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When Margaret mentions that she ran into an acquaintance from summer vacation, Jim goes crazy trying to remember the guy’s name.
Originally aired on February 8, 1951. This is episode 68 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. When Margaret mentions that she ran into
an acquaintance from summer vacation, Jim goes crazy trying to
remember the guy's name. This is episode sixty eight A
Father Knows Best, entitled What Was His Name? It originally
(00:38):
aired on February eighth, nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mother, is Nashville House the best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows this.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh yes, if father knows Best?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father, A half hour
visit with your neighbors.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The andesty brought to.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
You by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed
by more people than any other brand of coffee at
any price.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
They say, curiosity once killed a cat, a faith that's
both proper and fitting. So why not give thanks for
the good fortune that let you pry yet not die
like a kitten. The point we're trying to make is
the curiosity is not confined to cats. It's a human
fraility as well, And when it comes to frailities. Well,
we doubt that you'll find anyone quite as human or
(01:56):
as frail as our dear friends in Springfield, the andest
like this, Margaret. May I say that, in my long
years as a lover of good red beef, never has
a more succulent morsel pass my lips.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
We thank you, dear. Why did he say he liked
the roast beef? Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
And now is a fitting climax to an unforgettable repast.
May I be favored with a cup of mister Maxwell's finest.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Of course, dear, But he wants his coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh there you are.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Thank you from the bottom of a happy and care
free heart, I say, thank you.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
He sold a big policy this afternoon?
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Oh, Farley Granger? What was that there? Jannie said it
was finely Granger, as if.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
She knew, realizing full well that I ought to have
my brains examined. Still, I asked, what about Farley Granger?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
There isn't any reason at all for thinking that's who
she meant?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Who who meant?
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Had a hopper?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Betty. These things must be approached delicately. You got to
sneak up on them, or they fly away. Tell me, Betty,
how's everything done around the gas works?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Father?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Janie Niggott said that had a hopper meant Farley Granger
in her column, And it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
He never even goes to places like that.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
There you are, Margaret, you see everything's all cleared up.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That's nice.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Hey, have a creamy sugar please? Hey, I Dan, thank you?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
All right, Kathy, let's not dondle. Mommy and Daddy are in.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
A hurry, yes, mommy. Oh, why do they do things
like that? Like what dear put things like that in
the paper?
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I tried it once and didn't hurt much, all right, Betty?
What do they put in the.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Paper things like this?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Here? I cut it out.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
What young and handsome star was seen leaving? What sunset
stripped nightclub with? What blonde young starlet?
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Isn't that exasperating?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Is that the whole thing?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yes, and Jenny has the nerve to say it's Fonny Granger.
She does, She certainly does.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Isn't that stupid?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Why anyone with half an eye can see they mean lassie, father.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Well look at it, blonde young.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Oh you mean the boy father, It is not funny.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, no, And I don't think you have any right
to laugh at me.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Your father wasn't laughing at you, dear, He certainly was.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Now, wait a minute, do you mean you're going to
let a little thing like this upset you?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
It isn't a little thing. How would you feel if
you didn't know who it was?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I think I'd pull through somehow.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
At least they ought to give you a here.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah, just a minute, bud, Betty. Let's say you do
figure out who they mean, then.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
What Well, then I'll know.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
You know what they said about curiosity kill the cat,
and this whole thing is nothing but a silly attempt
to satisfy your morbid curiosity.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I have to know things, don't I not things like who.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Came out of where?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
With?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
What?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
That's being curious about? The most meaningless sort of trivia?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
What's trivia?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I wouldn't care if it was something important, But how
can you sit there and make yourself miserable about something that.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Doesn't amount to a row of beans in the first place?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
Jaddy?
Speaker 6 (05:37):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Kathy?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
What's trivia?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Trivia are things that are trivial, They're unimportant?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Why?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Because they don't amount to anything like this whole conversation.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Addah boyd, Dad Bud, I was agreeing with him.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Peter Lawford, I'll bet that's it.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Why Betty?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
He's young and goes.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Out with Betty.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yes, Father, I don't care if it's Groucho Marx on
a white horse, forget about it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
But I said, forget about.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
It jumping creepers, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And I don't want any trouble with you either, But
I have to.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Ask you something, Jim.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I don't think you're being very nice.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
How can anybody be nice when he's being smothered than
quiz kids?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Just because the children ask a few innocent.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Questions and they don't do anything but ask questions from
the time they get up in the morning until they
go to bed at night.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Who's on first? What's on? Which? It's enough to make
a man commit horrakiri?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
What's horra kiri?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Now?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Look, Ketty, leave your father.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Alone, dear. He's in one of those moves.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
One of what moves. I was in a wonderful mood,
wasn't I? But well, I was so full of roast beef.
I loved everybody in the whole world, the milk of
human kindness was practically oozing out of me. But well,
my children don't want to bother. They want an encyclopedia
with ears. Well, but you bet that what you said?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Richard Carlson, that's who it.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Was, Margaret. I think I'll go for a walk, a
long walk, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Dear, And if you happen to pass the leggates, be.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Sure to drop in thegots.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
We're going to their party.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Remember, oh, say we better hurry up.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
You didn't tell me what Harry Carey was?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You mean Harry Carey? She means horror Carey.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
She does, she most certainly does she, Daddy, that's what
is it, Margaret?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Do all children ask as many questions as ours? How
do you stand it?
Speaker 9 (07:56):
All mothers have a system when they reach a point
just one degree short of hysterics, they go shopping.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Well, I suppose that's as good an excuse as Anny.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Jim, I'm so glad you mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Mentioned what shopping? I mentioned shopping.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You'll never guess who I'm at downtown this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Barley Granger, No had a hopper, Jim, am I close.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Do you remember the two boys who had the cabin
next to ours at Round Lake two summers ago.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yes, I'm at the toll one you did. Uh huh?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
What's he doing in Springfield?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well, he said the other one? Oh, what was his name?
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Freddy?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So No, it wasn't Freddy.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
It was something like Freddy.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Well, it didn't be important, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
No anyway, Wait a minute, Margaret, I got the name
on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Let me see.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I know his name as well as I know my own.
Eddie Teddy. Betty Margaret, please.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Oh, Betty, you remember the two boys who had the
cabin next to ours?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I do. Are you sure it wasn't Freddy?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yes, dear, I'm sure I can see him, just as plain,
sort of chunky with dark hair, Hector Smith, and I
ran into him during the World Series in Cleveland that year.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
That's the one who is pitching. Well, I just wanted
to know you see, that's what I mean by curiosity. Well,
I'm trying to figure out something vitally important. What was that?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Why is it important for you enough for us because you.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Don't even remember the man? What, ma'am Freddy? His name
wasn't Freddy, dere it was something like Freddy? Was it? Bobby? Feller. No,
he pitched the first game.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Was Harry carry.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I don't know, Margaret. Why is it that anytime I
try to Bernie, wasn't it Bernie? I don't think so
Bernie Kearnie.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Bernie only gave up two hits in the whole game, Bud, please,
and he lost anyway?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Now, look bad, Jim.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
It isn't that important.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It certainly is.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I was just about to say the name, and he
drove the clear out of my mind with that ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Crackle about a silly baseball game. Silly that was one
of the finest games they ever had in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Only six hits in the whole Gamenie Andernie, Jim.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
How would you like to give up two hits and
then lose the game one and not think? Bud? Will
you please stop it and let me think?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Jim, we've got to get ready to go.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Where to the leggats?
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Or would you rather stay home?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Oh? No, no, you don't worry about me. I'll be
ready to leave anytime you are.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
If a thing like that happened to me, I'd shoot myself.
If you keep this up, you won't have to.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
When I want to know something is more Victoria.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But when he I think you'd better start clearing the table.
But Kenny, that's what it was, Kenny, all right, go ahead,
No it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Kenny, Kenny, no jumping creepers.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
No? Is he a south paw?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Who the picture for the last time, I'm this awful.
I can see him as though he were standing right
in front of me.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
He's left handed. Who is a southpaw? Who said anything
about a south paw?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Did?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
No? I didn't.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I asked what it was.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Well, I told you a softball is left handed.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Why Margaret, are you going upstairs and comb my hair?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Hector?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
He'll know, Jim, you're not going to call Hector?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Why not only take me a minute?
Speaker 10 (11:52):
Curiosity killed a cat there, he please, Curiosity has nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I just feel like calling Hector.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
That's all because he's one of my best friends, that's why.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But dear, you're going to see him in the morning.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Well, I want to find out about my soul, That's
what I want to find out.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
He borrowed it last week, you brought it back yesterday.
Nobody asked you. Wait a minute, I've got it.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Ernie Franklin, of course, Ernie, Well, thank goodness for that.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
You see, I knew.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
If you just leave me alone for a minute, what
do you have to say?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Who, dear Ernie Franklin, I didn't meet Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You most certainly did. You said you met him downtown
to day while you were shopping.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
No, dear, don't you remember I told you I met
the other one?
Speaker 11 (12:48):
Oh no, Well, when it comes to names, father can't
boast of the world's best memory. But more often than not, ladies,
(13:11):
the man of the house knows exactly what he's talking about.
For instance, when he says, oo, finest coffee I ever
taste it, why that's high praise. Indeed, yes, ma'am, Because
that man you serve coffee too, he's the world's greatest
coffee expert.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
That's right.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
The number one expert on coffee is your husband. Of course,
you might say we're in the expert class too. Our
Maxwell House coffee is enjoyed by more families than any
other brand. But the man who says the final word
on the coffee you pour, he's your husband. And tomorrow,
if you'll serve your husband our Maxwell House, we promise
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you his warmest smile and discompliment marvelous, best coffee ever.
We're sure that's what he'll say. In fact, we'll give
you your money back if he doesn't. You see, no coffee
tastes like Maxwell House, because no coffee's made like Maxwell House.
There's only one recipe for that famous good to the
last drop flavor, a recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended
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just so, and only Maxwell House has this 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, why just send us the can, an unused portion,
and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is plainly printed on every familiar blue tin. So how
(14:37):
about it, tomorrow, serve your husband the coffee with the
world's most famous flavor, Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
It's after midnight in Springfield, and but one small light
blink ship's cheer from the white frame house on Maple Street.
That's in the master bedroom where the master, if we
may speak loosely, is still giving his problem the old college.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Try like this Bill's Tour, Bill's Tour, Bill Phillips, Bill.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Billips, Jim Jim Phillips.
Speaker 12 (15:23):
Jim, you realize, of course, that the leggots will probably never.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Speak to us again.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Why I didn't do anything to them?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You sat in the corner and mumbled to yourself all night.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Well, I wasn't hurting.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Anybody, and every five minutes you're u to the telephone.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I was only trying to get hector. You know that
he certainly picked a fine evening to go out, so
did we.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I'm going to call Heck, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
You can't It's two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I'll be right back, Honey. You call a doctor two
o'clock in the morning. Why can't you call a friend?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Friend? Fine friend he turned out to be introduces you
to people, then you can't remember their names. Ruins are
perfectly good evening, just because he hasn't got sense enough
to stay home when you need him. Now, what happened
to the light switch? Every time you want the darn thing?
And someplace else? Anyway, two o'clock isn't so lay. Bunch
(16:28):
of people stay up until two o'clock. Probably isn't even
in bed yet.
Speaker 13 (16:33):
Oh hello, hey, oh, heck, this is Jim Anderson. No, Hey,
this is Jim. Did I wake you up?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
It's Jim, Jim Anderson. Oh heck.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Do you remember those two friends of yours who had
the cottage next to us at round Lay?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
What were their names?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Those friends of yours who had the cottage next two hours?
Margaret met the Paul with downtown this morning and we
can't remember his name.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Holy jumping cat face. What's the matter for two o'clock?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
I know?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Heck, but look, it began with a bed. And if
you'll just tell me to say you woke me up
at two o'clock in the morning, just.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Ask me a guy's name.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, I'll be through in a minute. Honey. Heck, I
know it sounds crazy. Heck, you've got to help me.
It's driving me out of my mind. Listen to me
a minute. Hello. Heck, well that's fine, just fine.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
He hung up on me? No, just hung up.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Well we might as well face it. Calling people at
two o'clock in the morning isn't exactly the way to
endear yourself to your fellow man.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Okay, if that's the way he feels about it, just
wait until he wants something.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Now, what are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Well, you know what.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
They say, when all the world's again you and you
haven't got a friend, There's only one thing you can
do to bring a happy end.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Go make yourself a sandwich.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Who said that?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I did, Jim.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
If you eat anything now, you'll be up all night.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I'll be up all night anyway. What's in the ice box?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
The usual things? Six pairs of roller skates, twelve pairs
of gloshes.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Very funny, you're so cute.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Well what do we generally have in the icebox?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Ice? Wa? What do you know? Food? Let's see now,
cold ham?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
Jim, will you.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Please leave that alone Tomorrow night's dinner. Just sit down.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
I'll fix a.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Sandwich for you.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
What time?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh, I'll think of something.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Here we are, how about a nice melted cheese kind
of used to make up the lake?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Oh Margaret, why, Jim, you always like melted cheese.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That isn't what I mean?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Why did you have to mention the lake? What I'd
almost forgotten about the name? And now well, now you've
started it all over again.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
All I said was that I'd make a melted cheese sandwich.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Did somebody call me? But well, if it isn't the
boy with a build in tapeworm.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Why aren't you in bed?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I heard somebody open the yarsbox, you know, Margaret. I
think he must be part blood.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Hum, Bud Anderson, you go right back to bed where
you belong.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Can I even have one family?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Not even half a sandwich right up side?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I got the second, honey. Let's not be hasty about this.
After all, he's a growing boy. He hasn't had anything
to eat since seven o'clock. Eleven o'clock. What this is
my second fip?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Okay, Bud? You heard your mother up to bed. But
I hardly ate anything last time, and I'm a growing boy,
I said, up to bed mother, Oh dear.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
We're in the kitchen, Betty say, I wonder if davisond
Remember he was up at the lake.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Don't you dare call the Davis?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But if he knows the name, haven't you thought of
the name yet? Never mind, Bud, I thought of the picture. Fine.
You saw the second game, but it was bob lemon.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I heard the most mysterious noises. Why don't we call it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Hello, Betty, pull up a chair. I wonder there's never
anything in the ice box. Nobody ever goes to sleep.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
What's going on down here.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Nothing is going on down here. We're all going back
to bed.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Wait a minute, Margaret, as long as we're up, we
might as well have a sandwich or something.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Jim Anderson, how do you expect you don't see to
understand I'm hungry.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Didn't the legget serve anything?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yes, but not to your father, Margaret. He was busy
in a corner communing with the spirits.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I sat there very quietly. I didn't disturb a soul.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
But just because I didn't put on a lady's hat
and dance around with my pants rolled up, well that's
what al Ka was doing, and everybody thought it was
very funny.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Mother, he didn't.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Well, it was just.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Readers. I forgot all about Kathy. Jim, do you see
what you've done? You've got the whole family up.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I didn't wake anybody. All I did was make a
phone call.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
It's all right, Candy, Mandy, you awake everybody in the neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Wasn't urg worse? No, it was father.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Gee, well, I've had just a bottom enough of this.
But put the cheese back into bud. What happened to
the cheese? I had a whole slab of cheese on
the table.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Oh, Bud, gosh, I was just sort of nibbling. Was
it a whole slab? Yeah? I guess that takes care
of that. Go ahead, Bud, what up to dead? I
thought we were gonna have a sandwich?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Hey, what are you doing getting some milk?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Say that's an idea.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Let them have their milk beer. Are you coming upstairs?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Well? Did you want something?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Turn off the lights when you run out of food,
And don't you.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Dare touch that ham.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Okay, Mom, good night, we'll be up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Mother, all right, dear, good night, good night.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
No, Margaret, it's a funny thing. Every time I try
to get into the icebox happens.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Oh, I don't know you've had your moments?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Meaning what? Well?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I remember a certain leg of lamb.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Oh honey, that was twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I know.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I suppose twelve years from now you'll still be telling
me about that same dizzy leg of lamb.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Mommy, go to sleep, Kathleen.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Are you sure it wasn't Burglars.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yes, we're quite sure, Kit, and I stop worrying about it.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Daddy shadows Burglars.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I'll tell you all about it in the morning and
go to sleep. Okay, good night, good night, Angel, Good
night Kathy. Oh dear, what a night?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
What a night? Is right, I'm glad it's almost over.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
Well, at least you've stopped thinking about that silly name.
Oh I'm sorry, dear Margaret. Yes, Jair, you know that cat, cat,
the one that was killed by curiosity?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
That one? What do you suppose to it?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I don't know, dude, maybe the name of another cat
had met up at round Lake.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Jim, You've got to be sensible. You can't keep this
up the rest of the night.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I can't.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
You certainly can't. Do you realize that in less than
four hours it'll be daylight?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
What was that I said? That's it? That's the name Daylight.
I mean Jack Daily, That's who it was.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Well, yes, dear Jack Daily.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Now will you please turn off the light and come togay?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Oh no, not yet, you haven't finished. What did he want,
Jack Daily?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
I thought I told you. He just said to say hello.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Good night Margaret.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
This weekend? How will you choose the coffee you buy
for your family? So many brands? How can you pick
the one coffee that gives you the most In flavor
for your money. Well, on your grocer's shelves. There is
one coffee, our Maxwell House coffee that's famous for flavor.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Above all others.
Speaker 11 (25:40):
And tomorrow, the world's greatest coffee expert can.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Tell you why.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
Yes, tomorrow, poor a cup of Maxwell House for your husband.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
He's the expert. We mean.
Speaker 11 (25:50):
When he gives you his warmest smile and says best
coffee ever, you'll know why Maxwell House is famous for flavor.
And when you count all the cups of truly good
coffee you get from that one pound, well you know
it's Maxwell House for value too. Tomorrow, then look for
the sign of good coffee, the big white cup, and
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drop on our friendly blue tin. That's Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
It's been quite a night for the Andersons, one they'll
long remember now. The house is dark, the night is still,
but it isn't over, no, sir, not by a long
shot like this.
Speaker 12 (26:45):
Jim, Jim, huh, it's all phones ringing.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You're please answer the phone.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Okay, Hello Dad, the fallen is bringing.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
Hello Jim, Please go downstairs and into the phone.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
What time is.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Four o'clock?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Four o'clock? Ye've got the little fishes.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
What kind of an idiot would call us at four
o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Dear, Please put on your rope. Jim, you'll catch your
death of cold.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I'll be all.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Right or a'clock. This is somebody's idea of a joke.
Wake people up in the middle of the night, ought
to have their brains examined, spend the whole night trying
to fall asleep, and then the phone.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Has to ring.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
All right, I'm calling hello. Now look here are you sure?
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Begin with a wee.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Oh no.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with Roy Barkie and the
Maxwell House Orchestra. In our cast were Ted Donaldson and.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Bud June Whitley, Rhoda Williams, Norama Jen Nielson, Herb Bigron,
and yours truly Bill Forman.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
So until next Thursday.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
America's favorite brand of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James Do Stay tuned in for drag Net, which
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Speaker 4 (28:57):
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Speaker 11 (29:04):
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Speaker 1 (29:13):
Please send your questions and comments to host at classiccomedyotr
dot com until next time. In the words of Seneca,
you should not copy the bad simply because there are many.
Nor should you hate the mani because they are unlike you.
Welcome to classic comedy of Old time Radio. I'm your
host Ron Ecklebarger. When Margaret mentions that she ran into
an acquaintance from summer vacation, Jim goes crazy trying to
remember the guy's name. This is episode sixty eight A
Father Knows Best, entitled What Was His Name? It originally
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aired on February eighth, nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Mother, is Nashville House the best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows this.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh yes, if father knows Best?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father, A half hour
visit with your neighbors.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The andesty brought to.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
You by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed
by more people than any other brand of coffee at
any price.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
They say, curiosity once killed a cat, a faith that's
both proper and fitting. So why not give thanks for
the good fortune that let you pry yet not die
like a kitten. The point we're trying to make is
the curiosity is not confined to cats. It's a human
fraility as well, And when it comes to frailities. Well,
we doubt that you'll find anyone quite as human or
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as frail as our dear friends in Springfield, the andest
like this, Margaret. May I say that, in my long
years as a lover of good red beef, never has
a more succulent morsel pass my lips.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
We thank you, dear. Why did he say he liked
the roast beef? Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:16):
And now is a fitting climax to an unforgettable repast.
May I be favored with a cup of mister Maxwell's finest.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Of course, dear, But he wants his coffee.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh there you are.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Thank you from the bottom of a happy and care
free heart, I say, thank you.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
He sold a big policy this afternoon?
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Oh, Farley Granger? What was that there? Jannie said it
was finely Granger, as if.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
She knew, realizing full well that I ought to have
my brains examined. Still, I asked, what about Farley Granger?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
There isn't any reason at all for thinking that's who
she meant?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Who who meant?
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Had a hopper?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Betty. These things must be approached delicately. You got to
sneak up on them, or they fly away. Tell me, Betty,
how's everything done around the gas works?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Father?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Janie Niggott said that had a hopper meant Farley Granger
in her column, And it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
He never even goes to places like that.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
There you are, Margaret, you see everything's all cleared up.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That's nice.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Hey, have a creamy sugar please? Hey, I Dan, thank you?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
All right, Kathy, let's not dondle. Mommy and Daddy are in.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
A hurry, yes, mommy. Oh, why do they do things
like that? Like what dear put things like that in
the paper?
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I tried it once and didn't hurt much, all right, Betty?
What do they put in the.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Paper things like this?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Here? I cut it out.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
What young and handsome star was seen leaving? What sunset
stripped nightclub with? What blonde young starlet?
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Isn't that exasperating?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Is that the whole thing?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yes, and Jenny has the nerve to say it's Fonny Granger.
She does, She certainly does.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Isn't that stupid?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Why anyone with half an eye can see they mean lassie, father.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Well look at it, blonde young.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Oh you mean the boy father, It is not funny.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, no, And I don't think you have any right
to laugh at me.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Your father wasn't laughing at you, dear, He certainly was.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Now, wait a minute, do you mean you're going to
let a little thing like this upset you?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
It isn't a little thing. How would you feel if
you didn't know who it was?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I think I'd pull through somehow.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
At least they ought to give you a here.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah, just a minute, bud, Betty. Let's say you do
figure out who they mean, then.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
What Well, then I'll know.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
You know what they said about curiosity kill the cat,
and this whole thing is nothing but a silly attempt
to satisfy your morbid curiosity.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I have to know things, don't I not things like who.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Came out of where?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
With?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
What?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
That's being curious about? The most meaningless sort of trivia?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
What's trivia?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I wouldn't care if it was something important, But how
can you sit there and make yourself miserable about something that.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Doesn't amount to a row of beans in the first place?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
Jaddy?
Speaker 6 (05:37):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Kathy?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
What's trivia?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Trivia are things that are trivial, They're unimportant?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Why?
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Because they don't amount to anything like this whole conversation.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Addah boyd, Dad Bud, I was agreeing with him.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Peter Lawford, I'll bet that's it.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Why Betty?
Speaker 7 (05:58):
He's young and goes.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Out with Betty.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Yes, Father, I don't care if it's Groucho Marx on
a white horse, forget about it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
But I said, forget about.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
It jumping creepers, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And I don't want any trouble with you either, But
I have to.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Ask you something, Jim.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I don't think you're being very nice.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
How can anybody be nice when he's being smothered than
quiz kids?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Just because the children ask a few innocent.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Questions and they don't do anything but ask questions from
the time they get up in the morning until they
go to bed at night.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Who's on first? What's on? Which? It's enough to make
a man commit horrakiri?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
What's horra kiri?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Now?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Look, Ketty, leave your father.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Alone, dear. He's in one of those moves.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
One of what moves. I was in a wonderful mood,
wasn't I? But well, I was so full of roast beef.
I loved everybody in the whole world, the milk of
human kindness was practically oozing out of me. But well,
my children don't want to bother. They want an encyclopedia
with ears. Well, but you bet that what you said?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Richard Carlson, that's who it.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Was, Margaret. I think I'll go for a walk, a
long walk, all right.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Dear, And if you happen to pass the leggates, be.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Sure to drop in thegots.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
We're going to their party.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Remember, oh, say we better hurry up.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
You didn't tell me what Harry Carey was?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You mean Harry Carey? She means horror Carey.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
She does, she most certainly does she, Daddy, that's what
is it, Margaret?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Do all children ask as many questions as ours? How
do you stand it?
Speaker 9 (07:56):
All mothers have a system when they reach a point
just one degree short of hysterics, they go shopping.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Well, I suppose that's as good an excuse as Anny.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Jim, I'm so glad you mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Mentioned what shopping? I mentioned shopping.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You'll never guess who I'm at downtown this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Barley Granger, No had a hopper, Jim, am I close.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Do you remember the two boys who had the cabin
next to ours at Round Lake two summers ago.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yes, I'm at the toll one you did. Uh huh?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
What's he doing in Springfield?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well, he said the other one? Oh, what was his name?
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Freddy?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So No, it wasn't Freddy.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
It was something like Freddy.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Well, it didn't be important, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
No anyway, Wait a minute, Margaret, I got the name
on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Let me see.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I know his name as well as I know my own.
Eddie Teddy. Betty Margaret, please.
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Oh, Betty, you remember the two boys who had the
cabin next to ours?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I do. Are you sure it wasn't Freddy?
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yes, dear, I'm sure I can see him, just as plain,
sort of chunky with dark hair, Hector Smith, and I
ran into him during the World Series in Cleveland that year.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
That's the one who is pitching. Well, I just wanted
to know you see, that's what I mean by curiosity. Well,
I'm trying to figure out something vitally important. What was that?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Why is it important for you enough for us because you.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Don't even remember the man? What, ma'am Freddy? His name
wasn't Freddy, dere it was something like Freddy? Was it? Bobby? Feller. No,
he pitched the first game.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Was Harry carry.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I don't know, Margaret. Why is it that anytime I
try to Bernie, wasn't it Bernie? I don't think so
Bernie Kearnie.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Bernie only gave up two hits in the whole game, Bud, please,
and he lost anyway?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Now, look bad, Jim.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
It isn't that important.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It certainly is.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I was just about to say the name, and he
drove the clear out of my mind with that ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Crackle about a silly baseball game. Silly that was one
of the finest games they ever had in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Only six hits in the whole Gamenie Andernie, Jim.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
How would you like to give up two hits and
then lose the game one and not think? Bud? Will
you please stop it and let me think?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Jim, we've got to get ready to go.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Where to the leggats?
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Or would you rather stay home?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Oh? No, no, you don't worry about me. I'll be
ready to leave anytime you are.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
If a thing like that happened to me, I'd shoot myself.
If you keep this up, you won't have to.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
When I want to know something is more Victoria.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But when he I think you'd better start clearing the table.
But Kenny, that's what it was, Kenny, all right, go ahead,
No it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Kenny, Kenny, no jumping creepers.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
No? Is he a south paw?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Who the picture for the last time, I'm this awful.
I can see him as though he were standing right
in front of me.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
He's left handed. Who is a southpaw? Who said anything
about a south paw?
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Did?
Speaker 4 (11:37):
No? I didn't.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
I asked what it was.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Well, I told you a softball is left handed.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Why Margaret, are you going upstairs and comb my hair?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Hector?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
He'll know, Jim, you're not going to call Hector?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Why not only take me a minute?
Speaker 10 (11:52):
Curiosity killed a cat there, he please, Curiosity has nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I just feel like calling Hector.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
That's all because he's one of my best friends, that's why.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
But dear, you're going to see him in the morning.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Well, I want to find out about my soul, That's
what I want to find out.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
He borrowed it last week, you brought it back yesterday.
Nobody asked you. Wait a minute, I've got it.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Ernie Franklin, of course, Ernie, Well, thank goodness for that.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
You see, I knew.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
If you just leave me alone for a minute, what
do you have to say?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Who, dear Ernie Franklin, I didn't meet Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
You most certainly did. You said you met him downtown
to day while you were shopping.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
No, dear, don't you remember I told you I met
the other one?
Speaker 11 (12:48):
Oh no, Well, when it comes to names, father can't
boast of the world's best memory. But more often than not, ladies,
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the man of the house knows exactly what he's talking about.
For instance, when he says, oo, finest coffee I ever
taste it, why that's high praise. Indeed, yes, ma'am, Because
that man you serve coffee too, he's the world's greatest
coffee expert.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
That's right.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
The number one expert on coffee is your husband. Of course,
you might say we're in the expert class too. Our
Maxwell House coffee is enjoyed by more families than any
other brand. But the man who says the final word
on the coffee you pour, he's your husband. And tomorrow,
if you'll serve your husband our Maxwell House, we promise
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you his warmest smile and discompliment marvelous, best coffee ever.
We're sure that's what he'll say. In fact, we'll give
you your money back if he doesn't. You see, no coffee
tastes like Maxwell House, because no coffee's made like Maxwell House.
There's only one recipe for that famous good to the
last drop flavor, a recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended
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just so, and only Maxwell House has this 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, why just send us the can, an unused portion,
and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is plainly printed on every familiar blue tin. So how
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about it, tomorrow, serve your husband the coffee with the
world's most famous flavor, Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
It's after midnight in Springfield, and but one small light
blink ship's cheer from the white frame house on Maple Street.
That's in the master bedroom where the master, if we
may speak loosely, is still giving his problem the old college.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Try like this Bill's Tour, Bill's Tour, Bill Phillips, Bill.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Billips, Jim Jim Phillips.
Speaker 12 (15:23):
Jim, you realize, of course, that the leggots will probably never.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Speak to us again.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Why I didn't do anything to them?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You sat in the corner and mumbled to yourself all night.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Well, I wasn't hurting.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Anybody, and every five minutes you're u to the telephone.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I was only trying to get hector. You know that
he certainly picked a fine evening to go out, so
did we.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I'm going to call Heck, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
You can't It's two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I'll be right back, Honey. You call a doctor two
o'clock in the morning. Why can't you call a friend?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Friend? Fine friend he turned out to be introduces you
to people, then you can't remember their names. Ruins are
perfectly good evening, just because he hasn't got sense enough
to stay home when you need him. Now, what happened
to the light switch? Every time you want the darn thing?
And someplace else? Anyway, two o'clock isn't so lay. Bunch
(16:28):
of people stay up until two o'clock. Probably isn't even
in bed yet.
Speaker 13 (16:33):
Oh hello, hey, oh, heck, this is Jim Anderson. No, Hey,
this is Jim. Did I wake you up?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
It's Jim, Jim Anderson. Oh heck.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Do you remember those two friends of yours who had
the cottage next to us at round Lay?
Speaker 4 (17:02):
What were their names?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Those friends of yours who had the cottage next two hours?
Margaret met the Paul with downtown this morning and we
can't remember his name.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Holy jumping cat face. What's the matter for two o'clock?
Speaker 8 (17:26):
I know?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Heck, but look, it began with a bed. And if
you'll just tell me to say you woke me up
at two o'clock in the morning, just.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Ask me a guy's name.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Yeah, I'll be through in a minute. Honey. Heck, I
know it sounds crazy. Heck, you've got to help me.
It's driving me out of my mind. Listen to me
a minute. Hello. Heck, well that's fine, just fine.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
He hung up on me? No, just hung up.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Well we might as well face it. Calling people at
two o'clock in the morning isn't exactly the way to
endear yourself to your fellow man.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Okay, if that's the way he feels about it, just
wait until he wants something.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Now, what are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Well, you know what.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
They say, when all the world's again you and you
haven't got a friend, There's only one thing you can
do to bring a happy end.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Go make yourself a sandwich.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Who said that?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I did, Jim.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
If you eat anything now, you'll be up all night.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I'll be up all night anyway. What's in the ice box?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
The usual things? Six pairs of roller skates, twelve pairs
of gloshes.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Very funny, you're so cute.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Well what do we generally have in the icebox?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Ice? Wa? What do you know? Food? Let's see now,
cold ham?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
Jim, will you.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Please leave that alone Tomorrow night's dinner. Just sit down.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
I'll fix a.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Sandwich for you.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
What time?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh, I'll think of something.
Speaker 9 (19:00):
Here we are, how about a nice melted cheese kind
of used to make up the lake?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Oh Margaret, why, Jim, you always like melted cheese.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That isn't what I mean?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Why did you have to mention the lake? What I'd
almost forgotten about the name? And now well, now you've
started it all over again.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
All I said was that I'd make a melted cheese sandwich.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Did somebody call me? But well, if it isn't the
boy with a build in tapeworm.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Why aren't you in bed?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I heard somebody open the yarsbox, you know, Margaret. I
think he must be part blood.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Hum, Bud Anderson, you go right back to bed where
you belong.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Can I even have one family?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Not even half a sandwich right up side?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I got the second, honey. Let's not be hasty about this.
After all, he's a growing boy. He hasn't had anything
to eat since seven o'clock. Eleven o'clock. What this is
my second fip?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Okay, Bud? You heard your mother up to bed. But
I hardly ate anything last time, and I'm a growing boy,
I said, up to bed mother, Oh dear.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
We're in the kitchen, Betty say, I wonder if davisond
Remember he was up at the lake.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Don't you dare call the Davis?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
But if he knows the name, haven't you thought of
the name yet? Never mind, Bud, I thought of the picture. Fine.
You saw the second game, but it was bob lemon.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I heard the most mysterious noises. Why don't we call it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Hello, Betty, pull up a chair. I wonder there's never
anything in the ice box. Nobody ever goes to sleep.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
What's going on down here.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Nothing is going on down here. We're all going back
to bed.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Wait a minute, Margaret, as long as we're up, we
might as well have a sandwich or something.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
Jim Anderson, how do you expect you don't see to
understand I'm hungry.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Didn't the legget serve anything?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yes, but not to your father, Margaret. He was busy
in a corner communing with the spirits.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I sat there very quietly. I didn't disturb a soul.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
But just because I didn't put on a lady's hat
and dance around with my pants rolled up, well that's
what al Ka was doing, and everybody thought it was
very funny.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Mother, he didn't.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Well, it was just.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Readers. I forgot all about Kathy. Jim, do you see
what you've done? You've got the whole family up.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I didn't wake anybody. All I did was make a
phone call.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
It's all right, Candy, Mandy, you awake everybody in the neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Wasn't urg worse? No, it was father.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Gee, well, I've had just a bottom enough of this.
But put the cheese back into bud. What happened to
the cheese? I had a whole slab of cheese on
the table.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Oh, Bud, gosh, I was just sort of nibbling. Was
it a whole slab? Yeah? I guess that takes care
of that. Go ahead, Bud, what up to dead? I
thought we were gonna have a sandwich?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Hey, what are you doing getting some milk?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Say that's an idea.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Let them have their milk beer. Are you coming upstairs?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Well? Did you want something?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Turn off the lights when you run out of food,
And don't you.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Dare touch that ham.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Okay, Mom, good night, we'll be up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Mother, all right, dear, good night, good night.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
No, Margaret, it's a funny thing. Every time I try
to get into the icebox happens.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Oh, I don't know you've had your moments?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Meaning what? Well?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I remember a certain leg of lamb.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Oh honey, that was twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I know.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I suppose twelve years from now you'll still be telling
me about that same dizzy leg of lamb.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Mommy, go to sleep, Kathleen.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Are you sure it wasn't Burglars.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yes, we're quite sure, Kit, and I stop worrying about it.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Daddy shadows Burglars.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
I'll tell you all about it in the morning and
go to sleep. Okay, good night, good night, Angel, Good
night Kathy. Oh dear, what a night?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
What a night? Is right, I'm glad it's almost over.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
Well, at least you've stopped thinking about that silly name.
Oh I'm sorry, dear Margaret. Yes, Jair, you know that cat, cat,
the one that was killed by curiosity?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
That one? What do you suppose to it?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I don't know, dude, maybe the name of another cat
had met up at round Lake.
Speaker 9 (24:08):
Jim, You've got to be sensible. You can't keep this
up the rest of the night.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I can't.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
You certainly can't. Do you realize that in less than
four hours it'll be daylight?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
What was that I said? That's it? That's the name Daylight.
I mean Jack Daily, That's who it was.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Well, yes, dear Jack Daily.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Now will you please turn off the light and come togay?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Oh no, not yet, you haven't finished. What did he want,
Jack Daily?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
I thought I told you. He just said to say hello.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Good night Margaret.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
This weekend? How will you choose the coffee you buy
for your family? So many brands? How can you pick
the one coffee that gives you the most In flavor
for your money. Well, on your grocer's shelves. There is
one coffee, our Maxwell House coffee that's famous for flavor.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Above all others.
Speaker 11 (25:40):
And tomorrow, the world's greatest coffee expert can.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Tell you why.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
Yes, tomorrow, poor a cup of Maxwell House for your husband.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
He's the expert. We mean.
Speaker 11 (25:50):
When he gives you his warmest smile and says best
coffee ever, you'll know why Maxwell House is famous for flavor.
And when you count all the cups of truly good
coffee you get from that one pound, well you know
it's Maxwell House for value too. Tomorrow, then look for
the sign of good coffee, the big white cup, and
(26:11):
drop on our friendly blue tin. That's Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
It's been quite a night for the Andersons, one they'll
long remember now. The house is dark, the night is still,
but it isn't over, no, sir, not by a long
shot like this.
Speaker 12 (26:45):
Jim, Jim, huh, it's all phones ringing.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You're please answer the phone.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Okay, Hello Dad, the fallen is bringing.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
Hello Jim, Please go downstairs and into the phone.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
What time is.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Four o'clock?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Four o'clock? Ye've got the little fishes.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
What kind of an idiot would call us at four
o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Dear, Please put on your rope. Jim, you'll catch your
death of cold.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I'll be all.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Right or a'clock. This is somebody's idea of a joke.
Wake people up in the middle of the night, ought
to have their brains examined, spend the whole night trying
to fall asleep, and then the phone.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Has to ring.
Speaker 8 (27:50):
All right, I'm calling hello. Now look here are you sure?
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Begin with a wee.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Oh no.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with Roy Barkie and the
Maxwell House Orchestra. In our cast were Ted Donaldson and.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Bud June Whitley, Rhoda Williams, Norama Jen Nielson, Herb Bigron,
and yours truly Bill Forman.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
So until next Thursday.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
America's favorite brand of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James Do Stay tuned in for drag Net, which
follows immediately.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Over most of the station.
Speaker 11 (29:04):
For authentic police drama, it's Dragnet on NBC.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Please send your questions and comments to host at classiccomedyotr
dot com until next time. In the words of Seneca,
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Nor should you hate the mani because they are unlike you.
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