August 20, 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):
My dear, why did Daddy switch to post him?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Your father says, there's no caffeine in post them, nothing
to spoil your sleep. And your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by instant post them the good tasting drink that's entirely
caffeine free, and by posts forty percent brand flakes, America's
largest selling brand plate. Every dog, according to Jonathan Swift,
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must have his day, but not many dogs get to
have their day with the Andersons in.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The white frame house on the street.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
However, a certain French poodle is about to come into
the lives of the Andersons like this, Mother, I got it.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Mother, God, what beddy?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Look? Father? Isn't it cute?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yes, it's cute, but what is it?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's a dog.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
That's a dog.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's a toy French poodle. And oh boy, we got
a dog. Get away in. But don't start mauling him.
I'm not going to maul him. I just want to
pit him. Well, don't even touch him. He belongs to
mister Fawcett. And he's worth over three hundred dollars. I
just want to put my hand on him. I'm not
going to break him.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I don't know from the look of him. He might
break at that.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Get away, Kathy, over Pete's sake, why couldn't we get
some little old fifty cent dog.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
He's not hours, Betty, you know who always winds up
taking care of the petshee children?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Bring home, mother?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Please, may I tell you why this dog is here?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yes, I'm like an explanation too, and an introduction. This
is the first opportunity I've had to meet a three
hundred dollar dog.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, his name is I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Suppose I'm properly addressed for the occasion. Maybe I should
go upstairs and change.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh, father, don't be so utterly cornball.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, I don't want to commit any breaches of etiquette
in front of our guests.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
What did you say?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
His name was Pierre.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Bone swire?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Pierre, he doesn't think much of your accent.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, now that the formalities are over to what do
we owe the presence of this imitation hound?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
He's not imitation. He belongs to my typing and shorthand teacher,
mister pocket and mister Fossett is in Chicago attending a
teacher's convention. You mean we don't get to keep him?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
No, how can a type teacher afford a three hundred
dollar dog?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I know I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He was given to mister Fawcett by a dear friend,
and mister Fawcett prizes Pierre very highly. How long did
we get to have him? Just till tomorrow morning?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Teck, mister Fawcett gets back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Sounds like a short convention.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Oh well, he's been gone all week. You see some
of us girls in his class have been taking care
of Pierre.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I see Pierre's making quite a week of it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, we figured it would sort of put us in
solid with mister Fawcett.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Oh so this is a slightly political move.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Uh yes, and listen to this father. There were four
of us and mister Fawcett was going to be gone
seven days, So in dividing up the days, one of
us could only have Pierre one day. And I'll bet
you think I was dumb to say I'd be the one.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
No, I say, you showed great foresight.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
There, Well I did. I'm the one who gets to
return Pierre to mister Fawcett, and he'll thank me and
sort of remember me is the one who took care
of his dog, which he prizes more than life itself.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Now, if you just put that much thought to your schoolwork,
you wouldn't have to resort to such maneuvers.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Let me take him out to the kitchen and feed
him some bones and stuff. He looks skinny, he's supposed
to look that way, and don't feed him. Pierre is
on a strict diet. Where's the dog on his sleep tonight?
Can he sleep on the foot of my bed?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You probably want the guest room?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Oh, father, too bad, we don't have one.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Hey, mom, let me feed him, please, No, I'm going
to do it. Mister Fossett would simply die if anything
happened to Pierre. Mom, so would I.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Hey, Mom, just what I got?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I hope it's not a dog?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
No, it's a carryer pigeon.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Who why are we running here? A pet shop?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I got it from? Hey? What's this thing?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
This happens to.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Be a dog?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Dog?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Dog?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Ever hear of one?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Holy cow? What happened to him?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He quiet?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Looks like somebody ran over him with a lawnmower.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He's just then clipped. I'm keeping him from mister Fawcett.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Has he got a name?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's Pierre Pierre yepe?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
All right, come on, Pierre. We don't have to associate
with such utter flabius.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
What did she call me?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
There's nothing to worry about, Bud. Just leave her alone.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Where's your pigeon?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Bud?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Can I see it?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
No? You stay away from it. You're able to let
it get loose.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Nah, I can't touch anything around here, Bud.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Just what do you plan to do with a carrier pigeon?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I got it from Ari Pew?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, I ought to explain something. But who's Ari Pew?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
He's a guy I see?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well he really carry messages?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Well, sure he will. We've been trying him out this evening.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh boy, can I send a message to Patty David?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
The only place he'll carry a message is back over
to Orri's house. Well, I can't think of any messages
I want to send, Torri.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I can see how that would follow up your communication system.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
The main reason I got the pigeon is so I
could print up some messages with that printing set of mine.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
But that's not working out so good.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Either what seems to be the drawback there.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Well, to get the pigeon, I had to trade the
printing set to Ri.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, that was good clear thinking.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I think I'll tell him I want to trade back. Hey,
there's a message I could send him.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Are you going to send it right now?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Can I watch?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Okay, but don't give me any trouble.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I will not.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You wonder what in the world they'll come up with next.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Well, at least that one way carrier pigeon was fired legally.
But I'm a little surprised that Betty would stoop to
taking care of a silly dog, just a red apple
a teacher.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, don't start worrying about.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It, dear, I'm not worrying. I just said I was surprised.
Doesn't it seem a little underhanded to you?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well, all depends on how you look at it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No matter how you look at it.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
She's trying to butter up this mister Fosdick, faus Fawcett
all right, whatever his name, is, scheming to be the
last one to keep the dog so she can return him.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
What an operation.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Now, don't start building this up in your mind, dear.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
He was building anything up here, Pierre.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Hello, baby, What a dog looks like a marshmallow Sunday
with fur?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Here?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Pierre? Here, Pierre here, dog?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Come on, little fellaw, how do you like that he
passed me up? He's going right to you, dear, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
There, fouchee. You're not so dumb, after all.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You're the air he's in here.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Betty, Oh, you want to.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Come up with my laugh? Huh, okay, up you go.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
What's he doing?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
He's talking to your father.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Sure you're a fine little fellow. You know these dogs
have intelligent faces. At that, there's something very honest about
a dog.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Where is he? Oh, we'll be careful of him.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Father.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
If anything happened to the air, it would be the
end of my college career, simply the end.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
You've made that point very clear, Princess. I believe he
likes me. I wonder if it's true that dogs have
an instinct for judging character.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh, let me have him, father, it's time for his dinner.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Come on, snooky.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Poo, snooky woo.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know something, Margaret, what dear? It had served Betty Wright?
If something did happen to Pierre what?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Nothing permanent or painful?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But mother, where did you put that box with special
dog food?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I brought home down in the cupboard beside the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Uh, where are you going to feed him? Princess porch?
Better be sure he can't push the back door open?
Oh he can, Dear, what are you remember mine?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Honny?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I was just thinking that.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I didn't say you did.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Where do you think the pigeon's gone?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I know where he's gone. He's gone back to Dorri's.
I got to call him right away. What's the matter,
pigeon problems?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, he's gone.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Ohr, this is Bud. Say will you look outside and
see if Vern's over there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Who's Vern?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That's but scarry your pigeon?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
My name for a pigeon.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Or He named him after his uncle, the pigeon's uncle, Norri, the.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
One that used to be a Western Union messenger.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Boy, well I can see the connection there.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Oh, mother, you ought to go out and watch Pierre.
He actually has manners.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I'll take your word for it, Dear, eating with a fork?
Is he?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I have to find something to make a bed for Pierre.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Betty, you're sure he can't push that back door open.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
There's a spring on it. He can't push it open.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Jim, why do you keep talking about the back door?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
What happened to Ri? Bud? He lost two?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
He's coming?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Orri oh he is?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Well bring him back over here, because I want to
send you a message. Well, if I tell you what
the message is, then I won't have anything to send
with a pigeon.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
When you bring him over.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
This thing gets more complicated all the time.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Well, okay, then here's the message. I want to trade
the pigeon back to you for my printing set.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You will, okay, goodbye?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What did you tell him the message for?
Speaker 7 (11:12):
He's gonna pin it up on the printing set and
bring it over when he brings the pigeon, then I'll
send it back to him.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Did he say he traded that?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
How could he tell that he hasn't got the message yet?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, now I've heard everything.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
If the pigeon ever finds out what's going on, he'll
go south for the winner. Excuse me, I think I'll
wander out and see if Pierre is ready for his crap.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Susette, we're in that old green blanket we.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Used to have.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Didn't you take it up to the lake last summer.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I think I'll go out in front and watch for Hori.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Uncle with you. It was on the upstairs course the
last time I saw it.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
What do you always have to tag along? Force?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I can if I want to.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I haven't seen a dear.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Holy caf it's in the basement. Pierre has to have
something to sleep on.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, it's around the house somewhere.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Fine, have you seen it?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
He's out in the frontier, Fine.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Margaret, Betty go out the front door?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
What yes?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Why I didn't want her to see me come in?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
What have you been up to?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I'm gonna throw a little scare into Betty when she
goes out to the back porch for Pierre. He won't
be there. What I betted him down in the garage.
Let her think he's lost for a while. Teach her
good lesson. Not to play school politics, oh jim. Let
her think she's going to have to replace that three
hundred dollars dog. Let her wonder what she's going to
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tell mister Fawcett tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It'll serve her just right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Are you sure he's all right out there?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Sure the door's closed tight, you can't get out. I
can hardly wait to see the expression on Betty's face.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Is that you, Bon?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's me mother?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Did but know where the blanket? What?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
No, princess? And you better see if Pierre's all right.
He hasn't made a sound out there.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'll be in a minute, dear. Do you think the
garage is a very good place for it? Some one
could come along.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
No, he's perfectly safe, say mom.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Or hasn't called, has he?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
No, we've been right here.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
He hasn't showed up with the pigeon yet.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
By the way, Bud, kind of steer clear of the garage.
I mean, don't open the door.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Don't open the door. I just closed it. What? Yeah
it was open?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
No? Where was a dog?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I don't know? No dog out there? No dog? What's
the matter?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Day? Out of the way.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You better take a good look at your father, Bud.
You may not see him for a long time.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Right now.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Jim would pay almost three hundred dollars for some information
he badly needs about a missing dog and friends. Here
some information from Ed Prentice which may be worth a
lot more than three hundred dollars to you.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
You know, when you're not sleeping nights, when you're always
worn out, cross and nervous, you'd give almost anything to
clear up the trouble, wouldn't you, Well, your trouble could
be coffee nerves. Yes, coffee nerves brought on. But the
caffeine and coffee or tea. You know, caffeine is a drug,
a nerve stimulant. That's a scientific fact. Yes, caffeine may
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leave you too nervous and upset to sleep properly. And
while many can handle coffee, okay others And this could
mean you suffer sleepless nights, jittery nerves.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
What to do about it?
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Well, you don't have to give up and enjoying a
good hot drink.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
No, say, just make it.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Post them instead, delicious instant post them. There's a good,
sundrant reason post them is totally without caffeine.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Not a single bit of it.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
No wonder so many folks has switched to post them
and sleep. Why don't you make this simple test? Drink
post them for thirty days, post them exclusively, then check up.
See if you aren't sleeping better, feeling better too? Try
post them and see you'll like it. Delicious instant post
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them made instantly in the cup.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Well, there used to be a game called button Button.
Who's got the button? This evening in the white frame
house on Maple Street. A variation on that game's being played.
You might call it strude Strudel. Who's got the poodle
and the one who is most frantically searching for a
certain toy poodle named Pierre is Jim Anderson. Meanwhile, in
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the kitchen, Bud is trying to catch up on the
current crisis.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Like this, Holy cow, Mom, what's wrong with Dad?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, don't say anything about it, Bud. But your father
put Pierre out in the garage. Now he's missing.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Oh, that's why Dad when tearing out the back door.
But what did he put him in the garage for.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It's a long story. The point is Pierre is gone
and your father has to find him before Betty finds out.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Maybe a butterfly chased him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Father.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
He's outside, Betty. I'm gonna go out and see if
I can help him, poodles the idea of standing in
the middle of the kitchen with that dumb look on
your face.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I'm waiting for he's bringing the pigeon over. Where'd mother
goes outside? Where's father outside? Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Betty's looking for Pierre, isn't he?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Bud?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Don't you tell anybody, but I have Pierre up in
my room. I heard father talking out here. He hit
him in the garage just to scare. So I went
out and brought Pierre in the frontway.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
You better go out and tell him.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh no, let him do for a while. It'll teach
him a lesson. Poor little Pierre out there in that
dirty garage.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Stop you're breaking my heart.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh oh, I didn't know you were in here, Betty.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I've been here all the time. Where's father?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Oh he's outside, deer. Weren't you planning to go out tonight? Me?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh? No, I have to stay home and take care
of Pierre. Worries one mother?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Pierre. Oh, he's outside somewhere outside. Oh, your father's out
there too. He's all right. I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I think I'll go outside too. I gotta watch forri mother.
What's father up to?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You see dear.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Here, Hello, princess father.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Where is mister Fawcett's three hundred dollars French pool?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Uh, mister French's freepoodle? I mean, oh, he's all right.
You don't think I'd let anything happen to him, do you?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I'm not worried. I'm sure you know exactly where he is,
and I'm perfectly confident that you're taking good care of him.
Oh sure, well, you better go out and get him. Father.
I'm going to put him to bed in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Uh all right.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Princess, I think you'd better sit down.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You look a little shaky.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Margaret, Where do you suppose that darn dog went to.
There's not a sign of him anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Don't look at me. You're the one who's teaching Betty
the lesson.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I've got to find him.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But where?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack, that
four legged powder puppet hide under a peanut.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Shell, and ball of silly ideas putting him in the
garage in the first place.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Maybe it's Pierre. He seems to open and close doors
pretty readily.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
He showed up with the pigeon. Finally.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, that's at the message backstory.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Look, Kathy, but I don't know how far he'll be
there to get the message though. He ran for home
as fast as he could, but the pigeon was way
ahead of him.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Why didn't you hold a pigeon way too? Laurie got home.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
The message was urgent.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Oh, dear, Look, kids, I have a very serious problem,
and Bud you and Kathy can help me.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
What's the matter, Daddy, Well, don't.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Say anything to Betty. But Pierre got away somehow. I
want you both to go out and comb the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I'll go, Daddy, But Dad, there's no use going on.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I've got to find him.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Budy, you kids know all the nooks and crannies around
the neighborhood. He can't be very far away. I'll even
give it a reward for him.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Get her a live.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I'm serious, kitten of five dollars in cash.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Five dollars, Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Oh boy, Come on, bud get your flash lie yo.
But he's not well. I may hey, you can stand
around if you want to. I'm going out and.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Look for him an if he needs the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Mom, I'm hungry fine cooperation from my son. There's only
one place to look for anything as far as he's concerned,
in the refrigerator.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, you brought this on yourself.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Why did Betty have to bring the fool dog home
in the first place, and a three hundred dollar dog
He ought to be in a safe deposit box.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I'm going to phone some of the neighbors the Davis
has have a dog.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Maybe he went over there where's the peanut?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But of mom, right where it always is. I can't
understand you, Bud, when your father.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Asked you to go out, the dog isn't outside anywhere?
I mean, what's more, do you.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Know he isn't outside.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Well, I'm not supposed to say, who said you're not well?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Bud? There's nothing that concerns the family that you can't
tell me, but g MoMA, But do you know where
the dog is?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Sort of what do you mean sort of? Is he
in the house?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah? Kinda?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
He can't be kind of in the house. Pierre is
either in or out. Now where is he?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
I wasn't supposed to say anything, but you see, Betty's
trying to teach.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Dad a lesson. She got the foods out of the
garage and he's up in her room.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh I see, Well, lines are all busy.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
What in tar nation am I going to tell?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Betty?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
But you might take just a little interest in all this.
Three hundred dollars doesn't grow on trees, you.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Know, I know, Dan any jam or on Mom?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I wonder if it would do any good to call
the police.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh, that's probably for me, Dear, I'm expecting a call
from missus Rodney.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
After if he's seen a silly looking French poodle.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Oh, mister Fawcett, this is daddy's mother and she didn't
expect you back until tomorrow morning. Oh I see, yes, yes,
we have Pierre. He's fine. Oh, it's perfectly all right,
that'll be fine. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Who was it, mother?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Did I hear you say that one?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yes, that was mister Faust. He just arrived home. He's
coming over to pick up Pierre.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Coming over?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Father, coming over here tonight in the dark?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I imagine he has lights on his car. Yes, but
excuse me, I'll be right back. Well, father, you haven't
let anything happen to.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Pierre, have you, Princess believe me, I didn't intend to.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I have to tell you the dog's gone.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh, father, how could you?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I'll buy mister Fassit another one, or I'll find him.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Or I'll all right.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Father, you've suffered enough.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I took Pierre.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Out of the garage.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
What I was just teaching you a little lesson not
to be so quick to jump to conclusion.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Oh, Princess, that was a cruel thing to do.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Not anymore cruel in what you were doing.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Thank goodness, he isn't lost. Where is he up.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
In my room? If mister Possit's coming over after him,
I want to brush him and put a ribbonized collar. Pierre, Pierre,
where are you? Pierre?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Father Gode? He's not here anywhere.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
She's still chasing that cream puff?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Pierre?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Have you seen him but not me?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I hate to say this, but if you'd left him
in the garage where I put him, this would never
have happened.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
If you've left him on the back porch where I
put him, it wouldn't have happened either.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Sure, his family's gone to the dogs.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Who asked you?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Nobody here?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I am facing disgrace. O a disgrace.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'm sorry, princess, but this shows what happens when you
try to take things into your own hands.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, what's all the wailing about?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Now? The French ambassador has gone underground again?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Who Pierre?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
He's dropped out of sight? Mother vanished. I had him
in my room just a few minutes ago, and now
he's gone.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
How could that be? What was he doing in your room?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Well? I was getting even with father a little for
hiding him in the garage, so I had him in
my room. Now suddenly he's nowhere in the house. What
am I gonna tell mister Fawcett.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Let's see, three hundred dollars and your allowance is two
dollars and a half a week.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That'll be about Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Father, don't think about it. Pierre has to be in
this house somewhere.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Well, I hope you both learned your lesson about trying
to teach other people lessons. I have Pierre.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Huh you have?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
He's sound asleep in the broom closet.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh, thank goodness. Well, let's get him out before mister
Fawcett comes. I want him to look his best. Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I forgot to mention too, mister Fawcett is coming to
pick up Pierre, but not until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Mother Margaret, that's not very fair.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I just wanted to teach you to a little lesson.
Now I think it worked out very well.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Well, let's get Pierre out of the broom closet.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, he's right here, he's writing this where to go?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Oh no, not again, but he was right here.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I put him here.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Well, let's see your household budget.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He was here, I know he was here.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I wonder who's teaching you a little lesson there.
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Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
It's a few moments later in the white frame house
on Maple Street and still no clue to the missing Pierre.
It's a rather tense moment as the Anderson's faced the
awful truth that the precious poodle this time has dropped
out of sight once and.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
For all, Like this.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I've looked everywhere. Not a trace of him.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
He's not in the basement.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Oh, if only you and not an elect himal bone.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
If you hadn't brought him home in.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
The first place, Father, if you had left him, no,
I know, give me your five dollars, Daddy, I get the.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Reward, reward I got, Pierre.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Oh, bless you, bless you, bless you.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
All right, kiddn't we give up? Where did you find him?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It was easy. I found him in the bream closet.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Join us again next week, when we'll be back where
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Speaker 3 (28:12):
Storrying Robert Young as Jim Anders.
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must have his day, but not many dogs get to
have their day with the Andersons in.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The white frame house on the street.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
However, a certain French poodle is about to come into
the lives of the Andersons like this, Mother, I got it.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Mother, God, what beddy?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Look? Father? Isn't it cute?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yes, it's cute, but what is it?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's a dog.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
That's a dog.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's a toy French poodle. And oh boy, we got
a dog. Get away in. But don't start mauling him.
I'm not going to maul him. I just want to
pit him. Well, don't even touch him. He belongs to
mister Fawcett. And he's worth over three hundred dollars. I
just want to put my hand on him. I'm not
going to break him.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I don't know from the look of him. He might
break at that.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Get away, Kathy, over Pete's sake, why couldn't we get
some little old fifty cent dog.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
He's not hours, Betty, you know who always winds up
taking care of the petshee children?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Bring home, mother?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Please, may I tell you why this dog is here?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yes, I'm like an explanation too, and an introduction. This
is the first opportunity I've had to meet a three
hundred dollar dog.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, his name is I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Suppose I'm properly addressed for the occasion. Maybe I should
go upstairs and change.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh, father, don't be so utterly cornball.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Well, I don't want to commit any breaches of etiquette
in front of our guests.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
What did you say?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
His name was Pierre.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Bone swire?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Pierre, he doesn't think much of your accent.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, now that the formalities are over to what do
we owe the presence of this imitation hound?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
He's not imitation. He belongs to my typing and shorthand teacher,
mister pocket and mister Fossett is in Chicago attending a
teacher's convention. You mean we don't get to keep him?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
No, how can a type teacher afford a three hundred
dollar dog?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I know I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
He was given to mister Fawcett by a dear friend,
and mister Fawcett prizes Pierre very highly. How long did
we get to have him? Just till tomorrow morning?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Teck, mister Fawcett gets back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Sounds like a short convention.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Oh well, he's been gone all week. You see some
of us girls in his class have been taking care
of Pierre.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I see Pierre's making quite a week of it.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, we figured it would sort of put us in
solid with mister Fawcett.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Oh so this is a slightly political move.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Uh yes, and listen to this father. There were four
of us and mister Fawcett was going to be gone
seven days, So in dividing up the days, one of
us could only have Pierre one day. And I'll bet
you think I was dumb to say I'd be the one.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
No, I say, you showed great foresight.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
There, Well I did. I'm the one who gets to
return Pierre to mister Fawcett, and he'll thank me and
sort of remember me is the one who took care
of his dog, which he prizes more than life itself.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Now, if you just put that much thought to your schoolwork,
you wouldn't have to resort to such maneuvers.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Let me take him out to the kitchen and feed
him some bones and stuff. He looks skinny, he's supposed
to look that way, and don't feed him. Pierre is
on a strict diet. Where's the dog on his sleep tonight?
Can he sleep on the foot of my bed?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You probably want the guest room?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Oh, father, too bad, we don't have one.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Hey, mom, let me feed him, please, No, I'm going
to do it. Mister Fossett would simply die if anything
happened to Pierre. Mom, so would I.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Hey, Mom, just what I got?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I hope it's not a dog?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
No, it's a carryer pigeon.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Who why are we running here? A pet shop?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I got it from? Hey? What's this thing?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
This happens to.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Be a dog?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Dog?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Dog?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Ever hear of one?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Holy cow? What happened to him?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He quiet?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Looks like somebody ran over him with a lawnmower.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He's just then clipped. I'm keeping him from mister Fawcett.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Has he got a name?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's Pierre Pierre yepe?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
All right, come on, Pierre. We don't have to associate
with such utter flabius.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
What did she call me?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
There's nothing to worry about, Bud. Just leave her alone.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Where's your pigeon?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Bud?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Can I see it?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
No? You stay away from it. You're able to let
it get loose.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Nah, I can't touch anything around here, Bud.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Just what do you plan to do with a carrier pigeon?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I got it from Ari Pew?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, I ought to explain something. But who's Ari Pew?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
He's a guy I see?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well he really carry messages?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Well, sure he will. We've been trying him out this evening.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh boy, can I send a message to Patty David?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Why not?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
The only place he'll carry a message is back over
to Orri's house. Well, I can't think of any messages
I want to send, Torri.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I can see how that would follow up your communication system.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
The main reason I got the pigeon is so I
could print up some messages with that printing set of mine.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
But that's not working out so good.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Either what seems to be the drawback there.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Well, to get the pigeon, I had to trade the
printing set to Ri.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, that was good clear thinking.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I think I'll tell him I want to trade back. Hey,
there's a message I could send him.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Are you going to send it right now?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Can I watch?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Okay, but don't give me any trouble.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I will not.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You wonder what in the world they'll come up with next.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Well, at least that one way carrier pigeon was fired legally.
But I'm a little surprised that Betty would stoop to
taking care of a silly dog, just a red apple
a teacher.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, don't start worrying about.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
It, dear, I'm not worrying. I just said I was surprised.
Doesn't it seem a little underhanded to you?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well, all depends on how you look at it.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No matter how you look at it.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
She's trying to butter up this mister Fosdick, faus Fawcett
all right, whatever his name, is, scheming to be the
last one to keep the dog so she can return him.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
What an operation.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Now, don't start building this up in your mind, dear.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
He was building anything up here, Pierre.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Hello, baby, What a dog looks like a marshmallow Sunday
with fur?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Here?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Pierre? Here, Pierre here, dog?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Come on, little fellaw, how do you like that he
passed me up? He's going right to you, dear, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
There, fouchee. You're not so dumb, after all.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You're the air he's in here.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Betty, Oh, you want to.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Come up with my laugh? Huh, okay, up you go.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
What's he doing?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
He's talking to your father.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Sure you're a fine little fellow. You know these dogs
have intelligent faces. At that, there's something very honest about
a dog.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Where is he? Oh, we'll be careful of him.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Father.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
If anything happened to the air, it would be the
end of my college career, simply the end.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
You've made that point very clear, Princess. I believe he
likes me. I wonder if it's true that dogs have
an instinct for judging character.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh, let me have him, father, it's time for his dinner.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Come on, snooky.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Poo, snooky woo.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know something, Margaret, what dear? It had served Betty Wright?
If something did happen to Pierre what?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Nothing permanent or painful?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But mother, where did you put that box with special
dog food?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I brought home down in the cupboard beside the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Uh, where are you going to feed him? Princess porch?
Better be sure he can't push the back door open?
Oh he can, Dear, what are you remember mine?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Honny?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I was just thinking that.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I didn't say you did.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Where do you think the pigeon's gone?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
I know where he's gone. He's gone back to Dorri's.
I got to call him right away. What's the matter,
pigeon problems?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, he's gone.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Ohr, this is Bud. Say will you look outside and
see if Vern's over there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Who's Vern?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
That's but scarry your pigeon?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
My name for a pigeon.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Or He named him after his uncle, the pigeon's uncle, Norri, the.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
One that used to be a Western Union messenger.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Boy, well I can see the connection there.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Oh, mother, you ought to go out and watch Pierre.
He actually has manners.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
I'll take your word for it, Dear, eating with a fork?
Is he?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I have to find something to make a bed for Pierre.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Betty, you're sure he can't push that back door open.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
There's a spring on it. He can't push it open.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Jim, why do you keep talking about the back door?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
What happened to Ri? Bud? He lost two?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
He's coming?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Orri oh he is?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Well bring him back over here, because I want to
send you a message. Well, if I tell you what
the message is, then I won't have anything to send
with a pigeon.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
When you bring him over.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
This thing gets more complicated all the time.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Well, okay, then here's the message. I want to trade
the pigeon back to you for my printing set.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You will, okay, goodbye?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What did you tell him the message for?
Speaker 7 (11:12):
He's gonna pin it up on the printing set and
bring it over when he brings the pigeon, then I'll
send it back to him.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Did he say he traded that?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
How could he tell that he hasn't got the message yet?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, now I've heard everything.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
If the pigeon ever finds out what's going on, he'll
go south for the winner. Excuse me, I think I'll
wander out and see if Pierre is ready for his crap.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Susette, we're in that old green blanket we.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Used to have.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Didn't you take it up to the lake last summer.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I think I'll go out in front and watch for Hori.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Uncle with you. It was on the upstairs course the
last time I saw it.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
What do you always have to tag along? Force?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I can if I want to.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I haven't seen a dear.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Holy caf it's in the basement. Pierre has to have
something to sleep on.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, it's around the house somewhere.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Fine, have you seen it?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
He's out in the frontier, Fine.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Margaret, Betty go out the front door?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
What yes?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Why I didn't want her to see me come in?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
What have you been up to?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I'm gonna throw a little scare into Betty when she
goes out to the back porch for Pierre. He won't
be there. What I betted him down in the garage.
Let her think he's lost for a while. Teach her
good lesson. Not to play school politics, oh jim. Let
her think she's going to have to replace that three
hundred dollars dog. Let her wonder what she's going to
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tell mister Fawcett tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It'll serve her just right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Are you sure he's all right out there?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Sure the door's closed tight, you can't get out. I
can hardly wait to see the expression on Betty's face.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Is that you, Bon?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
It's me mother?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Did but know where the blanket? What?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
No, princess? And you better see if Pierre's all right.
He hasn't made a sound out there.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'll be in a minute, dear. Do you think the
garage is a very good place for it? Some one
could come along.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
No, he's perfectly safe, say mom.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Or hasn't called, has he?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
No, we've been right here.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
He hasn't showed up with the pigeon yet.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
By the way, Bud, kind of steer clear of the garage.
I mean, don't open the door.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Don't open the door. I just closed it. What? Yeah
it was open?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
No? Where was a dog?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I don't know? No dog out there? No dog? What's
the matter?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Day? Out of the way.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You better take a good look at your father, Bud.
You may not see him for a long time.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
Right now.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Jim would pay almost three hundred dollars for some information
he badly needs about a missing dog and friends. Here
some information from Ed Prentice which may be worth a
lot more than three hundred dollars to you.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
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mean you suffer sleepless nights, jittery nerves.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
What to do about it?
Speaker 8 (14:41):
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Speaker 4 (15:35):
Well, there used to be a game called button Button.
Who's got the button? This evening in the white frame
house on Maple Street. A variation on that game's being played.
You might call it strude Strudel. Who's got the poodle
and the one who is most frantically searching for a
certain toy poodle named Pierre is Jim Anderson. Meanwhile, in
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the kitchen, Bud is trying to catch up on the
current crisis.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Like this, Holy cow, Mom, what's wrong with Dad?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, don't say anything about it, Bud. But your father
put Pierre out in the garage. Now he's missing.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Oh, that's why Dad when tearing out the back door.
But what did he put him in the garage for.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
It's a long story. The point is Pierre is gone
and your father has to find him before Betty finds out.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Maybe a butterfly chased him.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Father.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
He's outside, Betty. I'm gonna go out and see if
I can help him, poodles the idea of standing in
the middle of the kitchen with that dumb look on
your face.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I'm waiting for he's bringing the pigeon over. Where'd mother
goes outside? Where's father outside? Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Betty's looking for Pierre, isn't he?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Bud?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Don't you tell anybody, but I have Pierre up in
my room. I heard father talking out here. He hit
him in the garage just to scare. So I went
out and brought Pierre in the frontway.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
You better go out and tell him.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh no, let him do for a while. It'll teach
him a lesson. Poor little Pierre out there in that
dirty garage.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Stop you're breaking my heart.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh oh, I didn't know you were in here, Betty.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I've been here all the time. Where's father?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Oh he's outside, deer. Weren't you planning to go out tonight? Me?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh? No, I have to stay home and take care
of Pierre. Worries one mother?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Pierre. Oh, he's outside somewhere outside. Oh, your father's out
there too. He's all right. I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I think I'll go outside too. I gotta watch forri mother.
What's father up to?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Well?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You see dear.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Here, Hello, princess father.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Where is mister Fawcett's three hundred dollars French pool?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Uh, mister French's freepoodle? I mean, oh, he's all right.
You don't think I'd let anything happen to him, do you?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I'm not worried. I'm sure you know exactly where he is,
and I'm perfectly confident that you're taking good care of him.
Oh sure, well, you better go out and get him. Father.
I'm going to put him to bed in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Uh all right.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Princess, I think you'd better sit down.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You look a little shaky.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Margaret, Where do you suppose that darn dog went to.
There's not a sign of him anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Don't look at me. You're the one who's teaching Betty
the lesson.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I've got to find him.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
But where?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack, that
four legged powder puppet hide under a peanut.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Shell, and ball of silly ideas putting him in the
garage in the first place.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Maybe it's Pierre. He seems to open and close doors
pretty readily.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
He showed up with the pigeon. Finally.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, that's at the message backstory.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Look, Kathy, but I don't know how far he'll be
there to get the message though. He ran for home
as fast as he could, but the pigeon was way
ahead of him.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Why didn't you hold a pigeon way too? Laurie got home.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
The message was urgent.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Oh, dear, Look, kids, I have a very serious problem,
and Bud you and Kathy can help me.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
What's the matter, Daddy, Well, don't.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Say anything to Betty. But Pierre got away somehow. I
want you both to go out and comb the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I'll go, Daddy, But Dad, there's no use going on.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I've got to find him.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Budy, you kids know all the nooks and crannies around
the neighborhood. He can't be very far away. I'll even
give it a reward for him.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Get her a live.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I'm serious, kitten of five dollars in cash.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Five dollars, Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Oh boy, Come on, bud get your flash lie yo.
But he's not well. I may hey, you can stand
around if you want to. I'm going out and.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Look for him an if he needs the refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Mom, I'm hungry fine cooperation from my son. There's only
one place to look for anything as far as he's concerned,
in the refrigerator.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, you brought this on yourself.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Why did Betty have to bring the fool dog home
in the first place, and a three hundred dollar dog
He ought to be in a safe deposit box.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I'm going to phone some of the neighbors the Davis
has have a dog.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Maybe he went over there where's the peanut?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But of mom, right where it always is. I can't
understand you, Bud, when your father.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Asked you to go out, the dog isn't outside anywhere?
I mean, what's more, do you.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Know he isn't outside.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Well, I'm not supposed to say, who said you're not well?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Bud? There's nothing that concerns the family that you can't
tell me, but g MoMA, But do you know where
the dog is?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Sort of what do you mean sort of? Is he
in the house?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah? Kinda?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
He can't be kind of in the house. Pierre is
either in or out. Now where is he?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well?
Speaker 7 (21:24):
I wasn't supposed to say anything, but you see, Betty's
trying to teach.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Dad a lesson. She got the foods out of the
garage and he's up in her room.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh I see, Well, lines are all busy.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
What in tar nation am I going to tell?
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Betty?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
But you might take just a little interest in all this.
Three hundred dollars doesn't grow on trees, you.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Know, I know, Dan any jam or on Mom?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I wonder if it would do any good to call
the police.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh, that's probably for me, Dear, I'm expecting a call
from missus Rodney.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
After if he's seen a silly looking French poodle.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Oh, mister Fawcett, this is daddy's mother and she didn't
expect you back until tomorrow morning. Oh I see, yes, yes,
we have Pierre. He's fine. Oh, it's perfectly all right,
that'll be fine. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Who was it, mother?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Did I hear you say that one?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yes, that was mister Faust. He just arrived home. He's
coming over to pick up Pierre.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Coming over?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Father, coming over here tonight in the dark?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I imagine he has lights on his car. Yes, but
excuse me, I'll be right back. Well, father, you haven't
let anything happen to.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Pierre, have you, Princess believe me, I didn't intend to.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I have to tell you the dog's gone.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Oh, father, how could you?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I'll buy mister Fassit another one, or I'll find him.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Or I'll all right.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Father, you've suffered enough.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I took Pierre.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Out of the garage.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
What I was just teaching you a little lesson not
to be so quick to jump to conclusion.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Oh, Princess, that was a cruel thing to do.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Not anymore cruel in what you were doing.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Thank goodness, he isn't lost. Where is he up.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
In my room? If mister Possit's coming over after him,
I want to brush him and put a ribbonized collar. Pierre, Pierre,
where are you? Pierre?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Father Gode? He's not here anywhere.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
She's still chasing that cream puff?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Pierre?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Have you seen him but not me?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I hate to say this, but if you'd left him
in the garage where I put him, this would never
have happened.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
If you've left him on the back porch where I
put him, it wouldn't have happened either.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Sure, his family's gone to the dogs.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Who asked you?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Nobody here?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I am facing disgrace. O a disgrace.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'm sorry, princess, but this shows what happens when you
try to take things into your own hands.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Well, what's all the wailing about?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Now? The French ambassador has gone underground again?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Who Pierre?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
He's dropped out of sight? Mother vanished. I had him
in my room just a few minutes ago, and now
he's gone.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
How could that be? What was he doing in your room?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Well? I was getting even with father a little for
hiding him in the garage, so I had him in
my room. Now suddenly he's nowhere in the house. What
am I gonna tell mister Fawcett.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Let's see, three hundred dollars and your allowance is two
dollars and a half a week.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That'll be about Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Father, don't think about it. Pierre has to be in
this house somewhere.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Well, I hope you both learned your lesson about trying
to teach other people lessons. I have Pierre.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Huh you have?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
He's sound asleep in the broom closet.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh, thank goodness. Well, let's get him out before mister
Fawcett comes. I want him to look his best. Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I forgot to mention too, mister Fawcett is coming to
pick up Pierre, but not until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Mother Margaret, that's not very fair.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I just wanted to teach you to a little lesson.
Now I think it worked out very well.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Well, let's get Pierre out of the broom closet.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, he's right here, he's writing this where to go?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Oh no, not again, but he was right here.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I put him here.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Well, let's see your household budget.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He was here, I know he was here.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I wonder who's teaching you a little lesson there.
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Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
It's a few moments later in the white frame house
on Maple Street and still no clue to the missing Pierre.
It's a rather tense moment as the Anderson's faced the
awful truth that the precious poodle this time has dropped
out of sight once and.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
For all, Like this.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I've looked everywhere. Not a trace of him.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
He's not in the basement.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Oh, if only you and not an elect himal bone.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
If you hadn't brought him home in.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
The first place, Father, if you had left him, no,
I know, give me your five dollars, Daddy, I get the.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Reward, reward I got, Pierre.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Oh, bless you, bless you, bless you.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
All right, kiddn't we give up? Where did you find him?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It was easy. I found him in the bream closet.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Join us again next week, when we'll be back where
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Speaker 3 (28:12):
Storrying Robert Young as Jim Anders.
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