July 19, 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 (00:01):
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to Springfield in another half hour? Is it with the
folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street Back
and enjoy life with the Andersons. Kathy, Bud, Betty, Margaret
and Jim Has the head of this typical American household
again sets out to prove that father knows best. You've
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probably heard that the veteran woodsman can predict what the
weather is going to be just by listening to the
sounds and the forest around him.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, the woodsman may.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Be a smart fellow, but he doesn't have anything on
the head of the Anderson family. Jim Anderson can predict
the weather in the white frame.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
House on Maple Street.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
He can tell in advance whether life is going to
be stormy or clear, just by listening.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
To the sounds come from the various rooms of the house.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
For example, this evening, as Jim settles himself in the
den with the paper, he hears sounds like this coming
from Betty's room upstairs, fair and warmer.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Hi, Dad, you home?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, but I'm up panning goal on the Klondike. What's
on your mind?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Nothing? I just wondered if I could sit in here with.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You, sure, pull up a chair hiding from somebody?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Women?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
How come we got so many women in our house.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I don't know, Bud, We're just lucky, I guess, lucky.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Hah.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Just what is the feminine contingent doing that you find
so repugnant?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know what repugnant means?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yeah, that means it drives you nuts? Well, roughly, yes, Oh, Betty,
he's got a big crush on old Ralph again, she's
mooning around like a sick calf.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, I wouldn't let that upset your son. She's at
the romantic age right now, full of dreams.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
She's full of hot air.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
If you ask me, all she talks about is how
simply two too wonderful?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Ralph is Ralph is Ralph? Et? When is she gonna
get over that stuff?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Dad? Oh it won't be long, Bud. She's eighteen now.
She don't begin to act like a human being any
day now.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Gus Rudnick at school's got a sister eighteen and she's
grown up married even Well.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's true girls do get married at eighteen.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Who gets married at eighteen?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, Bud and I were just talking about.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Girls, any girl in particular.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, Bud was mentioning that the sister of some friend
of his was eighteen and that she was married.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
What are you gonna do about Betty?
Speaker 7 (03:48):
What do you mean do about her? Are you gonna
get some guy to marry her? Well, that's not exactly
a problem right now. Why are you so concerned about it?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
All of a sudden, I was just wondering, where are
we gonna find a guy stupid enough?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Mother?
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Do we have a picture frame?
Speaker 7 (04:08):
What kind of a picture frame? Well, Ralph had some.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
New pictures taken. He gave me the best one. Look, Gi,
isn't he the handsomest thing you ever saw? That's a
good picture of Ralph.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He's changed since I last saw him. Looks fairly intelligent.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Trick photography.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Father, Will you do something about this boy? Child?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Don't bother. I'm going outside.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Father, did I tell you about Ralph?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, I'm sitting here looking at his picture. Is there
more to tell?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
We have plans?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:46):
We talked for simply hours and hours last night about
what the future. Ralph's going into business for himself.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Business.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
He's an interior decorator.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now, Oh, just like that, he's an interior decorator.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
No, Father, Ralph's been studying art and all that for
years now. He's made up his mind what he wants
to do, and he's doing it well.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Good.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Isn't it customary for a person to well work for
someone else for a while to learn the business until
you're decorating as a rather specialized field. I'd always thought, oh,
an ordinary person might do that, but not Ralph.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
He's simply bursting with ideas. He'll make a big success.
I just know he will. He says, he can't fail
as long as I'm by his side.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What are you going to do? Hold the wallpaper?
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Oh, father, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, I just hope Ralph shows a little more common
sense in this venture than he has shown in the past.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Oh, he'd settled down. He's just a different person now,
you'll see. I wish I could find a frame for
this picture. I want to have it out when he
comes over tonight.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Why don't you look up in the attic. There might
be some picture frames up there.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
Oh, let me use your pen. Father, Ralph wants this
picture of me that you have on your desk. I
want to write something on it for it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh wait, that's my picture.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You gave it to me.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Well, I'll give you another one. Now, let's see what
shall I say on it?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How about stolen from Jim Anderson?
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Betty, what's all this sudden flurry of interest in Ralph.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It's not a sudden.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
Flurry, mother, We've been going together for almost five years.
Let me see now. Oh, I know what I'll say
to the man in my life yours forever?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Oh brother, study.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Dear, why uh didn't you put on it something like
good luck in your interior decorating business?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Father, don't you know anything about love and romance? Besides,
we know we're going to succeed, there's no question about it.
How look the attic to that picture frame.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Mother, what's this we business?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Dear Jim, what do you think about Betty and Ralph?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh, it's nothing. I'm sure they're just kids kids.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
How old were we when you asked my father if
we could get married?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
We were a lot older than Betty and Ralph. I
can tell you that.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
I was one year older than Betty and you weren't
much older than Ralph.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Oh, honey, don't be ridiculous. When we were married, we
were grown up. I remember. Oh, certainly we were a
couple of sensible, mature young people. We knew what we
were doing.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
That's not what my father thought.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Your father was a very stubborn man.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Do you remember what he did to night you first
hinted about our getting married.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, threatened to call the police, didn't.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
He Not quite. He just ordered you out of the house.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
He was a stubborn man.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
I found a frame. How does Ralph look now?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It doesn't look an He's smarter than he ever did.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Father.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Well, he doesn't.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
That's for me, you know, Well, he just is.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
There are other people in this house who get phone calls.
You know, Hello, Yeah, she's here.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
I told you it was for me. I'll take it
in the breakfast.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Room, Ralph. Bet he'll be on in a minute.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I swear we need two telephone lines into this house.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
One for Betty and Ralph and one for the common people.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Do you remember what my father used to say when
you'd phoned my house.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I was never at your house when I phoned you, he.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Used to yell out, Margaret, it's old nuisance again.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know why your father disliked me.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
I don't think he disliked you, dear, He just didn't
trust you.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think of the way we had to plot and
scheme and connive to make him give his consent to
our marriage. So wonder we went through with it.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
You were a stubborn man, dear.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, after he ordered me out of the house that night,
we knew he'd never say yes. If I came right
out bluntly and ask him if I could marry you.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
That's when you really put your mind to work.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
We really ganged up on the old boy, didn't we.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
As I recall, it was your idea to make him
think we were going to a lope if he didn't
give his consent.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, I guess that wasn't my idea.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
I remember all the trouble I went to finding a
long ladder in our garage and then.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Very obviously hiding it in the bushes outside your window,
making sure that your father saw you do it.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
He couldn't figure out at first what we were up to.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I think he first got the idea we were going
to a lope when you made such a big point
of looking for a suitcase.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
Yes, yes, that did it. Then I started gathering my
clothes together and trying to scrape up some money.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, knowing my financial situation at the time, this must
have convinced him you were going to marry me.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Oh, how lucky can a girl be? It's just how lucky?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Ralph? There is undoubtedly the most wonderful, the most brilliant,
the most thoughtful, the kindest, cleverest, most adorable man in
the world.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Outside of that there's very little to recommend him.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Oh, he has everything to recommend him, positively everything. He's
going to be a great man someday, Father, you'll see.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I doubt if I'll be around that long now, Dear well,
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
A little about people. I've lived a number of years.
It's part of my business to be able to judge people.
And take my word for it.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Ralph's chances of being a great man are about the
same as those of a Shetland pony running into Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Father, how can you say that you don't know anything
about ral I know there.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Much about him. He'll be the luckiest man in the
world if he manages to reach the position of being
a likable failure.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Oh, Jim, that's not fair.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Not fair.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I suppose it's fair for that calf eyed would be
Interior Decks creator to hang around Betty year in and
year out hypnotizer with that slick talk of his hypnotize, Father,
you must be out of your mind.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Ralph is a simple, honest, straightforward young man.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Simple, yes, honest, I'm not at all sure. Look at
that car he drives. No civilized person would be called
dead in that contraption.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Dear, the fact that he drives an old model car
doesn't reflect on his honesty.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
At least, he's not squandering his money on a car he.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Can't afford what money.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
To my knowledge, he has never had a nickel of
his own. That car was probably given to.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Him by one of his enemies, of which I'm sure
he has many.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Oh, father, you're you're the most Oh really, dear, why
did you do that?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Why did I do what?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Betty's very fond of Ralph, and he's a nice bull.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I don't trust him, Margaret, I never have and I
never will.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
But he's been going with him for years. You've never
made any point of it before.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, she's never seemed quite so interested in him before.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The trouble with you, honey, is that you're just like Betty.
You have no judgment whatsoever about people. You'd put your
faith in any bum that comes along.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
I put my faith in you.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
That was entirely different.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Well, you simply have to face it, Dear. Sooner or later,
some young man is going to come into our living
room and ask you if he can marry Betty.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I know, but that's a long way off. I don't
mind if it's anybody but Ralph.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Father.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yes, Princess, are you going to be home this evening?
I expect to be.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Why Ralph is coming over?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
What for?
Speaker 8 (12:54):
He wants to ask you a very important question?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, I'm not interested in it.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Oh my gosh, Act two of Father Knows Best.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
In just a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
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there is no joy in the white frame house on
Maple Street.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
At least there's no joy for the head of the
Anderson family.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Tonight, he faces the prospect of a meeting with Betty's boyfriend, Ralph,
who is coming over to ask Jim a very important question.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
How does Jim feel.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
About Ralph just about the way Margaret's father felt about
him in their courting days. In Jim's own words, his
attitude toward Ralph is something like this, Ralph is a bum.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Now, Jimmy's nothing of the kind.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Margaret.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You're not in favor of letting Betty. I mean she's
too young.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
No, No, I'm not in favor of it, Dear. I
think they should wait a Ralph.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Here's the paper.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Father, Oh, thank you, princess.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
If you'll come in the living room and lie out
on the couch, I'll rub your head.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Now. Look, you're not going to soften me up with
that head rubbing routine.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
Soften you up for what you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Know very well what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You're not going to wheedle me into saying yes to Ralph,
no matter what you do.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Oh, father, please at least listen to him. Be fair
about it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh I will, I'll be absolutely fair. But there's only
one answer.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
We'll talk to him.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The answer to Ralph is going to be no.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
N Oh, well, you don't even know what he's going
to ask you.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Oh, yes, I do.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
How did you find out?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Oh? It doesn't exactly take a genius to discover these things.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Well, maybe you'll change your mind after he talks to you.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Believe me, Princess, there is not one chance in a million.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Oh what a family, dear.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
If I may make a suggestion, I don't think you're
approaching this in quite proper fashion.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Is there any other way to deal with a boy
like Ralph? I'm simply going to tell him as directly
as possible that Betty cannot marry him, and that is that.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
But that's the wrong thing to do. That's the way
my father handled it. And look what happened to him.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Your father didn't reason.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
He was just stubborn.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
And what are you being?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I'm being logical.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Well do it your way. If I know Betty, you're
asking for true Hey, Mom, where's.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
The big suitcase?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Which big suitcase?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Betty just told me to come down and ask you
and dad where the big suitcase is.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
What's she doing with a suitcase?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Hey, Tulula, what are you gonna do with a suitcase?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Never mind, just bring it up?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Oh no, she wouldn't, wouldn't pluff.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But tell her we don't know where the suitcase is.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Hey, Betty, all right, I found it.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Where's she going? Mom?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't know, but she's not going anywhere. This is
just a part of the act, Margaret. She's heard you
tell that story about your father.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And she thinks she can work it on us.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
What story, funny thing, dear, My father said almost the
same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I don't know what's going on in this house.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The idea Betty trying to make us think she Elope
if I don't say yes to Ralph?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Where were they elope too?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
With that car of Ralph, they couldn't get to the
city limits.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
There are other cars, you know, Margaret, whose side are
you on? Do you want Betty to marry that goof
all right?
Speaker 7 (17:05):
I didn't say that. I merely suggested that you might
take a little more diplomatic approach.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
A man doesn't raise a daughter just to see her
go prancing off of the first Tom, Dick or Harry
that comes along. I like to know who that Ralph
thinks he is? Brash kid?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Oh me, oh MEI ohma? Where have I heard that song? Before?
I can close my eyes and hear my father?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Margaret, I wish you wouldn't keep bringing your father into this.
There is not the slightest similarity in the two situations.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Jenny, what is it, Kitten?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Can I my next week's allowance? What for Betty wants
to borrow it?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Bebby.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
It's all right, she can get it back from Ralph.
That's what she said anyway, Tom.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Margaret, Kitten, it's a bad policy to lend money. And furthermore,
if she's depending on.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Ralph the bread winner, to pay it back, I can
considered a very poor investment.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Okay, Hey, Betty, why where did Ralph win the bread?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
I don't know what you're talking about. I can't lend
you the money, all right, all right? What did he
do with the bread that he wants?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh that Betty?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
First the suitcase, now the money.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Do you think she would at least have switched the
actor around. She must think we're awfully dumb.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
I just had a rather horrible thought, Dear. I'm quite
sure we never told the children that story about my father.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh you must have where Betty get the idea?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Jim?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
How do you know what's an idea? Maybe they're really
planning to elope if you won't consent.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh no, that's silly, you know, Betty?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Oh no, mother, where's our long ladder?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Ladder? What do you want?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
That for nothing.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
I just want to know where it is. I may
want to use it.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's in the garage, But thank you, father. Now, what
do you suppose is in that girl's mind?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
You know my father wondered the same thing, Margaret. I
just mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
They wouldn't, Elope, of course they wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
They wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Dare do you think they wouldn't?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
It has been done well count founded.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I'm not going to give my consent to that fool Ralph.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Why don't you just explain to him, try to make
friends with him.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I don't want him for a friend. I'll bet you
dollars to donuts. He was the one who put Betty
up to this idea of the ladder in all?
Speaker 7 (19:46):
What makes you think so?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's just a sneaky kind of a thing he would do.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I wouldn't be surprised if he did. You gave the
idea to me that was different. Was that a car
stopping out front?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
No, it was not a.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Car, Ralph, not paramolating collection of cans?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
He calls a car.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Look at him getting out, straightening his tie home over.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Let me look, I always thought he was a nice
looking young man.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Honey, you need glasses.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I'd like to know if these kids are bluffing.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
I wouldn't count on it.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Father, Ralph's here, I know I heard him arrive.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Now, Please don't be obstinate.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Please, but Princess, this is a big step.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I know. Father, I just can't.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Princess.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
We'll go ahead anyway, so you might just as well, Betty.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Now look, Princess.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Oh, here he is.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Father.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
You'll have to make your decision. Hi, Betty, Hello Ralph,
Come on in.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Is your father home?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
He's right here in the dam.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Come on in, hello, Ralph.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Good evening, missus Anderson. How are you, mister Anderson?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Fine? Fine, that's fine.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Well, Ralph and father has some things to talk about.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Shall we go upstairs? Mother, Yes, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Maybe you can help me with the suitcase.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It's nice to see you again, mister Anderson. It's been
quite a while, yes, it has since yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Would you, uh carr to sit down?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
All your family well, oh, yes, sir, they're all fine.
Pretty busy.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, everyone's busy these days, I guess.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, seems like it all right.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
School, Oh busy at school too, especially now that I'm
going into business on the side. Keeps me pretty busy.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Interior decorating. I think Betty said, yes, sir, big.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Future in it.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I think I've been studying about it. Fella has to
have something with the future these days.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I I have a lot of plans, mister Anderson.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Betty and I have talked about it a lot lately.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yes, so I understand.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Well, fellow has to make up his mind what he's
gonna do and then do it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Don't you think.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yes to a certain extent. That is, you can't let
other people discourage you once you make up your mind.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Betty and I were talking about that last night.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Well, it all depends, Ralph. Sometimes parents, well they know
from experience about things.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, but we can't let parents stop us. Well, sometimes
older people, i mean parents are well you know they're
afraid to take a chance with young people.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Well, Ralph, it isn't that exactly.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It, mister Anderson.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I know things will work out all right for us.
We just have to be given a chance, that's all.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
But Ralph, I.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Came over to ask you a big question, mister Anderson.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
I guess there's no use beating around the bush about it.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
No, I guess not.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I've tried to think of all different kinds of ways
to put the question to.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You, and none of them sound very good.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well, uh, why don't you uh uh think about it
for a while.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh no, sir, I'm gonna do it right now. Of course,
I'll have to tell you whether you say.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yes or no.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Mister Anderson, we're going ahead anyway. Now, look here, Ralph,
we've got to we can't let anything stand in the
way now. So so I'm gonna ask you, mister Anderson, Yes,
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will you invest five hundred dollars in my interior decorating business?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Is Is that what you came to ask me? Yes, sir,
I know it's an awful lot, but Ralph, I'll be
delighted to put money into your compet You will.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I thought you were going to.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Ask me if if on.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Guysh this sure is a big relief to me, mister Anderson, a.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Big relief to you. You have no idea how I feel, Betty, Well,
what's the answer.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
How about it?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Father, He's gonna do it.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Oh father, you're a doll a doll.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Five hundred dollars will set up our shop, Betty?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
What do you mean our shop?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, that's what you get for the five hundred Betty's
going to be a partner in the interior decorating business.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Well, from the sound of things, I take it there's
good news tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Margaret, Ralph only wanted five hundred dollars.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
I heard all about it upstairs.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Sure feel better. Wait a minute, Betty, explain something. Why
were you looking for the suitcase and the ladder?
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Well, Ralph and I are going out tomorrow afternoon on
our first decorating job. We need the latter for painting
in the suitcase to carry the wallpaper.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Well go, children, be partners in paint and may God
bless you.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
The Anderson's will be.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Back in just a moment.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
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Speaker 3 (27:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I don't know if Jim Anderson will ever completely recover
from the riggers of the evening, but any rate, he
and Margaret are now moving through the house, locking doors
and turning off lights as they prepare to retire.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
For the night.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Did you get the light in the dining room?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah, everything switched off and locked. Let's go to bed,
as Bud would say.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I'm beat just a minute, dear, what you're looking at?
Speaker 7 (27:48):
There's someone standing on our front doorstep.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Sh Betty and Ralph, they're home early. Don't stand there
and watch them.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Remember when we stood on the front steps. Yeah, we'd
stand there for hours.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I was freezing every minute.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I didn't want to change the subject.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Well, let's go upstairs.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
You go ahead, honey, I'll be up in a second.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Hey, kids, why don't you come in the parlor?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Card us again next week?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
But we'll be back with Father Knows Best, calling.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
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based on characters created by Ed James, written by Paul
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Speaker 2 (29:03):
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to Springfield in another half hour? Is it with the
folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street Back
and enjoy life with the Andersons. Kathy, Bud, Betty, Margaret
and Jim Has the head of this typical American household
again sets out to prove that father knows best. You've
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probably heard that the veteran woodsman can predict what the
weather is going to be just by listening to the
sounds and the forest around him.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, the woodsman may.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Be a smart fellow, but he doesn't have anything on
the head of the Anderson family. Jim Anderson can predict
the weather in the white frame.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
House on Maple Street.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
He can tell in advance whether life is going to
be stormy or clear, just by listening.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
To the sounds come from the various rooms of the house.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
For example, this evening, as Jim settles himself in the
den with the paper, he hears sounds like this coming
from Betty's room upstairs, fair and warmer.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Hi, Dad, you home?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No, but I'm up panning goal on the Klondike. What's
on your mind?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Nothing? I just wondered if I could sit in here with.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You, sure, pull up a chair hiding from somebody?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Women?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
How come we got so many women in our house.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I don't know, Bud, We're just lucky, I guess, lucky.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Hah.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Just what is the feminine contingent doing that you find
so repugnant?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You know what repugnant means?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yeah, that means it drives you nuts? Well, roughly, yes, Oh, Betty,
he's got a big crush on old Ralph again, she's
mooning around like a sick calf.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, I wouldn't let that upset your son. She's at
the romantic age right now, full of dreams.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
She's full of hot air.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
If you ask me, all she talks about is how
simply two too wonderful?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Ralph is Ralph is Ralph? Et? When is she gonna
get over that stuff?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Dad? Oh it won't be long, Bud. She's eighteen now.
She don't begin to act like a human being any
day now.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Gus Rudnick at school's got a sister eighteen and she's
grown up married even Well.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's true girls do get married at eighteen.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Who gets married at eighteen?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, Bud and I were just talking about.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Girls, any girl in particular.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, Bud was mentioning that the sister of some friend
of his was eighteen and that she was married.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
What are you gonna do about Betty?
Speaker 7 (03:48):
What do you mean do about her? Are you gonna
get some guy to marry her? Well, that's not exactly
a problem right now. Why are you so concerned about it?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
All of a sudden, I was just wondering, where are
we gonna find a guy stupid enough?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Mother?
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Do we have a picture frame?
Speaker 7 (04:08):
What kind of a picture frame? Well, Ralph had some.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
New pictures taken. He gave me the best one. Look, Gi,
isn't he the handsomest thing you ever saw? That's a
good picture of Ralph.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He's changed since I last saw him. Looks fairly intelligent.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Trick photography.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Father, Will you do something about this boy? Child?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Don't bother. I'm going outside.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
Father, did I tell you about Ralph?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, I'm sitting here looking at his picture. Is there
more to tell?
Speaker 8 (04:43):
We have plans?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:46):
We talked for simply hours and hours last night about
what the future. Ralph's going into business for himself.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Business.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
He's an interior decorator.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Now, Oh, just like that, he's an interior decorator.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
No, Father, Ralph's been studying art and all that for
years now. He's made up his mind what he wants
to do, and he's doing it well.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Good.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Isn't it customary for a person to well work for
someone else for a while to learn the business until
you're decorating as a rather specialized field. I'd always thought, oh,
an ordinary person might do that, but not Ralph.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
He's simply bursting with ideas. He'll make a big success.
I just know he will. He says, he can't fail
as long as I'm by his side.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What are you going to do? Hold the wallpaper?
Speaker 8 (05:41):
Oh, father, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, I just hope Ralph shows a little more common
sense in this venture than he has shown in the past.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Oh, he'd settled down. He's just a different person now,
you'll see. I wish I could find a frame for
this picture. I want to have it out when he
comes over tonight.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Why don't you look up in the attic. There might
be some picture frames up there.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
Oh, let me use your pen. Father, Ralph wants this
picture of me that you have on your desk. I
want to write something on it for it.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh wait, that's my picture.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You gave it to me.
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Well, I'll give you another one. Now, let's see what
shall I say on it?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How about stolen from Jim Anderson?
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Betty, what's all this sudden flurry of interest in Ralph.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
It's not a sudden.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
Flurry, mother, We've been going together for almost five years.
Let me see now. Oh, I know what I'll say
to the man in my life yours forever?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Oh brother, study.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Dear, why uh didn't you put on it something like
good luck in your interior decorating business?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Father, don't you know anything about love and romance? Besides,
we know we're going to succeed, there's no question about it.
How look the attic to that picture frame.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Mother, what's this we business?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Dear Jim, what do you think about Betty and Ralph?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Oh, it's nothing. I'm sure they're just kids kids.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
How old were we when you asked my father if
we could get married?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
We were a lot older than Betty and Ralph. I
can tell you that.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
I was one year older than Betty and you weren't
much older than Ralph.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Oh, honey, don't be ridiculous. When we were married, we
were grown up. I remember. Oh, certainly we were a
couple of sensible, mature young people. We knew what we
were doing.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
That's not what my father thought.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Your father was a very stubborn man.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Do you remember what he did to night you first
hinted about our getting married.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, threatened to call the police, didn't.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
He Not quite. He just ordered you out of the house.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
He was a stubborn man.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
I found a frame. How does Ralph look now?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It doesn't look an He's smarter than he ever did.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Father.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Well, he doesn't.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
That's for me, you know, Well, he just is.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
There are other people in this house who get phone calls.
You know, Hello, Yeah, she's here.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
I told you it was for me. I'll take it
in the breakfast.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Room, Ralph. Bet he'll be on in a minute.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I swear we need two telephone lines into this house.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
One for Betty and Ralph and one for the common people.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Do you remember what my father used to say when
you'd phoned my house.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I was never at your house when I phoned you, he.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Used to yell out, Margaret, it's old nuisance again.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know why your father disliked me.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
I don't think he disliked you, dear, He just didn't
trust you.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think of the way we had to plot and
scheme and connive to make him give his consent to
our marriage. So wonder we went through with it.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
You were a stubborn man, dear.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, after he ordered me out of the house that night,
we knew he'd never say yes. If I came right
out bluntly and ask him if I could marry you.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
That's when you really put your mind to work.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
We really ganged up on the old boy, didn't we.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
As I recall, it was your idea to make him
think we were going to a lope if he didn't
give his consent.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, I guess that wasn't my idea.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
I remember all the trouble I went to finding a
long ladder in our garage and then.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Very obviously hiding it in the bushes outside your window,
making sure that your father saw you do it.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
He couldn't figure out at first what we were up to.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I think he first got the idea we were going
to a lope when you made such a big point
of looking for a suitcase.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
Yes, yes, that did it. Then I started gathering my
clothes together and trying to scrape up some money.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, knowing my financial situation at the time, this must
have convinced him you were going to marry me.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Oh, how lucky can a girl be? It's just how lucky?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
What do you mean?
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Ralph? There is undoubtedly the most wonderful, the most brilliant,
the most thoughtful, the kindest, cleverest, most adorable man in
the world.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Outside of that there's very little to recommend him.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Oh, he has everything to recommend him, positively everything. He's
going to be a great man someday, Father, you'll see.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I doubt if I'll be around that long now, Dear well,
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
A little about people. I've lived a number of years.
It's part of my business to be able to judge people.
And take my word for it.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Ralph's chances of being a great man are about the
same as those of a Shetland pony running into Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Father, how can you say that you don't know anything
about ral I know there.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Much about him. He'll be the luckiest man in the
world if he manages to reach the position of being
a likable failure.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Oh, Jim, that's not fair.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Not fair.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I suppose it's fair for that calf eyed would be
Interior Decks creator to hang around Betty year in and
year out hypnotizer with that slick talk of his hypnotize, Father,
you must be out of your mind.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
Ralph is a simple, honest, straightforward young man.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Simple, yes, honest, I'm not at all sure. Look at
that car he drives. No civilized person would be called
dead in that contraption.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Dear, the fact that he drives an old model car
doesn't reflect on his honesty.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
At least, he's not squandering his money on a car he.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Can't afford what money.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
To my knowledge, he has never had a nickel of
his own. That car was probably given to.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Him by one of his enemies, of which I'm sure
he has many.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Oh, father, you're you're the most Oh really, dear, why
did you do that?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Why did I do what?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Betty's very fond of Ralph, and he's a nice bull.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I don't trust him, Margaret, I never have and I
never will.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
But he's been going with him for years. You've never
made any point of it before.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, she's never seemed quite so interested in him before.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The trouble with you, honey, is that you're just like Betty.
You have no judgment whatsoever about people. You'd put your
faith in any bum that comes along.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
I put my faith in you.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
That was entirely different.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Well, you simply have to face it, Dear. Sooner or later,
some young man is going to come into our living
room and ask you if he can marry Betty.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I know, but that's a long way off. I don't
mind if it's anybody but Ralph.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Father.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yes, Princess, are you going to be home this evening?
I expect to be.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Why Ralph is coming over?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
What for?
Speaker 8 (12:54):
He wants to ask you a very important question?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, I'm not interested in it.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Oh my gosh, Act two of Father Knows Best.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
In just a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
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Speaker 2 (13:55):
At least there's no joy for the head of the
Anderson family.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Tonight, he faces the prospect of a meeting with Betty's boyfriend, Ralph,
who is coming over to ask Jim a very important question.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
How does Jim feel.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
About Ralph just about the way Margaret's father felt about
him in their courting days. In Jim's own words, his
attitude toward Ralph is something like this, Ralph is a bum.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Now, Jimmy's nothing of the kind.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Margaret.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You're not in favor of letting Betty. I mean she's
too young.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
No, No, I'm not in favor of it, Dear. I
think they should wait a Ralph.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Here's the paper.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Father, Oh, thank you, princess.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
If you'll come in the living room and lie out
on the couch, I'll rub your head.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Now. Look, you're not going to soften me up with
that head rubbing routine.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
Soften you up for what you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Know very well what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You're not going to wheedle me into saying yes to Ralph,
no matter what you do.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Oh, father, please at least listen to him. Be fair
about it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh I will, I'll be absolutely fair. But there's only
one answer.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
We'll talk to him.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The answer to Ralph is going to be no.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
N Oh, well, you don't even know what he's going
to ask you.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Oh, yes, I do.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
How did you find out?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Oh? It doesn't exactly take a genius to discover these things.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Well, maybe you'll change your mind after he talks to you.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Believe me, Princess, there is not one chance in a million.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Oh what a family, dear.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
If I may make a suggestion, I don't think you're
approaching this in quite proper fashion.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Is there any other way to deal with a boy
like Ralph? I'm simply going to tell him as directly
as possible that Betty cannot marry him, and that is that.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
But that's the wrong thing to do. That's the way
my father handled it. And look what happened to him.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Your father didn't reason.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
He was just stubborn.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
And what are you being?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I'm being logical.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Well do it your way. If I know Betty, you're
asking for true Hey, Mom, where's.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
The big suitcase?
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Which big suitcase?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Betty just told me to come down and ask you
and dad where the big suitcase is.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
What's she doing with a suitcase?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Hey, Tulula, what are you gonna do with a suitcase?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Never mind, just bring it up?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Oh no, she wouldn't, wouldn't pluff.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
But tell her we don't know where the suitcase is.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Hey, Betty, all right, I found it.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Where's she going? Mom?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't know, but she's not going anywhere. This is
just a part of the act, Margaret. She's heard you
tell that story about your father.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And she thinks she can work it on us.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
What story, funny thing, dear, My father said almost the
same thing.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I don't know what's going on in this house.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The idea Betty trying to make us think she Elope
if I don't say yes to Ralph?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Where were they elope too?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
With that car of Ralph, they couldn't get to the
city limits.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
There are other cars, you know, Margaret, whose side are
you on? Do you want Betty to marry that goof
all right?
Speaker 7 (17:05):
I didn't say that. I merely suggested that you might
take a little more diplomatic approach.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
A man doesn't raise a daughter just to see her
go prancing off of the first Tom, Dick or Harry
that comes along. I like to know who that Ralph
thinks he is? Brash kid?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Oh me, oh MEI ohma? Where have I heard that song? Before?
I can close my eyes and hear my father?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Margaret, I wish you wouldn't keep bringing your father into this.
There is not the slightest similarity in the two situations.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Jenny, what is it, Kitten?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Can I my next week's allowance? What for Betty wants
to borrow it?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Bebby.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
It's all right, she can get it back from Ralph.
That's what she said anyway, Tom.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Margaret, Kitten, it's a bad policy to lend money. And furthermore,
if she's depending on.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Ralph the bread winner, to pay it back, I can
considered a very poor investment.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
Okay, Hey, Betty, why where did Ralph win the bread?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
I don't know what you're talking about. I can't lend
you the money, all right, all right? What did he
do with the bread that he wants?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Oh that Betty?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
First the suitcase, now the money.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Do you think she would at least have switched the
actor around. She must think we're awfully dumb.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
I just had a rather horrible thought, Dear. I'm quite
sure we never told the children that story about my father.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh you must have where Betty get the idea?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Jim?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
How do you know what's an idea? Maybe they're really
planning to elope if you won't consent.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh no, that's silly, you know, Betty?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Oh no, mother, where's our long ladder?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Ladder? What do you want?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
That for nothing.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
I just want to know where it is. I may
want to use it.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
It's in the garage, But thank you, father. Now, what
do you suppose is in that girl's mind?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
You know my father wondered the same thing, Margaret. I
just mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
They wouldn't, Elope, of course they wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
They wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Dare do you think they wouldn't?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
It has been done well count founded.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I'm not going to give my consent to that fool Ralph.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Why don't you just explain to him, try to make
friends with him.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I don't want him for a friend. I'll bet you
dollars to donuts. He was the one who put Betty
up to this idea of the ladder in all?
Speaker 7 (19:46):
What makes you think so?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's just a sneaky kind of a thing he would do.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I wouldn't be surprised if he did. You gave the
idea to me that was different. Was that a car
stopping out front?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
No, it was not a.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Car, Ralph, not paramolating collection of cans?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
He calls a car.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Look at him getting out, straightening his tie home over.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Let me look, I always thought he was a nice
looking young man.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Honey, you need glasses.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I'd like to know if these kids are bluffing.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
I wouldn't count on it.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Father, Ralph's here, I know I heard him arrive.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Now, Please don't be obstinate.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Please, but Princess, this is a big step.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I know. Father, I just can't.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Princess.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
We'll go ahead anyway, so you might just as well, Betty.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Now look, Princess.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Oh, here he is.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Father.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
You'll have to make your decision. Hi, Betty, Hello Ralph,
Come on in.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Is your father home?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
He's right here in the dam.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Come on in, hello, Ralph.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Good evening, missus Anderson. How are you, mister Anderson?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Fine? Fine, that's fine.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Well, Ralph and father has some things to talk about.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Shall we go upstairs? Mother, Yes, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Maybe you can help me with the suitcase.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
It's nice to see you again, mister Anderson. It's been
quite a while, yes, it has since yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Would you, uh carr to sit down?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
All your family well, oh, yes, sir, they're all fine.
Pretty busy.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, everyone's busy these days, I guess.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah, seems like it all right.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
School, Oh busy at school too, especially now that I'm
going into business on the side. Keeps me pretty busy.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Interior decorating. I think Betty said, yes, sir, big.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Future in it.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I think I've been studying about it. Fella has to
have something with the future these days.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I I have a lot of plans, mister Anderson.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Betty and I have talked about it a lot lately.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yes, so I understand.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Well, fellow has to make up his mind what he's
gonna do and then do it.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Don't you think.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yes to a certain extent. That is, you can't let
other people discourage you once you make up your mind.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Betty and I were talking about that last night.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Well, it all depends, Ralph. Sometimes parents, well they know
from experience about things.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, but we can't let parents stop us. Well, sometimes
older people, i mean parents are well you know they're
afraid to take a chance with young people.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Well, Ralph, it isn't that exactly.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It, mister Anderson.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I know things will work out all right for us.
We just have to be given a chance, that's all.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
But Ralph, I.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Came over to ask you a big question, mister Anderson.
Speaker 10 (23:48):
I guess there's no use beating around the bush about it.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
No, I guess not.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I've tried to think of all different kinds of ways
to put the question to.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
You, and none of them sound very good.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Well, uh, why don't you uh uh think about it
for a while.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh no, sir, I'm gonna do it right now. Of course,
I'll have to tell you whether you say.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yes or no.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Mister Anderson, we're going ahead anyway. Now, look here, Ralph,
we've got to we can't let anything stand in the
way now. So so I'm gonna ask you, mister Anderson, Yes,
(24:48):
will you invest five hundred dollars in my interior decorating business?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Is Is that what you came to ask me? Yes, sir,
I know it's an awful lot, but Ralph, I'll be
delighted to put money into your compet You will.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I thought you were going to.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Ask me if if on.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Guysh this sure is a big relief to me, mister Anderson, a.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Big relief to you. You have no idea how I feel, Betty, Well,
what's the answer.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
How about it?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Father, He's gonna do it.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Oh father, you're a doll a doll.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Five hundred dollars will set up our shop, Betty?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
What do you mean our shop?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Well, that's what you get for the five hundred Betty's
going to be a partner in the interior decorating business.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Well, from the sound of things, I take it there's
good news tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Margaret, Ralph only wanted five hundred dollars.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
I heard all about it upstairs.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Sure feel better. Wait a minute, Betty, explain something. Why
were you looking for the suitcase and the ladder?
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Well, Ralph and I are going out tomorrow afternoon on
our first decorating job. We need the latter for painting
in the suitcase to carry the wallpaper.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Well go, children, be partners in paint and may God
bless you.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
The Anderson's will be.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Back in just a moment.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
Hi, friends, is Gordon McRae or Monday Evening Railroad our host.
Some of Ireland's greatest songs in a musical romance based
on the life of the Emerald Isle's greatest songwriter will
be heard on next Monday show Train. It's Lawrence and
Lee's Minster Boy, and the central character is Tom Moore,
who wrote such wonderful ballads as Believe Me if all
those endearing young charms, the heart that once through Tara's halls,
(26:57):
and the last rows of Summer lovely lou Seel Norman,
our special guest, will portray the devoted Irish Colleen who
inspired Moore's greatest works. So be sure to tune in
the Railroad Hour on this NBC station next Monday evening
for another sparkling musical romance.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I don't know if Jim Anderson will ever completely recover
from the riggers of the evening, but any rate, he
and Margaret are now moving through the house, locking doors
and turning off lights as they prepare to retire.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
For the night.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Did you get the light in the dining room?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah, everything switched off and locked. Let's go to bed,
as Bud would say.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I'm beat just a minute, dear, what you're looking at?
Speaker 7 (27:48):
There's someone standing on our front doorstep.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Sh Betty and Ralph, they're home early. Don't stand there
and watch them.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Remember when we stood on the front steps. Yeah, we'd
stand there for hours.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I was freezing every minute.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
Why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I didn't want to change the subject.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Well, let's go upstairs.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
You go ahead, honey, I'll be up in a second.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Hey, kids, why don't you come in the parlor?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
Card us again next week?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
But we'll be back with Father Knows Best, calling.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Robert Young as Jim Anderson. Father Knows Best is an
NBC Radio Network production in cooperation with Cavalier Enterprises. In
our cast were Rhoda Williams as Betty, Jeene Vanderpile, Ted Donaldson,
Helen Strom, and Gil Stratton Jr. Father Knows Best is
based on characters created by Ed James, written by Paul
West and Roswell Rogers, directed by Arthur Jacobson, and transcribed
(29:02):
in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
This is Bill Foreman speaking.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Tonight played Truther or Consequences with Ralph Edwards on the
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