Knows Best. You know, I think a person could make
(01:39):
a real nice business out of manufacturing and selling.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
A kit of handy aids for parents who.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Are raising teenage youngster. This kid I have in mind.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Would contain such indispensable items as a crystal.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Ball for determining the offspring's.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Future, a book on mental telepathy so you can know
what's going on in his mind, a dictionary of jive
talk to facillit take conversation, and most important of all,
a large economy sized bottle of Aunt Sarah's Golden Elixir
of endless Patience.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yes, Sarah, kit like that should.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Be a cinch to sell, particularly to one Jim Anderson
of six oh seven Maple Street. Why you asked, Well,
let's look into the dam of the white frame house
this evening.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You'll see what I mean.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Jim, are you in here?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah? This reading? What is it? Honey?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I thought you might be interested in this proclamation?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What's this?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I found it pinned to your daughter's pillow this morning
when I went in to make up the beds.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Which daughter, the little one of the big one?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
The big one?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Read it?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
To whom it may concern? I presume the whom in
this case refers to us. I presume to whom it
may concern. I hereby give notice that henceforth and in
the future, I wish to no longer be treated as
a child. Hoooo, And that henceforth and in the future,
I shall be regarded as an adult. Since I am
(03:03):
now eighteen years old, I feel I am entitled to
a degree of independence.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Entitled to it. She doesn't even know how to spell it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
A degree of independence not heretofore granted me by those
whom it may concern. So let it be known that
from now on and hereafter, I do not wish to
be told what to do and what not to do,
since I am capable of knowing these things without being told.
I am not a child. Oo, signed respectfully, your adult daughter,
(03:39):
whether you know it or not, Betty Anderson, Well that's
quite a document.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What brought this on?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I imagine it was because you told her to go to
bed last night.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh, no, that was it, I'm sure. Hmmm. So she
wants her independence.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Oh mother has hello father.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Janie card I've been right here by the Hello Princess telephone.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
No calls, Betty, your father and I have just been
looking over your announcement.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Well those are the facts, father, I mean, every word
of it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You think you can manage to get along without any
suggestions or advice from us, Is that right?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I'm definitely, positively and absolutely certain of it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
All right, we'll give you your chance from this moment,
henceforth and in the future, we shall consider you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
An adult and treat you accordingly.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Now, dear, let's not go overboard.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
It's a deal, father, you promise now. Remember no more
saying do this, do that, don't do this, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's a deal, Princess. You're on your own.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
You're a doll. Father. I'm gonna use the phone in
the kitchen. I've got to tell Janie. Oh, mother, I
have a date with don tonight. He's the president of
the student body at school. Where's my blue dress the
last time I saw it?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Now that you're an adult, princess, I mean, Betty, I'm
sure you know where your dresses are.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, well I can find it. I wouldn't laugh quite
so soon, Dear.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
You know what usually happens when you make these deals
with the children.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Oh, don't be ridiculous, honey, she's in hot water already.
Believe me, this is one caper where I'm going to
have both the first and the last laugh.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I hope so, but history is against you. Oh, you'd
better go up and shave, dear. The Williams may stop
by this evening, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Betty's going to be sorry she let herself in for
this one.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I wouldn't start counting your chickens if I were you do.
I have a clean shirt in the closet.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Kids get themselves into the silliest situation.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Hi, Dad, where you're going?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Just coming up to shave?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Why can I talk to you while you shave?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Sure? Come on?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
What are you smiling about?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Your sister? She gets some of the what kind of
a cyclone? When through this bathroom.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Betty was in here taking a shower.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
All this couldn't have resulted from just one shower, towels
on the floor, bath mat, sponge brush.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Margaret, Boy, she really tore the place up this time.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What does she do when she gets out of the
shower dry off by throwing the towels around the room.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Margaret, you'd better shave someplace else, Dad.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I'm gonna shave right here.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I don't think he can find the wash basin?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Could that be it? Under those boxes of bath powder?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Did you call me?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Dear Margaret? Look at this bathroom.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh dear, a major earthquake couldn't upset a room like this.
Bubble bath, lotion, cologne, powder puffs, hand cream, face cream,
nail polish, emery boards, eyebrow curlers, rouge, lipstick, and.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Look at the bobby fins on this floor. It's a minefield?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
We what do we do about it?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Where's Betty?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Betty's downstairs talking on the phone for the nine hundredth
time today?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Why are you calling her?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Why am I calling her? I'm going to point out
to her, Well, she can't.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
She's an adult now, you know, remember your problem?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, well, maybe she'll be more careful now that she
realizes her responsibility.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
And I hope so, dear, for your sake.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
G are you going to try to shave with all
this junken here?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I'm going to try powdered cologne. Here's enough to make
a person dizzy.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Girls, they must be crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Now, where in the heck is my shaving brush?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Hey, I bet I know Betty had it in her
room this afternoon. She was using it to brush the
dust out of her compact.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh fine, come on, let's find the brush.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
White people in this house can't leave other. What happened
in here?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Brother, what can that girl do that would tear up
a room so completely?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
She was dressing in here. She's got a date tonight
with Don Peyton, some big wheel from the college.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Os all over the bed, shoes scattered every which way, magazines,
phonograph records, hats.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
It always looks like this, Dad, when she's getting ready
for a date. I don't know what happens.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
She isn't dressed for her date. When I saw her downstairs,
she had on some old wrapper or something.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I guess the guy doesn't realize how lucky a guy
is to be a guy.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Margaret, you want me, Dear, No, stay there, I'm coming down.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
There was no reason whatsoever for a girl to have
to leave things around, no sense of neatness.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Gim, why are you roaring around the house.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'm not roaring around the house. But by George, that
girl has got to be told a few things, Dear.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
She's not a child.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Remember, she's left a trailer up everything you can think
of from one end of the upstairs to the other.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Dear, I just hadn't had time to straighten up, that's all.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And doesn't she ever eat at the table all over
the house, empty milk glasses, plates with cake crumbs.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Oh dear, just sit down and cool off.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
We spend our whole lives trying to teach her to
pick up her clothes, keep things tidy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Now, look at this house.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Make the people in Tobacco Road look like the country
club set.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
For heaven's sakes, the house just looks lived in.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That's all lived in by whom or what?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Well, there's no point in fussing about it.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
You can't scold her.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Why I ever let her talk me into that deal?
I'll never know.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
There.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You weren't talked into it. You volunteered, all right, all right?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
For peat's sake, what's everybody been chatting about? I could
hardly hear.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
A thing on the phone.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Hmmm, beddy, I think you now?
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Remember you made that arrangement with your father?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Not Oh no, the deal was with both of you.
No more? Does or don't? You promised?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
All right?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Remember father?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hmm?
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I should have done this long ago. I wonder why
I haven't heard from Dawn.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
If he calls, tell.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Him I'll be at seven.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
How could he call?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You've been on the phone all afternoon, father, I just
made a statement, Is it all right if I use
the phone now, Miss Anderson?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Oh, certainly, Father, go right ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Look at that outfit she's wearing, Margaret, it's it's frightening.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I'll admit it's not very glamorous. I don't know why
she likes that old rapper.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It looks like something the Missionary Society sent back that bust.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The curlers and the hair and that axle grease or
whatever it is she puts.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
On her face.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It is scare a man out of a year's grow.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
No, she just said, Bud back a year.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Stop acting like a good Bud.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I don't know why you're so sensitive all of a sudden, Dear.
These things you're complaining about are not exactly new.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
She simply lost all sense of responsibility, Margaret, sense of neatness.
Why if anybody else in the family walked around the
house looking like that, she'd raised the roof. Yes, dear Margaret,
Look what's on my desk here in the den?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
A banana peel and half a cupcake?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Well, don't blame it on Betty. It could have been
Kathy or Bud.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Bud doesn't leave food around. He eats it.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Banana peel.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's possible.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well, make your phone call, dear, and relax.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Now there's little item by the telephone. Did Bud leave
this too? But that wave set?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
And again it's surrounded by that ever present accessory to
feminine charm.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Bobby Pitts.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You're having your troubles today, aren't you, Dear.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
They're not my troubles. I'm just concerned about Betty that
she hasn't learned to.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Make your phone call, dear. I'll take the wave set
and the cupcake and the banana peel.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
See I was going to call. Oh, no, hello Betty.
Yes she's here, Betty.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yes, Father, come to.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The phone and bring your lunch. It's Janney again, Margaret.
This is fantastic.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Oh god.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The second, the very second, we give Betty this independence
she wanted, the whole house falls apart.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Now we can't even get to the phone.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Well, what would you like me to do, mister negotiator?
Any suggestions?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Our daughter's character is disintegrating before our eyes.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Well what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm not sure, but I can tell you this, I'm
going to do something.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Thanks father, Hello, oh hello JD.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
This is good for at least two hours.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Who answered the phone?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
That was my father.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh he's just fine now she can't even tell the truth.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
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Speaker 3 (13:42):
Well, this is not to be told around, but parents
sometimes make mistakes. Right now, out at the White Frame
House on Maple Street, Jim Anderson is quite sure he
made one. Yes, he feels he committed a rather considerable boo.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Boo when he agreed to give daughter.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Betty her independence and promise for the pre at least
do not allow himself the traditional parental prerogative of saying,
do this or do that, or you can't do this,
you can't do that. It's about an hour later now
Betty is upstairs dressing for an important date, and Jim
is still fuming like this.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
She took advantage of me, Margaret. She lured me.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Into making that promise just so she could forget everything
we've ever taught her.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
So nonsense. You can't expect her to toe the mark
every second. Just because you found a few things scattered
around the bathroom and her room was.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Messed up a little, a little, it looked like Martin
and Lewis had gone through the place in high gear.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Well, she's getting ready for a date with a new boy,
and she's excited.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Is that any reason why she has to leave the
whole house scattered with junk, why she has to camp
on the phone for hours on end.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
She's just thrown common sense to the four winds.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
All right, all right, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And that outfit she's wearing around here she's dressing, Dear.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
She just threw that rapper on to come downstairs.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Threw it on.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That's the word for it, all right, like something over
from Halloween. We've tried to teach her to take pride
in her appearance.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
She does, Dear.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I can't understand why she'll fracture herself to look like
a doll when she's with some boy who hasn't sense
enough to pound sand in a rattle. When she's around
her own family, she doesn't care if she even looks human.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Well, I'm not going to argue the point, Dear.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I'm not arguing.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I'd just like to hear the scream she let out
of anybody else walked around this house looking and acting
like she does.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
In fact, maybe that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Well, I have nothing more to say on this subject.
If you're a problem, dear.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Give a child a little independence and they go hog wild.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Who are you talking to, dad?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Nobody? I was just thinking, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Nothing? Just came down from upstairs. It isn't safe up there.
Old Betty galloping around like crazy, scare guy half to death.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I know what you mean, son.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
In fact, it's entirely possible that I may have to
give your sister a little object lesson.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I wonder what I did with that old tramp outfit
I worded the masquerade party a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
It's down on the basement.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Stay here, Bud. I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Where are you going down in the basement, Bud?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
What do you want?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Mom?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Where's your father?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
He went down on the basement after something. What goes
on with everybody around here tonight? Everybody's acting kind of goofy?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I know what you mean in the case of one
person at least. Maybe it's the full moon or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Hey, Betty, Hey mommy.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Betty sent me down to ask if she could borrow
your compact?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Which one the one with the rhyme stone? You're sure
you won't lose this. I'll be careful. It's in my
top dress or drawer.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Thanks mother.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I don't know what I came down for. Why didn't
you holler in the first place?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What'd you say?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Angel?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Nothing? Ask you to do something? And then they holler anyway.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Weren't you going somewhere tonight?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
By Well? I thought maybe i'd go over to Joe's ma'am,
you gotta bite deeper.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Fellow. What's down on his luck, Jean man House. Relax, honey,
it's me.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Oh, for heaven's sake, Hey, that's a good outfit.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Dad. You look like a real bum, Jean Anderson, what
do you think you're doing.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm going to show Betty what it's like to have
someone walking around the house looking like something that cat
dragged in.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh dear, I'm going to wear this outfit all evening.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
If she's going to parade around here looking like a
rag bag, I'm going to do the same thing. If
I can't reprimand her into changing her ways, by George,
I'll embarrass her into doing it.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
If that isn't the silliest thing I ever heard of,
something silly about it, I'm simply using basic psychology.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
She'll get the point, after all, one picture is worth
a thousand words.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You're a picture, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Thank you, Bud.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I'm going in the living room now and scatter some
papers around, lie down on the couch with my feet up,
smoke a horrible cigar, possibly, crack some peanuts, the shells
of which I shall scatter hither and yond upon the floor.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Betty comes down, Margaret center in here?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Oh me, what's gotten into dead?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I don't know, Bud. Most of the time, your father
is a fairly sensible man, but there are times like
this and he does some of the weirdest things.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Has anybody seen my dog Barky.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Back of the couch in the living room?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Who put it there?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Anyway? I've been looking for it.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Oh, I should have told her.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
It's all right, it's me Daddy in there.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Sure it is. We lacks trim.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Daddy's just dressed up in a funny outfit. Why, I'm
not quite sure. Why don't you run over to Patty's
house and play for a wife?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
All right?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
But it didn't look like daddy to me.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
This is a crazy house.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Well, my ready, mother, how do I look? Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
You look lovely, dear. That's a beautiful dress.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Light my hair this way, it's perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You look like you step right out of a picture.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Where's father?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Yes, speaking of pictures. Uh, your father's in the living room.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
I want to show him how I look.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Betty, Betty, wait a minute, I shouldn't do this to
your father, but he's asked for it. What do you
mean you'll find out? Just do as I say. When
you go in there, you'll find him in a rather
unusual outfit. He's trying to prove something.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Prove what.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I don't know. But when you go in, act as
if there's nothing unusual with all on the way he
looks or what he's doing, except it as being perfectly natural.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Well, I don't understand, but I'll.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Do it, remember perfectly straight faith, I'll try.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Hello father, Oh, hello daughter.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I thought i'd committed to show you my dress like it? Yes, well,
you look nice and comfortable.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Ugh, what happened to that other thing you were wearing?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
I just slipped that rapper on. Come down to the telephone.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, well, I just slipped into these poles to relax.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You know, a person doesn't need to put on airs
around the house.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
I think you look charmingly casual.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All right, Princess, your mother tipped you offt didn't she?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
What do you mean, father?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You know very well what I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I went to all the trouble to put on this
get up for a very definite reason. I wanted to
illustrate to you graphically certain errors in your conduct, which,
because of that ridiculous promise you talked me into this morning,
I cannot explain to you directly.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Oh you objected that old rapper? All right, I won't
wear it anymore. A suggestion is permissible.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And there are a couple of other things I'm not saying,
do or don't remember. I just want you to come
with me upstairs, all right. I'm not going to criticize you,
after all, I agreed you were an ad out. We're
just going to view a certain room in the house.
I feel that what we will see there will convey
my feelings much more eloquently than the words which I
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am at present not at liberty to use.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
What room are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Father?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Right up here?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Shall we glance into the bathroom? That dechor is most interesting?
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
What happened to it?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Cowls properly folded and hung on the racks, bath brush
and place. It looks fine to me who.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Cleaned it up? I did, Oh, well, there's something else.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Come over here. This, I know will be interesting your
bedroom if it is possible to see.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Over the oo? Where is everything?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I don't know what you're talking about, father.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
It was mussed up a little while I was dressing,
but I straightened it up in a minute. Can you
see anything wrong?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Uh? Is that a perfume bottle supposed to be on
the dresser there?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
That's where I always keep it.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Oh well, take the downstairs, for instance. I noticed a
while ago that there were a number of empty milk glasses,
banana peels, part of a cupcake.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Those were Kathy's. She and Patty Davis had a tea
party this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Oh well, yes, will you come downstairs for a minute.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Let's go down father Donal'll be here to pick me
up in a minute.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, we're coming, maret.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
The reason I went to all this trouble, Princess, it
just seemed if you were going to be an adult,
as you insist you are, that well, neatness and personal
responsibility is so extremely important.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
I realized that, father, dear, there's something I'd like to
speak to you about.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
All right, honey, what is it?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
When you changed into that ridiculous tramp out?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Honey, don't mention this outfit.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I put it on only because of a misunderstanding.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
It's not the reason that I want to talk to
you about. You left the basement and a mess.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I did, all right, all right, so this wasn't my day.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Oh that's don hand me my coat, will you, mother?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, obviously this is no place for an old tramp.
I'll just wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
You stay here, father, I want you to meet Don.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Betty, No, princess, I look like a bum.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
I don't care what you look like. You're my father,
and after all, this is our home. You can dress
in any manner you please.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh no, Betty, just slip out the door.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
And certainly not well. I wouldn't think of going out
with a boy that you and mother hadn't even met.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Betty. Not now we know that Don is a final.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I insist that you meet him. It's my adult responsibility.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Well, I'm not going father, you come back here.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
If those tramp clothes are good enough for the family,
they're good enough for my friends.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
This is a cruel thing to do, Betty.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You have it coming to you.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Father.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Oh, hello, Don, come on in.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Thanks Betty, Gee, you're ready. That's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
I'd like you to meet my family. Don, this is
my mother.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Missus Anderson?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Hello? Don?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
And Don? This is my father.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Well, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah? How do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
How are you a son? I fine?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Isn't father cute?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
My boy, you're bewilderment at my attire is understandable.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
You see, doesn't he make a beautiful bomb? Yeah? I
suppose I should tell you why he's wearing that silly outfit.
He and mother are going to a costume party, and
he was just trying it on.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Oh oh sure, gee, I wondered.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I had to fall there for a minute, didn't we Yeah,
you sure did, mister Anderson. I couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Shall we go?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Good night, and nice to met you both.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Nice met you done.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I had a good time. Oh that girl, well.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
She certainly pulled you out of that one.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I thought she was just trying to.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Embarrass me, Yes, dear, and she knew that's what you thought.
I wonder when you'll stop trying to outguess the children.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
See that was a really thoughtful thing of Betty making
up that masquerade story.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Father, I forgot to tell you. I'll be home around eleven. Okay, Princess,
good night you little boy, father, good night.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Thank you, grown up daughter. Anderson's will be back in
just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
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Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well, it turned out to be a rather peaceful evening
at the Andersons.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
After all.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Margaret and Jim and Kathy and Bud went to bed
about ten and all slept sound well, all except one.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Jim has been a little restless. Honey, it's twelve o'clock.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Where's Betty?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
There's a car parked out in front.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I woke up just now and realized those kids are
sitting out there. Oh cheer, After all that big talk
Betty gave me about being grown up and responsible?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Going to the window and call her Betty? Betty? Is
that you, mister Anderson?
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Where's Betty? She went in an hour ago?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
But I can't get my car started?
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Would you come down and give me a push?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
All right? Don oh?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Why don't I keep my big mouth shut? Join us
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Speaker 2 (28:35):
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Father Knows Best, based on characters created by Ed James,
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
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Speaker 3 (00:40):
Listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Young as Father.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Welcome to the Greenfield and another half hour is it with
the folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street,
Sit back and jo My life with the Anderson, Kathy,
but Betty, Margaret and Jim has the head of this
typical American household again sets out to prove that Father
Knows Best. You know, I think a person could make
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a real nice business out of manufacturing and selling.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
A kit of handy aids for parents who.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Are raising teenage youngster. This kid I have in mind.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Would contain such indispensable items as a crystal.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Ball for determining the offspring's.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Future, a book on mental telepathy so you can know
what's going on in his mind, a dictionary of jive
talk to facillit take conversation, and most important of all,
a large economy sized bottle of Aunt Sarah's Golden Elixir
of endless Patience.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yes, Sarah, kit like that should.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Be a cinch to sell, particularly to one Jim Anderson
of six oh seven Maple Street. Why you asked, Well,
let's look into the dam of the white frame house
this evening.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You'll see what I mean.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Jim, are you in here?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah? This reading? What is it? Honey?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I thought you might be interested in this proclamation?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
What's this?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I found it pinned to your daughter's pillow this morning
when I went in to make up the beds.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Which daughter, the little one of the big one?
Speaker 5 (02:37):
The big one?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Read it?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
To whom it may concern? I presume the whom in
this case refers to us. I presume to whom it
may concern. I hereby give notice that henceforth and in
the future, I wish to no longer be treated as
a child. Hoooo, And that henceforth and in the future,
I shall be regarded as an adult. Since I am
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now eighteen years old, I feel I am entitled to
a degree of independence.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Entitled to it. She doesn't even know how to spell it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
A degree of independence not heretofore granted me by those
whom it may concern. So let it be known that
from now on and hereafter, I do not wish to
be told what to do and what not to do,
since I am capable of knowing these things without being told.
I am not a child. Oo, signed respectfully, your adult daughter,
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whether you know it or not, Betty Anderson, Well that's
quite a document.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What brought this on?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I imagine it was because you told her to go to
bed last night.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh, no, that was it, I'm sure. Hmmm. So she
wants her independence.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Oh mother has hello father.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Janie card I've been right here by the Hello Princess telephone.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
No calls, Betty, your father and I have just been
looking over your announcement.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Well those are the facts, father, I mean, every word
of it.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You think you can manage to get along without any
suggestions or advice from us, Is that right?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I'm definitely, positively and absolutely certain of it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
All right, we'll give you your chance from this moment,
henceforth and in the future, we shall consider you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
An adult and treat you accordingly.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Now, dear, let's not go overboard.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
It's a deal, father, you promise now. Remember no more
saying do this, do that, don't do this, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's a deal, Princess. You're on your own.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
You're a doll. Father. I'm gonna use the phone in
the kitchen. I've got to tell Janie. Oh, mother, I
have a date with don tonight. He's the president of
the student body at school. Where's my blue dress the
last time I saw it?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Now that you're an adult, princess, I mean, Betty, I'm
sure you know where your dresses are.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, well I can find it. I wouldn't laugh quite
so soon, Dear.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
You know what usually happens when you make these deals
with the children.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Oh, don't be ridiculous, honey, she's in hot water already.
Believe me, this is one caper where I'm going to
have both the first and the last laugh.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I hope so, but history is against you. Oh, you'd
better go up and shave, dear. The Williams may stop
by this evening, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Betty's going to be sorry she let herself in for
this one.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I wouldn't start counting your chickens if I were you do.
I have a clean shirt in the closet.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Kids get themselves into the silliest situation.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Hi, Dad, where you're going?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Just coming up to shave?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Why can I talk to you while you shave?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Sure? Come on?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
What are you smiling about?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Your sister? She gets some of the what kind of
a cyclone? When through this bathroom.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Betty was in here taking a shower.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
All this couldn't have resulted from just one shower, towels
on the floor, bath mat, sponge brush.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Margaret, Boy, she really tore the place up this time.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
What does she do when she gets out of the
shower dry off by throwing the towels around the room.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Margaret, you'd better shave someplace else, Dad.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I'm gonna shave right here.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I don't think he can find the wash basin?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Could that be it? Under those boxes of bath powder?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Did you call me?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Dear Margaret? Look at this bathroom.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh dear, a major earthquake couldn't upset a room like this.
Bubble bath, lotion, cologne, powder puffs, hand cream, face cream,
nail polish, emery boards, eyebrow curlers, rouge, lipstick, and.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Look at the bobby fins on this floor. It's a minefield?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
We what do we do about it?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Where's Betty?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Betty's downstairs talking on the phone for the nine hundredth
time today?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Why are you calling her?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Why am I calling her? I'm going to point out
to her, Well, she can't.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
She's an adult now, you know, remember your problem?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, well, maybe she'll be more careful now that she
realizes her responsibility.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
And I hope so, dear, for your sake.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
G are you going to try to shave with all
this junken here?
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I'm going to try powdered cologne. Here's enough to make
a person dizzy.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Girls, they must be crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Now, where in the heck is my shaving brush?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Hey, I bet I know Betty had it in her
room this afternoon. She was using it to brush the
dust out of her compact.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh fine, come on, let's find the brush.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
White people in this house can't leave other. What happened
in here?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Brother, what can that girl do that would tear up
a room so completely?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
She was dressing in here. She's got a date tonight
with Don Peyton, some big wheel from the college.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Os all over the bed, shoes scattered every which way, magazines,
phonograph records, hats.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
It always looks like this, Dad, when she's getting ready
for a date. I don't know what happens.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
She isn't dressed for her date. When I saw her downstairs,
she had on some old wrapper or something.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I guess the guy doesn't realize how lucky a guy
is to be a guy.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Margaret, you want me, Dear, No, stay there, I'm coming down.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
There was no reason whatsoever for a girl to have
to leave things around, no sense of neatness.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Gim, why are you roaring around the house.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'm not roaring around the house. But by George, that
girl has got to be told a few things, Dear.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
She's not a child.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Remember, she's left a trailer up everything you can think
of from one end of the upstairs to the other.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Dear, I just hadn't had time to straighten up, that's all.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And doesn't she ever eat at the table all over
the house, empty milk glasses, plates with cake crumbs.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Oh dear, just sit down and cool off.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
We spend our whole lives trying to teach her to
pick up her clothes, keep things tidy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Now, look at this house.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Make the people in Tobacco Road look like the country
club set.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
For heaven's sakes, the house just looks lived in.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That's all lived in by whom or what?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Well, there's no point in fussing about it.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
You can't scold her.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Why I ever let her talk me into that deal?
I'll never know.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
There.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You weren't talked into it. You volunteered, all right, all right?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
For peat's sake, what's everybody been chatting about? I could
hardly hear.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
A thing on the phone.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Hmmm, beddy, I think you now?
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Remember you made that arrangement with your father?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Not Oh no, the deal was with both of you.
No more? Does or don't? You promised?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
All right?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Remember father?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hmm?
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I should have done this long ago. I wonder why
I haven't heard from Dawn.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
If he calls, tell.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Him I'll be at seven.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
How could he call?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You've been on the phone all afternoon, father, I just
made a statement, Is it all right if I use
the phone now, Miss Anderson?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Oh, certainly, Father, go right ahead.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Look at that outfit she's wearing, Margaret, it's it's frightening.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I'll admit it's not very glamorous. I don't know why
she likes that old rapper.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
It looks like something the Missionary Society sent back that bust.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The curlers and the hair and that axle grease or
whatever it is she puts.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
On her face.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It is scare a man out of a year's grow.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
No, she just said, Bud back a year.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Stop acting like a good Bud.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I don't know why you're so sensitive all of a sudden, Dear.
These things you're complaining about are not exactly new.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
She simply lost all sense of responsibility, Margaret, sense of neatness.
Why if anybody else in the family walked around the
house looking like that, she'd raised the roof. Yes, dear Margaret,
Look what's on my desk here in the den?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
A banana peel and half a cupcake?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Well, don't blame it on Betty. It could have been
Kathy or Bud.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Bud doesn't leave food around. He eats it.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Banana peel.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
It's possible.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well, make your phone call, dear, and relax.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Now there's little item by the telephone. Did Bud leave
this too? But that wave set?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
And again it's surrounded by that ever present accessory to
feminine charm.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Bobby Pitts.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You're having your troubles today, aren't you, Dear.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
They're not my troubles. I'm just concerned about Betty that
she hasn't learned to.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Make your phone call, dear. I'll take the wave set
and the cupcake and the banana peel.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
See I was going to call. Oh, no, hello Betty.
Yes she's here, Betty.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yes, Father, come to.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The phone and bring your lunch. It's Janney again, Margaret.
This is fantastic.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Oh god.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
The second, the very second, we give Betty this independence
she wanted, the whole house falls apart.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Now we can't even get to the phone.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Well, what would you like me to do, mister negotiator?
Any suggestions?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Our daughter's character is disintegrating before our eyes.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Well what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm not sure, but I can tell you this, I'm
going to do something.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Thanks father, Hello, oh hello JD.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
This is good for at least two hours.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Who answered the phone?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
That was my father.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh he's just fine now she can't even tell the truth.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
BacT too of father knows best in just a few moments.
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Speaker 2 (13:03):
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Speaker 3 (13:42):
Well, this is not to be told around, but parents
sometimes make mistakes. Right now, out at the White Frame
House on Maple Street, Jim Anderson is quite sure he
made one. Yes, he feels he committed a rather considerable boo.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Boo when he agreed to give daughter.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Betty her independence and promise for the pre at least
do not allow himself the traditional parental prerogative of saying,
do this or do that, or you can't do this,
you can't do that. It's about an hour later now
Betty is upstairs dressing for an important date, and Jim
is still fuming like this.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
She took advantage of me, Margaret. She lured me.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Into making that promise just so she could forget everything
we've ever taught her.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
So nonsense. You can't expect her to toe the mark
every second. Just because you found a few things scattered
around the bathroom and her room was.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Messed up a little, a little, it looked like Martin
and Lewis had gone through the place in high gear.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Well, she's getting ready for a date with a new boy,
and she's excited.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Is that any reason why she has to leave the
whole house scattered with junk, why she has to camp
on the phone for hours on end.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
She's just thrown common sense to the four winds.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
All right, all right, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
And that outfit she's wearing around here she's dressing, Dear.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
She just threw that rapper on to come downstairs.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Threw it on.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That's the word for it, all right, like something over
from Halloween. We've tried to teach her to take pride
in her appearance.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
She does, Dear.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I can't understand why she'll fracture herself to look like
a doll when she's with some boy who hasn't sense
enough to pound sand in a rattle. When she's around
her own family, she doesn't care if she even looks human.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Well, I'm not going to argue the point, Dear.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I'm not arguing.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I'd just like to hear the scream she let out
of anybody else walked around this house looking and acting
like she does.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
In fact, maybe that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Well, I have nothing more to say on this subject.
If you're a problem, dear.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Give a child a little independence and they go hog wild.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Who are you talking to, dad?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Nobody? I was just thinking, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Nothing? Just came down from upstairs. It isn't safe up there.
Old Betty galloping around like crazy, scare guy half to death.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I know what you mean, son.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
In fact, it's entirely possible that I may have to
give your sister a little object lesson.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I wonder what I did with that old tramp outfit
I worded the masquerade party a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
It's down on the basement.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Stay here, Bud. I'll be back in a minute.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Where are you going down in the basement, Bud?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
What do you want?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Mom?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Where's your father?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
He went down on the basement after something. What goes
on with everybody around here tonight? Everybody's acting kind of goofy?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I know what you mean in the case of one
person at least. Maybe it's the full moon or something.
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Hey, Betty, Hey mommy.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Betty sent me down to ask if she could borrow
your compact?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Which one the one with the rhyme stone? You're sure
you won't lose this. I'll be careful. It's in my
top dress or drawer.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Thanks mother.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I don't know what I came down for. Why didn't
you holler in the first place?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What'd you say?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Angel?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Nothing? Ask you to do something? And then they holler anyway.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Weren't you going somewhere tonight?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
By Well? I thought maybe i'd go over to Joe's ma'am,
you gotta bite deeper.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Fellow. What's down on his luck, Jean man House. Relax, honey,
it's me.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Oh, for heaven's sake, Hey, that's a good outfit.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Dad. You look like a real bum, Jean Anderson, what
do you think you're doing.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'm going to show Betty what it's like to have
someone walking around the house looking like something that cat
dragged in.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh dear, I'm going to wear this outfit all evening.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
If she's going to parade around here looking like a
rag bag, I'm going to do the same thing. If
I can't reprimand her into changing her ways, by George,
I'll embarrass her into doing it.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
If that isn't the silliest thing I ever heard of,
something silly about it, I'm simply using basic psychology.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
She'll get the point, after all, one picture is worth
a thousand words.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You're a picture, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Thank you, Bud.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I'm going in the living room now and scatter some
papers around, lie down on the couch with my feet up,
smoke a horrible cigar, possibly, crack some peanuts, the shells
of which I shall scatter hither and yond upon the floor.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Betty comes down, Margaret center in here?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Oh me, what's gotten into dead?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I don't know, Bud. Most of the time, your father
is a fairly sensible man, but there are times like
this and he does some of the weirdest things.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Has anybody seen my dog Barky.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Back of the couch in the living room?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Who put it there?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Anyway? I've been looking for it.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Oh, I should have told her.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
It's all right, it's me Daddy in there.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Sure it is. We lacks trim.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Daddy's just dressed up in a funny outfit. Why, I'm
not quite sure. Why don't you run over to Patty's
house and play for a wife?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
All right?
Speaker 7 (18:54):
But it didn't look like daddy to me.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
This is a crazy house.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Well, my ready, mother, how do I look? Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
You look lovely, dear. That's a beautiful dress.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Light my hair this way, it's perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
You look like you step right out of a picture.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Where's father?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Yes, speaking of pictures. Uh, your father's in the living room.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
I want to show him how I look.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Betty, Betty, wait a minute, I shouldn't do this to
your father, but he's asked for it. What do you
mean you'll find out? Just do as I say. When
you go in there, you'll find him in a rather
unusual outfit. He's trying to prove something.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Prove what.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I don't know. But when you go in, act as
if there's nothing unusual with all on the way he
looks or what he's doing, except it as being perfectly natural.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Well, I don't understand, but I'll.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Do it, remember perfectly straight faith, I'll try.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Hello father, Oh, hello daughter.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
I thought i'd committed to show you my dress like it? Yes, well,
you look nice and comfortable.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Ugh, what happened to that other thing you were wearing?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
I just slipped that rapper on. Come down to the telephone.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, well, I just slipped into these poles to relax.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You know, a person doesn't need to put on airs
around the house.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
I think you look charmingly casual.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
All right, Princess, your mother tipped you offt didn't she?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
What do you mean, father?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You know very well what I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I went to all the trouble to put on this
get up for a very definite reason. I wanted to
illustrate to you graphically certain errors in your conduct, which,
because of that ridiculous promise you talked me into this morning,
I cannot explain to you directly.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Oh you objected that old rapper? All right, I won't
wear it anymore. A suggestion is permissible.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And there are a couple of other things I'm not saying,
do or don't remember. I just want you to come
with me upstairs, all right. I'm not going to criticize you,
after all, I agreed you were an ad out. We're
just going to view a certain room in the house.
I feel that what we will see there will convey
my feelings much more eloquently than the words which I
(21:17):
am at present not at liberty to use.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
What room are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Father?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Right up here?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Shall we glance into the bathroom? That dechor is most interesting?
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I don't see anything.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
What happened to it?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Cowls properly folded and hung on the racks, bath brush
and place. It looks fine to me who.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Cleaned it up? I did, Oh, well, there's something else.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Come over here. This, I know will be interesting your
bedroom if it is possible to see.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Over the oo? Where is everything?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I don't know what you're talking about, father.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
It was mussed up a little while I was dressing,
but I straightened it up in a minute. Can you
see anything wrong?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Uh? Is that a perfume bottle supposed to be on
the dresser there?
Speaker 6 (22:09):
That's where I always keep it.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Oh well, take the downstairs, for instance. I noticed a
while ago that there were a number of empty milk glasses,
banana peels, part of a cupcake.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Those were Kathy's. She and Patty Davis had a tea
party this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Oh well, yes, will you come downstairs for a minute.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Let's go down father Donal'll be here to pick me
up in a minute.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, we're coming, maret.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
The reason I went to all this trouble, Princess, it
just seemed if you were going to be an adult,
as you insist you are, that well, neatness and personal
responsibility is so extremely important.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
I realized that, father, dear, there's something I'd like to
speak to you about.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
All right, honey, what is it?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
When you changed into that ridiculous tramp out?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Honey, don't mention this outfit.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I put it on only because of a misunderstanding.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
It's not the reason that I want to talk to
you about. You left the basement and a mess.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I did, all right, all right, so this wasn't my day.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Oh that's don hand me my coat, will you, mother?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, obviously this is no place for an old tramp.
I'll just wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
You stay here, father, I want you to meet Don.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Betty, No, princess, I look like a bum.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
I don't care what you look like. You're my father,
and after all, this is our home. You can dress
in any manner you please.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh no, Betty, just slip out the door.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
And certainly not well. I wouldn't think of going out
with a boy that you and mother hadn't even met.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Betty. Not now we know that Don is a final.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I insist that you meet him. It's my adult responsibility.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Well, I'm not going father, you come back here.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
If those tramp clothes are good enough for the family,
they're good enough for my friends.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
This is a cruel thing to do, Betty.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
You have it coming to you.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Father.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Oh, hello, Don, come on in.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Thanks Betty, Gee, you're ready. That's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
I'd like you to meet my family. Don, this is
my mother.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Missus Anderson?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Hello? Don?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
And Don? This is my father.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Well, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah? How do you do?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
How are you a son? I fine?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Isn't father cute?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
My boy, you're bewilderment at my attire is understandable.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
You see, doesn't he make a beautiful bomb? Yeah? I
suppose I should tell you why he's wearing that silly outfit.
He and mother are going to a costume party, and
he was just trying it on.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Oh oh sure, gee, I wondered.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I had to fall there for a minute, didn't we Yeah,
you sure did, mister Anderson. I couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Shall we go?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Good night, and nice to met you both.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Nice met you done.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I had a good time. Oh that girl, well.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
She certainly pulled you out of that one.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I thought she was just trying to.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Embarrass me, Yes, dear, and she knew that's what you thought.
I wonder when you'll stop trying to outguess the children.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
See that was a really thoughtful thing of Betty making
up that masquerade story.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Father, I forgot to tell you. I'll be home around eleven. Okay, Princess,
good night you little boy, father, good night.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Thank you, grown up daughter. Anderson's will be back in
just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
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Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well, it turned out to be a rather peaceful evening
at the Andersons.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
After all.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Margaret and Jim and Kathy and Bud went to bed
about ten and all slept sound well, all except one.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Jim has been a little restless. Honey, it's twelve o'clock.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Where's Betty?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
There's a car parked out in front.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I woke up just now and realized those kids are
sitting out there. Oh cheer, After all that big talk
Betty gave me about being grown up and responsible?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Going to the window and call her Betty? Betty? Is
that you, mister Anderson?
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Where's Betty? She went in an hour ago?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
But I can't get my car started?
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Would you come down and give me a push?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
All right? Don oh?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Why don't I keep my big mouth shut? Join us
again next week, but we'll be back. We have Father
Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson. Father Knows
Best is an NBC Radio Network production in cooperation with
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Cavalier Enterprise. In our cast for Helen Strom as Kathy,
Jane Vanderfile, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, and.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Gil Stratton Junior.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Father Knows Best, based on characters created by Ed James,
is written by Paul West and Roswell Rodgers, directed by
Arthur Jacobson, and transcribed in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
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