August 13, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Now there is Maxwell House, the best coffee in the
whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors.
The Anderson's 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. This is the time of year,
(00:55):
I think when most people become restless. The weather's bad,
summer vacations are a long way off.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It's one of those times when you wish you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Could just get away from it all for a while,
spend a weekend in the country and relax.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Well, before you get any such ideas.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Let's stop off in Springfield at the White Frame House
on Maple Street and see how the Andersons were affected
one fine Friday by a notion just like that, like this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Mother, if you only speak to father about it.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm sorry, Betty, but I don't think it's a good idea.
See wares all right, Kathy, stop playing with your cereal
and drink your milk.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, it isn't as though we wanted something stupendous. Creeper's
Jane Leggot's father takes them.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I know, dear, but the Leggots have more money than
we do.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Joe Phillips outhers and any richer than we are, and
they've been away twice.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Everybody can have fun but us. All we ever do
is stay home and drink milk.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, of course there's another way of doing it. If
it's so terribly important. Why don't you ask your father?
You mean me, I mean all of you. All I
can do is say no.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Mother's absolutely right. As soon as father comes down, we'll
have Budd ask him.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Oh good, Why do I have to ask him? It
was your idea, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Leave all the dirty work to me. You always do anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I bety. If Bud doesn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He never wants to do anything. He is that so, yes,
that's so.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I do more around here than you and Kathy put together.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Ooh, you do not I do too?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Everybody who carries the garbage out I do? Who takes
care of the ashes? I do?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Good morning, Bud.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I work harder than any kid in this neighborhood. And
you know it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But when there's.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Grass, I have to cut it. Leaves I have to
rake them, sidewalks I have to sweep them. But every
time it snows, who gets handed a shovel me? Every
time someone has to go to the store, who gets
called me? But anytime there's a any time that there's
a bad yes, deah, good.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Morning, Good morning, dare. That's better.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Now, as soon as your mother hands me my coffee,
here your idea, thank you, you may tell me the
reason for that impassioned recitation of sterling if highly questionable accomplishment.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Huh, what's the beef? Bud?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Well, Betty said that I ought to ask you, and
I just said I wouldn't in.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
A few million well chosen words.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well, gosh, why should I? It was her idea in
the first place.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
What was what we were talking about? What were you
talking about?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Betty's idea?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Let's start all over again from the beginning.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Good morning, Bud, good morning, beautiful day, isn't it, Jim Dee.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
This the moment I'm trying to sneak up on this thing.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
One thing, dear Margaret, please, one at a time, all right, Bud,
Betty had an idea, and you don't see why you should,
because when it snows you have to run errands with
a shovel.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Then what is that what I said, I'll get your cereal?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Dear, thank you father.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yes, Betty father, we were thinking, well that is we
all thought, well, what I mean is it'd be just
as good for you. It would, oh, of course, and
you probably have a much better time.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Than anybody where. What where would I have this wonderful time?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh where we were talking about.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
I see, good morning, Bud, Good morning Dad. Beautiful day,
isn't it, Jim Margaret? If you'll just have a little patience, please,
I got a lot closer that time.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, he whizz. If somebody doesn't ask him, I'll be
late for school.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
It would it ease the situation if I said no
without anybody asking me.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh well, I was just trying to help.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh here you are, dear, nice hot.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Cereal mm smells wonderful cream and sugar. But please okay, Dan.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Thank you father, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, we were just wondering, do you suppose it to
be all right? Just this wine? If we all went
weigh the mountains.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
For the weekend?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Is that the question? Yes? No, h tastes good too. Gee,
will you see, kids, It wasn't hard at all, was it.
All you have to do is speak right up?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But you said no, that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Holy cow. Joe Phillips didn't even want to go to
the mountains and his father took him.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Good.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The leggots go practically every weekend and they have a
wonderful time.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Fine, everybody goes except us, and we don't ever get
to go anything.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
It's a funny thing.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
We've got a comfortable home, warm, clean, practically bulging with
modern conveniences.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
But is anybody satisfied?
Speaker 8 (06:09):
No, you'd rather spend the weekend shivering in some flea
trap in the woods.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But father, it's fun.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Sure.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
Why this sudden passion for the mountains. What's the matter
with Springfield?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh gosh, we want to get out in the snow.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
What do you think that is in the backyard confetti?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We need lots of snow, father, millions of bushes of snow.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Okay, I'll talk to Ed Davis and see if we
can borrow some of theirs.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Father, I've got a brand new ski suit and I've
never even worn it.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And what good are my skates?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And what good is a sled?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Without hills, and they don't have any big hills in Springfield.
They keep all the hills in the mountains.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Look, kids, you don't think I like to say no,
do you. It's just that, well, we can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It doesn't cost very much, Father, really it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Bet He knows a place near Chresline where you can
run a cabin for practically nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And it doesn't even have water in it. So look
at the money we'd save. One soaked.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Margaret.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Will you explain to them it's right on the edge
of the lake, father, and you can even run an
ice boat, and.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The hills are eight hundred miles long.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Why is it that I always have to be the villain?
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Everybody seems to think I stay awake nights trying to
figure out ways to make my family miserable.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You know, we don't, Jim. It's just that this would
be so much fun for the children.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
But it wouldn't, Margaret. That's what I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
I know those little cabins you can get for practically nothing.
There are one room shandies with no improvements except built
in pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
But Joe Phillips told me Joe Phillips was sick for
a week after the last trip, wasn't he well?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
And his father was flat on his back for two weeks?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I know, Dad, but.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Nothing happened to missus Phillips.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
How can you tell.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Helen Phillips could have a galloping case of sleeping sickness?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Nobody'd ever know the difference him. Please, Well, I'm just trying.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
To explain Jamie Niggott's family goes to a place ready.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yes, father, we are not the legots, I know, Father.
Nobody can afford to do what the leggots do. But father,
that includes the leggoates.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Father, if you'll only let me tell you, tell me what,
we don't mind rocking it for a few days, do we?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Heck?
Speaker 7 (08:37):
No, godsh it't be worth getting pneumonia, Kathy, We wouldn't it.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
It may be that I have very old fashioned ideas,
but I believe that the father has certain obligations to
his family, and keeping them alive happens to be one. Now,
let's not talk about it anymore.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
I'll be fifty years old before I get a chance
to use my slab.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Fine, you can take your grandchildren for a ride.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Daddy, you're silly.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
I am sure they'll have their own slabs, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Margaret isn't even for Margaret. Wait, do you hear what happened?
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Where are the kids? Well, come on down, we're going
to the mountains. Most amazing thing you ever heard?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Jim, I thought you said, did you happened once in
a million years?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Jim's calm down, everybody, take it easy, father.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Well, mister Gribble came into my office this afternoon and
we were discussing families and children. And the first thing,
you know, I told him how I was letting mine down.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Jim, dear, you aren't really well.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I'm not. Now mister Gribble says we can use his hunting.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Lodge a hunting line.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Holy cow.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Wait, I tell Jamie Lyggeth with Jim, I thought you
didn't want to go to.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
The mountain, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
I didn't want to go to one of those shacks
the kids were talking about. But Gribble's hunting lodge, well
that's a different story. You can just imagine what kind
of a place he has.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Oh, father, you're wonderful. You're just the most wonderful father
anybody ever had.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And how well, don't just stand there going upstairs and.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Pack pack Jim, you don't mean now, of.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Course, I mean now if we want to get there
before dark. We've got to leave ten minutes ago. It
takes over two hours to get there.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
But I can go now, father, I have a day,
tonight and tomorrow night.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
So far, well, if this isn't you said you wanted
to go to the mountains, didn't you sure?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But we didn't mean today.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Holy cow, Jim, we can't possibly go in such short notice.
What our clothes aren't ready, and then we have to
buy food.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Gribble said the place was loaded with food, and what
kind of clothes you need?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Shove a couple of sweaters in the suitcase and you're
all set.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What'll I tell Billy Smith and Dick Andrews?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
What will I tell Joe Phillip?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
I don't care what you tell them. I told mister
Gribble we'd be happy to use his hunting lodge.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
And we're going to use it. I don't want to
go to the mountains. I thought you wanted to use
your sled.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh that's right, father, you don't even like the mountains.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I love the mountain.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You said it wasn't any fun.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I'm starting to have fun right now.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
See, but you said we'd all get pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I don't care if we all get double pneumonia. You
said you wanted to go to the mountains, and you're
going to the mountains. If I have to drag you, well.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Let's start packing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
After all, I know father knows beat well.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Like it or not, the family is going to take
that trip to the mountains. We'll see how they fare
in just the moment. But right now, ladies, with all
coffee prices high these days, it really pays to remember
Maxwell house is true economy. Yes, And here's how one
lady found that out. When coffee prices went up, she
started shopping around, thinking she could find a cheaper coffee
(12:42):
that would do. But when she brought one home, her
husband turned thumbs down.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Too weak, he said.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So she put a lot more in the pot, but
still her husband wouldn't drink it up. It may be
strong now, he told her, but the flavor's all wrong.
This coffee just doesn't have what it takes. And meal
after meal, left over coffee went to waste. Then she
realized Maxwell house is true economy. Sure it is, because
(13:09):
you get so many more truly good cups of coffee
from every pound. Discover the wonderful difference that vacuum packing means,
the extra freshness and clear, rich taste. See how much
more your husband and you enjoy that wonderful flavor, so
good to the last drop you drink every drop, you'll say,
(13:30):
Maxwell House is true economy. So get your money's worth
and more. Remember in your cup on your table, Maxwell
House is true economy, always good to the last drop. Well,
(13:53):
a few peaceful hours have gone by, and on the
edge of a quiet mountain road, white with you fallen snow,
we find the Andersons. The air is crisp and clear,
and because of the altitude, just a trifle thin. Maybe
that's why poor Jim is puffing just a little, Or
perhaps there's another reason, like this.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Okay, Bud, when I give you the word, give it
the gas.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Okay, Dad, are.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You ready, let's go? Okay, But that's enough. You say
something I said, that's enough, turn it off. Okay, No,
good country roads always getting stuck.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Didn't work, Handad, No.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
It didn't work. Now we're good and stuck.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well, father, I told you we were going.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Off the road.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You told me. Everybody's always telling me look at the tree,
Look at the sky, look, look look, how do you
expect me to see anything right off the road. We're
still on the road, way through the road.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Dear, Maybe we ought to go back home.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Margaret, How are we going to go anywhere? We're stuck?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, I'm after we get out.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Let's worry about it when we get out. If we
get out, I'm hungry.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Now, let's not start that again, Patty, But I am.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I told you we should have brought some food.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Well, how did I know we were going to get stuck?
We should have been there an hour ago? But you
want me don no? I just want to hear your name.
It's such a beautiful name, so warm and friendly.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Holy cow. Now what did I do?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Nothing? Come on out here and help me push.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Okay, the chains won't take Conde.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
I don't know what it is. It doesn't seem to
be the snow so much. I think we got into
some kind of a hole.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Doggone.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Thing looks like the Grand Canyon, Betty, Yes, slide over
and back of the wheel.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It Kathy put it in. Lord, when I give you
the signal, let the clutch out fast? Do you understand
I suppose it was nothing so complicated about it? What
is it, Kathydy? Wow? Good for us.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Maybe now we'll get out of here. Hello there, hey,
I said, hello, we're stuck in the snow. Had a
little trouble. Yes, we're stuck in the snow.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
No, huh, sure looks like you had in trouble. We
are we're stuck, hey, I said, we're stuck. Can you
pull us out with your tractor? Actors?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Huh ohe many of them up here in the winter time.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
I didn't say we were actors. We want you to
pull us out of the snow.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Putting on a show?
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Huh? No, good for you. Do you please turn that
thing off? Eh? I said, turn the motor off, turn
it off.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
We're gonna turn this turned thing off. Can't hear you now?
Why wasn't you saying, young feller?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I said, we're stuck in the snow.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
But I don't have to shout. I ain't eat.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I'm sorry. We we'd appreciate it very much if you'd
pull us out.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Oh, stuck in the snow?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Huh, yes, we certainly are.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Yeah, won't be much of a job. Why are you
putting on the show?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I told you before. We're not actors.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
No, no, then what are you doing putting on a show?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
You're not putting on a show. I never even mentioned
the show. I said we were stuck in the snow.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Oh snow, I thought you said show.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
No, Well, don't make much difference. Never go anyway here,
wrap onto this total all right?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Want me to hook it up there?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, go ahead, Bud, I'll wrap it.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Around the bumper a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Better hook it out of the frame, Bud.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Okay, I sure could have sworn you said you was actors.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
No, we're just up here for the weekend. A friend
of ours is letting us use his hunting lodges. Maybe
you know him, JP Gribble gribble, No, can't he to do?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
What's he look like?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Well he's rather large as a very deep voice, about
fifty years old, very dignified.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Hey, you mean the fullard comes up from Springfield? Fat sold.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yes, he lives in Springfield.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Well, you ain't gonna get the fat Sool's place this way,
I'm not, no, sir. You're heading down to the lake. Oh,
it took the wrong turn back at the corners, I see,
is it very far from here? No, won't take you
more than twenty or thirty minutes, I'll show you a
special shortcut tave you three or four miles anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Hiding son, I think I've just about got it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Okay, I'm out from under there.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Hurry up, Bud. You've been very kind and I want
you to know we appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Oh shucks, ain't hardly nothing. What are people for not
to help one another? If you can't be neighborly, I
always say you might just as well go someplace and
lay down. That's all I'm doing, is being neighborly.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Well it isn't everybody would go to all this trouble
for complete strangers.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
It's all sad.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Okay, Son, Well, i'll have you yanked out of here
in no time now.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Thank you. You'll never know how grateful we are.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Oh that's okay. Would you like to give me the
money now?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
We what?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Well? Tain't that I don't trust you. But these here
tractors don't go very fast. A couple of fellers got
away slick a whistle. Oh work very neighborly, I'm not
so as you could notice it. Well, hand up the
fifteen dollars and we'll get going.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Fifteen dollars.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Hi, ain't it Why? It's outrageous? Yeah, I know, but
don't forget. I got a spit with a fellow. What
dug the hole?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Why are we stopping, Jim?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
It's no sense going any further. I can't even see
the road.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Boy, it's sure snowing.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm hungry. Father. I told you we were on the
wrong road.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
We are not on the wrong road. He said, turn
left after the small bridge and then right at the fort.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
But he said two miles and you went almost five.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Well I have a very silly habit when I make it,
and I like it to be on a road. Or
would you rather go floating around in somebody's corn field?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Oh, Jim, please don't get upset.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
I'm not getting upset. But we're not lost.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, where are we?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
How do I know? Stop asking silly questions?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Then?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
What do you see?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Something?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Out there?
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Where?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Over there? In back of those trees?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Father?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It's a house.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I don't see any Oh, that's no house. It looks
more like a cattle shelter.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Well, it's better in being cooped up in the car.
My legs are paralyzed. I'm hungry, Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
We've got to do something we can't sit here all night.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Maybe someone lives here, Dad, They might know where mister
Gribble's place is.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
All right, let's go ask him.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Oh, where that wind's cold?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Well, don't just stand there, let's go, Jem. Wait a minute, Bud, Margaret,
there's no need for you to come along, if you.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Don't mind, Dear, we'd.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Rather Margaret, I'm perfectly capable of ask. Oh you mean
they might have food.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm hungry right now. If I had to choose between
a mink coat and a cup of coffee, I'd be
reaching for the cream and sugar.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Well, come on, Kathy, I'll carry you.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Thank you, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Let's go, Bud.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
When I think of where I could be right now, Betty,
sitting in a nice, warm movie, eating nice hot popcorn.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
Betty, this whole thing was your idea, my idea. And
if I hear so much as one word of complaint
out of you, so help me.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I'll paddle you bulllegged.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Father. That's telling her.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Daddy, that goes for you, too, jee Will. I wanted
to stay home where it's warm and comfortable.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
No, we've got to be like the Leggage and the Phillips,
got to go to the mountains for the weekend.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Look at this place, the worst looking dump I've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
The dar's locked.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Well, don't you think you ought to knock first?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
There's nobody inside. Dad, I look through the window.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh dear, now, what are we going to do?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Bud, You've got heavy shoes on. See if you can
kick the lock off the door. Oh, Jim, do you
think it's all right?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Margaret? Go ahead, Budd, Okay, Dad, don't kick it too hard.
You might shove the whole building over.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Gosh, that was easy.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
Don't feel too excited about it, Samson, a large termite
could have done the same thing.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Well, let's go on in.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Ooh, I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
There's nothing to be afraid of. Katy, go on in.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh, Jim, isn't this place awful?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Well, this is what they wanted a weekend in the mountains.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Aren't there any lights?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
No?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
And the bath is probably the first door on the
left and three hundred yards straight.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Ahead, Dad, here's a candle, well lighted.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, Okay, it's the matter.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Mommy, Daddy, I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
There's a bear where up on the wall.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Cally, who there is? And they chopped his head off.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
It's just a trophy, Kathy, probably shot by whoever owns
this horrible joint. See there's a plaque under it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Oh, I don't like it.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Let me have the candle, bud, Hey, Dan, I look, Kathy,
there's nothing to it. See it says black Bear, eight
and forty pounds.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh no, Jim, what is it?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
December one, nineteen thirty eight, JP Gribble.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Oh that's mister Gribble's hunting live. Looks like the family
has got to make the best of a very poor bargain.
And that brings up a mighty important point, Ladies. When
you buy coffee, remember Maxwell House is true economy. Sure,
Maxwellhouse is true economy. Of course, you can find cheaper
coffees if the price tag is all you consider. But
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just consider this. Is there any economy when you have
to use lots more coffee to make it strong enough?
Yet even then you can't get the flavor you want?
Is there any economy when the flavor is so lacking
your family leaves coffee unfinished in the cup. Figure it out,
You'll say, Maxwell House is true economy. So many more
cups of wonderfully good coffee in every pound, so rich
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and extra flavorful, so good to the last drop. You
always want more. Yes, there's good reason why more people
drink Maxwell House than any other brand at any price.
Maxwell House is true economy. So tomorrow, get your money's
worth and more. Get Maxwell House. Always good to the
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last drop. The horrible night is over at last. Now
it's Saturday morning. The storm has passed, the sun is shining,
and the entire world seems brighter and far more cheerful.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
To most people. That is good morning, Good morning, dear.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Did you sleep well?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Like a top and I'm still spinning?
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Oh my back, I'll never get it straightened out.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Where are the kids?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They're outside in the snow. Oh, they're having a wonderful time.
See you can see them through the window.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
I can see them through the wall, Margaret, Have you
ever seen any place worse than this in your life?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
No, dear, I haven't hunting lodge. Just wait till I
see that guy gribbled.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh he meant well, dear, you.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Should have heard the build up.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
He gave it too, secluded, RESTful, the most beautiful view
in the country.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Well, there is a nice view, gym.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Sure, especially through the roof. Look at it.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well, you'll feel better after a nice hot breakfast.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Here, Oh you found the food.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Huh uh huh, A whole closetful good.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I haven't eaten since noon yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Well, what would you like some nice hot beans.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Margaret, don't be ridiculous. I'll have eight dozen eggs and
about forty sausages.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No sausages, deer. How about some nice hot beans.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Oh, I'll just have eggs.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
No eggs, deer. How about some nice hot beans, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
I don't like beans. Why can't I? Margaret?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yes, dear, you mean, yes, dear, a whole big closetful
of beans.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
If you like good things the easy.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Way, good things, the easy way.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It's how's that for you?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Good?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Good coffee the TV two, No time, no trouble, no ground,
no fun, and good to the very last.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You know what?
Speaker 10 (28:09):
Yes, instant Maxwell House means great coffee, instantly and your cup.
Here's real instant coffee, all pure Maxwell House coffee and
instant form. Enjoy instant Maxwell House, instantly.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Good to the very last, you know what.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with
Roy Vargei and the Maxwell House Orchestra and Yours Truley
Bill Forman. Don't forget membership cards well, The Robert Young
Good Drivers Club are waiting for you at your local
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Speaker 5 (28:55):
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Speaker 3 (28:56):
Get your membership card in the Robert Young Good Drivers
Club to day now 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.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
In Hollywood and written by Ed James.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Now stay tuned in for screen Gill Theater, which follows
immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Next, Barbara Stanwick and Robert Taylor in Double Indemnity on
m b C.
Now there is Maxwell House, the best coffee in the
whole world.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors.
The Anderson's 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. This is the time of year,
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I think when most people become restless. The weather's bad,
summer vacations are a long way off.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
It's one of those times when you wish you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Could just get away from it all for a while,
spend a weekend in the country and relax.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Well, before you get any such ideas.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Let's stop off in Springfield at the White Frame House
on Maple Street and see how the Andersons were affected
one fine Friday by a notion just like that, like this.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Mother, if you only speak to father about it.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm sorry, Betty, but I don't think it's a good idea.
See wares all right, Kathy, stop playing with your cereal
and drink your milk.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, it isn't as though we wanted something stupendous. Creeper's
Jane Leggot's father takes them.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I know, dear, but the Leggots have more money than
we do.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Joe Phillips outhers and any richer than we are, and
they've been away twice.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Everybody can have fun but us. All we ever do
is stay home and drink milk.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, of course there's another way of doing it. If
it's so terribly important. Why don't you ask your father?
You mean me, I mean all of you. All I
can do is say no.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Mother's absolutely right. As soon as father comes down, we'll
have Budd ask him.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Oh good, Why do I have to ask him? It
was your idea, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Leave all the dirty work to me. You always do anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I bety. If Bud doesn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He never wants to do anything. He is that so, yes,
that's so.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I do more around here than you and Kathy put together.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Ooh, you do not I do too?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Everybody who carries the garbage out I do? Who takes
care of the ashes? I do?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Good morning, Bud.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I work harder than any kid in this neighborhood. And
you know it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
But when there's.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Grass, I have to cut it. Leaves I have to
rake them, sidewalks I have to sweep them. But every
time it snows, who gets handed a shovel me? Every
time someone has to go to the store, who gets
called me? But anytime there's a any time that there's
a bad yes, deah, good.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Morning, Good morning, dare. That's better.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Now, as soon as your mother hands me my coffee,
here your idea, thank you, you may tell me the
reason for that impassioned recitation of sterling if highly questionable accomplishment.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Huh, what's the beef? Bud?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Well, Betty said that I ought to ask you, and
I just said I wouldn't in.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
A few million well chosen words.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Well, gosh, why should I? It was her idea in
the first place.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
What was what we were talking about? What were you
talking about?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Betty's idea?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Let's start all over again from the beginning.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Good morning, Bud, good morning, beautiful day, isn't it, Jim Dee.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
This the moment I'm trying to sneak up on this thing.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
One thing, dear Margaret, please, one at a time, all right, Bud,
Betty had an idea, and you don't see why you should,
because when it snows you have to run errands with
a shovel.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Then what is that what I said, I'll get your cereal?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Dear, thank you father.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yes, Betty father, we were thinking, well that is we
all thought, well, what I mean is it'd be just
as good for you. It would, oh, of course, and
you probably have a much better time.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Than anybody where. What where would I have this wonderful time?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Oh where we were talking about.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
I see, good morning, Bud, Good morning Dad. Beautiful day,
isn't it, Jim Margaret? If you'll just have a little patience, please,
I got a lot closer that time.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, he whizz. If somebody doesn't ask him, I'll be
late for school.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
It would it ease the situation if I said no
without anybody asking me.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Oh well, I was just trying to help.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh here you are, dear, nice hot.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Cereal mm smells wonderful cream and sugar. But please okay, Dan.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Thank you father, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, we were just wondering, do you suppose it to
be all right? Just this wine? If we all went
weigh the mountains.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
For the weekend?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Is that the question? Yes? No, h tastes good too. Gee,
will you see, kids, It wasn't hard at all, was it.
All you have to do is speak right up?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But you said no, that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Holy cow. Joe Phillips didn't even want to go to
the mountains and his father took him.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Good.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The leggots go practically every weekend and they have a
wonderful time.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Fine, everybody goes except us, and we don't ever get
to go anything.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
It's a funny thing.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
We've got a comfortable home, warm, clean, practically bulging with
modern conveniences.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
But is anybody satisfied?
Speaker 8 (06:09):
No, you'd rather spend the weekend shivering in some flea
trap in the woods.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
But father, it's fun.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Sure.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
Why this sudden passion for the mountains. What's the matter
with Springfield?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh gosh, we want to get out in the snow.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
What do you think that is in the backyard confetti?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We need lots of snow, father, millions of bushes of snow.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Okay, I'll talk to Ed Davis and see if we
can borrow some of theirs.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Father, I've got a brand new ski suit and I've
never even worn it.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
And what good are my skates?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
And what good is a sled?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Without hills, and they don't have any big hills in Springfield.
They keep all the hills in the mountains.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Look, kids, you don't think I like to say no,
do you. It's just that, well, we can't afford it.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It doesn't cost very much, Father, really it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Bet He knows a place near Chresline where you can
run a cabin for practically nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And it doesn't even have water in it. So look
at the money we'd save. One soaked.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Margaret.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Will you explain to them it's right on the edge
of the lake, father, and you can even run an
ice boat, and.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
The hills are eight hundred miles long.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Why is it that I always have to be the villain?
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Everybody seems to think I stay awake nights trying to
figure out ways to make my family miserable.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
You know, we don't, Jim. It's just that this would
be so much fun for the children.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
But it wouldn't, Margaret. That's what I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
I know those little cabins you can get for practically nothing.
There are one room shandies with no improvements except built
in pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
But Joe Phillips told me Joe Phillips was sick for
a week after the last trip, wasn't he well?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
And his father was flat on his back for two weeks?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I know, Dad, but.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Nothing happened to missus Phillips.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
How can you tell.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Helen Phillips could have a galloping case of sleeping sickness?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Nobody'd ever know the difference him. Please, Well, I'm just trying.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
To explain Jamie Niggott's family goes to a place ready.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yes, father, we are not the legots, I know, Father.
Nobody can afford to do what the leggots do. But father,
that includes the leggoates.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Father, if you'll only let me tell you, tell me what,
we don't mind rocking it for a few days, do we?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Heck?
Speaker 7 (08:37):
No, godsh it't be worth getting pneumonia, Kathy, We wouldn't it.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
It may be that I have very old fashioned ideas,
but I believe that the father has certain obligations to
his family, and keeping them alive happens to be one. Now,
let's not talk about it anymore.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
I'll be fifty years old before I get a chance
to use my slab.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Fine, you can take your grandchildren for a ride.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Daddy, you're silly.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
I am sure they'll have their own slabs, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Margaret isn't even for Margaret. Wait, do you hear what happened?
Speaker 8 (09:29):
Where are the kids? Well, come on down, we're going
to the mountains. Most amazing thing you ever heard?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Jim, I thought you said, did you happened once in
a million years?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Jim's calm down, everybody, take it easy, father.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (09:45):
Well, mister Gribble came into my office this afternoon and
we were discussing families and children. And the first thing,
you know, I told him how I was letting mine down.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Jim, dear, you aren't really well.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I'm not. Now mister Gribble says we can use his hunting.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Lodge a hunting line.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Holy cow.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Wait, I tell Jamie Lyggeth with Jim, I thought you
didn't want to go to.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
The mountain, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
I didn't want to go to one of those shacks
the kids were talking about. But Gribble's hunting lodge, well
that's a different story. You can just imagine what kind
of a place he has.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Oh, father, you're wonderful. You're just the most wonderful father
anybody ever had.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
And how well, don't just stand there going upstairs and.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Pack pack Jim, you don't mean now, of.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Course, I mean now if we want to get there
before dark. We've got to leave ten minutes ago. It
takes over two hours to get there.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
But I can go now, father, I have a day,
tonight and tomorrow night.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
So far, well, if this isn't you said you wanted
to go to the mountains, didn't you sure?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But we didn't mean today.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Holy cow, Jim, we can't possibly go in such short notice.
What our clothes aren't ready, and then we have to
buy food.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
Gribble said the place was loaded with food, and what
kind of clothes you need?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Shove a couple of sweaters in the suitcase and you're
all set.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What'll I tell Billy Smith and Dick Andrews?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
What will I tell Joe Phillip?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
I don't care what you tell them. I told mister
Gribble we'd be happy to use his hunting lodge.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
And we're going to use it. I don't want to
go to the mountains. I thought you wanted to use
your sled.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Oh that's right, father, you don't even like the mountains.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I love the mountain.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You said it wasn't any fun.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I'm starting to have fun right now.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
See, but you said we'd all get pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I don't care if we all get double pneumonia. You
said you wanted to go to the mountains, and you're
going to the mountains. If I have to drag you, well.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Let's start packing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
After all, I know father knows beat well.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Like it or not, the family is going to take
that trip to the mountains. We'll see how they fare
in just the moment. But right now, ladies, with all
coffee prices high these days, it really pays to remember
Maxwell house is true economy. Yes, And here's how one
lady found that out. When coffee prices went up, she
started shopping around, thinking she could find a cheaper coffee
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that would do. But when she brought one home, her
husband turned thumbs down.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Too weak, he said.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So she put a lot more in the pot, but
still her husband wouldn't drink it up. It may be
strong now, he told her, but the flavor's all wrong.
This coffee just doesn't have what it takes. And meal
after meal, left over coffee went to waste. Then she
realized Maxwell house is true economy. Sure it is, because
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you get so many more truly good cups of coffee
from every pound. Discover the wonderful difference that vacuum packing means,
the extra freshness and clear, rich taste. See how much
more your husband and you enjoy that wonderful flavor, so
good to the last drop you drink every drop, you'll say,
(13:30):
Maxwell House is true economy. So get your money's worth
and more. Remember in your cup on your table, Maxwell
House is true economy, always good to the last drop. Well,
(13:53):
a few peaceful hours have gone by, and on the
edge of a quiet mountain road, white with you fallen snow,
we find the Andersons. The air is crisp and clear,
and because of the altitude, just a trifle thin. Maybe
that's why poor Jim is puffing just a little, Or
perhaps there's another reason, like this.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Okay, Bud, when I give you the word, give it
the gas.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Okay, Dad, are.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You ready, let's go? Okay, But that's enough. You say
something I said, that's enough, turn it off. Okay, No,
good country roads always getting stuck.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Didn't work, Handad, No.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
It didn't work. Now we're good and stuck.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well, father, I told you we were going.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Off the road.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
You told me. Everybody's always telling me look at the tree,
Look at the sky, look, look look, how do you
expect me to see anything right off the road. We're
still on the road, way through the road.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Dear, Maybe we ought to go back home.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Margaret, How are we going to go anywhere? We're stuck?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, I'm after we get out.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Let's worry about it when we get out. If we
get out, I'm hungry.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Now, let's not start that again, Patty, But I am.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I told you we should have brought some food.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Well, how did I know we were going to get stuck?
We should have been there an hour ago? But you
want me don no? I just want to hear your name.
It's such a beautiful name, so warm and friendly.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Holy cow. Now what did I do?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Nothing? Come on out here and help me push.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Okay, the chains won't take Conde.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
I don't know what it is. It doesn't seem to
be the snow so much. I think we got into
some kind of a hole.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Doggone.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Thing looks like the Grand Canyon, Betty, Yes, slide over
and back of the wheel.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It Kathy put it in. Lord, when I give you
the signal, let the clutch out fast? Do you understand
I suppose it was nothing so complicated about it? What
is it, Kathydy? Wow? Good for us.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Maybe now we'll get out of here. Hello there, hey,
I said, hello, we're stuck in the snow. Had a
little trouble. Yes, we're stuck in the snow.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
No, huh, sure looks like you had in trouble. We
are we're stuck, hey, I said, we're stuck. Can you
pull us out with your tractor? Actors?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Huh ohe many of them up here in the winter time.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
I didn't say we were actors. We want you to
pull us out of the snow.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Putting on a show?
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Huh? No, good for you. Do you please turn that
thing off? Eh? I said, turn the motor off, turn
it off.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
We're gonna turn this turned thing off. Can't hear you now?
Why wasn't you saying, young feller?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I said, we're stuck in the snow.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
But I don't have to shout. I ain't eat.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I'm sorry. We we'd appreciate it very much if you'd
pull us out.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Oh, stuck in the snow?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Huh, yes, we certainly are.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Yeah, won't be much of a job. Why are you
putting on the show?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I told you before. We're not actors.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
No, no, then what are you doing putting on a show?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
You're not putting on a show. I never even mentioned
the show. I said we were stuck in the snow.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Oh snow, I thought you said show.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
No.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
No, Well, don't make much difference. Never go anyway here,
wrap onto this total all right?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Want me to hook it up there?
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, go ahead, Bud, I'll wrap it.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Around the bumper a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Better hook it out of the frame, Bud.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Okay, I sure could have sworn you said you was actors.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
No, we're just up here for the weekend. A friend
of ours is letting us use his hunting lodges. Maybe
you know him, JP Gribble gribble, No, can't he to do?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
What's he look like?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Well he's rather large as a very deep voice, about
fifty years old, very dignified.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Hey, you mean the fullard comes up from Springfield? Fat sold.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yes, he lives in Springfield.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Well, you ain't gonna get the fat Sool's place this way,
I'm not, no, sir. You're heading down to the lake. Oh,
it took the wrong turn back at the corners, I see,
is it very far from here? No, won't take you
more than twenty or thirty minutes, I'll show you a
special shortcut tave you three or four miles anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Hiding son, I think I've just about got it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Okay, I'm out from under there.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Hurry up, Bud. You've been very kind and I want
you to know we appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Oh shucks, ain't hardly nothing. What are people for not
to help one another? If you can't be neighborly, I
always say you might just as well go someplace and
lay down. That's all I'm doing, is being neighborly.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
Well it isn't everybody would go to all this trouble
for complete strangers.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
It's all sad.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Okay, Son, Well, i'll have you yanked out of here
in no time now.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Thank you. You'll never know how grateful we are.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Oh that's okay. Would you like to give me the
money now?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
We what?
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Well? Tain't that I don't trust you. But these here
tractors don't go very fast. A couple of fellers got
away slick a whistle. Oh work very neighborly, I'm not
so as you could notice it. Well, hand up the
fifteen dollars and we'll get going.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Fifteen dollars.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Hi, ain't it Why? It's outrageous? Yeah, I know, but
don't forget. I got a spit with a fellow. What
dug the hole?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Why are we stopping, Jim?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
It's no sense going any further. I can't even see
the road.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Boy, it's sure snowing.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm hungry. Father. I told you we were on the
wrong road.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
We are not on the wrong road. He said, turn
left after the small bridge and then right at the fort.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
But he said two miles and you went almost five.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Well I have a very silly habit when I make it,
and I like it to be on a road. Or
would you rather go floating around in somebody's corn field?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Oh, Jim, please don't get upset.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
I'm not getting upset. But we're not lost.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, where are we?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
How do I know? Stop asking silly questions?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Then?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
What do you see?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Something?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Out there?
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Where?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Over there? In back of those trees?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Father?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
It's a house.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
I don't see any Oh, that's no house. It looks
more like a cattle shelter.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Well, it's better in being cooped up in the car.
My legs are paralyzed. I'm hungry, Jim.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
We've got to do something we can't sit here all night.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Maybe someone lives here, Dad, They might know where mister
Gribble's place is.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
All right, let's go ask him.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Oh, where that wind's cold?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Well, don't just stand there, let's go, Jem. Wait a minute, Bud, Margaret,
there's no need for you to come along, if you.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Don't mind, Dear, we'd.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
Rather Margaret, I'm perfectly capable of ask. Oh you mean
they might have food.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm hungry right now. If I had to choose between
a mink coat and a cup of coffee, I'd be
reaching for the cream and sugar.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Well, come on, Kathy, I'll carry you.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Thank you, Daddy.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Let's go, Bud.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
When I think of where I could be right now, Betty,
sitting in a nice, warm movie, eating nice hot popcorn.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
Betty, this whole thing was your idea, my idea. And
if I hear so much as one word of complaint
out of you, so help me.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
I'll paddle you bulllegged.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Father. That's telling her.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Daddy, that goes for you, too, jee Will. I wanted
to stay home where it's warm and comfortable.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
No, we've got to be like the Leggage and the Phillips,
got to go to the mountains for the weekend.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Look at this place, the worst looking dump I've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
The dar's locked.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Well, don't you think you ought to knock first?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
There's nobody inside. Dad, I look through the window.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh dear, now, what are we going to do?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Bud, You've got heavy shoes on. See if you can
kick the lock off the door. Oh, Jim, do you
think it's all right?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Margaret? Go ahead, Budd, Okay, Dad, don't kick it too hard.
You might shove the whole building over.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Gosh, that was easy.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
Don't feel too excited about it, Samson, a large termite
could have done the same thing.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Well, let's go on in.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Ooh, I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
There's nothing to be afraid of. Katy, go on in.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh, Jim, isn't this place awful?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Well, this is what they wanted a weekend in the mountains.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Aren't there any lights?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
No?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
And the bath is probably the first door on the
left and three hundred yards straight.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Ahead, Dad, here's a candle, well lighted.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, Okay, it's the matter.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Mommy, Daddy, I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
There's a bear where up on the wall.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Cally, who there is? And they chopped his head off.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
It's just a trophy, Kathy, probably shot by whoever owns
this horrible joint. See there's a plaque under it.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Oh, I don't like it.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Let me have the candle, bud, Hey, Dan, I look, Kathy,
there's nothing to it. See it says black Bear, eight
and forty pounds.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh no, Jim, what is it?
Speaker 5 (24:31):
December one, nineteen thirty eight, JP Gribble.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Oh that's mister Gribble's hunting live. Looks like the family
has got to make the best of a very poor bargain.
And that brings up a mighty important point, Ladies. When
you buy coffee, remember Maxwell House is true economy. Sure,
Maxwellhouse is true economy. Of course, you can find cheaper
coffees if the price tag is all you consider. But
(25:14):
just consider this. Is there any economy when you have
to use lots more coffee to make it strong enough?
Yet even then you can't get the flavor you want?
Is there any economy when the flavor is so lacking
your family leaves coffee unfinished in the cup. Figure it out,
You'll say, Maxwell House is true economy. So many more
cups of wonderfully good coffee in every pound, so rich
(25:38):
and extra flavorful, so good to the last drop. You
always want more. Yes, there's good reason why more people
drink Maxwell House than any other brand at any price.
Maxwell House is true economy. So tomorrow, get your money's
worth and more. Get Maxwell House. Always good to the
(26:00):
last drop. The horrible night is over at last. Now
it's Saturday morning. The storm has passed, the sun is shining,
and the entire world seems brighter and far more cheerful.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
To most people. That is good morning, Good morning, dear.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Did you sleep well?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Like a top and I'm still spinning?
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Oh my back, I'll never get it straightened out.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Where are the kids?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
They're outside in the snow. Oh, they're having a wonderful time.
See you can see them through the window.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
I can see them through the wall, Margaret, Have you
ever seen any place worse than this in your life?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
No, dear, I haven't hunting lodge. Just wait till I
see that guy gribbled.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh he meant well, dear, you.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Should have heard the build up.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
He gave it too, secluded, RESTful, the most beautiful view
in the country.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Well, there is a nice view, gym.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Sure, especially through the roof. Look at it.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well, you'll feel better after a nice hot breakfast.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Here, Oh you found the food.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Huh uh huh, A whole closetful good.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I haven't eaten since noon yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Well, what would you like some nice hot beans.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Margaret, don't be ridiculous. I'll have eight dozen eggs and
about forty sausages.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No sausages, deer. How about some nice hot beans.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Oh, I'll just have eggs.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
No eggs, deer. How about some nice hot beans, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
I don't like beans. Why can't I? Margaret?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yes, dear, you mean, yes, dear, a whole big closetful
of beans.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
If you like good things the easy.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Way, good things, the easy way.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
It's how's that for you?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Good?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Good coffee the TV two, No time, no trouble, no ground,
no fun, and good to the very last.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You know what?
Speaker 10 (28:09):
Yes, instant Maxwell House means great coffee, instantly and your cup.
Here's real instant coffee, all pure Maxwell House coffee and
instant form. Enjoy instant Maxwell House, instantly.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Good to the very last, you know what.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with
Roy Vargei and the Maxwell House Orchestra and Yours Truley
Bill Forman. Don't forget membership cards well, The Robert Young
Good Drivers Club are waiting for you at your local
NBC station. Get a man to man or dad to daughter,
(28:53):
pledge and sign up today.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Be a good driver.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Get your membership card in the Robert Young Good Drivers
Club to day now 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.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
In Hollywood and written by Ed James.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Now stay tuned in for screen Gill Theater, which follows
immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Next, Barbara Stanwick and Robert Taylor in Double Indemnity on
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