October 6, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
A half hour visit with your neighbors.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
The Andersons, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House,
the coffee that's always good to the last drop. The
(00:46):
first of April, some do say, is set apart for.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
All fools Day? But why the people call it so?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Nor I nor they themselves do know. It's Sunday in Springfield,
But that isn't all. It's the first day of April.
In the white frame house on Maple Street, the Andersons
are gathering for breakfast. And while they aren't concerned at
the moment about the date, they will be and soon
like this, May I have my coffee?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Please?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It'll be ready in a minute. Dear Jim, you didn't
persuade them to stay over, did you.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Of course not.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I merely look, Margaret, it isn't every day we have
a chance to entertain the district's supervisor and the general
manager of the whole division.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
I thought we entertained them quite well last night dinner
at the townhouse, the dance at the club.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Jim, you did ask them to stay over, didn't you, Honey?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
This is the first time alder Craig has ever paid
a visit to the Springfield office. And if I can
show him a good time while he's here, yes, Well,
when he gets back to the home office, he's bound
to say a good word for me.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
That's logical, isn't it what he is?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh, good morning, dear. Breakfast will be ready in two seconds.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Wasn't that ever a dance last night?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know, Margaret?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
That's a much more effective greeting than a plain old
good morning mother, or even good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Father, Good morning mother, Good morning dear, good morning.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Father, Good morning Betty, everybody happy, just bubbling over?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Good.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Wasn't that ever a dance last night?
Speaker 8 (02:12):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It was ever a dance last night. Does that make
you feel better?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
No coffee at her? Not yet, dear, Well, I better
shut up till he gets it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
There's one thing you don't seem to understand me, your mother.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What don't I seem to understand? Dear?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
In the business world, it isn't so much what you know,
it's who you know. And if I make an extra
good impression on mister Craig.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, there's no telling how far I can go with
the company.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Here's your coffee here, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
That's why I want the children to be especially thoughtful
and considerate this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
All right, dear, why don't you this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Mister Craig's a very important man, and I promised him
a day of complete rest.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
If I hear one peep out of any of the kids.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Jim, did you invite them here for dinner?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Naturally if we give them a good home cooked meal.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I am telling you, I've been telling you for the
last five minutes, but.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I'm not prepared. We have to go to church and
all the stores are closed. And Jim, what am I
going to do with you?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
What did I do now?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
If you'd only told me last night?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I didn't know last night. It was just sort of honey.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
There's always enough for two more, oh Jim.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And that's another thing.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Well, Craig and Buckley are here. I want Bud to
stay on one floor. I don't care which floor it is,
but he's not going to go up and downstairs.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Good morning, everybody, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Dear, hi Bud, This is one day we're not going
to have his imitation of a buffalo stampede or something
smells good?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
What are we having for breakfast?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Pancakes?
Speaker 7 (03:54):
And I was here ahead of you, so get n okay, Bud, Hey,
look at the.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Crying out loud?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Where is it?
Speaker 8 (04:05):
April? Fool boy? I sure scared her, didn't I, Bud?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes, h get the mop and clean up this mess.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Oh gosh, I didn't know she was gonna jump on the.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Table scaring people half to death. He knows how I
hate things like mice.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Bud, you can pick the worst time.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Go on ahead, genius, start cleaning up.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Holy Jim, this is going to be one of those days.
I can just feel it.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
This is not going to be one of those days.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
If I have to lock all the kids in the basement,
I'm going to give mister Craig the quietest afternoon of
his life.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yea, yeah, dear, what's the matter, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh daddy, you want to see what's in the bathroom?
A green dragon with purple spots and fire coming.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Out of his nose.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Fine, go upstairs and ask him if he'd like some pancakes?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Is this the right?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Don't bother dear, I didn't clean it up, Margaret. It
was his fall. Go ahead, Bud, lift your feet up.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Betty.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Doesn't anybody care about the dragon?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
April fool?
Speaker 8 (05:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Blood told you, Jim.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
We've got to do something about dinner. I just can't
stretch a chicken to cover two more people.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, we'll all have to eat a little less. That's all.
Probably do us good.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
If you need.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Another chicken, there's one in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
There is what's a chicken doing in the Kathy? Are
you sure?
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yes, Daddy, I saw it fly over the fence.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Bud, put your coat on and see if you can
find a I don't know.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Okay, Betty, you can put your feet back down.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Isn't this fun, Kathleen?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I think we'll all be a lot happier if you'll
just forget that today is the first of April.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
But everybody else has April fool and they don't have
to stop.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
How does that look?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Mom? It looks finder and I sit down and have
your breakfast?
Speaker 8 (06:13):
What do I do with a mob?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Put a little sugar? I don't even have it instead
of cereal? Well, if he's going to ask those idiotic questions.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
What do you expect me to say? What'll I do
with a mob?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
Father?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's for you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
I only wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Never mind hear your.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Father was only joking fifteen years old and he doesn't
know what to do with a mob?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Ah, is it, Betty? I don't know, father.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
They just ask if you were home.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Well, thank you very much, go on back and finish
your breakfast.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Okay, my pancakes are probably Hello, mister Anderson.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Yes, this is Joe Hogan for Springfield Harold Who Joe Hogan.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I'm a reporter on the Herald.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Remember I get this story about the Springfield Fair.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh yes, what can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I wonder if you're gonna be home this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
I've got to come up with a photographer.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
What for there isn't any.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
All?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Well, sure, mister Hogan, you come right ahead at two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You are right sure, anytime at all?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Why don't you bring two or three photographers, just to
be on the safe side.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I think one we'll do fine. Well, see you later,
mister Anderson. All right, mister Hogan, and a happy first
of April. To you too. I don't know, grown man,
and they've got nothing better to do than waste the.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Time playing games. That's what's wrong with this world. Everybody
wants to play games. Who was it, dear, Oh, some
character with a weird sense of humor. I'm supposed to
get all excited about an interview so people can say,
April fool?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Daddy, what is it?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Kathleen?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Mommy says, I can't say April fool anymore.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, tell you what we'll do, kitten, Suppose this once
we don't pay any attention to your mother June after.
I'm the boss around here. What I say goes and
nobody else amounts to a row of pins.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
And let's have that understood further. April fool. Oh gosh, well,
how do you like? It sounds pretty silly when somebody
does it to you, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I wasn't gonna do it to you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Jim, you haven't eaten a bit of your break?
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Can I have to keep answering the phone so my
friends can have fun?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
This is probably Harry Truman inviting me to have dinner
at the White Hot. Oh, Harry, mister Anderson, Oh, let's
not be formal. Harry, Oh, kid does call me Jim?
Mister Anderson, this is Fred Benson of International Newsreel. I see,
would you like to come out here and take some
pictures of me, you know, in a bathing suitor going
over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Come right ahead and be sure to bring enough cameras.
We want to do this thing right. Okay, mister Anderson,
we'll be off this afternoon. That'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
You won't have any trouble recognizing me. I'm the one
with the heads win place and show.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Characters. Now it's International Newsreel.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Jim are used him on the phone.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No, I'm good read now. Look hello, Jim, Who is
this anyway? Jim Hathaway?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I thought it would be General Eisenhower at the very least.
Who Eh, never mind, Jim, what's up?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Don't give me that innocent routine. Why didn't you tell
me love a boy?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Look, Jim, I've had just about all I can take.
And if this is your idea of a joke, a joke.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
When I made jokes about the tender emotions of a
lonely heart.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
What haven't you seen the morning paper?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
What about it? Take a look love a boy, Jim.
What's all this? Jim? Jim?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh fine, Jim, you please come in and eat your bricks.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Not until I've seen the paper. Where is it?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's writ in here?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Oh wow, if you're gonna hide it like that.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Jim Anderson, I don't know what's gotten into you this morning.
I've cooked five batches of pans.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Where is it? Honey?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
The paper's right there on the stool. But why can't
you wait until you've had your pancake.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
It'll only take a second, Margaret, Jim Hathaway said, there
was holy jump, Margaret, look at this?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Look at it?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Father? All over the front page, Springfield Man wins Great
Love Letter Award.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We did it, We did it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Holy cow?
Speaker 10 (10:22):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (10:23):
What you want to do a thing like that for?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh mommy, we did it.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Father.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Isn't it just a minute?
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Kathy?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
What do you mean? We did it?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, didn't we?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I never entered any contest, and I never wrote any
love letters.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Let me see it, dear mister James Anderson of six
oh seven Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
It's a lie. The whole thing is a monstrous lie.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Maybe it's April fool.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
That's what it is, April fool. This is somebody's idea
of a big joke, and when I get my hands.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
On him, this isn't a joke.
Speaker 11 (10:54):
Listen, last night I sat neath the star swept sky,
and the breeze kept sign your name, Margaret. It picked
its way through the rustling boughs, and a million leaves.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Took up the chant Margaret. Why Jim, this is one
of the letters you wrote to me when we were engaged.
Speaker 12 (11:13):
Father, Holy car, Kathy, how did they get that letter?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Letter? The one your mother was just reading.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Oh that letter, Well, I said it to him.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Oh you did, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh it was just sitting around.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Up in the attic, and I didn't, Kathleen. Suppose you
and I retired to the den for a few moments.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You're gonna spank me, that's.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Right, And this time no one is going to say
April fourth, all right, Kathy, call me please.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I'm sorry, Angel, but you had no right to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But I only did it because I wanted Daddy to
win the five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Well, next time you'll think twice before what I thought
you'd be.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Glad to win five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Let me see that paper.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
If I won five hundred dollars, I wouldn't get mad
and spank people.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Margaret, she's right, look at it. I won five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Boy, creepers, Are you still mad at me?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Kathy? Yes, Daddy, have another pancake? Well? Who would ever
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have thought of father as a great lover?
Speaker 9 (12:50):
It just goes to show ladies never underestimate the man
you married. He's so much more than just your husband.
For example, he's also the world's greatest coffee expert. That's
a fact. The ranking authority on truly good coffee is
that man of yours. Now, it's true we're called experts too.
More people buy our Maxwell House coffee than any other brand.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But when you brew the coffee.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
And pass the cups, the only expert who counts is
your husband. And tomorrow, if you'll pour him a cup
of Maxwell House, we're sure he'll salute you with a
smile and say.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Darling, that's coffee at its best.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Yes, Surrey, that's what he'll say. In fact, we'll return
your money if he doesn't. We're that sure he'll enjoy
our coffee. You see, no other coffee taste like Maxwell House,
because no other coffee is made like Maxwell House. There's
only one recipe for that famous good to the last
drop flavor, a recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended just so,
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and only Maxwell House has this recipe. So tomorrow, serve
Maxwell House to that man of yours. If he doesn't
say a best coffee ever, just send us the can
an unused portion, and we'll gladly refund the price you paid.
Our address is right on every familiar blue tin. Yes,
let your coffee expert be the judge. Tomorrow, fill your
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husband's cup with Maxwell House, the one coffee that's always good.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
To the last drop.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Sunday afternoon, that's dinner time in Springfield, which makes a
chicken and dumpling time for the Andersons. Five Anderson's Jim, Margaret, Betty,
Bud and Kathleen, two guests, the Messrs Buckley and Craig,
and one puny little chicken.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
It's pretty rugged going.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
Yes, indeed, I've eaten chicken and dumplings before, Missus Anderson, but.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Never like this.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Thank you, mister Craig.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
I haven't had a Sunday dinner like this since well, it's.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
So far back. I can't even remember.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
How about another helping, mister Craig, there's quite a bit left.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Well, if you're sure, there's plenty of No, no, i'd
better not.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I don't want to make a pig of myself, you know, Phil,
Thank you, Margaret.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Don't mind if I do make a pig of yourself.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I mean, try some of the biscuits, Phil, while they're
still hot.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
What's the matter with you, Bud? You've got an appetite
like a bird.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Oh, daddy said, excuse me, I guess something went down
the wrong way?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
What were you saying?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Dear Daddy says that insurance is the best policy.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
That's very good.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Did you hear that Buckley insurance is the best policy?
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Oh yes, yes, very good.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Indeed, may I have the butter? Please? Thank you, Betty.
You know WC I was saying too r L just.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
The other I'm worried about your son Jim growing boy
like that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I'll eat more. Well, he's all right, mister Craig. Don't
you like chicken?
Speaker 8 (15:55):
But oh sure, I'm just not hungry, that's all. I
had a big dinner yesterday.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh no, thank you, mister Craig. I'm on a diet
sort of.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
It's very strange the way you went through your food
last night.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Well, this is a different kind of a diet you
you eat every other day.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I see.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Makes it very handy on the budget, doesn't it, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yes, it's very handy. Would you care for another cup
of coffee? Mister Craig. That's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
There you are, Thank you, Phil.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Don't mind if I do all right? Thank you, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Of course I don't have to ask him.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There you are, dear, Thank you, honey.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
You know WC.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It's like I was telling R.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
L the other day, people have the right idea about
living Anderson settled down in a small town on your
own home, raise a family.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That's the way to live. We like it.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
Well, you should, shouldn't they buckling by all means? Why
just the other day I was saying, you are, for example,
rushing around from one city to another, always on the goal,
never a chance to take it easy and relax.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
Now that's what I.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Like about a small town. It's peaceful and quiet.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I'm going to let you in on a little secret,
mister Craig. With three children in the house, there's mighty
little peace and practically no quiet, no matter how small
the town is.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well, I wouldn't say that, would you, Buckley? Why no,
w C.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
I was telling r L just the other day in
my time, but I've never seen three that behaved any
better than yours.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
All right, children, you may tip your halo.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
No, no, no, no, I mean it very sincerely. How
about you, Buckley. I've met them before, and.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I know exactly what Phil means, and I find it
a little hard to believe myself. I have the strangest
feeling that a gremlin is going to pop out of
the middle of the table and shout, April fool Jim.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
They aren't that bad.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
No, they aren't that good either.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Say is today the first of April? That's right, first
of April. I wonder if you'd mind let me take
a look at the paper.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
The paper, the newspaper.
Speaker 10 (18:11):
I meant to get one at the hotel, but they
were out of the New York papers, and I thought, you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Want to see our paper? What's the matter with you, Jim?
You said it three times? I know. But we don't
get a Sunday paper.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
We burn it up.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You want?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
She means if we did get one, we just burn
it up.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Or line the garbage can with it. What's the sense
of buying a paper just to line a garbage can?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Jim?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Well, right, honey, it's bad enough for the daily papers,
but why waste all that money just to line garbage cans?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I could have sworn.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
All I said was me, I see the paper, But
why don't you run down to the drug store like
a good lad and get mister Craig a newspaper the
drug store? Heyes, so the mark get or the cigar
store or wherever you buy papers in Springfield.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
You buy them at the drug store.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Well then why all not the Sunday papers?
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Phil?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
They don't carry the Sunday papers?
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Why not they sell them all on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
What she means the early editions?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
You know how it is, Phil, They get the early
editions on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But they don't have anything in them except the comics.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
And you wouldn't want the comics, would you.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Why we've got them and they aren't even a comical.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Kathy, Well, some of them are.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Somehow I get the impression that I'm not supposed to
see the newspaper.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh no, you see, we just thought, Uh, how about
another cup of coffee? Mister Craig. Oh, I haven't touched
this one. That's fine. You don't have one too, won't you?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Phil, Jim, you're not helping the situation at all.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Watch situation.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Well, you see, Phil, we felt that with you and
mister Craig being here. Don't bother about the doorbell, Bud,
Oh you don't just sit down.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
But it was the front door, and I always have
to say.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I said, sit down, you don't answer it, maybe they'll
go away. Uh, how about another cup of coffee, mister
Craig Anderson.
Speaker 10 (20:13):
Don't they generally answer doorbells in Springfield?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Yes, but we're not expecting anyone. And uh, they've probably
got the wrong house. It happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I shame. I'm glad somebody does.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Jim, You're going to have to do something about that door.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Anybody have any suggestions answering?
Speaker 10 (20:35):
It might be an idea, unless that seems too simple.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I want me to see who it is, Dad, No,
I had better go. Probably does somebody selling something or something?
Speaker 9 (20:46):
You know, w C.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I was telling r L just the other day, April fool.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
They would have to pick a day like this to
call up about interviews and newsreels, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Be lucky if I don't get fired.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Well, mister Anderson, I'm Joe Holgan to the Springfield Mister Hogan.
I know I told you to come out here, but well,
things have happened in the meantime. And oh that's okay.
Come on in, Irwin, Okay, Joe, Now just a minute, Hogan,
I just finished telling you Hedwin' set up in the
living room.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
We'll be right with you, okay, Joe Hogan. This is
a great thing for you, mister Anderson, and for Springfield.
I'm trying to talk to the editor of doing a
whole series.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
The great row Matches of history has seen the eyes
of Springfield's greatest lover.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Oh now, wait a minute, I'll be right in.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Honey.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Everything all right, Oh sure, everything's fine. No, it can't be.
Is it a little place, isn't it? Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Look Hogan, can't you go away and come back later,
like next month, the next year.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Aren't you going match to the door? Never mind the door, Holgan,
you're a public figure, mister Anderson. You can't hide your
light under a bushel basket. Oh, mister Anderson. On Benson
of the International News real. Hi, Fred, Hello, Joe got
here ahead of me. Eh, Look, mister Bens Okay, who
start bringing the stuff in? Want all of it? Never
mind the dolly, we'll shoot it. Play mister Benson. Bred
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I'm supposed to get my copy in by four o'clock.
I won't be in your way. Where are you set
up in the living room? Good background? Look, don't mind me,
I just hot me. I gotta get this stuff too.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Hey Joe, I'm all set off.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Fred. I need a hand on those cables. I can't
drag them all in by myself. Oh, I've got to
talk to mister Anderson. And hey, Joe, how about your
guy giving lit a hand?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Hey, Irwin, Jim, what is going on out there? Do
you want me?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
What do you say? Margaret? Come on here and give
it a national hand?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I said, Is everything all right?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
How about my pictures? What pictures? Honey? Everything's fine? Missus Anderson.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Now let's see we'd like to do a quick two
or three minutes, mister Anderson with your wife and your kids.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
How about the cables? Hurry up? Will your win? Okay?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
John? It may be a.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Dog, you got a dog. They're great for human interest. Sellers. Please,
my boss is in there, and his boss is in there. Well, okay,
I think a dog would be better. But if you
want to stick the boss in see here Anderson you
told mister Craig. Is this him? Phil? I'm sorry about
this whole thing. I had the faintest idea. You must be.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
Pretty proud, huh, having a great lover like mister Anderson
working for you.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
What winner the National Love Letter Award? That's who he is, Hill,
I had nothing to do with it. I didn't even
send you the letter, Anderson?
Speaker 8 (23:11):
What's going on out there?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Buckley WRC.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
This is the most outrageous thing I've ever heard of
in my life.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
What is what? Are you getting all upset about? Which
one is he? Mister Craig.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I've been trying to explain to Phil, Mister Craig, my
name is Hogan of the Springfield Herald, and I want
you to.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Know that we're all mighty properly. What are they talking about?
Speaker 12 (23:28):
It?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
It's Anderson?
Speaker 8 (23:30):
He won that Love Letter Award.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He what, mister Craig, You've got to believe me. It
wasn't my fault.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Tim. What is it? What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Honey? Margaret? Do you know what your husband has done.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
He's ruined the good name of the Cavalier Life and
Casualty Company.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
That's what he's done.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
But Phil, it was only now just a minute buckley
to your see.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I want you to know that I had nothing to
do with this. I'm sure you didn't, mister Craig.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Everybody so excited about excuse me, watch the lamp.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
We're win.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Okay, I'll see that the full report of this goes
into the home office. Nonetheless, I'm very much mistake Anderson.
Don't pay any attention to him. I'm going to send
the report in myself. But all I am going to
recommend you for a sizeable bullus.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I know, mister Craig, But what do you see?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
All?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Shut up?
Speaker 8 (24:15):
You see what this means.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
We've spent millions advertising Cavalier as the insurance company with
a heart. Well, of course, now we can prove it.
A Cavalier employee went out over thousands of lovers because
of his great soul is gentle humanity? Oh no, well, well, naturally,
that that's what I was going to say in my reporter,
Oh Jim, as a matter of fact, to bind even
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closer the ties between this great lover and the great
company he represents.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
I shall be glad to take.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
My place beside him in front of the newsreel cameras
you will.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well, that'll be great, mister Craig. I still say a
dog would be better.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
Well, as long as we're all in this together, Yes
you see, Oh, soak your head.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yes, wc Are you with me, mister Anderson? Absolutely, mister Craig. Ladies,
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isn't it so?
Speaker 9 (25:28):
When you buy coffee at your grocer's this week, and
you'll be looking for the best value, And of course
that means only one thing, the most in flavor for
your money. So keep this in mind. There's one coffee
famous above all others for flavor. It's our Maxwell House
coffee in the familiar blue tin with the big white cup,
and drop tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Then take home a pound of our coffee.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
Serve a cup of Maxwell House to the world's greatest
coffee expert.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Your husband.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
When he smiles and says best coffee, you'll be convinced
it's Maxwell House for flavor. Then just count all the
truly good cups of coffee you get from each pound.
You'll agree it's Maxwell House for value too. Yes, tomorrow
for your money's worth and more. Take home Maxwell House coffee,
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always good to the last drop. It's a short time
later in the white frame house on Maple Street, and
for the first time all day, everything is calm and
under control.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Seems strange, but that's the way.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
It is like this, mister Craig, I don't know how
to thank you for all you've done done.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
I haven't done anything, my boy, nothing you haven't deserved
at any rate.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
I like to apologize for all that fuss we made
about the newspaper.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
I understand you wouldn't have any objection to my seeing it, now,
would you.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Oh? No, the whole story is on the front page.
Oh that's not the part I'm looking for. Here we
are on page six. What's on page six? Well? That
isn't bad, is it?
Speaker 8 (27:10):
What isn't There.
Speaker 10 (27:12):
Were over ten thousand entries in the contest, and I
came in fourteen.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
Psychology At breakfast time.
Speaker 11 (27:33):
I've found a way to get the kids to eat
a hot cereal in the morning.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I just give them post wheatmeal and tell them it's
hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
My how they gobble it up.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Yes, ladies, tell your children that post tweetmeal is hop
Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal and they eat it too.
Post wweatmeal is chuck full of solid whole wheat nourishment.
It has a wonderful nut like flavor, and it cooks
in only three and a half minutes. You'll see you'll
all agree it's the best hot cereal.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
You ever ate.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast
where Rhoda Williams as Betty June Whitley, Ted Donaldson, Orma
Gene Neilson, and yours truly, Bill Forman.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
So until next Thursday.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
America's favorite brand of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James. Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows
immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Here exciting drag Net three times mean Good Times on
NBC
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
A half hour visit with your neighbors.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
The Andersons, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House,
the coffee that's always good to the last drop. The
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first of April, some do say, is set apart for.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
All fools Day? But why the people call it so?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Nor I nor they themselves do know. It's Sunday in Springfield,
But that isn't all. It's the first day of April.
In the white frame house on Maple Street, the Andersons
are gathering for breakfast. And while they aren't concerned at
the moment about the date, they will be and soon
like this, May I have my coffee?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Please?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It'll be ready in a minute. Dear Jim, you didn't
persuade them to stay over, did you.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Of course not.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I merely look, Margaret, it isn't every day we have
a chance to entertain the district's supervisor and the general
manager of the whole division.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
I thought we entertained them quite well last night dinner
at the townhouse, the dance at the club.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Jim, you did ask them to stay over, didn't you, Honey?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
This is the first time alder Craig has ever paid
a visit to the Springfield office. And if I can
show him a good time while he's here, yes, Well,
when he gets back to the home office, he's bound
to say a good word for me.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
That's logical, isn't it what he is?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh, good morning, dear. Breakfast will be ready in two seconds.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Wasn't that ever a dance last night?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know, Margaret?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
That's a much more effective greeting than a plain old
good morning mother, or even good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Father, Good morning mother, Good morning dear, good morning.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Father, Good morning Betty, everybody happy, just bubbling over?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Good.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Wasn't that ever a dance last night?
Speaker 8 (02:12):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It was ever a dance last night. Does that make
you feel better?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
No coffee at her? Not yet, dear, Well, I better
shut up till he gets it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
There's one thing you don't seem to understand me, your mother.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What don't I seem to understand? Dear?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
In the business world, it isn't so much what you know,
it's who you know. And if I make an extra
good impression on mister Craig.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Well, there's no telling how far I can go with
the company.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Here's your coffee here, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
That's why I want the children to be especially thoughtful
and considerate this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
All right, dear, why don't you this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Mister Craig's a very important man, and I promised him
a day of complete rest.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
If I hear one peep out of any of the kids.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Jim, did you invite them here for dinner?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Naturally if we give them a good home cooked meal.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
But why didn't you tell me?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I am telling you, I've been telling you for the
last five minutes, but.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I'm not prepared. We have to go to church and
all the stores are closed. And Jim, what am I
going to do with you?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
What did I do now?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
If you'd only told me last night?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I didn't know last night. It was just sort of honey.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
There's always enough for two more, oh Jim.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And that's another thing.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Well, Craig and Buckley are here. I want Bud to
stay on one floor. I don't care which floor it is,
but he's not going to go up and downstairs.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Good morning, everybody, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Dear, hi Bud, This is one day we're not going
to have his imitation of a buffalo stampede or something
smells good?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
What are we having for breakfast?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Pancakes?
Speaker 7 (03:54):
And I was here ahead of you, so get n okay, Bud, Hey,
look at the.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Crying out loud?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Where is it?
Speaker 8 (04:05):
April? Fool boy? I sure scared her, didn't I, Bud?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes, h get the mop and clean up this mess.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Oh gosh, I didn't know she was gonna jump on the.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Table scaring people half to death. He knows how I
hate things like mice.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Bud, you can pick the worst time.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Go on ahead, genius, start cleaning up.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Holy Jim, this is going to be one of those days.
I can just feel it.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
This is not going to be one of those days.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
If I have to lock all the kids in the basement,
I'm going to give mister Craig the quietest afternoon of
his life.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yea, yeah, dear, what's the matter, Kathy?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh daddy, you want to see what's in the bathroom?
A green dragon with purple spots and fire coming.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Out of his nose.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Fine, go upstairs and ask him if he'd like some pancakes?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Is this the right?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Mom?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Don't bother dear, I didn't clean it up, Margaret. It
was his fall. Go ahead, Bud, lift your feet up.
Speaker 8 (05:13):
Betty.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Doesn't anybody care about the dragon?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
April fool?
Speaker 8 (05:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Blood told you, Jim.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
We've got to do something about dinner. I just can't
stretch a chicken to cover two more people.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, we'll all have to eat a little less. That's all.
Probably do us good.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
If you need.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Another chicken, there's one in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
There is what's a chicken doing in the Kathy? Are
you sure?
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yes, Daddy, I saw it fly over the fence.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Bud, put your coat on and see if you can
find a I don't know.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Okay, Betty, you can put your feet back down.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Isn't this fun, Kathleen?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I think we'll all be a lot happier if you'll
just forget that today is the first of April.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
But everybody else has April fool and they don't have
to stop.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
How does that look?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Mom? It looks finder and I sit down and have
your breakfast?
Speaker 8 (06:13):
What do I do with a mob?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Put a little sugar? I don't even have it instead
of cereal? Well, if he's going to ask those idiotic questions.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
What do you expect me to say? What'll I do
with a mob?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
Father?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's for you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
I only wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Never mind hear your.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Father was only joking fifteen years old and he doesn't
know what to do with a mob?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Ah, is it, Betty? I don't know, father.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
They just ask if you were home.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Well, thank you very much, go on back and finish
your breakfast.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Okay, my pancakes are probably Hello, mister Anderson.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Yes, this is Joe Hogan for Springfield Harold Who Joe Hogan.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I'm a reporter on the Herald.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
Remember I get this story about the Springfield Fair.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Oh yes, what can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I wonder if you're gonna be home this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
I've got to come up with a photographer.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
What for there isn't any.
Speaker 8 (07:08):
All?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Well, sure, mister Hogan, you come right ahead at two o'clock.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You are right sure, anytime at all?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Why don't you bring two or three photographers, just to
be on the safe side.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I think one we'll do fine. Well, see you later,
mister Anderson. All right, mister Hogan, and a happy first
of April. To you too. I don't know, grown man,
and they've got nothing better to do than waste the.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Time playing games. That's what's wrong with this world. Everybody
wants to play games. Who was it, dear, Oh, some
character with a weird sense of humor. I'm supposed to
get all excited about an interview so people can say,
April fool?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Daddy, what is it?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Kathleen?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Mommy says, I can't say April fool anymore.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Well, tell you what we'll do, kitten, Suppose this once
we don't pay any attention to your mother June after.
I'm the boss around here. What I say goes and
nobody else amounts to a row of pins.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
And let's have that understood further. April fool. Oh gosh, well,
how do you like? It sounds pretty silly when somebody
does it to you, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I wasn't gonna do it to you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Jim, you haven't eaten a bit of your break?
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Can I have to keep answering the phone so my
friends can have fun?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
This is probably Harry Truman inviting me to have dinner
at the White Hot. Oh, Harry, mister Anderson, Oh, let's
not be formal. Harry, Oh, kid does call me Jim?
Mister Anderson, this is Fred Benson of International Newsreel. I see,
would you like to come out here and take some
pictures of me, you know, in a bathing suitor going
over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Come right ahead and be sure to bring enough cameras.
We want to do this thing right. Okay, mister Anderson,
we'll be off this afternoon. That'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
You won't have any trouble recognizing me. I'm the one
with the heads win place and show.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Characters. Now it's International Newsreel.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Jim are used him on the phone.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
No, I'm good read now. Look hello, Jim, Who is
this anyway? Jim Hathaway?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
I thought it would be General Eisenhower at the very least.
Who Eh, never mind, Jim, what's up?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Don't give me that innocent routine. Why didn't you tell
me love a boy?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Look, Jim, I've had just about all I can take.
And if this is your idea of a joke, a joke.
Speaker 10 (09:34):
When I made jokes about the tender emotions of a
lonely heart.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
What haven't you seen the morning paper?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
What about it? Take a look love a boy, Jim.
What's all this? Jim? Jim?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh fine, Jim, you please come in and eat your bricks.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Not until I've seen the paper. Where is it?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's writ in here?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Oh wow, if you're gonna hide it like that.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Jim Anderson, I don't know what's gotten into you this morning.
I've cooked five batches of pans.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Where is it? Honey?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
The paper's right there on the stool. But why can't
you wait until you've had your pancake.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
It'll only take a second, Margaret, Jim Hathaway said, there
was holy jump, Margaret, look at this?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Look at it?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Father? All over the front page, Springfield Man wins Great
Love Letter Award.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We did it, We did it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Holy cow?
Speaker 10 (10:22):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (10:23):
What you want to do a thing like that for?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh mommy, we did it.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Father.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Isn't it just a minute?
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Kathy?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
What do you mean? We did it?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, didn't we?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I never entered any contest, and I never wrote any
love letters.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Let me see it, dear mister James Anderson of six
oh seven Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
It's a lie. The whole thing is a monstrous lie.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Maybe it's April fool.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
That's what it is, April fool. This is somebody's idea
of a big joke, and when I get my hands.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
On him, this isn't a joke.
Speaker 11 (10:54):
Listen, last night I sat neath the star swept sky,
and the breeze kept sign your name, Margaret. It picked
its way through the rustling boughs, and a million leaves.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Took up the chant Margaret. Why Jim, this is one
of the letters you wrote to me when we were engaged.
Speaker 12 (11:13):
Father, Holy car, Kathy, how did they get that letter?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Letter? The one your mother was just reading.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Oh that letter, Well, I said it to him.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Oh you did, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh it was just sitting around.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Up in the attic, and I didn't, Kathleen. Suppose you
and I retired to the den for a few moments.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You're gonna spank me, that's.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Right, And this time no one is going to say
April fourth, all right, Kathy, call me please.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I'm sorry, Angel, but you had no right to do it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But I only did it because I wanted Daddy to
win the five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Well, next time you'll think twice before what I thought
you'd be.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Glad to win five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Let me see that paper.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
If I won five hundred dollars, I wouldn't get mad
and spank people.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Margaret, she's right, look at it. I won five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Boy, creepers, Are you still mad at me?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Kathy? Yes, Daddy, have another pancake? Well? Who would ever
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have thought of father as a great lover?
Speaker 9 (12:50):
It just goes to show ladies never underestimate the man
you married. He's so much more than just your husband.
For example, he's also the world's greatest coffee expert. That's
a fact. The ranking authority on truly good coffee is
that man of yours. Now, it's true we're called experts too.
More people buy our Maxwell House coffee than any other brand.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
But when you brew the coffee.
Speaker 9 (13:15):
And pass the cups, the only expert who counts is
your husband. And tomorrow, if you'll pour him a cup
of Maxwell House, we're sure he'll salute you with a
smile and say.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Darling, that's coffee at its best.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Yes, Surrey, that's what he'll say. In fact, we'll return
your money if he doesn't. We're that sure he'll enjoy
our coffee. You see, no other coffee taste like Maxwell House,
because no other coffee is made like Maxwell House. There's
only one recipe for that famous good to the last
drop flavor, a recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended just so,
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and only Maxwell House has this recipe. So tomorrow, serve
Maxwell House to that man of yours. If he doesn't
say a best coffee ever, just send us the can
an unused portion, and we'll gladly refund the price you paid.
Our address is right on every familiar blue tin. Yes,
let your coffee expert be the judge. Tomorrow, fill your
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husband's cup with Maxwell House, the one coffee that's always good.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
To the last drop.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Sunday afternoon, that's dinner time in Springfield, which makes a
chicken and dumpling time for the Andersons. Five Anderson's Jim, Margaret, Betty,
Bud and Kathleen, two guests, the Messrs Buckley and Craig,
and one puny little chicken.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
It's pretty rugged going.
Speaker 10 (14:45):
Yes, indeed, I've eaten chicken and dumplings before, Missus Anderson, but.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Never like this.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Thank you, mister Craig.
Speaker 10 (14:52):
I haven't had a Sunday dinner like this since well, it's.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
So far back. I can't even remember.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
How about another helping, mister Craig, there's quite a bit left.
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Well, if you're sure, there's plenty of No, no, i'd
better not.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I don't want to make a pig of myself, you know, Phil,
Thank you, Margaret.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Don't mind if I do make a pig of yourself.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I mean, try some of the biscuits, Phil, while they're
still hot.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
What's the matter with you, Bud? You've got an appetite
like a bird.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Oh, daddy said, excuse me, I guess something went down
the wrong way?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
What were you saying?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Dear Daddy says that insurance is the best policy.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
That's very good.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Did you hear that Buckley insurance is the best policy?
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Oh yes, yes, very good.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Indeed, may I have the butter? Please? Thank you, Betty.
You know WC I was saying too r L just.
Speaker 10 (15:48):
The other I'm worried about your son Jim growing boy
like that.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I'll eat more. Well, he's all right, mister Craig. Don't
you like chicken?
Speaker 8 (15:55):
But oh sure, I'm just not hungry, that's all. I
had a big dinner yesterday.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh no, thank you, mister Craig. I'm on a diet
sort of.
Speaker 10 (16:13):
It's very strange the way you went through your food
last night.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Well, this is a different kind of a diet you
you eat every other day.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I see.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Makes it very handy on the budget, doesn't it, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yes, it's very handy. Would you care for another cup
of coffee? Mister Craig. That's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
There you are, Thank you, Phil.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Don't mind if I do all right? Thank you, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Of course I don't have to ask him.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There you are, dear, Thank you, honey.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
You know WC.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It's like I was telling R.
Speaker 10 (16:45):
L the other day, people have the right idea about
living Anderson settled down in a small town on your
own home, raise a family.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That's the way to live. We like it.
Speaker 10 (16:55):
Well, you should, shouldn't they buckling by all means? Why
just the other day I was saying, you are, for example,
rushing around from one city to another, always on the goal,
never a chance to take it easy and relax.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
Now that's what I.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Like about a small town. It's peaceful and quiet.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I'm going to let you in on a little secret,
mister Craig. With three children in the house, there's mighty
little peace and practically no quiet, no matter how small
the town is.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well, I wouldn't say that, would you, Buckley? Why no,
w C.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
I was telling r L just the other day in
my time, but I've never seen three that behaved any
better than yours.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
All right, children, you may tip your halo.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
No, no, no, no, I mean it very sincerely. How
about you, Buckley. I've met them before, and.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I know exactly what Phil means, and I find it
a little hard to believe myself. I have the strangest
feeling that a gremlin is going to pop out of
the middle of the table and shout, April fool Jim.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
They aren't that bad.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
No, they aren't that good either.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Say is today the first of April? That's right, first
of April. I wonder if you'd mind let me take
a look at the paper.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
The paper, the newspaper.
Speaker 10 (18:11):
I meant to get one at the hotel, but they
were out of the New York papers, and I thought, you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Want to see our paper? What's the matter with you, Jim?
You said it three times? I know. But we don't
get a Sunday paper.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
We burn it up.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You want?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
She means if we did get one, we just burn
it up.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Or line the garbage can with it. What's the sense
of buying a paper just to line a garbage can?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Jim?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Well, right, honey, it's bad enough for the daily papers,
but why waste all that money just to line garbage cans?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I could have sworn.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
All I said was me, I see the paper, But
why don't you run down to the drug store like
a good lad and get mister Craig a newspaper the
drug store? Heyes, so the mark get or the cigar
store or wherever you buy papers in Springfield.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
You buy them at the drug store.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Well then why all not the Sunday papers?
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Phil?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
They don't carry the Sunday papers?
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Why not they sell them all on Saturday?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
What she means the early editions?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
You know how it is, Phil, They get the early
editions on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But they don't have anything in them except the comics.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
And you wouldn't want the comics, would you.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Why we've got them and they aren't even a comical.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Kathy, Well, some of them are.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Somehow I get the impression that I'm not supposed to
see the newspaper.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Oh no, you see, we just thought, Uh, how about
another cup of coffee? Mister Craig. Oh, I haven't touched
this one. That's fine. You don't have one too, won't you?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Phil, Jim, you're not helping the situation at all.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Watch situation.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Well, you see, Phil, we felt that with you and
mister Craig being here. Don't bother about the doorbell, Bud,
Oh you don't just sit down.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
But it was the front door, and I always have
to say.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I said, sit down, you don't answer it, maybe they'll
go away. Uh, how about another cup of coffee, mister
Craig Anderson.
Speaker 10 (20:13):
Don't they generally answer doorbells in Springfield?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Yes, but we're not expecting anyone. And uh, they've probably
got the wrong house. It happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I shame. I'm glad somebody does.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Jim, You're going to have to do something about that door.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Anybody have any suggestions answering?
Speaker 10 (20:35):
It might be an idea, unless that seems too simple.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I want me to see who it is, Dad, No,
I had better go. Probably does somebody selling something or something?
Speaker 9 (20:46):
You know, w C.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I was telling r L just the other day, April fool.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
They would have to pick a day like this to
call up about interviews and newsreels, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Be lucky if I don't get fired.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Well, mister Anderson, I'm Joe Holgan to the Springfield Mister Hogan.
I know I told you to come out here, but well,
things have happened in the meantime. And oh that's okay.
Come on in, Irwin, Okay, Joe, Now just a minute, Hogan,
I just finished telling you Hedwin' set up in the
living room.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
We'll be right with you, okay, Joe Hogan. This is
a great thing for you, mister Anderson, and for Springfield.
I'm trying to talk to the editor of doing a
whole series.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
The great row Matches of history has seen the eyes
of Springfield's greatest lover.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Oh now, wait a minute, I'll be right in.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Honey.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Everything all right, Oh sure, everything's fine. No, it can't be.
Is it a little place, isn't it? Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Look Hogan, can't you go away and come back later,
like next month, the next year.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Aren't you going match to the door? Never mind the door, Holgan,
you're a public figure, mister Anderson. You can't hide your
light under a bushel basket. Oh, mister Anderson. On Benson
of the International News real. Hi, Fred, Hello, Joe got
here ahead of me. Eh, Look, mister Bens Okay, who
start bringing the stuff in? Want all of it? Never
mind the dolly, we'll shoot it. Play mister Benson. Bred
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I'm supposed to get my copy in by four o'clock.
I won't be in your way. Where are you set
up in the living room? Good background? Look, don't mind me,
I just hot me. I gotta get this stuff too.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Hey Joe, I'm all set off.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Fred. I need a hand on those cables. I can't
drag them all in by myself. Oh, I've got to
talk to mister Anderson. And hey, Joe, how about your
guy giving lit a hand?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Hey, Irwin, Jim, what is going on out there? Do
you want me?
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Joe?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
What do you say? Margaret? Come on here and give
it a national hand?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I said, Is everything all right?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
How about my pictures? What pictures? Honey? Everything's fine? Missus Anderson.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Now let's see we'd like to do a quick two
or three minutes, mister Anderson with your wife and your kids.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
How about the cables? Hurry up? Will your win? Okay?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
John? It may be a.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Dog, you got a dog. They're great for human interest. Sellers. Please,
my boss is in there, and his boss is in there. Well, okay,
I think a dog would be better. But if you
want to stick the boss in see here Anderson you
told mister Craig. Is this him? Phil? I'm sorry about
this whole thing. I had the faintest idea. You must be.
Speaker 9 (23:01):
Pretty proud, huh, having a great lover like mister Anderson
working for you.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
What winner the National Love Letter Award? That's who he is, Hill,
I had nothing to do with it. I didn't even
send you the letter, Anderson?
Speaker 8 (23:11):
What's going on out there?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Buckley WRC.
Speaker 10 (23:14):
This is the most outrageous thing I've ever heard of
in my life.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
What is what? Are you getting all upset about? Which
one is he? Mister Craig.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I've been trying to explain to Phil, Mister Craig, my
name is Hogan of the Springfield Herald, and I want
you to.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Know that we're all mighty properly. What are they talking about?
Speaker 12 (23:28):
It?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
It's Anderson?
Speaker 8 (23:30):
He won that Love Letter Award.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He what, mister Craig, You've got to believe me. It
wasn't my fault.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Tim. What is it? What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Honey? Margaret? Do you know what your husband has done.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
He's ruined the good name of the Cavalier Life and
Casualty Company.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
That's what he's done.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
But Phil, it was only now just a minute buckley
to your see.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I want you to know that I had nothing to
do with this. I'm sure you didn't, mister Craig.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Everybody so excited about excuse me, watch the lamp.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
We're win.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Okay, I'll see that the full report of this goes
into the home office. Nonetheless, I'm very much mistake Anderson.
Don't pay any attention to him. I'm going to send
the report in myself. But all I am going to
recommend you for a sizeable bullus.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I know, mister Craig, But what do you see?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
All?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Shut up?
Speaker 8 (24:15):
You see what this means.
Speaker 10 (24:16):
We've spent millions advertising Cavalier as the insurance company with
a heart. Well, of course, now we can prove it.
A Cavalier employee went out over thousands of lovers because
of his great soul is gentle humanity? Oh no, well, well, naturally,
that that's what I was going to say in my reporter,
Oh Jim, as a matter of fact, to bind even
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closer the ties between this great lover and the great
company he represents.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
I shall be glad to take.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
My place beside him in front of the newsreel cameras
you will.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well, that'll be great, mister Craig. I still say a
dog would be better.
Speaker 10 (24:53):
Well, as long as we're all in this together, Yes
you see, Oh, soak your head.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yes, wc Are you with me, mister Anderson? Absolutely, mister Craig. Ladies,
(25:27):
isn't it so?
Speaker 9 (25:28):
When you buy coffee at your grocer's this week, and
you'll be looking for the best value, And of course
that means only one thing, the most in flavor for
your money. So keep this in mind. There's one coffee
famous above all others for flavor. It's our Maxwell House
coffee in the familiar blue tin with the big white cup,
and drop tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Then take home a pound of our coffee.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
Serve a cup of Maxwell House to the world's greatest
coffee expert.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Your husband.
Speaker 9 (25:57):
When he smiles and says best coffee, you'll be convinced
it's Maxwell House for flavor. Then just count all the
truly good cups of coffee you get from each pound.
You'll agree it's Maxwell House for value too. Yes, tomorrow
for your money's worth and more. Take home Maxwell House coffee,
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always good to the last drop. It's a short time
later in the white frame house on Maple Street, and
for the first time all day, everything is calm and
under control.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Seems strange, but that's the way.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
It is like this, mister Craig, I don't know how
to thank you for all you've done done.
Speaker 10 (26:43):
I haven't done anything, my boy, nothing you haven't deserved
at any rate.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
I like to apologize for all that fuss we made
about the newspaper.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
I understand you wouldn't have any objection to my seeing it, now,
would you.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Oh? No, the whole story is on the front page.
Oh that's not the part I'm looking for. Here we
are on page six. What's on page six? Well? That
isn't bad, is it?
Speaker 8 (27:10):
What isn't There.
Speaker 10 (27:12):
Were over ten thousand entries in the contest, and I
came in fourteen.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
Psychology At breakfast time.
Speaker 11 (27:33):
I've found a way to get the kids to eat
a hot cereal in the morning.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I just give them post wheatmeal and tell them it's
hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
My how they gobble it up.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Yes, ladies, tell your children that post tweetmeal is hop
Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal and they eat it too.
Post wweatmeal is chuck full of solid whole wheat nourishment.
It has a wonderful nut like flavor, and it cooks
in only three and a half minutes. You'll see you'll
all agree it's the best hot cereal.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
You ever ate.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast
where Rhoda Williams as Betty June Whitley, Ted Donaldson, Orma
Gene Neilson, and yours truly, Bill Forman.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
So until next Thursday.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
America's favorite brand of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James. Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows
immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
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