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It’s Thanksgiving Day, but all three of the kids have other plans. So, Mother and Father get to spend the holiday alone. Or do they?
Originally aired on November 23, 1950. This is episode 57 of Father Knows Best.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to classic comedy of old time radio. I'm your host,
Ron Ecklebarger. It's Thanksgiving Day, but all three of the
kids have other plans. So mother and father get to
spend the holiday alone, or do they? This is episode
number fifty seven of Father Knows Best, entitled Happy Thanksgiving.
It originally aired on November twenty third, nineteen fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Mother is Naxville House to best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yes, it's Father Knows Best.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee. Look for
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board with buncheous cheer, and gathered to the feast and
toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. You know,
the Pilgrims started the custom of Thanksgiving, But there are
others whose trials and tribulations on an average Thanksgiving day,
their inspection and a certain amount of sympathy. Take, for example,
the Andersons who live in Springfield in a white frame
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house on Maple Street. They count their blessings and give
their thanks. But with three children in the house, even
a simple rite like Thanksgiving to be a pretty complicated
affair like this, mother, we're in.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
The den, Betty, Is it all right if by far
your hearings, Betty?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
If you have anything to ask your mother, come down
here and.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ask her job and creepers.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Sounds like she was reared in a barn.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Stands up there screaming her head on him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Kathy is waiting to read her poem.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh, I'm sorry, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Go ahead, yes, Daddy, go ahead, dear, Well, now what
are you waiting for?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I have to be introduced.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Pardon me, ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the competition
in the fourth grade, Miss Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Is that better?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now? You have to applaud?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Okay, applaud?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
What a hand.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Has to get her applause before she reads the poem.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Jim doesn't want to take any chances.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
All right, dear, anytime you're ready.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yes, mommy, Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Anderson, fourth grade.
Thanksgiving is a lucky day.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, wait a minute, what was that name?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The name?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Your name?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Say it again, Kathleen Joy Anderson.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Where did the joy come from? Your name is Kathleen
Louise Anderson.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But I don't like Louise.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You what, Jim?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Kathy and I talked to it all about.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
My mother's name is Louise. And if it's good enough
for my mother, it's good enough for her.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's only a middle name, dear, And if she.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Doesn't like it, why shouldn't she like it? What's wrong
with it?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Nothing, Jim, But it's her name.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
You're daring, right, it's her name. She's not gonna change it.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Now, go ahead, Mommy, go ahead, dear, she wills.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
My grandmother and her mother were named Louise. There's no
reason why she should want to change it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Well, what read the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Poem, Yes Daddy, Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Louise Anderson.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
That's more like it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's much better, Jim, Please all right, Kathy, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you get an easter money,
or even like your birthday when your uncle sends you money.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
What, Jim, when did her uncle ever send her money
or anything else?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Kathy?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
She's nine years old. He's never sent her a button,
gives her money. He's so tidy, can't even sit down.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Jim Amison. I know you don't like him, but he's
been very good to my sister. And if Kathy needs
him for her.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Poems, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and your brother
in law boy, is that a combination?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Go ahead, Kathleen, Yes, Mommy.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Not from the beginning, Kathy, Start
where you're left off.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't remember where I was.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Your uncle was giving you money. Oh, that's something we
can all remember.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yes, Kaddy, this isn't a poem. It's a fairy tale. Jim.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
If you say one more, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Go ahead, Kathy?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is it all right if I start up near Christmas?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Start anywhere you like, but start okay?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Gray.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you get an Easter bunny,
or even like your birthday when your uncle gives you money.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I didn't say a word.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Go ahead, dear.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration Day
or summer vacation or Halloween.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Kathy, when are you going to stop telling us what
it isn't like and tell us what it is like?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
How can she when you keep interrupting.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
We're supposed to be a poem about Thanksgiving, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
And what has she said? It isn't like Christmas. It
isn't like the fourth of July. Who said it was.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Jim the poem has already won the contest. We're just
supposed to listen as we're just supposed to go ahead, dear.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You mean from the beginning, No.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
No, start after that funny part where your uncle gives
you money.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Okay. It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration
Day or summer vacation or Halloween when all the kids can.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Play no good agree, scare a man half out of
his wits?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Father?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Is it all right if I bar your earrings, which
you've done ashes all over the floor well, I'll clean
it up, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Don't worry about it. What happened, Nothing happened. I knocked
over the ashtray. That's all.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Go ahead, Kathy, Thanksgiving is a different day. Excuse me, Kathy,
I have to speak to mother.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Letter finished the poem, Bitty father.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I told Jamie Leggot i'd be there early. She's counting
on me. You don't have to read a poem over
the radio. Oh no, you mean she's gonna read it.
It's a horrible thing in public. Thanksgiving is a lucky day.
I didn't see you winning any free turkey dinner. I
didn't have to. The Leggots are gonna have three turkey.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Wait a minute, the way you kids talk, you think
we'd never had a turkey in this house.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Jim, I've got a good mind to keep you all home.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Father, Jim, isn't the question of turkey? Kathy's principal told you.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Why couldn't they have the dinner some other day?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But Thanksgiving dinner was the prize, dear, for all eighth grades.
It's become a major event.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
And the Leggots, if somebody looks cross eyed, Jenny Liggtt.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Has a party.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Father, you said.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I know what I said, and it'll be a relief
to get you all out of the house. Your mother
won't have to spend all day cooking. At dinner, you'll
wolf down in twenty minutes, Jim. We'll have a little
peace around here. Even if it is Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like the
bes Kathy.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I haven't asked about the ear rings, witch, earrings, Betty,
the ones with the rhinestones. Oh dear, those are much
too old for you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh no, they aren't, mother, really they aren't. Thanksgiving is
a different day.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Just a minute, Kathy, Betty, if your mother says they're
too old for you, but they aren't.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Father, I tried them all.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Don't you think something less formal would be more suitable?
But Mother, after all, rhinestones in the afternoon not good,
not good at all.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
How about the little pearl one?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh much better?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
May I?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Of course? Dear?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh thank you mother, you're an angel. Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Maybe I ought to get the vacuum cleaner. The whole
rug's a mess.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Just leave it, Jim, I'll clean it later.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You'll only take me second, Jim.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
All right, Kathy, No.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yes, get it over with please.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like the best.
It's even better than Sunday, which is called the day
they rid. Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Long everybody, Oh goodbye? Do you don't have a nice time?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
What are you doing with my suitcase?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
What? Thanksgiving is my favorite day?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Come in here, bring a suitcase.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Gosh, I'm not going to hurt it.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Dad.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Did anybody say you could borrow my suitcase? No? Dad,
why are you taking it? Well?
Speaker 7 (10:22):
I have to carry them in something? Carry what the
football letters? They're going to give them out at the
dinner and the coach.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Said, good back where you got it.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
But the coach said I could eat with a team.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I said, put it back.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Holy cow, Thanksgiving is my favorite day, Jim.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
He isn't going to hurt him anything.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That's not the point. He has no right to take
things without asking for them.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
But you were busy, Dad. I tried to ask you
this morning, Remember, I said, Dad, And you said you
thought it was going to be wonderful for you and mom, Dad,
Thanksgiving dinner and a restaurant for a change. And I said,
and you said you thought everybody made too much of
a fuss about Thanksgiving. Anyway, I said, Dad, and you said, bud.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
H take the suitcase, oh boy? And next time asked
for it.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I tried to Dad. I said, good.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Okay, Dad, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Now is Billy here?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Dear you bark out?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
We have a good time, Turkey.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I won't see you later. Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Brother. Are you driving downtown with Joe Phillips?
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Why don't you drop Kathy off at the school?
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Come on, Kathy, I haven't finished my poem.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Oh why haven't you? I haven't heard anything else for
the past hour.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I tried to read it, and first you said that
Uncle Rick.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Come on, I'm late.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Nobody ever lets me do anything just because I'm the
littlest one in the family.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Read the poem.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Everybody thinks they can pick on.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Me, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day, Dear. That's where you left off, and.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
They don't have any right to. Thanksgiving is my favorite day,
though the skies are gray and murky, because that's the
day when I get to eat the drastic of a turkey.
(12:33):
Well that's the end.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Some poem, but.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It's a very lovely poem. Kathy, Thank you mommy.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
You mean that won the competition, Gym. Well, I'm not surprised.
It's a very good a little sentimental, perhaps, but very good.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Thank you, Daddy, get your colt, Kathy, and let's go.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Mister Bryan said, he bring me home. Mommy.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's fine, dear, And don't forget to listen to the broadcast.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
We want to behave yourself.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Come on, will you'll start fooling me? Why do you
always have to pull me?
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Thanks for the suitcase.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That's all right. I have a nice time, Bud, you too, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You a good girl, Kathleen.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I'm well, my dear.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Well, I'm completely exhausted. I don't know where they get all.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
That energy, Margaret. Did she really win the competition with
that poem?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
She's only in the fourth grade, Jim, that's very good
for the fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
When I was nine, I could write poems like that
standing on my head.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Well, if you've ever seen Kathy study, you'd know that
that's probably the way she wrote it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Margaret.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yes, dear, have you noticed how quiet it is? Yes, dear,
has been this quiet for weeks.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Has it?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
No, Dear, It does you good to get away from
the kids for a while. Gives you a chance to relax,
take things easy, read your paper and uh things.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Yes, dear, get the kids out of the house.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
And it makes all the difference in the world. Get
a little piece and quiet, don't you.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yes, dear.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
All that excitement and shouting and running up and downstairs
absolutely unnecessary, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I suppose so, dear.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Margaret, Yes, dear, I'm lonesome.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yes, dear.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Well, father has a right to feel lonesome. After all,
Thanksgiving is a family day. But whether or not the
family can gather to join in the festivities, we all
have many things to be thankful for. We Maxwell House people.
For instance, we're happy that our coffee is America's favorite brand,
happy that in so many homes, Thanksgiving dinner means a
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pot of Maxwell House coffee brewing on the stove, as
well as the turkey in the oven and the pumpkin
pies cooling on the shelf. We take a lot of
pride in our coffee, and we want you to know
you can count on Maxwell House every cup you pour.
We'll keep it always good to the last drop on
Thanksgiving Day and every day in the year.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
That was very good, Barbara, very good. Indeed.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Now our next winner is a rugged individualist.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Indeed, Jim, it's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
She put her.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Thoughts on Thanksgiving into verse and will now read the
poem which won for her the competition in the fourth grade.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
And Kathy, she started again. I just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Know Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Louise Anderson, fourth grade.
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
(16:45):
It isn't just like Christmas when you're parents give you toys.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Why doesn't she go on, Jim, please go ahead, Kathleen.
It isn't as if she had to remember anything. She's
got it right in front of her.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
She's probably very nervous.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Well, she can read, can't she, Kathleen, we're waiting.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I want to go.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I know what's gotten into it all.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
The poor little thing.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Miss Anderson just remembered a previous engagement. We'll have better
luck with our next little guest, the winner of the
competition in the fifth grade.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
You see, Margaret, I told you she shouldn't have gone.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Oh my poor baby.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I've never heard anything like that in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
She was frightened, Jim, that's all.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Frightened of what you can't shut her up when she's
in the house, so she's supposed to talk.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
She makes a noise to sound like Georgie Jessel. I
tell you, Margaret, Yes, Jim, do you think we ought
to go down and get her?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Poor kid, probably crying her heart out.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
She'll get over and don't forget they promised her two drumsticks.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I don't know. She didn't sound very hungry.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Do I what you promised me a Thanksgiving dinner at
the townhouse? You remember?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yes? I didn't didn't I.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'll get my hat and coat or would you rather
have me sue you for breach of promise?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Margaret?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Jim, there isn't anything wrong, is there?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Oh no, honey, everything's fine. It's just that.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, yes, I've been doing a lot of thinking. And
would you mind very much if we didn't go out?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Why, Jim?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I know I promised you at dinner, but well, I'd
just rather eat here.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
There isn't anything to eat.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Sure there is. It's a whole heap of hamburger in
the icebox.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Hamburger on Thanksgiving Day, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
To tell you the truth, this doesn't seem much like Thanksgiving,
not like the kind of Thanksgiving we used to know.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, it's finally happened after only eighteen years. You're tired
of me.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You know what I mean, don't you, Honey? I think so.
Thanksgiving has always.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Been a special sort of a day for me, even
when I was a boy.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
It was more than just a holiday.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
It was a time when the whole family got together
and had fun.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
We used to go out into the country and my grandmother's.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh we did too, go to my grandmother's.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I mean, the whole.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Family used to be there, my uncle Rob and his
wife and their eight children, and my uncle Will and
his wife and their ten children.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That must have been cozy.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Oh, it was weading shifts.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
My grandmother always swore she was feeding half of the
neighbors kids.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Oh it was fun.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Did you play games after dinner?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Heck no, we were so stuffed we couldn't move.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh, you were a bunch of sissies. We used to
play going to Jerusalem, or musical chairs or charades.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
That's pretty hard to do with just two people, isn't it. Jim.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
There's one thing we mustn't forget. This is a new generation.
It's a different sort of generation with new ideas and
a new sense of values. Times have changed.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Mmmm, they have. Let's let's go into the kitchen and
see what we can throw together.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You're an old sentimentalist to Manderson, that's what you are,
and I love you.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I love you too. You know, maybe if the kids
get home early, we can all go to a movie
or something. How'd you like that? Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I wouldn't count on it.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Dear.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Betty said not to expect her before midnight, and Bud's
dinner won't start until six.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, Kathy isn't going to stay out all night, is she?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Okay, then we'll.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Take Kathy to the movie, so we'll see, Dear, it
all depends.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Good.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Hi am, Mom, Hi Dad?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Fix me a hamburger?
Speaker 10 (20:46):
One?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
One?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Well, what happened to the dinner? What dinner at the
training table with the football team? Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:54):
That dinner?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
I guess I just wasn't hungry.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Weren't hungry? You?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I'm going to call doctor Simmons.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Wait a minute, Margaret, Bud, if you aren't hungry, why
the hamburger?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
The hamburger?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It pardoned me? The three hamburgers.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Oh, well, I guess I got hungry.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh God, if you don't feel well, please tell us.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
But I do feel well, Mom, I feel fine.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Look but if you don't want to tell us the truth.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
But I am telling you the truth. I didn't like
the din her. That's all a bunch of big goof
sitting around talking about football.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
What good is that?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Since when don't you like to talk about football?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
What good is that?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Since when don't you like to talk about football?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Just second, Kathy, it's me father.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
What's she doing home?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
What on earthed?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Uh? We're in the kitchen, Betty, I'll be.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Right, Oh dear, Just when everything was going.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
So well, Margaret, why do you immediately assume that something
is wrong? Maybe the leggags decided not to have a party,
or maybe Betty had the wrong day.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Lots of things could have happened.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
The party was today, I know it was.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Well, maybe it hasn't started yet.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
What's everybody doing in the kitchen? But hi, bod, what
are you doing here?
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Nothing much? Want a hamburger?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Okay, I'm remind the hamburgers, but we've got things to
discuss that are much more important than hamburgers.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Do you feel all right, dear?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Why you told your mother you wouldn't be home until midnight.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh well, I well, I wasn't going to, but I
came up with the most awful headache.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Jim, you just said you felt fine. I do.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh, I mean I do, except for this headache.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Jim. I'm going to call missus Liggod and ask her mother.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You know if there was anything wrong. I tell you
I always.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Have had I Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Do you have minute, Margaret? Kathy? Yes, daddy, we're in
the kitchen. Come on in.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yes, Daddy, See Margaret, I told you we should have
gone down for no way of knowing.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
What's the matter with Kathy.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Your sister reads the first line of her poem and
bursts into tears.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
No kidding, the poor little thing.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Hello, Hello, sweetheart, come out over here and tell you,
daddy all your troubles.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I don't have any troubles, Daddy. I'm just not happy.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Well, it isn't anything to cry about, is it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
It was a lovely poem, darling, even if you didn't
read it.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
And don't you worry not head if anybody makes fun
of you, I'll pokem right in a nose, Bud.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I don't care if they do make fun of me.
I didn't want to read my poem, not to them.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Why, Kathy, they're your friends.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I don't want them.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It's Thanksgiving and I wanted my mommy and my daddy
and my sister and my brother.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I was lonesome, Kathy, Darnie.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
She's all right, Margaret, just leave her alone.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Mother, Yes, Betty, I was lonesome too.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh now wait a minute, oh Jim, Margaret, not.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yes, me too?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Good grief.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
You sound like the third act of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
What's the matter with you, Bud?
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Nothing? I just feel like throwing my nose, that's all.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Well, blow it. Get busy with a hamburgers.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Okay, Dad, I'll about little food for the hungry Anderson.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Why I'm starving hamburgers? It's anything to serve for Thanksgiving dinner,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
It sounds fine to me.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I don't care what part of the hamburger right yet,
as long as it's the drumstick had that girl?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Kathy? Well, what are we waiting for? Let's sit down
and be comfortable.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I'll take over the bud.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I'm going fine.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Mom.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Don't argue with the chef. Margaret, just sit down and relax.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Well, if you inst four hamburgers coming up.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Well, that'll take care of me. But what are they
gonna eat? Oh, you big pig Margaret.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Kids.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Before we dig into these juicy Thanksgiving burgers, may I
say something. This has been I think the happiest Thanksgiving
Day of my entire life, and if you don't mind,
I'd like to say a special grace. Oh Lord, we
give THEE thanks from the bottom of our humble hearts
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for the blessings thou hast seen it to bestow upon us.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We thank THEE for the food that graces our table
and the roof that covers our head.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
We thank THEE for the privilege of living as free
men in the country which respects our freedom, our personal
rights to worship and think and speak as we choose.
But most of all, Dear Lord, we thank THEE for
making us a family, for giving us sincerity and understand.
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We thank THEE for giving us the most cherished gift
of family may know.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
The gift of.
Speaker 10 (26:35):
Love for one another. Ah Men, morning.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Now, and in the Anderson Breakfast note, life is eased
back into its accustomed group. Thanksgiving Day is over, but
the Anderson's, well, they go on forever like this.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Why can't I wear lipsticks. Claudia mceue doesn't. She's only twelve.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Here's your coffee, deer, thank you?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Well, what well?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Why can't I.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Because I said you couldn't and eat your breakfast?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Jeez? Well's oh, Margaret, we've.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Got to do something about that boy. He's beginning to
shake the house.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I don't speak to him, dear.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
If he can't take it easy on the stairs, don't
feed him so much. One of these days is going
to go right through.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Hi Dad, Good morning mom, Sit down and eat your breakfast.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Good morning, dear.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
He didn't say anything to me, Hi esquirt, Good morning mother.
Do you know what, bud did? He use my good
cologne on his hair?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Good morning, Betty, I used two draws.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He used practically the whole bottle.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I did not. Good morning, Betty, mother.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
If I can have a little privacy.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
With my own day, Betty? Why, good morning?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Good morning father.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
That's better, Sit down, eat your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
You know, Margaret, there's one thing I'm really going to
enjoy about our Thanksgiving Day dinner yesterday?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
What's that? Dear?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
We're probably the.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Only family in Springfield that won't be eating leftover turkey for.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
The next month. Yes, dear, what are we going to
have for dinner tonight?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Leftover hamburgers.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
So you don't think your family will ever be hungry again,
Well you just wait till tomorrow morning. The kids'll be
banging their spoons for breakfast the same as ever. So
be ready with steaming bowls of hot Post wheatmeal and
tell the youngsters it's hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal. Yes,
hot Post sweetmeal with solid whole wheat nourishment and rich
nut like flavor. That hop Along sure goes for hot
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Post wheatmeal. You'll see, you'll all agree it's the best
hot cereal you ever hate.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
These days, stores everywhere are featuring lower prices on Maxwell
House coffee, the lowest.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Prices in months.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Bring home one of those familiar blue tins tomorrow and
enjoy coffee that's always good.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
To the last drop.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Join us again next week, when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargeye and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly
Bill Foreman. So until next Thursday, good night and good
luck from the makers of Maxwell House. Father knows Best
was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed Jane. Now
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stay tuned for a dragnet which follows immediately over most
of these stations.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Exciting dragnat is next and we the people on NBC.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Please send your questions and comments to host at classiccomedyotr
dot com. Until next time. In the words of Kurt Vonnegut,
a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it,
is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Welcome to classic comedy of old time radio. I'm your host,
Ron Ecklebarger. It's Thanksgiving Day, but all three of the
kids have other plans. So mother and father get to
spend the holiday alone, or do they? This is episode
number fifty seven of Father Knows Best, entitled Happy Thanksgiving.
It originally aired on November twenty third, nineteen fifty.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Mother is Naxville House to best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yes, it's Father Knows Best.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee. Look for
that familiar blue Maxwell House tim featured in stores everywhere
at lower prices, the lowest prices in months. Enjoy coffee
that's always good to the last drop. He hie the
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board with buncheous cheer, and gathered to the feast and
toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. You know,
the Pilgrims started the custom of Thanksgiving, But there are
others whose trials and tribulations on an average Thanksgiving day,
their inspection and a certain amount of sympathy. Take, for example,
the Andersons who live in Springfield in a white frame
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house on Maple Street. They count their blessings and give
their thanks. But with three children in the house, even
a simple rite like Thanksgiving to be a pretty complicated
affair like this, mother, we're in.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
The den, Betty, Is it all right if by far
your hearings, Betty?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
If you have anything to ask your mother, come down
here and.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Ask her job and creepers.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Sounds like she was reared in a barn.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Stands up there screaming her head on him.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Kathy is waiting to read her poem.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh, I'm sorry, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Go ahead, yes, Daddy, go ahead, dear, Well, now what
are you waiting for?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I have to be introduced.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Pardon me, ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the competition
in the fourth grade, Miss Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Is that better?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Now? You have to applaud?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Okay, applaud?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
What a hand.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Has to get her applause before she reads the poem.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Jim doesn't want to take any chances.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
All right, dear, anytime you're ready.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yes, mommy, Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Anderson, fourth grade.
Thanksgiving is a lucky day.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, wait a minute, what was that name?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The name?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Your name?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Say it again, Kathleen Joy Anderson.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Where did the joy come from? Your name is Kathleen
Louise Anderson.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But I don't like Louise.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You what, Jim?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Kathy and I talked to it all about.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
My mother's name is Louise. And if it's good enough
for my mother, it's good enough for her.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's only a middle name, dear, And if she.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Doesn't like it, why shouldn't she like it? What's wrong
with it?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Nothing, Jim, But it's her name.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
You're daring, right, it's her name. She's not gonna change it.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Now, go ahead, Mommy, go ahead, dear, she wills.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
My grandmother and her mother were named Louise. There's no
reason why she should want to change it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Well, what read the.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Poem, Yes Daddy, Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Louise Anderson.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
That's more like it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's much better, Jim, Please all right, Kathy, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you get an easter money,
or even like your birthday when your uncle sends you money.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
What, Jim, when did her uncle ever send her money
or anything else?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Kathy?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
She's nine years old. He's never sent her a button,
gives her money. He's so tidy, can't even sit down.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Jim Amison. I know you don't like him, but he's
been very good to my sister. And if Kathy needs
him for her.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Poems, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and your brother
in law boy, is that a combination?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Go ahead, Kathleen, Yes, Mommy.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Not from the beginning, Kathy, Start
where you're left off.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I don't remember where I was.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Your uncle was giving you money. Oh, that's something we
can all remember.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yes, Kaddy, this isn't a poem. It's a fairy tale. Jim.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
If you say one more, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Go ahead, Kathy?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is it all right if I start up near Christmas?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Start anywhere you like, but start okay?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Gray.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you get an Easter bunny,
or even like your birthday when your uncle gives you money.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I didn't say a word.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Go ahead, dear.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration Day
or summer vacation or Halloween.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Kathy, when are you going to stop telling us what
it isn't like and tell us what it is like?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
How can she when you keep interrupting.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
We're supposed to be a poem about Thanksgiving, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
And what has she said? It isn't like Christmas. It
isn't like the fourth of July. Who said it was.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Jim the poem has already won the contest. We're just
supposed to listen as we're just supposed to go ahead, dear.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You mean from the beginning, No.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
No, start after that funny part where your uncle gives
you money.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Okay. It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration
Day or summer vacation or Halloween when all the kids can.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Play no good agree, scare a man half out of
his wits?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Father?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Is it all right if I bar your earrings, which
you've done ashes all over the floor well, I'll clean
it up, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Don't worry about it. What happened, Nothing happened. I knocked
over the ashtray. That's all.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Go ahead, Kathy, Thanksgiving is a different day. Excuse me, Kathy,
I have to speak to mother.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Letter finished the poem, Bitty father.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I told Jamie Leggot i'd be there early. She's counting
on me. You don't have to read a poem over
the radio. Oh no, you mean she's gonna read it.
It's a horrible thing in public. Thanksgiving is a lucky day.
I didn't see you winning any free turkey dinner. I
didn't have to. The Leggots are gonna have three turkey.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Wait a minute, the way you kids talk, you think
we'd never had a turkey in this house.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Jim, I've got a good mind to keep you all home.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Father, Jim, isn't the question of turkey? Kathy's principal told you.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Why couldn't they have the dinner some other day?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
But Thanksgiving dinner was the prize, dear, for all eighth grades.
It's become a major event.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
And the Leggots, if somebody looks cross eyed, Jenny Liggtt.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Has a party.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Father, you said.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
I know what I said, and it'll be a relief
to get you all out of the house. Your mother
won't have to spend all day cooking. At dinner, you'll
wolf down in twenty minutes, Jim. We'll have a little
peace around here. Even if it is Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like the
bes Kathy.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I haven't asked about the ear rings, witch, earrings, Betty,
the ones with the rhinestones. Oh dear, those are much
too old for you.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh no, they aren't, mother, really they aren't. Thanksgiving is
a different day.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Just a minute, Kathy, Betty, if your mother says they're
too old for you, but they aren't.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Father, I tried them all.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Don't you think something less formal would be more suitable?
But Mother, after all, rhinestones in the afternoon not good,
not good at all.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
How about the little pearl one?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh much better?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
May I?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Of course? Dear?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh thank you mother, you're an angel. Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Maybe I ought to get the vacuum cleaner. The whole
rug's a mess.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Just leave it, Jim, I'll clean it later.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You'll only take me second, Jim.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
All right, Kathy, No.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yes, get it over with please.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like the best.
It's even better than Sunday, which is called the day
they rid. Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Long everybody, Oh goodbye? Do you don't have a nice time?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
What are you doing with my suitcase?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
What? Thanksgiving is my favorite day?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Come in here, bring a suitcase.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Gosh, I'm not going to hurt it.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Dad.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Did anybody say you could borrow my suitcase? No? Dad,
why are you taking it? Well?
Speaker 7 (10:22):
I have to carry them in something? Carry what the
football letters? They're going to give them out at the
dinner and the coach.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Said, good back where you got it.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
But the coach said I could eat with a team.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
I said, put it back.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Holy cow, Thanksgiving is my favorite day, Jim.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
He isn't going to hurt him anything.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That's not the point. He has no right to take
things without asking for them.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
But you were busy, Dad. I tried to ask you
this morning, Remember, I said, Dad, And you said you
thought it was going to be wonderful for you and mom, Dad,
Thanksgiving dinner and a restaurant for a change. And I said,
and you said you thought everybody made too much of
a fuss about Thanksgiving. Anyway, I said, Dad, and you said, bud.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
H take the suitcase, oh boy? And next time asked
for it.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I tried to Dad. I said, good.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Okay, Dad, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Now is Billy here?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Dear you bark out?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
We have a good time, Turkey.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I won't see you later. Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Brother. Are you driving downtown with Joe Phillips?
Speaker 8 (11:43):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Why don't you drop Kathy off at the school?
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Come on, Kathy, I haven't finished my poem.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Oh why haven't you? I haven't heard anything else for
the past hour.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I tried to read it, and first you said that
Uncle Rick.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Come on, I'm late.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Nobody ever lets me do anything just because I'm the
littlest one in the family.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Read the poem.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Everybody thinks they can pick on.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Me, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day, Dear. That's where you left off, and.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
They don't have any right to. Thanksgiving is my favorite day,
though the skies are gray and murky, because that's the
day when I get to eat the drastic of a turkey.
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Well that's the end.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Some poem, but.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
It's a very lovely poem. Kathy, Thank you mommy.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
You mean that won the competition, Gym. Well, I'm not surprised.
It's a very good a little sentimental, perhaps, but very good.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Thank you, Daddy, get your colt, Kathy, and let's go.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Mister Bryan said, he bring me home. Mommy.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
That's fine, dear, And don't forget to listen to the broadcast.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
We want to behave yourself.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Come on, will you'll start fooling me? Why do you
always have to pull me?
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Thanks for the suitcase.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
That's all right. I have a nice time, Bud, you too, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You a good girl, Kathleen.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I'm well, my dear.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Well, I'm completely exhausted. I don't know where they get all.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
That energy, Margaret. Did she really win the competition with
that poem?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
She's only in the fourth grade, Jim, that's very good
for the fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
When I was nine, I could write poems like that
standing on my head.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Well, if you've ever seen Kathy study, you'd know that
that's probably the way she wrote it.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Margaret.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yes, dear, have you noticed how quiet it is? Yes, dear,
has been this quiet for weeks.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Has it?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
No, Dear, It does you good to get away from
the kids for a while. Gives you a chance to relax,
take things easy, read your paper and uh things.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Yes, dear, get the kids out of the house.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
And it makes all the difference in the world. Get
a little piece and quiet, don't you.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yes, dear.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
All that excitement and shouting and running up and downstairs
absolutely unnecessary, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I suppose so, dear.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Margaret, Yes, dear, I'm lonesome.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yes, dear.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Well, father has a right to feel lonesome. After all,
Thanksgiving is a family day. But whether or not the
family can gather to join in the festivities, we all
have many things to be thankful for. We Maxwell House people.
For instance, we're happy that our coffee is America's favorite brand,
happy that in so many homes, Thanksgiving dinner means a
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pot of Maxwell House coffee brewing on the stove, as
well as the turkey in the oven and the pumpkin
pies cooling on the shelf. We take a lot of
pride in our coffee, and we want you to know
you can count on Maxwell House every cup you pour.
We'll keep it always good to the last drop on
Thanksgiving Day and every day in the year.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
That was very good, Barbara, very good. Indeed.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Now our next winner is a rugged individualist.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Indeed, Jim, it's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
She put her.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Thoughts on Thanksgiving into verse and will now read the
poem which won for her the competition in the fourth grade.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
And Kathy, she started again. I just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Know Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Louise Anderson, fourth grade.
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
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It isn't just like Christmas when you're parents give you toys.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Why doesn't she go on, Jim, please go ahead, Kathleen.
It isn't as if she had to remember anything. She's
got it right in front of her.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
She's probably very nervous.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Well, she can read, can't she, Kathleen, we're waiting.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I want to go.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I know what's gotten into it all.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
The poor little thing.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Miss Anderson just remembered a previous engagement. We'll have better
luck with our next little guest, the winner of the
competition in the fifth grade.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
You see, Margaret, I told you she shouldn't have gone.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Oh my poor baby.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I've never heard anything like that in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
She was frightened, Jim, that's all.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Frightened of what you can't shut her up when she's
in the house, so she's supposed to talk.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
She makes a noise to sound like Georgie Jessel. I
tell you, Margaret, Yes, Jim, do you think we ought
to go down and get her?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Poor kid, probably crying her heart out.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
She'll get over and don't forget they promised her two drumsticks.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I don't know. She didn't sound very hungry.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Do I what you promised me a Thanksgiving dinner at
the townhouse? You remember?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yes? I didn't didn't I.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'll get my hat and coat or would you rather
have me sue you for breach of promise?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Margaret?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Jim, there isn't anything wrong, is there?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Oh no, honey, everything's fine. It's just that.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Well, yes, I've been doing a lot of thinking. And
would you mind very much if we didn't go out?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Why, Jim?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I know I promised you at dinner, but well, I'd
just rather eat here.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
There isn't anything to eat.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Sure there is. It's a whole heap of hamburger in
the icebox.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Hamburger on Thanksgiving Day, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
To tell you the truth, this doesn't seem much like Thanksgiving,
not like the kind of Thanksgiving we used to know.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well, it's finally happened after only eighteen years. You're tired
of me.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
You know what I mean, don't you, Honey? I think so.
Thanksgiving has always.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Been a special sort of a day for me, even
when I was a boy.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
It was more than just a holiday.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
It was a time when the whole family got together
and had fun.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
We used to go out into the country and my grandmother's.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh we did too, go to my grandmother's.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I mean, the whole.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Family used to be there, my uncle Rob and his
wife and their eight children, and my uncle Will and
his wife and their ten children.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
That must have been cozy.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Oh, it was weading shifts.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
My grandmother always swore she was feeding half of the
neighbors kids.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Oh it was fun.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Did you play games after dinner?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Heck no, we were so stuffed we couldn't move.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Oh, you were a bunch of sissies. We used to
play going to Jerusalem, or musical chairs or charades.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
That's pretty hard to do with just two people, isn't it. Jim.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
There's one thing we mustn't forget. This is a new generation.
It's a different sort of generation with new ideas and
a new sense of values. Times have changed.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Mmmm, they have. Let's let's go into the kitchen and
see what we can throw together.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You're an old sentimentalist to Manderson, that's what you are,
and I love you.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I love you too. You know, maybe if the kids
get home early, we can all go to a movie
or something. How'd you like that? Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I wouldn't count on it.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Dear.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Betty said not to expect her before midnight, and Bud's
dinner won't start until six.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, Kathy isn't going to stay out all night, is she?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Okay, then we'll.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Take Kathy to the movie, so we'll see, Dear, it
all depends.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Good.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Hi am, Mom, Hi Dad?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Fix me a hamburger?
Speaker 10 (20:46):
One?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
One?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Well, what happened to the dinner? What dinner at the
training table with the football team? Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:54):
That dinner?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
I guess I just wasn't hungry.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Weren't hungry? You?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I'm going to call doctor Simmons.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Wait a minute, Margaret, Bud, if you aren't hungry, why
the hamburger?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
The hamburger?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It pardoned me? The three hamburgers.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Oh, well, I guess I got hungry.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh God, if you don't feel well, please tell us.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
But I do feel well, Mom, I feel fine.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Look but if you don't want to tell us the truth.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
But I am telling you the truth. I didn't like
the din her. That's all a bunch of big goof
sitting around talking about football.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
What good is that?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Since when don't you like to talk about football?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
What good is that?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Since when don't you like to talk about football?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Just second, Kathy, it's me father.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
What's she doing home?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
What on earthed?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Uh? We're in the kitchen, Betty, I'll be.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Right, Oh dear, Just when everything was going.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
So well, Margaret, why do you immediately assume that something
is wrong? Maybe the leggags decided not to have a party,
or maybe Betty had the wrong day.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Lots of things could have happened.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
The party was today, I know it was.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Well, maybe it hasn't started yet.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
What's everybody doing in the kitchen? But hi, bod, what
are you doing here?
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Nothing much? Want a hamburger?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Okay, I'm remind the hamburgers, but we've got things to
discuss that are much more important than hamburgers.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Do you feel all right, dear?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Why you told your mother you wouldn't be home until midnight.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh well, I well, I wasn't going to, but I
came up with the most awful headache.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Jim, you just said you felt fine. I do.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh, I mean I do, except for this headache.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Jim. I'm going to call missus Liggod and ask her mother.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
You know if there was anything wrong. I tell you
I always.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Have had I Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Do you have minute, Margaret? Kathy? Yes, daddy, we're in
the kitchen. Come on in.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yes, Daddy, See Margaret, I told you we should have
gone down for no way of knowing.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
What's the matter with Kathy.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Your sister reads the first line of her poem and
bursts into tears.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
No kidding, the poor little thing.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Hello, Hello, sweetheart, come out over here and tell you,
daddy all your troubles.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I don't have any troubles, Daddy. I'm just not happy.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Well, it isn't anything to cry about, is it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
It was a lovely poem, darling, even if you didn't
read it.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
And don't you worry not head if anybody makes fun
of you, I'll pokem right in a nose, Bud.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I don't care if they do make fun of me.
I didn't want to read my poem, not to them.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Why, Kathy, they're your friends.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I don't want them.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It's Thanksgiving and I wanted my mommy and my daddy
and my sister and my brother.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I was lonesome, Kathy, Darnie.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
She's all right, Margaret, just leave her alone.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Mother, Yes, Betty, I was lonesome too.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh now wait a minute, oh Jim, Margaret, not.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yes, me too?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Good grief.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
You sound like the third act of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
What's the matter with you, Bud?
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Nothing? I just feel like throwing my nose, that's all.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Well, blow it. Get busy with a hamburgers.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Okay, Dad, I'll about little food for the hungry Anderson.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Why I'm starving hamburgers? It's anything to serve for Thanksgiving dinner,
isn't it.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
It sounds fine to me.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I don't care what part of the hamburger right yet,
as long as it's the drumstick had that girl?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Kathy? Well, what are we waiting for? Let's sit down
and be comfortable.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I'll take over the bud.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I'm going fine.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Mom.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Don't argue with the chef. Margaret, just sit down and relax.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Well, if you inst four hamburgers coming up.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Well, that'll take care of me. But what are they
gonna eat? Oh, you big pig Margaret.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Kids.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Before we dig into these juicy Thanksgiving burgers, may I
say something. This has been I think the happiest Thanksgiving
Day of my entire life, and if you don't mind,
I'd like to say a special grace. Oh Lord, we
give THEE thanks from the bottom of our humble hearts
(25:58):
for the blessings thou hast seen it to bestow upon us.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
We thank THEE for the food that graces our table
and the roof that covers our head.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
We thank THEE for the privilege of living as free
men in the country which respects our freedom, our personal
rights to worship and think and speak as we choose.
But most of all, Dear Lord, we thank THEE for
making us a family, for giving us sincerity and understand.
(26:29):
We thank THEE for giving us the most cherished gift
of family may know.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
The gift of.
Speaker 10 (26:35):
Love for one another. Ah Men, morning.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Now, and in the Anderson Breakfast note, life is eased
back into its accustomed group. Thanksgiving Day is over, but
the Anderson's, well, they go on forever like this.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Why can't I wear lipsticks. Claudia mceue doesn't. She's only twelve.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Here's your coffee, deer, thank you?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Well, what well?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Why can't I.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Because I said you couldn't and eat your breakfast?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Jeez? Well's oh, Margaret, we've.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Got to do something about that boy. He's beginning to
shake the house.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I don't speak to him, dear.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
If he can't take it easy on the stairs, don't
feed him so much. One of these days is going
to go right through.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Hi Dad, Good morning mom, Sit down and eat your breakfast.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Good morning, dear.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
He didn't say anything to me, Hi esquirt, Good morning mother.
Do you know what, bud did? He use my good
cologne on his hair?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Good morning, Betty, I used two draws.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He used practically the whole bottle.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I did not. Good morning, Betty, mother.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
If I can have a little privacy.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
With my own day, Betty? Why, good morning?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Good morning father.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
That's better, Sit down, eat your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
You know, Margaret, there's one thing I'm really going to
enjoy about our Thanksgiving Day dinner yesterday?
Speaker 3 (28:20):
What's that? Dear?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
We're probably the.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Only family in Springfield that won't be eating leftover turkey for.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
The next month. Yes, dear, what are we going to
have for dinner tonight?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Leftover hamburgers.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
So you don't think your family will ever be hungry again,
Well you just wait till tomorrow morning. The kids'll be
banging their spoons for breakfast the same as ever. So
be ready with steaming bowls of hot Post wheatmeal and
tell the youngsters it's hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal. Yes,
hot Post sweetmeal with solid whole wheat nourishment and rich
nut like flavor. That hop Along sure goes for hot
(29:16):
Post wheatmeal. You'll see, you'll all agree it's the best
hot cereal you ever hate.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
These days, stores everywhere are featuring lower prices on Maxwell
House coffee, the lowest.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Prices in months.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Bring home one of those familiar blue tins tomorrow and
enjoy coffee that's always good.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
To the last drop.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Join us again next week, when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargeye and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly
Bill Foreman. So until next Thursday, good night and good
luck from the makers of Maxwell House. Father knows Best
was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed Jane. Now
(29:59):
stay tuned for a dragnet which follows immediately over most
of these stations.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Exciting dragnat is next and we the people on NBC.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Please send your questions and comments to host at classiccomedyotr
dot com. Until next time. In the words of Kurt Vonnegut,
a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it,
is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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