July 24, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother is Maxwell House, the desk coffee the whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young his 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. In the latter part of the
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eighteenth century, doctor Friedrich Anton Mesmer conducted an amazing series
of experiments in the field of hypnotism. In his work,
Mesmer used rabbits, chickens, even people, with the results we
can describe only as astonishing. There was one field, however,
which he neglected, to investigate the hypnotic influence of the
average salesman on the average American home in Springfield and
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the white frame house on Maple Street. This subject is
now about to be explored, but thoroughly like this, Margaret, Yes, dear,
what's this?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
What's what dear?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
This? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That uh, that's a magazine.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I know it's a magazine, but what are we doing
with a copy of the Poultry Breeders Bulletin and Gazette.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Well, we had our choice between that and the Mining
Engineer's Monthly Manual.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So you took the Poultry Breeders Bulletin and Gazette.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Naturally, we wouldn't have any use for a magazine about
mining engineers, would.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We, Margaret? Yes, dear, have you developed a sudden interest
in poultry?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
A poultry breeder, Jim, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well, you don't just go out and buy a thing
like this without some reason.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I didn't go out. He brought it here.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Who did? Well?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I don't know his name, but he was a very
nice boy, and he's working his way through Harvard.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You mean we bought a subscription for this thing.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It was only four dollars, Jim. And if I thought
you were going to make all this.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Fuss, I'm not making any fuss. It's just that I
see no reason for throwing money away on things we
don't need.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
People always need magazines, all.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Right, But why did you have to pick the Poultry
Breeder's Bulletin and Gazette.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I told you, dear, because we couldn't use the Mining
Engineer's Monthly Manual.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
And we had to buy something, didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
We He was a very nice.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Boy, Margaret, I too, am a very nice boy. I'm
one of the nicest boys I know, and I worked
very hard for my money. Yes, dear, I have three
children to support, three hungry children who eat like overgrown
vacuum cleaners. Yes, dear, Well, how do you expect me
to keep on feeding them if you keep on buying
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the Poultry Breeders Bulletin and gazette.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I bought it only once, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Don't you see what's happening. You've got our names on
every socker list in the country. That's not so, It
certainly is. Look at that stack of magazines, the Bee
Culture Quarterly, the Wine Growers Weekly, the goat Herder's Gazette.
What good are they? We don't need any of them?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh dear, what's the matter? Jim, Promise me you won't
be angry.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
What did you buy? Now?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
First, promise me you won't be angry?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
All right, I promise what did you buy?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well? Mary Edith Steele? You remember Mary Edith, don't you?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Naturally we went to different schools together. What about her?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Well, she has a son by her first marriage, Howard Millican.
Her first husband's name was Millican, and that's what Howard's
name is Millican, and her.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Name is Steel.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
He's a very nice boy, Jim, really he is. Of course,
it's too bad they didn't have his teeth straightened when
he was.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Young, Margaret. Yes, dear, what did you buy?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I didn't buy anything.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Good, not really, that is, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I just gave him a deposit, Jim, and I don't
have to pay the balance until it's delivered.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Until what's delivered?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The history of our feathered friends.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
She bought a book about birds.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well not exactly a book.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh it's twelve books, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But they're beautifully bound, Jim. And they cost only eighteen dollars,
and there worth three times that.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Howard said, so Margaret, yes, dear, we don't want that.
But I've given him a two dollars deposit.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Trying to keep the deposit. We don't want the books, Jim.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I can't do a thing like that.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I can't possibly, I can't. What's the number?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They don't have a telephone?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, where do they live, Jim?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
If I promise not to buy anything.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
More, where do they live? Hi?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Everybody, I'll never be able to look married Edith in
the face.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Again, fine, where do they live? Where does who live? Dan?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Isn't as though we can't use the books, dear, you
can't ever tell when you might want to know something
about birds?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I know everything about birds that I intend to know? Now,
will you please tell me where they live?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Who?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Dan?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
You don't have to tell them a thing, Jim Anderson.
I'll go over there myself.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
This very instant good where mom.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
And I'll tell them exactly why we aren't going to
take the books?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You do that? Who? Dad?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And don't be a bit surprised if no one in
that entire family ever.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Speaks to you.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Again, that's all right, too, fine thing if you won't
buy their silly books, they won't talk to you, Dad?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Who? Who? What?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Who won't talk to you?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Howard Milliken? Who's he? The boy who won't talk to me?
And I'm just a happy adall boy? Say Dad, no, Bud,
I've just gone through a thing with your mother.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
But I want you to see something.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Look at that, Dad, Do you know whose hand that
is yours? Take it upstairs and give it a bat.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's Jodamasio's.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Does he know what's missing?
Speaker 8 (06:29):
The man said, in his whole life, he'd never seen
a hand that looked more like Jodamaggio's.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Fine, I hope you'll both be very happy.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
That's why I need the two dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What two dollars for the glove? What glove?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
My new baseball glove by Jod Demagio's.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
But well, gosh, if you've got.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
A hand like that, you can't use just any old glove,
can you?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But who told you your hand was like Demaggio's? The
man who told me the glove? Take it back? But
the man said take it back? Holy cow? Mother?
Speaker 8 (07:09):
What if he won't take it back? Then what am
I gonna do? I already gave him four dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It's very simple. Give him two dollars more? Where am
I gonna get it? Work for it? Or is it
against the law to push a lawnmower with Joe Demago's hand?
And don't say? Holy cow? Ge whiz father?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Have you seen mother?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
She went out where she's going to give Howard Milligan
the birds? What? Never mind? Dead?
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Would you lend me two dollars if I gave you security?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What kind of security? My old cloth? No, that's what
I figured.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
You don't know when mother will be back, do you?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Father, pretty soon. What's in the box? The box box
b o X, the device for carrying things like the
one you have in your hand box.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Oh oh oh, it isn't anything bothered, just just something
I bought and paid for.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I hope maybe I get a good look for mother.
She might need me for something.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Betty, come back here. Yes, in the event that you
missed that last bit of subtlety, I'll repeat it and
paid for I hope.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
What if I threw in my scout knife? Well, bed,
it cost me almost a dollar and a half.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Are you going to answer me?
Speaker 8 (08:44):
And that was two years ago, when a dollar and
a half was a dollar and a half.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Go turn off the sprinklers they aren't then turn them on.
Good gosh, what.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Some people have to go through to get too measly bucks?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Betty?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yes, father, you charged it, didn't y?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Father? Why well?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I didn't have any money, And anyway, I think it's awful.
What is the sweater? It's horrible?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Then why did you buy it?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I had to father. Janie Nigga's my best friend. I
couldn't insult her, could I?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Betty, for the sake of my poor belabored mind, would
you please start all over again from the beginning.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Well, Janie bought a sweater and a clerk said, isn't
it beautiful? And I had to say yes. And then
she told me I ought to buy one, and I
couldn't say.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
I thought it was hideous.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So I did you said it was hideous?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
No, I bought one.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
We'll take it back.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Oh, I can't, Father, it was on sale.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh, I don't know. When I was a boy, things
like this never happened in my house. People bought what
they needed and that was all. Yeah, And so help me.
If she bought something, I'll strangle it.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Father, Hi, Daddy, where's everybody?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
She's out? Where is it?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Where's what?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Whatever it is you bought, I didn't buy anything.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Nobody told me to buy anything.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That's more like it. But I will never mind.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I never buy anything.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're the only one in this whole family with any sense.
Anytime the doorbell rings, somebody buy something. They'll buy anything.
The goat Herder's Gazette, Joe Demoso's glove. I wanna buy
Old Kathy, stop it by thing. I never get to
buy anything, Betty, make her stop it.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
No, I don't know if I can Kay.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Nobody has a family like this, nobody else in the
whole world. Hello, hello, Jim, This is Gribble, JP. Gribble.
Oh hello JP. Those group insurance figures still haven't come
back from New York. Can't he stop it? That isn't
why I call Jim.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Could you do me a favor, a big favor?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Why? Of course, JP, if I can.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well, I have a niece, my sister's girl, pretty little thing,
wants to make some extra money. Oh well, you see, JP,
So she's going from house to house selling things, ringing doorbells.
You know. Did you say something, No, JP, that was
just the doorbell. Oh well, as I was saying, I've
given her the names of a few people, just a few,
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you know, And I consider it a great favor if
you buy some of her thinks, JP, I've just gone
through a whole thing with my family about not buying
things we don't need. Now, if I buy two or
three of everything she's got, that's all two or three,
And if you just bring everything over to me, I'll
be glad to reimburseh you. Oh well, of course, JP,
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I'll be glad to feel a lot easier just to
give her the money. But you know how it is.
Proud little creature won't take a thing from me, wants
to earn it on her own. Well, I understand perfectly, JP.
Naturally you won't let her.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Know I call.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Oh, I haven't heard from you in weeks. That's the idea.
I knew. I could cut on you, my boy, and
I'll bring the things up to you in the morning.
Anytime it old you, I'll be glad to take them
off dry flyine. Well, I'll see you in the morning.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Thank you, jim Man, good night, my boy, Good.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Night, JP. Who was it, Kathy? You was a lady
selling thing already? Tell her to come in. You wanted
to come in, that's right, But you.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Said you didn't want us to buy anything.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Kathy, We've been buying things for months from anybody who
came to the door. Now this is something special, this
is something I've got to buy. Tell the lady to
come in. I can. Why not?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
I already told you to go away?
Speaker 10 (12:58):
Oh no, Now that's good coffee, best I ever had.
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Those words will really warm your heart when you hear
them from the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am, because
that number one expert is the man you want to please.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Most your husband. Of course, we think we're pretty fair experts.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
Our Maxwell House coffee is America's favorite brand. But the
expert with the last word is that man of yours,
And if you brew him a part of Maxwell House,
we're mighty sure he'll say that's what I call good coffee.
In fact, if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back.
You see, we know there's no other coffee taste like
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our Maxwell House because no other coffee's made like Maxwell House.
No other coffee has that wonderful, good to the last
drop flavor.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
So we'd like you to bring home a pound tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Start serving Maxwell House coffee to that husband of yours.
And if he doesn't say it's the best coffee ever,
why you send us the can an unused portion, and
we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address is
right on the front of that familiar blue tin. Tomorrow
see how much the world's greatest coffee expert enjoys Maxwell
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House coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
It's moments later on Maple Street and in the white
frame house occupied by the Andersons, there's a suffie whir
of speculat Willkathy be able to find the sales girl
and bring her back. Will Margaret recover her two dollars
deposit from Howard Milliken? Will Jim be able to carry
out mister Gribble's instructions? Certainly sounds exciting, doesn't he. It's drama,
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That's what it is. Sheer unadulterated drama like this. Father,
When is it? Benny?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Do you hate green sweaters?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Not particularly?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I do?
Speaker 9 (15:27):
Good of all the sweaters in the store, she would
have to pick out a green one.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Oh, Jane Leggett, and I look terrible in green.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
She couldn't have gotten off the block.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Janie Liggett.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
No, mister Gribble. Uh, that girl who was selling things? Yeah,
I found I said, Ah, good for you.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Oh it was so exciting, daddy.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
She was just getting kicked out of the Woodies.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
She what I mean, missus Woody was telling you she didn't.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Want any Oh, well, where she's coming?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
And oh, Daddy, is she pretty?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
She is?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Huh she's got beautiful golden hair and big blue eyes.
Who has father?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Uh, just someone with whom I have to do some business,
that's all.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
What kind of business?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Betty? Why don't you go upstairs and worry about your
green sweater or something.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Well, if you're going to do business with beautiful blondes
and don't want us around, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Say I didn't want you around. I really said, h
I'll just stay here and keep quiet. Please.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Hello, Oh, come on in. I left the door open, Thank.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
You, Kathy. Why don't you go somewhere and play.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I want to watch.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well, just be sure that you don't. Hello there, I'm
Jim Nison.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
How do you do, mister Anderson. I'm Sheila Gibson.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yes, you certainly are. Come on in.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Uh, sit down, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
That's better, isn't it? Yes? Quiet, This is my older daughter, Betty.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
How do you do? Betty?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Hi? And of course you've met Kathy.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Of course Hi. She said you wanted to see me
about something?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yes, I certainly do. I we like to see what
you're selling?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh, for any particular reason?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well, of course I'll probably buy something. We buy things
here all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Is missus Anderson at home?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
No, but we don't have to worry about that. Just
to prod everything out. Okay, what are you selling anyway?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Laingerie?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
What lingerie? What's that?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Lady silk lingerie.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Further, Well, nothing wrong with the lady Silk lingerie, is
there not?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That I know of?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Father, you can't look at things like that, like what, Betty?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Why can't I? If your mother can buy the poultry
Breeders gazette, I can look at the lingerie.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Now.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Let's see it, all right, Father me, I speak to
you a minute later.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Betty, Let's just get this over with first, Betty.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Why won't you tell me?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Jetty?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
This is one of our better garments, mister Anderson. It's
pure silk and comes in the loose leg.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I'll take three. Just put it away out. I'll take three,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Did you have any particular size in mind?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yes, missus Gribb. I mean it's it's for a large woman,
very large, about a forty six.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Father, that's a tent.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
If it's the largest you have, it'll be fine all right.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Now, as a companion piece, we generally recommend this form fitting.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I'll take three, but I want to explain. You don't
have to explain.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'll take three in the large size.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yes, the large size. Oh say, Dad, how long do
you want me to.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Holy cal.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
But go turn on the sprinklers. I just turned them on. Well,
turn them off. You just said to turn them on.
Now I'm telling you to turn them off and stop arguing.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
I wasn't arguing. But first you tell me to turn
them on, then you tell me to turn them off.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Holy, that was my son, No, I gathered as a
special introductory feature.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Mister Anderson, we're offering on you.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I'll take three. Just give me three of everything and
tell me how how much it is.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That's very generous, have you but I really it's quite
all right.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Miss Gibson, missus Gibson. I was saying to my wife
just the other day, the next time somebody comes along
selling things, we'll just take three of everything. That's what
I said.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Bother, do you feel all right?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Of course I feel all right. I feel fine.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Your colors melting? Why is your face all rare?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
It's hot in here, that's all. It's very hot. How
much do I owe you?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Well, it comes to eighty four dollars, but that includes
mister Anderson.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Let me show it to you.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
You don't have to bother, but I want to tell me,
have you ever seen anything more beautiful?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
It's fine, fine, yes, just put it away.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Oh father, that's gorgeous. How do you sleep in a
thing like that, You don't sleep in them, silly?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Have you ever seen anything so sheer, so soft, so
beautifully delicate?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
It's it's great, yes, great? Now will you please put
it away?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Oh, father me, I look at it just for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's lovely, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You can look at it later, hold it up.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Against you so I can see, all right, Miss Gibson.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yeah, Oh, Jim Howard Milicon says he's very sorry, But well, mother,
isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
It's a nightgown, Margaret. This is miss Gibson. She sells things.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Doesn't she though, missus Anderson, your husband's bought some beautiful lagerie.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But about the size, The size is fine, miss Gibson.
And here's the eighty four dollars. And thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Oh this is really wonderful, mister Anderson. And I want
you to know I appreciate it very much. That's quite
all right, of course, what does he care about eighty
four dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I'll see that your orders delivered in a very few days.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That'll be fine, just fine.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
And thank you, missus Anderson. You have a very generous husband.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Oh yes, Jim the playboy. We call him. Why don't
you girls show miss Gibson to the door. That won't
be necessary, missus An. I'm sure they want to, don't
you girls.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
I want to stay here, happy, come on, thank you again,
mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Oh thank practically nothing of it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Goodbye, goodbye, Miss Gibson.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
But I want to hear what they're gonna say.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Don't worry, you'll hear it up there.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Well, Jim Anderson, Wittill she gets out, she's out, you see, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I a call for mister my own home, my own home,
to find you coboarding with that woman.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I wasn't coboarding. I was buying stuff, Jim.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
How could you do a thing like that?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Like what black silk nightgowns?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
In my living room?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
She was holding it up, Margaret, She wasn't wearing it.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
She might just as well have been. What were you thinking.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Of group insurance? You see, Margaret, I got this call
from mister Gribble.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I wasn't out of the house for more than ten and.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
He said he was sending his niece a very.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Instant My back is turn. You invite strange women into
the living niece, not only.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
His niece, his niece you mean that was mister Gribble's niece.
Uh huh, and he sent her over yep.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh, she's too proud to take money from her uncle,
so he a few friends to buy things from her
for him. That's why I had to get everything so
large there for missus Gribble. Jim, I couldn't say anything
in front of miss Gibson or the children. He doesn't
want her to know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Jim, I'm so ashamed.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Oh that's all right, honey. We all make mistakes once
in a while.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
But when I saw her with that black nightgown in front.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Of Margaret, let's just forget the whole thing. Shally, what
happened with our feathered friends.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Howard says he can't do anything about it. He's already
put the order in. I'm sorry, dear.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
It just goes to show what happens when you don't
figure things out. I knew exactly what to do, what
to expect, and so it worked fine. Gribble's happy, his
niece is happy, and as soon as I get my
eighty four dollars, I'll be happy. Jim. Just second, honey,
I'd better answer the zilla.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
If it's anybody selling anything, tell them we don't want.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Don't worry, angel I know just I don't handle it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Hello, mister, Yes, my uncle, mister Grimm said you'd buy
some of my life savers. Life savers, I got all
kinds of life savers.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
From seems like no matter how hard you try to
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go right, you sometimes go wrong and buying things. But
that needn't happen when you buy coffee, no, ma'am, because
the world's greatest coffee expert can tell you where to
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Speaker 3 (25:56):
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Speaker 10 (25:59):
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House coffee in front of your husband. He's the expert,
we mean. And when he looks up at you with
a smile and says, now that's a real cup of coffee,
why you'll know Maxwell House is your coffee. Buy find
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House and listen to your husband praise that wonderful good
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to the last drop flavor, and then count all the
truly good cups of coffee you get from that one pound.
We think you'll be convinced Maxwell House coffee gives you
the most for your money because it's always good to
the last drop.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
It's morning now and breakfast time. In the white frame
house on Maple Street. There's a fragrant sense of coffee
in the air, Chris bacon frying in the skillet, and
father burning in the breakfast room.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Like this, Books about birds can be very useful, can't say, dear.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yes, yes, I guess they can't be. Please pass the.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Toast, Kathy, you are daddy? You know in this light
it's what it looks? Fine, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Father? Uh? Great? Uh? Butter?
Speaker 8 (27:12):
Please say, dad, you know what Joe Phillips said to
me last night?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I know, Bud, what did Joe Phillips say to you
last night?
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Anytime I want to sell my Joe Demasio glove, he'll
give me a two dollars profit.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Good? May I please have the sugar? There you are, Dad?
Thank you? Well.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Things seem to have worked out very well after all,
haven't they. Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yes, just fine? Passed the cream please, Daddy?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Yes, Kathy, what are you going to do with your
black night gown?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Uh? Cream? Please say mom.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
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Speaker 3 (28:24):
It's the best hot cereal you ever ate. Join us
again next week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best,
starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargie and
the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Formed. So
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until next Thursday, 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 Jane. Now stay tuned
in for Dragnat, which follows immediately over most of these stationsooks, Yes,
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be sure to hear Dragnett.
Speaker 11 (29:20):
Remember Bill Bendix stars tomorrow on NBC
Mother is Maxwell House, the desk coffee the whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young his 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. In the latter part of the
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eighteenth century, doctor Friedrich Anton Mesmer conducted an amazing series
of experiments in the field of hypnotism. In his work,
Mesmer used rabbits, chickens, even people, with the results we
can describe only as astonishing. There was one field, however,
which he neglected, to investigate the hypnotic influence of the
average salesman on the average American home in Springfield and
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the white frame house on Maple Street. This subject is
now about to be explored, but thoroughly like this, Margaret, Yes, dear,
what's this?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
What's what dear?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
This? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That uh, that's a magazine.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I know it's a magazine, but what are we doing
with a copy of the Poultry Breeders Bulletin and Gazette.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Well, we had our choice between that and the Mining
Engineer's Monthly Manual.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So you took the Poultry Breeders Bulletin and Gazette.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Naturally, we wouldn't have any use for a magazine about
mining engineers, would.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
We, Margaret? Yes, dear, have you developed a sudden interest
in poultry?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
A poultry breeder, Jim, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well, you don't just go out and buy a thing
like this without some reason.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I didn't go out. He brought it here.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Who did? Well?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
I don't know his name, but he was a very
nice boy, and he's working his way through Harvard.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You mean we bought a subscription for this thing.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It was only four dollars, Jim. And if I thought
you were going to make all this.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Fuss, I'm not making any fuss. It's just that I
see no reason for throwing money away on things we
don't need.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
People always need magazines, all.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Right, But why did you have to pick the Poultry
Breeder's Bulletin and Gazette.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
I told you, dear, because we couldn't use the Mining
Engineer's Monthly Manual.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
And we had to buy something, didn't.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
We He was a very nice.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Boy, Margaret, I too, am a very nice boy. I'm
one of the nicest boys I know, and I worked
very hard for my money. Yes, dear, I have three
children to support, three hungry children who eat like overgrown
vacuum cleaners. Yes, dear, Well, how do you expect me
to keep on feeding them if you keep on buying
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the Poultry Breeders Bulletin and gazette.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I bought it only once, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Don't you see what's happening. You've got our names on
every socker list in the country. That's not so, It
certainly is. Look at that stack of magazines, the Bee
Culture Quarterly, the Wine Growers Weekly, the goat Herder's Gazette.
What good are they? We don't need any of them?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh dear, what's the matter? Jim, Promise me you won't
be angry.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
What did you buy? Now?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
First, promise me you won't be angry?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
All right, I promise what did you buy?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well? Mary Edith Steele? You remember Mary Edith, don't you?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Naturally we went to different schools together. What about her?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Well, she has a son by her first marriage, Howard Millican.
Her first husband's name was Millican, and that's what Howard's
name is Millican, and her.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Name is Steel.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
He's a very nice boy, Jim, really he is. Of course,
it's too bad they didn't have his teeth straightened when
he was.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Young, Margaret. Yes, dear, what did you buy?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I didn't buy anything.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Good, not really, that is, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I just gave him a deposit, Jim, and I don't
have to pay the balance until it's delivered.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Until what's delivered?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
The history of our feathered friends.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
She bought a book about birds.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well not exactly a book.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh it's twelve books, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But they're beautifully bound, Jim. And they cost only eighteen dollars,
and there worth three times that.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Howard said, so Margaret, yes, dear, we don't want that.
But I've given him a two dollars deposit.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Trying to keep the deposit. We don't want the books, Jim.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I can't do a thing like that.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I can't possibly, I can't. What's the number?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They don't have a telephone?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, where do they live, Jim?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
If I promise not to buy anything.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
More, where do they live? Hi?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Everybody, I'll never be able to look married Edith in
the face.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Again, fine, where do they live? Where does who live? Dan?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Isn't as though we can't use the books, dear, you
can't ever tell when you might want to know something
about birds?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I know everything about birds that I intend to know? Now,
will you please tell me where they live?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Who?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Dan?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
You don't have to tell them a thing, Jim Anderson.
I'll go over there myself.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
This very instant good where mom.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
And I'll tell them exactly why we aren't going to
take the books?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You do that? Who? Dad?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And don't be a bit surprised if no one in
that entire family ever.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Speaks to you.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Again, that's all right, too, fine thing if you won't
buy their silly books, they won't talk to you, Dad?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Who? Who? What?
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Who won't talk to you?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Howard Milliken? Who's he? The boy who won't talk to me?
And I'm just a happy adall boy? Say Dad, no, Bud,
I've just gone through a thing with your mother.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
But I want you to see something.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Look at that, Dad, Do you know whose hand that
is yours? Take it upstairs and give it a bat.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's Jodamasio's.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Does he know what's missing?
Speaker 8 (06:29):
The man said, in his whole life, he'd never seen
a hand that looked more like Jodamaggio's.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Fine, I hope you'll both be very happy.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
That's why I need the two dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What two dollars for the glove? What glove?
Speaker 8 (06:43):
My new baseball glove by Jod Demagio's.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
But well, gosh, if you've got.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
A hand like that, you can't use just any old glove,
can you?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But who told you your hand was like Demaggio's? The
man who told me the glove? Take it back? But
the man said take it back? Holy cow? Mother?
Speaker 8 (07:09):
What if he won't take it back? Then what am
I gonna do? I already gave him four dollars.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
It's very simple. Give him two dollars more? Where am
I gonna get it? Work for it? Or is it
against the law to push a lawnmower with Joe Demago's hand?
And don't say? Holy cow? Ge whiz father?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Have you seen mother?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
She went out where she's going to give Howard Milligan
the birds? What? Never mind? Dead?
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Would you lend me two dollars if I gave you security?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What kind of security? My old cloth? No, that's what
I figured.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
You don't know when mother will be back, do you?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Father, pretty soon. What's in the box? The box box
b o X, the device for carrying things like the
one you have in your hand box.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Oh oh oh, it isn't anything bothered, just just something
I bought and paid for.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I hope maybe I get a good look for mother.
She might need me for something.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Betty, come back here. Yes, in the event that you
missed that last bit of subtlety, I'll repeat it and
paid for I hope.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
What if I threw in my scout knife? Well, bed,
it cost me almost a dollar and a half.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Are you going to answer me?
Speaker 8 (08:44):
And that was two years ago, when a dollar and
a half was a dollar and a half.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Go turn off the sprinklers they aren't then turn them on.
Good gosh, what.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Some people have to go through to get too measly bucks?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Betty?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yes, father, you charged it, didn't y?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Father? Why well?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I didn't have any money, And anyway, I think it's awful.
What is the sweater? It's horrible?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Then why did you buy it?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I had to father. Janie Nigga's my best friend. I
couldn't insult her, could I?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Betty, for the sake of my poor belabored mind, would
you please start all over again from the beginning.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Well, Janie bought a sweater and a clerk said, isn't
it beautiful? And I had to say yes. And then
she told me I ought to buy one, and I
couldn't say.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
I thought it was hideous.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So I did you said it was hideous?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
No, I bought one.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
We'll take it back.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Oh, I can't, Father, it was on sale.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh, I don't know. When I was a boy, things
like this never happened in my house. People bought what
they needed and that was all. Yeah, And so help me.
If she bought something, I'll strangle it.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Father, Hi, Daddy, where's everybody?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
She's out? Where is it?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Where's what?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Whatever it is you bought, I didn't buy anything.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Nobody told me to buy anything.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That's more like it. But I will never mind.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I never buy anything.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're the only one in this whole family with any sense.
Anytime the doorbell rings, somebody buy something. They'll buy anything.
The goat Herder's Gazette, Joe Demoso's glove. I wanna buy
Old Kathy, stop it by thing. I never get to
buy anything, Betty, make her stop it.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
No, I don't know if I can Kay.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Nobody has a family like this, nobody else in the
whole world. Hello, hello, Jim, This is Gribble, JP. Gribble.
Oh hello JP. Those group insurance figures still haven't come
back from New York. Can't he stop it? That isn't
why I call Jim.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Could you do me a favor, a big favor?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Why? Of course, JP, if I can.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well, I have a niece, my sister's girl, pretty little thing,
wants to make some extra money. Oh well, you see, JP,
So she's going from house to house selling things, ringing doorbells.
You know. Did you say something, No, JP, that was
just the doorbell. Oh well, as I was saying, I've
given her the names of a few people, just a few,
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you know, And I consider it a great favor if
you buy some of her thinks, JP, I've just gone
through a whole thing with my family about not buying
things we don't need. Now, if I buy two or
three of everything she's got, that's all two or three,
And if you just bring everything over to me, I'll
be glad to reimburseh you. Oh well, of course, JP,
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I'll be glad to feel a lot easier just to
give her the money. But you know how it is.
Proud little creature won't take a thing from me, wants
to earn it on her own. Well, I understand perfectly, JP.
Naturally you won't let her.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Know I call.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Oh, I haven't heard from you in weeks. That's the idea.
I knew. I could cut on you, my boy, and
I'll bring the things up to you in the morning.
Anytime it old you, I'll be glad to take them
off dry flyine. Well, I'll see you in the morning.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Thank you, jim Man, good night, my boy, Good.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Night, JP. Who was it, Kathy? You was a lady
selling thing already? Tell her to come in. You wanted
to come in, that's right, But you.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Said you didn't want us to buy anything.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Kathy, We've been buying things for months from anybody who
came to the door. Now this is something special, this
is something I've got to buy. Tell the lady to
come in. I can. Why not?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
I already told you to go away?
Speaker 10 (12:58):
Oh no, Now that's good coffee, best I ever had.
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Those words will really warm your heart when you hear
them from the world's greatest coffee expert. Yes, ma'am, because
that number one expert is the man you want to please.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Most your husband. Of course, we think we're pretty fair experts.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
Our Maxwell House coffee is America's favorite brand. But the
expert with the last word is that man of yours,
And if you brew him a part of Maxwell House,
we're mighty sure he'll say that's what I call good coffee.
In fact, if he doesn't, we'll give you your money back.
You see, we know there's no other coffee taste like
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our Maxwell House because no other coffee's made like Maxwell House.
No other coffee has that wonderful, good to the last
drop flavor.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
So we'd like you to bring home a pound tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (14:19):
Start serving Maxwell House coffee to that husband of yours.
And if he doesn't say it's the best coffee ever,
why you send us the can an unused portion, and
we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address is
right on the front of that familiar blue tin. Tomorrow
see how much the world's greatest coffee expert enjoys Maxwell
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House coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
It's moments later on Maple Street and in the white
frame house occupied by the Andersons, there's a suffie whir
of speculat Willkathy be able to find the sales girl
and bring her back. Will Margaret recover her two dollars
deposit from Howard Milliken? Will Jim be able to carry
out mister Gribble's instructions? Certainly sounds exciting, doesn't he. It's drama,
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That's what it is. Sheer unadulterated drama like this. Father,
When is it? Benny?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Do you hate green sweaters?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Not particularly?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I do?
Speaker 9 (15:27):
Good of all the sweaters in the store, she would
have to pick out a green one.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Oh, Jane Leggett, and I look terrible in green.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
She couldn't have gotten off the block.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Janie Liggett.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
No, mister Gribble. Uh, that girl who was selling things? Yeah,
I found I said, Ah, good for you.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Oh it was so exciting, daddy.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
She was just getting kicked out of the Woodies.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
She what I mean, missus Woody was telling you she didn't.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Want any Oh, well, where she's coming?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
And oh, Daddy, is she pretty?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
She is?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Huh she's got beautiful golden hair and big blue eyes.
Who has father?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Uh, just someone with whom I have to do some business,
that's all.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
What kind of business?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Betty? Why don't you go upstairs and worry about your
green sweater or something.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Well, if you're going to do business with beautiful blondes
and don't want us around, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Say I didn't want you around. I really said, h
I'll just stay here and keep quiet. Please.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Hello, Oh, come on in. I left the door open, Thank.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
You, Kathy. Why don't you go somewhere and play.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I want to watch.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well, just be sure that you don't. Hello there, I'm
Jim Nison.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
How do you do, mister Anderson. I'm Sheila Gibson.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yes, you certainly are. Come on in.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Uh, sit down, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
That's better, isn't it? Yes? Quiet, This is my older daughter, Betty.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
How do you do? Betty?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Hi? And of course you've met Kathy.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Of course Hi. She said you wanted to see me
about something?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yes, I certainly do. I we like to see what
you're selling?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Oh, for any particular reason?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well, of course I'll probably buy something. We buy things
here all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Is missus Anderson at home?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
No, but we don't have to worry about that. Just
to prod everything out. Okay, what are you selling anyway?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Laingerie?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
What lingerie? What's that?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Lady silk lingerie.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Further, Well, nothing wrong with the lady Silk lingerie, is
there not?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That I know of?
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Father, you can't look at things like that, like what, Betty?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Why can't I? If your mother can buy the poultry
Breeders gazette, I can look at the lingerie.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Now.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Let's see it, all right, Father me, I speak to
you a minute later.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Betty, Let's just get this over with first, Betty.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Why won't you tell me?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Jetty?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
This is one of our better garments, mister Anderson. It's
pure silk and comes in the loose leg.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I'll take three. Just put it away out. I'll take three,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Did you have any particular size in mind?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yes, missus Gribb. I mean it's it's for a large woman,
very large, about a forty six.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Father, that's a tent.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
If it's the largest you have, it'll be fine all right.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Now, as a companion piece, we generally recommend this form fitting.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I'll take three, but I want to explain. You don't
have to explain.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'll take three in the large size.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yes, the large size. Oh say, Dad, how long do
you want me to.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Holy cal.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
But go turn on the sprinklers. I just turned them on. Well,
turn them off. You just said to turn them on.
Now I'm telling you to turn them off and stop arguing.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
I wasn't arguing. But first you tell me to turn
them on, then you tell me to turn them off.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Holy, that was my son, No, I gathered as a
special introductory feature.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Mister Anderson, we're offering on you.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I'll take three. Just give me three of everything and
tell me how how much it is.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That's very generous, have you but I really it's quite
all right.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Miss Gibson, missus Gibson. I was saying to my wife
just the other day, the next time somebody comes along
selling things, we'll just take three of everything. That's what
I said.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Bother, do you feel all right?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Of course I feel all right. I feel fine.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Your colors melting? Why is your face all rare?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
It's hot in here, that's all. It's very hot. How
much do I owe you?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Well, it comes to eighty four dollars, but that includes
mister Anderson.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Let me show it to you.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
You don't have to bother, but I want to tell me,
have you ever seen anything more beautiful?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
It's fine, fine, yes, just put it away.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Oh father, that's gorgeous. How do you sleep in a
thing like that, You don't sleep in them, silly?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Have you ever seen anything so sheer, so soft, so
beautifully delicate?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
It's it's great, yes, great? Now will you please put
it away?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Oh, father me, I look at it just for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's lovely, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
You can look at it later, hold it up.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Against you so I can see, all right, Miss Gibson.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yeah, Oh, Jim Howard Milicon says he's very sorry, But well, mother,
isn't it beautiful?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
It's a nightgown, Margaret. This is miss Gibson. She sells things.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Doesn't she though, missus Anderson, your husband's bought some beautiful lagerie.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But about the size, The size is fine, miss Gibson.
And here's the eighty four dollars. And thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Oh this is really wonderful, mister Anderson. And I want
you to know I appreciate it very much. That's quite
all right, of course, what does he care about eighty
four dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I'll see that your orders delivered in a very few days.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
That'll be fine, just fine.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
And thank you, missus Anderson. You have a very generous husband.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Oh yes, Jim the playboy. We call him. Why don't
you girls show miss Gibson to the door. That won't
be necessary, missus An. I'm sure they want to, don't
you girls.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
I want to stay here, happy, come on, thank you again,
mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Oh thank practically nothing of it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Goodbye, goodbye, Miss Gibson.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
But I want to hear what they're gonna say.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Don't worry, you'll hear it up there.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Well, Jim Anderson, Wittill she gets out, she's out, you see, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I a call for mister my own home, my own home,
to find you coboarding with that woman.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I wasn't coboarding. I was buying stuff, Jim.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
How could you do a thing like that?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Like what black silk nightgowns?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
In my living room?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
She was holding it up, Margaret, She wasn't wearing it.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
She might just as well have been. What were you thinking.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Of group insurance? You see, Margaret, I got this call
from mister Gribble.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I wasn't out of the house for more than ten and.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
He said he was sending his niece a very.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Instant My back is turn. You invite strange women into
the living niece, not only.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
His niece, his niece you mean that was mister Gribble's niece.
Uh huh, and he sent her over yep.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh, she's too proud to take money from her uncle,
so he a few friends to buy things from her
for him. That's why I had to get everything so
large there for missus Gribble. Jim, I couldn't say anything
in front of miss Gibson or the children. He doesn't
want her to know anything about it.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Jim, I'm so ashamed.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Oh that's all right, honey. We all make mistakes once
in a while.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
But when I saw her with that black nightgown in front.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Of Margaret, let's just forget the whole thing. Shally, what
happened with our feathered friends.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Howard says he can't do anything about it. He's already
put the order in. I'm sorry, dear.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
It just goes to show what happens when you don't
figure things out. I knew exactly what to do, what
to expect, and so it worked fine. Gribble's happy, his
niece is happy, and as soon as I get my
eighty four dollars, I'll be happy. Jim. Just second, honey,
I'd better answer the zilla.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
If it's anybody selling anything, tell them we don't want.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Don't worry, angel I know just I don't handle it.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Hello, mister, Yes, my uncle, mister Grimm said you'd buy
some of my life savers. Life savers, I got all
kinds of life savers.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
From seems like no matter how hard you try to
(25:43):
go right, you sometimes go wrong and buying things. But
that needn't happen when you buy coffee, no, ma'am, because
the world's greatest coffee expert can tell you where to
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Speaker 3 (25:56):
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Speaker 10 (25:59):
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House coffee in front of your husband. He's the expert,
we mean. And when he looks up at you with
a smile and says, now that's a real cup of coffee,
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truly good cups of coffee you get from that one pound.
We think you'll be convinced Maxwell House coffee gives you
the most for your money because it's always good to
the last drop.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
It's morning now and breakfast time. In the white frame
house on Maple Street. There's a fragrant sense of coffee
in the air, Chris bacon frying in the skillet, and
father burning in the breakfast room.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Like this, Books about birds can be very useful, can't say, dear.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yes, yes, I guess they can't be. Please pass the.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Toast, Kathy, you are daddy? You know in this light
it's what it looks? Fine, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Father? Uh? Great? Uh? Butter?
Speaker 8 (27:12):
Please say, dad, you know what Joe Phillips said to
me last night?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I know, Bud, what did Joe Phillips say to you
last night?
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Anytime I want to sell my Joe Demasio glove, he'll
give me a two dollars profit.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Good? May I please have the sugar? There you are, Dad?
Thank you? Well.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Things seem to have worked out very well after all,
haven't they. Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yes, just fine? Passed the cream please, Daddy?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Yes, Kathy, what are you going to do with your
black night gown?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Uh? Cream? Please say mom.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
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hot cereal for breakfast, here's the perfect solution. Just serve
them hop Along, Cassidy's favorite hot cereal, post wheatmeal, Yes,
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(28:19):
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Speaker 3 (28:24):
It's the best hot cereal you ever ate. Join us
again next week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best,
starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargie and
the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Formed. So
(28:44):
until next Thursday, 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 Jane. Now stay tuned
in for Dragnat, which follows immediately over most of these stationsooks, Yes,
(29:19):
be sure to hear Dragnett.
Speaker 11 (29:20):
Remember Bill Bendix stars tomorrow on NBC
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