August 17, 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):
A tune now for Robert Young starring in Father Knows Best,
which follows this listening reminder. Tomorrow evening, there's wonderful comedy
entertainment on two great shows. When you set your radio
dial to this same NBC station, listen first to the
Bob Hope Show with guests David Niven and the musical
stylings of Miss Margaret Whiting and Les Brown's Band of Brenawan.
(00:21):
Then stay tuned for the Phil Harris Alice Fay Show,
featuring thirty fun packed minutes of mirth and music. It's
an hour of truly enjoyable radio entertainment, so be sure
to hear it all and remember. Tomorrow evening, on many
of these same stations, listen to a special program These
Are Your Friends Now. It's Father Knows Best on NBC.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Now listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young
as Father.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Welcome to Springfield.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
In another half hour, is it with the folks in
the White Frame House on a street, Sit back and
enjoy life with the Anderson, Kathy, Bud, Betty, Margaret and
Jim Has the head of this typical American household again
sets out to prove that father knows bets.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It's Saturday morning in Springfield. What's more, it's a beautiful, warm,
spring morning, the kind that makes a man feel like
getting outdoors and working in the sword. As a matter
of fact, as Jim Anderson comes down to breakfast in
his robe and slippers, those are pretty much the thoughts
he expresses like this, Oh man, what a morning. Look
at that sky out there, honey, ever see such a
(02:00):
perfect blue? Makes you want to get outside?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Make't you want to get your hands into.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
The good soil, get close to nature, to the grass
and the flowers and the berries.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Well, you're pretty close to them right now. You're sitting
on Kathy's toast and strawberry jam.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh, for gosh sakes, Oh look at that. Why does
that kid have to leave everything on chairs?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well?
Speaker 6 (02:24):
I tried to warn you, but you were so wrapped
up in nature.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We let jelly wash off my robe.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
You can try. It should work, as long as it's
not grease.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Sometimes I suspect that girl spreads jelly on toast just
for me to sit on.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
She rarely ever eats it. Uh. Should I use hot water? No?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Just warm?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
The same?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Mom?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Can I go over there. Hey, what's that doorn? Washing clothes?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
No, he just got a little too close to nature.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
I'm not doing so hot on this, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Why don't you use the washing machine? Dead, that's what
we got it for.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Look, Bud, I've got.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Some things you can wash out as long as you're
add it. Sweatshirts, blue cheat.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
But I'm not doing the washing.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You're not. No, Well, you better be careful then you're
getting your robe all with?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
All right, leave him alone?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Bud? Mom, can I go over to Joe's house?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Well, I don't know what are you gonna do?
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Just mess around? Seems like a good day for just
messing around.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Well, I think maybe there's a little messing around you
could do here.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yes, Bud, how would you like to come outside with
me this morning? We'll start getting things in shape?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
What things, Bud?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Don't eat that breakfast. I just put it on the
table for your father. You've already eaten.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I have.
Speaker 9 (03:50):
Jim.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I'll finish that robe. You sit down and eat your
breakfast before your son beats you to it.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, Like, what things, dad? Huh?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
What things are we gonna get in shape?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You know, maybe paint the fence, repair it if it
needs it, prune the roses, get the ground ready for
a garden.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
It's a wonderful day for it. Pass the salt, would
you please?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Could we start digging a swimming pool?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Swimming pool?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
They don't cost so much, dad.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh no, of course not. What's a few thousand dollars?
Speaker 10 (04:22):
You can put one in for seventy nine dollars and
sixty two cents.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Pass the syrup, please, honest.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Dad, I don't doubt it at all. Claude Messner probably
makes them out of used plastic.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
No, this family put one in for just seventy nine dollars.
I read about it in that Home and House magazine.
They used the basement of a house that was blown
away by a tornado, and they picked up a lot
of scrap iron at the junkyard for reinforcing, and.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Their friends poured the cement.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I see seventy nine dollars.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, Well, while we're waiting for a tornado to come along,
we'd better get to work on the fence.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And garden first.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
After that, could we start digging the pool?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Who knows?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh boy, come on, let's get started.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Are you fellows really serious about wanting to work.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I've never felt more like it.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
There's something about a spring day like this that really
gives you the old zip. Yes, sir, does a man
good to get out and work with his hands.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Well that's fine because I'm starting spring house cleaning today
and only a lot of furniture moved and a lot
of scrubbing and waxing done. So how about it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Pass a syrup.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
But maybe you didn't hear what I said. I'm starting spring.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I heard what you said. I was just thinking.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Uh, actually, it would be more to your advantage if
we got out and did the outside work, you know,
do all that heavy stuff, you.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Know, the work that's too heavy for you and the
girls to do.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
That's right. I don't like that scrubbing either.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
No, it's not that bad.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It's just that I actually have so little time to
work around home that I ought to try to channel
my efforts where it will do the most good.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But you understand, honey.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
After all these years, I should.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Well it's not that I don't want to help you
in the house, honey, No, of course not. It's just that, well,
I just don't want you to have to get out
and do that backbreaking work.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
I see, after all, that's my job, Mommy.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
How big a pool were gonna dig?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Dad?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
We're not gonna start on that right away, bud.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Mommy, where's my toasting jelly?
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Your father sat on it?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
He did, well. I didn't mean to do it, Yes
you did, No, I didn't.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Every time I leave my toast and jelly on a chair,
you always sit on it.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Well, now, did you ever stop to think that it's
your fault for leaving them on chairs? It's ruined half
my clothes costs a lot of money to get them clean,
and that strawberry jelly is the worst stuff in the
world to get out.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So what are you gonna do in the future? Now?
Speaker 9 (07:03):
You some other kind of jelly?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Oom me?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Come on, Bud, we'd better get going.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Okay, what a ten flock pool will be too long?
Speaker 9 (07:17):
Where are they going, mommy?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Out to break their backs tilling the soil?
Speaker 9 (07:23):
What?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Never mind?
Speaker 9 (07:25):
What other kind of jelly have we got?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Mommy?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
One kind is as bad as another. Might as well
stick to strawberry.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
But Daddy doesn't like to sit on that kind anymore.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
You'll have to come and help me move the buffet.
I can't budget.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Okay, I'll be there in a minute, as soon as
I carry the table.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Why can't father do some of this house cleaning work.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
He's home today, yes, but he's going out and work
on the garden. Well, let's get the buffet move.
Speaker 9 (07:57):
It's not fair, that's what I think.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Well, there's nothing to do about it, Kathy. When you
get through eating, maybe you can start washing the dining
room windows.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I'm going outside and help Daddy help him do what.
I don't know, but he needs me.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Oh great, Well let's go in the dining room and
move the buffet.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
This whole thing is unfair. Mother.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Where do you want it moved?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Well, I've got the floor clean this far, so we
can move it right over there.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Okay ready, h oh, Jeeves is heavy, isn't it? Come on?
Come on once more. I'm busy.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Bud.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Did you find me a pencil?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Find one yourself?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I need it right away? Or that is, Dad needs it.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
What's he gonna do stade up the garden with a pencil?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
No, he needs it to ride.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
Are you sure you boys aren't overworking yourselves?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
None yet?
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Well you want to be awfully careful?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Oh could you help.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Us move this?
Speaker 11 (09:01):
Bud?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'm helping dad.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
What's he doing sitting in the den? That's about what
I figured.
Speaker 10 (09:20):
Wait, I think I know where there's a pencil right
in the desk, graw on the den.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
Want us to come and open the drawer for you?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
No, you won't need to. We can handle it.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Mother's something's got to be done about.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
There, Dad, look in the desk, goraw, I think there's
a pencil in there.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I already found it.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Oh good, let's see what you've got written down so far.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh I've just gotten started, is all.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Let's see work schedule. Hey, that looks keen.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Well, if you want to get something done, the only
thing to do is organize your work.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, then you know what you're doing and you can
really accomplish something.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Yeah. What don't we put down next dig pool?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
No, no, we better start on the fence. I believe
a couple of good coats of paint will protect the
wood from the spring rains.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Okay, put that down and then put down big pool.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Well, I think we better put down repair fans first.
You gotta do that before we can paint it.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Remember this, son, if you're going to do a thing,
do it right. Don't do a superficial job. Start from
the ground and work up.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
Yeah, except for swimming pools, it's best to start from
the ground and work down.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Well, we're not digging any pools right now. I suppose
what we ought to do is go out and check
the fence.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Estimate just how much repairing it needs.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Dad, maybe we'd better take a little rest.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, not yet, Bud, We've hardly gotten started.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
We don't want to get over exhausted.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Well, let's see now, repair fence.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yes, we can see what it needs as we go along.
Number two. Paint fence.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Number three, Well, as long as berry bushes are next
to the fence, i'd as well cut those back next.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
You see, this is how good planning can save you
a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yeah, Oh, getting sleepy.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Number four, Well we'll make that. Prepare flower bed number five. Say,
you know what would be a great idea. Let's build
a little flower box for your mother. Put it right
outside the kitchen window so she can look at it
while she's doing dishes.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
She'll love that.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
Margaret, That pool is getting awful far down on the list.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Margaret, would you come in the den for a minute,
I'm cleaning.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
How well, this will just take a second, got a
surprise for you.
Speaker 12 (11:36):
I'll bet I always get a kick out of.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
All the fuss women make out of house cleaning.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Yeah, well, here I am.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
What's a big surprise? I hope this is worth climbing
down off a step ladder.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
Four.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
You love it, honey?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
How would you like to have a nice little flower
box outside your kitchen window.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
So you can see while you're washing dishes all day?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
What a beautiful sentimental thought.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I thought you'd like it, honey.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Where you're going back up the ladder, Dad?
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Yeah, Mom didn't seem awful enthusiastic about that.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Well, she's pretty wrapped up in her house cleaning right now.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Instead of building her a little window box, we'll build
her a big one.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Come on, let's go measure the kitchen window and then
we'll drop some plans for it. Okay, we can save
ourselves a lot of time and headaches by accurate planning.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
She look at mom balance on that ladder. She's pretty good.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
We got to find a tape measure someplace.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Hey, Mom, could you find us a tape measure?
Speaker 9 (12:46):
What thought Anderson? You ought to be ashamed of yourself?
What did I do now asking your mother to climb
down just to go find you a tape measure? What
do you think she is a performing monkey?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I don't want it to perform. We just got I'll
measure something for a work?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
What work?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
I think you'll find one of my sewing basket, bud, Thanks,
look in the sewing basket dad.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Mother, I'm not going to put up with this any longer.
You're not no, and you're not either.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Well, what are we going to do?
Speaker 9 (13:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
I just wish there was some way to trap them
into helping us.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Well, there isn't anyway, so we might as well go
ahead and get it done and stop wasting time feeling
sorry for ourselves.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Hello.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
Who oh, yes, mister Bentley. Yes, he's home. Do you
want to talk to him? Just a minute and I'll
call him. Who is it? It's mister Bentley from the
home office in Cleveland. He's in town and he wants
father to come down and see him at the hotel.
Speaker 13 (13:54):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I didn't know better. I'd think he planned this himself.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Wait a minute, mother, I've got it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
I've got it now, Just a minute, Betty, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Hello? Mister Bentley, Betty A father's all tied up out
in the backyard right now, but he wonders if maybe
you'd like to come out to the house instead. No, beddy, no,
he thought it might be more comfortable here. Oh no, oh, well.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
That'll be wonderful mister Bentley, goodbye, good Heavens child.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
He can't come here.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
The house is a mess, I know it, and father
would die if mister Bentley saw it like this, So
now he'll have to help clean it up.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Is that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
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Speaker 2 (15:36):
An underhanded plot has been hatched to induce Jim Anderson
and Bud along with him, to lend a helping hand
to the spring cleaning festivities. However, Jim doesn't know this
yet as he and Bud blithely measure the kitchen window
for its future flower box like.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
This, thirty four and a half inches, thirty four and
a half inches, check.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Thirty four and a half check.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
You keep trim well.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I want to help too.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
This is men's work. I'll get lost.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Oh turn blue, twenty nine and a quarter, twenty nine
and a quarter check, twenty nine quarters check and tell
her to cut it out.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Kathy, cut it out, father.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
I believe we have all our measurements.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
How I can just climb down out of here without
breaking the forces?
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Father, I have news for you. I have news for
you too, Daddy. You're kneeling on my jelly sandwich.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
For Peat's sakes, Kathy, why don't you eat these things
instead of leaving them lying around?
Speaker 9 (16:45):
How can I you're always sitting on them. Father, mister Bentley.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Just called Bentley in Cleveland. Why didn't you call me?
It was probably important.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Well, don't get excited. He's not in Cleveland now. He's
in town, in town at the hotel. But you don't
have to go down there. He's coming out here.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Out here, that's right.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Whatever gave him an idea like that.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
I don't know, probably thought it would be more comfortable.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I wish you'd let me talk to him, Margaret.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
He certainly picked a fine time to come out, didn't
He house all torn up than everything, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Don't shut dear, I'm coming, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Bentley's here from the home office and he's coming out
here to the house this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah, I heard that.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, what are we going to do? The rugs are
all torn up, the drapereeze are down.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I don't think you can get the place back in
shape by then, that's right, father.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
We can't.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well, in that case, there's only.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
One thing to do, that's right, Father, keep him outside.
He'd probably better sit outside on a wonderful day like
this anyway. But father, in fact, he's sort of an
outdoors guy.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Jim, you can't just have him sit on the ground
or the porch steps.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, that's right. I'll tell you what we'll have to do.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
We'll all have to pitch in and get the lawn
furniture down from the rafters and the garage. Oh no,
and then you make up a bunch of sandwiches and
some lemonade and serve it to us out in the
backyard or maybe iced tea would be better.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Dead put about these measurements. Then the thing we're gonna
build and we'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Put the measurements in the den so they won't get lost.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Okay, wait a minute, Jim, where are you going.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I've gotta go up and put on something a little
more presentable.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And i'd better shave too. Oh dear, say that step ladder.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Will have to go out to the garage so you
can start getting the lawn furniture down.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
We won't need it. We'll just swing by our tails howne.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
You do that, Mommy, For a couple of monkeys like us,
it won't be hard at all. Mother, don't look at
me that way.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I'm sorry you and your big ideas.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
I was only trying to help.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Now we not only have the house to clean, we
have to go out and move lawn furniture too.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Well, Mother, I was only and make a few thousand sandwiches.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Are we gonna have a picnic?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Mommy?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
This is no picnic, believe me. I've just got to
sit down a minute.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
My.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
This feels good, Mommy.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Yes, Angel, you're sitting on my jelly sandwich. What Oh,
for heaven's sake, mother, do you think these are enough
sandwiches for those hard working slaves out there?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
It should be.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
I wish we had more ice for the tea though.
We ought to put in a little ground glass.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Just look at Father and mister Bentley lolling back in
those deck chairs like a couple of retired millionaires. Oh
this is a man's world, all right.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Well, I guess they do. You have some business to discuss.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
I'll bet probably both worry sick over who's going to
win the Kentucky Derby this year?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Where's that other tray, Betty, the silver one?
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Or I don't know what gets me is why Butt
and Kathy think they have to loll around out there too.
They haven't got any business to discuss.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Well, I haven't had any time to do anything about it.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Oh it burns me up, man, Well, don't cry about it.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
You know whose fault it is. If mister Bentley's here,
I know it. How do I look all right? To
go out there? I dressed in about a half a minute.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Yeah, you look all right.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I don't know when we're ever going to get this
house straightened up again, let alone finish cleaning it.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Well, maybe mister Bentley will leave pretty soon.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Well, I don't know what we'll have for supper tonight.
There's not a thing in the house.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
I'm not hungry anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I have to open a can of beans or something. Well,
come on, let's go out and serve the millionaire playboys.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
Okay, let's go.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Can you get the door?
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
And try and keep Budding Kathy from beating mister Bentley
to all the sandwiches.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Kathy's already got a sandwich.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Oh, if it's.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Jelly, we're in trouble.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Oh boy, look at that, Bud sit up like a
fox spotting.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
A wounded rabbit.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Just stay where you.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Are, Bud.
Speaker 13 (21:23):
Well, Well what have we here?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
How are you missus Anderson?
Speaker 13 (21:28):
Good to see you again.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Don't get up, mister Bentley. It's good to see you
again too.
Speaker 13 (21:32):
Ah, you look lovely, so fresh and rested.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
Ugh, thank you, Bud. Wait till you're served.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
If Fred, this.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Is my other daughter, Betty. I don't know whether you
remember her or not.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, it's been a few years now, the Kansas City Convention.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I believe that's right.
Speaker 13 (21:54):
You're certainly getting to be a very pretty young lady.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
I wish I were about thirty years younger.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Would you care for some lemon in your tea, mister Bentley.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Just a touch, thank you.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
I don't want any tea. Nobody asks you.
Speaker 13 (22:13):
Ah, this is fun.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I was just telling Jim what a nice, friendly backyard
you have.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
I like this idea of outdoor living.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's so American. Yeah, Jim tells me he spends quite
a bit of time out here.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well, it's good for a man to get his hands
in the soil. A little manual labor can be real relaxing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, I can see you people know how to live.
You relax and enjoy what you've got. No fuss, no
hustle and bustle, take it easy.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That's the ticket right there.
Speaker 13 (22:47):
You're so right, Fred, I guess that's what keeps you
looking so young, missus Anderson.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Oh, you have no idea what it does for me.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Hey, whre's my jelly sandwich?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Oh, don't anyone get up. Just take one of those
on the plate, kitten.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Well, okay, I'll have another one too, Bud, Please thank you, Yes, sir,
I admire the way you people live so different from
my home.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Everything's all was at such a high pitch. I like
a comfortable place to live in.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Well, that's the way we feel too.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, I like a place that looks like it's lived in.
You ort to see our place, well, i'd love to.
I know it's got just the kind of an atmosphere
I like. I want to see it before I go.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Well, it's really such a nice day outside.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
It's a shame to waste it inside.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yes, we shouldn't lose a second of this weather.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I'll have another sandwich, please, Bud.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
What are you doing swallowing them home?
Speaker 14 (24:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I don't blame him. They're certainly good.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I can tell you've got a wonderful cook in your
family gym.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
She's the best, the very best.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, you want to try one of her meals?
Speaker 13 (24:14):
Well, i'd love.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
To Oh no, no, I'm no good at all.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
It's not just like my wife.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I tell you, there's nothing I like better than a
good home cooked meal.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Well, really, I'm on the road.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
A good deal, and I.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Tell you I got to that point where I can
hardly stand to go in one more restaurant.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Why don't she eat here?
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Well, by George, I'd love to. You couldn't have said
anything that would make me happier.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Well, we'd love to have you, mister Bentley.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Fred I might as well tell you the awful truth, Jim,
my wife's in the middle of spring cleaning and the
house is a complete mess.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
It is.
Speaker 13 (25:03):
That's exactly what my wife is doing.
Speaker 12 (25:06):
That's why I made this trip to get away from it.
Maybe we could go out and eat.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
No, no, you don't, Jim.
Speaker 13 (25:20):
Nobody's going to talk me out of this.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But I'll make you a proposition, Missus Anderson, Jim bud
and I will pitch in and finish the house cleaning
if you and Betty will cook up the best meal
you've ever cooked.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You need not look.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
With the years of training Missus Bentley has given me,
I'm an expert at spring cleaning.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Mister Bentley, you're a doll.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Come on, Jim that I get to work. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Have he got some old fishing pants or something we
could put on?
Speaker 10 (25:56):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, I guess, so come with me.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
Hey, there's my jelly sandwich.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Your father's going to change his trousers anyway.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
Come on, Bob, okay, soon as I get another sandwich.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
Betty, Yes, Mother.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
You and your big ideas.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
The Anderson's will return in just a moment.
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Speaker 3 (27:19):
Well, a white frame.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
House on Maple Street is all stick and span again.
Dinner's over, and their guest and leading house cleaner, mister
Bentley has gone back.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
To his hotel.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Jim and Market are in the den relaxing like this.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Well, I must say this was quite a day. Yeah,
the house looks surprisingly good. Thank you, isn't mister Bentley wonderful?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
He's all right, But of course, Bud and I never
got that window box built for you.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Well, that's all right. I'll try to bear up somehow.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Well maybe next weekend.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Uh huh oh, say the Phillips wanted us to drop
over this evening for a little.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Bridge this evening. Oh gosh, I couldn't make it.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
I'm too tired.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Tired.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, I don't understand it either. Never did get outside
and do any heavy work. Only did was housework. I
just don't understand it.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
No, and neither will any other man.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Good night, dear, good night, Margaret.
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Join us again next week, but we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
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Speaker 3 (00:56):
Welcome to Springfield.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
In another half hour, is it with the folks in
the White Frame House on a street, Sit back and
enjoy life with the Anderson, Kathy, Bud, Betty, Margaret and
Jim Has the head of this typical American household again
sets out to prove that father knows bets.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It's Saturday morning in Springfield. What's more, it's a beautiful, warm,
spring morning, the kind that makes a man feel like
getting outdoors and working in the sword. As a matter
of fact, as Jim Anderson comes down to breakfast in
his robe and slippers, those are pretty much the thoughts
he expresses like this, Oh man, what a morning. Look
at that sky out there, honey, ever see such a
(02:00):
perfect blue? Makes you want to get outside?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Make't you want to get your hands into.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
The good soil, get close to nature, to the grass
and the flowers and the berries.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Well, you're pretty close to them right now. You're sitting
on Kathy's toast and strawberry jam.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Oh, for gosh sakes, Oh look at that. Why does
that kid have to leave everything on chairs?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well?
Speaker 6 (02:24):
I tried to warn you, but you were so wrapped
up in nature.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
We let jelly wash off my robe.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
You can try. It should work, as long as it's
not grease.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Sometimes I suspect that girl spreads jelly on toast just
for me to sit on.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
She rarely ever eats it. Uh. Should I use hot water? No?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Just warm?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
The same?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Mom?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Can I go over there. Hey, what's that doorn? Washing clothes?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
No, he just got a little too close to nature.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
I'm not doing so hot on this, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Why don't you use the washing machine? Dead, that's what
we got it for.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Look, Bud, I've got.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Some things you can wash out as long as you're
add it. Sweatshirts, blue cheat.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
But I'm not doing the washing.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You're not. No, Well, you better be careful then you're
getting your robe all with?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
All right, leave him alone?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Bud? Mom, can I go over to Joe's house?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Well, I don't know what are you gonna do?
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Just mess around? Seems like a good day for just
messing around.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Well, I think maybe there's a little messing around you
could do here.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yes, Bud, how would you like to come outside with
me this morning? We'll start getting things in shape?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
What things, Bud?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Don't eat that breakfast. I just put it on the
table for your father. You've already eaten.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I have.
Speaker 9 (03:50):
Jim.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I'll finish that robe. You sit down and eat your
breakfast before your son beats you to it.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, Like, what things, dad? Huh?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
What things are we gonna get in shape?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You know, maybe paint the fence, repair it if it
needs it, prune the roses, get the ground ready for
a garden.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
It's a wonderful day for it. Pass the salt, would
you please?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Could we start digging a swimming pool?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Swimming pool?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
They don't cost so much, dad.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh no, of course not. What's a few thousand dollars?
Speaker 10 (04:22):
You can put one in for seventy nine dollars and
sixty two cents.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Pass the syrup, please, honest.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Dad, I don't doubt it at all. Claude Messner probably
makes them out of used plastic.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
No, this family put one in for just seventy nine dollars.
I read about it in that Home and House magazine.
They used the basement of a house that was blown
away by a tornado, and they picked up a lot
of scrap iron at the junkyard for reinforcing, and.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Their friends poured the cement.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I see seventy nine dollars.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, Well, while we're waiting for a tornado to come along,
we'd better get to work on the fence.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And garden first.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
After that, could we start digging the pool?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Who knows?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh boy, come on, let's get started.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Are you fellows really serious about wanting to work.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I've never felt more like it.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
There's something about a spring day like this that really
gives you the old zip. Yes, sir, does a man
good to get out and work with his hands.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Well that's fine because I'm starting spring house cleaning today
and only a lot of furniture moved and a lot
of scrubbing and waxing done. So how about it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Pass a syrup.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
But maybe you didn't hear what I said. I'm starting spring.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I heard what you said. I was just thinking.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Uh, actually, it would be more to your advantage if
we got out and did the outside work, you know,
do all that heavy stuff, you.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Know, the work that's too heavy for you and the
girls to do.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
That's right. I don't like that scrubbing either.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
No, it's not that bad.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It's just that I actually have so little time to
work around home that I ought to try to channel
my efforts where it will do the most good.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But you understand, honey.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
After all these years, I should.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Well it's not that I don't want to help you
in the house, honey, No, of course not. It's just that, well,
I just don't want you to have to get out
and do that backbreaking work.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
I see, after all, that's my job, Mommy.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
How big a pool were gonna dig?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Dad?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
We're not gonna start on that right away, bud.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
Mommy, where's my toasting jelly?
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Your father sat on it?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
He did, well. I didn't mean to do it, Yes
you did, No, I didn't.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Every time I leave my toast and jelly on a chair,
you always sit on it.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Well, now, did you ever stop to think that it's
your fault for leaving them on chairs? It's ruined half
my clothes costs a lot of money to get them clean,
and that strawberry jelly is the worst stuff in the
world to get out.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So what are you gonna do in the future? Now?
Speaker 9 (07:03):
You some other kind of jelly?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Oom me?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Come on, Bud, we'd better get going.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Okay, what a ten flock pool will be too long?
Speaker 9 (07:17):
Where are they going, mommy?
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Out to break their backs tilling the soil?
Speaker 9 (07:23):
What?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Never mind?
Speaker 9 (07:25):
What other kind of jelly have we got?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Mommy?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
One kind is as bad as another. Might as well
stick to strawberry.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
But Daddy doesn't like to sit on that kind anymore.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Mother.
Speaker 9 (07:40):
You'll have to come and help me move the buffet.
I can't budget.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Okay, I'll be there in a minute, as soon as
I carry the table.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Why can't father do some of this house cleaning work.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
He's home today, yes, but he's going out and work
on the garden. Well, let's get the buffet move.
Speaker 9 (07:57):
It's not fair, that's what I think.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Well, there's nothing to do about it, Kathy. When you
get through eating, maybe you can start washing the dining
room windows.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I'm going outside and help Daddy help him do what.
I don't know, but he needs me.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
Oh great, Well let's go in the dining room and
move the buffet.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
This whole thing is unfair. Mother.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Where do you want it moved?
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Well, I've got the floor clean this far, so we
can move it right over there.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Okay ready, h oh, Jeeves is heavy, isn't it? Come on?
Come on once more. I'm busy.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Bud.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Did you find me a pencil?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Find one yourself?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
I need it right away? Or that is, Dad needs it.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
What's he gonna do stade up the garden with a pencil?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
No, he needs it to ride.
Speaker 9 (08:51):
Are you sure you boys aren't overworking yourselves?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
None yet?
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Well you want to be awfully careful?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Oh could you help.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Us move this?
Speaker 11 (09:01):
Bud?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'm helping dad.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
What's he doing sitting in the den? That's about what
I figured.
Speaker 10 (09:20):
Wait, I think I know where there's a pencil right
in the desk, graw on the den.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
Want us to come and open the drawer for you?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
No, you won't need to. We can handle it.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Mother's something's got to be done about.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
There, Dad, look in the desk, goraw, I think there's
a pencil in there.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I already found it.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Oh good, let's see what you've got written down so far.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh I've just gotten started, is all.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Let's see work schedule. Hey, that looks keen.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Well, if you want to get something done, the only
thing to do is organize your work.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, then you know what you're doing and you can
really accomplish something.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Yeah. What don't we put down next dig pool?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
No, no, we better start on the fence. I believe
a couple of good coats of paint will protect the
wood from the spring rains.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Okay, put that down and then put down big pool.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Well, I think we better put down repair fans first.
You gotta do that before we can paint it.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Remember this, son, if you're going to do a thing,
do it right. Don't do a superficial job. Start from
the ground and work up.
Speaker 10 (10:23):
Yeah, except for swimming pools, it's best to start from
the ground and work down.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Well, we're not digging any pools right now. I suppose
what we ought to do is go out and check
the fence.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Estimate just how much repairing it needs.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Dad, maybe we'd better take a little rest.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, not yet, Bud, We've hardly gotten started.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
We don't want to get over exhausted.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Well, let's see now, repair fence.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yes, we can see what it needs as we go along.
Number two. Paint fence.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Number three, Well, as long as berry bushes are next
to the fence, i'd as well cut those back next.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
You see, this is how good planning can save you
a lot of time.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yeah, Oh, getting sleepy.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Number four, Well we'll make that. Prepare flower bed number five. Say,
you know what would be a great idea. Let's build
a little flower box for your mother. Put it right
outside the kitchen window so she can look at it
while she's doing dishes.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
She'll love that.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
Margaret, That pool is getting awful far down on the list.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Margaret, would you come in the den for a minute,
I'm cleaning.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
How well, this will just take a second, got a
surprise for you.
Speaker 12 (11:36):
I'll bet I always get a kick out of.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
All the fuss women make out of house cleaning.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Yeah, well, here I am.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
What's a big surprise? I hope this is worth climbing
down off a step ladder.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
Four.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
You love it, honey?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
How would you like to have a nice little flower
box outside your kitchen window.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
So you can see while you're washing dishes all day?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
What a beautiful sentimental thought.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I thought you'd like it, honey.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Where you're going back up the ladder, Dad?
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Yeah, Mom didn't seem awful enthusiastic about that.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Well, she's pretty wrapped up in her house cleaning right now.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Instead of building her a little window box, we'll build
her a big one.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Come on, let's go measure the kitchen window and then
we'll drop some plans for it. Okay, we can save
ourselves a lot of time and headaches by accurate planning.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
She look at mom balance on that ladder. She's pretty good.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
We got to find a tape measure someplace.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Hey, Mom, could you find us a tape measure?
Speaker 9 (12:46):
What thought Anderson? You ought to be ashamed of yourself?
What did I do now asking your mother to climb
down just to go find you a tape measure? What
do you think she is a performing monkey?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I don't want it to perform. We just got I'll
measure something for a work?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
What work?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
I think you'll find one of my sewing basket, bud, Thanks,
look in the sewing basket dad.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Mother, I'm not going to put up with this any longer.
You're not no, and you're not either.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Well, what are we going to do?
Speaker 9 (13:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (13:21):
I just wish there was some way to trap them
into helping us.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Well, there isn't anyway, so we might as well go
ahead and get it done and stop wasting time feeling
sorry for ourselves.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Hello.
Speaker 9 (13:36):
Who oh, yes, mister Bentley. Yes, he's home. Do you
want to talk to him? Just a minute and I'll
call him. Who is it? It's mister Bentley from the
home office in Cleveland. He's in town and he wants
father to come down and see him at the hotel.
Speaker 13 (13:54):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I didn't know better. I'd think he planned this himself.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
Wait a minute, mother, I've got it.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
I've got it now, Just a minute, Betty, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Hello? Mister Bentley, Betty A father's all tied up out
in the backyard right now, but he wonders if maybe
you'd like to come out to the house instead. No, beddy, no,
he thought it might be more comfortable here. Oh no, oh, well.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
That'll be wonderful mister Bentley, goodbye, good Heavens child.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
He can't come here.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
The house is a mess, I know it, and father
would die if mister Bentley saw it like this, So
now he'll have to help clean it up.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Is that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Act two? A father knows best to him just a moment.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Monday Night brings musical entertainment on the NBC Radio Network,
and this Monday evening you'll hear wonderful entertainment when you
set your dial to this station. The Railroad will feature
Gordon MacRae and Eileen Ferrell and Victor Herbert's musical masterpiece.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
The Red Mill.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
When you listen to the Railroad Hour Monday, you'll hear
such favorite melodies as every Day as Ladies.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Day, because you're you and in Old New York.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Later, the Telephone Hour will present guest pianist Seymour Lipkin,
who will offer music by Schubert Chopin and Rochmaninoff. Monday's
Voice of Firestone will feature the tenor voice of Feruccio
Taiavini and the music of Howard Barlow's orchestra. Be sure
to listen to NBC's Monday Night of Music.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
An underhanded plot has been hatched to induce Jim Anderson
and Bud along with him, to lend a helping hand
to the spring cleaning festivities. However, Jim doesn't know this
yet as he and Bud blithely measure the kitchen window
for its future flower box like.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
This, thirty four and a half inches, thirty four and
a half inches, check.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Thirty four and a half check.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
You keep trim well.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I want to help too.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
This is men's work. I'll get lost.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Oh turn blue, twenty nine and a quarter, twenty nine
and a quarter check, twenty nine quarters check and tell
her to cut it out.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Kathy, cut it out, father.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
I believe we have all our measurements.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
How I can just climb down out of here without
breaking the forces?
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Father, I have news for you. I have news for
you too, Daddy. You're kneeling on my jelly sandwich.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
For Peat's sakes, Kathy, why don't you eat these things
instead of leaving them lying around?
Speaker 9 (16:45):
How can I you're always sitting on them. Father, mister Bentley.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Just called Bentley in Cleveland. Why didn't you call me?
It was probably important.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Well, don't get excited. He's not in Cleveland now. He's
in town, in town at the hotel. But you don't
have to go down there. He's coming out here.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Out here, that's right.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Whatever gave him an idea like that.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
I don't know, probably thought it would be more comfortable.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I wish you'd let me talk to him, Margaret.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
He certainly picked a fine time to come out, didn't
He house all torn up than everything, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Don't shut dear, I'm coming, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Bentley's here from the home office and he's coming out
here to the house this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah, I heard that.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well, what are we going to do? The rugs are
all torn up, the drapereeze are down.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I don't think you can get the place back in
shape by then, that's right, father.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
We can't.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well, in that case, there's only.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
One thing to do, that's right, Father, keep him outside.
He'd probably better sit outside on a wonderful day like
this anyway. But father, in fact, he's sort of an
outdoors guy.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Jim, you can't just have him sit on the ground
or the porch steps.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, that's right. I'll tell you what we'll have to do.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
We'll all have to pitch in and get the lawn
furniture down from the rafters and the garage. Oh no,
and then you make up a bunch of sandwiches and
some lemonade and serve it to us out in the
backyard or maybe iced tea would be better.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Dead put about these measurements. Then the thing we're gonna
build and we'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Put the measurements in the den so they won't get lost.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Okay, wait a minute, Jim, where are you going.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I've gotta go up and put on something a little
more presentable.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And i'd better shave too. Oh dear, say that step ladder.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Will have to go out to the garage so you
can start getting the lawn furniture down.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
We won't need it. We'll just swing by our tails howne.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
You do that, Mommy, For a couple of monkeys like us,
it won't be hard at all. Mother, don't look at
me that way.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
I'm sorry you and your big ideas.
Speaker 9 (18:53):
I was only trying to help.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Now we not only have the house to clean, we
have to go out and move lawn furniture too.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Well, Mother, I was only and make a few thousand sandwiches.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Are we gonna have a picnic?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Mommy?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
This is no picnic, believe me. I've just got to
sit down a minute.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
My.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
This feels good, Mommy.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Yes, Angel, you're sitting on my jelly sandwich. What Oh,
for heaven's sake, mother, do you think these are enough
sandwiches for those hard working slaves out there?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
It should be.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
I wish we had more ice for the tea though.
We ought to put in a little ground glass.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Just look at Father and mister Bentley lolling back in
those deck chairs like a couple of retired millionaires. Oh
this is a man's world, all right.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Well, I guess they do. You have some business to discuss.
Speaker 8 (20:02):
I'll bet probably both worry sick over who's going to
win the Kentucky Derby this year?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Where's that other tray, Betty, the silver one?
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Or I don't know what gets me is why Butt
and Kathy think they have to loll around out there too.
They haven't got any business to discuss.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Well, I haven't had any time to do anything about it.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Oh it burns me up, man, Well, don't cry about it.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
You know whose fault it is. If mister Bentley's here,
I know it. How do I look all right? To
go out there? I dressed in about a half a minute.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Yeah, you look all right.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
I don't know when we're ever going to get this
house straightened up again, let alone finish cleaning it.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Well, maybe mister Bentley will leave pretty soon.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Well, I don't know what we'll have for supper tonight.
There's not a thing in the house.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
I'm not hungry anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I have to open a can of beans or something. Well,
come on, let's go out and serve the millionaire playboys.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
Okay, let's go.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Can you get the door?
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
And try and keep Budding Kathy from beating mister Bentley
to all the sandwiches.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Kathy's already got a sandwich.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Oh, if it's.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Jelly, we're in trouble.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Oh boy, look at that, Bud sit up like a
fox spotting.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
A wounded rabbit.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Just stay where you.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Are, Bud.
Speaker 13 (21:23):
Well, Well what have we here?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
How are you missus Anderson?
Speaker 13 (21:28):
Good to see you again.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Don't get up, mister Bentley. It's good to see you
again too.
Speaker 13 (21:32):
Ah, you look lovely, so fresh and rested.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
Ugh, thank you, Bud. Wait till you're served.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
If Fred, this.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Is my other daughter, Betty. I don't know whether you
remember her or not.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well, it's been a few years now, the Kansas City Convention.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I believe that's right.
Speaker 13 (21:54):
You're certainly getting to be a very pretty young lady.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 13 (21:58):
I wish I were about thirty years younger.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Would you care for some lemon in your tea, mister Bentley.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Just a touch, thank you.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
I don't want any tea. Nobody asks you.
Speaker 13 (22:13):
Ah, this is fun.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
I was just telling Jim what a nice, friendly backyard
you have.
Speaker 13 (22:21):
I like this idea of outdoor living.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's so American. Yeah, Jim tells me he spends quite
a bit of time out here.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well, it's good for a man to get his hands
in the soil. A little manual labor can be real relaxing.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, I can see you people know how to live.
You relax and enjoy what you've got. No fuss, no
hustle and bustle, take it easy.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That's the ticket right there.
Speaker 13 (22:47):
You're so right, Fred, I guess that's what keeps you
looking so young, missus Anderson.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Oh, you have no idea what it does for me.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Hey, whre's my jelly sandwich?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Oh, don't anyone get up. Just take one of those
on the plate, kitten.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Well, okay, I'll have another one too, Bud, Please thank you, Yes, sir,
I admire the way you people live so different from
my home.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Everything's all was at such a high pitch. I like
a comfortable place to live in.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Well, that's the way we feel too.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, I like a place that looks like it's lived in.
You ort to see our place, well, i'd love to.
I know it's got just the kind of an atmosphere
I like. I want to see it before I go.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Well, it's really such a nice day outside.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
It's a shame to waste it inside.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yes, we shouldn't lose a second of this weather.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I'll have another sandwich, please, Bud.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
What are you doing swallowing them home?
Speaker 14 (24:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I don't blame him. They're certainly good.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I can tell you've got a wonderful cook in your
family gym.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
She's the best, the very best.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, you want to try one of her meals?
Speaker 13 (24:14):
Well, i'd love.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
To Oh no, no, I'm no good at all.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
It's not just like my wife.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I tell you, there's nothing I like better than a
good home cooked meal.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Well, really, I'm on the road.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
A good deal, and I.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Tell you I got to that point where I can
hardly stand to go in one more restaurant.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Why don't she eat here?
Speaker 13 (24:41):
Well, by George, I'd love to. You couldn't have said
anything that would make me happier.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Well, we'd love to have you, mister Bentley.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Fred I might as well tell you the awful truth, Jim,
my wife's in the middle of spring cleaning and the
house is a complete mess.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
It is.
Speaker 13 (25:03):
That's exactly what my wife is doing.
Speaker 12 (25:06):
That's why I made this trip to get away from it.
Maybe we could go out and eat.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
No, no, you don't, Jim.
Speaker 13 (25:20):
Nobody's going to talk me out of this.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
But I'll make you a proposition, Missus Anderson, Jim bud
and I will pitch in and finish the house cleaning
if you and Betty will cook up the best meal
you've ever cooked.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You need not look.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
With the years of training Missus Bentley has given me,
I'm an expert at spring cleaning.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Mister Bentley, you're a doll.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Come on, Jim that I get to work. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Have he got some old fishing pants or something we
could put on?
Speaker 10 (25:56):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, I guess, so come with me.
Speaker 9 (26:01):
Hey, there's my jelly sandwich.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Your father's going to change his trousers anyway.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
Come on, Bob, okay, soon as I get another sandwich.
Speaker 9 (26:14):
Betty, Yes, Mother.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
You and your big ideas.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
The Anderson's will return in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Every weekday, Monday through Friday, you're invited to enjoy the
wonderful daytime programs on the NBC Radio network. And when
you listen, you'll be in good company.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
For every day.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Millions of Americans tune for such fun fact programs as
the Bob Hope Daytime Show, The Phrase That Pays, and
Welcome Travelers. Then there are your friends on the daytime dramas,
such intriguing stories as Pepper Young's family life can be Beautiful,
Young Widder Brown, the Woman in My House just playing Bill,
and the Road of Life. Every day, as you do
your housework, keep the radio dial set to NBC in
(27:04):
this station so that you may hear and enjoy these
and other fine daytime programs. The listening's fine in the
daytime on the NBC Radio Network.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Well, a white frame.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
House on Maple Street is all stick and span again.
Dinner's over, and their guest and leading house cleaner, mister
Bentley has gone back.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
To his hotel.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Jim and Market are in the den relaxing like this.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Well, I must say this was quite a day. Yeah,
the house looks surprisingly good. Thank you, isn't mister Bentley wonderful?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:43):
He's all right, But of course, Bud and I never
got that window box built for you.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Well, that's all right. I'll try to bear up somehow.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Well maybe next weekend.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Uh huh oh, say the Phillips wanted us to drop
over this evening for a little.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Bridge this evening. Oh gosh, I couldn't make it.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
I'm too tired.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Tired.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, I don't understand it either. Never did get outside
and do any heavy work. Only did was housework. I
just don't understand it.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
No, and neither will any other man.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Good night, dear, good night, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Join us again next week, but we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Father Knows Best as an NBC.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Radio Network production in cooperation with Cavalier. Enterprises in our
cast were Gene Vander Pylos, Margaret wrote of Williams, Ted Donaldson,
Helen Strom, and Earl Ross. Father Knows Best is based
on characters created by Ed James, written by Paul West
and Roswell Rodgers, directed by Arthur Jacobson, and transcribed in Holly.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
This is bill forman speaking to.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Night, played Truth or Consequences with Ralph Edwards on the
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