August 4, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother. Is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
When your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, it's 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. In any
(00:48):
examination of the average American family, there's one attribute that
stands out above the rest, the spirit of helpfulness that
prevails at all times. The average American family is a team, really,
with each member working and planning for the comfort and
welfare of all the others. Take the Andersons for example.
They're an average American family who live at six oh
(01:09):
seven Maple Street in the average American.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
City of Springfield.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Stop in there at any hour of the night or day,
and you'll find some member of the family trying desperately
to help one or more of the others, Like this father.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Nine sixteen twenty three thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Seven, Father, are you busy?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yes, I'm very busy nine sixteen twenty.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Three, Because if you aren't, this will only take a minute,
and it's very important.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Betty.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I just finished telling you I'm very busy and I
haven't time to talk.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Nine sixteen.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You don't have to talk, father, All you have to
do is listen.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
All right, what is it? What? What do you want
to talk to me about?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh? Do you know what? I figured out?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How to drive your father insane?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
How to save money. It's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, just go upstairs and lie down for a while away.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
But I'm serious, father, all right, how do we save money?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
This time?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We eliminate doctor bills?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's nice. How do we do that?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, it's really very simple. Take me, for example. I'm
allergic to all kinds of things, animals, feathers, washing dishes.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Father, I'm sorry. I was just getting into the spirit
of the fee. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, I was talking to Janie Liggett and she.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Said goodbye, Betty, but I haven't even started. Anytime you
and that not headed friend of yours get together, it
costs me money. So if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But this will save you money. Father. We figured out
that my allergies are entirely psychosomatic.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No huh.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
When I sneeze it isn't really because I have hay
fever or anything like that. It's a physical manifestation of
a spiritual yearning that creates a mental block.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
In other words, you're not really allergic to anything. You're
just a blockhead.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Father.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Isn't that what you said?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I said, don't you understand?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Father?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
If there's something I want more than anything else in
the world and I can't have it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I sneeze.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And if you get it, you'll stop sneezing.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Huh. And when you think of all the doctor bills you've.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Had to pay, we're coming into the stretch.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Just because you wouldn't let me have a strapless evening gown.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Good grief, do you mean this whole thing was another
pitch for a strapless evening gown?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Father, I'm trying to help you save money.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You were sneezing before you were old enough to know
what an evening gown was for.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
But Father, if you'll only listen to me.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I promised your mother i'd go over the fall budget.
And I've been trying for five minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But Jamie Niggett says, I.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Don't care about Jennie Liggett. I may I please go
back to my.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Budget, jumping creepers, psychosomatic manifestations.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
In sixteen when youree, mother, Betty, for the love.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Of Pete, may I tell you one more thing?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Please?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I suppose so.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Jamie Liggett saw guys and dolls, and there's a girl
in that who sneezes.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
All the time because she wants a strapless evening gown.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I suppose, Oh no, because she wants to get married.
You see, her name is Adelaide, and she's in love
with Nathan Detroit.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Fine, I hope they'll be very happy, but she isn't.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Father. They've been engaged for fourteen years, and the doctor
tells her the whole thing is psychosomatic, and she'll keep
right on sneezing until she and Nathan Detroit are married.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
All right, Betty, I give up.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You mean I can have a strapless evening gown.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No, you may marry Nathan Detroit.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
See what I mean? And this isn't a rare instance
of family understanding, No, sir, there are others who try
just as hard to be of genuine assistance to the
head of the household, like this.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Nine sixteen twenty three eight TI Dad thirty seven forty
three forty.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Five adding something up? Dad? But how would you like
to run up to Alaska for the weekend? What would
I do in Alaska? And we're just an idea, say Dad?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Speaking of money?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Who said anything about money? I did just now? Remember,
I'm sorry. I guess I wasn't listening. What about money?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
How would you like to save some?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
If he wants to marry Nathan Detroit, I'll shoot him.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Never mind. How am I going to save money? This time?
On food?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
It's very expensive?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You know, I know I've been trying to break myself
of the habit for years.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Oh I don't mean you, I mean me.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You are going to give up food? Well, not entirely.
That's a relief.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I figured out how come I always eat so much?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And you know why you've got three stomachs? I get
too much exercise. There's only one thing I am sure of.
He doesn't want his trackless evening gown. But I've got
to finish this budget, so let's cut out all the
trimmings and get down the cases. What does your overabundance
of exercise have to do with saving me money?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Well, it's like this. If you ride a bicycle, you
have to keep pumping up and down all the time.
That gets you hungry, and you have to eat. But
but if you'd buy me a gasoline scooter.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Nine sixty, all you do scooter forty? How can you
get hungry just sitting Somehow? I have the feeling you'd manage.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Besides, in three years i'll be eighteen, and that's.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Too old to ride a bicycle.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
But if you don't want to ride a bicycle, you
can take the bus to school. But I have to
take two buses, and that's very expensive and very fattening.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Don't get it.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Oh gosh, while you're waiting for the second bus, there's
nothing to do but eat. But you have to wait
almost twenty minutes, and you know how many hamburgers you
can eat in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But let's put it this way. You are not going
to get a gasoline scooter.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Not even the one that Stevie Long's father is practically
giving away.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Not even that one.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Gosh, you can hardly even notice the place where it
ran into the sledgehammer.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
But if you don't what sledgehammer, the one mister Long
was holding. Mister Long was holding a sledgehammer, and the
scooter ran into it.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
That's what he said, and he's willing to sell it
for only eighty five dollars nine sixty and they cost
over one hundred dollars. News, look at the money you'll
be saving.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You save more than fifty dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yes, her, all for one and one for all. That's
the American family, even the baby. An innocent little angel
like Kathy Anderson, for example, does her bit to remedy
father's endless.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Problems like this.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Nine sixteen, twenty three, twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Who, Daddy, It isn't possible. It just isn't possible what
you're doing.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I'm trying to add a column of figures, and I've
been trying to add the same column of figures for
the last fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Want me to help?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No, I mean no, thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I'll do it much better if people will just stop
trying to help me. M. Sixteen, twenty three, twenty eight
thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Daddy, Kathy, I just finished telling you.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I have to ask you something.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
All right, kittens, what is it?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Do you sleep well at night?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Why?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Because I know how you can sleep better?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You do?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Uh uh huh. All you have to do is get
rid of your guilt complex? My what your guilt complex?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's what I thought. You said.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That means you're doing something you're ashamed of, so you
can't fall asleep and you just lie there and worry
about it.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Uh huh, tell me, kitting precisely, what am I worrying about?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You see, everybody in my class gets an allowance of
fifty cents. Oh, and you only give me thirty five cents.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So I lie awake nights and worry.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And I thought, if you wanted to give me another
fifteen cents a.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Week, Kathy for your information, I sleep like a babe.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
But if you only give me thirty five.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Cents, and furthermore, please tell your sister to keep her
psychiatric experiments out of my pocketbook.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Betty didn't have anything to do with it. But if
you want to keep on suffering from a guilty complex.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
How would you like to suffer from a spanking complex?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Don't blame me if what.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I said, how would you like to sell?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Excuse me, daddy, I just remembered something I have to do.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Fine, and see if you can't remember a lot of
things to do after that complex?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Geeness, you think fifteen cents was so important, Bud, give
me back my dime. It didn't work.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Well, I guess that takes care. Oh, we almost forgot mother.
She's helpful too, but in a rather different sort of
way like this.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I've been over the whole budget, Margaret, and it's entirely
out of line.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Why, Jim, I.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Know food is expensive and we've got to figure on
the other things, but well, look at this children's clothing
three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You have three growing children going back to school, and
if you think.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
For one meal, why can't we buy clothes for less
than three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All they need is a couple of pairs of shoes
and some coats and things.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Why when I was a boy, my father used to
hit the ceiling. It might clothes for the whole year
cost over fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I know, dear, but you could always hide in the
back of the covered wagon.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Very funny.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm sorry, Jim, but if you knew how I struggled
with that budget.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You did a wonderful job, honey.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
But look, it's only two hundred dollars out of the way,
and I thought, if we could take it out of
the kid's clothes, one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You mean you expect me to buy clothes for all
three of them for one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, that's fifty dollars apiece. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
People all over the country are outfitting their kids for
fifty dollars ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I know, but unfortunately our children also have bodies and feet.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I don't suppose you tell me how we're going to
get two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Why do we suddenly need two hundred dollars?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Eh? Why?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I thought the budget was all set?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Well it was, but you know how it is. Things
come up and taxes and unforeseen emergencies, and look, why
don't we do it this way? Suppose this year I
supervised the purchase of clothing.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Oh, Jim, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
What's ridiculous about that?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
If I can get the kids all fixed up for
one hundred and fifty dollars, then we'll have the two
hundred left over for what?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
For? What I was telling you, taxes.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And unforeseen emergencies.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Well, it's certainly worth trying, isn't it, honey? And you'll
come along a check on everything. So what can you lose?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
My grandmother Williams once knew a man who didn't want
to lose money on the horse races, and he made
nothing but mental bets, Madre, and all he lost was
his mind.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Honey, I promise you everything's going to work beautifully.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, I wish I could be that sure, but I'm
only a mother and father knows best.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
So father's going to buy all the children's clothes for
one hundred and fifty dollars. Well, there's no harm in trying,
after all, that's the only way to find out if
you're right or not.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I know. That's how it is with lots of folks.
When it comes to buying coffee.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
You go along trying this kind and that till one
day you pour yourself a fragrant, steaming cup of our
Maxwell House coffee, and that does it right off. You ask,
what makes this big difference? Why is it only Maxwell
House has this wonderful, good to the last drop flavor.
(13:42):
Well there's a reason, all right, and this is it.
No other coffee tastes like Maxwell House because no other
coffee is made like Maxwell House. You see, there are
all kinds of coffee beans, and they're put together all
kinds of ways. But the Maxwell House people buy the finest,
extra flavorful varieties from the remote mile high mountain plateaus
(14:03):
of Latin America. They select choice bucheramongus Coffee for fine,
full body, superb Manizales for fragrant mellowness, Medlins for extra richness,
and others for vigorous whiney flavor. And only Maxwell House
knows how to blend them all together to create the
one coffee with that good to the last drop flavor.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What's left for me to say.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
Only this, If really good coffee makes your day a
better one. I hope you'll try our Maxwell House this
weekend at your grocer's. Look for the sign of good coffee,
the big white cup, and drop on our familiar blue
tin of Maxwell House. It's the one coffee that's always
good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
There's one thing you've got to say about fathers may
not be as pretty as mother's, but they certainly.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Don't know as much about shopping. Wait a minute, they
may not be well anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It's Saturday afternoon and the Andersons are deep in the
heart of their shopping expedition. If you want them, they
can be found on the third floor of Gorman's department store,
where you can also find women's and missus lingerie, dresses, coats, millinery,
and yard goods.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Third floor, anyone.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Are the children's coats on this floor?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yes, ma'am? Third isle over?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Going up? Please?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
He was a nice young man, wasn't he.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Oh? I don't know, kind of shifting in the eyes.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
I thought I didn't think his eyes were shifty at all.
That's because he was shifting him around at you, Kathy, Oh,
wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Never mind?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Dear, Holy cow dad, there's nothing nut here.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
But girls junk.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It isn't junk.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Why can't I work for you in the sporting goods department?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You'll stay right here where we can keep an eye
on you.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Do I have to walk past all that underwear and everything.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
It isn't going to hurt you, Bud, Just close your
eyes and walk.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Holy cow.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Mother, look at those nylon slips. Don't taking gorgeous? Yes, dear,
and very expensive? Ooh, what i'd give for something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I didn't ask for anything expensive. All I wanted was
fifteen cents a week.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And if she gets a nylon st she isn't getting
a nylon slip. And if you don't stop. But if
you're walking into will you please open your eyes? You
said to keep them closed, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Behave yourself, Bud, yes, man. Anyone with two sisters has
to get used to seeing things like that.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Everybody's got somebody, and all I've got is sisters.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Can I help you?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I don't think anybody can help him of all that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
We'd like to see some coats, please, of course, if
you'll step right over here.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
We're looking for a simple and expensive coat for my
younger daughter.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
I see something warm and serviceable for around old ten
or twelve dollars?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
All right? And what shade of burlap did you happen here?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Burlap?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Jim? I told you in the very beginning.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I don't want to wear a coat made out of Why.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Don't I just go down to the sporting goods department
and stay.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Where you are?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Is it all right? If I look at the nylon?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Slaps you too?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I just wanted to.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Touch the Margaret.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
How do you expect me to accomplish anything if you
keep undermining me with the children?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Why, Jim, I haven't said a word, That's.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What I mean. Why don't you say something and make
them behave themselves.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Yes, dear children, lie down, you're in a gay mood.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
But this whole thing is so ridiculous, Jim. Everybody knows
you can't buy a coat for ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
All right, fifteen, may we please see some of your coats?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
No, yes, no, Well here's a charming little thing. It's
one of our most popular numbers, and I'm sure it
will look adorable on the little angel.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Doesn't she know it's for kathyd Please.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Go ahead, Kathy, try it on?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Is it burlap?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Stop talking and try it on?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Shee will? There isn't that charming?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Hold your head up, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
It's all whoa doubly interlined and it sells for only
thirty nine ninety five thirty.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Take it off, Kathy, just put it off. Take it off.
Forty dollars for a coat. It's an outrage.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Of course, we do have cheaper models, the.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Nerve of them. Forty dollars for that. It doesn't have
over a yard of material in it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It is not the material, sir, it's the workmanship.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well we'll go someplace where they've got sloppier workman.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
They just won't lose your temper.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I'm not losing my temper. Forty dollars for a coat.
Look at it, not even a whistle.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
When I was a kid, coats for five bucks apiece,
and they came with a whistle.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Speaking of whistles, are you interested in a coat for
the older girl, dad.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yes, we're definitely interested in a coat for the older.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Girl better known as burlap Beulah Betty.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
One more word out of you, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Father. Well, if you'll step into our college deb department,
I'll show you some of our back to school models.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Dad, what happened to Michael?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You'll get a coat, dear later.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Why can't I get one now?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Because I've only made two trips to Fort Knox? Oh? Dad,
but why don't you? What is it?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Why don't I wait for you in the sporting goods
depart because you're going to wait here?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Here we are now? Isn't this lovely? Mother?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
It is?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's just lush. It's probably very expensive, dear, Oh, not
at all. It's only sixty six.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Fifty sixty six fifty jim sixty six dollars and fifty
cents for one cop.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Don't forget, sir, this is a fine imported material.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You just said the material didn't count. It was the
workmanship that was in the other department. Did you hear that, Margaret.
They've got different systems for different departments.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, no, dear, Hey, heymn mother, there's mister Davis. I
wonder what Jim. It's Ed David.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
They haven't even the decency. Oh oh yeah, I've been
looking all over the store for you. Hello, Margaret Ethel
told me i'd find it done. Hey, can't it wait?
Edward very busy out.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I've held him off as long as I can, and
he wants to know right now, But.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You don't know what, Jim.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I've got to call him back in five minutes and
tell him definitely yes or no. Tell him we'll call
him back tomorrow. I told him that, and he said
he wouldn't wait. Why don't I wait in the sporting good?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
But ed will you please tell me what this is
all about?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It isn't anything, honey. We were just you told her
about the boat. Here we go. What boat? Jim and
I were going partners on a boat. But he has
to dig up an extra two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Oh he does, does he?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Margaret? I can explain the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You take the clothes right off your children's back for
a boat?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What kind of a boat, dad, Honey?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
If you'll only listen, not well, what What'll I tell him?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
He says he's got six other buyers waiting for the
boat right now?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
What kind of a boat, dad, Margaret, don't even talk
to me, Ed, Maybe we're making a mistake.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
If it's such a good boat, why does he want
to sell it? He didn't want to sell it. I
practically had to plead with him. But why all the
hurry because he's liable to change his mind, Jim, I
tell you the boat is an absolute steal. Well, see,
if you can't stall him for one more day, I'll
call him again. But I don't know why I get
mixed up in things.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Like honey, after eighteen years, the things you find out
about people.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Honey, don't look at me like that. I was doing
it for all of us. What kind of a boat? Dan?
But why don't you go down to the sporting goods?
I want to stay here?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Father? Are we really going to have a boat?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
A real life boat?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I don't know. I don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well, I do I know exactly what to think of
a man who'd sacrifice his children for a boat.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Honey, I told you they were going to get clothes first.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Coats for five dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I never said that with a whistle. You'll keep out
of this well.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I got tired of just standing here.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I didn't mind a coat made out of her.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Laugh.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Mother, We've all got plenty of clothes, really we have.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You're not going back to school looking like a bunch
of ragamuffins.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Of course they aren't. We'll take the forty dollars coat
for Kathy.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We will not. We can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
We can't afford it. I'll throw in my cigarette money.
I smoke too much anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I want to comment on Burl.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Kathleen, stop it. Would you take it with you?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yes? And wrap up that sixty six to fifty job too. Father.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
You won't be able to get the boat.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
We don't need a boat. What kind of a boat, Dan,
Any kind of a boat? Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Will that be cash or a chuck? It won't be either.
We're not taking we.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Are taking them. They look like very nice coats.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
But it's over one hundred dollars, but just two coats,
and the budget figures on only seventy five.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Well, I'll throw in my bowling money. I don't have
to bowl.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Father, you never buy anything for yourself, not even a
burlap cal We're being very selfish.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You aren't being selfish. I want my children to have
the best of everything, that's all. How about the boat.
Coats are more important than.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Boats, if you'd like to pay for them, not just
a minute, Jim, I think the children are right.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh you do, do you? Since winter?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What you're wearing? The same coat you've had for almost
ten years, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I like it, and if you want a boat, we
want you to have it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I don't want a boat, I want a coat. I
mean I want the children to have their coats.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Jim, I know you wouldn't gone through all this if
the boat hadn't meant a great deal to you.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Oh it is an important honey. I just thought that
for vacations and things.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
And Ed says it's a wonderful buye and it's a
real sturdy boat.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
They even call it the Rock of Gibraltar.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
If you'd like to pay for the coats, we're not
going to take them.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
We've got to Margaret. You said they look like a
bunch of ragga muffins.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh, they won't look bad at all. We'll let out
a few more hams and make a few little adjustments.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You can cut my alluwance to a quarter if you
want to.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I don't know, honey, do you think it'll be all right?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Of course it'll be all right. Who needs a coat
when they can have a boat.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Gosh, they're even better than gasoline scooters.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You don't want the coats?
Speaker 12 (25:42):
Huh uh, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
We're buying the Rock of Gibraltar instead.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Hot tall, Hey Jim, Oh did you get him? And yeah?
I got him. Well, it's all settled.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
We're gonna get a bout.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
All settled, all right. The Rock of Gibraltar just sank.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
No this weekend.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
How will you choose the coffee you buy for your family?
So many brands? How can you pick the one coffee
that gives you the most in flavor for your money? Well,
on your grocer's shelves, there is one coffee, our Maxwell
House coffee that's famous for flavor above all others. And
to morrow your family can tell you why. Yes, to morrow,
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serve that family of yours the rich, satisfying goodness of
our Maxwell House Coffee. When they give you their warmest
smiles and say best coffee ever, you'll know why Maxwell
House is famous for flavor. And when you count all
the cups of truly good coffee you get from that
one pound, well, you know it's Maxwell House for value too.
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To morrow, then for truly good flavor, for to day's
best coffee. Buy look for the sign of good coffee,
the big white cup, and drop on our friendly blue tin.
That's Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good to the
last drop.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Robert Young again. This season,
Father Knows Best will join the crusade to promote safe
driving among our young people in cooperation with the Inter
Industry Highway Safety Committee. Mister Cody Fowler, President of the
American Bar Association, has pledged the cooperation of members of
the Association and all traffic court judges and prosecutors in
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traffic laws is the best way toward a nation of
better drivers of all ages, and through just an intelligent
enforcement of these laws, they are constantly working toward that goal.
We will have more interesting news on the campaign and
your part in it in a few weeks. Meanwhile, if
you would like to participate in the Robert Young Good
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to daughter agreement, just write to me Robert Young at
this NBC station.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Good night.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargie and the Maxwell housewalk In our cast were
Dorothy Loved as Margaret, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Norma G. Nilsson,
Isabelle Jewel, Barney Phillips, and yours.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Truly, Bill Forman.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
So 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. This is NBC,
the National Broadcasting Company.
Mother. Is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
When your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, it's 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. In any
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examination of the average American family, there's one attribute that
stands out above the rest, the spirit of helpfulness that
prevails at all times. The average American family is a team, really,
with each member working and planning for the comfort and
welfare of all the others. Take the Andersons for example.
They're an average American family who live at six oh
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seven Maple Street in the average American.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
City of Springfield.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Stop in there at any hour of the night or day,
and you'll find some member of the family trying desperately
to help one or more of the others, Like this father.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Nine sixteen twenty three thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Seven, Father, are you busy?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yes, I'm very busy nine sixteen twenty.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Three, Because if you aren't, this will only take a minute,
and it's very important.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Betty.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I just finished telling you I'm very busy and I
haven't time to talk.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Nine sixteen.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You don't have to talk, father, All you have to
do is listen.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
All right, what is it? What? What do you want
to talk to me about?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh? Do you know what? I figured out?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How to drive your father insane?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
How to save money. It's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, just go upstairs and lie down for a while away.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
But I'm serious, father, all right, how do we save money?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
This time?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We eliminate doctor bills?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's nice. How do we do that?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, it's really very simple. Take me, for example. I'm
allergic to all kinds of things, animals, feathers, washing dishes.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Father, I'm sorry. I was just getting into the spirit
of the fee. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, I was talking to Janie Liggett and she.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Said goodbye, Betty, but I haven't even started. Anytime you
and that not headed friend of yours get together, it
costs me money. So if you don't mind.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
But this will save you money. Father. We figured out
that my allergies are entirely psychosomatic.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
No huh.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
When I sneeze it isn't really because I have hay
fever or anything like that. It's a physical manifestation of
a spiritual yearning that creates a mental block.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
In other words, you're not really allergic to anything. You're
just a blockhead.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Father.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Isn't that what you said?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I said, don't you understand?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Father?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
If there's something I want more than anything else in
the world and I can't have it.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I sneeze.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And if you get it, you'll stop sneezing.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Huh. And when you think of all the doctor bills you've.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Had to pay, we're coming into the stretch.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Just because you wouldn't let me have a strapless evening gown.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Good grief, do you mean this whole thing was another
pitch for a strapless evening gown?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Father, I'm trying to help you save money.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You were sneezing before you were old enough to know
what an evening gown was for.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
But Father, if you'll only listen to me.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I promised your mother i'd go over the fall budget.
And I've been trying for five minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
But Jamie Niggett says, I.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Don't care about Jennie Liggett. I may I please go
back to my.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Budget, jumping creepers, psychosomatic manifestations.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
In sixteen when youree, mother, Betty, for the love.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Of Pete, may I tell you one more thing?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Please?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I suppose so.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Jamie Liggett saw guys and dolls, and there's a girl
in that who sneezes.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
All the time because she wants a strapless evening gown.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I suppose, Oh no, because she wants to get married.
You see, her name is Adelaide, and she's in love
with Nathan Detroit.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Fine, I hope they'll be very happy, but she isn't.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Father. They've been engaged for fourteen years, and the doctor
tells her the whole thing is psychosomatic, and she'll keep
right on sneezing until she and Nathan Detroit are married.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
All right, Betty, I give up.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You mean I can have a strapless evening gown.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No, you may marry Nathan Detroit.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
See what I mean? And this isn't a rare instance
of family understanding, No, sir, there are others who try
just as hard to be of genuine assistance to the
head of the household, like this.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Nine sixteen twenty three eight TI Dad thirty seven forty
three forty.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Five adding something up? Dad? But how would you like
to run up to Alaska for the weekend? What would
I do in Alaska? And we're just an idea, say Dad?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Speaking of money?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Who said anything about money? I did just now? Remember,
I'm sorry. I guess I wasn't listening. What about money?
Speaker 7 (05:30):
How would you like to save some?
Speaker 6 (05:32):
If he wants to marry Nathan Detroit, I'll shoot him.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Never mind. How am I going to save money? This time?
On food?
Speaker 7 (05:44):
It's very expensive?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
You know, I know I've been trying to break myself
of the habit for years.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Oh I don't mean you, I mean me.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You are going to give up food? Well, not entirely.
That's a relief.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
I figured out how come I always eat so much?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And you know why you've got three stomachs? I get
too much exercise. There's only one thing I am sure of.
He doesn't want his trackless evening gown. But I've got
to finish this budget, so let's cut out all the
trimmings and get down the cases. What does your overabundance
of exercise have to do with saving me money?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Well, it's like this. If you ride a bicycle, you
have to keep pumping up and down all the time.
That gets you hungry, and you have to eat. But
but if you'd buy me a gasoline scooter.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Nine sixty, all you do scooter forty? How can you
get hungry just sitting Somehow? I have the feeling you'd manage.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Besides, in three years i'll be eighteen, and that's.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Too old to ride a bicycle.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
But if you don't want to ride a bicycle, you
can take the bus to school. But I have to
take two buses, and that's very expensive and very fattening.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Don't get it.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Oh gosh, while you're waiting for the second bus, there's
nothing to do but eat. But you have to wait
almost twenty minutes, and you know how many hamburgers you
can eat in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
But let's put it this way. You are not going
to get a gasoline scooter.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Not even the one that Stevie Long's father is practically
giving away.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Not even that one.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Gosh, you can hardly even notice the place where it
ran into the sledgehammer.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
But if you don't what sledgehammer, the one mister Long
was holding. Mister Long was holding a sledgehammer, and the
scooter ran into it.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
That's what he said, and he's willing to sell it
for only eighty five dollars nine sixty and they cost
over one hundred dollars. News, look at the money you'll
be saving.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You save more than fifty dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yes, her, all for one and one for all. That's
the American family, even the baby. An innocent little angel
like Kathy Anderson, for example, does her bit to remedy
father's endless.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Problems like this.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Nine sixteen, twenty three, twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Who, Daddy, It isn't possible. It just isn't possible what
you're doing.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I'm trying to add a column of figures, and I've
been trying to add the same column of figures for
the last fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Want me to help?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No, I mean no, thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I'll do it much better if people will just stop
trying to help me. M. Sixteen, twenty three, twenty eight
thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Daddy, Kathy, I just finished telling you.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I have to ask you something.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
All right, kittens, what is it?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Do you sleep well at night?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Why?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Because I know how you can sleep better?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
You do?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Uh uh huh. All you have to do is get
rid of your guilt complex? My what your guilt complex?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's what I thought. You said.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
That means you're doing something you're ashamed of, so you
can't fall asleep and you just lie there and worry
about it.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Uh huh, tell me, kitting precisely, what am I worrying about?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
You see, everybody in my class gets an allowance of
fifty cents. Oh, and you only give me thirty five cents.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
So I lie awake nights and worry.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And I thought, if you wanted to give me another
fifteen cents a.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Week, Kathy for your information, I sleep like a babe.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
But if you only give me thirty five.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Cents, and furthermore, please tell your sister to keep her
psychiatric experiments out of my pocketbook.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Betty didn't have anything to do with it. But if
you want to keep on suffering from a guilty complex.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
How would you like to suffer from a spanking complex?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Don't blame me if what.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I said, how would you like to sell?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Excuse me, daddy, I just remembered something I have to do.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Fine, and see if you can't remember a lot of
things to do after that complex?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Geeness, you think fifteen cents was so important, Bud, give
me back my dime. It didn't work.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Well, I guess that takes care. Oh, we almost forgot mother.
She's helpful too, but in a rather different sort of
way like this.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I've been over the whole budget, Margaret, and it's entirely
out of line.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Why, Jim, I.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Know food is expensive and we've got to figure on
the other things, but well, look at this children's clothing
three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You have three growing children going back to school, and
if you think.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
For one meal, why can't we buy clothes for less
than three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
All they need is a couple of pairs of shoes
and some coats and things.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Why when I was a boy, my father used to
hit the ceiling. It might clothes for the whole year
cost over fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I know, dear, but you could always hide in the
back of the covered wagon.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Very funny.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm sorry, Jim, but if you knew how I struggled
with that budget.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You did a wonderful job, honey.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
But look, it's only two hundred dollars out of the way,
and I thought, if we could take it out of
the kid's clothes, one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You mean you expect me to buy clothes for all
three of them for one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, that's fifty dollars apiece. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
People all over the country are outfitting their kids for
fifty dollars ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I know, but unfortunately our children also have bodies and feet.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I don't suppose you tell me how we're going to
get two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Why do we suddenly need two hundred dollars?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Eh? Why?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I thought the budget was all set?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Well it was, but you know how it is. Things
come up and taxes and unforeseen emergencies, and look, why
don't we do it this way? Suppose this year I
supervised the purchase of clothing.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Oh, Jim, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
What's ridiculous about that?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
If I can get the kids all fixed up for
one hundred and fifty dollars, then we'll have the two
hundred left over for what?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
For? What I was telling you, taxes.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And unforeseen emergencies.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Well, it's certainly worth trying, isn't it, honey? And you'll
come along a check on everything. So what can you lose?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
My grandmother Williams once knew a man who didn't want
to lose money on the horse races, and he made
nothing but mental bets, Madre, and all he lost was
his mind.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Honey, I promise you everything's going to work beautifully.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, I wish I could be that sure, but I'm
only a mother and father knows best.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
So father's going to buy all the children's clothes for
one hundred and fifty dollars. Well, there's no harm in trying,
after all, that's the only way to find out if
you're right or not.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I know. That's how it is with lots of folks.
When it comes to buying coffee.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
You go along trying this kind and that till one
day you pour yourself a fragrant, steaming cup of our
Maxwell House coffee, and that does it right off. You ask,
what makes this big difference? Why is it only Maxwell
House has this wonderful, good to the last drop flavor.
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Well there's a reason, all right, and this is it.
No other coffee tastes like Maxwell House because no other
coffee is made like Maxwell House. You see, there are
all kinds of coffee beans, and they're put together all
kinds of ways. But the Maxwell House people buy the finest,
extra flavorful varieties from the remote mile high mountain plateaus
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of Latin America. They select choice bucheramongus Coffee for fine,
full body, superb Manizales for fragrant mellowness, Medlins for extra richness,
and others for vigorous whiney flavor. And only Maxwell House
knows how to blend them all together to create the
one coffee with that good to the last drop flavor.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What's left for me to say.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
Only this, If really good coffee makes your day a
better one. I hope you'll try our Maxwell House this
weekend at your grocer's. Look for the sign of good coffee,
the big white cup, and drop on our familiar blue
tin of Maxwell House. It's the one coffee that's always
good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
There's one thing you've got to say about fathers may
not be as pretty as mother's, but they certainly.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Don't know as much about shopping. Wait a minute, they
may not be well anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It's Saturday afternoon and the Andersons are deep in the
heart of their shopping expedition. If you want them, they
can be found on the third floor of Gorman's department store,
where you can also find women's and missus lingerie, dresses, coats, millinery,
and yard goods.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Third floor, anyone.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Are the children's coats on this floor?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yes, ma'am? Third isle over?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Going up? Please?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
He was a nice young man, wasn't he.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Oh? I don't know, kind of shifting in the eyes.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
I thought I didn't think his eyes were shifty at all.
That's because he was shifting him around at you, Kathy, Oh,
wasn't he?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Never mind?
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Dear, Holy cow dad, there's nothing nut here.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
But girls junk.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
It isn't junk.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Why can't I work for you in the sporting goods department?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You'll stay right here where we can keep an eye
on you.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Do I have to walk past all that underwear and everything.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
It isn't going to hurt you, Bud, Just close your
eyes and walk.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Holy cow.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Mother, look at those nylon slips. Don't taking gorgeous? Yes, dear,
and very expensive? Ooh, what i'd give for something like that.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I didn't ask for anything expensive. All I wanted was
fifteen cents a week.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
And if she gets a nylon st she isn't getting
a nylon slip. And if you don't stop. But if
you're walking into will you please open your eyes? You
said to keep them closed, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Behave yourself, Bud, yes, man. Anyone with two sisters has
to get used to seeing things like that.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Everybody's got somebody, and all I've got is sisters.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Can I help you?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I don't think anybody can help him of all that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
We'd like to see some coats, please, of course, if
you'll step right over here.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
We're looking for a simple and expensive coat for my
younger daughter.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
I see something warm and serviceable for around old ten
or twelve dollars?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
All right? And what shade of burlap did you happen here?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Burlap?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Jim? I told you in the very beginning.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I don't want to wear a coat made out of Why.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Don't I just go down to the sporting goods department
and stay.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Where you are?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Is it all right? If I look at the nylon?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Slaps you too?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I just wanted to.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Touch the Margaret.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
How do you expect me to accomplish anything if you
keep undermining me with the children?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Why, Jim, I haven't said a word, That's.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What I mean. Why don't you say something and make
them behave themselves.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Yes, dear children, lie down, you're in a gay mood.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
But this whole thing is so ridiculous, Jim. Everybody knows
you can't buy a coat for ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
All right, fifteen, may we please see some of your coats?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
No, yes, no, Well here's a charming little thing. It's
one of our most popular numbers, and I'm sure it
will look adorable on the little angel.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Doesn't she know it's for kathyd Please.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Go ahead, Kathy, try it on?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Is it burlap?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Stop talking and try it on?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Shee will? There isn't that charming?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Hold your head up, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
It's all whoa doubly interlined and it sells for only
thirty nine ninety five thirty.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Take it off, Kathy, just put it off. Take it off.
Forty dollars for a coat. It's an outrage.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Of course, we do have cheaper models, the.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Nerve of them. Forty dollars for that. It doesn't have
over a yard of material in it.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It is not the material, sir, it's the workmanship.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Well we'll go someplace where they've got sloppier workman.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
They just won't lose your temper.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I'm not losing my temper. Forty dollars for a coat.
Look at it, not even a whistle.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
When I was a kid, coats for five bucks apiece,
and they came with a whistle.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Speaking of whistles, are you interested in a coat for
the older girl, dad.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yes, we're definitely interested in a coat for the older.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Girl better known as burlap Beulah Betty.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
One more word out of you, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Father. Well, if you'll step into our college deb department,
I'll show you some of our back to school models.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Dad, what happened to Michael?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
You'll get a coat, dear later.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Why can't I get one now?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Because I've only made two trips to Fort Knox? Oh? Dad,
but why don't you? What is it?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Why don't I wait for you in the sporting goods
depart because you're going to wait here?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Here we are now? Isn't this lovely? Mother?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
It is?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's just lush. It's probably very expensive, dear, Oh, not
at all. It's only sixty six.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Fifty sixty six fifty jim sixty six dollars and fifty
cents for one cop.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Don't forget, sir, this is a fine imported material.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You just said the material didn't count. It was the
workmanship that was in the other department. Did you hear that, Margaret.
They've got different systems for different departments.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, no, dear, Hey, heymn mother, there's mister Davis. I
wonder what Jim. It's Ed David.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
They haven't even the decency. Oh oh yeah, I've been
looking all over the store for you. Hello, Margaret Ethel
told me i'd find it done. Hey, can't it wait?
Edward very busy out.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I've held him off as long as I can, and
he wants to know right now, But.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You don't know what, Jim.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I've got to call him back in five minutes and
tell him definitely yes or no. Tell him we'll call
him back tomorrow. I told him that, and he said
he wouldn't wait. Why don't I wait in the sporting good?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
But ed will you please tell me what this is
all about?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It isn't anything, honey. We were just you told her
about the boat. Here we go. What boat? Jim and
I were going partners on a boat. But he has
to dig up an extra two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Oh he does, does he?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Margaret? I can explain the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You take the clothes right off your children's back for
a boat?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
What kind of a boat, dad, Honey?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
If you'll only listen, not well, what What'll I tell him?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
He says he's got six other buyers waiting for the
boat right now?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
What kind of a boat, dad, Margaret, don't even talk
to me, Ed, Maybe we're making a mistake.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
If it's such a good boat, why does he want
to sell it? He didn't want to sell it. I
practically had to plead with him. But why all the
hurry because he's liable to change his mind, Jim, I
tell you the boat is an absolute steal. Well, see,
if you can't stall him for one more day, I'll
call him again. But I don't know why I get
mixed up in things.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Like honey, after eighteen years, the things you find out
about people.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Honey, don't look at me like that. I was doing
it for all of us. What kind of a boat? Dan?
But why don't you go down to the sporting goods?
I want to stay here?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Father? Are we really going to have a boat?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
A real life boat?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I don't know. I don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well, I do I know exactly what to think of
a man who'd sacrifice his children for a boat.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Honey, I told you they were going to get clothes first.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Coats for five dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I never said that with a whistle. You'll keep out
of this well.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I got tired of just standing here.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I didn't mind a coat made out of her.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Laugh.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Mother, We've all got plenty of clothes, really we have.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You're not going back to school looking like a bunch
of ragamuffins.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Of course they aren't. We'll take the forty dollars coat
for Kathy.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We will not. We can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
We can't afford it. I'll throw in my cigarette money.
I smoke too much anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I want to comment on Burl.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Kathleen, stop it. Would you take it with you?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yes? And wrap up that sixty six to fifty job too. Father.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
You won't be able to get the boat.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
We don't need a boat. What kind of a boat, Dan,
Any kind of a boat? Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Will that be cash or a chuck? It won't be either.
We're not taking we.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Are taking them. They look like very nice coats.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
But it's over one hundred dollars, but just two coats,
and the budget figures on only seventy five.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Well, I'll throw in my bowling money. I don't have
to bowl.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Father, you never buy anything for yourself, not even a
burlap cal We're being very selfish.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You aren't being selfish. I want my children to have
the best of everything, that's all. How about the boat.
Coats are more important than.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Boats, if you'd like to pay for them, not just
a minute, Jim, I think the children are right.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh you do, do you? Since winter?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What you're wearing? The same coat you've had for almost
ten years, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I like it, and if you want a boat, we
want you to have it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I don't want a boat, I want a coat. I
mean I want the children to have their coats.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Jim, I know you wouldn't gone through all this if
the boat hadn't meant a great deal to you.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Oh it is an important honey. I just thought that
for vacations and things.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
And Ed says it's a wonderful buye and it's a
real sturdy boat.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
They even call it the Rock of Gibraltar.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
If you'd like to pay for the coats, we're not
going to take them.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
We've got to Margaret. You said they look like a
bunch of ragga muffins.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh, they won't look bad at all. We'll let out
a few more hams and make a few little adjustments.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You can cut my alluwance to a quarter if you
want to.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
I don't know, honey, do you think it'll be all right?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Of course it'll be all right. Who needs a coat
when they can have a boat.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Gosh, they're even better than gasoline scooters.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You don't want the coats?
Speaker 12 (25:42):
Huh uh, I guess not.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
We're buying the Rock of Gibraltar instead.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Hot tall, Hey Jim, Oh did you get him? And yeah?
I got him. Well, it's all settled.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
We're gonna get a bout.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
All settled, all right. The Rock of Gibraltar just sank.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
No this weekend.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
How will you choose the coffee you buy for your family?
So many brands? How can you pick the one coffee
that gives you the most in flavor for your money? Well,
on your grocer's shelves, there is one coffee, our Maxwell
House coffee that's famous for flavor above all others. And
to morrow your family can tell you why. Yes, to morrow,
(27:04):
serve that family of yours the rich, satisfying goodness of
our Maxwell House Coffee. When they give you their warmest
smiles and say best coffee ever, you'll know why Maxwell
House is famous for flavor. And when you count all
the cups of truly good coffee you get from that
one pound, well, you know it's Maxwell House for value too.
(27:27):
To morrow, then for truly good flavor, for to day's
best coffee. Buy look for the sign of good coffee,
the big white cup, and drop on our friendly blue tin.
That's Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good to the
last drop.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Robert Young again. This season,
Father Knows Best will join the crusade to promote safe
driving among our young people in cooperation with the Inter
Industry Highway Safety Committee. Mister Cody Fowler, President of the
American Bar Association, has pledged the cooperation of members of
the Association and all traffic court judges and prosecutors in
(28:14):
the United States. These men know that increased respect for
traffic laws is the best way toward a nation of
better drivers of all ages, and through just an intelligent
enforcement of these laws, they are constantly working toward that goal.
We will have more interesting news on the campaign and
your part in it in a few weeks. Meanwhile, if
you would like to participate in the Robert Young Good
(28:36):
Drivers Club through signing a man to man or dad
to daughter agreement, just write to me Robert Young at
this NBC station.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Good night.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargie and the Maxwell housewalk In our cast were
Dorothy Loved as Margaret, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, Norma G. Nilsson,
Isabelle Jewel, Barney Phillips, and yours.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Truly, Bill Forman.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
So 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. This is NBC,
the National Broadcasting Company.
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