August 6, 2025 • 30 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 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Of them all.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Well, your father says so, and father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
Young his father. A half hour visit with your neighbors,
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(00:50):
of good citizenship, according to one James Anderson, lies not
only in doing one's part toward the betterment of his society,
but in volunteering to do one's part. I'm not sitting
back and waiting to be asked. As a matter of fact,
this was the subject of a lecture delivered to his
children one evening last week in the white frame house
on Maple Street. But that was last week. This evening,
(01:13):
Jim has forgotten the whole thing as he sits in
the dem scanning the newspaper while his help mate Margaret
sits nearby with a darning basket full of socks like this.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Jim, M I know I've asked you this before. Dear
but I've never really gotten a satisfactory answer.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
What's that? Dear?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Please tell me how do you manage to wear your
socks out in the arches?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Oh, Margaret, I don't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well just look at this sock.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Must be faulty workmanship. Nobody could possibly wear socks out
in the arch Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well that's why I want to know how you do it.
I must ask missus Davis if ed does that?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
When I don't go spreading that all over the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Mammy, you know you ought to let someone check your
feet sometime, like say, the Smithsonian Institute.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Mommy, where's daddy?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Hello, Daddy?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Hello Kidden, Say daddy.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Do you remember that talk you gave us about citizens and.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
All that citizenship? Yeah, that's it, I certainly do. I
keep hoping that it sunk in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I remembered it good. At our Robins meeting after school today,
we heard about a family that moved here and their
daddy can't get any work and they need help. So
I did, like you said, Daddy, I volunteered to help them.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well that's real nice, Kathy. I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
If everyone would willingly and voluntarily do his little bit
for the community. This would be a better world to
live in.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
How do you propose to help this family, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I volunteered that old tanned suit of daddy's. What they
said it just betting too.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Wait a minute, you mean you gave my good suit away?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Dear, that wasn't your good suit.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, I still all right. It was a wonderful piece
of material, good harringbone pattern.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Did I do wrong, daddy? Well, you said you wanted
us to volunteer.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yes, well that's right. I do want you to, But
after this, I wish you'd check with me before you
go around volunteering my good clothes. He uh, he's already
got the suit, huh uh huh.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And the have to.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Hat, not my brown one.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Good.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You looked awful in that hat.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It was comfortable. It takes a long time to break
a hat into where it really feels good on you.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Daddy.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Do you want me to just forget all that stuff
you told us?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Oh no, no, no, I want you to remember all
that stuff and put it into action. But check with
me first, Yes, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, now that that's settled, I want you to go
upstairs and start getting ready for bed.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Kathy, Ah, gee, it's early, Mommy.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I know it, but I want you to wash your hair.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Do I have to?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I don't know where you Robins hold your.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Meetings, but it must be in a sand pit. Now
you get upstairs and shampoo your head real good? Oh okay, Well,
it looks like your words of wisdom the other night
made quite an impression after all.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yes, too good an impression. I always felt good in
that suit.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh, jem, stop worrying about that suit. It was time
you stopped wearing it. Everyone around town was beginning to
think that was the only suit you had.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Well, suits have a certain feel to them. Some of
them give a man a sense of confidence. Never get
another one that hung like that on me.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I hope not.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Seems like I've lost an old friend in the den.
Bud Oh, hi, where was our wandering boy? Bend to night?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Oh? Junior Highway?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Well good, let's know with a high white crowd.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Oh, we're gonna have a big affair and invite all
the deads the Junior Highway hijiens name huh great, there's
something I want to check with you, Dad, Okay, go
ahead and check. Well, it came up about having entertainment
at this thing, you know, get up some acts in junk,
uh huh, and they needed somebody to be the head
of it, and nobody said anything. And then I remembered
(05:16):
what you said the other night about volunteering and being
a good citizen and all that, And.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Wow, I'm glad to hear that you're remembered, Bud. Doing
one's part voluntarily and cheerfully makes for a better society. Yeah,
so you're volunteered. Huh.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Well yeah, in a way. I told him. I wanted
to check with you first.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh, it's perfectly all right with me.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Yeah, sure not.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh, yes, in fact, I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Well, swell, I'll call Joe Phillips and tell him it's
all said. Joe's the head general chairman. I see, Okay
to use the phone in.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Here, Sure, go ahead. You won't bother us.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I'm glad to see Bud take an active part in things.
He needs to be a little more aggressive.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yes, he's inclined to sit back and let someone else
be the leader.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Oh, Joe, but you home so am I.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I always like that intelligent conversation.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Well, yeah, Joe, that's what I called you up about
I just talked to Dad and he said he'd be
happy to head up the entertainment.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
What.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Oh, yeah, he was all for it, So it's all set, Joe.
Wait a minute, Well okay, Joe, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Bye. Just a second. But let me get this straight.
I thought you were volunteering for this job.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Well, yeah, I volunteered you.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Would you explain that just a little more fully?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Well, you see, dad, we're gonna have the dads at
this hiji.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yes, yes, I got that.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
And like last year, we decided to put him on
different committees, and I volunteered you for the entertainment.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Oh me, can't you unvolunteer me?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Well you said it was all right before I called Joe,
and he's already put you down for it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Oh that's just dandy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Doing one part.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Voluntarily and cheerfully makes for better society.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
All right, Margaret?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Oh what acts do you think you'll get up? Dad?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
We better get to work on it right away because
they want to pin up a program for it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Huh. Look, but don't you think it would be better
if you boys did all the work yourselves?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Oh no, this is a tradition.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
What is working.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
The dad's in on this thing.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Last year, they said, Ali Ziegler's dad headed up the
entertainment and it was the best they ever had. They're
still talking about it. They are huh, yeah, but I
told them you'd do even better.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
But I appreciate your loyalty and all that.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I gotta get upstairs, got some homework today. Well wait, Bud,
sure was keen of you to volunteer?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Dad, Yeah, wasn't it. Hmm.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Judging from the results of that citizenship speech you made
to the children, it must have been one of the
best of your career.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, it's still the right idea. It was just interpreted exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What kind of entertainment are you going to put on?
Go and work up a few acrobatic stunts?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
All right, don't rub it in mother? What she meant?
I was Ralph again?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
No, I think she's just been to the library. Where
are you mother in the dan Betty?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh mother, it looks like I'm Oh, I didn't know
you were in here.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Father.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Why do you want to talk to your mother? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
No, No, I want to talk to you too. I
want your advice.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Oh oh, what trouble am I in? Now?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well, you're not in any trouble.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Father, Well, just how am I involved in whatever this is?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, you're not involved at all.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well that's the first good news I've had all day.
Sit down this I want to hear.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Are you in any trouble, Betty?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well, not exactly, but it looks like I'm going to
be a.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Witness, a witness, a kind of a witness, a regular kind,
you know, in card Oh dear. It happened on the
way home from the library. I was just getting ready
to cross Oak Street when these two cars bumped into
each other. What two cars, I don't know exactly. Bob
bren and some woman.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Who's Bob Reynold's mother.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
He's a senior at college and he has the most
wonderful brown eyes you've ever seen. Actually, mother, I mean
they're utterly penetrating.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
All right, we nobody's eyes, but who is he?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
They're penetrating, but yet they're friendly at the same time.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Oh, fine, you're gonna make a wonderful witness, I hope.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So for his sake, Betty, how are you involved in this?
You weren't in the accident, were you?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
No, No, I just witnessed it was anyone hurt. No,
it didn't do the cars any good though, Well, you
didn't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No, but I'm signed up. He took my name Reynolds. Yes, father.
At first I was going to hurry away so I
wouldn't get involved.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But then I remembered what you said about being a
good citizen.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And volunteering to help.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I see.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So when Bob jumped out of his car and then
he came over toward me, I just stood there.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Gave him my name and my address.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You'd have been better off if you just walked away.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
No, Margaret, that's where you're wrong. Betty did the right thing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I've never seen such wonderful eyes before.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
As an insurance man, I know how hard it is
to get witnesses in these accident cases. Everyone is afraid
of being dragged into court, and that's an entirely wrong attitude.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, what I meant, you should be willing.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And eager to volunteer any information that will aid justice
being gotten.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
We agree, dear, that's true.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
You did the right thing, Betty. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, thanks, father, creepers. I don't know what I'll say
when I get on the witness stand.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Well, that's nothing to worry about. You just tell the truth. Well, yes, anyway,
chances are the case will never get to court. Most
of these cases are settled by the insurance companies. Were
there any other witnesses?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No, I was the only one.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Well, then, mister brown Eyes has practically a sinch. One
wouldn't if there's only one, carries a lot of weight.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So he was so nice.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
But in any event, just tell the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well, the only trouble is I'm not sure what is
the truth.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well, when Bob took.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Down my name, he asked me if I saw the
woman go through a red light? And I said yes,
and he put that down too.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Well, that's all right, But after I got thinking.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
About it, I couldn't remember whether the light was red
or green. I don't even remember seeing a traffic light.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All I remember is those deep brown eyes.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Well, I wouldn't worry. Sounds like that woman hasn't a chance.
It'll never go to court.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's probably the court now with the summons for me.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
No, it isn't. Oh, oh, yes, missus Paisley, Oh when
was that? I see? Well, you coming in in the
morning and make a full report to mister Roberts. He's
in charge of that. Oh well, we'll do what we can,
missus Paisley, and we'll see in the morning. Yes, goodbye, Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Me, who's missus Paisley?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
She happens to be a very big insurance client of mine,
and she also happens to be the woman who was
involved in that accident with brown Eyes. Really your client,
and according to her, it was brown Eyes who ran
the signal, not her.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Did she say that?
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
And she said there was a girl who saw the accident,
and if we can locate that girl, she'll prove it
was Reynald's fault. Oh no, And I thought this was
one good deed that I wouldn't be involved in. Me
and my big fat lectures, father's a little lecture on citizenship.
(13:00):
His claim that you get a good feeling out of
helping others seems to be getting unexpected results. But there
are other ways of making yourself feel good too.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
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family for breakfast but found that they weren't keen about
the flavor.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, that's all.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
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(13:48):
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Speaker 4 (13:52):
So now, if you serve.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
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cereals ever made. Doesn't this make sense, mother? I think so,
and I hope that it persuades you to start serving
Post forty percent brand flakes regularly.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
For goodness sake, eat Post brand flakes so good. It
is so good for you.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
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Post forty percent brand flakes, America's largest selling brand flakes.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
They're good and so good for you.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Good.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Even though Jim Anderson still feels that the basis of
good citizenship lies in voluntary performance of one civic duties.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
He regrets having pounded home.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
The message so firmly. In each instance where the children
try to carry out his advice, specific duty somehow involved him.
It's noon of the next day now, and as Margaret
and Betty await the arrival of the other members of
the family for lunch, Margaret has a few words of
advice for her eldest daughter, like this.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Betty, You've just got to stop worrying about this witness business.
You're going to make yourself sick.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I know it, but I can't help it. Mother.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Your father says, hardly any of these cases ever go
to court anyway, now, so forget it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'll try. If you were to be called as a witness,
you'd have heard by now. But if I am called,
I just don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
If I'm on Bob Renno's side, why then father's insurance
company will lose the case. Well, don't worry about that.
I'm sure that's all in a day's work for an
insurance company. That's what they're in business for. What kind
of a daughter would I be testifying against my own
father's company. Help me set the table and forget it,
will you. But on the other hand, if I testify
(15:57):
for father then I'll betray poor and he has such
beautiful eyes. Well, Betty, honey, you can't switch around and
testify for whomever you please.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
All you can do is tell the truth. That's another thing.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'm not sure what actually happened. Mother, I just can't
go through with this. Hi, mommy lunch, Betty almost Kathy.
By the time you wash your hands, it will be.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Hi, Betty, you've been to court yet?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, when do you go?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Can I come and watch, Kathy?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Don't talk about it, just go and wash.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Hi, mom's dead at home yet not yet, Bud, I
wish she'd hurry. They want to know what act he's
worked up for the hyjiens.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Betty, will you have to see if you're guilty or
not guilty?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Will you please make her keep quiet?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Turn blue?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Girls?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Girls, what's all the squabble about. Is it about Betty
going to jail.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I'm not going to jail. I'm going to court.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Well, practically the same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
It is.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Not all right, children, Let's don't start a fight. I
think I heard your father come in the front door.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Oh boy, I've got to get on and right away
about those acts.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Hope he's still speaking to me. Oh, Betty, stop that. Hello, Jims,
you look tired.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
No, not tired. I just had a sort of an
undermining experience.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
This morning, you say, Dad, what happened dear?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Well, it seems that word has gotten all over town
that the insurance company's gone on the rocks and I'm
out of a job.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What gee, father, Is it on account of losing the
Renolds case?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
No, no, we haven't lost any case, and it has nothing
to do with that. What caused the whole thing is
that suit of mine Kathy gave away.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Oh say, I.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Heard today that the man was really awful, thankful for
the suit, said it just fitting peachy.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Oh, I'm so happy to hear that, Dad, Dear.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I don't follow this at all. What happened?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Well, I got a strange phone call from Ed Grayson
this morning offering me a job at his place, a
job right on top of that Ray Dickens call and
said they might have a place for me in their organization.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's strange, Dad.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Then I uh finally found out through a great vine
of secretaries that Grayson saw this fellow wearing my suit
and hat in the line at the unemployment Bureau. He
thought it was me.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Oh, for goodness sakes, this is no laughing matter, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
That sort of thing doesn't help a man's business stay,
especially when we get spread all over town.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Oh it's not all over town. Apparently just two people know.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, you know how that kind of news spreads. Dead
What is it, Bud Well?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Dead body didn't explain what happened in the accident case?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Holy call?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Oh, I don't know. Betty. Roberts is handling that. He's
taking it up with a man from Reynolds Insurance company
this noon.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Is that when they decide if it goes to court?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Possibly? But I don't think it will.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Dad.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Will they call me in right away?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I said, I don't think it'll go to court. However,
you could be about you and helping settle it, though
it seems to be a wide difference of opinion on
what happened. Who entered the intersection first, Reynolds or Missus Paisley.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I think it was Missus Paisley Good. Oh, maybe it
was Bob Reynolds.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh fine, I know it was one or the other. Well,
I'm glad you're sure of something.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Dad, which would be better for Bob?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Betty? That's not quite the way cases are conducted.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That's what I've been trying to tell her.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
All you have to do is switch around on your
testimony just once, and you can be convicted of perjury.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Really, can I go and visit Edny in jail.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Kathy Child, for goodness sake, stop talking like that. Betty's
worried herself half sick as it is.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I don't worry her anymore.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Dad.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
If they call me, I just don't know what I'll do, Kathy?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
What do you want, Bud?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Nothing? I just wanted to see if somebody would.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Talk to me. I'm sorry, Bud, what do you want?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Well, it's about the hygien's entertainment, Dad, Oh that They
want to pin up programs and they have to know
what acts you've got lined up right away?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
They do.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Yeah, you haven't got a whole lot of time left.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
How much time have I got?
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Eleven minutes?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Well, the deadline is a twelve thirty. They're gonna call
here and get the list from here. Oh, well, what
funny acts have you thought of so far?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Dad? So far? Yeah? Well, but to be honest, I
haven't had a minute's time to even think about it.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
You haven't dead. The deadline is twelve thirty.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yes, I know that maybe we could. Well, how about
that quartet at my lodge? They have a couple of
comedy numbers and.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
They had them last year.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Oh well, the Masterison family all play harmonicas they have
a little band and.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Had them last year. Well, uh, how about had them
last year?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Why didn't I tell you who I was going to suggest?
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Well? Who is it?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh well, I hadn't really thought up anybody yet.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
I'm sure they had him last year. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I don't know whether you two impresarios no it or not.
But while this weighty discussion is going on, your food's
on the table and everything's getting cold.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I'm eating.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
We're good for you, Kathy, she's the only normal one
around here?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Did you hear that? But I'm normal?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
So what Betty?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Please sit down and try to eat little something? It
might make you feel better.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Oh I just don't feel like it. Mother. I don't
know what I'll do when they call me. They're not
going to tell them. You're thinking, Dad, that lot of good?
That'd doo. I've seen pictures in the paper where they
haul witnesses in the court on stretchers.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Daddy, you Betty get to thinking deadline's getting closed.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I'm thinking, how about Gosh.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
That's them. What are you gonna tell them?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Dad? Well, that's for me.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I know what he is.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Father.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
What am I gonna tell them?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, someone better answer that, or there won't be anybody
there to tell anything too.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
See that's a good idea.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Oh she would Hello?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Who?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh I wish I weren't here? Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Yes, I think fast. Dad, you gotta tell him something.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yes, a minute, Oh, dear, I don't know what to
tell him.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Sit down, daddy. It's not for you, Daddy, it's for
you me.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
It's the program committee.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Dad, But I don't know what to tell them.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
We'll make up something. They're depending on your m.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Hello, who did you say? This was the Unemployment Bureau?
Speaker 7 (22:46):
The committee?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
But this is jim Anderson. But I don't know anyone
by that name Potter.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Did you say, Oh, daddy, Dandy, that's the name.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Just a minute, what did you say, Kathy, mister Potter?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
That's the man I gave your soup to.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Oh him, Well, he gave my name as a reference.
I don't even know him.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Jimmy's probably desperate and he's only trying to get started.
But go see who's at the front door.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Okay, Oh, well, yes, I have a sort of a
connection with this man. Potter. That didn't place him for
a minute there, I see. Well, what kind of work
is he looking for? Uh? Huh? What experience has he had?
What kind of jobs does he he?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
It's for you, Betty, some geek by the name of Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Reynolds. Oh, mother, they've come for me.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well, for heaven's sakes, it's not as bad as all that.
Go in there and talk to him.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Oh I can't, I just care. Will you please stop
all that morning, I can't hear a thing on the phone.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Go in there, Betty and talk to him. This doesn't
mean you're going to jail or anything.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
If you do, I'll send you a postcard.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh you keep.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Quiet all right now? I wonder if you'd repeat that list.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
I'll bet the program can. And he's trying to call
us right now.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Wait a minute, what was that last one? Are you
sure about that?
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Well?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Does he still have all the equipment or whatever you use?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Ask if he still has his suit?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Well, that's wonderful. Would you give me his phone number? Oh, well,
then give me his address. I'll go over and see him.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
I don't read it.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
One eighth fourteen south Menlo all right, fine, and thanks
for calling. Goodbye Dad.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Look at the clock twelve thirty.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I wait, one at a time.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Oh oh, that's them, Dad, What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Go ahead and answer it?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Well, okay, tell us about mister Potter, Jim, oh oh
hi yeah, just a minute.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Well Dad, it's the program committee.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Fine. Tell them that the show will be headlined by
a sensational comedy juggling act that once played the Old
Palace Theater, New York.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
No? The name of the act act as Potter and Patter.
Potter tell him that Bob.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Okay, hey, Dad says the show is going to be
a sensational life from New York Potter and Potter.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Is this true?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Jim?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yes, Potter is an old water villion and evidently he
was pretty good in his day.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Yeah, comedy and juggling and everything.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
His wife works the act with him.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Got that? Okay, Yeah, I'll see you later. Bye. Oh boy,
did that said? Their old dear is flatting? Especially when
I said new York.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yes, that's a magic word.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Boy.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
You sure did it, Dad, I got to hand it
to you.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
So lucky I gave mister Potter that suit, wasn't it, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yes, kidding, luckiest thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Mother. Oh, dear, poor Betty. I hope this thing doesn't
upset her too much.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Mother, guess what I'm going with Bob.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Reynolds decor, No to jail, No to the terror.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Supper Club, no place for a trial.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
There's no trial, he said, that was all settled by
the insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And father. You know those wonderful brown eyes of.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
His, by now, who doesn't They're not brown at all,
They're blue. Oh me, couldn't even get that right. And now,
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before our final surprise at the show, let's join Margaret
and Betty in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Betty, where's the new job post him? I asked you
to get Oh I forgot all about it in the
excitement and all. Well, you better get some before supper.
You know how your father loves his post them.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
You can't blame Jim Anderson either. Post them is a
mighty comforting drink, especially at night. For you see, unlike
coffee and tea instant post them contains no caffeine, nothing
to keep you awake or make you nervous. Now, of
course caffeine doesn't bother people, but then why take chances
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Maybe it does bother you. So how about joining Jim
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them regularly.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Well, jim sage words regarding true citizenship finally paid off,
as Jim now steadfastly maintains he always knew they would.
The Junior High Wy High Jinks, with its entertainment chairman
James Anderson, is now a matter of record. As a
matter of fact, one of the best reports on it
was delivered by Jim himself to his wife as he
prepared for bed after the High Jinks that night. It
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went something like this, and you should have heard the applause, Margaret,
they wouldn't let the Potters get off the stage.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I'm so happy it turned out that way.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
And after the thing was over they voted this the
best show they ever had, even better than last year.
Now that was yes, eyes really sparkled. That was worth
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Even worth volunteering for.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Definitely, But Margaret, the greatest thrill of all was seeing
the look in the eyes of the Potters while they
were performing. It seemed as though they were suddenly living again.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I wish I could have seen it.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I wish so too. And you know that suit I
was moaning about losing. Yes, well, it never looked better
than it did tonight. Never join us again next week,
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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of good citizenship, according to one James Anderson, lies not
only in doing one's part toward the betterment of his society,
but in volunteering to do one's part. I'm not sitting
back and waiting to be asked. As a matter of fact,
this was the subject of a lecture delivered to his
children one evening last week in the white frame house
on Maple Street. But that was last week. This evening,
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Jim has forgotten the whole thing as he sits in
the dem scanning the newspaper while his help mate Margaret
sits nearby with a darning basket full of socks like this.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Jim, M I know I've asked you this before. Dear
but I've never really gotten a satisfactory answer.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
What's that? Dear?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Please tell me how do you manage to wear your
socks out in the arches?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Oh, Margaret, I don't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well just look at this sock.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Must be faulty workmanship. Nobody could possibly wear socks out
in the arch Hmmm.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well that's why I want to know how you do it.
I must ask missus Davis if ed does that?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
When I don't go spreading that all over the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Mammy, you know you ought to let someone check your
feet sometime, like say, the Smithsonian Institute.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Mommy, where's daddy?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Hello, Daddy?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Hello Kidden, Say daddy.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Do you remember that talk you gave us about citizens and.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
All that citizenship? Yeah, that's it, I certainly do. I
keep hoping that it sunk in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I remembered it good. At our Robins meeting after school today,
we heard about a family that moved here and their
daddy can't get any work and they need help. So
I did, like you said, Daddy, I volunteered to help them.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well that's real nice, Kathy. I'm very proud of you.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
If everyone would willingly and voluntarily do his little bit
for the community. This would be a better world to
live in.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
How do you propose to help this family, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I volunteered that old tanned suit of daddy's. What they
said it just betting too.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Wait a minute, you mean you gave my good suit away?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Dear, that wasn't your good suit.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, I still all right. It was a wonderful piece
of material, good harringbone pattern.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Did I do wrong, daddy? Well, you said you wanted
us to volunteer.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yes, well that's right. I do want you to, But
after this, I wish you'd check with me before you
go around volunteering my good clothes. He uh, he's already
got the suit, huh uh huh.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And the have to.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Hat, not my brown one.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Good.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You looked awful in that hat.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It was comfortable. It takes a long time to break
a hat into where it really feels good on you.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Daddy.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Do you want me to just forget all that stuff
you told us?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Oh no, no, no, I want you to remember all
that stuff and put it into action. But check with
me first, Yes, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, now that that's settled, I want you to go
upstairs and start getting ready for bed.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Kathy, Ah, gee, it's early, Mommy.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I know it, but I want you to wash your hair.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Do I have to?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I don't know where you Robins hold your.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Meetings, but it must be in a sand pit. Now
you get upstairs and shampoo your head real good? Oh okay, Well,
it looks like your words of wisdom the other night
made quite an impression after all.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yes, too good an impression. I always felt good in
that suit.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh, jem, stop worrying about that suit. It was time
you stopped wearing it. Everyone around town was beginning to
think that was the only suit you had.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Well, suits have a certain feel to them. Some of
them give a man a sense of confidence. Never get
another one that hung like that on me.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I hope not.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Seems like I've lost an old friend in the den.
Bud Oh, hi, where was our wandering boy? Bend to night?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Oh? Junior Highway?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Well good, let's know with a high white crowd.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Oh, we're gonna have a big affair and invite all
the deads the Junior Highway hijiens name huh great, there's
something I want to check with you, Dad, Okay, go
ahead and check. Well, it came up about having entertainment
at this thing, you know, get up some acts in junk,
uh huh, and they needed somebody to be the head
of it, and nobody said anything. And then I remembered
(05:16):
what you said the other night about volunteering and being
a good citizen and all that, And.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Wow, I'm glad to hear that you're remembered, Bud. Doing
one's part voluntarily and cheerfully makes for a better society. Yeah,
so you're volunteered. Huh.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Well yeah, in a way. I told him. I wanted
to check with you first.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Oh, it's perfectly all right with me.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Yeah, sure not.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Oh, yes, in fact, I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Well, swell, I'll call Joe Phillips and tell him it's
all said. Joe's the head general chairman. I see, Okay
to use the phone in.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Here, Sure, go ahead. You won't bother us.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I'm glad to see Bud take an active part in things.
He needs to be a little more aggressive.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yes, he's inclined to sit back and let someone else
be the leader.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Oh, Joe, but you home so am I.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I always like that intelligent conversation.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Well, yeah, Joe, that's what I called you up about
I just talked to Dad and he said he'd be
happy to head up the entertainment.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
What.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Oh, yeah, he was all for it, So it's all set, Joe.
Wait a minute, Well okay, Joe, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Bye. Just a second. But let me get this straight.
I thought you were volunteering for this job.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Well, yeah, I volunteered you.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Would you explain that just a little more fully?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Well, you see, dad, we're gonna have the dads at
this hiji.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yes, yes, I got that.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
And like last year, we decided to put him on
different committees, and I volunteered you for the entertainment.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Oh me, can't you unvolunteer me?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Well you said it was all right before I called Joe,
and he's already put you down for it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Oh that's just dandy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Doing one part.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Voluntarily and cheerfully makes for better society.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
All right, Margaret?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Oh what acts do you think you'll get up? Dad?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
We better get to work on it right away because
they want to pin up a program for it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Huh. Look, but don't you think it would be better
if you boys did all the work yourselves?
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Oh no, this is a tradition.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
What is working.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
The dad's in on this thing.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Last year, they said, Ali Ziegler's dad headed up the
entertainment and it was the best they ever had. They're
still talking about it. They are huh, yeah, but I
told them you'd do even better.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
But I appreciate your loyalty and all that.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I gotta get upstairs, got some homework today. Well wait, Bud,
sure was keen of you to volunteer?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Dad, Yeah, wasn't it. Hmm.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Judging from the results of that citizenship speech you made
to the children, it must have been one of the
best of your career.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, it's still the right idea. It was just interpreted exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What kind of entertainment are you going to put on?
Go and work up a few acrobatic stunts?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
All right, don't rub it in mother? What she meant?
I was Ralph again?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
No, I think she's just been to the library. Where
are you mother in the dan Betty?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh mother, it looks like I'm Oh, I didn't know
you were in here.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Father.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Why do you want to talk to your mother? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
No, No, I want to talk to you too. I
want your advice.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Oh oh, what trouble am I in? Now?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well, you're not in any trouble.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Father, Well, just how am I involved in whatever this is?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, you're not involved at all.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well that's the first good news I've had all day.
Sit down this I want to hear.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Are you in any trouble, Betty?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well, not exactly, but it looks like I'm going to
be a.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Witness, a witness, a kind of a witness, a regular kind,
you know, in card Oh dear. It happened on the
way home from the library. I was just getting ready
to cross Oak Street when these two cars bumped into
each other. What two cars, I don't know exactly. Bob
bren and some woman.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Who's Bob Reynold's mother.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
He's a senior at college and he has the most
wonderful brown eyes you've ever seen. Actually, mother, I mean
they're utterly penetrating.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
All right, we nobody's eyes, but who is he?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
They're penetrating, but yet they're friendly at the same time.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Oh, fine, you're gonna make a wonderful witness, I hope.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So for his sake, Betty, how are you involved in this?
You weren't in the accident, were you?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
No, No, I just witnessed it was anyone hurt. No,
it didn't do the cars any good though, Well, you
didn't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
No, but I'm signed up. He took my name Reynolds. Yes, father.
At first I was going to hurry away so I
wouldn't get involved.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But then I remembered what you said about being a
good citizen.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And volunteering to help.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I see.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
So when Bob jumped out of his car and then
he came over toward me, I just stood there.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Gave him my name and my address.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You'd have been better off if you just walked away.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
No, Margaret, that's where you're wrong. Betty did the right thing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I've never seen such wonderful eyes before.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
As an insurance man, I know how hard it is
to get witnesses in these accident cases. Everyone is afraid
of being dragged into court, and that's an entirely wrong attitude.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, what I meant, you should be willing.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And eager to volunteer any information that will aid justice
being gotten.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
We agree, dear, that's true.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
You did the right thing, Betty. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, thanks, father, creepers. I don't know what I'll say
when I get on the witness stand.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Well, that's nothing to worry about. You just tell the truth. Well, yes, anyway,
chances are the case will never get to court. Most
of these cases are settled by the insurance companies. Were
there any other witnesses?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No, I was the only one.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Well, then, mister brown Eyes has practically a sinch. One
wouldn't if there's only one, carries a lot of weight.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So he was so nice.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
But in any event, just tell the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well, the only trouble is I'm not sure what is
the truth.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well, when Bob took.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Down my name, he asked me if I saw the
woman go through a red light? And I said yes,
and he put that down too.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Well, that's all right, But after I got thinking.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
About it, I couldn't remember whether the light was red
or green. I don't even remember seeing a traffic light.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
All I remember is those deep brown eyes.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Well, I wouldn't worry. Sounds like that woman hasn't a chance.
It'll never go to court.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's probably the court now with the summons for me.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
No, it isn't. Oh, oh, yes, missus Paisley, Oh when
was that? I see? Well, you coming in in the
morning and make a full report to mister Roberts. He's
in charge of that. Oh well, we'll do what we can,
missus Paisley, and we'll see in the morning. Yes, goodbye, Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Me, who's missus Paisley?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
She happens to be a very big insurance client of mine,
and she also happens to be the woman who was
involved in that accident with brown Eyes. Really your client,
and according to her, it was brown Eyes who ran
the signal, not her.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Did she say that?
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
And she said there was a girl who saw the accident,
and if we can locate that girl, she'll prove it
was Reynald's fault. Oh no, And I thought this was
one good deed that I wouldn't be involved in. Me
and my big fat lectures, father's a little lecture on citizenship.
(13:00):
His claim that you get a good feeling out of
helping others seems to be getting unexpected results. But there
are other ways of making yourself feel good too.
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Speaker 4 (13:52):
So now, if you serve.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
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that the whole family is getting their unser prevention and
their keep regular benefits in one of the best tasting
cereals ever made. Doesn't this make sense, mother? I think so,
and I hope that it persuades you to start serving
Post forty percent brand flakes regularly.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
For goodness sake, eat Post brand flakes so good. It
is so good for you.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
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Speaker 4 (14:33):
They're good and so good for you.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Good.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Even though Jim Anderson still feels that the basis of
good citizenship lies in voluntary performance of one civic duties.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
He regrets having pounded home.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
The message so firmly. In each instance where the children
try to carry out his advice, specific duty somehow involved him.
It's noon of the next day now, and as Margaret
and Betty await the arrival of the other members of
the family for lunch, Margaret has a few words of
advice for her eldest daughter, like this.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Betty, You've just got to stop worrying about this witness business.
You're going to make yourself sick.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I know it, but I can't help it. Mother.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Your father says, hardly any of these cases ever go
to court anyway, now, so forget it.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'll try. If you were to be called as a witness,
you'd have heard by now. But if I am called,
I just don't know what to say.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
If I'm on Bob Renno's side, why then father's insurance
company will lose the case. Well, don't worry about that.
I'm sure that's all in a day's work for an
insurance company. That's what they're in business for. What kind
of a daughter would I be testifying against my own
father's company. Help me set the table and forget it,
will you. But on the other hand, if I testify
(15:57):
for father then I'll betray poor and he has such
beautiful eyes. Well, Betty, honey, you can't switch around and
testify for whomever you please.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
All you can do is tell the truth. That's another thing.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'm not sure what actually happened. Mother, I just can't
go through with this. Hi, mommy lunch, Betty almost Kathy.
By the time you wash your hands, it will be.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Hi, Betty, you've been to court yet?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, when do you go?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Can I come and watch, Kathy?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Don't talk about it, just go and wash.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Hi, mom's dead at home yet not yet, Bud, I
wish she'd hurry. They want to know what act he's
worked up for the hyjiens.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Betty, will you have to see if you're guilty or
not guilty?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Will you please make her keep quiet?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Turn blue?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Girls?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Girls, what's all the squabble about. Is it about Betty
going to jail.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I'm not going to jail. I'm going to court.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Well, practically the same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
It is.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Not all right, children, Let's don't start a fight. I
think I heard your father come in the front door.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Oh boy, I've got to get on and right away
about those acts.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Hope he's still speaking to me. Oh, Betty, stop that. Hello, Jims,
you look tired.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
No, not tired. I just had a sort of an
undermining experience.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
This morning, you say, Dad, what happened dear?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Well, it seems that word has gotten all over town
that the insurance company's gone on the rocks and I'm
out of a job.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What gee, father, Is it on account of losing the
Renolds case?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
No, no, we haven't lost any case, and it has nothing
to do with that. What caused the whole thing is
that suit of mine Kathy gave away.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Oh say, I.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Heard today that the man was really awful, thankful for
the suit, said it just fitting peachy.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Oh, I'm so happy to hear that, Dad, Dear.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
I don't follow this at all. What happened?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Well, I got a strange phone call from Ed Grayson
this morning offering me a job at his place, a
job right on top of that Ray Dickens call and
said they might have a place for me in their organization.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's strange, Dad.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Then I uh finally found out through a great vine
of secretaries that Grayson saw this fellow wearing my suit
and hat in the line at the unemployment Bureau. He
thought it was me.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Oh, for goodness sakes, this is no laughing matter, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
That sort of thing doesn't help a man's business stay,
especially when we get spread all over town.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Oh it's not all over town. Apparently just two people know.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, you know how that kind of news spreads. Dead
What is it, Bud Well?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Dead body didn't explain what happened in the accident case?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Holy call?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Oh, I don't know. Betty. Roberts is handling that. He's
taking it up with a man from Reynolds Insurance company
this noon.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Is that when they decide if it goes to court?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Possibly? But I don't think it will.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Dad.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Will they call me in right away?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I said, I don't think it'll go to court. However,
you could be about you and helping settle it, though
it seems to be a wide difference of opinion on
what happened. Who entered the intersection first, Reynolds or Missus Paisley.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I think it was Missus Paisley Good. Oh, maybe it
was Bob Reynolds.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh fine, I know it was one or the other. Well,
I'm glad you're sure of something.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Dad, which would be better for Bob?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Betty? That's not quite the way cases are conducted.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That's what I've been trying to tell her.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
All you have to do is switch around on your
testimony just once, and you can be convicted of perjury.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Really, can I go and visit Edny in jail.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Kathy Child, for goodness sake, stop talking like that. Betty's
worried herself half sick as it is.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I don't worry her anymore.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Dad.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
If they call me, I just don't know what I'll do, Kathy?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
What do you want, Bud?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Nothing? I just wanted to see if somebody would.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Talk to me. I'm sorry, Bud, what do you want?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Well, it's about the hygien's entertainment, Dad, Oh that They
want to pin up programs and they have to know
what acts you've got lined up right away?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
They do.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Yeah, you haven't got a whole lot of time left.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
How much time have I got?
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Eleven minutes?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Well, the deadline is a twelve thirty. They're gonna call
here and get the list from here. Oh, well, what
funny acts have you thought of so far?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Dad? So far? Yeah? Well, but to be honest, I
haven't had a minute's time to even think about it.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
You haven't dead. The deadline is twelve thirty.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yes, I know that maybe we could. Well, how about
that quartet at my lodge? They have a couple of
comedy numbers and.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
They had them last year.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Oh well, the Masterison family all play harmonicas they have
a little band and.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Had them last year. Well, uh, how about had them
last year?
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Why didn't I tell you who I was going to suggest?
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Well? Who is it?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh well, I hadn't really thought up anybody yet.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
I'm sure they had him last year. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I don't know whether you two impresarios no it or not.
But while this weighty discussion is going on, your food's
on the table and everything's getting cold.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I'm eating.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
We're good for you, Kathy, she's the only normal one
around here?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Did you hear that? But I'm normal?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
So what Betty?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Please sit down and try to eat little something? It
might make you feel better.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Oh I just don't feel like it. Mother. I don't
know what I'll do when they call me. They're not
going to tell them. You're thinking, Dad, that lot of good?
That'd doo. I've seen pictures in the paper where they
haul witnesses in the court on stretchers.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Daddy, you Betty get to thinking deadline's getting closed.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I'm thinking, how about Gosh.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
That's them. What are you gonna tell them?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Dad? Well, that's for me.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I know what he is.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Father.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
What am I gonna tell them?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, someone better answer that, or there won't be anybody
there to tell anything too.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
See that's a good idea.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Oh she would Hello?
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Who?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh I wish I weren't here? Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Yes, I think fast. Dad, you gotta tell him something.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yes, a minute, Oh, dear, I don't know what to
tell him.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Sit down, daddy. It's not for you, Daddy, it's for
you me.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
It's the program committee.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Dad, But I don't know what to tell them.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
We'll make up something. They're depending on your m.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Hello, who did you say? This was the Unemployment Bureau?
Speaker 7 (22:46):
The committee?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
But this is jim Anderson. But I don't know anyone
by that name Potter.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Did you say, Oh, daddy, Dandy, that's the name.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Just a minute, what did you say, Kathy, mister Potter?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
That's the man I gave your soup to.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Oh him, Well, he gave my name as a reference.
I don't even know him.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Jimmy's probably desperate and he's only trying to get started.
But go see who's at the front door.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Okay, Oh, well, yes, I have a sort of a
connection with this man. Potter. That didn't place him for
a minute there, I see. Well, what kind of work
is he looking for? Uh? Huh? What experience has he had?
What kind of jobs does he he?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
It's for you, Betty, some geek by the name of Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Reynolds. Oh, mother, they've come for me.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well, for heaven's sakes, it's not as bad as all that.
Go in there and talk to him.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Oh I can't, I just care. Will you please stop
all that morning, I can't hear a thing on the phone.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Go in there, Betty and talk to him. This doesn't
mean you're going to jail or anything.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
If you do, I'll send you a postcard.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh you keep.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Quiet all right now? I wonder if you'd repeat that list.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
I'll bet the program can. And he's trying to call
us right now.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Wait a minute, what was that last one? Are you
sure about that?
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Well?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Does he still have all the equipment or whatever you use?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Ask if he still has his suit?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Well, that's wonderful. Would you give me his phone number? Oh, well,
then give me his address. I'll go over and see him.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
I don't read it.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
One eighth fourteen south Menlo all right, fine, and thanks
for calling. Goodbye Dad.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Look at the clock twelve thirty.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I wait, one at a time.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Oh oh, that's them, Dad, What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Go ahead and answer it?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Well, okay, tell us about mister Potter, Jim, oh oh
hi yeah, just a minute.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Well Dad, it's the program committee.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Fine. Tell them that the show will be headlined by
a sensational comedy juggling act that once played the Old
Palace Theater, New York.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
No? The name of the act act as Potter and Patter.
Potter tell him that Bob.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Okay, hey, Dad says the show is going to be
a sensational life from New York Potter and Potter.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Is this true?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Jim?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yes, Potter is an old water villion and evidently he
was pretty good in his day.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Yeah, comedy and juggling and everything.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
His wife works the act with him.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Got that? Okay, Yeah, I'll see you later. Bye. Oh boy,
did that said? Their old dear is flatting? Especially when
I said new York.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yes, that's a magic word.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Boy.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
You sure did it, Dad, I got to hand it
to you.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
So lucky I gave mister Potter that suit, wasn't it, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yes, kidding, luckiest thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Mother. Oh, dear, poor Betty. I hope this thing doesn't
upset her too much.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Mother, guess what I'm going with Bob.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Reynolds decor, No to jail, No to the terror.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Supper Club, no place for a trial.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
There's no trial, he said, that was all settled by
the insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
And father. You know those wonderful brown eyes of.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
His, by now, who doesn't They're not brown at all,
They're blue. Oh me, couldn't even get that right. And now,
(26:25):
before our final surprise at the show, let's join Margaret
and Betty in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Betty, where's the new job post him? I asked you
to get Oh I forgot all about it in the
excitement and all. Well, you better get some before supper.
You know how your father loves his post them.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
You can't blame Jim Anderson either. Post them is a
mighty comforting drink, especially at night. For you see, unlike
coffee and tea instant post them contains no caffeine, nothing
to keep you awake or make you nervous. Now, of
course caffeine doesn't bother people, but then why take chances
(27:02):
Maybe it does bother you. So how about joining Jim
and the millions of others who drank caffeine free post
them regularly.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Well, jim sage words regarding true citizenship finally paid off,
as Jim now steadfastly maintains he always knew they would.
The Junior High Wy High Jinks, with its entertainment chairman
James Anderson, is now a matter of record. As a
matter of fact, one of the best reports on it
was delivered by Jim himself to his wife as he
prepared for bed after the High Jinks that night. It
(27:46):
went something like this, and you should have heard the applause, Margaret,
they wouldn't let the Potters get off the stage.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I'm so happy it turned out that way.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
And after the thing was over they voted this the
best show they ever had, even better than last year.
Now that was yes, eyes really sparkled. That was worth
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Even worth volunteering for.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Definitely, But Margaret, the greatest thrill of all was seeing
the look in the eyes of the Potters while they
were performing. It seemed as though they were suddenly living again.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I wish I could have seen it.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I wish so too. And you know that suit I
was moaning about losing. Yes, well, it never looked better
than it did tonight. Never join us again next week,
(28:40):
when we'll be back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert
Young as Jimmanis. Until then, good night and good luck
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