May 2, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom centered around a teenage boy and his family, capturing the trials and tribulations of adolescence with humor and heart. The show's relatable scenarios resonate with audiences.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Henry, Henry Aldrich coming mother.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yes, it's the Aldridge Family. Written by Clipic Goldsmith.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
There's no saying that claims you're only young once, But
as a matter of fact, you can be young more
than once, and the best way of doing that is
to share the misadventures of a typical.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Boy like Henry Aldridge.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
He'll take you right back to your own teenage days.
The scene is the living room of Nancy Adams, one
of Henry's favorite classmates, and the time is easy.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Nancy, tell me, honestly, what is it you like about
Bill Turner?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
I don't know, Henry.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I just like him, don't you If you like athletes?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
What's the matter with athletes? Nothing except for so athletic?
I mean. Well, to hear Bill Turner talk, you think
he was.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Joeamagio, the Notre Dame football team and gorgeous George all
rolled into one.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That's a loud Henry, you might hear you? Who do
you hear me? He's out in the front hall and
I like him only frankly, is there any way of
getting rid of him?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Hear me? And your dog like him?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well? Sure, I'm crazy about him. On Nancy, She whizz Nancy,
did I.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Ever tell you about the time I dove off the
top of the boat house?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Oh? Bill, I didn't even know anybody could climb up
that high.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
God's easy. And you know that flag pole down at
the end of the lake. Yes, I dove off that
once too, Nancy. How's your mother?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Oh she's better, Henry. She just strained her back a
little boy.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Was that some luck I had in the game Saturday?
You remember when those three guys tackled me and I
carried them right across the gold for a touchdown.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Oh that was just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Bill.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I don't see how you stood.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Up, Nancy. What kind of a television set is this?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I don't know, Henry? Could you or Bill open this one?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Why not? Wait a minute, Henry, I'll open it. Well
that's the right Bill, I've got it practically practically.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Is it stuck?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Henry, No, it isn't stuck. I just could you stand back, please, Bill?
How am I in the way?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I want to get some leverage here, Henry, let me
show you how to open it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Now. Look how Bill? All I have to do is Nancy,
would you mind if I push this sofa away?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Henry?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, don't get up. I'll push you along along.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well, maybe if you just got up for a second, Nancy,
I'll never mind the sofa.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'll just she went, who opened that window? I did
you know? I thought I had it started. I just
should have kept at it. Anything else you want done, Nancy.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Well, there's some ginger ale out in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
If one of you, Nancy, U stay where you are.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Bill, you're sure you don't need me help lifting the bottles.
You'll find everything out there on a tray. Henry. All
you have to do is put some ice in the glasses.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'll be right back, Nancy. Isn't there any way of
getting rid of him this evening? Sure?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Bill, Henry Aldrich is one of the nice Nancy.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm not saying he isn't. Only Frankly, Frankly, what well?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Three is a crowd, and Frankly, I have crowds cheering
for me every time I go out on the field.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I want to be alone.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Excuse me, Nancy, but is there any special way of
getting your ice trays loose?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Well, my mother never has any trouble, Henry. All she
does is paul and they come right out.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's funny. I'll take another crack at it. Nice guy.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I'd like to see him come out for football practice
some afternoon.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Bill.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
What did I tell you about sympathy and understanding?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I understand, Henry. That's why I have no sympathy for him.
I'll forget about him. What about that dance Friday night?
What about it? Well? What time should I? What time
should I?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
You know he's going to wreck your refrigerator? What time
should I call for you?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Ooh about that? Yes, mother?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Those boys thank football down there?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
No, mother, Henry's getting some ice.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'll pick everything up, Nancy.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
If does your father have a hamr of juice with
a screwdriver or a small crowbar would be even better.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Henry, what's that all over your suits?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's well, you see, I was aiming for the ice cubes.
But was your mother planning to have to maade a
juice for dinner? There's a freshly open can in the
ice box. Oh my goodness, of course, if they're going
out for dinner. It'll keep them tomorrow's lunch out of
the way. Henry. I'll get the ice out. Now. Wait
a second, Bill, you'll need something to loosen it with.
What's the matter with my hands? Some guys. Sure love
(04:48):
to brag. Why if Bill turn her over.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
The floor.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I just took it out so I could get better leverage. Nancy,
will one tray of ice fan enough? I loosened it
that much, Nancy, I don't think you'll feel the same
way about you know who once you get a look
at your mother's kitchen. I think i'd better be going.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh, Henry, do you have to?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well, I've got a lot of homework to do, and
I think I better don't you well.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
If you have to?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I I had a very swell evening though. Oh I'm
want to say glad, Henry, Well, so long you really
have to go? I think I better.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Oh, look with your mind closing that door, post told
me to keep out a fray?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh sure, I didn't realize I was keeping the door open.
What time should I call for you? Friday evening?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Friday evening?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Surely for the dance, Henry, I didn't promise to.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Go with you, kid?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I why?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Why sure you didn't?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well, I don't see how I could have.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'm going with Bill, Oh with Bill.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Henry. I guess you must have misunderstood.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
What about that door?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I'll walk you after the porch.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, you go back and have your ginger ale. I
can find my way, all right, I hope you I'm
Stan Henry.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Oh sure, you and Bill just go ahead and enjoy yourselves.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Sam, could you pass the toast please?
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Here you are, Dear, Why didn't Henry go to the dance?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Well, yeah, that's what I don't know.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
Do you remember the other evening when he came home
from Nancy Adams soaking with when last week, Dear, a
couple of nights before the dance, he walked into the
house covered with tomato juice, and Sam, Henry hasn't been
himself since then?
Speaker 9 (06:34):
Did you have a talk with him?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (06:36):
And all he'd say was he felt dancing was a
waste of time.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Mother, Mary, come in here and eat your breakfast.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Mother, what's this letter all about?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What letter? Why?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
It's the facilliest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It must be for father?
Speaker 9 (06:49):
May I see it? Please?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Who's it from?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Then?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
From the line of strong Ford Institute of Physical Development Incorporated?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Dear?
Speaker 9 (06:59):
For all right? Are you a man or a mouse?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Find you all the time? It wasn't for me?
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Yeah, No man can make his mark in the world.
No man can inspire the love of a good woman
unless he is willing to develop his inner potential strength
in our twenty six week course.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Certain one in the world is that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I don't know, Alice, but I'm fascinated.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
We can give you a money back guarantee if your
chest expansion does not increase by at least two inches
during the first six lessons.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
How many inches do it be?
Speaker 9 (07:32):
Quiet?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Mary, that's just the first six lessons.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
We also offered a shorter course for the busy executive
interested in only partial development. Remember decide now yours truly
a father with the es replied by return mail and
receive free one genuine simulated nylon tape measure especially desired
for checking your chest development.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Here.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
When would you write for that?
Speaker 9 (08:00):
May I see the envelope? Please?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
My father's addressed to mister howld all Rich. Who's he?
Speaker 9 (08:05):
I have no idea whether he's a man or a mouse?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, puts the letter back in the envelope. Please, it's
probably for Henry mother.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Why would he want to develop?
Speaker 10 (08:14):
I don't know, dear, and besides it's none of our business.
Please put it back in the envelope. Well, Well, I
think I'll walk to the office this morning.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Why time you haven't walked to the office in six years?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Of course I have.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
I walked to a couple of times, just this last summer.
It made me feel great.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I'll get your top coat for you.
Speaker 11 (08:33):
Fine, a coat?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
The coat?
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Why would I want a coat?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I can get your hat.
Speaker 9 (08:37):
Goodbye, good bye baby son.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Goodbye mother. Do you have any idea where my blue
and white tie is? You're a blue and white tie,
I know, dear, and sit down at eat your breaks.
But mother, I gotta find it.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
There'll be plenty of time to find it after you've
beaten turn around.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
What's the matter?
Speaker 10 (08:53):
I think you ought to have those shoulders on, that
coat taken in a little taken in?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Mother, you just want to throw your money away.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
They'll be filled out in twenty six I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Before you know it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Henry there, please sit down.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I want to ask you something. What about What in
the world is the trouble? The trouble, the trouble Jewish?
I don't know of any trouble.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
But you want yourself, dear, and when anyone speaks to you, you're.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Way up in the air near mother.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I may be a little upset because I can't find
my blue and white tie. But otherwise I feel fine.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Then why not eat your breakfast? I'm gonna eat it.
I'm gonna eat it.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
How's Nancy Adams these days?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Nancy Adams? Mother? Well, I asked, is how is she?
You see this book here? Mother? You see this book?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, that gives you an idea of what little interest
I have in Nancy Adams. What about the book? I
borrowed it from her two weeks ago. Well, I'm returning
That's fine. I'm returning it. I'm returning to it.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
That's all. That's as far as I go. If she
asked me whether I'd like.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
To keep it and finish it, I'll tell her I'm
not even slightly interested. Well, i'd fine, and I'll drink
your milk. You know what? Else? What, it's all right,
never mind. But if her folks can't afford a better
ice box, no one they have. She wish you like
Bill Turner. Bill Turner, I hardly know it.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
She is.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He got a lot to learn. He just goes around,
you know what he thinks?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Henry? What's your ambition in life?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
My ambition?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Mary?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
That's all? I just wondered whether you wanted to be
a man or a mouse.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Mary, I haven't any time for small talk. Have you
seen my blue and white tie?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
No, but I'd love to see your chest expansion.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Mary.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
But mother, all I was going to ask him was
if he was going to take the short course of
the twenty sixth week Court, Mary, will you please give
Henry that letter?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
A letter? I don't think it's for you, though, Henry, Mary,
give me that letter?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Are you mister Harold Algrey?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Marry? You come back with that? You realize that the
United States.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Mayor marry Mother? It says right on the envelope. Maybe
open for inspection.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Mary.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
If you don't give me that, oh, we won't break anything.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I'm just helping Henry develop.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Now listen, Mary, you're only going to make me late
for school.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You want to take it with you and show it
to Nancy Adams.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Mary, if you read one word about this for her?
Speaker 12 (10:56):
Mary, Mary, come back down here with that.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What are you writing, Henry?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Henry? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Homer? Is there a class in this room? Next period? Sure? Henry?
What are all those questions you're filling out? Nothing?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Homer, nothing important, Just some information I've got to send away.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Could you measure my chest just once more, please, it's
pretty hard with this ruler.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Well we'll just go around me real slow.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
It's exactly two and a quarter two and a quarter
two and a quarter rulers. That's twenty seven inches. Twenty
seven inches for my chest. Don't you think I better
take off a half inch for where I went around
the corner?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
The only thing is, Homer, my fire was twenty seven too.
I mean, my figh is as big as my chest.
It is way, Homer. I don't want to mislead anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Listen, Henry, what is it you're sending for nothing? Homer?
G you is?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Why would I you know whether Nancy Adams has a
class your next period?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Sure? I thought you were ignoring her. I am.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
That's why I'm waiting to return this book. When I
hand it to her, it's going to end everything.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Well let me see that letter just for a second,
will you, Henry Homer? Don't you see what's printed.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Right at the top of it strictly confidential? What is
that question at the bottom?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What question? Do you have? Flat feet? Now?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Listen, Homer, that just shows how your imagination works.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, what did it say?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Then?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You quiet Homer. Miss Watson just came into the room.
Miss Watson.
Speaker 13 (12:35):
Well, boys, you said me, look busy we are, Miss Watson,
you're working on your biology.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Well, in a way we are now is that vibe?
You know?
Speaker 13 (12:46):
We're going to start working on mice next week?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
We are on mice.
Speaker 13 (12:52):
Yes, we're going to compare their development without a man.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What's that? Come on, Henry, that's the end of the period.
There's a class coming in. Hello, Henry, what are you
doing in here?
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Well, and Nancy, I've been waiting, I've been filling out.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I've been Henry. You're getting ink all over yourself. I am.
Here's a blodder.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Well, Nancy, I I just wanted to tell you how
much I enjoyed this book.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Oh I'm awfully glad you returned at Henry, because Bill
Turner is anxious to get it.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
He is.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Are you sure you're through with it?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
After all, even if I weren't through with it, naturally,
a Bill wants the book.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Where have you been for the last week? Just around
every place? Hey, Henry, come on, you go ahead, Homer.
I may be held up here a second.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Why you better go, Henry.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I just wanted to tell you though, how much I
enjoyed your book. Don't you have a class this period? Yes,
miss Watson, I'm on my way right this minute, by Henry.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Goodbye boy. Nancy a good looking girl, Henry. Do you
think she's so good looking?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I think she's terrific. Well, the way I think of her,
she's good looking. But I wouldn't ever want to be.
Let me have a look at that letter. Will you
about your flat feet? Now? Homer? Homer wed that letter?
I haven't got it. I put it in this Latin book.
I put it right here in the applegive absolute section. Well,
don't look at me. I didn't even touch your letter.
(14:15):
Do you suppose I put it Nancy's book?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
You did?
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Why would she be interested in your flat feet? I
didn't know I put them there? I mean the letter there.
I was just talking to her. I may have just
suck it in there. Well, Holmer, I've got to get
that letter.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Why I think I want a thing like that to
be read publicly by Nancy? Whether you certainly can't get
it now, Henry, they haven't started class yet.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, I'm not going in with you. I don't want
the whole class to look at me. Quiet Homer going
back in and get that letter.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
When you all get your texts, please beg Joe pardon
Henry Aldrich, He says, something.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
We can do for you.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Why, I mean, Miss Watson, I'm sorry to interrupt your
lesson like this, but I just returned Nancy to a book.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I mean, I mean the Nancy's because something in it
I'd like.
Speaker 13 (15:02):
Why, I mean, what is it anything you can't do
without for the rest of the period.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, yes, ma'am, I just have to have it. Well
let's don't take more than a second. You may go
to her desk and get it. Thank you, Miss Watson.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
In the meantime, when all of you'll be copying what's
written on the board.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Here Nancy, Henry, what is it you want?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'd like to borrow that book again.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You didn't have to come all the way back into
class and in Paris.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Man, I just happen to remember it.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
I haven't finished it, said you have, I don't want
way when you hurried me, Yes, miss Watson, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Henry may I.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Asked, what book? That is this book I just got
from Nancy. Yes, well it's it's just a book. What
is the title?
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Reader's Revenge, and that is the book you were in
so much of a hurry to get.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well, I'll tell you it isn't the story. I'm book,
Please the whole book. Wouldn't I take just one rook?
Please don't open it? No? May I have it?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Please?
Speaker 13 (16:11):
Yes, Miss Watson, and I should like to see Nancy
Adams immediately after class.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Miss Watson. Men, will you please leave this classroom? Yes,
Miss Watson, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
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Speaker 2 (17:43):
Of Henry Aldridge.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Henry has decided that he needs a course in physical developments,
and after filling out the rather intimate questions on the
application blank, he discovers that he has left the blank
and a book belonging to Nancy Adams. The scene opens
in Henry's school at the close of a period.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Listen, Henry, this will make two classes I've missed just
because of.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You, Homer.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
All you have to do is just walk up to
miss Watson's desk there, pick up Nancy's book and walk
out with her. It's as easy as pie.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Are you sure Miss Watson isn't in there?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
No one's in there. There is no soul in there. Now,
you like pie, why don't you go in and get it? Well,
she's Homer.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I was gonna stand here in the doorway and keep
watch for you.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Well, if anyone does come along, Henry, give me a signal.
Clear your throat. Sure, I I'll sort of cough, okay,
and I'll go. That's it. Just walk right up as
though you own the place. Which book is it? They?
When your hand is on this isn't sure it is?
Isn't that book? Blue?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But it's uh the Advanced Essence of Poetry? It must
be their Homer.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Alright, wait a second, I'll close the door part way.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
If it was here, it would be here, Homer. I'm
almost positive miss Watson didn't take it with her. All right,
short to me, cause you wisit? It's a book with
a blue cover? A blue cover? Oh? This must be it, yes,
miss Watson. Henry, someone's out in the hall. We cover, doc,
Have you got it? Where are we? Dunk? You found
every side our desk? Did they come in, Henry? They
(19:16):
just closed the door. Well, come on, let's get out
of here, and not so fast home. Wait until I've
gone down the hall.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
But Henry, I've got to get to my next class.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Wyatt, open the door easy, I'm going to it. You
must be stuck. Let me try it.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Heyry, this is all your fault. Don't get panicky, Homer.
We'll get it open. Oh it's locked.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You were crazy. Why wouldn't Pody lock a door in
broad daylight? All we have to do is draw ourselves
against it. Okay, one, two, three? Help me up. I
guess they locked it all right? You mean we're locked
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in and I can't get to solid geometry.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
At least they didn't see us, Homer. But Henry, I'm
weak in geometry as it is. Well, we'll all we
have to do is climb out that window.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
But what good'll that do?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All way up on the third floor? Homer? Stop arguing?
Give me that book and let's go. Nancy.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
Could you take these keys down to the main office, please? Yes,
Miss Watson, and Nancy, if you're quite sure you won't
let this book interfere with your studies anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You may have it.
Speaker 13 (20:34):
Yes, Miss Watson, I'm sorry you let Henry Aldrich have it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
After all, he has much more.
Speaker 13 (20:39):
Important things to attend to.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Than Rita's revenge.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yes, Miss Watson, he's a very.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Nice boy, Nancy. Least hears his good points.
Speaker 13 (20:47):
But I do wish you'd become more interested in someone
who takes things just a bit more seriously than Henry does. Yes,
Miss s Watson, be careful, Homer. Do you want to
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knock me off this fire escape?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Gee, whiz, Henry, we have to get out of you somehow.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Don't you realize this fire escape goes right past all
the second floor classrooms.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
It never goes below the second floor. We keep quiet, Henry.
Suppose somebody should see us out here. Let's close the
window now. Quiet now, Henry, and be quiet.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Make all the noise you can. All we have to
do now is go up the fire escape to the roof,
and then I suppose we just jump off. It's bound
to lead to something, Homer. Come on, if have you
got Nancy's both, sure, here take it. Here's my letter
in it. I don't know, hey, Homer, what this is
in Nancy's book?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
She was?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
This is miss Watson's report book, a report book. What
made you think my letter'd be inside this?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
You said, Blue? So I grabbed Bloom. She should have looked, Homer.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Boy, if we get caught with this, we could even
we can even be expelled just for having a report
for sure. Well, you can be the one that takes
it back, Henry.
Speaker 11 (22:07):
All we have to do is open the window and
be sure no one's in there, Henry, no one's in there?
She whiz lift Henry, I am lifting, Homer, move backs,
hit and get some leverage.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What's the matter, Henry? Are you weak?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
She was?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Maybe I do need what'd you think I could at
least open a window when it's an emergency?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Boy, you're really in a fix.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
You've got miss Watson's reports, and Nancy's got your measurements.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Sure, and probably by this time Nancy's read the whole
thing on. We've got to get off this viruscape.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Why why out there?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Who is it, Henry? What are you doing out there?
It's mister Bradley. He's down in the court, yind Why
why are we just trying to open a window, mister Bradley?
Don't you know the rules about going out in the
power estate? Are there any special rules? Mister Bradley? Why
Henry Aldridge? Oh? Homer Brown, Oh, Henry and Homer A Brown.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yes, and we're home in my office at.
Speaker 12 (23:16):
Once, Yes, sir, how would you like to have us
get there? Mister Bradley? And the only trouble is, mister Bradley. Nothing,
we'll get down.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
And how long have you been a student in this school?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Young man about three years, mister Bradley, and this other
young man about three and.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
A half, mister Bradley. But that was on a coup
of the mumps, right on top of the measles as.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Is, and you both know those pirates get apes were
placed there for emergency use only.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, the fact is, mister Bradley, it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Enough that you were out on a fire escape. You
climbed in a window and drove right into the middle
of Professor vander Hoff's French class.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Well, you see, mister Bradley, was the only way we
could get off the fire escape. Professor vander Hoff's window
was opening. Owner.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Must you lean on my desk?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
No, sir, excuse me, I thought you were through with us.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I don't know whatever gave you that impression.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Excuse me, mister Bradley.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Or Bill Turner, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yes, I'm the one who carried three men over our
gold Saturday. And what were you sent in here for?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, I suppose I shouldn't have been reading this book
during study hour, mister.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Bradley, what's the typho reader's revenge?
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Reader's revenge?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I see, Henry, Yes, mister Bradley.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
What do you think of a boy who would spend.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
His time reading a book like that?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, I guess it's pretty bad, mister Bradley, That's what
I say. I see.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Do you know what I think?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
All three of you? I need no.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Suppose you wait here, all of you while I step
out and get your record?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yes, sir Bill, what did you get that book from Nancy?
And what business is it of yours? Listen? Bill? Could
I borrow it a second? Nancy's book? All I want
to do is take it for just one second. I
just want to. I just want to. Can't you even
let me look at keep your hands off? Let me
have that people? Wait? Do you hear me, hey, Henry,
look at what fell out of it? There's your letter
right on the floor, you wiz, Bill Turner. You take
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your foot off that? You make me? Do you hear me?
Take your foot off that letter? Hear me? Somebody's coming?
I don't care, Henry. Hello, Nancy, close the door. Let
my leg all Rich you lift your leg? Do you
hear me? Left it?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Nick?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Dis lay?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Henry I need more leverage. Get twisting my head?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Yeah, you stop.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That on you Bill there, Harry, gee, Henry, you knocked
him out? Oh you lifted him right off the floor.
What happens?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
He's all right, Henry, pick him up before mister.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Bradley comes in. Come on home, must lift the run
of the couch. Listen all that. Why did you hit
me with? Idn't just use my bare hands, didn't I? Nancy? Oh?
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Then, young man Turner, did anyone invite you to lie
down on that couch?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh, mister Bradley, I'll help him up.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Mister Bradley, don't you think he can get up himself?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Well, I'm up.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Well, young lady.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Miss Watson asked me to bring her keys down here.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
I'll take them in one moment. Turner, Here's what I
want you to do. I want you to spend a
part of each lunch hour for the next ten days
picking up the papers and the cornders of this building.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
On all three floors, on.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
All three floors, and as but how how did miss
Watson's report book get here.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
On my desk? On your desk, mister Bradley, here when
you see that she gets it back?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yes, sir, now then, Aldrich and Brow.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Yes, mister Bradley, Yes, mister Bradley, I am sending you
to the gym instructor. He needs a couple of huskies
like you too, to help him move the steel lockers move.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah, I'm there quite a few, mister Bradley.
Speaker 9 (27:19):
Yeah, three hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It will take every afternoon for the next two weeks.
Gee whiz, that's all right, Homan. You heard what mister
Bradley said. They need a couple of huskies like you
and me.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
Aldrich. What's that you're tearing up?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Nothing, it's just sort of a letter. I've decided I
won't need any more.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
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Speaker 3 (27:45):
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right to Ground Observer Corps. Air Force Washington, twenty five DC.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh geez, oh jeep.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
He are rich nice a windows.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
That's what I mean, Nancy.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
No matter what I touch these days, I clmost write
my hands.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The Alrich Family has written by Cliff and Goldsmith. Henry
is played by Bobby Ellison, Homer by Johnny Fiedler.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Mister and Missus Aldrich are.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
House Jamison and Catherine Roth.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Your announcer is Dick Dudley.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Listen again next week's same time, same station for another
sparkling half hour with the Aldridge Family.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Good not everybody.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company,
Henry, Henry Aldrich coming mother.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yes, it's the Aldridge Family. Written by Clipic Goldsmith.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
There's no saying that claims you're only young once, But
as a matter of fact, you can be young more
than once, and the best way of doing that is
to share the misadventures of a typical.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Boy like Henry Aldridge.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
He'll take you right back to your own teenage days.
The scene is the living room of Nancy Adams, one
of Henry's favorite classmates, and the time is easy.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Nancy, tell me, honestly, what is it you like about
Bill Turner?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
I don't know, Henry.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I just like him, don't you If you like athletes?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
What's the matter with athletes? Nothing except for so athletic?
I mean. Well, to hear Bill Turner talk, you think
he was.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Joeamagio, the Notre Dame football team and gorgeous George all
rolled into one.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That's a loud Henry, you might hear you? Who do
you hear me? He's out in the front hall and
I like him only frankly, is there any way of
getting rid of him?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Hear me? And your dog like him?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well? Sure, I'm crazy about him. On Nancy, She whizz Nancy,
did I.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Ever tell you about the time I dove off the
top of the boat house?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Oh? Bill, I didn't even know anybody could climb up
that high.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
God's easy. And you know that flag pole down at
the end of the lake. Yes, I dove off that
once too, Nancy. How's your mother?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Oh she's better, Henry. She just strained her back a
little boy.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Was that some luck I had in the game Saturday?
You remember when those three guys tackled me and I
carried them right across the gold for a touchdown.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Oh that was just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Bill.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I don't see how you stood.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Up, Nancy. What kind of a television set is this?
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I don't know, Henry? Could you or Bill open this one?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Why not? Wait a minute, Henry, I'll open it. Well
that's the right Bill, I've got it practically practically.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Is it stuck?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Henry, No, it isn't stuck. I just could you stand back, please, Bill?
How am I in the way?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I want to get some leverage here, Henry, let me
show you how to open it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Now. Look how Bill? All I have to do is Nancy,
would you mind if I push this sofa away?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Henry?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, don't get up. I'll push you along along.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well, maybe if you just got up for a second, Nancy,
I'll never mind the sofa.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'll just she went, who opened that window? I did
you know? I thought I had it started. I just
should have kept at it. Anything else you want done, Nancy.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Well, there's some ginger ale out in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
If one of you, Nancy, U stay where you are.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Bill, you're sure you don't need me help lifting the bottles.
You'll find everything out there on a tray. Henry. All
you have to do is put some ice in the glasses.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'll be right back, Nancy. Isn't there any way of
getting rid of him this evening? Sure?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Bill, Henry Aldrich is one of the nice Nancy.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm not saying he isn't. Only Frankly, Frankly, what well?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Three is a crowd, and Frankly, I have crowds cheering
for me every time I go out on the field.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I want to be alone.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Excuse me, Nancy, but is there any special way of
getting your ice trays loose?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Well, my mother never has any trouble, Henry. All she
does is paul and they come right out.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's funny. I'll take another crack at it. Nice guy.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I'd like to see him come out for football practice
some afternoon.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Bill.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
What did I tell you about sympathy and understanding?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I understand, Henry. That's why I have no sympathy for him.
I'll forget about him. What about that dance Friday night?
What about it? Well? What time should I? What time
should I?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
You know he's going to wreck your refrigerator? What time
should I call for you?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Ooh about that? Yes, mother?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Those boys thank football down there?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
No, mother, Henry's getting some ice.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'll pick everything up, Nancy.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
If does your father have a hamr of juice with
a screwdriver or a small crowbar would be even better.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Henry, what's that all over your suits?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
It's well, you see, I was aiming for the ice cubes.
But was your mother planning to have to maade a
juice for dinner? There's a freshly open can in the
ice box. Oh my goodness, of course, if they're going
out for dinner. It'll keep them tomorrow's lunch out of
the way. Henry. I'll get the ice out. Now. Wait
a second, Bill, you'll need something to loosen it with.
What's the matter with my hands? Some guys. Sure love
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to brag. Why if Bill turn her over.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
The floor.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I just took it out so I could get better leverage. Nancy,
will one tray of ice fan enough? I loosened it
that much, Nancy, I don't think you'll feel the same
way about you know who once you get a look
at your mother's kitchen. I think i'd better be going.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh, Henry, do you have to?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well, I've got a lot of homework to do, and
I think I better don't you well.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
If you have to?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I I had a very swell evening though. Oh I'm
want to say glad, Henry, Well, so long you really
have to go? I think I better.
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Oh, look with your mind closing that door, post told
me to keep out a fray?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh sure, I didn't realize I was keeping the door open.
What time should I call for you? Friday evening?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Friday evening?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Surely for the dance, Henry, I didn't promise to.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Go with you, kid?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I why?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Why sure you didn't?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Well, I don't see how I could have.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'm going with Bill, Oh with Bill.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Henry. I guess you must have misunderstood.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
What about that door?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I'll walk you after the porch.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, you go back and have your ginger ale. I
can find my way, all right, I hope you I'm
Stan Henry.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Oh sure, you and Bill just go ahead and enjoy yourselves.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Sam, could you pass the toast please?
Speaker 9 (06:16):
Here you are, Dear, Why didn't Henry go to the dance?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Well, yeah, that's what I don't know.
Speaker 10 (06:21):
Do you remember the other evening when he came home
from Nancy Adams soaking with when last week, Dear, a
couple of nights before the dance, he walked into the
house covered with tomato juice, and Sam, Henry hasn't been
himself since then?
Speaker 9 (06:34):
Did you have a talk with him?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (06:36):
And all he'd say was he felt dancing was a
waste of time.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Mother, Mary, come in here and eat your breakfast.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Mother, what's this letter all about?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What letter? Why?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
It's the facilliest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It must be for father?
Speaker 9 (06:49):
May I see it? Please?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Who's it from?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Then?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
From the line of strong Ford Institute of Physical Development Incorporated?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Dear?
Speaker 9 (06:59):
For all right? Are you a man or a mouse?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Find you all the time? It wasn't for me?
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Yeah, No man can make his mark in the world.
No man can inspire the love of a good woman
unless he is willing to develop his inner potential strength
in our twenty six week course.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Certain one in the world is that.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I don't know, Alice, but I'm fascinated.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
We can give you a money back guarantee if your
chest expansion does not increase by at least two inches
during the first six lessons.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
How many inches do it be?
Speaker 9 (07:32):
Quiet?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Mary, that's just the first six lessons.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
We also offered a shorter course for the busy executive
interested in only partial development. Remember decide now yours truly
a father with the es replied by return mail and
receive free one genuine simulated nylon tape measure especially desired
for checking your chest development.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Here.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
When would you write for that?
Speaker 9 (08:00):
May I see the envelope? Please?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
My father's addressed to mister howld all Rich. Who's he?
Speaker 9 (08:05):
I have no idea whether he's a man or a mouse?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Well, puts the letter back in the envelope. Please, it's
probably for Henry mother.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Why would he want to develop?
Speaker 10 (08:14):
I don't know, dear, and besides it's none of our business.
Please put it back in the envelope. Well, Well, I
think I'll walk to the office this morning.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Why time you haven't walked to the office in six years?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Of course I have.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
I walked to a couple of times, just this last summer.
It made me feel great.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I'll get your top coat for you.
Speaker 11 (08:33):
Fine, a coat?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
The coat?
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Why would I want a coat?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I can get your hat.
Speaker 9 (08:37):
Goodbye, good bye baby son.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Goodbye mother. Do you have any idea where my blue
and white tie is? You're a blue and white tie,
I know, dear, and sit down at eat your breaks.
But mother, I gotta find it.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
There'll be plenty of time to find it after you've
beaten turn around.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
What's the matter?
Speaker 10 (08:53):
I think you ought to have those shoulders on, that
coat taken in a little taken in?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Mother, you just want to throw your money away.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
They'll be filled out in twenty six I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Before you know it.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Henry there, please sit down.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I want to ask you something. What about What in
the world is the trouble? The trouble, the trouble Jewish?
I don't know of any trouble.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
But you want yourself, dear, and when anyone speaks to you, you're.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Way up in the air near mother.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I may be a little upset because I can't find
my blue and white tie. But otherwise I feel fine.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Then why not eat your breakfast? I'm gonna eat it.
I'm gonna eat it.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
How's Nancy Adams these days?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Nancy Adams? Mother? Well, I asked, is how is she?
You see this book here? Mother? You see this book?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, that gives you an idea of what little interest
I have in Nancy Adams. What about the book? I
borrowed it from her two weeks ago. Well, I'm returning
That's fine. I'm returning it. I'm returning to it.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
That's all. That's as far as I go. If she
asked me whether I'd like.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
To keep it and finish it, I'll tell her I'm
not even slightly interested. Well, i'd fine, and I'll drink
your milk. You know what? Else? What, it's all right,
never mind. But if her folks can't afford a better
ice box, no one they have. She wish you like
Bill Turner. Bill Turner, I hardly know it.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
She is.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He got a lot to learn. He just goes around,
you know what he thinks?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Henry? What's your ambition in life?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
My ambition?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Mary?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
That's all? I just wondered whether you wanted to be
a man or a mouse.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Mary, I haven't any time for small talk. Have you
seen my blue and white tie?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
No, but I'd love to see your chest expansion.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Mary.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
But mother, all I was going to ask him was
if he was going to take the short course of
the twenty sixth week Court, Mary, will you please give
Henry that letter?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
A letter? I don't think it's for you, though, Henry, Mary,
give me that letter?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Are you mister Harold Algrey?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Marry? You come back with that? You realize that the
United States.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Mayor marry Mother? It says right on the envelope. Maybe
open for inspection.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Mary.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
If you don't give me that, oh, we won't break anything.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I'm just helping Henry develop.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Now listen, Mary, you're only going to make me late
for school.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
You want to take it with you and show it
to Nancy Adams.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Mary, if you read one word about this for her?
Speaker 12 (10:56):
Mary, Mary, come back down here with that.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What are you writing, Henry?
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Henry? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Homer? Is there a class in this room? Next period? Sure? Henry?
What are all those questions you're filling out? Nothing?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Homer, nothing important, Just some information I've got to send away.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Could you measure my chest just once more, please, it's
pretty hard with this ruler.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Well we'll just go around me real slow.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
It's exactly two and a quarter two and a quarter
two and a quarter rulers. That's twenty seven inches. Twenty
seven inches for my chest. Don't you think I better
take off a half inch for where I went around
the corner?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
The only thing is, Homer, my fire was twenty seven too.
I mean, my figh is as big as my chest.
It is way, Homer. I don't want to mislead anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Listen, Henry, what is it you're sending for nothing? Homer?
G you is?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Why would I you know whether Nancy Adams has a
class your next period?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Sure? I thought you were ignoring her. I am.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
That's why I'm waiting to return this book. When I
hand it to her, it's going to end everything.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Well let me see that letter just for a second,
will you, Henry Homer? Don't you see what's printed.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Right at the top of it strictly confidential? What is
that question at the bottom?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What question? Do you have? Flat feet? Now?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Listen, Homer, that just shows how your imagination works.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Well, what did it say?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Then?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You quiet Homer. Miss Watson just came into the room.
Miss Watson.
Speaker 13 (12:35):
Well, boys, you said me, look busy we are, Miss Watson,
you're working on your biology.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Well, in a way we are now is that vibe?
You know?
Speaker 13 (12:46):
We're going to start working on mice next week?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
We are on mice.
Speaker 13 (12:52):
Yes, we're going to compare their development without a man.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What's that? Come on, Henry, that's the end of the period.
There's a class coming in. Hello, Henry, what are you
doing in here?
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Well, and Nancy, I've been waiting, I've been filling out.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I've been Henry. You're getting ink all over yourself. I am.
Here's a blodder.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Well, Nancy, I I just wanted to tell you how
much I enjoyed this book.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Oh I'm awfully glad you returned at Henry, because Bill
Turner is anxious to get it.
Speaker 9 (13:21):
He is.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Are you sure you're through with it?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
After all, even if I weren't through with it, naturally,
a Bill wants the book.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Where have you been for the last week? Just around
every place? Hey, Henry, come on, you go ahead, Homer.
I may be held up here a second.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Why you better go, Henry.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I just wanted to tell you though, how much I
enjoyed your book. Don't you have a class this period? Yes,
miss Watson, I'm on my way right this minute, by Henry.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
Goodbye boy. Nancy a good looking girl, Henry. Do you
think she's so good looking?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I think she's terrific. Well, the way I think of her,
she's good looking. But I wouldn't ever want to be.
Let me have a look at that letter. Will you
about your flat feet? Now? Homer? Homer wed that letter?
I haven't got it. I put it in this Latin book.
I put it right here in the applegive absolute section. Well,
don't look at me. I didn't even touch your letter.
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Do you suppose I put it Nancy's book?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
You did?
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Why would she be interested in your flat feet? I
didn't know I put them there? I mean the letter there.
I was just talking to her. I may have just
suck it in there. Well, Holmer, I've got to get
that letter.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Why I think I want a thing like that to
be read publicly by Nancy? Whether you certainly can't get
it now, Henry, they haven't started class yet.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Well, I'm not going in with you. I don't want
the whole class to look at me. Quiet Homer going
back in and get that letter.
Speaker 13 (14:44):
When you all get your texts, please beg Joe pardon
Henry Aldrich, He says, something.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
We can do for you.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Why, I mean, Miss Watson, I'm sorry to interrupt your
lesson like this, but I just returned Nancy to a book.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I mean, I mean the Nancy's because something in it
I'd like.
Speaker 13 (15:02):
Why, I mean, what is it anything you can't do
without for the rest of the period.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, yes, ma'am, I just have to have it. Well
let's don't take more than a second. You may go
to her desk and get it. Thank you, Miss Watson.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
In the meantime, when all of you'll be copying what's
written on the board.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Here Nancy, Henry, what is it you want?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'd like to borrow that book again.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You didn't have to come all the way back into
class and in Paris.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Man, I just happen to remember it.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
I haven't finished it, said you have, I don't want
way when you hurried me, Yes, miss Watson, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Henry may I.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Asked, what book? That is this book I just got
from Nancy. Yes, well it's it's just a book. What
is the title?
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Reader's Revenge, and that is the book you were in
so much of a hurry to get.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Well, I'll tell you it isn't the story. I'm book,
Please the whole book. Wouldn't I take just one rook?
Please don't open it? No? May I have it?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Please?
Speaker 13 (16:11):
Yes, Miss Watson, and I should like to see Nancy
Adams immediately after class.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Miss Watson. Men, will you please leave this classroom? Yes,
Miss Watson, I'll go.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Welcome back to the Aldridge family in just a moment.
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but I'd like to tell you about just one of them.
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Speaker 2 (16:53):
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Speaker 9 (17:20):
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Speaker 2 (17:43):
Of Henry Aldridge.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Henry has decided that he needs a course in physical developments,
and after filling out the rather intimate questions on the
application blank, he discovers that he has left the blank
and a book belonging to Nancy Adams. The scene opens
in Henry's school at the close of a period.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Listen, Henry, this will make two classes I've missed just
because of.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You, Homer.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
All you have to do is just walk up to
miss Watson's desk there, pick up Nancy's book and walk
out with her. It's as easy as pie.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Are you sure Miss Watson isn't in there?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
No one's in there. There is no soul in there. Now,
you like pie, why don't you go in and get it? Well,
she's Homer.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I was gonna stand here in the doorway and keep
watch for you.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Well, if anyone does come along, Henry, give me a signal.
Clear your throat. Sure, I I'll sort of cough, okay,
and I'll go. That's it. Just walk right up as
though you own the place. Which book is it? They?
When your hand is on this isn't sure it is?
Isn't that book? Blue?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
But it's uh the Advanced Essence of Poetry? It must
be their Homer.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Alright, wait a second, I'll close the door part way.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
If it was here, it would be here, Homer. I'm
almost positive miss Watson didn't take it with her. All right,
short to me, cause you wisit? It's a book with
a blue cover? A blue cover? Oh? This must be it, yes,
miss Watson. Henry, someone's out in the hall. We cover, doc,
Have you got it? Where are we? Dunk? You found
every side our desk? Did they come in, Henry? They
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just closed the door. Well, come on, let's get out
of here, and not so fast home. Wait until I've
gone down the hall.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
But Henry, I've got to get to my next class.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Wyatt, open the door easy, I'm going to it. You
must be stuck. Let me try it.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Heyry, this is all your fault. Don't get panicky, Homer.
We'll get it open. Oh it's locked.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You were crazy. Why wouldn't Pody lock a door in
broad daylight? All we have to do is draw ourselves
against it. Okay, one, two, three? Help me up. I
guess they locked it all right? You mean we're locked
(20:02):
in and I can't get to solid geometry.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
At least they didn't see us, Homer. But Henry, I'm
weak in geometry as it is. Well, we'll all we
have to do is climb out that window.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
But what good'll that do?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All way up on the third floor? Homer? Stop arguing?
Give me that book and let's go. Nancy.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
Could you take these keys down to the main office, please? Yes,
Miss Watson, and Nancy, if you're quite sure you won't
let this book interfere with your studies anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You may have it.
Speaker 13 (20:34):
Yes, Miss Watson, I'm sorry you let Henry Aldrich have it.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
After all, he has much more.
Speaker 13 (20:39):
Important things to attend to.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Than Rita's revenge.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yes, Miss Watson, he's a very.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Nice boy, Nancy. Least hears his good points.
Speaker 13 (20:47):
But I do wish you'd become more interested in someone
who takes things just a bit more seriously than Henry does. Yes,
Miss s Watson, be careful, Homer. Do you want to
(21:11):
knock me off this fire escape?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Gee, whiz, Henry, we have to get out of you somehow.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Don't you realize this fire escape goes right past all
the second floor classrooms.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
It never goes below the second floor. We keep quiet, Henry.
Suppose somebody should see us out here. Let's close the
window now. Quiet now, Henry, and be quiet.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Make all the noise you can. All we have to
do now is go up the fire escape to the roof,
and then I suppose we just jump off. It's bound
to lead to something, Homer. Come on, if have you
got Nancy's both, sure, here take it. Here's my letter
in it. I don't know, hey, Homer, what this is
in Nancy's book?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
She was?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
This is miss Watson's report book, a report book. What
made you think my letter'd be inside this?
Speaker 6 (21:53):
You said, Blue? So I grabbed Bloom. She should have looked, Homer.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Boy, if we get caught with this, we could even
we can even be expelled just for having a report
for sure. Well, you can be the one that takes
it back, Henry.
Speaker 11 (22:07):
All we have to do is open the window and
be sure no one's in there, Henry, no one's in there?
She whiz lift Henry, I am lifting, Homer, move backs,
hit and get some leverage.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What's the matter, Henry? Are you weak?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
She was?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Maybe I do need what'd you think I could at
least open a window when it's an emergency?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Boy, you're really in a fix.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
You've got miss Watson's reports, and Nancy's got your measurements.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Sure, and probably by this time Nancy's read the whole
thing on. We've got to get off this viruscape.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Why why out there?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Who is it, Henry? What are you doing out there?
It's mister Bradley. He's down in the court, yind Why
why are we just trying to open a window, mister Bradley?
Don't you know the rules about going out in the
power estate? Are there any special rules? Mister Bradley? Why
Henry Aldridge? Oh? Homer Brown, Oh, Henry and Homer A Brown.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yes, and we're home in my office at.
Speaker 12 (23:16):
Once, Yes, sir, how would you like to have us
get there? Mister Bradley? And the only trouble is, mister Bradley. Nothing,
we'll get down.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
And how long have you been a student in this school?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Young man about three years, mister Bradley, and this other
young man about three and.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
A half, mister Bradley. But that was on a coup
of the mumps, right on top of the measles as.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Is, and you both know those pirates get apes were
placed there for emergency use only.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well, the fact is, mister Bradley, it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Enough that you were out on a fire escape. You
climbed in a window and drove right into the middle
of Professor vander Hoff's French class.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Well, you see, mister Bradley, was the only way we
could get off the fire escape. Professor vander Hoff's window
was opening. Owner.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Must you lean on my desk?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
No, sir, excuse me, I thought you were through with us.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I don't know whatever gave you that impression.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Excuse me, mister Bradley.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Or Bill Turner, aren't you?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yes, I'm the one who carried three men over our
gold Saturday. And what were you sent in here for?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, I suppose I shouldn't have been reading this book
during study hour, mister.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Bradley, what's the typho reader's revenge?
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Reader's revenge?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I see, Henry, Yes, mister Bradley.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
What do you think of a boy who would spend.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
His time reading a book like that?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Well, I guess it's pretty bad, mister Bradley, That's what
I say. I see.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Do you know what I think?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
All three of you? I need no.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Suppose you wait here, all of you while I step
out and get your record?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yes, sir Bill, what did you get that book from Nancy?
And what business is it of yours? Listen? Bill? Could
I borrow it a second? Nancy's book? All I want
to do is take it for just one second. I
just want to. I just want to. Can't you even
let me look at keep your hands off? Let me
have that people? Wait? Do you hear me, hey, Henry,
look at what fell out of it? There's your letter
right on the floor, you wiz, Bill Turner. You take
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your foot off that? You make me? Do you hear me?
Take your foot off that letter? Hear me? Somebody's coming?
I don't care, Henry. Hello, Nancy, close the door. Let
my leg all Rich you lift your leg? Do you
hear me? Left it?
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Nick?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Dis lay?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Henry I need more leverage. Get twisting my head?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Yeah, you stop.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That on you Bill there, Harry, gee, Henry, you knocked
him out? Oh you lifted him right off the floor.
What happens?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
He's all right, Henry, pick him up before mister.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Bradley comes in. Come on home, must lift the run
of the couch. Listen all that. Why did you hit
me with? Idn't just use my bare hands, didn't I? Nancy? Oh?
Speaker 7 (26:19):
Then, young man Turner, did anyone invite you to lie
down on that couch?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh, mister Bradley, I'll help him up.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Mister Bradley, don't you think he can get up himself?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Well, I'm up.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Well, young lady.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Miss Watson asked me to bring her keys down here.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
I'll take them in one moment. Turner, Here's what I
want you to do. I want you to spend a
part of each lunch hour for the next ten days
picking up the papers and the cornders of this building.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
On all three floors, on.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
All three floors, and as but how how did miss
Watson's report book get here.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
On my desk? On your desk, mister Bradley, here when
you see that she gets it back?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yes, sir, now then, Aldrich and Brow.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Yes, mister Bradley, Yes, mister Bradley, I am sending you
to the gym instructor. He needs a couple of huskies
like you too, to help him move the steel lockers move.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah, I'm there quite a few, mister Bradley.
Speaker 9 (27:19):
Yeah, three hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It will take every afternoon for the next two weeks.
Gee whiz, that's all right, Homan. You heard what mister
Bradley said. They need a couple of huskies like you
and me.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
Aldrich. What's that you're tearing up?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Nothing, it's just sort of a letter. I've decided I
won't need any more.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
UD.
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Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh geez, oh jeep.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
He are rich nice a windows.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
That's what I mean, Nancy.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
No matter what I touch these days, I clmost write
my hands.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The Alrich Family has written by Cliff and Goldsmith. Henry
is played by Bobby Ellison, Homer by Johnny Fiedler.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Mister and Missus Aldrich are.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
House Jamison and Catherine Roth.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Your announcer is Dick Dudley.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Listen again next week's same time, same station for another
sparkling half hour with the Aldridge Family.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Good not everybody.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
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