July 26, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And there is Maxwell House, the best coffee in the whole.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World, where your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, his father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more
people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop. Dame Fortune
(00:49):
is a fickle gypsy, always blind and often tipsy. Sometimes
for years and years together, She'll bless you with the
sunniest weather, then in a moment, presto past. Yes, your
joys are like the withered grass. Well, I don't know
about you, but that's the way it is with me,
and that's the way it is with the Jim Anderson's
of Springfield in the white frame house on Maple Street.
(01:11):
Fortune is definitely a sometime thing, and good or bad,
the Andersons never know quite what to expect.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Like this, Jim, have you seen this part of the paper?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Oh yes, I've read all the ones that are on
the floor. Just to help yourself.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Well, thank you, dear, you're very kind.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Oh it's practically nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I don't know why they don't pass some laws or something.
Look at this, honey, three more accidents, two people killed,
just because everybody's in such an all fired hurry. Where
are they going anyway?
Speaker 6 (01:47):
The drivers go tearing around knocking people down, Jim.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Look at this.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
They're recovering upholstered chairs at the interior your house for
thirty five fifty.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Good for them.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Do you think of the lives that are lost just
because people are careless or thoughtless, Jim?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I heard you, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
They're recovering chairs, and I hope they'll be very happy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Thirty five fifty isn't much at all in that rose
chair in the living room, honey.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
You're not going to start that again, are you. Well,
there's nothing wrong with the rose chair, and I don't
see why you keep.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
On insisting the rose chair is a disgrace, and you
know it.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
It is not. It looks homey, that's all.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
It's frayed, faded and feeble. And if that's your idea
of homings.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I like furniture that looks as if it's been lived.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
In by people or elephants.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Margaret, we've been through this a dozen times, and well,
I'd prefer not to discuss it right now.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
We're through with the dishes. Mother, Is there anything else?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Will you please tell your father that the rose chair
in the living room is a disgrace.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
Margaret, the rose chair in the living room is a disgrace.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Anything else, yes, tell your mother. I like it fine,
that's the way it is.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
He likes it.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Fine.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Aren't you too talking to each other now?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
When it comes to chairs?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Leave me alone? Well?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, I don't want to guess, but you have to.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
What good's the riddle?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
If nobody tries to guess, man tries to read a paper,
and you think it was a crime against humanity.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Night after night, day after day. All I have to
do is sit down.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, make Kathy leave me alone, will you please?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
I wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Well, whatever you weren't doing, stop it.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
But I just want him to guess.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Father, she's been driving us crazy with those horrible riddles
all night.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
They aren't either.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Horrible, Kathy. If Biddy and Bud don't want to play.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Play, mother, wait a minute, there's nothing wrong with a
few harmless riddles.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
And if that's all it takes to make your sister happy.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
But you don't know my dad. She never stops.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
I do too, stop.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
No, Bud, let's not argue. After all, Kathy's happiness is
very important.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It is.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
I don't know what that means, but it's leading up
to something.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
What is it that has eighteen legs and flies.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
A baseball team? Margaret? Exactly what did you mean by
that last crack?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
You aren't supposed to guess it right away?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Kathy, I said, not now she.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Wears one red Lenny quits.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Never mind, Bud, Well, what, dear?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
What was the deep significance behind that last remark about Kathy?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Why not a thing?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I think it's wonderful of you to be so concerned
over her happiness.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
That's all, huh.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Of course, naturally making other people happy.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Isn't important, Margaret, even if it takes only a small
thing like having the rose cherry recovered.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
But I've explained to you a thousand times, were we
gonna have that old cherrycovered?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
No, dear, we like it just as it is.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Is what's black and white and read all over, Margaret?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
If it means that much to you have it recovered?
Why do you have everything recovered?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Can I get a new bed?
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Mom, what's black and flight and read all over?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Mine goes way down in the middle.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
If he's gonna get a new bed, why can't I.
I haven't had a new bed since I was nine
years old.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Nobody said anything about a.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
New bed, but just got through saying it.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I didn't say you could have one.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You said to have everything recovered. And how can you
recover an old bed?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
What's black and white and red all over a newspaper?
Speaker 6 (05:37):
But not around here?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Couldn't you guess something else before you guess newspaper?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Bud, it SAgs so much in the middle, I'm practically
sleeping on the floor.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
The doorbell rang.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Joe Phillips had a book on physical culture, and you
know what it said, bud It said, you can't get
any sleep in a bed that SAgs in the middle,
And mine said in the middle.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Sleep. Could get any more sleep, you'd have to be dead.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Well, you can't say that about me. I hardly sleep
at all.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
You're another one.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
If you spend half as much time doing anything else,
you'd be a genius.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Jim. Everyone has to sleep.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Nobody said they didn't.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
What has fifty eyes and can't see?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
But just because you want one chair recovered all of
a sudden, everybody needs a new bed, Daddy, We don't
have to worry about money. Haven't you heard we're the
rich Anderson's. Why don't we just go out and buy
new furniture every week?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No one said anything about getting new furniture.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
What has fifty eyes and can't see?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I suppose beds aren't furniture.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
I know, dear, but the children weren't really serious.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Why weren't we well? Why what has fifty eyes.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And can't see a potato? And leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Gee? Whizz?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Buh? It was a moving man, he said he wanted
to move the furniture.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Oh, that's fine, you've already called the moving man.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
We did no such thing.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's okay, Daddy said. He guess they have the wrong house.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I don't know it's gotten so that, Kathy, what.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Are you doing turning on the radio?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Well turn it off? Don't you think it's noisy enough
around here?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
But I want to hear people are foolish.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Actually they aren't moving then at all. Please say please.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
They have a regular moving van with them, and they're
going to try to talk somebody.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Out of his or her furniture, Jim, Margaret, listen.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
For every piece of furniture these contestants succeed in moving
out of the house, our sponsors, the Fuller Furniture Company,
we'll pay ten dollars and to the lucky and unsuspecting householder.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Now listen to this.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
We're listening.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
A Fuller Furniture Company will replace each of every article
removed with a brand new piece from its million dollar
stock of quality furnishures.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yes, Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Those were the moving man, They were just here.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
You can stop worrying about the rose chair, honey. We're
going to get new furniture for the whole house.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Now that the holiday season is over, it's time to
get back to the everyday business of livings.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
What did the boys say when the beast studying?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Right, but well she stuck me with a pin Caathy,
it's reddle daddy.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Don't you kids realize that this is important?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Those lunkheaded contestants took so long to move this stuff out.
They'll probably miss the end of the show and we'll
get nothing back but our own furniture.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But I didn't do anything, dad, but be quiet.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Will you, Jim, do you think it was wise to
give them all the beds?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Of course, there's no sense in doing a thing halfway.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
But what if they don't bring the new ones tonight?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
They have to bring them, don't you remember the announcers
said they'd immediately replace everything they remove.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I hope you're right, dear.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Why has four legs and whistles?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Two sailors and look caddy.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Gee wiz where you have to know all the answers.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Because, whether you'll believe it or not, I was once
nine years old myself.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Jim, I think he's going to say something.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Well, it's about time. All he does is talk, never
says anything.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Well, I think we'll have time for one or two
more contestants before No, wait a minute, here they are.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The moving men are back.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
They made it.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
They're bad.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Please okay, tell me did you boys have any luck?
Oh we had a terrible time, mister Foreman. This was
just awful, Yeah, awful.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Why those ungreat gins. You must have gone to a
dozen places.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
And one guy even said he'd sick the dog on us.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, the dog.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Why doesn't he tell them about us? The knucklehead? Didn't
you show the people you're moving them. Oh sure, but
they said they didn't care if we had ten. Yeah, Tanne,
they'll have to go off the air in a minute.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Why doesn't he tell you mean then that you couldn't
talk anyone into letting you take their furniture, take their furniture.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I'm glad, I'm alive. Yeah, a lot. They took practically
all the furniture out of the whole house. I know,
dear well, I'm awfully sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
What does a consolation prize?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
And for being such good sports the former furniture company
wants you boss to have? We'll just see about that,
right now, what are you going to do? I'm going
to call a station. I'll show them they can't pull
a stunt like that on me and get.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Away with it.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
They said they'd replace the furniture, and they're going to
replace it if I have to go down there and hello, Now, look,
this is James Anderson of six oh seven Maple Street.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
And when those men took my furniture that I'm not mistaken.
I tell you.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
They drove up in a moving van and well no
they didn't say they were from the station. They gave
me some cock eyed story about losing the slip and.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You did.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I see, I see, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
It's well the man said he traveled with the two
contestants the whole time.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
And yes, well they never came near Maple Street.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh no, wom holy call, I gotta redlife that you
can't answer?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
What happened to our furniture?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Kathy so right, her riddle probably has father's stop cold.
And yet there were times when the man of the
house does have the answers. For instance, ladies, when it
comes to coffee, that husband of yours is the world's
greatest expert. Yes, the number one expert on coffee is
that man of yours. Of course, your grocer will say,
(12:02):
we're the experts. He knows more people enjoy our Maxwell
House coffee than any other brand. But when you pour
the coffee, the expert you want to please is your husband,
and tomorrow, if you'll fill his cup with Maxwell House coffee,
we're sure he'll smile and say.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Wonderful, best coffee ever.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
In fact, we're so sure we'll give you your money
back if he doesn't. You see, we know no coffee
tastes like Maxwell House because no coffee's made like Maxwell House.
In all the world, there's only one recipe for that
famous good to the last drop flavor, a recipe demanding
certain coffees blended just so, and only Maxwell House has
(12:44):
that recipe. With this in mind, get Maxwell House tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Serve it to your husband.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
If he doesn't say best coffee ever, just send us
the can an unused portion, and we'll gladly refund the
price you pay.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Our address is right on every familiar blue tin. Fair enough,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Tomorrow, serve the world's greatest expert coffee. We're sure he's
bound to enjoy. Tomorrow, Serve your husband Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
It isn't much later in Springfield.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
As a matter of fact, it isn't much later anywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
But Springfield's the place we're worried about.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You see, the white frame house on Maple Street has
never seemed roomier.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Or more spacious.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
But them houses always seem roomier and more spacious when
most of the furniture is missing, don't they.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Now just a minute, Margaret, let's all calm down and
see if we can't figure this thing out.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
And I knew something was going to happen. I just
knew it.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
That's always a great help. If you knew something was
going to happen, Why didn't you tell me? Why keep
it a secret?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I'm sorry, dear, I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Women always know what's going to happen right after it happens,
I said, I was sorry. As a perfectly simple solution
to the whole thing, we'll just call the moving company and.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Have them bring stuff back. What moving company, the one
that took the furniture?
Speaker 7 (14:08):
What if they were crooks?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh, Kathy, what if they are hijackers and they're peddling
hot furniture all over town?
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Kathy, go to bed?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But hell can?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
I said? Go to bed?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
What bad?
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Quite right?
Speaker 9 (14:30):
Kathy? What bit?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Father?
Speaker 8 (14:34):
I know it sounds ridiculous, But what if Kathy is right?
Maybe they were crooks.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
That's the silliest thing I've ever heard of all the
houses in Springfield, why would they pick this one?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
They didn't pick anything, Dear. We chased them down the street.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Remember, well, yes, but I uh, Bud, haven't you found
that book yet?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I thot we'll hurry up.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
As soon as Bud finds the phone book, we look
in the classified section and that'll be that what'll be
what we'll call the company and get our furniture back.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Father.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
I've been trying to tell you we don't know the name.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
We certainly do. Kathy said she saw it on the
side of the truck.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
And I did it said Coast to Coast.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So there, Daddy, I wish you'd learned to Coast to coast.
And the driver's name was Mike, Kathy, they're.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
All mark Coast to Coast, that's where they go they do.
What was the other name?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
What are the name on the side of the truck?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Well, at least.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
There's one bright side of the picture. We'll get brand
new furniture from the insurance company, won't.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
We, Dear.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I've been thinking about that, Margaret, and it isn't quite
as bright as you might think.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
We do have burglary insurance, don't we.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Yes, but where was the burglary?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Why those men just marched right in here and took
the head.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
They didn't take anything, Honey, We gave it to them.
We practically pushed it out the door.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
You mean we can't put in a claim.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I'm afraid not.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Oh, jim my beautiful bed.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You see, Margaret now it's a beautiful bed. Two hours
ago she couldn't sleep in it. But now it's a
beautiful bed.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Well, I was used to it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Here's the phone book, Dad. It was under the well.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Naturally, that's the most logical place in the house to
keep a phone book.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Jim, why don't we call the police.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I don't know, Honey. I suppose we should. But let's
call a couple of the story's companies first.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
There aren't many, just eight.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
That's all just eight.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
But if we call the police, Margaret, if you don't mind,
I'd rather try to find the furniture myself first. Somehow,
I'm not particularly anxious to advertise this little escapade.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I'm sleepy now, let's not start that caffeine.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
But I am, Jim. It's getting late and we've got
to do something about the children.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
I'll start calling right away.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Well, tell them we've got to have the beds tonight,
even if.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
They can't deliver anything else.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Suppose you let me find the company first. She's going
to be so easy.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Prob will be turned out to be the last company
in the book, which means I got to sound like
a congenital idiot. A half of Hello ac movers. This
is James Anderson, six oh seven Maple Street. Yeah, I
know you're clothes, but I just want you to tell me.
I don't want you to move any furniture.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I want to know if you.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Already have.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
No, you weren't supposed to look. I know it sounds queer,
but our furniture was picked up by a couple of men.
One of them was tall, had sandy hair, and well,
that's what I'm trying to tell you. I don't know
what company.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Now, Listen, there's no need to be insulting about it.
I really want you, But why can't you hello?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Hello?
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Fine?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
What did he say?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Dear?
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Let's just say that he's not a gentleman?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Did they have the furniture?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Father?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
It was the night watchman and he didn't know anything
about anything, Jim.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
If all the storage companies are closed, Honey, I'm doing
everything I possibly can.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Holy cal what's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Just when I got my bed nice and broken in nice,
you said your bed? Say well, sure, but it's saggs.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Where I say, God, we'll just have to make the
best of it for the time being.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
But where are we going to sleep?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, I'm afraid we'll have to see what we can
arrange with the neighbors. Honey, Bud, how would you like
to spend the night with Joe Phillips?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Say that'd be keen, and I can sleep next door
at Patty Margaret.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
If you'll just say, why don't you call Janie Leggett
and see if you can't stay with her tonight?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I'd rather die modred.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Why don't we just I Betty, you've stated Jennie's dozens
of time, not because we didn't have any furniture. Look,
if you'll just let me say, I'm sure if you
explained to Janney, explain rot that my father gave away
all the beds.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
Who believe a silly thing like that?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Now wait a minute, She'll tell everybody on the campus,
and I'll be the laughing.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Stock of the whole school.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Listen to me, young lady. This whole thing was as
much your idea as.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It was mine.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Jim bother, how can you say that I was perfectly.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Happy with our furniture just the way it was?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
This is not the idea to have the rose chair recovered?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
You didn't hear me making any complaints about my bed? Well?
Speaker 7 (19:38):
I wasn't the one who started it, but did Betty me?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
All I said was my bed sagged in the middle,
that's all.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Shall I take my blue pajamas?
Speaker 5 (19:48):
It doesn't really matter whose fault it was.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
We've just certainly doesn't matter whose fault it was. Yeah,
you wanted new furniture, and I was trying to get
it for you. Now, if you're going to turn the
whole thing around and blame it on me, no one's
bl they certainly are.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Shall I take my blue pajamas?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I hear one more complaint out of anybody, but one
more complaint so helped me out.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Well, let's not have any more complaints, that's all.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I better call Joe.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Huh, you stay right where you are?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But dead mom, Margaret, Betty's right, if this thing gets
around the neighborhood, we might as well move out of town.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Dear.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It wasn't our fault, That's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
So why do anything? We'll be sorry about tomorrow. Why
can't we sleep here tonight?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Sleep here?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
There aren't any beds.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
What's that got to do with it? Did the Pilgrim
father sleep on beds?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
They certainly did.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Well, let's put it another way, We're Americans raised in
the tradition of adventure and free enterprise. The hardy pioneers
traveling in their covered wagons across the wide prairies.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Did they worry about beds?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Now we're gonna play cowboys in India.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Finally, want to play boys in India?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Kathy, I want to go over to Paddy.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Well, you can't.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Where.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
You can't blame Kathy, dear. It's long past your bedtime. Ago,
child's exhausted.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Well, why doesn't she go to sleep?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Where?
Speaker 9 (21:16):
Why?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Here on the floorer? I suppose, Well, what's wrong with that?
There's a nice soft rug. Holy car. Now, Kathy, listen
to me.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
I want to sleep with Patty.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
No, you don't, not really, Why would you want to
go over there?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
All they've got is beds? Never mind, Betty, Jim, you
aren't serious.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
It won't be bad, honey.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
As a matter of fact, it'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
We'll build a fire in the fireplace. We've got all
those pads from the swing and the porch furniture. They'll
make wonderful beds.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
There's an air mattress in the attic.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Sure, we've got all kinds of things, blankets, pillows things
the pioneers never had.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
You mean we'll be pioneers.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
That's right, we'll be the stalwart Anderson's camping out in
the middle of the planes were.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
The Indians howling and the Kayites yowling.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Kathy, go upstairs and get your blue pajamas.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
And the deer in the animal plane.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Budko Joe and tell him you'll be right over.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But Margaret, if you'll just listen, I've done.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
All the listening I intend to, and I have no
intention of sleeping on the.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Floor, Honey, I guarantee that after the first five minutes,
would you please do as I ask?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I have to answer the door.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Well, answer it. That's what I was going to do, Mother,
couldn't we please?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
We are not going to sleep on the floor like
a bunch of savages just because you and your father
have a ridiculous notion about false pride.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Pride has nothing to do with it. Why we hadn't
the faintest idea back? I told you they were nothing
to worry about.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
We're heading here, Jim.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I'm so relieved.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I'm going outside.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Dad wait for me. N I would help you creepers.
Now I have to sleep in our.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Old bed again, Maddie.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
If I hear one more words, mister Anderson, I got
a hand to you.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
What a joker?
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Well, why don't we talk about it while we're bringing
in the p I've.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Been moving for twenty years and this is the first
time I ever make up the wrong load.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
It's very amusing.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
How we drive up their out the plane bell and
when we got there, Kai tells me I got the
wrong stuff.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
If we can just laugh, I almost.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Time twenty eight miles and we got the wrong furniture.
I don't think he's well, I know it's very funny,
but well no, wait a minute, you ain't earn the
best part yet.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
You know that rose colored chair? Yes, oh, it got
caught on a nail. How he ripped the hole back?
He probably has hysterics at the funeral. Well, you don't
have to worry.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
We got insurance.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
We'll have a home thing fixed up and it won't
cost you eight die. Well, that's more like, oh, here's
your bill, bill for what look at it. It's the
silliest looking bill I ever made out in all line.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Bill?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Fifty bucks from moving furniture from Maple Street to Maple
Street by way up play.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Oh no, tomorrow or Saturday.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
The very next time you buy coffee, set your mind
on one thing on coffee that gives you the most
in flavor for your money. Now there's an expert ready
to help you find that coffee, the world's greatest coffee expert.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Yes, ma'am, your husband, he's the expert.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
We mean.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Just pour him a cup of Maxwell House coffee, and
when he smiles and says, best coffee I ever taste it,
you'll know Maxwell House has the most in flavor. You'll
know it's your best coffee. Buy tomorrow, bring home a
pound of Maxwell House. See how much your husband enjoys
every cup. Then count all the truly good cups of
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coffee you get from every pod.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
We think you'll agree.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
You do get more flavor for your money, your money's
worth and more with Maxwell House coffee, always good to
the last drop. It's midnight now and the Anderson households
and events lead us to venture a small bit of philosophy.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
Children are hard to understand.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
For that matter, so are girls. But when you come
up with a girl child, brother, that's it.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Like this.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Mother, I can't do a thing whe her.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
She just sits there.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Yeowl, poor angel, this whole thing's been too much for her.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
She needs a couple of good whacks, that's what she needs.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Never mind, Bud, Margaret, what's going on up there? Well
it's all right, dear. We just have a little problem
with Kathy.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
See if you can do something, she'll wake up the
whole name.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Jim, maybe you'd better speak to her all right, if
you think it'll do any good.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
All is excitement tonight. I'm afraid she's emotionally upset.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
She needs a couple of good whacks. That's what.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
You just said.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
That well she does.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Why aren't you kids in bed?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Who can sleep with that? Jim?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
We've tried everything. All she does is well, she.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Won't even stay in dead.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Okay, give me my chair and up with and I'll
see what I can do. Well, it seems to be
the trouble up here, young lady.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Everything's going to be all right, Sweet high Just tell
daddy what it's all about.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
I wanna be a pion there.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
At breakfast time.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
You don't have to say you children eat your cereal
right this instant?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Just say hop Alon Cassidy is crazy about hot wheatmeal.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Just a little psychology.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Yes, to get your children to eat a hot cereal,
just tell them post wheatmeal is hop Along Cassidy's favorite
hot cereal and they lead it too. Post Wheatmeal is
chuck full of solid whole wheat nourishment as a wonderful
nut like flavor, and at cooks in just three and
a half minutes. You'll see you'll all agree it's the
best hot cereal you ever ate. Join us again next
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week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring
Robert young Is, Jim Anderson with Roy Bargee on the
Maxwell House Orchestra, and yours truly, Bill Forman. So until
next Thursday, good night and good luck from the makers
of Maxwell House, America's favorite and of coffee, always good
till the last drop. Father Knows Best was transcribed in
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Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now stay tuned in
for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
This is NBC, the National broadcasting Company.
And there is Maxwell House, the best coffee in the whole.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World, where your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, his father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you by
Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more
people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Maxwell House always good to the last drop. Dame Fortune
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is a fickle gypsy, always blind and often tipsy. Sometimes
for years and years together, She'll bless you with the
sunniest weather, then in a moment, presto past. Yes, your
joys are like the withered grass. Well, I don't know
about you, but that's the way it is with me,
and that's the way it is with the Jim Anderson's
of Springfield in the white frame house on Maple Street.
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Fortune is definitely a sometime thing, and good or bad,
the Andersons never know quite what to expect.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Like this, Jim, have you seen this part of the paper?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Oh yes, I've read all the ones that are on
the floor. Just to help yourself.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Well, thank you, dear, you're very kind.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Oh it's practically nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I don't know why they don't pass some laws or something.
Look at this, honey, three more accidents, two people killed,
just because everybody's in such an all fired hurry. Where
are they going anyway?
Speaker 6 (01:47):
The drivers go tearing around knocking people down, Jim.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Look at this.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
They're recovering upholstered chairs at the interior your house for
thirty five fifty.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Good for them.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Do you think of the lives that are lost just
because people are careless or thoughtless, Jim?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I heard you, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
They're recovering chairs, and I hope they'll be very happy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Thirty five fifty isn't much at all in that rose
chair in the living room, honey.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
You're not going to start that again, are you. Well,
there's nothing wrong with the rose chair, and I don't
see why you keep.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
On insisting the rose chair is a disgrace, and you
know it.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
It is not. It looks homey, that's all.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
It's frayed, faded and feeble. And if that's your idea
of homings.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I like furniture that looks as if it's been lived.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
In by people or elephants.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Margaret, we've been through this a dozen times, and well,
I'd prefer not to discuss it right now.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
We're through with the dishes. Mother, Is there anything else?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Will you please tell your father that the rose chair
in the living room is a disgrace.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
Margaret, the rose chair in the living room is a disgrace.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Anything else, yes, tell your mother. I like it fine,
that's the way it is.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
He likes it.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Fine.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
Aren't you too talking to each other now?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
When it comes to chairs?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Leave me alone? Well?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, I don't want to guess, but you have to.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
What good's the riddle?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
If nobody tries to guess, man tries to read a paper,
and you think it was a crime against humanity.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Night after night, day after day. All I have to
do is sit down.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, make Kathy leave me alone, will you please?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
I wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Well, whatever you weren't doing, stop it.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
But I just want him to guess.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Father, she's been driving us crazy with those horrible riddles
all night.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
They aren't either.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Horrible, Kathy. If Biddy and Bud don't want to play.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Play, mother, wait a minute, there's nothing wrong with a
few harmless riddles.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
And if that's all it takes to make your sister happy.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
But you don't know my dad. She never stops.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
I do too, stop.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
No, Bud, let's not argue. After all, Kathy's happiness is
very important.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It is.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
I don't know what that means, but it's leading up
to something.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
What is it that has eighteen legs and flies.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
A baseball team? Margaret? Exactly what did you mean by
that last crack?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
You aren't supposed to guess it right away?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Kathy, I said, not now she.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Wears one red Lenny quits.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Never mind, Bud, Well, what, dear?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
What was the deep significance behind that last remark about Kathy?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Why not a thing?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I think it's wonderful of you to be so concerned
over her happiness.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
That's all, huh.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Of course, naturally making other people happy.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Isn't important, Margaret, even if it takes only a small
thing like having the rose cherry recovered.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
But I've explained to you a thousand times, were we
gonna have that old cherrycovered?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
No, dear, we like it just as it is.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Is what's black and white and read all over, Margaret?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
If it means that much to you have it recovered?
Why do you have everything recovered?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Can I get a new bed?
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Mom, what's black and flight and read all over?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Mine goes way down in the middle.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
If he's gonna get a new bed, why can't I.
I haven't had a new bed since I was nine
years old.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Nobody said anything about a.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
New bed, but just got through saying it.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
I didn't say you could have one.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You said to have everything recovered. And how can you
recover an old bed?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
What's black and white and red all over a newspaper?
Speaker 6 (05:37):
But not around here?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Couldn't you guess something else before you guess newspaper?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Bud, it SAgs so much in the middle, I'm practically
sleeping on the floor.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
The doorbell rang.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Joe Phillips had a book on physical culture, and you
know what it said, bud It said, you can't get
any sleep in a bed that SAgs in the middle,
And mine said in the middle.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Sleep. Could get any more sleep, you'd have to be dead.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Well, you can't say that about me. I hardly sleep
at all.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
You're another one.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
If you spend half as much time doing anything else,
you'd be a genius.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Jim. Everyone has to sleep.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Nobody said they didn't.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
What has fifty eyes and can't see?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
But just because you want one chair recovered all of
a sudden, everybody needs a new bed, Daddy, We don't
have to worry about money. Haven't you heard we're the
rich Anderson's. Why don't we just go out and buy
new furniture every week?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No one said anything about getting new furniture.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
What has fifty eyes and can't see?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I suppose beds aren't furniture.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
I know, dear, but the children weren't really serious.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Why weren't we well? Why what has fifty eyes.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And can't see a potato? And leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Gee? Whizz?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Buh? It was a moving man, he said he wanted
to move the furniture.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Oh, that's fine, you've already called the moving man.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
We did no such thing.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's okay, Daddy said. He guess they have the wrong house.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
I don't know it's gotten so that, Kathy, what.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Are you doing turning on the radio?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Well turn it off? Don't you think it's noisy enough
around here?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
But I want to hear people are foolish.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Actually they aren't moving then at all. Please say please.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
They have a regular moving van with them, and they're
going to try to talk somebody.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Out of his or her furniture, Jim, Margaret, listen.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
For every piece of furniture these contestants succeed in moving
out of the house, our sponsors, the Fuller Furniture Company,
we'll pay ten dollars and to the lucky and unsuspecting householder.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Now listen to this.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
We're listening.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
A Fuller Furniture Company will replace each of every article
removed with a brand new piece from its million dollar
stock of quality furnishures.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yes, Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Those were the moving man, They were just here.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
You can stop worrying about the rose chair, honey. We're
going to get new furniture for the whole house.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Now that the holiday season is over, it's time to
get back to the everyday business of livings.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
What did the boys say when the beast studying?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Right, but well she stuck me with a pin Caathy,
it's reddle daddy.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Don't you kids realize that this is important?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Those lunkheaded contestants took so long to move this stuff out.
They'll probably miss the end of the show and we'll
get nothing back but our own furniture.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But I didn't do anything, dad, but be quiet.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Will you, Jim, do you think it was wise to
give them all the beds?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Of course, there's no sense in doing a thing halfway.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
But what if they don't bring the new ones tonight?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
They have to bring them, don't you remember the announcers
said they'd immediately replace everything they remove.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
I hope you're right, dear.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Why has four legs and whistles?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Two sailors and look caddy.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Gee wiz where you have to know all the answers.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Because, whether you'll believe it or not, I was once
nine years old myself.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Jim, I think he's going to say something.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Well, it's about time. All he does is talk, never
says anything.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Well, I think we'll have time for one or two
more contestants before No, wait a minute, here they are.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The moving men are back.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
They made it.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
They're bad.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Please okay, tell me did you boys have any luck?
Oh we had a terrible time, mister Foreman. This was
just awful, Yeah, awful.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Why those ungreat gins. You must have gone to a
dozen places.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
And one guy even said he'd sick the dog on us.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Yeah, the dog.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Why doesn't he tell them about us? The knucklehead? Didn't
you show the people you're moving them. Oh sure, but
they said they didn't care if we had ten. Yeah, Tanne,
they'll have to go off the air in a minute.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Why doesn't he tell you mean then that you couldn't
talk anyone into letting you take their furniture, take their furniture.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I'm glad, I'm alive. Yeah, a lot. They took practically
all the furniture out of the whole house. I know,
dear well, I'm awfully sorry.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
What does a consolation prize?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
And for being such good sports the former furniture company
wants you boss to have? We'll just see about that,
right now, what are you going to do? I'm going
to call a station. I'll show them they can't pull
a stunt like that on me and get.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Away with it.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
They said they'd replace the furniture, and they're going to
replace it if I have to go down there and hello, Now, look,
this is James Anderson of six oh seven Maple Street.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
And when those men took my furniture that I'm not mistaken.
I tell you.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
They drove up in a moving van and well no
they didn't say they were from the station. They gave
me some cock eyed story about losing the slip and.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You did.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I see, I see, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
What did he say?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
It's well the man said he traveled with the two
contestants the whole time.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
And yes, well they never came near Maple Street.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh no, wom holy call, I gotta redlife that you
can't answer?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
What happened to our furniture?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Kathy so right, her riddle probably has father's stop cold.
And yet there were times when the man of the
house does have the answers. For instance, ladies, when it
comes to coffee, that husband of yours is the world's
greatest expert. Yes, the number one expert on coffee is
that man of yours. Of course, your grocer will say,
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we're the experts. He knows more people enjoy our Maxwell
House coffee than any other brand. But when you pour
the coffee, the expert you want to please is your husband,
and tomorrow, if you'll fill his cup with Maxwell House coffee,
we're sure he'll smile and say.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Wonderful, best coffee ever.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
In fact, we're so sure we'll give you your money
back if he doesn't. You see, we know no coffee
tastes like Maxwell House because no coffee's made like Maxwell House.
In all the world, there's only one recipe for that
famous good to the last drop flavor, a recipe demanding
certain coffees blended just so, and only Maxwell House has
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that recipe. With this in mind, get Maxwell House tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
Serve it to your husband.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
If he doesn't say best coffee ever, just send us
the can an unused portion, and we'll gladly refund the
price you pay.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Our address is right on every familiar blue tin. Fair enough,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Tomorrow, serve the world's greatest expert coffee. We're sure he's
bound to enjoy. Tomorrow, Serve your husband Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
It isn't much later in Springfield.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
As a matter of fact, it isn't much later anywhere.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
But Springfield's the place we're worried about.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
You see, the white frame house on Maple Street has
never seemed roomier.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Or more spacious.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
But them houses always seem roomier and more spacious when
most of the furniture is missing, don't they.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Now just a minute, Margaret, let's all calm down and
see if we can't figure this thing out.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
And I knew something was going to happen. I just
knew it.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
That's always a great help. If you knew something was
going to happen, Why didn't you tell me? Why keep
it a secret?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I'm sorry, dear, I shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Women always know what's going to happen right after it happens,
I said, I was sorry. As a perfectly simple solution
to the whole thing, we'll just call the moving company and.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Have them bring stuff back. What moving company, the one
that took the furniture?
Speaker 7 (14:08):
What if they were crooks?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh, Kathy, what if they are hijackers and they're peddling
hot furniture all over town?
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Kathy, go to bed?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But hell can?
Speaker 6 (14:20):
I said? Go to bed?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
What bad?
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Quite right?
Speaker 9 (14:30):
Kathy? What bit?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Father?
Speaker 8 (14:34):
I know it sounds ridiculous, But what if Kathy is right?
Maybe they were crooks.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
That's the silliest thing I've ever heard of all the
houses in Springfield, why would they pick this one?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
They didn't pick anything, Dear. We chased them down the street.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Remember, well, yes, but I uh, Bud, haven't you found
that book yet?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I thot we'll hurry up.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
As soon as Bud finds the phone book, we look
in the classified section and that'll be that what'll be
what we'll call the company and get our furniture back.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Father.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
I've been trying to tell you we don't know the name.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
We certainly do. Kathy said she saw it on the
side of the truck.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
And I did it said Coast to Coast.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So there, Daddy, I wish you'd learned to Coast to coast.
And the driver's name was Mike, Kathy, they're.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
All mark Coast to Coast, that's where they go they do.
What was the other name?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
What are the name on the side of the truck?
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Well, at least.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
There's one bright side of the picture. We'll get brand
new furniture from the insurance company, won't.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
We, Dear.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I've been thinking about that, Margaret, and it isn't quite
as bright as you might think.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
We do have burglary insurance, don't we.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Yes, but where was the burglary?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Why those men just marched right in here and took
the head.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
They didn't take anything, Honey, We gave it to them.
We practically pushed it out the door.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
You mean we can't put in a claim.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I'm afraid not.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Oh, jim my beautiful bed.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
You see, Margaret now it's a beautiful bed. Two hours
ago she couldn't sleep in it. But now it's a
beautiful bed.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Well, I was used to it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Here's the phone book, Dad. It was under the well.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Naturally, that's the most logical place in the house to
keep a phone book.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Jim, why don't we call the police.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I don't know, Honey. I suppose we should. But let's
call a couple of the story's companies first.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
There aren't many, just eight.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
That's all just eight.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
But if we call the police, Margaret, if you don't mind,
I'd rather try to find the furniture myself first. Somehow,
I'm not particularly anxious to advertise this little escapade.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I'm sleepy now, let's not start that caffeine.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
But I am, Jim. It's getting late and we've got
to do something about the children.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
I'll start calling right away.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Well, tell them we've got to have the beds tonight,
even if.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
They can't deliver anything else.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Suppose you let me find the company first. She's going
to be so easy.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Prob will be turned out to be the last company
in the book, which means I got to sound like
a congenital idiot. A half of Hello ac movers. This
is James Anderson, six oh seven Maple Street. Yeah, I
know you're clothes, but I just want you to tell me.
I don't want you to move any furniture.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I want to know if you.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Already have.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
No, you weren't supposed to look. I know it sounds queer,
but our furniture was picked up by a couple of men.
One of them was tall, had sandy hair, and well,
that's what I'm trying to tell you. I don't know
what company.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Now, Listen, there's no need to be insulting about it.
I really want you, But why can't you hello?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Hello?
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Fine?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
What did he say?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Dear?
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Let's just say that he's not a gentleman?
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Did they have the furniture?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Father?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
It was the night watchman and he didn't know anything
about anything, Jim.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
If all the storage companies are closed, Honey, I'm doing
everything I possibly can.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Holy cal what's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Just when I got my bed nice and broken in nice,
you said your bed? Say well, sure, but it's saggs.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Where I say, God, we'll just have to make the
best of it for the time being.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
But where are we going to sleep?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, I'm afraid we'll have to see what we can
arrange with the neighbors. Honey, Bud, how would you like
to spend the night with Joe Phillips?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Say that'd be keen, and I can sleep next door
at Patty Margaret.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
If you'll just say, why don't you call Janie Leggett
and see if you can't stay with her tonight?
Speaker 7 (18:57):
I'd rather die modred.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Why don't we just I Betty, you've stated Jennie's dozens
of time, not because we didn't have any furniture. Look,
if you'll just let me say, I'm sure if you
explained to Janney, explain rot that my father gave away
all the beds.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
Who believe a silly thing like that?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Now wait a minute, She'll tell everybody on the campus,
and I'll be the laughing.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
Stock of the whole school.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Listen to me, young lady. This whole thing was as
much your idea as.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It was mine.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Jim bother, how can you say that I was perfectly.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Happy with our furniture just the way it was?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
This is not the idea to have the rose chair recovered?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
You didn't hear me making any complaints about my bed? Well?
Speaker 7 (19:38):
I wasn't the one who started it, but did Betty me?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
All I said was my bed sagged in the middle,
that's all.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Shall I take my blue pajamas?
Speaker 5 (19:48):
It doesn't really matter whose fault it was.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
We've just certainly doesn't matter whose fault it was. Yeah,
you wanted new furniture, and I was trying to get
it for you. Now, if you're going to turn the
whole thing around and blame it on me, no one's
bl they certainly are.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Shall I take my blue pajamas?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
I hear one more complaint out of anybody, but one
more complaint so helped me out.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Well, let's not have any more complaints, that's all.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I better call Joe.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Huh, you stay right where you are?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But dead mom, Margaret, Betty's right, if this thing gets
around the neighborhood, we might as well move out of town.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Dear.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It wasn't our fault, That's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
So why do anything? We'll be sorry about tomorrow. Why
can't we sleep here tonight?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Sleep here?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
There aren't any beds.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
What's that got to do with it? Did the Pilgrim
father sleep on beds?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
They certainly did.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Well, let's put it another way, We're Americans raised in
the tradition of adventure and free enterprise. The hardy pioneers
traveling in their covered wagons across the wide prairies.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Did they worry about beds?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Now we're gonna play cowboys in India.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Finally, want to play boys in India?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Kathy, I want to go over to Paddy.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Well, you can't.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Where.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
You can't blame Kathy, dear. It's long past your bedtime. Ago,
child's exhausted.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Well, why doesn't she go to sleep?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Where?
Speaker 9 (21:16):
Why?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Here on the floorer? I suppose, Well, what's wrong with that?
There's a nice soft rug. Holy car. Now, Kathy, listen
to me.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
I want to sleep with Patty.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
No, you don't, not really, Why would you want to
go over there?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
All they've got is beds? Never mind, Betty, Jim, you
aren't serious.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
It won't be bad, honey.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
As a matter of fact, it'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
We'll build a fire in the fireplace. We've got all
those pads from the swing and the porch furniture. They'll
make wonderful beds.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
There's an air mattress in the attic.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Sure, we've got all kinds of things, blankets, pillows things
the pioneers never had.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
You mean we'll be pioneers.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
That's right, we'll be the stalwart Anderson's camping out in
the middle of the planes were.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
The Indians howling and the Kayites yowling.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Kathy, go upstairs and get your blue pajamas.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
And the deer in the animal plane.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Budko Joe and tell him you'll be right over.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But Margaret, if you'll just listen, I've done.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
All the listening I intend to, and I have no
intention of sleeping on the.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Floor, Honey, I guarantee that after the first five minutes,
would you please do as I ask?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I have to answer the door.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Well, answer it. That's what I was going to do, Mother,
couldn't we please?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
We are not going to sleep on the floor like
a bunch of savages just because you and your father
have a ridiculous notion about false pride.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Pride has nothing to do with it. Why we hadn't
the faintest idea back? I told you they were nothing
to worry about.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
We're heading here, Jim.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I'm so relieved.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I'm going outside.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Dad wait for me. N I would help you creepers.
Now I have to sleep in our.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Old bed again, Maddie.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
If I hear one more words, mister Anderson, I got
a hand to you.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
What a joker?
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Well, why don't we talk about it while we're bringing
in the p I've.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Been moving for twenty years and this is the first
time I ever make up the wrong load.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
It's very amusing.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
How we drive up their out the plane bell and
when we got there, Kai tells me I got the
wrong stuff.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
If we can just laugh, I almost.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Time twenty eight miles and we got the wrong furniture.
I don't think he's well, I know it's very funny,
but well no, wait a minute, you ain't earn the
best part yet.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
You know that rose colored chair? Yes, oh, it got
caught on a nail. How he ripped the hole back?
He probably has hysterics at the funeral. Well, you don't
have to worry.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
We got insurance.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
We'll have a home thing fixed up and it won't
cost you eight die. Well, that's more like, oh, here's
your bill, bill for what look at it. It's the
silliest looking bill I ever made out in all line.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Bill?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Fifty bucks from moving furniture from Maple Street to Maple
Street by way up play.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Oh no, tomorrow or Saturday.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
The very next time you buy coffee, set your mind
on one thing on coffee that gives you the most
in flavor for your money. Now there's an expert ready
to help you find that coffee, the world's greatest coffee expert.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Yes, ma'am, your husband, he's the expert.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
We mean.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Just pour him a cup of Maxwell House coffee, and
when he smiles and says, best coffee I ever taste it,
you'll know Maxwell House has the most in flavor. You'll
know it's your best coffee. Buy tomorrow, bring home a
pound of Maxwell House. See how much your husband enjoys
every cup. Then count all the truly good cups of
(26:00):
coffee you get from every pod.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
We think you'll agree.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
You do get more flavor for your money, your money's
worth and more with Maxwell House coffee, always good to
the last drop. It's midnight now and the Anderson households
and events lead us to venture a small bit of philosophy.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
Children are hard to understand.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
For that matter, so are girls. But when you come
up with a girl child, brother, that's it.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Like this.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Mother, I can't do a thing whe her.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
She just sits there.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Yeowl, poor angel, this whole thing's been too much for her.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
She needs a couple of good whacks, that's what she needs.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Never mind, Bud, Margaret, what's going on up there? Well
it's all right, dear. We just have a little problem
with Kathy.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
See if you can do something, she'll wake up the
whole name.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Jim, maybe you'd better speak to her all right, if
you think it'll do any good.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
All is excitement tonight. I'm afraid she's emotionally upset.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
She needs a couple of good whacks. That's what.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
You just said.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
That well she does.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Why aren't you kids in bed?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Who can sleep with that? Jim?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
We've tried everything. All she does is well, she.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Won't even stay in dead.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Okay, give me my chair and up with and I'll
see what I can do. Well, it seems to be
the trouble up here, young lady.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Everything's going to be all right, Sweet high Just tell
daddy what it's all about.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
I wanna be a pion there.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
At breakfast time.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
You don't have to say you children eat your cereal
right this instant?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Just say hop Alon Cassidy is crazy about hot wheatmeal.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Just a little psychology.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Yes, to get your children to eat a hot cereal,
just tell them post wheatmeal is hop Along Cassidy's favorite
hot cereal and they lead it too. Post Wheatmeal is
chuck full of solid whole wheat nourishment as a wonderful
nut like flavor, and at cooks in just three and
a half minutes. You'll see you'll all agree it's the
best hot cereal you ever ate. Join us again next
(28:45):
week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring
Robert young Is, Jim Anderson with Roy Bargee on the
Maxwell House Orchestra, and yours truly, Bill Forman. So until
next Thursday, good night and good luck from the makers
of Maxwell House, America's favorite and of coffee, always good
till the last drop. Father Knows Best was transcribed in
(29:05):
Hollywood and written by Ed James. Now stay tuned in
for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
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