October 4, 2025 • 30 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Is Naxwell House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World where your father says so and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert
Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors,
the Andersons, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House,
the coffee that's always good to the last drop. Now
(00:45):
is the time of year when a strange malady falls
upon the land.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Affecting people from every walk of life.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Butchers and bakers and candlestick makers, rookies and bookies and
Senator could father. It's an affliction that kills off thousands
of grandmothers and brings a peculiar gleam dovidions of eyes.
It's known as baseball fever. And nowhere is it more
prominent than in a certain white frame house on Maple
Street in the fair city of Springfield.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Like this.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Well, sure, but they had the tying run on third,
didn't they.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
The situation called for a squeeze play.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
And you know it, Jim, your eggs are getting ice.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Code one out and the man on third and he
lets the batter hit away.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
But Keller her hits a long ball, Dad. If he
hit a home run, we'd have won the game.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But if you're not interested in but he didn't hit
a home run he popped up, well, sure, but he
could have hit a home run.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
The paper says it might snow.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
If I'd been running the team, I'd have squeezed the
man in.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Maybe keller her doesn't know how to bun.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Three people in Miami were lost in a blizzard.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Anybody who doesn't know how to bun has no right
playing and triple a ball.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I didn't say he didn't. I said, maybe he didn't.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Sixty four people were killed in a telephone booth.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But if he played it safe, he couldn't have.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Somebody dropped an Adam bomb when they weren't looking.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
That's fine, honey, But.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
The basic principle of a squeeze player makes an almost foolproof.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
All they had to do was.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
What something wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Dear?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
What did you just say?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I don't know, dear, I wasn't listening.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Sixty four people were killed?
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Oh that where did you see anything about sixty four
people being killed?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You know, I'll may go down in history is the
first person to find a practical use for the Adam bomb.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's probably the only thing known to science that will
stop a conversation about baseball.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Sixty four people in a telephone booth.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Well they were good friends, everybody.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
How's the baseball capital of the world.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
We have just relived last night's game between Springfield and Columbus.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Margaret Pitch, Holy cal mom, we were just talking baseball.
Speaker 8 (03:05):
I got all dressed up last night. And where did
Roger take me to the ball game?
Speaker 9 (03:10):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Did you see the game last night?
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 7 (03:13):
I was there, Betty, in the ninth inning when Sara
was on third.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Gim let's not go into that again, please.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
But Honey, if she was there, I don't even know
where third is?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Oh five?
Speaker 8 (03:29):
And furthermore, I don't care drink your orange juice.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Dear Betty, How could anyone possibly be in this family
as long as you have and know as little about baseball?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It isn't easy, but I'll keep trying.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Why anybody.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Kathy's only nine, and she knows more about baseball in
ten minutes than you do in a year.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Hooray for her. But Joe Phillips was here last night.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Tell your sister where third base is?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
Third base?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
That's right, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Take it, Kathy, when you played baseball? Where is third base?
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Oh it's the rock next to the Hathaways fence.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Margaret, May I have my coffee?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Dear?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Did somebody move it?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Kathy? Let's talk about something else.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Well, that's the nicest thing I've heard around here for
the past month.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Father, you're having a seal at Gorman's. And I saw
the most wonderful addy.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yes, father, we're not going to talk about dresses.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
I wasn't talking about a dress.
Speaker 10 (04:36):
Father.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Oh, well that's more like it.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
This was the most beautiful suit you ever saw. And
it was reduced for eighty nine.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
To fifty ready, yes, father, No.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Anybody else? Have any ideas about a topic of general interest?
Wall Street? The foreign situation?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Gasoline scooters not aline scooters? That's what I thought.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
How about Joe Phillips?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well that's a nice lively subject. What about it?
Speaker 8 (05:07):
He was here last night?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Fine? Anybody have anything brilliant to say about the weather?
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Did I tell you about the envelope?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
What envelope?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
The one Joe Phillips left?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
This is going by way of Sious City, Iowa.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
All right, Kathy, what about the envelope.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It's on a desk in the damn and Joe said
to be sure not to lose it because it.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Has the tickets. What tickets, the baseball tickets, the bud
one in the raffle. Hey, god, baseball again?
Speaker 6 (05:37):
But I want god, you're getting.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
The whole table ticket.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Sad they picked my name.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I want you please calm down. There's no need to Kathy.
See who's at the door.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
It was bud Store.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I want never mind whose door it was. Please see
who it is.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Gee whizz. Just because I'm the littlest one of the family,
I'm not supposed to have any feeling.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
But watch this all about I won the tickets.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Oh dear, he spilled a cream all over the table.
Speaker 11 (06:04):
I'll fix it.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Mother.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
You won what tickets for the Double Headed Tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
We all chicked in a quarter apiece and I won.
I got two tickets for a quarter.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
But don't you realize that that amounts to gambling, and
you know how we feel about gambling.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
It wasn't gambling, Dad. The boys club got the money
that was left over.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh how much was that?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Thirty five cents?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Give the tickets back?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
But Dad, they're playing Columbus.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
I wouldn't care if they were playing the Nina the
pin in the Santa Maria.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Oh gosh, Dad, I thought you'd be happy I could
treat you to the game.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But a bunch of boys, what.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Well, we couldn't afford to treat our fathers any other way.
So that's the way we did it.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Your father's absolutely right, Bud, you and the other.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Let's look at.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
This thing in a practical way, Jim.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
As long as the boys had an unselfish.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Motive, Jim Anderson.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And after all, the boys club is making thirty five cents.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
But the next time you spill a cream, you can
just clean it up yourself, all right, Beddy.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
That's good enough.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Gonna play Columbus.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Huh, they're in first place too, But if we win
both games? Y?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
It was a telegram and I had to sign for it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Fine, now you can sit down and rest a while.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Who's it from, Jim?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I suppose I open it and see.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
I think that's a very good idea.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
I signed, Kathleen Joy Anderson. I'd write it very small.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
No, Jim, why does she have to pick on us?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
It isn't aunt Martha not again.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
She'll be here in the morning.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Oh no, oh, why what are you so happy about?
She always gives me what's a dollar?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Maybe she won't come hunted like last time.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
She'll be here at ten seventeen tomorrow. Oh, why does
she have to come at all? She's only going to
stay one day.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
How do you know?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It says? So here?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
See arrived ten seventeen train Sunday, staying one day?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Meet me?
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Tight fisted, old character? It kill her to use more
than ten words. Well, she's my aunt.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
And if I want to say she's tight fisted, I'm
going to say it. She's tight fisted. You said it, Bud.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Will you please show a little more respect for your elders?
But you just said never mind what I just said.
She's old enough to be your grandmother. You or a
certain amount of respect, yes, sir, the old battle axe.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well that takes care of your ballgame tomorrow. Why, Jim,
you're not going to run off to a.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Ballgame and leave her here? Why not, Jim Anderson?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I will not entertain your Aunt Martha and her friends alone.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
What friends? Who said anything about any friends?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Aunt Martha hasn't been in Springfield for over a year
and I'm sure she expects to see all of her
old cronies.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well, let her go see them. Who's stopping her.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
We'll have to have them here.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Holy call, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
We'll have to serve tea and get some little cakes
and things. Money, Jim, I haven't time to argue about it.
I've gotta call missus Thornby and Missus Winters.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
You mean rich Missus Winters with the iron fans. Yes, dear,
she gave me a dollar once.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
And I know she'll expect to see Missus Horace and
mister Forrester.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
You mean rich mister Forrester with the electric runabout. He
gave me a dollar.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Two, Kathy.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
But they're the most prominent people in town.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
There are a bunch of old fuddy duddies, Jim.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That's no way to refer to the aristocracy of Springfield.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Aristocracy, my foot. Just because they've got a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh mother, this is the most wonderful thing that's ever happened.
We can get on in the society column.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Isn't that awful, Margaret?
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Just because my aunt Martha's husband cornered the market and
buggy whips, Jim, please stop me.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
He was the biggest crook in the whole buggy with business.
That's what he was.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And if you'll think Amanda Wilson, will have to call
her Amanda Wilson, Margaret, if you'll only listen to me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You mean the Amanda Wilson with the Rose Royce and
the chauffeur and the butler and the cooking.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Hetty, stopped drooling and sit down.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
But Father, Bud and I have tickets for the ballgame tomorrow,
and I don't care if my Aunt Martha.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Shows up with the caretaker of Fort Knox.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You are not going to leave this house tomorrow afternoon, Jim,
and you might as well, Betty, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I have to call the society editor and to rage
for pictures, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
For the love of Pete.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And it's a doubleheader too.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
There'll be lots of other ballgames. And Kathy, you haven't
finished your breakfast.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
I haven't got time, Mommy. I have to go to
the store.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
What four, I have to buy a.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
New piggy bag.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
We'll Father go to the ballgame with Bud, or stay
home and help entertain Aunt Martha. Right now, it looks
like Mother will have the last word on that. But
more often than not ladies. You look to the man
of the house for the final say so. For example,
the final judge of coffee at its best is your husband,
for he's the world's greatest coffee expert. We're known as
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experts too, because more families buy Maxwell House coffee than
any other brand. But when your husband sits down to
enjoy coffee, you brood why he's the only expert you
want to hear from. And tomorrow you've only to pour
him a tempting, delicious cup of Maxwell House to see
him glow with pleasure and say.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Gee, that's good coffee. You bet he'll say that.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Fact is, we'll return your money if he doesn't say so.
You see, only Maxwell House has that grand good to
the last drop flavor thanks to a recipe that belongs
to Maxwell House alone. It's a recipe that demands choice,
rich coffees, blended and roasted just so. That's the reason
no other coffee tastes like Maxwell House, no other coffee's
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made like Maxwell House. So serve our Maxwell House to
your husband. If he doesn't smile and say best coffee ever,
well just send us the can an unused portion, and
we'll refund your purchase.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Price.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Our address is right on every familiar blue tin. Yes, tomorrow,
fill the cup of the world's greatest coffee expert your
husband with the truly satisfying flavor of Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It's Sunday in Springfield, and the noonday sun is shining
and bright and warm. There's a feeling of joy and
exhilaration in the air, a spirit of gaiety and good
cheer everywhere, that is. But at six oh seven Maple
Street there they've got Aunt Martha like this.
Speaker 10 (13:21):
I tell you there is a draft, Margaret. I can
feel it going right through my bones.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
All right, I've closed the window again.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
Miserable city Springfield always has been and always will be.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You know, Aunt Martha. There's a train leaving at one o'clock.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Jim, Well, I do want Aunt Martha to be happy,
and if she doesn't like it in spring.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Don't you think the children have grown, Aunt Martha?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
What did you expect them to do? Get smaller?
Speaker 10 (13:52):
But my children have been growing for thousands of years.
But parents act like they ought to be given a medal.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Did you say something, dear, No, I was just thinking, Jim,
stand up, what I said.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Stand up now.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Look, Aunt Martha, I'm not a child. And if you think, Jim,
all right, I'm up. Now what disgusting?
Speaker 11 (14:21):
What is the way you put on weight?
Speaker 7 (14:23):
I've done no such thing. I could wear the same
clothes I was wearing fifteen years ago. As a matter
of fact, I am.
Speaker 11 (14:33):
You've got a corporation.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I have not got a corporation.
Speaker 11 (14:37):
Jim, stop arguing with me. If there's one thing I detest, Margaret,
this room is.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
Stifling, Yes, Aunt Martha, stuffiest room I've ever been in
in all my life.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
All right, Bud, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (14:55):
That's the trouble with modern houses.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
One minute the cold, the next minute they're hotter than
the hinges of word.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Kathleen, is this a bag you wanted at Martha?
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Thank you, child, You're very sweet.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
You're walk to Aunt Martha.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
Only one in the entire family with an ounce of brains. Can't,
for the life of me figure out, Bud.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yes, Now, I just talked to miss Pritchard at the
newspaper office and it's all arranged.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
That's fine, dear.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
She's going to send missus Latham over as soon as
she finds her, isn't it marvelous.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
And Betty, I wish you would stop bouncing. Yes, Aunt Martha,
it's enough to make a person seasick.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
They might even take pictures. Would you like to hear
my piece now, Aunt Martha?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Not right now, Kathy?
Speaker 8 (15:50):
But Aunt Martha said she was going to give me
a dollar.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
As soon as mother said not now, she whizz Bud.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Yes, man, what are you.
Speaker 11 (16:06):
Doing with that window?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I thought somebody said, Bud.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
Close the window and leave it alone.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yes, ma'am, but may I speak to you in the
den please?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Jim. You're not going to try anything.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
I would like to speak privately to my son about
something I just happened to remember.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Do you mind?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
No, but just be careful, yes, Margaret?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
All right, Bud, who's going to open and close the window?
I'll take care of it, Okay, Come on, Bud, Yes, sir?
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Now would you like to hear my peace?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Why don't you wait until later?
Speaker 11 (16:46):
There'll be lots of time, Kathleen, lots of time, oh.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Am, I getting a workout with that window.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
But when does the first game start? All right? Are
we going to take this line down? Or are we
going to fight?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
I don't know we're going to fight We're going to
show Aunt Martha that she can't push us around.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Boy, And do you know how we're going to do it? How?
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Why don't we just go to the ballgame?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
But your mother and I have been happily married for
eighteen years, and if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I'd like to keep it that way. Okay, it's going
to take an emergency. What if there were an emergency?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
What kind of an emergency?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
The worst kind? Hector Smith is in trouble and we've
got to help him. How do you know he's going
to call?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
He is, Well, he won't really call.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
But but I don't want you to get the idea
that this is a usual thing with me.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Oh, I don't, man.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
This is an extreme sort of emergency.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I know.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I mean ours is it?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Sure is?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
And it requires extreme measures to counteract it. You bet?
Do you understand what I've just said?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Sure, we're gonna pull a fast one on mom.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Well, I suppose you could put it that way.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
That's a very good question. Now all we need is
a very good answer. Let's see, you were to go
next door and use the Davis's telephone, that's a good idea. No,
if you weren't around, your mother gets suspicious.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
What's the difference? She's suspicious?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Now true, but in planning a campaign of so delicate
a nature, Daddy, Kathy, that's the answer.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Good old Kathy, it is?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I mean she is.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
She certainly is, Daddy. Mommy says, that's the second kid.
And come on in, Bud, and I want to speak
to you, don't.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
We, budd Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Oh sure?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
What did I do now?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Not a thing, baby, not a single blessed thing.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Mommy says, you're going to stay in here all day?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Kathy, how would you like to do a big favor
for Daddy?
Speaker 8 (18:49):
What kind of a favor?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
A very simple one? Call me up on the telephone.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Where are you going?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
But now, how can I call you up?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Because you're going somewhere?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
I have to recite my peace.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Just next door, Kathy, to the Davis's.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Next door to the Davis's.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
And you want me to call you on the phone,
that's right?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
What for Kathy?
Speaker 9 (19:12):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
We want to see if the bell rings? What bell?
The telephone bell? Oh? Well?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Sure, why did you say so?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I just did?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
And Kathy, we don't want mommy to worry about the telephone.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So we'll keep this a secret, won't we.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Oh sure, go out the back way.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
It's quicker.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Okay, See how I know?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
If it doesn't ring, we'll tell you when we answer it.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
That's right, I'll worry, is that I can.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
That's a good girl, Jim. We'll be right in honey.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
But yes, ded to make it look good, I won't
rush to the phone when it rings.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
You take it and tell me it's mister Smaer. Okay,
and keep your fingers crossed.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I've had him cross all day.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
What are you too mumbling about?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
It's just man talk, honey. Well, how's everybody getting along
in here?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Jim?
Speaker 11 (20:04):
You've got to do something about this house? Betty?
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Yes, Aunt Martha.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
The wind whistles.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Through here like a ser want me to take the window?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Betty?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Would you please?
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
But oh I forgot. I'm sorry, Betty. I have to
answer the telephone.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
What he means if it rings, he has to answer it,
don't you?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
But oh yeah, that's what I mean. If it rings.
Kind of silly answering a phone of it didn't ring,
wasn't they?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Jim? I think you and I had better have a
little talk.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
About what honey, don't forget Aunt Martha's here and she's
our guest, aren't you at Martha?
Speaker 11 (20:54):
You made more sense when you were five years old.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I guess I did it, that didn't I.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
I have never seen a house like this. As soon
as the window is closed, the furnace goes crazy. Betty, Yes,
enough to suffocate a buddy.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Well, what do you know? The phone? Dad?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
It's mister Smith.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
But well, don't you think you ought to answer it first?
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Sure, I'll be glad to never mind.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I'll get it myself, Bud.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
You and I are going to sit down and.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Have a long talk.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yes, ma'am, my son.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Leave it to him to get everything all fouled up.
It's mister Smith.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Hello, Hello, Daddy, this is Kathy.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh hello Sam? How are you Daddy?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
No, we were just sitting around talking Daddy.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
It's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You are eh? How did that happen?
Speaker 8 (22:00):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Stuck in the mud? Huh? Outside of Plainville? Well that's awful, Daddy.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Don't you want to talk to me?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Why?
Speaker 7 (22:12):
It won't be any trouble at all, Sam, Button, I'll
be there in less than an hour.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Ddy, glad to help Sam.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
It isn't sad.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
See you later, Sam. This is awful, Margaret, Sam Wood,
he's in a terrible spot. So I gather he's stuck
in the mud outside of Plainville.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
And I promised that but and I would go help him.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
But that's very nice.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
If you, dear, I get your cold bud.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
We have any time to lose, okay, Dad, and make
sure we've got a good toe cable in the car.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
You bet you better take along.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
An extra motor too, Dear.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
All right, I was talking to Dorothy this morning and
she said their motor was being overhauled. It is, and
I really think they should have a motor.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Don't you driving around the way they are?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Well? Did it help? Yes, you know it's a funny thing, Margaret.
But somehow I get the impression that you don't believe me.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yes, your entire attitude is very strange.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
It isn't just my attitude, Jim.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I see what you mean.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Dad, Oh, I have to answer it first.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I'll get it.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
But don't you want me to see who it is?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
No, I'll see who it is myself. That big help
he turned out to be.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Hello, Hello, Daddy, this is Kathy kem.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Yes, I forgot to ask you did it ring?
Speaker 12 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
That's what it was? What was Sam? I I'm sure
glad you called back, Danny.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
It's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Hold on a second. What are you Sam? But I'm
not Sam, Margaret. It wasn't Sam Wooded. It was Sam Moore.
Oh really, yes, wasn't that silly?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Probably the silliest thing I've ever heard? Let me have
that phone?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But Margaret, if you just let me tell you what phone?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Please? Hello, Kathy, Yes, Mommy you may come home now.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Daddy's all through playing games.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Mommy, Yes, dear, did the phone ring? Yes? Angel it
rang beautifully.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
That's good fight.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
My dear.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Margaret.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
If you'll just listen for a minute, yes, well maybe
it'll take a little longer than a minute, but you
see it.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Yes, h Bud you want me?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Dan, Yes, there's something I think you.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Ought to It didn't work, Han, Dan.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
But there's no sense letting those tickets go to waste,
So why don't you take them over to mister Phillips
tell him we won't be using them?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Are you sure?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Quite sure?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Okay, everything has to happen to me.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well that was quite a performance, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
We'll talk about it later.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Huh oh, you can count on that.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
Well.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
If you two are caught up on your getting you
can get me my coats.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
But Aunt Martha, I told you we're having a tea.
Speaker 11 (25:38):
We'll have it. Jim, don't stand there.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I get my coats.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
Aunt Martha, you don't understand. This tea is for you.
You don't have to visit your friends. They're all coming here.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
My friends, Jim Anderson. Do you think I came all
the way from Columbus to visit those old fogus and Martha,
I'm going to the ball game.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Oh No.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
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ask yourself this question. Which coffee will give me the
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Put it that way, and you choose the one coffee
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Speaker 4 (26:40):
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Speaker 9 (26:42):
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Speaker 3 (27:26):
Now it's Monday, gloomy gloomy Monday, and nowhere is it
more so than in the Andersen's breakfast nook.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Like this a fine Sunday that turned out to be
Methuselah and his girlfriends.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
But how many times have I told you not to
read the newspaper at the table?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
I just want to see the ball scars? Mom? Can
I please?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Holy cow? What's the matter? But dead? Look at this?
Speaker 8 (27:52):
I want to see too.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
The irate Spectator. Oh no, Jim, what is it? Betty?
You wanted our name in the papers? Well here it is,
that's right, with a picture and everything.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Then you're jokes.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Oh, sure, a big joke. The irate spectator, who was
arrested for beating.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
An umpire with a pop bottle during yesterday's double header,
has been identified as Missus Martha Randolph, who was visiting
her niece and nephew, Missus James Anderson.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
The sixth seconds.
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Mother, Is Naxwell House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World where your father says so and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert
Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors,
the Andersons, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House,
the coffee that's always good to the last drop. Now
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is the time of year when a strange malady falls
upon the land.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Affecting people from every walk of life.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Butchers and bakers and candlestick makers, rookies and bookies and
Senator could father. It's an affliction that kills off thousands
of grandmothers and brings a peculiar gleam dovidions of eyes.
It's known as baseball fever. And nowhere is it more
prominent than in a certain white frame house on Maple
Street in the fair city of Springfield.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Like this.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Well, sure, but they had the tying run on third,
didn't they.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
The situation called for a squeeze play.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
And you know it, Jim, your eggs are getting ice.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Code one out and the man on third and he
lets the batter hit away.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
But Keller her hits a long ball, Dad. If he
hit a home run, we'd have won the game.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But if you're not interested in but he didn't hit
a home run he popped up, well, sure, but he
could have hit a home run.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
The paper says it might snow.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
If I'd been running the team, I'd have squeezed the
man in.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Maybe keller her doesn't know how to bun.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Three people in Miami were lost in a blizzard.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Anybody who doesn't know how to bun has no right
playing and triple a ball.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I didn't say he didn't. I said, maybe he didn't.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Sixty four people were killed in a telephone booth.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But if he played it safe, he couldn't have.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Somebody dropped an Adam bomb when they weren't looking.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
That's fine, honey, But.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
The basic principle of a squeeze player makes an almost foolproof.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
All they had to do was.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
What something wrong?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Dear?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
What did you just say?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I don't know, dear, I wasn't listening.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Sixty four people were killed?
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Oh that where did you see anything about sixty four
people being killed?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You know, I'll may go down in history is the
first person to find a practical use for the Adam bomb.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's probably the only thing known to science that will
stop a conversation about baseball.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Sixty four people in a telephone booth.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Well they were good friends, everybody.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
How's the baseball capital of the world.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
We have just relived last night's game between Springfield and Columbus.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Margaret Pitch, Holy cal mom, we were just talking baseball.
Speaker 8 (03:05):
I got all dressed up last night. And where did
Roger take me to the ball game?
Speaker 9 (03:10):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Did you see the game last night?
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 7 (03:13):
I was there, Betty, in the ninth inning when Sara
was on third.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Gim let's not go into that again, please.
Speaker 8 (03:22):
But Honey, if she was there, I don't even know
where third is?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Oh five?
Speaker 8 (03:29):
And furthermore, I don't care drink your orange juice.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Dear Betty, How could anyone possibly be in this family
as long as you have and know as little about baseball?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It isn't easy, but I'll keep trying.
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Why anybody.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Kathy's only nine, and she knows more about baseball in
ten minutes than you do in a year.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Hooray for her. But Joe Phillips was here last night.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Tell your sister where third base is?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
Third base?
Speaker 4 (04:00):
That's right, I didn't.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Take it, Kathy, when you played baseball? Where is third base?
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Oh it's the rock next to the Hathaways fence.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Margaret, May I have my coffee?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Dear?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Did somebody move it?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Kathy? Let's talk about something else.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Well, that's the nicest thing I've heard around here for
the past month.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
Father, you're having a seal at Gorman's. And I saw
the most wonderful addy.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yes, father, we're not going to talk about dresses.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
I wasn't talking about a dress.
Speaker 10 (04:36):
Father.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Oh, well that's more like it.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
This was the most beautiful suit you ever saw. And
it was reduced for eighty nine.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
To fifty ready, yes, father, No.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Anybody else? Have any ideas about a topic of general interest?
Wall Street? The foreign situation?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Gasoline scooters not aline scooters? That's what I thought.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
How about Joe Phillips?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well that's a nice lively subject. What about it?
Speaker 8 (05:07):
He was here last night?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Fine? Anybody have anything brilliant to say about the weather?
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Did I tell you about the envelope?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
What envelope?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
The one Joe Phillips left?
Speaker 7 (05:19):
This is going by way of Sious City, Iowa.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
All right, Kathy, what about the envelope.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It's on a desk in the damn and Joe said
to be sure not to lose it because it.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
Has the tickets. What tickets, the baseball tickets, the bud
one in the raffle. Hey, god, baseball again?
Speaker 6 (05:37):
But I want god, you're getting.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
The whole table ticket.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Sad they picked my name.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I want you please calm down. There's no need to Kathy.
See who's at the door.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
It was bud Store.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I want never mind whose door it was. Please see
who it is.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Gee whizz. Just because I'm the littlest one of the family,
I'm not supposed to have any feeling.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
But watch this all about I won the tickets.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Oh dear, he spilled a cream all over the table.
Speaker 11 (06:04):
I'll fix it.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
Mother.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
You won what tickets for the Double Headed Tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
We all chicked in a quarter apiece and I won.
I got two tickets for a quarter.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
But don't you realize that that amounts to gambling, and
you know how we feel about gambling.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
It wasn't gambling, Dad. The boys club got the money
that was left over.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh how much was that?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Thirty five cents?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Give the tickets back?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
But Dad, they're playing Columbus.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
I wouldn't care if they were playing the Nina the
pin in the Santa Maria.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Oh gosh, Dad, I thought you'd be happy I could
treat you to the game.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
But a bunch of boys, what.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Well, we couldn't afford to treat our fathers any other way.
So that's the way we did it.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Your father's absolutely right, Bud, you and the other.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Let's look at.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
This thing in a practical way, Jim.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
As long as the boys had an unselfish.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Motive, Jim Anderson.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
And after all, the boys club is making thirty five cents.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
But the next time you spill a cream, you can
just clean it up yourself, all right, Beddy.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
That's good enough.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Gonna play Columbus.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Huh, they're in first place too, But if we win
both games? Y?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
It was a telegram and I had to sign for it.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Fine, now you can sit down and rest a while.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Who's it from, Jim?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I suppose I open it and see.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
I think that's a very good idea.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
I signed, Kathleen Joy Anderson. I'd write it very small.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
No, Jim, why does she have to pick on us?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
It isn't aunt Martha not again.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
She'll be here in the morning.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Oh no, oh, why what are you so happy about?
She always gives me what's a dollar?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Maybe she won't come hunted like last time.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
She'll be here at ten seventeen tomorrow. Oh, why does
she have to come at all? She's only going to
stay one day.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
How do you know?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It says? So here?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
See arrived ten seventeen train Sunday, staying one day?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Meet me?
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Tight fisted, old character? It kill her to use more
than ten words. Well, she's my aunt.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
And if I want to say she's tight fisted, I'm
going to say it. She's tight fisted. You said it, Bud.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Will you please show a little more respect for your elders?
But you just said never mind what I just said.
She's old enough to be your grandmother. You or a
certain amount of respect, yes, sir, the old battle axe.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Well that takes care of your ballgame tomorrow. Why, Jim,
you're not going to run off to a.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Ballgame and leave her here? Why not, Jim Anderson?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I will not entertain your Aunt Martha and her friends alone.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
What friends? Who said anything about any friends?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Aunt Martha hasn't been in Springfield for over a year
and I'm sure she expects to see all of her
old cronies.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well, let her go see them. Who's stopping her.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
We'll have to have them here.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Holy call, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
We'll have to serve tea and get some little cakes
and things. Money, Jim, I haven't time to argue about it.
I've gotta call missus Thornby and Missus Winters.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
You mean rich Missus Winters with the iron fans. Yes, dear,
she gave me a dollar once.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
And I know she'll expect to see Missus Horace and
mister Forrester.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
You mean rich mister Forrester with the electric runabout. He
gave me a dollar.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Two, Kathy.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
But they're the most prominent people in town.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
There are a bunch of old fuddy duddies, Jim.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
That's no way to refer to the aristocracy of Springfield.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Aristocracy, my foot. Just because they've got a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Oh mother, this is the most wonderful thing that's ever happened.
We can get on in the society column.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Isn't that awful, Margaret?
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Just because my aunt Martha's husband cornered the market and
buggy whips, Jim, please stop me.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
He was the biggest crook in the whole buggy with business.
That's what he was.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And if you'll think Amanda Wilson, will have to call
her Amanda Wilson, Margaret, if you'll only listen to me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You mean the Amanda Wilson with the Rose Royce and
the chauffeur and the butler and the cooking.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Hetty, stopped drooling and sit down.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
But Father, Bud and I have tickets for the ballgame tomorrow,
and I don't care if my Aunt Martha.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Shows up with the caretaker of Fort Knox.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You are not going to leave this house tomorrow afternoon, Jim,
and you might as well, Betty, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I have to call the society editor and to rage
for pictures, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
For the love of Pete.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And it's a doubleheader too.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
There'll be lots of other ballgames. And Kathy, you haven't
finished your breakfast.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
I haven't got time, Mommy. I have to go to
the store.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
What four, I have to buy a.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
New piggy bag.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
We'll Father go to the ballgame with Bud, or stay
home and help entertain Aunt Martha. Right now, it looks
like Mother will have the last word on that. But
more often than not ladies. You look to the man
of the house for the final say so. For example,
the final judge of coffee at its best is your husband,
for he's the world's greatest coffee expert. We're known as
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experts too, because more families buy Maxwell House coffee than
any other brand. But when your husband sits down to
enjoy coffee, you brood why he's the only expert you
want to hear from. And tomorrow you've only to pour
him a tempting, delicious cup of Maxwell House to see
him glow with pleasure and say.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Gee, that's good coffee. You bet he'll say that.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
Fact is, we'll return your money if he doesn't say so.
You see, only Maxwell House has that grand good to
the last drop flavor thanks to a recipe that belongs
to Maxwell House alone. It's a recipe that demands choice,
rich coffees, blended and roasted just so. That's the reason
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well just send us the can an unused portion, and
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Speaker 4 (12:36):
Price.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Our address is right on every familiar blue tin. Yes, tomorrow,
fill the cup of the world's greatest coffee expert your
husband with the truly satisfying flavor of Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It's Sunday in Springfield, and the noonday sun is shining
and bright and warm. There's a feeling of joy and
exhilaration in the air, a spirit of gaiety and good
cheer everywhere, that is. But at six oh seven Maple
Street there they've got Aunt Martha like this.
Speaker 10 (13:21):
I tell you there is a draft, Margaret. I can
feel it going right through my bones.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
All right, I've closed the window again.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
Miserable city Springfield always has been and always will be.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You know, Aunt Martha. There's a train leaving at one o'clock.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Jim, Well, I do want Aunt Martha to be happy,
and if she doesn't like it in spring.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Don't you think the children have grown, Aunt Martha?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
What did you expect them to do? Get smaller?
Speaker 10 (13:52):
But my children have been growing for thousands of years.
But parents act like they ought to be given a medal.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Did you say something, dear, No, I was just thinking, Jim,
stand up, what I said.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Stand up now.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Look, Aunt Martha, I'm not a child. And if you think, Jim,
all right, I'm up. Now what disgusting?
Speaker 11 (14:21):
What is the way you put on weight?
Speaker 7 (14:23):
I've done no such thing. I could wear the same
clothes I was wearing fifteen years ago. As a matter
of fact, I am.
Speaker 11 (14:33):
You've got a corporation.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I have not got a corporation.
Speaker 11 (14:37):
Jim, stop arguing with me. If there's one thing I detest, Margaret,
this room is.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
Stifling, Yes, Aunt Martha, stuffiest room I've ever been in
in all my life.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
All right, Bud, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 11 (14:55):
That's the trouble with modern houses.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
One minute the cold, the next minute they're hotter than
the hinges of word.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Kathleen, is this a bag you wanted at Martha?
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Thank you, child, You're very sweet.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
You're walk to Aunt Martha.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
Only one in the entire family with an ounce of brains. Can't,
for the life of me figure out, Bud.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yes, Now, I just talked to miss Pritchard at the
newspaper office and it's all arranged.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
That's fine, dear.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
She's going to send missus Latham over as soon as
she finds her, isn't it marvelous.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
And Betty, I wish you would stop bouncing. Yes, Aunt Martha,
it's enough to make a person seasick.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
They might even take pictures. Would you like to hear
my piece now, Aunt Martha?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Not right now, Kathy?
Speaker 8 (15:50):
But Aunt Martha said she was going to give me
a dollar.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
As soon as mother said not now, she whizz Bud.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Yes, man, what are you.
Speaker 11 (16:06):
Doing with that window?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I thought somebody said, Bud.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
Close the window and leave it alone.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yes, ma'am, but may I speak to you in the
den please?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Jim. You're not going to try anything.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
I would like to speak privately to my son about
something I just happened to remember.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Do you mind?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
No, but just be careful, yes, Margaret?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
All right, Bud, who's going to open and close the window?
I'll take care of it, Okay, Come on, Bud, Yes, sir?
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Now would you like to hear my peace?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Why don't you wait until later?
Speaker 11 (16:46):
There'll be lots of time, Kathleen, lots of time, oh.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Am, I getting a workout with that window.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
But when does the first game start? All right? Are
we going to take this line down? Or are we
going to fight?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
I don't know we're going to fight We're going to
show Aunt Martha that she can't push us around.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Boy, And do you know how we're going to do it? How?
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Why don't we just go to the ballgame?
Speaker 7 (17:15):
But your mother and I have been happily married for
eighteen years, and if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
I'd like to keep it that way. Okay, it's going
to take an emergency. What if there were an emergency?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
What kind of an emergency?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
The worst kind? Hector Smith is in trouble and we've
got to help him. How do you know he's going
to call?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
He is, Well, he won't really call.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
But but I don't want you to get the idea
that this is a usual thing with me.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Oh, I don't, man.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
This is an extreme sort of emergency.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I know.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I mean ours is it?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Sure is?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
And it requires extreme measures to counteract it. You bet?
Do you understand what I've just said?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Sure, we're gonna pull a fast one on mom.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Well, I suppose you could put it that way.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
That's a very good question. Now all we need is
a very good answer. Let's see, you were to go
next door and use the Davis's telephone, that's a good idea. No,
if you weren't around, your mother gets suspicious.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
What's the difference? She's suspicious?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Now true, but in planning a campaign of so delicate
a nature, Daddy, Kathy, that's the answer.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Good old Kathy, it is?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I mean she is.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
She certainly is, Daddy. Mommy says, that's the second kid.
And come on in, Bud, and I want to speak
to you, don't.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
We, budd Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Oh sure?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
What did I do now?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Not a thing, baby, not a single blessed thing.
Speaker 8 (18:42):
Mommy says, you're going to stay in here all day?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Kathy, how would you like to do a big favor
for Daddy?
Speaker 8 (18:49):
What kind of a favor?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
A very simple one? Call me up on the telephone.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Where are you going?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I'm not going anywhere?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
But now, how can I call you up?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Because you're going somewhere?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
I have to recite my peace.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Just next door, Kathy, to the Davis's.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Next door to the Davis's.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
And you want me to call you on the phone,
that's right?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
What for Kathy?
Speaker 9 (19:12):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
We want to see if the bell rings? What bell?
The telephone bell? Oh? Well?
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Sure, why did you say so?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I just did?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
And Kathy, we don't want mommy to worry about the telephone.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So we'll keep this a secret, won't we.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Oh sure, go out the back way.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
It's quicker.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
Okay, See how I know?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
If it doesn't ring, we'll tell you when we answer it.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
That's right, I'll worry, is that I can.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
That's a good girl, Jim. We'll be right in honey.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
But yes, ded to make it look good, I won't
rush to the phone when it rings.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
You take it and tell me it's mister Smaer. Okay,
and keep your fingers crossed.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I've had him cross all day.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
What are you too mumbling about?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
It's just man talk, honey. Well, how's everybody getting along
in here?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Jim?
Speaker 11 (20:04):
You've got to do something about this house? Betty?
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Yes, Aunt Martha.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
The wind whistles.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Through here like a ser want me to take the window?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Betty?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
Would you please?
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
But oh I forgot. I'm sorry, Betty. I have to
answer the telephone.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
What he means if it rings, he has to answer it,
don't you?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
But oh yeah, that's what I mean. If it rings.
Kind of silly answering a phone of it didn't ring,
wasn't they?
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Jim? I think you and I had better have a
little talk.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
About what honey, don't forget Aunt Martha's here and she's
our guest, aren't you at Martha?
Speaker 11 (20:54):
You made more sense when you were five years old.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I guess I did it, that didn't I.
Speaker 10 (21:00):
I have never seen a house like this. As soon
as the window is closed, the furnace goes crazy. Betty, Yes,
enough to suffocate a buddy.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Well, what do you know? The phone? Dad?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
It's mister Smith.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
But well, don't you think you ought to answer it first?
Speaker 9 (21:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Sure, I'll be glad to never mind.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
I'll get it myself, Bud.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
You and I are going to sit down and.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Have a long talk.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yes, ma'am, my son.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Leave it to him to get everything all fouled up.
It's mister Smith.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Hello, Hello, Daddy, this is Kathy.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh hello Sam? How are you Daddy?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
No, we were just sitting around talking Daddy.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
It's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You are eh? How did that happen?
Speaker 8 (22:00):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Stuck in the mud? Huh? Outside of Plainville? Well that's awful, Daddy.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Don't you want to talk to me?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Why?
Speaker 7 (22:12):
It won't be any trouble at all, Sam, Button, I'll
be there in less than an hour.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Ddy, glad to help Sam.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
It isn't sad.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
See you later, Sam. This is awful, Margaret, Sam Wood,
he's in a terrible spot. So I gather he's stuck
in the mud outside of Plainville.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
And I promised that but and I would go help him.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
But that's very nice.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
If you, dear, I get your cold bud.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
We have any time to lose, okay, Dad, and make
sure we've got a good toe cable in the car.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
You bet you better take along.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
An extra motor too, Dear.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
All right, I was talking to Dorothy this morning and
she said their motor was being overhauled. It is, and
I really think they should have a motor.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Don't you driving around the way they are?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Well? Did it help? Yes, you know it's a funny thing, Margaret.
But somehow I get the impression that you don't believe me.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yes, your entire attitude is very strange.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
It isn't just my attitude, Jim.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I see what you mean.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Dad, Oh, I have to answer it first.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
I'll get it.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
But don't you want me to see who it is?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
No, I'll see who it is myself. That big help
he turned out to be.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Hello, Hello, Daddy, this is Kathy kem.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Yes, I forgot to ask you did it ring?
Speaker 12 (23:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:56):
That's what it was? What was Sam? I I'm sure
glad you called back, Danny.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
It's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Hold on a second. What are you Sam? But I'm
not Sam, Margaret. It wasn't Sam Wooded. It was Sam Moore.
Oh really, yes, wasn't that silly?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Probably the silliest thing I've ever heard? Let me have
that phone?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But Margaret, if you just let me tell you what phone?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Please? Hello, Kathy, Yes, Mommy you may come home now.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Daddy's all through playing games.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Mommy, Yes, dear, did the phone ring? Yes? Angel it
rang beautifully.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
That's good fight.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
My dear.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Margaret.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
If you'll just listen for a minute, yes, well maybe
it'll take a little longer than a minute, but you
see it.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Yes, h Bud you want me?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Dan, Yes, there's something I think you.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Ought to It didn't work, Han, Dan.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
But there's no sense letting those tickets go to waste,
So why don't you take them over to mister Phillips
tell him we won't be using them?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Are you sure?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Quite sure?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Okay, everything has to happen to me.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Well that was quite a performance, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
We'll talk about it later.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
Huh oh, you can count on that.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
Well.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
If you two are caught up on your getting you
can get me my coats.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
But Aunt Martha, I told you we're having a tea.
Speaker 11 (25:38):
We'll have it. Jim, don't stand there.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I get my coats.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
Aunt Martha, you don't understand. This tea is for you.
You don't have to visit your friends. They're all coming here.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
My friends, Jim Anderson. Do you think I came all
the way from Columbus to visit those old fogus and Martha,
I'm going to the ball game.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Oh No.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
Before you decide on the coffee you'll buy this weekend,
ask yourself this question. Which coffee will give me the
best value, the most for my money, and genuinely good flavor.
Put it that way, and you choose the one coffee
famous above all others for flavor, our.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Maxwell House Coffee.
Speaker 9 (26:42):
Then serve a heartwarming, fragrant cup of Maxwell House to
the world's greatest coffee expert, your husband. When he beams
with delight and says best coffee ever, you know it's
Maxwell House for flavor. And during the week, just count
the many cups of super Herb coffee you get from
that familiar blue Maxwell House tin with the big white
(27:04):
cup and drop. You'll have your proof of value man tomorrow. Then,
for more flavor, more real coffee drinking enjoyment, take home
Maxwell House coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Now it's Monday, gloomy gloomy Monday, and nowhere is it
more so than in the Andersen's breakfast nook.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Like this a fine Sunday that turned out to be
Methuselah and his girlfriends.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
But how many times have I told you not to
read the newspaper at the table?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
I just want to see the ball scars? Mom? Can
I please?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Holy cow? What's the matter? But dead? Look at this?
Speaker 8 (27:52):
I want to see too.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
The irate Spectator. Oh no, Jim, what is it? Betty?
You wanted our name in the papers? Well here it is,
that's right, with a picture and everything.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Then you're jokes.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Oh, sure, a big joke. The irate spectator, who was
arrested for beating.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
An umpire with a pop bottle during yesterday's double header,
has been identified as Missus Martha Randolph, who was visiting
her niece and nephew, Missus James Anderson.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
The sixth seconds.
Speaker 12 (28:42):
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Speaker 3 (29:15):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Bother Knows Best, starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra. In our cast
were Rhoda Williams Is, Betty June Whitley, Ted Donaldson, Norma
ge Nelson, Isabelle Randolph, and yours truly, Bill Foreman. So
until next Thursday, good night and good luck from the
makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee. Always
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good till the last drop. Father Knows Best was transcribed
in Hollywood and written by Ed Jane Now Stay tuned
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