August 3, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mother, is Nashville House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World where your father says so? And your father knows this.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, it, father knows this.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Anderson brought to you
by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always
good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Have you heard of the wonderful one horse shay that.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Was built in such a logical way It ran one
hundred years to a day and then of a sudden
it ah, But stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay. Well,
of course, it hasn't been one hundred years since the
Andersons fought their car, but you get the general idea.
In Springfield, in the driveway besides the white frame house
on Maple Street, the Anderson chariot is getting quite a
(01:15):
going over like this.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I don't care what.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You say, father, It is a racking, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It is that.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
So for your information, Betty, they don't build cars like
this anymore.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
They don't build covered wagons either. Oh, nothing dead. I
was just thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
He said they didn't build keery wrackens either.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh he did, did he?
Speaker 8 (01:38):
Okay, Kathy, just you wait.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
But if you find the car so objectionable, we can
arrange for you not to be annoyed with it any
longer on Thursday nights.
Speaker 8 (01:47):
Or I didn't mean that, Dad, I think it's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well I don't, and I don't even want a bar
with anymore good.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'll keep that in mind.
Speaker 9 (01:57):
Look at it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The paid all worn off the post, we all faded.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You know.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
That's the trouble with you kids. You don't look beneath
the surface. That's where your value is. Do you know
there's thirty percent more metal in this car than in
any nineteen fifty model on the road.
Speaker 8 (02:12):
There is? Huh?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
There certainly is. You see this body panel.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It's a little banged up, I admit that, But listen
to it. That's solid, that's good, honest metal, Dad. Bars
today aren't built that way, none of them. They sound
tiny and cheap.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Dad.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Have you seen the fenders they're putting on the new cars, just.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Like paper mache? But on this car. Well, listen to this.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
But gosh, ted, I was trying to tell you, I
don't know. Why do things like this always happen to me? Daddy?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Why did you not spend your off the car.
Speaker 9 (02:55):
Kathy, you'd better be quiet if you know what's good
for you.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That's fine, Margaret, just fine, Bud.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You find a basket with lunch on the kitchen table,
So why don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Jim, what on earth did you do to the car?
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I didn't do anything to the car.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Margaret, Daddy not to stand off.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I did no such thing.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
All I did was give it one or two little taps, Jim.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Mister Gilhausen said.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It wasn't going to last. Mister Gilhausen, that crook.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
He doesn't know anymore about fixing a car then than
Kathy does.
Speaker 10 (03:29):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Charges me seven dollars and eighty cents to put a
fender back on, and doesn't even use a good grade
of Scotch tape.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
You want me to get the sandwiches, Mom.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Weave the sandwiches alone, Bud. We can't go to a church,
picnic or anyplace else until we get the car fixed.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
We can put the fender on with wire, Dad, It
didn't look too bad the last time.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All right, go get the wire.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
I think there's a whole bunch of it in the guitar.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Mister Gilhausen, A fine mechanic he turned out to be.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He's a butcher, that's what he is.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Anybody who can't put a fender on so it stays put.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Father, may I please have the tickets for the picnic?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You certainly may not.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
But father, mister Leggatt said I could ride with there.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh he did, did he?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It will be there hours before.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
You're going with us, or you aren't going at all?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
But father, Bud, I can't I pick up a while
all timegled up?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh I did not.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
There's a roll on top of the workfence. Bud, bring that, okay? Father,
I certainly say, Betty, you're going in our car or
you aren't going now, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh pooh, Jim, don't you think of being a little severe.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Betty wants to spend more time with Jamie Legcott, that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It Isn't that she's ashamed to be seen in our car,
is it, Betty?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
That old heat you see, Margaret. She's ashamed of us.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
She's too good to ride in our car.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I not too good.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
But that isn't even a car, just a bunch of
old bolts all together with bobby pins.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Dad, Betty, that car is good enough for me, And
if it's good enough for me, it's good enough for
my family.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Is that clear?
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Here's the wire, Dad.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Anytime you think that you're better than the rest of us,
well we'll just do something.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
About it, and let's not forget it.
Speaker 11 (05:22):
Here's the wire, Dad.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
I heard you, Bud, God, how did I know?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Sounds like your needle was stuck. Here's the wire, Dad,
here's the wire, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Kathy, be quiet, te will Bud.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'll hold a fender in place and you wire it together.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Okay, Dad, Jim, I know what Betty had in mind.
She was only thinking of our good weren't you, Betty.
Speaker 10 (05:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sure, they're going to have a drawing for a new car.
And if someone isn't there.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Someone will be there, Margaret, We'll all be there. Not
that we'd ever be lucky enough to win a new car.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Hold the front up a little higher, Dad, Ah that okay.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I've been going to church picnic since I was four
years old, and the only people who ever win new
cars are old ladies of ninety who wouldn't be caught
dead with anything but a horse and buggy.
Speaker 12 (06:21):
Father, if they'd pick our number and we aren't there,
we'll be there now.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Stop worrying about it. How's it going, Bud?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
I think it's almost finished, Betty.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Go in and get the lunch, all right, father, and
lock the door on the way out.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Yes, Father, I think that's as good as I can do.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Dad.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Hmmm, well it seems firm enough.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I wouldn't lean on it too hard. It's saw vested
away on the inside.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Well, it'll certainly last until we get home, and believe me,
I'll give that Guildhausen character a piece of my mind
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Hurry up, Betty, we're ready to leave.
Speaker 13 (06:54):
See right there.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I'll get the motor warmed up while we're waiting.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Want me to do it dead?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
No, I'm perfectly capable of starting my own car.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Now.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
What's gotten into this miserable wreck?
Speaker 8 (07:09):
Bang on the dashboard, Dad, Sometimes that does it?
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I did, bang on the dashboard, just cold, that's all?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is this all of it?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Mother?
Speaker 10 (07:18):
Yes, dear, thank you?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
No good Jim.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
But jump up and down on the bumper a few times.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Okay, what's wrong with the car?
Speaker 13 (07:29):
It won't side again?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Be quiet, Kathy? Please?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well it won't, will it?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Why now? Dad? But yes, Dad, jiggle.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
The wire on the distributor. Okay, I never saw it
to fail.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
The car runs like a dream, except when you need it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh, mother, there's Janie Leggett. What am I going to
tell them?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, you just have to tell me.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Yes, father, what time is the drawing for the new car?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I don't know, father, but if we aren't.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
There, we'll be there. But just in case it takes
us a.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
While to get started. Well, here, you take the tickets
and go ahead with the leggags. Oh father, we should
happen to win the car. You well, go ahead, we'll
meet you out there.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm honey.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Good bye, everybody, see you later.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Betty, be careful, Betty.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Daddy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That's Kathy.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I don't mind riding in your car.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Thank you, Kathy.
Speaker 13 (08:27):
I'm gray.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Why does it?
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Bud?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
There's a pencil stuck in the distributor.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I know that's to keep the wire in.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
Well, the pencils in, but the wire's up.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
But fix it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
That's why it won't start. Okay.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I knew it wasn't anything important, Just to lose wire,
that's all. Okay, stand back, I'll try it again. See
all right, everybody, let's go put.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
The hood down. Bud.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Okay, let it down easy so it.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Won't shake the pencil loose.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Come on, Margaret, what are you and Kathy waiting for?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Daddy? What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 13 (09:16):
We've got a flat tire.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Ridiculous thing I've ever seen. There must be some way
of keeping that fender on.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
We'll be there in a minute, dear, and then you
can fix it properly.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
What do you mean properly?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
How can you fix a fender properly with those silly
hunks of wire.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
It isn't a wire that's breaking, Dad, Pieces are coming
out of the fender.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It only fell off three times.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I know how many times it fell off.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I know what's the matter with it. I don't know
how to fix it. That's all where right there?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Look out? What there's a bum again?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That takes four times?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Oh, Jim fiddlesticks?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Cassy, Why don't you run ahead and find Betty? Okay, Mommy,
I'll see if anybody knows one's far.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Come on, Bud, let's take another whack at it.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
I don't think it's gonna do much good, Dad, Look
at the holes in it.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Idiotic looking contraption.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Dad.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
I think I know how we can do it, if
we can get some long pieces of wire.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
We can No, that won't work.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
What won't work?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
I thought we could run the wire under the car
and over the hood and tie it on that way.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
But that won't work.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Well, that's what I said. No good, no good, mouth
eating upside of Kathy.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What is it? Yerdy? We won?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We want Jim?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I just saw Jeddy and they call the number and
we won. Wonderful?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Well, Bud boy, old boy, Bud, would you care to
join me?
Speaker 8 (11:24):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I'm going to show this no good misguided fender just
where it gets all and that's right here.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Turn it over, Bud? That's it now?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
What I guess.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That'll show it? Sure, go right ahead, you to Bud.
Have a good time.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Him, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
It certainly is?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
How wonderful color it is?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
If that isn't it? Just like a woman.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I suppose if you don't like the color, we'll have
to give it back.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh no, but I just thought it.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Mother, it's plentiful instant.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It certainly is.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Mother. What are they doing?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Never mind them?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Where is it?
Speaker 8 (12:13):
But father?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
They're ruining the fenders?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Who cares about an old fender? We want a new
car didn't we.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
Oh, father, no, we want a ham.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, it's not the first time folks have expected one
thing and ended up with a lot less. It just
points up a fact we've learned you and I many times.
You've got to make sure of what you get in everything.
In a pound of coffee, for instance, you want to
make sure of the flavor you get. You want the
most in flavor for every penny you spend. To millions
(13:02):
of folks. That means getting the one coffee famous for
flavor above all others, Our Maxwell House coffee. Mmm, that
wonderful good to the last drop flavor. You won't find it,
you know, in any other coffee, no coffee, but Maxwell House.
And there's a mighty good reason why it's our recipe.
And there's no mistaking its importance. It's the one and
(13:24):
only recipe of its kind. It calls for certain fine
varieties of coffee, and our Maxwell House people carefully combine
them just so. It's the one way, the one recipe
for that good to the last drop flavor. And it
spells the big difference between just any coffee and coffee
at its Sunday go to meeting best.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
And this difference adds up to.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
More enjoyment, more flavor for your money when you pour
Maxwell House coffee into those cups on your table. So
next time bring home that familiar blue tin of Maxwellhouse
enjoy that's always good to the last drop. You know,
(14:14):
for some reason or other, automobile people are a cheerful lot,
a smiling Irishman, a laughing Lithuania. They're a gay group
of fellows with lilding.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Hearts and names to match.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
In Springfield, it's Fred Haney, the happy Hibernian, and that's
where the Andersons are headed.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Like this, father, what is it, Betty?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Don't you think it's about time we gave up on
this old heap?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Debdy?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Please don't annoy your father well jumping creepers.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's all right, Margaret. I'm used to being ridicute. After all,
I'm only her father.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Everybody has to get so personal about everything. Why is
it such an insult if I think we need.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
A new car, Betty? This is more than a car.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
This is an old friend which has served as faithfully
and well. And you don't give up an old friend
just because it's a little droopy in the fenders. You
treat it gently, humor it restore it to help.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
The best thing you can do for this friend is
give it a decent funeral.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
For your information, Betty, this car will be as good
as new in less than a week, and it'll be
good for another twelve years.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
Holy call.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Ally, the car is even older than I am.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
It makes more noise too, Father, What is it?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Betty?
Speaker 9 (15:35):
As long as you insist on having the car fixed up,
can we please have it painted?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I fully intend to have it painted, A new fender,
new paint job, A few little touches on the motor
here and there, we'll have a car you can be
proud of.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Can we have it painted blue? Please?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
What's the matter with black?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But it's always been black? And black is so dark?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well we'll get like black.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I like red. Then you can pretend you're riding in
a fire.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Engine, you know, Margaret, I should have had this done
a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I had the car fixed up on me. When I
think of the way I've.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Let it get run down, I should have had my
head examined.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
That's all we've been telling you.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Oh, I didn't mean. I mean, well, green's a nice color,
is it?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Well?
Speaker 8 (16:35):
If you like green, you know, for.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
A while I thought maybe we'd get a new car golly,
But then I said, why, Oh, I can add this
one fixed up for fifty or sixty dollars, So why
go to all that unnecessary expense?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Did anybody say they'd fix it up for fifty or
sixty dollars?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
No, but I'm just figuring conservatively. Maybe lonely be forty
dollars A dreamer.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
When I was a boy, children showed a little respect
for their parents.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
They didn't spend half their life Jim, what is it, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Isn't that Haney?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I know it's Haney's.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
I've only been here a million times.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Where was I? Bud?
Speaker 8 (17:18):
They didn't spend half her life.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
They didn't spend half their life trying to make up
wise cracks about their fathers. I'll behave yourself, okay, dad, father?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I know Betty?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
You want it painted blue? Well, I just saw you
want blue. Kathy wants red, Bud wants green. How would
it be if we settled for a nice Scotch plaid.
Speaker 14 (17:42):
Well, now, Jim, got the whole family with you this time.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Huh, that's right, they bread.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I'd like to see if we can't.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We want it painted red, Kathy, and make the horn louder.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Kathy, get back in the car and sit down.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yep, Daddy, bread, father law?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
What a yellow one? Isn't it a dream?
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Both?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Betty? I'm trying to tell mister Haynes.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Boy, look at that foreign job. Is that something?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Margaret?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Dear?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
I know you and mister Haney want to talk, So
why don't the children and I.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
Just wander around and look at the different car?
Speaker 14 (18:14):
An excellent idea, missus Anderson, excellent?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Ooh what look at that one. It's got a more
cycle on it.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
That's for delivery.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Dopey mother has ever seen anything like that blue one?
It's very nice.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Je, Well, maybe now we can talk.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
Don't tell me you're finally going to give up on
that wreck?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
What wreck?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
That's because it looks a little shabby.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
Why don't you face a Jim, you'll need a new
car bred.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I'm not spending any sixteen hundred.
Speaker 14 (18:44):
Dollars for a car sixteen sixty three twenty pardon me,
including license and texts.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'll take twelve. Jim.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
I've known you for a long time.
Speaker 14 (18:55):
I value your business, but more than that, I value
your friendship.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Then tell Gil Housing to fix my car so it'll
stay together.
Speaker 11 (19:02):
He can't, Jim.
Speaker 14 (19:03):
It's old, it's worn out. You're just throwing good money
after bad.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Will you please buy a new car.
Speaker 14 (19:10):
You don't have to buy it from me, buy it
from anybody, but buy it.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Are you all finished? Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Just tell Gilhausen to fix my car right this time?
Speaker 11 (19:23):
Of all the stop Gillhauser, come here?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Will you?
Speaker 11 (19:28):
Then her is back?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Very funny, Holy smoke, mister Anderson.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
I don't have to work on that thing again, do I? No,
you don't have to. I know a lot of places
that'll be very glad.
Speaker 11 (19:42):
Just a minute, Jim, don't get up on your horse.
If you want it fixed, will you fix it? Won't
we give We'll fix.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
It or we'll give it either a transfusion. Why anybody
had want to throw good money into that wreck?
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Gil?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So we fix it. Where's the fender?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
It got stepped on it?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
It's gone.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
It fell off because you don't know how to put
a fender on. I put fenders on before you was born,
but not fenders like your fender.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
All right, all right, Gil, we'll.
Speaker 14 (20:15):
Just have to put on a new fender, okay, Jim,
I suppose so while we're at it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Let's do it upright.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Let's paint the whole thing, get the motor tuned up,
fix the lights.
Speaker 11 (20:27):
And we got on that gill. This time we're going
to picture it right.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Well, that's more like it. So we start with the fender.
Look you see this big hole in the panel. Yes,
that's where I got a boat defender on a hole. No,
we need a new panel, a.
Speaker 11 (20:47):
New panel, Go ahead, Gil, I'm writing it down.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Wait a minute, why can't you just nose panel boats
onto the body? Only it's all rusted away over here
and it wound holds, So we need a new body. Look, Fred,
all I want is to take a new body.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's too light.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
New frame, chassis, rear assembly, fransmission, you got it, you
got it. New crank, cheft, flywheel, feed line, connecting rods, clutch, camshaft,
mister Gilhouse, whose spring, muffler, exhaust, chucks, bumpers.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Mister horns. All right, mister Gilhaus.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Forget about the whole thing. Will you just fix the
wire and the distributor and I'll be happy.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Mister Anderson, Look lift the hood, will you? Fred?
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Thanks Fred? Now you see that wire, mister Anderson, it
goes down there and hooks onto that, but it can't
because it's loose.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Here. You see this, You gotta crack slock.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
The water pumps broke, the radiator leaks, the piston assembly shot,
the valves are gun.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
You gotta get a new motor just because you can't
hook up one little wire.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Huh, what am I gonna hook it on?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Jim?
Speaker 14 (22:09):
We're trying to help you, and with a job this big,
we'll give you a special rate.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Well, that's more like it.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
What does it come to the whole thing with a
paint job? You want me anymore?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Fred?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
And no?
Speaker 11 (22:20):
Thanks a lot, Gil.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Okay, see you later, Mi, you bet.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Go ahead, Fred, figure it out and sharpen your pencil.
Speaker 14 (22:30):
Well, let me see, fifteen thirty eight to forty seven,
four ninety six.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Four ninety six.
Speaker 14 (22:40):
The whole thing, including labor and parts, comes to exactly
sixteen hundred and seventy eight dollars sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's fifteen dollars more than.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
A you, Jim. This is all on a piece work basis.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And besides, with seat covers, you'll.
Speaker 14 (22:54):
Have a car that's practically new.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Sixteen hundred murder.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
I told you the very beginning Jim.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Margaret anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Sixteen hundred dollars. It's an outrage, that's what it is.
An outbrage.
Speaker 14 (23:07):
Well, you think it over, Jim, and whatever you decide,
just let me off.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Sixteen hundred and seventy eight dollars. That's the most outrageous
thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
What did he say, Dad?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Is he going to be blue?
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Father?
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
An he? Since the Grease gan.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
All right, get in, we're going home.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Aren't you gonna have a fit?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I said, get in?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I want to stand child the grease.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Come all right, children, let's not argue. Do what your
father says.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I'll get another mechanic. That's what I'll do.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Hanny isn't the only dealer in Springfield?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Tell me my car isn't any good? Sixteen hundred and
seventy eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Dear, don't you think if you talked to mister Haney again?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Haney, he's a worse crooked than gill Housan ever was
ten times as bad. Somebody will fix this car and
it'll be good for another twelve years and another one
hundred and forty thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh father, have you.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Heard of the wonderful one auchet that was built in
such a logical way it ran one hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Years to a day.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Well, we're sitting in it right now, one hundred years.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Holy call.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
This car is as sound as it was the day
we bought it. It's a good car, solid and sturdy.
I'll put on a fender, get a little paint, new tires,
another band off.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Well we'll put it back.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
On, Dad, Jim.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
We've just got to get a new car.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Bradd all.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
You see, of course, if you're not a dunce.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
How it went to pieces all at once, all at once,
and nothing first, just as.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful One
Horse shame.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Logic is logic, that's all I say.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yes, logic is logic.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
And when it comes to coffee, that's the reason you
naturally look for the most in flavor for every penny
you spend, and it's yours. And the coffee with the
world's most famous flavor are good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That wonderful flavor begins with our Maxwell House recipe.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You don't stop there.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
We know that air can steal coffee flavor, and ordinary
containers like paper bags can't prevent roasted coffee from losing flavor,
whether it's.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Ground or whole beam.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That's why we carefully vacuum pack our Maxwell House and
the familiar blue tin. It's the only way you can
be guaranteed coffee fresh as the hour it was roasted,
without one bit of flavor wasted. So these days be
sure you get the most in value, in flavor and freshness.
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You always will when you open up a pound of
Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Robert Young.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Since the beginning of this year, as you probably know,
we on Father Knows Best have been working hand in
glove with the inter Industry Highway Safety Committee. Our particular
face of the overall problem was the enlistment of teenagers
and their parents in a good driver's club.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
And now, after five months of campaigning.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
We'd like to make our first report and for all
those connected with this safety movement, we have news I consider.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
A little short of miraculous.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Since the inception of this campaign, two and three quarter
million pledges have been requested by the teenage drivers of America.
Think of it, two and three quarter million in large cities,
in small Hamlets.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The young men and women of this country have proved, beyond.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
The shadow of a doubt, the basic integrity of their generation.
We are proud of them, prouder than we can say.
By recognizing their common problem by driving safely and carefully,
these young men and women have brought added security to
the highways and everlasting.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Glory to themselves.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
We congratulate them on a job well done, and ask
only that they continue their good work in the future.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Good Night, now yours to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
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instant coffee you'll be proud to serve to your dinner guests.
It's instant Maxwell House, the instant coffee with a famous flavor.
Here's the happiest combination in coffee. Wonderful good to the
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the instant coffee with a famous flavor, instantly good to
the last drop. Join us again next week when we'll
be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is,
Jim Anderson, with Roy Bogie and the Maxwell House Orchestra.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
And yours truly, Bill Forman.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
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 James. Now stay
tuned for Screen Gill Theater, which follows immediately over most
of these stations.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
Stay tuned for screen Gill Theater next on n b C.
Mother, is Nashville House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World where your father says so? And your father knows this.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, it, father knows this.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Anderson brought to you
by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always
good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Have you heard of the wonderful one horse shay that.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Was built in such a logical way It ran one
hundred years to a day and then of a sudden
it ah, But stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay. Well,
of course, it hasn't been one hundred years since the
Andersons fought their car, but you get the general idea.
In Springfield, in the driveway besides the white frame house
on Maple Street, the Anderson chariot is getting quite a
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going over like this.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I don't care what.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
You say, father, It is a racking, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It is that.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
So for your information, Betty, they don't build cars like
this anymore.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
They don't build covered wagons either. Oh, nothing dead. I
was just thinking.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
He said they didn't build keery wrackens either.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Oh he did, did he?
Speaker 8 (01:38):
Okay, Kathy, just you wait.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
But if you find the car so objectionable, we can
arrange for you not to be annoyed with it any
longer on Thursday nights.
Speaker 8 (01:47):
Or I didn't mean that, Dad, I think it's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well I don't, and I don't even want a bar
with anymore good.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'll keep that in mind.
Speaker 9 (01:57):
Look at it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The paid all worn off the post, we all faded.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
You know.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
That's the trouble with you kids. You don't look beneath
the surface. That's where your value is. Do you know
there's thirty percent more metal in this car than in
any nineteen fifty model on the road.
Speaker 8 (02:12):
There is? Huh?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
There certainly is. You see this body panel.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It's a little banged up, I admit that, But listen
to it. That's solid, that's good, honest metal, Dad. Bars
today aren't built that way, none of them. They sound
tiny and cheap.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Dad.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Have you seen the fenders they're putting on the new cars, just.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Like paper mache? But on this car. Well, listen to this.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
But gosh, ted, I was trying to tell you, I
don't know. Why do things like this always happen to me? Daddy?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Why did you not spend your off the car.
Speaker 9 (02:55):
Kathy, you'd better be quiet if you know what's good
for you.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
That's fine, Margaret, just fine, Bud.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You find a basket with lunch on the kitchen table,
So why don't you.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Jim, what on earth did you do to the car?
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I didn't do anything to the car.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Margaret, Daddy not to stand off.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I did no such thing.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
All I did was give it one or two little taps, Jim.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Mister Gilhausen said.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It wasn't going to last. Mister Gilhausen, that crook.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
He doesn't know anymore about fixing a car then than
Kathy does.
Speaker 10 (03:29):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Charges me seven dollars and eighty cents to put a
fender back on, and doesn't even use a good grade
of Scotch tape.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
You want me to get the sandwiches, Mom.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Weave the sandwiches alone, Bud. We can't go to a church,
picnic or anyplace else until we get the car fixed.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
We can put the fender on with wire, Dad, It
didn't look too bad the last time.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
All right, go get the wire.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
I think there's a whole bunch of it in the guitar.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Mister Gilhausen, A fine mechanic he turned out to be.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He's a butcher, that's what he is.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Anybody who can't put a fender on so it stays put.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Father, may I please have the tickets for the picnic?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You certainly may not.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
But father, mister Leggatt said I could ride with there.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh he did, did he?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It will be there hours before.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
You're going with us, or you aren't going at all?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
But father, Bud, I can't I pick up a while
all timegled up?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh I did not.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
There's a roll on top of the workfence. Bud, bring that, okay? Father,
I certainly say, Betty, you're going in our car or
you aren't going now, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh pooh, Jim, don't you think of being a little severe.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Betty wants to spend more time with Jamie Legcott, that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It Isn't that she's ashamed to be seen in our car,
is it, Betty?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
That old heat you see, Margaret. She's ashamed of us.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
She's too good to ride in our car.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I not too good.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
But that isn't even a car, just a bunch of
old bolts all together with bobby pins.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Dad, Betty, that car is good enough for me, And
if it's good enough for me, it's good enough for
my family.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Is that clear?
Speaker 8 (05:15):
Here's the wire, Dad.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Anytime you think that you're better than the rest of us,
well we'll just do something.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
About it, and let's not forget it.
Speaker 11 (05:22):
Here's the wire, Dad.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
I heard you, Bud, God, how did I know?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Sounds like your needle was stuck. Here's the wire, Dad,
here's the wire, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Kathy, be quiet, te will Bud.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'll hold a fender in place and you wire it together.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Okay, Dad, Jim, I know what Betty had in mind.
She was only thinking of our good weren't you, Betty.
Speaker 10 (05:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sure, they're going to have a drawing for a new car.
And if someone isn't there.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Someone will be there, Margaret, We'll all be there. Not
that we'd ever be lucky enough to win a new car.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Hold the front up a little higher, Dad, Ah that okay.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I've been going to church picnic since I was four
years old, and the only people who ever win new
cars are old ladies of ninety who wouldn't be caught
dead with anything but a horse and buggy.
Speaker 12 (06:21):
Father, if they'd pick our number and we aren't there,
we'll be there now.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Stop worrying about it. How's it going, Bud?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
I think it's almost finished, Betty.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Go in and get the lunch, all right, father, and
lock the door on the way out.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Yes, Father, I think that's as good as I can do.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Dad.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Hmmm, well it seems firm enough.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I wouldn't lean on it too hard. It's saw vested
away on the inside.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Well, it'll certainly last until we get home, and believe me,
I'll give that Guildhausen character a piece of my mind
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Hurry up, Betty, we're ready to leave.
Speaker 13 (06:54):
See right there.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I'll get the motor warmed up while we're waiting.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Want me to do it dead?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
No, I'm perfectly capable of starting my own car.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Now.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
What's gotten into this miserable wreck?
Speaker 8 (07:09):
Bang on the dashboard, Dad, Sometimes that does it?
Speaker 6 (07:12):
I did, bang on the dashboard, just cold, that's all?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is this all of it?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Mother?
Speaker 10 (07:18):
Yes, dear, thank you?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
No good Jim.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
But jump up and down on the bumper a few times.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Okay, what's wrong with the car?
Speaker 13 (07:29):
It won't side again?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Be quiet, Kathy? Please?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well it won't, will it?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Why now? Dad? But yes, Dad, jiggle.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
The wire on the distributor. Okay, I never saw it
to fail.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
The car runs like a dream, except when you need it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh, mother, there's Janie Leggett. What am I going to
tell them?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, you just have to tell me.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Yes, father, what time is the drawing for the new car?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I don't know, father, but if we aren't.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
There, we'll be there. But just in case it takes
us a.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
While to get started. Well, here, you take the tickets
and go ahead with the leggags. Oh father, we should
happen to win the car. You well, go ahead, we'll
meet you out there.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I'm honey.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Good bye, everybody, see you later.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Betty, be careful, Betty.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Daddy.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
That's Kathy.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I don't mind riding in your car.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Thank you, Kathy.
Speaker 13 (08:27):
I'm gray.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Why does it?
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Bud?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
There's a pencil stuck in the distributor.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I know that's to keep the wire in.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
Well, the pencils in, but the wire's up.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
But fix it.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
That's why it won't start. Okay.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
I knew it wasn't anything important, Just to lose wire,
that's all. Okay, stand back, I'll try it again. See
all right, everybody, let's go put.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
The hood down. Bud.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Okay, let it down easy so it.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Won't shake the pencil loose.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Come on, Margaret, what are you and Kathy waiting for?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Daddy? What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 13 (09:16):
We've got a flat tire.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Ridiculous thing I've ever seen. There must be some way
of keeping that fender on.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
We'll be there in a minute, dear, and then you
can fix it properly.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
What do you mean properly?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
How can you fix a fender properly with those silly
hunks of wire.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
It isn't a wire that's breaking, Dad, Pieces are coming
out of the fender.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It only fell off three times.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I know how many times it fell off.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I know what's the matter with it. I don't know
how to fix it. That's all where right there?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Look out? What there's a bum again?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That takes four times?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Oh, Jim fiddlesticks?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Cassy, Why don't you run ahead and find Betty? Okay, Mommy,
I'll see if anybody knows one's far.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Come on, Bud, let's take another whack at it.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
I don't think it's gonna do much good, Dad, Look
at the holes in it.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Idiotic looking contraption.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Dad.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
I think I know how we can do it, if
we can get some long pieces of wire.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
We can No, that won't work.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
What won't work?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
I thought we could run the wire under the car
and over the hood and tie it on that way.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
But that won't work.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Well, that's what I said. No good, no good, mouth
eating upside of Kathy.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
What is it? Yerdy? We won?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We want Jim?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I just saw Jeddy and they call the number and
we won. Wonderful?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Well, Bud boy, old boy, Bud, would you care to
join me?
Speaker 8 (11:24):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I'm going to show this no good misguided fender just
where it gets all and that's right here.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Turn it over, Bud? That's it now?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
What I guess.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That'll show it? Sure, go right ahead, you to Bud.
Have a good time.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Him, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
It certainly is?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
How wonderful color it is?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
If that isn't it? Just like a woman.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I suppose if you don't like the color, we'll have
to give it back.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh no, but I just thought it.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Mother, it's plentiful instant.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It certainly is.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Mother. What are they doing?
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Never mind them?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Where is it?
Speaker 8 (12:13):
But father?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
They're ruining the fenders?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Who cares about an old fender? We want a new
car didn't we.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
Oh, father, no, we want a ham.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, it's not the first time folks have expected one
thing and ended up with a lot less. It just
points up a fact we've learned you and I many times.
You've got to make sure of what you get in everything.
In a pound of coffee, for instance, you want to
make sure of the flavor you get. You want the
most in flavor for every penny you spend. To millions
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of folks. That means getting the one coffee famous for
flavor above all others, Our Maxwell House coffee. Mmm, that
wonderful good to the last drop flavor. You won't find it,
you know, in any other coffee, no coffee, but Maxwell House.
And there's a mighty good reason why it's our recipe.
And there's no mistaking its importance. It's the one and
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only recipe of its kind. It calls for certain fine
varieties of coffee, and our Maxwell House people carefully combine
them just so. It's the one way, the one recipe
for that good to the last drop flavor. And it
spells the big difference between just any coffee and coffee
at its Sunday go to meeting best.
Speaker 11 (13:46):
And this difference adds up to.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
More enjoyment, more flavor for your money when you pour
Maxwell House coffee into those cups on your table. So
next time bring home that familiar blue tin of Maxwellhouse
enjoy that's always good to the last drop. You know,
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for some reason or other, automobile people are a cheerful lot,
a smiling Irishman, a laughing Lithuania. They're a gay group
of fellows with lilding.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Hearts and names to match.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
In Springfield, it's Fred Haney, the happy Hibernian, and that's
where the Andersons are headed.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Like this, father, what is it, Betty?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Don't you think it's about time we gave up on
this old heap?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Debdy?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Please don't annoy your father well jumping creepers.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It's all right, Margaret. I'm used to being ridicute. After all,
I'm only her father.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Everybody has to get so personal about everything. Why is
it such an insult if I think we need.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
A new car, Betty? This is more than a car.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
This is an old friend which has served as faithfully
and well. And you don't give up an old friend
just because it's a little droopy in the fenders. You
treat it gently, humor it restore it to help.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
The best thing you can do for this friend is
give it a decent funeral.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
For your information, Betty, this car will be as good
as new in less than a week, and it'll be
good for another twelve years.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
Holy call.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Ally, the car is even older than I am.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
It makes more noise too, Father, What is it?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Betty?
Speaker 9 (15:35):
As long as you insist on having the car fixed up,
can we please have it painted?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I fully intend to have it painted, A new fender,
new paint job, A few little touches on the motor
here and there, we'll have a car you can be
proud of.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Can we have it painted blue? Please?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
What's the matter with black?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
But it's always been black? And black is so dark?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well we'll get like black.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I like red. Then you can pretend you're riding in
a fire.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Engine, you know, Margaret, I should have had this done
a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I had the car fixed up on me. When I
think of the way I've.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Let it get run down, I should have had my
head examined.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
That's all we've been telling you.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Oh, I didn't mean. I mean, well, green's a nice color,
is it?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Well?
Speaker 8 (16:35):
If you like green, you know, for.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
A while I thought maybe we'd get a new car golly,
But then I said, why, Oh, I can add this
one fixed up for fifty or sixty dollars, So why
go to all that unnecessary expense?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Did anybody say they'd fix it up for fifty or
sixty dollars?
Speaker 6 (16:57):
No, but I'm just figuring conservatively. Maybe lonely be forty
dollars A dreamer.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
When I was a boy, children showed a little respect
for their parents.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
They didn't spend half their life Jim, what is it, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Isn't that Haney?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
I know it's Haney's.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
I've only been here a million times.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Where was I? Bud?
Speaker 8 (17:18):
They didn't spend half her life.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
They didn't spend half their life trying to make up
wise cracks about their fathers. I'll behave yourself, okay, dad, father?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I know Betty?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
You want it painted blue? Well, I just saw you
want blue. Kathy wants red, Bud wants green. How would
it be if we settled for a nice Scotch plaid.
Speaker 14 (17:42):
Well, now, Jim, got the whole family with you this time.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Huh, that's right, they bread.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I'd like to see if we can't.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We want it painted red, Kathy, and make the horn louder.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Kathy, get back in the car and sit down.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yep, Daddy, bread, father law?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
What a yellow one? Isn't it a dream?
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Both?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Betty? I'm trying to tell mister Haynes.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Boy, look at that foreign job. Is that something?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Margaret?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Dear?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
I know you and mister Haney want to talk, So
why don't the children and I.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
Just wander around and look at the different car?
Speaker 14 (18:14):
An excellent idea, missus Anderson, excellent?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Ooh what look at that one. It's got a more
cycle on it.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
That's for delivery.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Dopey mother has ever seen anything like that blue one?
It's very nice.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Je, Well, maybe now we can talk.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
Don't tell me you're finally going to give up on
that wreck?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
What wreck?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
That's because it looks a little shabby.
Speaker 11 (18:39):
Why don't you face a Jim, you'll need a new
car bred.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I'm not spending any sixteen hundred.
Speaker 14 (18:44):
Dollars for a car sixteen sixty three twenty pardon me,
including license and texts.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I'll take twelve. Jim.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
I've known you for a long time.
Speaker 14 (18:55):
I value your business, but more than that, I value
your friendship.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Then tell Gil Housing to fix my car so it'll
stay together.
Speaker 11 (19:02):
He can't, Jim.
Speaker 14 (19:03):
It's old, it's worn out. You're just throwing good money
after bad.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Will you please buy a new car.
Speaker 14 (19:10):
You don't have to buy it from me, buy it
from anybody, but buy it.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Are you all finished? Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Just tell Gilhausen to fix my car right this time?
Speaker 11 (19:23):
Of all the stop Gillhauser, come here?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Will you?
Speaker 11 (19:28):
Then her is back?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Very funny, Holy smoke, mister Anderson.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
I don't have to work on that thing again, do I? No,
you don't have to. I know a lot of places
that'll be very glad.
Speaker 11 (19:42):
Just a minute, Jim, don't get up on your horse.
If you want it fixed, will you fix it? Won't
we give We'll fix.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
It or we'll give it either a transfusion. Why anybody
had want to throw good money into that wreck?
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Gil?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
So we fix it. Where's the fender?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
It got stepped on it?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
It's gone.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
It fell off because you don't know how to put
a fender on. I put fenders on before you was born,
but not fenders like your fender.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
All right, all right, Gil, we'll.
Speaker 14 (20:15):
Just have to put on a new fender, okay, Jim,
I suppose so while we're at it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Let's do it upright.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Let's paint the whole thing, get the motor tuned up,
fix the lights.
Speaker 11 (20:27):
And we got on that gill. This time we're going
to picture it right.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Well, that's more like it. So we start with the fender.
Look you see this big hole in the panel. Yes,
that's where I got a boat defender on a hole. No,
we need a new panel, a.
Speaker 11 (20:47):
New panel, Go ahead, Gil, I'm writing it down.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Wait a minute, why can't you just nose panel boats
onto the body? Only it's all rusted away over here
and it wound holds, So we need a new body. Look, Fred,
all I want is to take a new body.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's too light.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
New frame, chassis, rear assembly, fransmission, you got it, you
got it. New crank, cheft, flywheel, feed line, connecting rods, clutch, camshaft,
mister Gilhouse, whose spring, muffler, exhaust, chucks, bumpers.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Mister horns. All right, mister Gilhaus.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Forget about the whole thing. Will you just fix the
wire and the distributor and I'll be happy.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Mister Anderson, Look lift the hood, will you? Fred?
Speaker 11 (21:35):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Thanks Fred? Now you see that wire, mister Anderson, it
goes down there and hooks onto that, but it can't
because it's loose.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Here. You see this, You gotta crack slock.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
The water pumps broke, the radiator leaks, the piston assembly shot,
the valves are gun.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
You gotta get a new motor just because you can't
hook up one little wire.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Huh, what am I gonna hook it on?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Jim?
Speaker 14 (22:09):
We're trying to help you, and with a job this big,
we'll give you a special rate.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Well, that's more like it.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
What does it come to the whole thing with a
paint job? You want me anymore?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Fred?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
And no?
Speaker 11 (22:20):
Thanks a lot, Gil.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Okay, see you later, Mi, you bet.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Go ahead, Fred, figure it out and sharpen your pencil.
Speaker 14 (22:30):
Well, let me see, fifteen thirty eight to forty seven,
four ninety six.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Four ninety six.
Speaker 14 (22:40):
The whole thing, including labor and parts, comes to exactly
sixteen hundred and seventy eight dollars sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That's fifteen dollars more than.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
A you, Jim. This is all on a piece work basis.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And besides, with seat covers, you'll.
Speaker 14 (22:54):
Have a car that's practically new.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Sixteen hundred murder.
Speaker 11 (22:59):
I told you the very beginning Jim.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Margaret anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Sixteen hundred dollars. It's an outrage, that's what it is.
An outbrage.
Speaker 14 (23:07):
Well, you think it over, Jim, and whatever you decide,
just let me off.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Sixteen hundred and seventy eight dollars. That's the most outrageous
thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
What did he say, Dad?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Is he going to be blue?
Speaker 10 (23:17):
Father?
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
An he? Since the Grease gan.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
All right, get in, we're going home.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Aren't you gonna have a fit?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I said, get in?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I want to stand child the grease.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Come all right, children, let's not argue. Do what your
father says.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I'll get another mechanic. That's what I'll do.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Hanny isn't the only dealer in Springfield?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Tell me my car isn't any good? Sixteen hundred and
seventy eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Dear, don't you think if you talked to mister Haney again?
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Haney, he's a worse crooked than gill Housan ever was
ten times as bad. Somebody will fix this car and
it'll be good for another twelve years and another one
hundred and forty thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh father, have you.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Heard of the wonderful one auchet that was built in
such a logical way it ran one hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Years to a day.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Well, we're sitting in it right now, one hundred years.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Holy call.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
This car is as sound as it was the day
we bought it. It's a good car, solid and sturdy.
I'll put on a fender, get a little paint, new tires,
another band off.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Well we'll put it back.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
On, Dad, Jim.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
We've just got to get a new car.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
Bradd all.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
You see, of course, if you're not a dunce.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
How it went to pieces all at once, all at once,
and nothing first, just as.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful One
Horse shame.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Logic is logic, that's all I say.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yes, logic is logic.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
And when it comes to coffee, that's the reason you
naturally look for the most in flavor for every penny
you spend, and it's yours. And the coffee with the
world's most famous flavor are good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Maxwell House.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That wonderful flavor begins with our Maxwell House recipe.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You don't stop there.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
We know that air can steal coffee flavor, and ordinary
containers like paper bags can't prevent roasted coffee from losing flavor,
whether it's.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Ground or whole beam.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
That's why we carefully vacuum pack our Maxwell House and
the familiar blue tin. It's the only way you can
be guaranteed coffee fresh as the hour it was roasted,
without one bit of flavor wasted. So these days be
sure you get the most in value, in flavor and freshness.
(26:33):
You always will when you open up a pound of
Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Robert Young.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Since the beginning of this year, as you probably know,
we on Father Knows Best have been working hand in
glove with the inter Industry Highway Safety Committee. Our particular
face of the overall problem was the enlistment of teenagers
and their parents in a good driver's club.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
And now, after five months of campaigning.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
We'd like to make our first report and for all
those connected with this safety movement, we have news I consider.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
A little short of miraculous.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Since the inception of this campaign, two and three quarter
million pledges have been requested by the teenage drivers of America.
Think of it, two and three quarter million in large cities,
in small Hamlets.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
The young men and women of this country have proved, beyond.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
The shadow of a doubt, the basic integrity of their generation.
We are proud of them, prouder than we can say.
By recognizing their common problem by driving safely and carefully,
these young men and women have brought added security to
the highways and everlasting.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Glory to themselves.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
We congratulate them on a job well done, and ask
only that they continue their good work in the future.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Good Night, now yours to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
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instant coffee you'll be proud to serve to your dinner guests.
It's instant Maxwell House, the instant coffee with a famous flavor.
Here's the happiest combination in coffee. Wonderful good to the
last drop flavor combined with the convenience and thrift of
coffee made instantly in the cup. Tomorrow, try Instant Maxwell House,
(28:32):
the instant coffee with a famous flavor, instantly good to
the last drop. Join us again next week when we'll
be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is,
Jim Anderson, with Roy Bogie and the Maxwell House Orchestra.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
And yours truly, Bill Forman.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
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 James. Now stay
tuned for Screen Gill Theater, which follows immediately over most
of these stations.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
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