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When Margaret becomes matchmaker for her single cousin, Louise, she knows what’s best, regardless of what father may think.
Originally aired on January 25, 1951. This is episode 66 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 Eckelbarger. When Margaret becomes matchmaker for her single
cousin Louise Well, she knows what's best regardless of what
father may think. This is episode number sixty six of
(00:37):
Father Knows Best, entitled Sound Matchmaking. It originally aired on
January twenty fifth, nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Mother is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
World where your father says so and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yes, it's father Knows Best.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more
people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop. All marriages
(01:36):
we've off been told are figured out in heaven. But
there must be an annex on Maple Street at number
six oh seven.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
In the event that you didn't know.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
That's where the Andersons live, and that's where Dan Cupid
gets in some prifty powerful licks like well like this,
but I'm not hungry.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Stop arguing, Kathleen and eat your dinner.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Margaret, I see no reason why the children have to
eat at this ridiculous hour.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I don't mind eating at five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You don't mind eating period?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Is that so by nine o'clock they'll be storming around
here like a bunch of starving Armenians.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
And if you think, Jim, Louise will hear you, she's
upstairs getting dressed.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Well, it wasn't her idea. It was yours, candlelight and
soft music.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
She happens to be my favorite cousin. If she needs
a little help in getting Tom Goodwin to propose.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
They've been going together for almost five years. And if
he hasn't proposed by this time.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Jim, he's going to propose. Believe me, I.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Don't know women get these weird ideas.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
There's nothing weird about marriage.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
There is no.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Look, Honey, the guy obviously isn't the marrying type. It
doesn't take five years to make up your mind.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
I'm going to see to it that Tom Goodwin proposes
to my cousin Louise tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But yes, Dad, I want you to keep this little
scene in mind. It may I'm in very handy in.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
The future, okay, Dad, Gin The poor guy by the
name of Goodwin, just goes along minding his own business.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
And what happens. They gang up on him, set traps.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
Be really daddy.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Oh yes, flickering candle light, the sweet scent of camellias.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I thought camelias didn't smell.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
For what I'm being sharged, they'd better smell.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Isn't the awful mother? Just because he's a man.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Now there's another thing, isn't it disgraceful? I'm a man.
Speaker 10 (03:31):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
This isn't just a case of Louise and her friend
having dinner with us. This is a fight to the finish.
The hunters smelled blood and they're closing in for the kill.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I thought they were just gonna have dinner.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
But as you grow older, you'll learn that women have
a peculiar attitude when it comes to unattached males. If
a man wanders around unmarried, every woman in the world
considers it a personal insult. They band together, They form
little groups, They compare strategy.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Father, leave him alone, dear, he'll run down you.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
See, Bud, I don't get it.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I don't too.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
That was very simple.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Children, your mother being a woman, and I wouldn't have
it any other way. He's trying to get poor Tom
Goodwin to commit matrimony with her cousin Louise.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Oh well, sure, did you understand that?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Keep still or he'll explain it again.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Jim, I don't understand you're sudden interest in poor Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You don't even know the man.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
He's a man, and in a case like this, we've
got to stick together, right Bud?
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Oh? Oh sure, Bud? Those are probably the flowers? Would
you get them like a good boy?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
How about my cake?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No one's going to touch your cake.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Well I better take it with me anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Bud, you'll get crumbs all over the floor. Oh if
he gets this house messed up.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Honey, do you think you're going a little overboard on
this thing?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I certainly do not.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Tom Goodwin is coming all the way from Middletown for
this dinner, and if one thing goes wrong, nothing is
going wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Mother, He'll be hooked before he knows what hit him.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Who's gonna get hooked?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Never mind, dear, Just drink your milk.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
What I like is the high plane on which females
conduct these campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
She's going to be hooked who.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Is daddy, Betty? Stick Andrews.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Tell him.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I'll be right there, Betty. You haven't finished your dinner.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Oh it's all right, mother. We're going to stop him
for hamburger on the way to reheard.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well, don't stay out too late, dear.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm will and good hunting long everybody.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
If she knew she was going to have a hamburger,
why did she?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I can't understand what happened to the flowers. They were
supposed to be here at four.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
You still didn't tell me. Tell you what, dear, who's
gonna get hooked?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
No one is Kathy? And please drink your.
Speaker 11 (05:55):
Milk anytime nobody wants to tell me anything, drink your milk.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Boys, that Dick Andrew's a character. You know what he's
got on three mufflers? And hey, what happened to my cake?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Sit down and drink your milk?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
But I had a whole piece of cake.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You took it with you?
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I did?
Speaker 12 (06:19):
Oh, well, I guess I ate it. You know what
Dick Andrews had.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
On three mufflers. Yeah, what a.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Character, Jim.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
If the flowers aren't here in fifteen minutes, you'll have
to go after them.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I have to change my shirt. What's the matter with Bud?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
He's leaving as soon as he finishes his milk.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
Me too, I'm being stashed over at Patties, so I
won't say anything.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Well, you've certainly got everything all figured out, haven't.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You, Yes, dear to the last detail.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Poor guy. I hope he knows what he's.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
In for, meaning me, I suppose.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Oh, hello, Louise, don't.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Pay any attention to gitting deer. He's just being a man.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Oh, Margaret, would you mind very much if Louise you
haven't changed your clothes? I know, dear, you see I've
been thinking the whole thing over, and I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
All right, Margaret, why don't you leave her alone?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Louise Baker, you march right upstairs and put on your
blue dress. Margaret, if she doesn't want Jim, will you
please leave this to me? He's here, he isn't here,
he won't be here for an hour. It's only the
man with the flowers.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
But yes, ma'am, it's a good thing for this family.
I know how to open a door.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
He's the ambitious type.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Margaret.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Would you mind very much if we call the whole
thing off?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I most certainly would. But if Tom ever finds it, Louise.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You can't call off an avalanche. And once Margaret gets started,
well that's it.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Somebody's gonna get her.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Kathy.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Oh dear, don't worry about helpful Henrietta.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
She'll be out of here before you can say. Why Tom?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
How sudden?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Jim when it comes to being helpful?
Speaker 7 (07:59):
If he does propose Margaret, it won't work. A man
shouldn't be tricked into marriage. Oh, don't be ridiculous, shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
A marriage has to be built on a firmer foundation.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
And if it starts out with trickery and deceit, well
how can it possibly last?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Jim? And I've done alright? Haven't we.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
A minute?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
What is it? Bud?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And he said to tell you he was awfully sorry,
But they have to go over to his mother's for dinner.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Oh dear, now, what are we gonna do about Kathy?
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Why don't I go over to the Louise?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Why don't I just go back to middletown.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
You go upstairs and change your clothes, and let's not
have any more of this nonsense.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Better do what she says, Louise. She's a pretty rough customer.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I'll see you later just a minute, Bud, But Joe's
waiting for me. Go ahead, Louise, Margaret, I.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Am not a child, of course you want? Now go
upstairs and change good. Agree, this is the silliest thing
I've ever done in my entire life.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Wait until after you're married. That's when the silly things
really begin.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Jim, What are you trying to do?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
What am I supposed to do? Just stand here?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh but you'll take Kathy with you?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh right, Holy call, Mom.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You're only going over to Joe's.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I know, but we're gonna invent a telephone.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Okay, Kathy can be the bell.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Holy call, go ahead, button, take good care of your sister.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
If she touches one thing, I won't, but honest I won't.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
You won't even know I'm there, Really, you won't.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Holy Call Margaret, Yes, dear, would you mind explaining one
small thing to me?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Of course not, But don't you think you better run
down for the flowers?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
The flowers can wait? What did you mean? Jim and
I have done all right?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well haven't we?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Naturally? But there wasn't any rickery involved in our marriage.
The whole thing was my idea.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Oh Jim, it was no such thing. I made up
my mind the first day we ever met.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
And I suppose I had nothing to do with it.
That's right. Now.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Look, Margaret Angel, do you remember what happened the night
you proposed?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Of course I do. I walked around the block six
times before I had the nerve to go in.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
It was only five, there was six. My father was
counting them, and it was five.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Okay, five. But when I pushed the bell, that was it.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Jim, you were it before you even saw.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
The bell, you know, now that I think of it,
I got the candle light and soft music business myself,
didn't I to.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A wild Rose. It took me six months to learn
the darn thing.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And come to think of it, i've never heard you
play anything since.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Just to a wild Rose, That's all it took.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Well, if that isn't the most cold.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Blooded conniving, I'm getting to the point where I don't
even like women.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You aren't supposed to, dear, just me.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Think you're clever, don't you. I've got a good mind
to tell Tom Goodman what this is all about. You wouldn't, Oh,
I wouldn't. Wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
No, you wouldn't. Now, stop acting like a spoiled little
boy and answer the door. Yes, mother, And if it
isn't the man with the flowers, you will have to
go after them.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I don't have to, but I will. Women they think
they're so smart about everything, can't.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Even let a man make up his own mind about
getting married music flowers. Well, it certainly took you long
enough to get here.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well I'm sorry, mister Anderson, but you see, never mind
the explanations.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Just give me the flowers. Yes, sir, you just about
ruined everything I did. You certainly did you see? These
aren't just flowers.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
These are tools to dig the grave of an unsuspecting bachelor.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
They are yeh, poor guy, he's as good as cooked
right now? Well, where do I sign for what? The flowers?
Don't I have to sign for them? Oh? No, you see,
I'm Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Well, it looks like father may have talked out a
turn this time. And yet more often than not, the
man of the house does know exactly what he's talking about.
For instance, ladies, when it comes to coffee, truly good coffee,
that husband of yours is the world's greatest experts, no two.
Speaker 13 (12:34):
Ways about it.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
The number one expert on coffee is your husband. Of course,
grocers call us experts too. They know more families enjoy
our Maxwell House coffee than any other brand. But when
you brew the coffee, the final judge is your husband.
And tomorrow, if you'll fill his cup with wonderfully good
Maxwell House, we're sure he'll smile across the table and say.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Wonder best coffee ever.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
In fact, if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back.
You see, we know no coffee tastes like Maxwell House
because no coffee's made like Maxwell House in all this world.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
There's only one recipe for that famous good to the
last drop flavor, a recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended
just so, and only Maxwell House has that recipe. So
we say, take home a pound of our coffee tomorrow,
serve your husband Maxwell House. If he doesn't say best
coffee ever, just send us the can an unused portion,
(13:35):
and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is plainly printed on every familiar blue tin. But enough
from me tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
See how much the world's greatest expert enjoys our coffee. Tomorrow,
Serve your husband Maxwell House coffee good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
The candles have burned low in the Anderson's dining room,
and the scent of flowers mingles gently with the memory
of good red beef. The dinner hour is almost gone,
and a delicate moment approaches.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
The time has arrived for the kill like this.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Why don't we have our coffee in the living room?
I think will be much more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh yes, why don't we have our coffee in the
living room? Be more comfortable?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Oh gosh, that was sure a wonderful dinner, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well, thank you, Tom.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Margaret's a wonderful cook, isn't she.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
She sure is.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Well, it runs in our family, doesn't it, Louise.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Well, I wouldn't exactly say that, she's just being modest.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Tom.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Grandmother Williams always used to say that our family produced
the finest cooks in the entire country.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
He gots, what was that? Near nothing?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Nothing? I was just well, certainly looks romantic in here,
doesn't it?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Fire? In the fireplace? All the lights turned off?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Jim.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Well, I was only.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Saying, why don't you sit down, Tom, and we'll.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Have our coffee?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Well, thank you very much, cream and sugar, No thanks,
I'll take it straight.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Louise, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Margaret.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You take yours playing too, don't you? Yes?
Speaker 9 (15:26):
I do.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Isn't that an amazing coincidence? You and Tom have so
many things in common.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Don't you?
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Is something wrong, Jim?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
No, I I was just wondering when my turn was
coming up for coffee.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I mean, here you are, dear, Thank.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You very much.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
You know, Tom, it's a funny thing, but after you
get used to having a few kids.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
No, Louise, why don't you play something for us?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Sure, Sure, go ahead, lou you play and we'll drink
our coffee.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
All right? How would you like to a wild road?
Speaker 6 (16:13):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Jim? If you don't stop.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It's all right. It went down the wrong pipe.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
That's go ahead, Louise. But I'm a love to a
wild rose.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Oh yes, it's a it's a practically my favorite song.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, mine too? Yes, Oh, dear, Well that didn't last
very long?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And didn't Kathy? Why aren't you everybody?
Speaker 13 (16:55):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
They brought a friend.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
But I distinctly told you you know what she did?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
She blew out all the fuses at the phillips. I
did not, you certainly did.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
I didn't either, did I Joe.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Well, I don't know who did it, but the lights
are sure all out.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Look, why don't you kill We told her to plug
it in when we said, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You did not you just said to plug it in?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Joe, you were right there? Didn't I tell her to wait?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Gush? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I was down on the basement. What were you trying
to do? Blow up the house?
Speaker 12 (17:24):
We were making a telephone Dad and I Bud, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I want you and Kathy to go right back to Joe's.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
But there aren't any lights, Bud Anderson, if you don't
go back to Joe's this very instant.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Hey, what's the matter with our lights?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Jim? Would you please do something?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Honey?
Speaker 9 (17:42):
Did we blow a fuse too?
Speaker 13 (17:44):
Your mother is live?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Or to any second? Joe, Yes, sir. Aren't your mother
and father at home? No, sir.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
You see, we didn't know Kathy was coming over, and
when she did, my mother and father decided they had
to go to the movies.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Jim, why don't you take the children inside?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Come on, kids, I'm sure Louise and Tom will understand.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Of course.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Oh is he the one who's gonna get Kathy?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Let's solve it out of the playroom and see if
we can't get this thing straightened out.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Come on, Kathy is.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Not calling me? Why always?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
All right, Joe, I'm awfully sorry.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Tom.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Oh, that's okay.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
I don't mind a little noise.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Tom lives at the Y in Middletown, and he's used
to having boys around, aren't you Tom?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I sure, I am.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I see. Tell me do you like living at the y? Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Sure, I like it?
Speaker 13 (18:49):
Fine?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I mean it isn't like having your own home, is it.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Well no, but then it wouldn't be any sense in
my having my own home with her.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Gosh, I'm not even married, So we understand.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Margaret, if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Oh, I guess I got that.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Jim, Why aren't you more careful?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
What do you mean careful? It's so dark in here.
I can't even see where I'm I'm sorry, Tom.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Oh, that's sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Jim.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Yeah, just about made it, didn't I have the children
all right there?
Speaker 13 (19:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Sure, they're going to rig up the phone over here,
but they promised not to make any noise.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh, dear, you.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
See, Joe got a telephone outfit for Christmas and they've
been trying.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
To Jim Louise was going to play, but I was
just telling you.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I'm sorry. Just go right ahead, will to a wild rose?
Speaker 14 (19:37):
All right, pretty, isn't it, Jim Well, I was just yes, oh, no.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Right there, Okay, Look, the most terrible thing happened. We
were what are y'all sitting around in the dark for.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
The roses grow better that way?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Betty? You said the rehearsal wouldn't be over until ten.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
Well, the boiler broke down and there wasn't any heat.
And you've never seen any place so cold.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Hi, Louise, Hello, dear, I haven't met your friend. Oh,
I'm sorry, Betty.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
This is Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Ahi?
Speaker 13 (20:24):
Betty?
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Louise was telling me, oh, excuse me, I forgot all
about Dick.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I'll be riding, Betty, please.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I understand, mother. We won't make it sound.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
How did he get upstairs? Y?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
But we're almost finished at Patty.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Betty, I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't know what's gotten into those children tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Did you say something, Tom?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
No, No, I was just sitting here, that's all.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Ordinarily you don't even know they're in the house. Well,
I mean, if you know they're in the house, of course,
But go ahead, dear, what the piano you were doing? Beautifully,
wasn't she?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Tom?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
She sure was just great?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
All right, Louise.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
If the roses weren't wild in the beginning, they are now, Jim,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Go ahead, Oh, dear Katy, tell Joe any more, bodio job.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Away up now.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
Now, Well, tell him to turn the plug.
Speaker 15 (21:41):
Over, No, the flo over, okay, Jim, leave my alone, Margaret,
they'll stop jiffy.
Speaker 9 (21:55):
And it is now Joe wants to know how now
it's words.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Tell them them put it back the way it was, John, What, Jim.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I don't think I can stand this for another second.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
The kids at the piano, Louise, Louise, will you excuse
us for just a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Jim and I have a few things we want to
take care of.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh, please, don't worry about us, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Oh, we'll get long fine, all.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Right, Jim, But we have to take care of those things.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
What thing, Katy, all those things. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Tom, Well, don't hurry on our account. Now, we're not
going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Hello, Oh, Jimmy, I have never been so embarrassed in
my entire life.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Well, this will teach you not to go around playing
Cupid with a house full of kids.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
What did you expect?
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I expected Tom Goodwin to propose, and he's going.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
To I'll still take Tennessee in six points.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I want you to go right down to the playroom
and explain to Kathy why don't I.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Just shoot them and get it over with you. Jim, Well,
how do you expect a bunch of normal ky They.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Don't have to practice hog calling tonight, do they? No?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
But well, I'll speak to them.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'll take care of Betty and Jim. Please be firm
with them.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Oh sure, I'll tell them. They've got to make a
very quiet type of noise. But we're down here, Dad, God,
whether or not you know it, you and Kathy are
in a jam.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
We are what we do. Hey, look at this.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Here's a whole box of things we never even saw.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Well, no, wonder it wouldn't work.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
But I'm trying to tell you coupstairs and try to get.
Speaker 13 (23:59):
Kathy what now?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Look but Kathy and you too, Joe, Yes, sir, I
went out and bought a book, and I'm now an
expert on child psychology. Yah gosh, And do you know
what the book says to do if I hear one
more peep out of any one of you.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I'm coming down here and ring your scrunny little.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Next boy psychology.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Now, is that understood?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
We were only trying to fix up the phone, Dad.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
We didn't know you were gonna get there, all.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Right, Just remember one little peep, Jim. What's the matter, honey,
good Jim?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It happened?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
What happened?
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Wonderful? Father? Did he get high?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Happy?
Speaker 9 (24:53):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I can't even think what's going on.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
But oh, Jim, I've never been so hap my whole life.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I mean, he did it, a ring and everything.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Well, what do you know, Well, congratulate me, Jim.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
I finally made it.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
You finally made it.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
I mean you congratulations, top, Thank you, Jim.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
They're going to be married in June. Isn't it thrilling? Yes?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Sir?
Speaker 13 (25:19):
And now what all of you and Margaret?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
It was for sure?
Speaker 6 (25:22):
You see, Jim, I was an only child, and things
around my house were always whoa kind of.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Quiet, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That's why I was afraid to get married.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
I thought it'd be sort of dull.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
But gosh, if it's like this.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
You mean you're getting married for the noise, isn't it wonderful.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Oh no, Tomorrow or Saturday, you'll probably buy coffee for
(26:06):
that family of yours, and above all you'll be shopping
for flavor. Then it makes sense, doesn't it, to choose
the coffee with the most famous flavor in the world,
Our Maxwell House coffee.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
Now, don't take my word.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Call in the world's greatest coffee expert, right, Brew a
pot of Maxwell House for your husband.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
He's the final expert on coffee.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
When he beams and says best coffee ever, you'll know
Maxwell House has the flavor. And for value, well, count
for yourself all the truly good cups of coffee you
get from every pound this weekend. Look for coffee that
gives you your money's worth and more. Look for the
friendly blue tin with a big white cup and drop.
(26:48):
That's your sign of good coffee. Maxwell House coffee always
good to the last drop. It's breakfast time on Maple Street,
and the Andersons, five little cupids with egg on their chins,
(27:08):
are deep in the morning meal and deep in their usual.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Problems Like this.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Isn't it strange the way things turn out?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Dear you mean Louise and Tom?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yes, now, who would ever have guessed that he was
so crazy about children.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Louise said, they're going to have millions of them.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
She said six, that's what I said, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yes, dear, you don't have any more cousins you'd like to?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
No, dear, not even a second cousin.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Jim, I give you my word. My matchmaking days are over.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Good Mapley's have the sugar.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Father.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Do you know a boy named Frank Colbertson?
Speaker 7 (27:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
Why well, he belongs to the athletic club.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
What about him?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
You must know him?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Father.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
He's twenty seven years old, blonde hair, blue eyes, five
eleven inches, one hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
We'll wait a minute. Even if I did know him,
don't you think he's a little old for you?
Speaker 9 (28:10):
Oh? I didn't mean for me.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
But Janie Leggot's cousin is twenty five, and that's pretty
over a girl to be wandering around without a boyfriend.
So we were just wondering if you couldn't sort of
drop it, get around the top.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You know what, you don't lost? You're going to somebody.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
At breakfast time.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
You don't have to say you.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Children eat your cereal right this instant? Just say hop
along Cassidy is crazy about hot wheatmeal.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Just a little psychology.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Yes, to get your children to eat a hot cereal,
just tell him post tweatmeal as hop Alon Cassidy's favorite
hot cereal, and they lead it too. Post Wheatmeal is
chuck full of solid, whole wheap nourishment, has a wonderful
nut like flavor, and at cooks in just three and
a half minutes. You'll see you'll all agree it's the
best hot cereal you ever ate. Join us again next
(29:23):
week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring
Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with June Whitley as Margaret
Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly,
Bill Forman. So until next Thursday, good night and good
luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite friend
of cook always good to the last drop. Father Knows
(29:44):
Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed Jabs.
Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over
most of these stations. Coming up Dragnat with tense, absorbing
drama on NBC.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Please send your questions and comments to host at classiccomedyotr
dot com until next time. In the words of Rachel Carson,
those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the
earth are never alone or weary of life.
Welcome to classic comedy of old time radio. I'm your
host Ron Eckelbarger. When Margaret becomes matchmaker for her single
cousin Louise Well, she knows what's best regardless of what
father may think. This is episode number sixty six of
(00:37):
Father Knows Best, entitled Sound Matchmaking. It originally aired on
January twenty fifth, nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Mother is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
World where your father says so and your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yes, it's father Knows Best.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more
people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop. All marriages
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we've off been told are figured out in heaven. But
there must be an annex on Maple Street at number
six oh seven.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
In the event that you didn't know.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
That's where the Andersons live, and that's where Dan Cupid
gets in some prifty powerful licks like well like this,
but I'm not hungry.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Stop arguing, Kathleen and eat your dinner.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Margaret, I see no reason why the children have to
eat at this ridiculous hour.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I don't mind eating at five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You don't mind eating period?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Is that so by nine o'clock they'll be storming around
here like a bunch of starving Armenians.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
And if you think, Jim, Louise will hear you, she's
upstairs getting dressed.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Well, it wasn't her idea. It was yours, candlelight and
soft music.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
She happens to be my favorite cousin. If she needs
a little help in getting Tom Goodwin to propose.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
They've been going together for almost five years. And if
he hasn't proposed by this time.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Jim, he's going to propose. Believe me, I.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Don't know women get these weird ideas.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
There's nothing weird about marriage.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
There is no.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Look, Honey, the guy obviously isn't the marrying type. It
doesn't take five years to make up your mind.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
I'm going to see to it that Tom Goodwin proposes
to my cousin Louise tonight.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
But yes, Dad, I want you to keep this little
scene in mind. It may I'm in very handy in.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
The future, okay, Dad, Gin The poor guy by the
name of Goodwin, just goes along minding his own business.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
And what happens. They gang up on him, set traps.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
Be really daddy.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Oh yes, flickering candle light, the sweet scent of camellias.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I thought camelias didn't smell.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
For what I'm being sharged, they'd better smell.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Isn't the awful mother? Just because he's a man.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Now there's another thing, isn't it disgraceful? I'm a man.
Speaker 10 (03:31):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
This isn't just a case of Louise and her friend
having dinner with us. This is a fight to the finish.
The hunters smelled blood and they're closing in for the kill.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
I thought they were just gonna have dinner.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
But as you grow older, you'll learn that women have
a peculiar attitude when it comes to unattached males. If
a man wanders around unmarried, every woman in the world
considers it a personal insult. They band together, They form
little groups, They compare strategy.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Father, leave him alone, dear, he'll run down you.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
See, Bud, I don't get it.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I don't too.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
That was very simple.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Children, your mother being a woman, and I wouldn't have
it any other way. He's trying to get poor Tom
Goodwin to commit matrimony with her cousin Louise.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Oh well, sure, did you understand that?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Keep still or he'll explain it again.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Jim, I don't understand you're sudden interest in poor Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You don't even know the man.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
That has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
He's a man, and in a case like this, we've
got to stick together, right Bud?
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Oh? Oh sure, Bud? Those are probably the flowers? Would
you get them like a good boy?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
How about my cake?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No one's going to touch your cake.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Well I better take it with me anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Bud, you'll get crumbs all over the floor. Oh if
he gets this house messed up.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Honey, do you think you're going a little overboard on
this thing?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I certainly do not.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Tom Goodwin is coming all the way from Middletown for
this dinner, and if one thing goes wrong, nothing is
going wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Mother, He'll be hooked before he knows what hit him.
Speaker 9 (05:13):
Who's gonna get hooked?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Never mind, dear, Just drink your milk.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
What I like is the high plane on which females
conduct these campaign.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
She's going to be hooked who.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Is daddy, Betty? Stick Andrews.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
Tell him.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I'll be right there, Betty. You haven't finished your dinner.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Oh it's all right, mother. We're going to stop him
for hamburger on the way to reheard.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well, don't stay out too late, dear.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm will and good hunting long everybody.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
If she knew she was going to have a hamburger,
why did she?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I can't understand what happened to the flowers. They were
supposed to be here at four.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
You still didn't tell me. Tell you what, dear, who's
gonna get hooked?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
No one is Kathy? And please drink your.
Speaker 11 (05:55):
Milk anytime nobody wants to tell me anything, drink your milk.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Boys, that Dick Andrew's a character. You know what he's
got on three mufflers? And hey, what happened to my cake?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Sit down and drink your milk?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
But I had a whole piece of cake.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You took it with you?
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I did?
Speaker 12 (06:19):
Oh, well, I guess I ate it. You know what
Dick Andrews had.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
On three mufflers. Yeah, what a.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Character, Jim.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
If the flowers aren't here in fifteen minutes, you'll have
to go after them.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I have to change my shirt. What's the matter with Bud?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
He's leaving as soon as he finishes his milk.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
Me too, I'm being stashed over at Patties, so I
won't say anything.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Well, you've certainly got everything all figured out, haven't.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You, Yes, dear to the last detail.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Poor guy. I hope he knows what he's.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
In for, meaning me, I suppose.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Oh, hello, Louise, don't.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Pay any attention to gitting deer. He's just being a man.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Oh, Margaret, would you mind very much if Louise you
haven't changed your clothes? I know, dear, you see I've
been thinking the whole thing over, and I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
All right, Margaret, why don't you leave her alone?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Louise Baker, you march right upstairs and put on your
blue dress. Margaret, if she doesn't want Jim, will you
please leave this to me? He's here, he isn't here,
he won't be here for an hour. It's only the
man with the flowers.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
But yes, ma'am, it's a good thing for this family.
I know how to open a door.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
He's the ambitious type.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Margaret.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Would you mind very much if we call the whole
thing off?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I most certainly would. But if Tom ever finds it, Louise.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You can't call off an avalanche. And once Margaret gets started,
well that's it.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Somebody's gonna get her.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Kathy.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Oh dear, don't worry about helpful Henrietta.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
She'll be out of here before you can say. Why Tom?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
How sudden?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Jim when it comes to being helpful?
Speaker 7 (07:59):
If he does propose Margaret, it won't work. A man
shouldn't be tricked into marriage. Oh, don't be ridiculous, shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
A marriage has to be built on a firmer foundation.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
And if it starts out with trickery and deceit, well
how can it possibly last?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Jim? And I've done alright? Haven't we.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
A minute?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
What is it? Bud?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
And he said to tell you he was awfully sorry,
But they have to go over to his mother's for dinner.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Oh dear, now, what are we gonna do about Kathy?
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Why don't I go over to the Louise?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Why don't I just go back to middletown.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
You go upstairs and change your clothes, and let's not
have any more of this nonsense.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Better do what she says, Louise. She's a pretty rough customer.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I'll see you later just a minute, Bud, But Joe's
waiting for me. Go ahead, Louise, Margaret, I.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Am not a child, of course you want? Now go
upstairs and change good. Agree, this is the silliest thing
I've ever done in my entire life.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Wait until after you're married. That's when the silly things
really begin.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Jim, What are you trying to do?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
What am I supposed to do? Just stand here?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh but you'll take Kathy with you?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh right, Holy call, Mom.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
You're only going over to Joe's.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I know, but we're gonna invent a telephone.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Okay, Kathy can be the bell.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Holy call, go ahead, button, take good care of your sister.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
If she touches one thing, I won't, but honest I won't.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
You won't even know I'm there, Really, you won't.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Holy Call Margaret, Yes, dear, would you mind explaining one
small thing to me?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Of course not, But don't you think you better run
down for the flowers?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
The flowers can wait? What did you mean? Jim and
I have done all right?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well haven't we?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Naturally? But there wasn't any rickery involved in our marriage.
The whole thing was my idea.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Oh Jim, it was no such thing. I made up
my mind the first day we ever met.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
And I suppose I had nothing to do with it.
That's right. Now.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
Look, Margaret Angel, do you remember what happened the night
you proposed?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Of course I do. I walked around the block six
times before I had the nerve to go in.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
It was only five, there was six. My father was
counting them, and it was five.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Okay, five. But when I pushed the bell, that was it.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Jim, you were it before you even saw.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
The bell, you know, now that I think of it,
I got the candle light and soft music business myself,
didn't I to.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A wild Rose. It took me six months to learn
the darn thing.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
And come to think of it, i've never heard you
play anything since.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Just to a wild Rose, That's all it took.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Well, if that isn't the most cold.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Blooded conniving, I'm getting to the point where I don't
even like women.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
You aren't supposed to, dear, just me.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Think you're clever, don't you. I've got a good mind
to tell Tom Goodman what this is all about. You wouldn't, Oh,
I wouldn't. Wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
No, you wouldn't. Now, stop acting like a spoiled little
boy and answer the door. Yes, mother, And if it
isn't the man with the flowers, you will have to
go after them.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I don't have to, but I will. Women they think
they're so smart about everything, can't.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Even let a man make up his own mind about
getting married music flowers. Well, it certainly took you long
enough to get here.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well I'm sorry, mister Anderson, but you see, never mind
the explanations.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Just give me the flowers. Yes, sir, you just about
ruined everything I did. You certainly did you see? These
aren't just flowers.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
These are tools to dig the grave of an unsuspecting bachelor.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
They are yeh, poor guy, he's as good as cooked
right now? Well, where do I sign for what? The flowers?
Don't I have to sign for them? Oh? No, you see,
I'm Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Well, it looks like father may have talked out a
turn this time. And yet more often than not, the
man of the house does know exactly what he's talking about.
For instance, ladies, when it comes to coffee, truly good coffee,
that husband of yours is the world's greatest experts, no two.
Speaker 13 (12:34):
Ways about it.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
The number one expert on coffee is your husband. Of course,
grocers call us experts too. They know more families enjoy
our Maxwell House coffee than any other brand. But when
you brew the coffee, the final judge is your husband.
And tomorrow, if you'll fill his cup with wonderfully good
Maxwell House, we're sure he'll smile across the table and say.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Wonder best coffee ever.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
In fact, if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back.
You see, we know no coffee tastes like Maxwell House
because no coffee's made like Maxwell House in all this world.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
There's only one recipe for that famous good to the
last drop flavor, a recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended
just so, and only Maxwell House has that recipe. So
we say, take home a pound of our coffee tomorrow,
serve your husband Maxwell House. If he doesn't say best
coffee ever, just send us the can an unused portion,
(13:35):
and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is plainly printed on every familiar blue tin. But enough
from me tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
See how much the world's greatest expert enjoys our coffee. Tomorrow,
Serve your husband Maxwell House coffee good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
The candles have burned low in the Anderson's dining room,
and the scent of flowers mingles gently with the memory
of good red beef. The dinner hour is almost gone,
and a delicate moment approaches.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
The time has arrived for the kill like this.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Why don't we have our coffee in the living room?
I think will be much more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh yes, why don't we have our coffee in the
living room? Be more comfortable?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Oh gosh, that was sure a wonderful dinner, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well, thank you, Tom.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Margaret's a wonderful cook, isn't she.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
She sure is.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Well, it runs in our family, doesn't it, Louise.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Well, I wouldn't exactly say that, she's just being modest.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Tom.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Grandmother Williams always used to say that our family produced
the finest cooks in the entire country.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
He gots, what was that? Near nothing?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Nothing? I was just well, certainly looks romantic in here,
doesn't it?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Fire? In the fireplace? All the lights turned off?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Jim.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Well, I was only.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Saying, why don't you sit down, Tom, and we'll.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Have our coffee?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Well, thank you very much, cream and sugar, No thanks,
I'll take it straight.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Louise, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Margaret.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You take yours playing too, don't you? Yes?
Speaker 9 (15:26):
I do.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Isn't that an amazing coincidence? You and Tom have so
many things in common.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Don't you?
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Is something wrong, Jim?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
No, I I was just wondering when my turn was
coming up for coffee.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I mean, here you are, dear, Thank.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You very much.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
You know, Tom, it's a funny thing, but after you
get used to having a few kids.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
No, Louise, why don't you play something for us?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Sure, Sure, go ahead, lou you play and we'll drink
our coffee.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
All right? How would you like to a wild road?
Speaker 6 (16:13):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Jim? If you don't stop.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
It's all right. It went down the wrong pipe.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
That's go ahead, Louise. But I'm a love to a
wild rose.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Oh yes, it's a it's a practically my favorite song.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, mine too? Yes, Oh, dear, Well that didn't last
very long?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And didn't Kathy? Why aren't you everybody?
Speaker 13 (16:55):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
They brought a friend.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
But I distinctly told you you know what she did?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
She blew out all the fuses at the phillips. I
did not, you certainly did.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
I didn't either, did I Joe.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Well, I don't know who did it, but the lights
are sure all out.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Look, why don't you kill We told her to plug
it in when we said, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You did not you just said to plug it in?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Joe, you were right there? Didn't I tell her to wait?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Gush? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I was down on the basement. What were you trying
to do? Blow up the house?
Speaker 12 (17:24):
We were making a telephone Dad and I Bud, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I want you and Kathy to go right back to Joe's.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
But there aren't any lights, Bud Anderson, if you don't
go back to Joe's this very instant.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Hey, what's the matter with our lights?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Jim? Would you please do something?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Honey?
Speaker 9 (17:42):
Did we blow a fuse too?
Speaker 13 (17:44):
Your mother is live?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Or to any second? Joe, Yes, sir. Aren't your mother
and father at home? No, sir.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
You see, we didn't know Kathy was coming over, and
when she did, my mother and father decided they had
to go to the movies.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Jim, why don't you take the children inside?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Come on, kids, I'm sure Louise and Tom will understand.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Of course.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Oh is he the one who's gonna get Kathy?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Let's solve it out of the playroom and see if
we can't get this thing straightened out.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Come on, Kathy is.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Not calling me? Why always?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
All right, Joe, I'm awfully sorry.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Tom.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Oh, that's okay.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
I don't mind a little noise.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Tom lives at the Y in Middletown, and he's used
to having boys around, aren't you Tom?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I sure, I am.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I see. Tell me do you like living at the y? Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Sure, I like it?
Speaker 13 (18:49):
Fine?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I mean it isn't like having your own home, is it.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Well no, but then it wouldn't be any sense in
my having my own home with her.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Gosh, I'm not even married, So we understand.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Margaret, if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Oh, I guess I got that.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Jim, Why aren't you more careful?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
What do you mean careful? It's so dark in here.
I can't even see where I'm I'm sorry, Tom.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Oh, that's sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Jim.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Yeah, just about made it, didn't I have the children
all right there?
Speaker 13 (19:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Sure, they're going to rig up the phone over here,
but they promised not to make any noise.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Oh, dear, you.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
See, Joe got a telephone outfit for Christmas and they've
been trying.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
To Jim Louise was going to play, but I was
just telling you.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I'm sorry. Just go right ahead, will to a wild rose?
Speaker 14 (19:37):
All right, pretty, isn't it, Jim Well, I was just yes, oh, no.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Right there, Okay, Look, the most terrible thing happened. We
were what are y'all sitting around in the dark for.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
The roses grow better that way?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Betty? You said the rehearsal wouldn't be over until ten.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
Well, the boiler broke down and there wasn't any heat.
And you've never seen any place so cold.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Hi, Louise, Hello, dear, I haven't met your friend. Oh,
I'm sorry, Betty.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
This is Tom Goodwin.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Ahi?
Speaker 13 (20:24):
Betty?
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Louise was telling me, oh, excuse me, I forgot all
about Dick.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I'll be riding, Betty, please.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I understand, mother. We won't make it sound.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
How did he get upstairs? Y?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
But we're almost finished at Patty.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Betty, I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I don't know what's gotten into those children tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Did you say something, Tom?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
No, No, I was just sitting here, that's all.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
Ordinarily you don't even know they're in the house. Well,
I mean, if you know they're in the house, of course,
But go ahead, dear, what the piano you were doing? Beautifully,
wasn't she?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Tom?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
She sure was just great?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
All right, Louise.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
If the roses weren't wild in the beginning, they are now, Jim,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Go ahead, Oh, dear Katy, tell Joe any more, bodio job.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Away up now.
Speaker 10 (21:38):
Now, Well, tell him to turn the plug.
Speaker 15 (21:41):
Over, No, the flo over, okay, Jim, leave my alone, Margaret,
they'll stop jiffy.
Speaker 9 (21:55):
And it is now Joe wants to know how now
it's words.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Tell them them put it back the way it was, John, What, Jim.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I don't think I can stand this for another second.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
The kids at the piano, Louise, Louise, will you excuse
us for just a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Jim and I have a few things we want to
take care of.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh, please, don't worry about us, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Oh, we'll get long fine, all.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Right, Jim, But we have to take care of those things.
Speaker 13 (22:46):
What thing, Katy, all those things. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Tom, Well, don't hurry on our account. Now, we're not
going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Hello, Oh, Jimmy, I have never been so embarrassed in
my entire life.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Well, this will teach you not to go around playing
Cupid with a house full of kids.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
What did you expect?
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I expected Tom Goodwin to propose, and he's going.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
To I'll still take Tennessee in six points.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I want you to go right down to the playroom
and explain to Kathy why don't I.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Just shoot them and get it over with you. Jim, Well,
how do you expect a bunch of normal ky They.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Don't have to practice hog calling tonight, do they? No?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
But well, I'll speak to them.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'll take care of Betty and Jim. Please be firm
with them.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Oh sure, I'll tell them. They've got to make a
very quiet type of noise. But we're down here, Dad, God,
whether or not you know it, you and Kathy are
in a jam.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
We are what we do. Hey, look at this.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
Here's a whole box of things we never even saw.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Well, no, wonder it wouldn't work.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
But I'm trying to tell you coupstairs and try to get.
Speaker 13 (23:59):
Kathy what now?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Look but Kathy and you too, Joe, Yes, sir, I
went out and bought a book, and I'm now an
expert on child psychology. Yah gosh, And do you know
what the book says to do if I hear one
more peep out of any one of you.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I'm coming down here and ring your scrunny little.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Next boy psychology.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Now, is that understood?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
We were only trying to fix up the phone, Dad.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
We didn't know you were gonna get there, all.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Right, Just remember one little peep, Jim. What's the matter, honey,
good Jim?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
It happened?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
What happened?
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Wonderful? Father? Did he get high?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Happy?
Speaker 9 (24:53):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I can't even think what's going on.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
But oh, Jim, I've never been so hap my whole life.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I mean, he did it, a ring and everything.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Well, what do you know, Well, congratulate me, Jim.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
I finally made it.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
You finally made it.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
I mean you congratulations, top, Thank you, Jim.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
They're going to be married in June. Isn't it thrilling? Yes?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Sir?
Speaker 13 (25:19):
And now what all of you and Margaret?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
It was for sure?
Speaker 6 (25:22):
You see, Jim, I was an only child, and things
around my house were always whoa kind of.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Quiet, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That's why I was afraid to get married.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
I thought it'd be sort of dull.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
But gosh, if it's like this.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
You mean you're getting married for the noise, isn't it wonderful.
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Oh no, Tomorrow or Saturday, you'll probably buy coffee for
(26:06):
that family of yours, and above all you'll be shopping
for flavor. Then it makes sense, doesn't it, to choose
the coffee with the most famous flavor in the world,
Our Maxwell House coffee.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
Now, don't take my word.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Call in the world's greatest coffee expert, right, Brew a
pot of Maxwell House for your husband.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
He's the final expert on coffee.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
When he beams and says best coffee ever, you'll know
Maxwell House has the flavor. And for value, well, count
for yourself all the truly good cups of coffee you
get from every pound this weekend. Look for coffee that
gives you your money's worth and more. Look for the
friendly blue tin with a big white cup and drop.
(26:48):
That's your sign of good coffee. Maxwell House coffee always
good to the last drop. It's breakfast time on Maple Street,
and the Andersons, five little cupids with egg on their chins,
(27:08):
are deep in the morning meal and deep in their usual.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Problems Like this.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Isn't it strange the way things turn out?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Dear you mean Louise and Tom?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yes, now, who would ever have guessed that he was
so crazy about children.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Louise said, they're going to have millions of them.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
She said six, that's what I said, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yes, dear, you don't have any more cousins you'd like to?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
No, dear, not even a second cousin.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Jim, I give you my word. My matchmaking days are over.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Good Mapley's have the sugar.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Father.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Do you know a boy named Frank Colbertson?
Speaker 7 (27:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I don't think so.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
Why well, he belongs to the athletic club.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
What about him?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
You must know him?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Father.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
He's twenty seven years old, blonde hair, blue eyes, five
eleven inches, one hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
We'll wait a minute. Even if I did know him,
don't you think he's a little old for you?
Speaker 9 (28:10):
Oh? I didn't mean for me.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
But Janie Leggot's cousin is twenty five, and that's pretty
over a girl to be wandering around without a boyfriend.
So we were just wondering if you couldn't sort of
drop it, get around the top.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You know what, you don't lost? You're going to somebody.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
At breakfast time.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
You don't have to say you.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Children eat your cereal right this instant? Just say hop
along Cassidy is crazy about hot wheatmeal.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Just a little psychology.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Yes, to get your children to eat a hot cereal,
just tell him post tweatmeal as hop Alon Cassidy's favorite
hot cereal, and they lead it too. Post Wheatmeal is
chuck full of solid, whole wheap nourishment, has a wonderful
nut like flavor, and at cooks in just three and
a half minutes. You'll see you'll all agree it's the
best hot cereal you ever ate. Join us again next
(29:23):
week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring
Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with June Whitley as Margaret
Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly,
Bill Forman. So until next Thursday, good night and good
luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite friend
of cook always good to the last drop. Father Knows
(29:44):
Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed Jabs.
Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over
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