August 18, 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 (00:00):
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That's Tomorrow Night on the NBC Radio Network, and now
it's Father Knows Best on NBC Now.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young as
Father Welcome 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, can't they? Bud, Betty,
(01:02):
Margaret and Jim has the head of this typical American
household again sets out to prove that Father knows Bess.
(01:33):
Among life's minor irritations which plague the average householder, the
crushed trash can lid ranks fairly high.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
This was demonstrated quite.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Forcefully the other evening, when Jim Anderson, on his way
home from work, picked up a well flattened cover on
the curbing and carried it into.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The house like this. Look at this, Margaret, It's happened again,
flat as a pancake.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Oh dear, is that our trash can lead?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We'll admit it's hard to recognize.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It was practically a new one too.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
This is about the fourth one we bought this year.
You can't just buy a new cover either, You have
to buy a.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Whole new can. It's a conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Do you think it would do any good to call them?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I found ours almost down to that house where the
new family's moving.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
In, the Branders.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I wonder who i'd call? Have you any idea?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Wait? I think there's a phone number on that card
they send out getting a collection dates.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I'll go get it. Mom. Oh say mom, could I
just a minute that I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh, bud oh, oh, hi, Dan you home? No, I'm
on the rock bound shore of Maine checking my lobster pots.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I found the number.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Dear here it is oh good, same mom? Could I
just a minute done here?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But hold this lid while I phone, but don't lose it.
We may need it for evidence.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Okay, same mom.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Can I know if people would take the trouble to
make more of these calls? I bet our city would
be run more efficiently. After all, we're paying taxes for
these things. And hello, say, I want to talk to
someone in the trash collection department because we what well,
I know what days they collect.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
That isn't the reason.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm no, I'm perfectly happy with the collection days. All
I want to do is, yes, I understand how that
has worked out, and I'm not asking you to change
the days. My trouble is that I have a bent lid.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
I wish I could hear their answer to that one.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
No, I mean on our trash can. Your driver ran
over it. Yes, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, we didn't see him do it, but obviously he
Oh no, we couldn't have done it ourselves because we
treat our trash can with great, care, Well that'll be fine,
thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Wow, it's all settled.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Are they going to replace it?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
A man will come by and make the necessary adjustments.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Whatever that means.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Well, it's high time they did something about it.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Mom, could I yes?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
But what is it you want?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Well? How do you like that? I've forgotten now what
it was?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I was going to ask you, Well, I'm sure it
was important. Has anyone looked for the newspaper this evening?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I brought it in.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
It's right there on the coffee table.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh good, you want part of the honey?
Speaker 6 (04:35):
No, no thanks.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
I guess i'd better get out in the kitchen and
start thinking about dinner. Any suggestions, Yes, that'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And how would you like that?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Fix?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Broiled or baked?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
That sounds good.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I don't know what I do without your suggestions, dear.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's nothing. Glad to make them. But you can put
that lid down now. You don't have to hold it
all evening.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
Oh, I forgot I had it. I was just trying
to remember.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
What it was.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I was gonna ask mom, Well, it'll come to you.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Have you got any idea what it was?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
How would I know?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Oh? It doesn't seem like both of us could be
this dumb.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
It might have been something important. It seems like it
was something that had to do with uh something.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, that gives you a good clue to work on.
You work on that while I read the paper.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Okay, Hey, did you know it's raining outside?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I was starting to sprinkle when I came home. Are
your clothes wet? Kitting?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
No, mister Davis brought me home. But boy, Joe Phillips
is sure getting wet out there.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Joe Philip. Oh gosh, Now I remember what I was
gonna ask, Mom.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Well, you'd better go time to come in before he
catches double pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
He's done now, all bad.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
So I was gonna ask if I could have him
come in for a while so we could practice mental telepathy.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Mental telepathy.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Yeah, well you know what that is, don't you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yes, I know what it is, but I doubt if
you boys have the proper equipment for it.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Hey, what's that in a chair?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
A shield?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No, that's our trash can cover. And you'd better get
that coat off.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It looks kind of damp, Dad, But I'm trying to
read the paper.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
Well, just look at me for a second, Dad, and
see if you can tell what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, I can't, can you.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Well, you've got to concentrate, dad.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Look, but i'd like to read the paper. If you
don't mind, well.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Let's just cry it once.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Close your eyes and just be blank and see if
you can tell what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh okay, but hurry it up.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Are you a blank?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I think?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
So?
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Okay, concentrate. Now I'm going to think of a number.
A number, yeah, like seventy nine or something. Okay, here goes,
can you get it?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Uh? Thirteen?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
No, if it was seventy nine?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, look, Bud, I.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Hear tonight because oh hello father.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Hello princess. Still raining outside, just drizzling.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Say father, if you have any work to do tonight
or anything, could you do it in the dam or upstairs?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Why?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Well, I'm going to have company. Well it's not exactly company.
This is for school.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
What is well, mister Glover.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
You see, he's my history teacher, and he well, I'm
practically utterly flunking the course, and so he's gonna come
over and try to help me if he can. You
know how dumb I am? Who ask you anything?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Hold on a minute, Betty, when did you start getting
so dumb in history last semester that was your best subject.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well that's just the curve of learning.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I guess, yes, But who threw you the curve?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Tell me, Betty, what does this mister Glover look like?
I suppose he's about sixty.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Nine with a bald head and a long gray beard.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Why, father, how can you talk that way about mister Glover?
He's cute.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well that clears up that situation. Just whose idea was this? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You mean about starting to flunk the chorus? Oh what
do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean about getting this special help?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Well, I sort of suggested it, I guess.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You see, Jamie Leggett started to flunk the course first.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So she beats you to it. Huh.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And her father got worried about it, so we talked
it over with mister Glover. So then mister Glover gave
her some extra help, and he's darling.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Is she doing better in the course now?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But now she doesn't mind funking so much?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh, I give up?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh, for goodness sakes, what's that old beat up trash
can lid doing in the living room? Won't get that
out of here?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, what a minute don't take that. I need that.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, I'm not going to have it in here. When
mister Glover arrives, he'll think we're living in a junk yard.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Leave it right there, father, I'll bet that's my man. Now,
I'll get the door.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Bud, be a deer and get some logs and tell
mother we want to eat early tonight. I've gotta go
up the dress, please, Bud, pretty please?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, how do you do, sir? You're the man with
a bent with Yes, there might be some other way
of putting it. Though my name's at I'm in the
city sanitation department. Well, fine, come in, mister Rotney. Cool.
(10:20):
That's a nice rain though, good for the soil. Soil
can have it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I don't like it?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yes, well could I take your raincoat? No, I won't
be for a minute. Now watch your complain.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, it actually doesn't sound like a very important thing,
But it's more the principle of the thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I just want to get the facts.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Well, it is a kind of a nuisance having a
lid that won't fit on the trash can because it's
all bad and I get tired of.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Having to buy a new can every other week too.
Every other week. Well, it's not quite that bad. It
must be pretty hard on them. Oh, it's not us.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That's what everybody says. A lot of people are careless,
bang them up themselves. We get blamed. Well, I can
assure you they'll get them all the time. Well, the
way this happens. We even got one today where they
accuse us of stealing their lids.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, well what happened to ours? Do we do with
a lot of old lids?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I don't know. We get some weird ones. Yeah, got
a few forms here. You'll have to fill out forms
to fill out.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Why do I have to do that?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
All I want is to get a new lid regulations
all this red tea. Let's see here, now, bent lid?
How did it happen? Your driver ran over it?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Do you see him do it? Well, not exactly. That's
the way it goes. We get them all the time.
That's the way they throw them around and then leave
the lids out in the street. Uh huh. I pay taxes,
you know, and i'd like to see something done about this.
Uh huh. Well, let's take a look at the corpus delecto.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Okay, you wait there, I'll go get it get the
whole can too, not just the cover.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Okay, okay, I'll get the whole works. Now, where did
that think? Go? Margaret?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Margaret, I'm in the kitchen, deer.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Oh you want me in there?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
No, I'm coming out.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Okay, now, Kathy, let's try it once more.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Make your mind the blank seven.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Wait till I think of a number. Stupid children, Please.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Be quiet, say Margaret, where is that lid?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
The trash can lid?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I was in the living room not five minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Oh oh, I think I saw.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Betty with it.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I might have known, probably threw it out. Have we
got a flashlight that works?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I hate to go out and hunt around in the
dark in the rain, but I've got to prove to
this character I'm right. He's being pretty nasty about this,
making a lot of snide remarks about how it's our
own fault.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Well, wait, Jim, you'd better put a coat on before
you go out.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I haven't time.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
I'll be all right, Okay, Katy, once more, and this time,
don't guess seven.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Try to read what's in my mind.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
My number is seven?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Oh, pipe down?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Hey, you know what?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Did you find it?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
No? But I just discovered that wasn't our lid at all.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Ours is on our trash can out there, and it's
perfectly good.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh dear, well, you better go in and tell him.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Man, tell him. I can't now, I made too big
an issue of this.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Well, what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I don't know, but I'm sure of one thing I
could never stand mister Otney's look of scornful triumph.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Act two of Father Knows Best.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
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are some of the wonderful programs you'll hear next Monday
evening when you set your dial to the NBC Radio Network,
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you Maytime as the Railroad Hour's special musical offering. Then
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the voice of Firestone guest Spotlight, and Leon Fleischer will
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(14:36):
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Remember Monday means music on NBC, and you always hear
the finest programs on the NBC Radio network. And now
back to act too of Father knows best.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
What seemed like a minor civic right the protection of
one's trash can cover has now turned into a fairly
embarrassing moment for Father. He's discovered eventley, and he's raised
so much fuss about doesn't even belong to him. Right now,
he's desperately trying to think up a face saving story
to tell the man who came to settle a complaint
like this.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Well, Jim, you can't keep the man waiting in the
hall all night long.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I know, I know, I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Well, I think the simplest thing to do is just
tell him you made a.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Mistake, Margaret, mister Otney is not the kind of a
man you would admit a mistake to.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Maybe so, but as long as you did make a mistake.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Mister Otney is a man who thoroughly hates all people
who complain about crushed trash can lids. He firmly believes
that all are troublemakers, that they are all prevaricators and schemers.
He hates rain and having to go out in it.
I think he's taken a special dislike to me. Is
this the type of man at whose mercy you throw yourself?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
My heavens, you certainly built up a case.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Do you want me to go out and read his
mind for you? Dad?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It'd scare you to death.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Jim, you can't keep him waiting. The longer you wait,
the worst it is.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I know, I know. Let's see. I wonder if I
could take our good lid and take a hammer and no,
that'd be cheating, dear.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
The only thing to do is tell what happens. Honesty
is the best policy, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Huh, that's what you keep telling us.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Oh well, that's right too, absolutely right. But this isn't
a matter of honesty. It's a matter of a man's dignity.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And well, dar gone, it's downright embarrassing all those snide
remarks he kept making.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Well, what do you plan to do while you're making
up your mind?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Invite him to dinner?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
No, I, Kathy stopped looking at me that way. Are
going there right now and telling the truth. You're right,
it's the only thing to do.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Stop fellow.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Okay, now, Kathy, do it right this time, close your
eyes and seven No, not yet.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Sorry to have kept you waiting, mister Otney.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Still got another call to make it tonight. Yeah. Well uh,
kind of a funny thing happened. Uh huh. Yes, well,
you see, the whole thing was just a mistake. I
went out in the back and you can imagine my
surprise when there was our cover just as good as new. Yes, sir,
(17:40):
we get them all the time. I beg your pardon. Look,
if you've got a bent lit, get it out and
let's get this thing straightened out. We want you to
be happy.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But I tell you it's not ben It's okay. See
the lid I found that was bent. Well are you
perfectly happy?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Then?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Perfectly? No complaints, no complaints. Okay, I've got some other forms.
You'll have to sign them. Why release for him? Here
we are. Oh come now, mister.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Complaint you phoned in is on the book, so we've
got to dispense with it one way or another.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You will sign up there all right? Sign all four carbons,
four regulations. I can see where all our tax money goes.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Now for carbon paper here, sign this to well what's this?
It's a release releasing the other release. Well, I figures regulation.
Oh naturally, Well, okay, here you are.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Uh huh, well, good night, good night. Why did I
ever have to open my big mouth and call them
in the first place?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Father, I'm glad I'm not that other party he has
to call on yet tonight.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Father, Oh, just an old pal of mine.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
What did he want?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He's just one of the facts. Ma'am, My goodness, you're
certainly dressed up. I thought you were going to stay
home and study history tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Not make it.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Well.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Even though a girl is going to study, she has
to look halfway presentable, doesn't she.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Who do you plan on being presented to? The Queen
of England?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Is he gone? Dear?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, honesty is indeed the best policy, even though you
have to sign a release on it. But it's all
over now and I'd rather not hear any more about it.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Well, I knew that the best thing to do with Betty.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Where are you going tonight?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
No, plase, just going to study history. Mister Glover is
coming over to help me. Oh didn't I tell you?
I wanted us to have dinner early tonight?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
No, he didn't mention it.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Oh fine, I'll bet he didn't bring in the logs either.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
The logs they're studying about Lincoln's early life, and mister
Glover is going to show her how to build a
law cabin.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Oh, father, don't be so carnball.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Well, I don't want them dragging a lot of logs
into the living room.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
It's just for the fireplace.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Mother.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Oh, where is budd.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well right now?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
He's taking the trash can around to the front with
all his talk about it. I suddenly realized that tomorrow
is a collection day.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I bet our lid will get fairly courteous treatment this time.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Mother, would you sort of hurry dinner along. I'll try,
but you better come out and help me. I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Maybe it's mister Glover telling me.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Better wear his tuxedos so I won't feel out of place. Hello.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Oh, hi, Janni, Gee, I'm glad you call im when
I ask you something.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
What.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Yes, he's coming over tonight. Oh it worked fine. I
didn't know a thing in class today, not a thing.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I wonder if this guy realizes the trap's being set.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
For him, we'll say kiitto, here's what I want to
ask you. Could you help me think up some real
dumb history questions to ask him?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Oh? Brothers? If she needed help on that?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
What were some you used?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
They don't pay teachers one eighth enough.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh that's good, let me write that down. What caused
the dark ages?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
The small.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Got any others?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I think maybe he's here already. I'll talk to you later,
Jendy bye. Gosh, she's sure. Early father answered the door.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I'm doing it. Sorry to sturb you again. Anderson, huh, oh,
it's you, mister Otney. I just called him the brand.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
There's a few doors down other people that accused us
of sealing their lid. Oh they've got some new evidence now.
One of the kids saw a man pick it up
and carry it into your house.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Our house.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Oh well, I can explain that you're trying to do
causes trouble. Oh no, really, that was the mistake I
was trying to tell you about. I evidently picked theirs
up the bent one by mistake, thinking it was my mistake. Sure,
that's how this whole thing started.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Well where is it? They want it back?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Well, it's well, it's no good, it's all bent. Your
driver ran over it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
You just say him doing. No, I did, and how
do you know that?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
He?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Look, I'll call up the branders and settle this thing myself.
Or maybe they don't have a phone yet. Yes they do.
I've got it on their complaint card. Oh good, let
me have that. You'll have to sign a release. I
just want to borrow it. Wait there, I'll be right back. Okay,
who's he?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Father?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That's my old pal.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Aren't you gonna ask any here?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Let him stay out there might cool him off a bit.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
What did he want?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I think he wants to throw me in jail for
being a lid snatcher? What hello is this, mister Brander? Well,
my name is Jim Anderson. I just live a few
doors down from you.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
And there seems to be a misunderstanding about a trash
can lid?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Is that the one I threw away?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, it's all kind of silly.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I picked it up by a mistake, thinking it was ours,
and I called the department, thinking.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
They'd run over it and bend it out of shape.
What'd you say? Oh? Well, wait, I can give you
a tip. Don't try to get a new one from them.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Believe me, you'll be sorry you ever brought it up.
I'll buy you a new one myself. No, I insist.
We'll call it a sort of welcome to our neighborhood gift. Yeah,
Jim Anderson insurance. Well, sure, I'll be in my office
all day tomorrow. Well fine, I'm sure we can fix
(23:47):
you up. I see you tomorrow. Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, how do you like that?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Father? I think that man out there is getting impatient.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Good want me to go out that other lid?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
No, well, mister Otney, it's all settle. You can go
home now.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, you have to sign another release first.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Now, wait a minute, and these complaints get on the
books with it's regulation.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Sure, sure, uh sign all four copies again? Yes, okay,
well you sure get him at our office. All right,
there you are. Does that take care of it now?
Uh huh? Well, good night, good night? Well, thank goodness,
(24:35):
that's over. I hope I never see another lid as
long as I live long.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Everyone dinners gone.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Okay, it's not fancy.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Tonight, but it's here.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Hurry up, Kathy and Bud.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
No, you're supposed to try to hear what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Well you don't.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Think loud enough. Oh, creepers, there's mister Glover I totally
not to come until seven. Patty, you go to the door.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I'm going, Princess, I'm going come on, children, sit down. Yes,
sorry to disturb you again. Anderson, mister Otney, WHOA What
have I done? Now? Nothing?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I I don't know how it happened, but when I
started my car, I bumped into your trash can and ran.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Over the cover. You uh you want now, if you'll
just sign these papers, I'll see that you get a
new Oh no, you don't, huh. You keep your forms
and I'll buy all my own trash cans from here
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on out.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The Anderson's will be back in just a moment. And
now here's a word about some of the fine shows
you'll hear tomorrow night on the NBC Radio Network. Comedy
Rules the Roost when Bob Hope presents his fast paced,
typical topical humor, and tomorrow evening you'll hear Miss Gene
Tierney as guest of The Bob Hope Show. So be
sure to listen tomorrow and then stay tuned as Phil
(26:17):
Harris and Alice Faye right in the air waves with
thirty minutes of hilarious comedy and some of the nation's
most popular music along with.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Phil and Alice.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You'll hear Elliot Lewis and Julius Abruzzio to keep the
comedy on an earthquaking level. Remember tomorrow and every Friday
evening over many of these same stations, it's the Bob
Hope Show and the Phil Harris Alice Faye Show.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Hear them both on the NBC Radio Network. Well, a strange.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Case of the crush cover has been completely As far
as Jim Anderson's concerned, it'll never be opened again. At
the moment, Betty is studying history in the living room
with mister Glover while the rest of the family is
confined to the dam.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
All right now, Dad, this time you write something down
on a piece of paper and put it in a
sealed envelope and see if I can tell what it is.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
But I'd rather not do any more mind reading right now.
The only thing I seem to have on my mind
is mister Otney, and I don't think I want to
think about him anymore.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Well, just put.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Something downy, Stop peeking at Betty and mister Glover.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I was just going to the kitchen to get a
drink of water.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
That's the ninth drink of water you've gone after in
the last ten minutes, you'll get water logged.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Come on, Dad, fight something down.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I still can't get over mister Otney accusing me of
stealing the Bradner's lid. I've never stolen anything in my life.
Come on, Dad, I don't feel like it. Bud, here
is my pen. You write something down yourself. That way
it'll be easier for to guess what it is.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Yeah, I believe you're right. Hey, where'd you get this penn?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
It?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Says Oliver Rotney on it.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Botany.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Oh my gosh, I forgot to give it back. He'll
be certain I stole it. He'll have me signing releases
for the rest of my life. Join us again next
week when we'll be back where Father Knows Best, starring
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Robert Young as Jim Anderson. Father Knows Best is an
NBC Radio Network production in cooperation with Cavalier Enterprise. In
our cast for Geen vander Pylist, Margaret wrote of Williams,
Ted Donaldson, Helen Strom and Yours Truman. Father Knows Best,
based on characters created by Ed James, is written by
Paul West and Roswell Rogers, directed by Arthur Jacobson and
transcribed in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This is Bill Foreman speaking.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Tonight play Truth or Consequences on the NBC Radio network
Speaker 6 (29:16):
M
Stay tuned now for Robert Young starring in Father Knows Best,
which follows this listening reminder.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Tomorrow evening. There's more fun packed.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Comedy when you set your dial to NBC for The
Bob Hope Show and The Phil Harris Alice Fay Show.
Guest star tomorrow on The Bob Hope Show will be
Miss Gene Turney, and you'll hear a fun filled comedy
sketch featuring this talented actress, as well as a laugh packed.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Monologue by Bob.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Later tomorrow evening, listen to the mirth and music on
The Phil Harris Alice Fay Show when Phil is joined
by Elliot Lewis and Julius Abruzio for thirty minutes of
hilarious comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Addicts.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That's Tomorrow Night on the NBC Radio Network, and now
it's Father Knows Best on NBC Now.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young as
Father Welcome 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, can't they? Bud, Betty,
(01:02):
Margaret and Jim has the head of this typical American
household again sets out to prove that Father knows Bess.
(01:33):
Among life's minor irritations which plague the average householder, the
crushed trash can lid ranks fairly high.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
This was demonstrated quite.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Forcefully the other evening, when Jim Anderson, on his way
home from work, picked up a well flattened cover on
the curbing and carried it into.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The house like this. Look at this, Margaret, It's happened again,
flat as a pancake.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Oh dear, is that our trash can lead?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We'll admit it's hard to recognize.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It was practically a new one too.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
This is about the fourth one we bought this year.
You can't just buy a new cover either, You have
to buy a.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Whole new can. It's a conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Do you think it would do any good to call them?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I found ours almost down to that house where the
new family's moving.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
In, the Branders.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I wonder who i'd call? Have you any idea?
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Wait? I think there's a phone number on that card
they send out getting a collection dates.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I'll go get it. Mom. Oh say mom, could I
just a minute that I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh, bud oh, oh, hi, Dan you home? No, I'm
on the rock bound shore of Maine checking my lobster pots.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I found the number.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Dear here it is oh good, same mom? Could I
just a minute done here?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
But hold this lid while I phone, but don't lose it.
We may need it for evidence.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Okay, same mom.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Can I know if people would take the trouble to
make more of these calls? I bet our city would
be run more efficiently. After all, we're paying taxes for
these things. And hello, say, I want to talk to
someone in the trash collection department because we what well,
I know what days they collect.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
That isn't the reason.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'm no, I'm perfectly happy with the collection days. All
I want to do is, yes, I understand how that
has worked out, and I'm not asking you to change
the days. My trouble is that I have a bent lid.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
I wish I could hear their answer to that one.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
No, I mean on our trash can. Your driver ran
over it. Yes, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, we didn't see him do it, but obviously he
Oh no, we couldn't have done it ourselves because we
treat our trash can with great, care, Well that'll be fine,
thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Wow, it's all settled.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Are they going to replace it?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
A man will come by and make the necessary adjustments.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Whatever that means.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Well, it's high time they did something about it.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Mom, could I yes?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
But what is it you want?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Well? How do you like that? I've forgotten now what
it was?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I was going to ask you, Well, I'm sure it
was important. Has anyone looked for the newspaper this evening?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I brought it in.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
It's right there on the coffee table.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh good, you want part of the honey?
Speaker 6 (04:35):
No, no thanks.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
I guess i'd better get out in the kitchen and
start thinking about dinner. Any suggestions, Yes, that'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And how would you like that?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Fix?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Broiled or baked?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
That sounds good.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I don't know what I do without your suggestions, dear.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's nothing. Glad to make them. But you can put
that lid down now. You don't have to hold it
all evening.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Huh.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
Oh, I forgot I had it. I was just trying
to remember.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
What it was.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I was gonna ask mom, Well, it'll come to you.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Have you got any idea what it was?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
How would I know?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Oh? It doesn't seem like both of us could be
this dumb.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
It might have been something important. It seems like it
was something that had to do with uh something.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, that gives you a good clue to work on.
You work on that while I read the paper.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Okay, Hey, did you know it's raining outside?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I was starting to sprinkle when I came home. Are
your clothes wet? Kitting?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
No, mister Davis brought me home. But boy, Joe Phillips
is sure getting wet out there.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Joe Philip. Oh gosh, Now I remember what I was
gonna ask, Mom.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Well, you'd better go time to come in before he
catches double pneumonia.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
He's done now, all bad.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
So I was gonna ask if I could have him
come in for a while so we could practice mental telepathy.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Mental telepathy.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Yeah, well you know what that is, don't you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yes, I know what it is, but I doubt if
you boys have the proper equipment for it.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Hey, what's that in a chair?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
A shield?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No, that's our trash can cover. And you'd better get
that coat off.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
It looks kind of damp, Dad, But I'm trying to
read the paper.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
Well, just look at me for a second, Dad, and
see if you can tell what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, I can't, can you.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Well, you've got to concentrate, dad.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Look, but i'd like to read the paper. If you
don't mind, well.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Let's just cry it once.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Close your eyes and just be blank and see if
you can tell what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh okay, but hurry it up.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Are you a blank?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I think?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
So?
Speaker 8 (07:10):
Okay, concentrate. Now I'm going to think of a number.
A number, yeah, like seventy nine or something. Okay, here goes,
can you get it?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Uh? Thirteen?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
No, if it was seventy nine?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, look, Bud, I.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Hear tonight because oh hello father.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Hello princess. Still raining outside, just drizzling.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Say father, if you have any work to do tonight
or anything, could you do it in the dam or upstairs?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Why?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Well, I'm going to have company. Well it's not exactly company.
This is for school.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
What is well, mister Glover.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
You see, he's my history teacher, and he well, I'm
practically utterly flunking the course, and so he's gonna come
over and try to help me if he can. You
know how dumb I am? Who ask you anything?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Hold on a minute, Betty, when did you start getting
so dumb in history last semester that was your best subject.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well that's just the curve of learning.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I guess, yes, But who threw you the curve?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Tell me, Betty, what does this mister Glover look like?
I suppose he's about sixty.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Nine with a bald head and a long gray beard.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Why, father, how can you talk that way about mister Glover?
He's cute.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well that clears up that situation. Just whose idea was this? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You mean about starting to flunk the chorus? Oh what
do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean about getting this special help?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Well, I sort of suggested it, I guess.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You see, Jamie Leggett started to flunk the course first.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So she beats you to it. Huh.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And her father got worried about it, so we talked
it over with mister Glover. So then mister Glover gave
her some extra help, and he's darling.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Is she doing better in the course now?
Speaker 6 (09:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But now she doesn't mind funking so much?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Oh, I give up?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Oh, for goodness sakes, what's that old beat up trash
can lid doing in the living room? Won't get that
out of here?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, what a minute don't take that. I need that.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, I'm not going to have it in here. When
mister Glover arrives, he'll think we're living in a junk yard.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Leave it right there, father, I'll bet that's my man. Now,
I'll get the door.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Bud, be a deer and get some logs and tell
mother we want to eat early tonight. I've gotta go
up the dress, please, Bud, pretty please?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, how do you do, sir? You're the man with
a bent with Yes, there might be some other way
of putting it. Though my name's at I'm in the
city sanitation department. Well, fine, come in, mister Rotney. Cool.
(10:20):
That's a nice rain though, good for the soil. Soil
can have it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I don't like it?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yes, well could I take your raincoat? No, I won't
be for a minute. Now watch your complain.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, it actually doesn't sound like a very important thing,
But it's more the principle of the thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I just want to get the facts.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Well, it is a kind of a nuisance having a
lid that won't fit on the trash can because it's
all bad and I get tired of.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Having to buy a new can every other week too.
Every other week. Well, it's not quite that bad. It
must be pretty hard on them. Oh, it's not us.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That's what everybody says. A lot of people are careless,
bang them up themselves. We get blamed. Well, I can
assure you they'll get them all the time. Well, the
way this happens. We even got one today where they
accuse us of stealing their lids.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, well what happened to ours? Do we do with
a lot of old lids?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I don't know. We get some weird ones. Yeah, got
a few forms here. You'll have to fill out forms
to fill out.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Why do I have to do that?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
All I want is to get a new lid regulations
all this red tea. Let's see here, now, bent lid?
How did it happen? Your driver ran over it?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Do you see him do it? Well, not exactly. That's
the way it goes. We get them all the time.
That's the way they throw them around and then leave
the lids out in the street. Uh huh. I pay taxes,
you know, and i'd like to see something done about this.
Uh huh. Well, let's take a look at the corpus delecto.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Okay, you wait there, I'll go get it get the
whole can too, not just the cover.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Okay, okay, I'll get the whole works. Now, where did
that think? Go? Margaret?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Margaret, I'm in the kitchen, deer.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Oh you want me in there?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
No, I'm coming out.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Okay, now, Kathy, let's try it once more.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Make your mind the blank seven.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Wait till I think of a number. Stupid children, Please.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Be quiet, say Margaret, where is that lid?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
The trash can lid?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I was in the living room not five minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Oh oh, I think I saw.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Betty with it.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I might have known, probably threw it out. Have we
got a flashlight that works?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I hate to go out and hunt around in the
dark in the rain, but I've got to prove to
this character I'm right. He's being pretty nasty about this,
making a lot of snide remarks about how it's our
own fault.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Well, wait, Jim, you'd better put a coat on before
you go out.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I haven't time.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
I'll be all right, Okay, Katy, once more, and this time,
don't guess seven.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Try to read what's in my mind.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
My number is seven?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Oh, pipe down?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Hey, you know what?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Did you find it?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
No? But I just discovered that wasn't our lid at all.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Ours is on our trash can out there, and it's
perfectly good.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh dear, well, you better go in and tell him.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Man, tell him. I can't now, I made too big
an issue of this.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Well, what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I don't know, but I'm sure of one thing I
could never stand mister Otney's look of scornful triumph.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Act two of Father Knows Best.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
After this word, Monday means music on NBC, and here
are some of the wonderful programs you'll hear next Monday
evening when you set your dial to the NBC Radio Network,
Gordon MacRae and his lovely guest Nadine Connor will bring
you Maytime as the Railroad Hour's special musical offering. Then
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soprano ROBERTA. Peters of the Metropolitan Opera Company will grace
the voice of Firestone guest Spotlight, and Leon Fleischer will
be the guest soloist on the Telephone Hour. From beginning
to end, it's a wonderful evening of relaxing, RESTful music
designed to make your Monday's most enjoyable. When you set
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your radio dial to NBC and the familiar three chimes.
Remember Monday means music on NBC, and you always hear
the finest programs on the NBC Radio network. And now
back to act too of Father knows best.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
What seemed like a minor civic right the protection of
one's trash can cover has now turned into a fairly
embarrassing moment for Father. He's discovered eventley, and he's raised
so much fuss about doesn't even belong to him. Right now,
he's desperately trying to think up a face saving story
to tell the man who came to settle a complaint
like this.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Well, Jim, you can't keep the man waiting in the
hall all night long.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I know, I know, I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Well, I think the simplest thing to do is just
tell him you made a.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Mistake, Margaret, mister Otney is not the kind of a
man you would admit a mistake to.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Maybe so, but as long as you did make a mistake.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Mister Otney is a man who thoroughly hates all people
who complain about crushed trash can lids. He firmly believes
that all are troublemakers, that they are all prevaricators and schemers.
He hates rain and having to go out in it.
I think he's taken a special dislike to me. Is
this the type of man at whose mercy you throw yourself?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
My heavens, you certainly built up a case.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Do you want me to go out and read his
mind for you? Dad?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
It'd scare you to death.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Jim, you can't keep him waiting. The longer you wait,
the worst it is.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I know, I know. Let's see. I wonder if I
could take our good lid and take a hammer and no,
that'd be cheating, dear.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
The only thing to do is tell what happens. Honesty
is the best policy, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Huh, that's what you keep telling us.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Oh well, that's right too, absolutely right. But this isn't
a matter of honesty. It's a matter of a man's dignity.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And well, dar gone, it's downright embarrassing all those snide
remarks he kept making.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Well, what do you plan to do while you're making
up your mind?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Invite him to dinner?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
No, I, Kathy stopped looking at me that way. Are
going there right now and telling the truth. You're right,
it's the only thing to do.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Stop fellow.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Okay, now, Kathy, do it right this time, close your
eyes and seven No, not yet.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Sorry to have kept you waiting, mister Otney.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Still got another call to make it tonight. Yeah. Well uh,
kind of a funny thing happened. Uh huh. Yes, well,
you see, the whole thing was just a mistake. I
went out in the back and you can imagine my
surprise when there was our cover just as good as new. Yes, sir,
(17:40):
we get them all the time. I beg your pardon. Look,
if you've got a bent lit, get it out and
let's get this thing straightened out. We want you to
be happy.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But I tell you it's not ben It's okay. See
the lid I found that was bent. Well are you
perfectly happy?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Then?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Perfectly? No complaints, no complaints. Okay, I've got some other forms.
You'll have to sign them. Why release for him? Here
we are. Oh come now, mister.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Complaint you phoned in is on the book, so we've
got to dispense with it one way or another.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You will sign up there all right? Sign all four carbons,
four regulations. I can see where all our tax money goes.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Now for carbon paper here, sign this to well what's this?
It's a release releasing the other release. Well, I figures regulation.
Oh naturally, Well, okay, here you are.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Uh huh, well, good night, good night. Why did I
ever have to open my big mouth and call them
in the first place?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Father, I'm glad I'm not that other party he has
to call on yet tonight.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Father, Oh, just an old pal of mine.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
What did he want?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He's just one of the facts. Ma'am, My goodness, you're
certainly dressed up. I thought you were going to stay
home and study history tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Not make it.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Well.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Even though a girl is going to study, she has
to look halfway presentable, doesn't she.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Who do you plan on being presented to? The Queen
of England?
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Is he gone? Dear?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, honesty is indeed the best policy, even though you
have to sign a release on it. But it's all
over now and I'd rather not hear any more about it.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Well, I knew that the best thing to do with Betty.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Where are you going tonight?
Speaker 4 (19:38):
No, plase, just going to study history. Mister Glover is
coming over to help me. Oh didn't I tell you?
I wanted us to have dinner early tonight?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
No, he didn't mention it.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Oh fine, I'll bet he didn't bring in the logs either.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
The logs they're studying about Lincoln's early life, and mister
Glover is going to show her how to build a
law cabin.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Oh, father, don't be so carnball.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Well, I don't want them dragging a lot of logs
into the living room.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
It's just for the fireplace.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Mother.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Oh, where is budd.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well right now?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
He's taking the trash can around to the front with
all his talk about it. I suddenly realized that tomorrow
is a collection day.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I bet our lid will get fairly courteous treatment this time.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Mother, would you sort of hurry dinner along. I'll try,
but you better come out and help me. I'll get it.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Maybe it's mister Glover telling me.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Better wear his tuxedos so I won't feel out of place. Hello.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Oh, hi, Janni, Gee, I'm glad you call im when
I ask you something.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
What.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Yes, he's coming over tonight. Oh it worked fine. I
didn't know a thing in class today, not a thing.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I wonder if this guy realizes the trap's being set.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
For him, we'll say kiitto, here's what I want to
ask you. Could you help me think up some real
dumb history questions to ask him?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Oh? Brothers? If she needed help on that?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
What were some you used?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
They don't pay teachers one eighth enough.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh that's good, let me write that down. What caused
the dark ages?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
The small.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Got any others?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I think maybe he's here already. I'll talk to you later,
Jendy bye. Gosh, she's sure. Early father answered the door.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I'm doing it. Sorry to sturb you again. Anderson, huh, oh,
it's you, mister Otney. I just called him the brand.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
There's a few doors down other people that accused us
of sealing their lid. Oh they've got some new evidence now.
One of the kids saw a man pick it up
and carry it into your house.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Our house.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Oh well, I can explain that you're trying to do
causes trouble. Oh no, really, that was the mistake I
was trying to tell you about. I evidently picked theirs
up the bent one by mistake, thinking it was my mistake. Sure,
that's how this whole thing started.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Well where is it? They want it back?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Well, it's well, it's no good, it's all bent. Your
driver ran over it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
You just say him doing. No, I did, and how
do you know that?
Speaker 6 (22:23):
He?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Look, I'll call up the branders and settle this thing myself.
Or maybe they don't have a phone yet. Yes they do.
I've got it on their complaint card. Oh good, let
me have that. You'll have to sign a release. I
just want to borrow it. Wait there, I'll be right back. Okay,
who's he?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Father?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That's my old pal.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Aren't you gonna ask any here?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Let him stay out there might cool him off a bit.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
What did he want?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I think he wants to throw me in jail for
being a lid snatcher? What hello is this, mister Brander? Well,
my name is Jim Anderson. I just live a few
doors down from you.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
And there seems to be a misunderstanding about a trash
can lid?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Is that the one I threw away?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, it's all kind of silly.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I picked it up by a mistake, thinking it was ours,
and I called the department, thinking.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
They'd run over it and bend it out of shape.
What'd you say? Oh? Well, wait, I can give you
a tip. Don't try to get a new one from them.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Believe me, you'll be sorry you ever brought it up.
I'll buy you a new one myself. No, I insist.
We'll call it a sort of welcome to our neighborhood gift. Yeah,
Jim Anderson insurance. Well, sure, I'll be in my office
all day tomorrow. Well fine, I'm sure we can fix
(23:47):
you up. I see you tomorrow. Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, how do you like that?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Father? I think that man out there is getting impatient.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Good want me to go out that other lid?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
No, well, mister Otney, it's all settle. You can go
home now.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, you have to sign another release first.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Now, wait a minute, and these complaints get on the
books with it's regulation.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Sure, sure, uh sign all four copies again? Yes, okay,
well you sure get him at our office. All right,
there you are. Does that take care of it now?
Uh huh? Well, good night, good night? Well, thank goodness,
(24:35):
that's over. I hope I never see another lid as
long as I live long.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Everyone dinners gone.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Okay, it's not fancy.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Tonight, but it's here.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Hurry up, Kathy and Bud.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
No, no, no.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
No, you're supposed to try to hear what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Well you don't.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Think loud enough. Oh, creepers, there's mister Glover I totally
not to come until seven. Patty, you go to the door.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I'm going, Princess, I'm going come on, children, sit down. Yes,
sorry to disturb you again. Anderson, mister Otney, WHOA What
have I done? Now? Nothing?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I I don't know how it happened, but when I
started my car, I bumped into your trash can and ran.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Over the cover. You uh you want now, if you'll
just sign these papers, I'll see that you get a
new Oh no, you don't, huh. You keep your forms
and I'll buy all my own trash cans from here
(25:42):
on out.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The Anderson's will be back in just a moment. And
now here's a word about some of the fine shows
you'll hear tomorrow night on the NBC Radio Network. Comedy
Rules the Roost when Bob Hope presents his fast paced,
typical topical humor, and tomorrow evening you'll hear Miss Gene
Tierney as guest of The Bob Hope Show. So be
sure to listen tomorrow and then stay tuned as Phil
(26:17):
Harris and Alice Faye right in the air waves with
thirty minutes of hilarious comedy and some of the nation's
most popular music along with.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Phil and Alice.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You'll hear Elliot Lewis and Julius Abruzzio to keep the
comedy on an earthquaking level. Remember tomorrow and every Friday
evening over many of these same stations, it's the Bob
Hope Show and the Phil Harris Alice Faye Show.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Hear them both on the NBC Radio Network. Well, a strange.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Case of the crush cover has been completely As far
as Jim Anderson's concerned, it'll never be opened again. At
the moment, Betty is studying history in the living room
with mister Glover while the rest of the family is
confined to the dam.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
All right now, Dad, this time you write something down
on a piece of paper and put it in a
sealed envelope and see if I can tell what it is.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
But I'd rather not do any more mind reading right now.
The only thing I seem to have on my mind
is mister Otney, and I don't think I want to
think about him anymore.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Well, just put.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Something downy, Stop peeking at Betty and mister Glover.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I was just going to the kitchen to get a
drink of water.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
That's the ninth drink of water you've gone after in
the last ten minutes, you'll get water logged.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Come on, Dad, fight something down.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I still can't get over mister Otney accusing me of
stealing the Bradner's lid. I've never stolen anything in my life.
Come on, Dad, I don't feel like it. Bud, here
is my pen. You write something down yourself. That way
it'll be easier for to guess what it is.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Yeah, I believe you're right. Hey, where'd you get this penn?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
It?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Says Oliver Rotney on it.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Botany.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Oh my gosh, I forgot to give it back. He'll
be certain I stole it. He'll have me signing releases
for the rest of my life. Join us again next
week when we'll be back where Father Knows Best, starring
(28:37):
Robert Young as Jim Anderson. Father Knows Best is an
NBC Radio Network production in cooperation with Cavalier Enterprise. In
our cast for Geen vander Pylist, Margaret wrote of Williams,
Ted Donaldson, Helen Strom and Yours Truman. Father Knows Best,
based on characters created by Ed James, is written by
Paul West and Roswell Rogers, directed by Arthur Jacobson and
transcribed in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
This is Bill Foreman speaking.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Tonight play Truth or Consequences on the NBC Radio network
Speaker 6 (29:16):
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