July 7, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Now listen to Father knows Best, Darring Robert Young, his father.
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out a call to the SPCFA, the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Fathers in America. Come to a
certain white frame house on Maple Street. Bring full emergency equipment,
including large doses of sympathy. See a man named Jim Anderson.
He's entering the house at this moment, happy, eager, unsuspecting
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like this.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Margaret, where have you been?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Dere you slipped out after doing that?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Has a business to talk over with Ed Davis. Margaret,
Listen to this. What do you say you and I
been next door at the Davis's.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Margaret, Father, you'll simply have to help me with these candles.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Candles, Dad, but I was your father was talking about
he was talking to me.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I was talking to your mother. Do you mind if I.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Find you you were home, Daddy? I heard your voice.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's more than I've been able to do.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Cathy, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
If a farmer planted six rows of potatoes and five rows.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Of corn, farmer dead.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
If you feed one hundred and ten votes into a transformer,
what transformers?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He was here first.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I was here first.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I have news for all of you.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I was here first, your mother and I and I
was about to ask her something.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
May I continue?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Is it something important?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Dear? Of course it's important. I had a great idea.
Let you and I go bowling tonight, bowling, bowling, bowling, bawling.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I must be standing on echo point. I don't mind
your kids listening while I talk to your mother.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But Jim, it's sweet of you to think of it.
But it's been so long.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And ethel day was when bowling a couple of nights ago,
and they had the time of their lives.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Why don't we go? Well, there's no reason why we can't.
All we have to do is call the bowling alley.
It's such a simple thing.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'd like to go, Dear, but there's Kathy.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Button Betty are here.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I don't want to stay with them.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Father, you have to help me make a candle tree.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Candle tree.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I have to put nine candles together like a tree.
It's for my sorority initiation.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
How about my transform, Bud?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
What's this about a transformer?
Speaker 8 (03:02):
Could you help me wire it up?
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Daddy?
Speaker 9 (03:04):
You have to help me with my arithmetic problems. If
a farmer planted six rows of potatoes.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
It's a transformer for a doorbell and five.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Rows of corn.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Kathy, what doorbell?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
You have to put nine candles together like a tree, Daddy,
What about the farmer?
Speaker 8 (03:18):
What's the farmer doing in here?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He's planning candles?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Jim, listen, I have a problem, father.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I know nine rows of doorbells for your sorority transformer.
Why can't anybody in this house talk all at once?
I mean one at a time. Your Doorbud, The doorbell's
working all right, Bud. What do you need a transformer for?
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Put the doorbell on our clubhouse? When we get a clubhouse.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Bud, the front door.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I'm going, Margaret. I came back from the Davis's. All
I wanted to do was.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Drummersus Johnson.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Come on.
Speaker 10 (03:55):
Oh hello Evelyn, Hello Margaret, Jim, Well, hello there, good
eating Johnson.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Betty, Kathy, Paul.
Speaker 10 (04:02):
Excuse me for breaking in like this, but Charles came
home with tickets for the concert tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Betty.
Speaker 10 (04:07):
We wondered if you'd like to come and sit with
the twins. Well, they're four years old now, and they're
not too much trouble.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I'm awfully sorry, missus Johnson. I'd like to, but we
have a sorority initiation tomorrow night, and I have so
many things to do.
Speaker 10 (04:19):
I understand. I wish we could help you, Evelyn. Oh
it's a problem whenever we want to go out. How
I envy you and Jim with your children old enough
to be independent and do things for themselves. Oh, it
must be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh it is.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, I'll just have to keep trying. I guess.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I hope you find someone.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh I will come and see us soon. We will. Oh,
poor Evelyn, they're so tied down with those little boys.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
What's tied down?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
They're tied down? What about us?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
We've been tied down for eighteen years, and now tonight,
for once, I suggest you and I go bowling. And
what happens, I run smack into a wall of transformers
and farmers and candles and corn.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
What's the matter, Dad?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
But it's just well, father, if we're in the way.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's not what I said. It's simply that you kids
are old enough to realize that your mother and I
deserve a little time to ourselves. You have to learn
to assume a few of your own responsibilities.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Do we have to start tonight?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I can't think of a better time. Your mother and
I are going bowling, and that's finally.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Do I have to stay with Betty and Bud?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, your brother and sister.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
That's the trouble.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Who will help me with my candle tree?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Do it yourself? Betty? Find a book. Look it up
in the encyclopedia.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
How do I fix my transformer?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Look it up in the encyclopedia.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Where are we going, Jim?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Look it up in the We're going bowling? Down to
Harvey's Recreation Center.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Kathy, you run next door and see if you can
spend the evening with Patty Davis.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Gee, well, I'll never get the candlestick.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
What about my transformer?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Betty? Why don't you call Janie Leggett? Maybe she can
help you and Bud. You can take your transformer over
to Joe Phillips house. Now run long jumping.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Creeper water life.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Well, there you are, Margaret. You see, all it takes
is a firm stand. The children have been hanging on
our apron strings, relying on.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Us for everything. Well it's natural, certainly.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Up to a point. But they can't be fed with
a spoon all their lives.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yes, Dear, no more staying at.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Home every evening, devoting every minute of our lives to
the children. I'm glad I've taken a stand. From now on,
we're going to be free. We're going to be young
and gay again. We're going to get out and see people.
We're going to have fun.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well I'm ready, dear, How do we begin?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You see, you're lost. You've been locked in so long.
You don't know how to be free.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
All right, Warden, you're like a bird out of the
cage for the first time. You don't know where to fly.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, you take off first and I'll follow.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Believe me, we'll have no trouble. I'm just glad we made.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
The break before we forgot how to live, how to
have a good time.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
All right, I'm convinced.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Let's fly you bet. I'll call the Bowling Alley, make
a couple of reservations, and we'll be on our way.
You just have to take the bull by the horns.
That's all. Hello, Harvey's Recreation Saturday. This is Jim Anderson.
I'd like to reserve an alley for eight o'clock. They
are how about eight thirty nine? Nothing at nine either.
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The phone is Riverside four three. Oh, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
What do you say?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Only alleys are reserved. They'll call us if there's a cancelation.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Well, we're back on the perch.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh no, we're not.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
The Bowling Alley isn't the only place in town we
can go. We'll go down to the townhouse, have late
supper in the crystal room, dance and have a hello.
Jim Anderson, I'd like to reserve a table in the
crystal room for.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh it is well, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Well that was a short flight.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
They're closed for all rations. All right, we don't have
to go there. There are plenty of other things we
can do. Let's call the smiths. We'll get up a foursome.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
The smiths can't go, Jim. They have relatives visiting oh.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
All right, then let's call the Phillips for an evening
of bridge.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
They're playing bridge with the Evans tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well, count final. We don't need the Phillips or the Smiths.
We can go out somewhere by ourselves, just you and I.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We'll go to a movie. Hand me the paper. Let's
see what's.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Playing, all right, m here's a nice double bill Across
the Arctic by Zeppelin and Life among the Giant Lizards.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Let's see if the strand is sitting pretty. You know
we've seen that. What's it the Majestic Bambi and the
horn blows at midnight?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
There's nothing playing that we haven't seen. There must be,
is that you barn?
Speaker 9 (09:11):
It's me Mommy, Missus Davison invited me to stay all
night with Patty.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
We're gonna have a keen time, Cathy. Where's my overnight, dad, Mommy.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
On the shelf in your closet. Well, Jim, what have
you decided?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
There are no movies in town, Margaret. Cathy didn't speak
to me when she came in.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Oh, she's excited about going to the Davises.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And I suppose I was a little hasty running the
children out of the house. I certainly don't want them
to feel that I'm trying to get rid of them
or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, they understand, Dear.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I guess I didn't realize how important we are to
the kids, how much they depend on us for help
and understanding and companionship.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Well, Margaret, I'm going to be truthful.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I couldn't go out this evening and leave them. I'm
going to tell them we've changed our minds. We'll have
a real nice evening at home.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Now, that's fine, dear.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Has Betty gone over to Jady's?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
No, she's upstairs.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Oh Betty, Betty, yes, Father, come downstairs a minute. Do
we have any popcorn? Margaret?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
We'll have popcorn, play some cards. What is it, father, Betty?
Your mother and I have changed our plans. We're staying
home tonight. But father, do you have a problem with
those candles for your sorority initiation? We'll work it out.
You can always count on me, you know that.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
But there's no reason for you to stay home.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There isn't.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I wouldn't think of denying you and mother a little freedom. Besides,
I'm going over to Janie Niggetts, her cousin's visiting her
and he's a big fraternity man from Princeton. I've been
dying to meet him, but he's getting office with the candles. Bye, Mother,
have a good time.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Goodbye, Dear, big fraternity man from Princeton.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What does he know about arranging candles?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Don't be bitter, Dear?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Who's being bitter?
Speaker 10 (10:53):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Bob? Come in the living room, Vin, What do you
want d I've been thinking over that transfer former problem
of your son. That's very interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Your mother and I decided not to go out this evening,
So why don't you and I go down in the basement.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Oh, yeah, you don't have to stay home on my account.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Dad, that's all right. You kids come first. You can
always count on your dad.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
But it worked out swell. We called Joe Phillip's uncle.
He's got an electric applying store and he's gonna let
us work on the transformer down there. He's got tools
and everything.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But we have things in the basement. Oh, he has.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Twice as much stuff. You and mom go ahead, don't
worry about me, but Bud, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Mommy, do you have your toothbrush and pajamas?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Sure? Am, I kickball, Well, you.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Can put them back in your room. Kidding.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Mother and I are staying home so you won't have
to go over to the Davis's. We'll work on your arithmetic, Daddy.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Patty's gonna help me with my arithmetic, and I'm gonna
show her about kickball. Yes, but and when Patty helps
a my arithmetic, I get a's.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
When you help me, I get a B.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Now wait a minute, I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Can I Mommy, good night? Angel?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Can Daddy good night?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
That's gratitude for you. You give the best years of
your life to the kids, bringing them up through the
mumps and measles, working like a dog for them, and
just when they're old enough to be companions to you,
they cast you aside like an old shoe. Now, Jim,
you're not.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Even good enough to do their arithmetic. They'd rather be
down in some two bit electric shop, simpering over some
lame bring with a fraternity pin.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, you were the one who insisted we go out tonight.
You chase them out of the house.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I didn't chase them out.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I only suggested, all right, you suggested, fine, loyalty, Jim.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The children didn't realize we couldn't find anything.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
To do, Margaret, That's not the reason we decided to
stay home. What was the reason, Well, it was Why
do you ask me?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You know very well, no reservations at the bowling Alley,
no movies we haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I don't know where you've got the silly idea we
have no place to go. There are dozens of things
we can do, places we can go.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Well, good, let's go.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
All right, we'll go.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Where are we going?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
We're going out out where? Any place you want to go?
What would you like to do?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
What would you like to do?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It doesn't matter to me either. This is like playing badminton, Jim,
I have no ideas. You said there were a dozen
things we could do. Now you tell me, all right, we.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Can there's the or we could do. How about I
guess you wouldn't care about doing any of those things.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
No, I guess not.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Well, get the cards. Let's play canasta.
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Speaker 2 (15:24):
You can't always tell how a good idea is going
to turn out. In the white frame house on Maple Street,
Jim Anderson had what seemed to be a beautiful idea,
a free evening for Margaret and himself to do just
as they pleased.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
There were dozens of.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Exciting and interesting things to do, Jim insisted, so they
chose one like this.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Let's see that gives me six sixty, five hundred and
thirty points in game.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I never did like Canaster.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
You were the one who suggested we play there.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
How do you like this? Two people young, almost with friends,
a car, A thousand things we could do sitting here
at home playing Canasta.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, dear, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Let's not go through that again.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Still worrying about the children.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Worrying Why should I worry about them if their parents
no longer mean anything to them?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
All right, Jim, it's not that serious.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Isn't it something of a shock to you, Margaret to
discover that you're not only unnecessary but obsolete?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Bring home the money? That's all I do. Cook the food.
That's all you do. Face it, Margaret, You and I
can be replaced by a bank and a Hamburger.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Stand no, fine, I don't even rate a good restaurant.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Put a little fire on the hearth. We'll huddle together
in our declining years, alone and forgotten.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Telephone, dear, I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Oh, yes, this is Jim Anderson. You have great We
sure will, yes, sir, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Jim, wasn't the world?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That was the bowling alley? A couple of reservations. Just
cancel out. There's an alley open right now. I told
him we'd be right down for.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
An obsolete bank. You're showing a lot of life.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Don't be ridiculous, Margaret. We have to hurry.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
What happened to the huddling hearth in the declining years?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Margaret? They won't hold the alley all night.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Jim, stop dragging me. We have to let the children
know we're going.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
They know, Margaret, it was clearly understood before they left.
You and I were going out.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well, I think we should at least leave a note.
Give me a pencil, Jim.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All right here, gosh, an evening out. We could have
done this long ago.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
If we'd had my way, It's simply a matter of
letting the children know that we have a right to
live too. They just take it for granted that we
have to be at their beckon call twenty four hours
a day.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Have you finished, Jim, I can't think when you're talking.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
What do you have to think about? Just say, dear kids,
we've gone out.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
If they come home and we're not here, they'll know
we've gone out.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Then why write a note? Well?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I want to leave something, dear Betty.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
And what you don't realize, Margaret, is that the children
aren't babies anymore. They're old enough to get out and
do things on their own.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
It's better for them if they feel we're not hovering
over them every second.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Let them develop a little independence. What if you put.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Down Dear Betty and Bud, your father and I.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
All you have to do is come right out and
say you're old enough to go out and do things
for yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Without relying on you. Jim, Margaret, haven't you written that
note yet? We could have been at the bowling house.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Jim, Please stop talking and don't paste up and down.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You think you were writing a play or something.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
There dear Betty and Bud, Your father and I have
gone bowling. If you're hungry when you come home, there's
chocolate cake in the pantry and two custard of claies.
There's cold roast and fresh milk in the refrigerator. All right,
let's go, Jim.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Maybe we should have a bite to eat before we
go home.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Now you've been standing here screaming to go.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
All right, all right, get your things. I just thought
you might be hungry.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I'm ready to go, so am I. We're off. Margaret
as freeze, daddy.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
Oh no, in here, Kathy, Daddy, can you fix a
window in a garage?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Quick?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Fix? What window? And what garage?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
In the davises, Patty and I were practicing kickball.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Your mother and I were.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Just about it, but Daddy let her finish.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Gim Margaret, I told the bowling alley we'd be right down.
Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Well, Patty and I were practicing kickball before we started
our arithmetic, and Patty kicked the ball through the garage window.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, if Patty broke the window, why do I have
to fix it?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Patty was afraid if she told her father she did it,
she'd get spanked.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh, so we.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Told him I did it, but I knew I could
count on you to fix it.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
But Kathy, he said, I could always count on you, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Go look at me, dear.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
All right, I'll do it first thing in the morning.
Come on, Margaret, you.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Gotta do it right now. The snow will come in
the window. I told mister Davis, you do it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But Kathy, I don't have anything to cover a window.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Isn't there something, Jim?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I could go over and lean against it?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You get cold?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Oh, call the bowling Alley, Margaret. Tell him we'll be
a couple of minutes late. What are you going to do, Jim,
I'm going down in the basement. Maybe we have some tarpaper.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
You're going to put that all instead of glass, Daddy. Yes, Kathy,
you can't see through it.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I know that this is temporary. They call a bowling alley, Margaret.
This will take me about five minutes, and then we'll go.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
The tar paper is black, Daddy, their garage is white.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
We'll paint the garage.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Really, No, Jim, what's the number of the bowling Alley?
Why the bowling Alley?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Call him up? Mother?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Where's father?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
He's in the basement. Jim, why come on quick? Father?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Who are you phoning?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Mother?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Well, your father.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Wants me to bed sick. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Father?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I'm looking for tar paper, Margaret? Did you call a
bowling alley?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I don't have the number, Jim.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
What's written down there somewhere?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh, dear father, You've got to help me.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I thought you were Jennie Niggotts.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I was, but we're in a mess.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, the line forms on the left. Kathy's ahead of it, but.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
It is important.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Look at this throw rug. It belongs to Janie Niggot's mother.
It's practically priceless.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We're not buying any rugs.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Here's the target for daddy.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Kathy, take that downstairs.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
What's that, Daddy?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
It's a rug?
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Are you gonna put that over mister Davis's window?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
No, Kathy, Mother, Margaret, if you call the bowling alley.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Jim, I'm looking for the nun to count of wax
on this rug.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Father.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Janie's cousin thought he was so smart, and he spilled
wax all over it, and Janie's mother is furious, and
Janie's father was fit to be tied. So I brought
it home. I knew you'd find a way to get
the wax off of it.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Betty, your mother and I bother.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
You promised you'd never let me down. Jennie's positively desolate.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I'm a little desolate myself.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Let's go fix the window, daddy.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
He's going to work on the rug first.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Aren't you, Father?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Broken windows wax on rugs.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You said we could always count on you.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
You did, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
All right, Margaret, look up the number of the Bowling Alley.
Tell him we'll be about fifteen minutes late.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
All right, dear, let's go daddy.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Kathy, you find a hammer in some tax While you're
doing that, I'll see what I can do with this rug.
Where's the hammer in the basement with the tools?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Look the way that wax soak into the rug. Do
you suppose gasoline would lift the.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Nap Yes, it'd lift the roof of the house too.
We'll have to use cleaning solvent.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
We can't do that. And here, father, we'll have to
take it out in the garage.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Here's the hammer, daddy.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh, Kathy, that's not a tack hammer, that's a mallet.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
What hammer do you want?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The little one?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You suppose we could wash the rug.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Father, We probably we could when it was dry, we
could use it for a doily.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I can't find the hammer.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Don't you know some way to clean it?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well? Yeah, the online Kathy.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I was so sure you could do it.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Father.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
How are you getting along?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Gin? Oh? Fine? Rugs hammers must be the girls are
just naturally helpless.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
But you told us to come to you.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Man has to be a carpenter, rug cleaner, magician. What
do they say at the bowling Alley, Margaret, they're waiting, Gin,
Thank heaven, Bud is at least able to do things
for himself down there in that electric shop, working on
his transformer, figuring out his own problems. I'll get it, dear,
I'll answered, Margaret. You take over the rug for a minute.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
All right, all right, I'm coming hello, mister and Yes,
let's is.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Fred down at the bowling Alley. Well, it'll be a
few minutes. We've been delayed. Take your time, mister Anderson.
We've had to close down the alleys for a while.
Our lights have gone out.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Light's going on the whole block is dug No bowling
unless you want to bring a flashlight.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
All right, thanks for calling. Come bye?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
What was that Jim.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Fellowed the Bowling Alley. Their lights are.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Out, yady? Aren't we going to fix the window?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I'm sure that was Jenny Niggot's mother calling. What am
I going to do? Father?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Betty? Give your father a chance to think.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I wish Bud were here. He's the only one who
goes along quietly. Isn't always getting into some count foundering?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That's Janny's mother?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Probably the Bowling Alley have their lights on again, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
If it's mister.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
James, Hello, yeah, this is Budd. Oh hello, Bud? Where
are you down on.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
The basement at the electric shop?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Can you come right down? Come down there?
Speaker 8 (24:44):
What for?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Well, a fuse blew out and we didn't have another one,
so we put a penny in it. It blew out
the lights on the whole block.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh no. The man came over from.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
The Bowling Alley next door.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
He's pretty sore. Oh, Bud?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Can he come down there?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
All right? Stay right there? We have to We can't
see anything, all right? Goodbye, goodbye?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
What happened to Bud?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
They mixed up the fuses in the electric shop, burned
out the lights, put the Bowling Alley out of business.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I have to go down there to rescue him.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
But father, the rug? What about the window? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Children?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Please, phones, doorbells.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I'll go, dear father.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
What am I going to tell Janie's mother?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
What am I gonna tell to Davis?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Come in Evelyn? Oh hello, missus Johnson.
Speaker 10 (25:39):
Well, I couldn't find anyone to stay with our twins,
Miss Anderson.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Oh that's too bad, But I thought.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Someone should use these two tickets to the concert tonight,
so I brought them over to you and Margaret for us. Yes,
you're the only people I know whose children don't need
them anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Missus Johnson, if you only knew.
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Speaker 2 (27:16):
It's a few minutes later in the white frame house
on Maple Street, and Jim Anderson, with quite a collection
of problems himself, is on the telephone trying to help
a certain Missus Johnson with herbs. Margaret and Missus Johnson
are in the kitchen awaiting the results.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Like this, Jim's calling the Bennetts down the street, Evelyn.
I'm sure they'd love to have the tickets. And don't
they have children? Oh? Yes, but theirs are married.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Oh how wonderful it must be to have raised your
family and then settle down to a life of your own.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yes, they can go where they please any time. They're
absolutely free. Oh how I envy them.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Well, I call the Bennetts. They can't go, Why not, Jim?
They're sitting with their grandchildren.
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including large doses of sympathy. See a man named Jim Anderson.
He's entering the house at this moment, happy, eager, unsuspecting
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like this.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Margaret, where have you been?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Dere you slipped out after doing that?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Has a business to talk over with Ed Davis. Margaret,
Listen to this. What do you say you and I
been next door at the Davis's.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Margaret, Father, you'll simply have to help me with these candles.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Candles, Dad, but I was your father was talking about
he was talking to me.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I was talking to your mother. Do you mind if I.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Find you you were home, Daddy? I heard your voice.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's more than I've been able to do.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Cathy, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
If a farmer planted six rows of potatoes and five rows.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Of corn, farmer dead.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
If you feed one hundred and ten votes into a transformer,
what transformers?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He was here first.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I was here first.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I have news for all of you.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I was here first, your mother and I and I
was about to ask her something.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
May I continue?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Is it something important?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Dear? Of course it's important. I had a great idea.
Let you and I go bowling tonight, bowling, bowling, bowling, bawling.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I must be standing on echo point. I don't mind
your kids listening while I talk to your mother.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But Jim, it's sweet of you to think of it.
But it's been so long.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And ethel day was when bowling a couple of nights ago,
and they had the time of their lives.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Why don't we go? Well, there's no reason why we can't.
All we have to do is call the bowling alley.
It's such a simple thing.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I'd like to go, Dear, but there's Kathy.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Button Betty are here.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I don't want to stay with them.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Father, you have to help me make a candle tree.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Candle tree.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I have to put nine candles together like a tree.
It's for my sorority initiation.
Speaker 8 (02:58):
How about my transform, Bud?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
What's this about a transformer?
Speaker 8 (03:02):
Could you help me wire it up?
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Daddy?
Speaker 9 (03:04):
You have to help me with my arithmetic problems. If
a farmer planted six rows of potatoes.
Speaker 8 (03:09):
It's a transformer for a doorbell and five.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Rows of corn.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Kathy, what doorbell?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
You have to put nine candles together like a tree, Daddy,
What about the farmer?
Speaker 8 (03:18):
What's the farmer doing in here?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He's planning candles?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Jim, listen, I have a problem, father.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I know nine rows of doorbells for your sorority transformer.
Why can't anybody in this house talk all at once?
I mean one at a time. Your Doorbud, The doorbell's
working all right, Bud. What do you need a transformer for?
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Put the doorbell on our clubhouse? When we get a clubhouse.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Bud, the front door.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I'm going, Margaret. I came back from the Davis's. All
I wanted to do was.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Drummersus Johnson.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Come on.
Speaker 10 (03:55):
Oh hello Evelyn, Hello Margaret, Jim, Well, hello there, good
eating Johnson.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Betty, Kathy, Paul.
Speaker 10 (04:02):
Excuse me for breaking in like this, but Charles came
home with tickets for the concert tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Betty.
Speaker 10 (04:07):
We wondered if you'd like to come and sit with
the twins. Well, they're four years old now, and they're
not too much trouble.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I'm awfully sorry, missus Johnson. I'd like to, but we
have a sorority initiation tomorrow night, and I have so
many things to do.
Speaker 10 (04:19):
I understand. I wish we could help you, Evelyn. Oh
it's a problem whenever we want to go out. How
I envy you and Jim with your children old enough
to be independent and do things for themselves. Oh, it
must be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh it is.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, I'll just have to keep trying. I guess.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I hope you find someone.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh I will come and see us soon. We will. Oh,
poor Evelyn, they're so tied down with those little boys.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
What's tied down?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
They're tied down? What about us?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
We've been tied down for eighteen years, and now tonight,
for once, I suggest you and I go bowling. And
what happens, I run smack into a wall of transformers
and farmers and candles and corn.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
What's the matter, Dad?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
But it's just well, father, if we're in the way.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's not what I said. It's simply that you kids
are old enough to realize that your mother and I
deserve a little time to ourselves. You have to learn
to assume a few of your own responsibilities.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
Do we have to start tonight?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I can't think of a better time. Your mother and
I are going bowling, and that's finally.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Do I have to stay with Betty and Bud?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, your brother and sister.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
That's the trouble.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Who will help me with my candle tree?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Do it yourself? Betty? Find a book. Look it up
in the encyclopedia.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
How do I fix my transformer?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Look it up in the encyclopedia.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Where are we going, Jim?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Look it up in the We're going bowling? Down to
Harvey's Recreation Center.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Kathy, you run next door and see if you can
spend the evening with Patty Davis.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Gee, well, I'll never get the candlestick.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
What about my transformer?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Betty? Why don't you call Janie Leggett? Maybe she can
help you and Bud. You can take your transformer over
to Joe Phillips house. Now run long jumping.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Creeper water life.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Well, there you are, Margaret. You see, all it takes
is a firm stand. The children have been hanging on
our apron strings, relying on.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Us for everything. Well it's natural, certainly.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Up to a point. But they can't be fed with
a spoon all their lives.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yes, Dear, no more staying at.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Home every evening, devoting every minute of our lives to
the children. I'm glad I've taken a stand. From now on,
we're going to be free. We're going to be young
and gay again. We're going to get out and see people.
We're going to have fun.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Well I'm ready, dear, How do we begin?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You see, you're lost. You've been locked in so long.
You don't know how to be free.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
All right, Warden, you're like a bird out of the
cage for the first time. You don't know where to fly.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, you take off first and I'll follow.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Believe me, we'll have no trouble. I'm just glad we made.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
The break before we forgot how to live, how to
have a good time.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
All right, I'm convinced.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Let's fly you bet. I'll call the Bowling Alley, make
a couple of reservations, and we'll be on our way.
You just have to take the bull by the horns.
That's all. Hello, Harvey's Recreation Saturday. This is Jim Anderson.
I'd like to reserve an alley for eight o'clock. They
are how about eight thirty nine? Nothing at nine either.
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The phone is Riverside four three. Oh, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
What do you say?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Only alleys are reserved. They'll call us if there's a cancelation.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Well, we're back on the perch.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh no, we're not.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
The Bowling Alley isn't the only place in town we
can go. We'll go down to the townhouse, have late
supper in the crystal room, dance and have a hello.
Jim Anderson, I'd like to reserve a table in the
crystal room for.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh it is well, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Well that was a short flight.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
They're closed for all rations. All right, we don't have
to go there. There are plenty of other things we
can do. Let's call the smiths. We'll get up a foursome.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
The smiths can't go, Jim. They have relatives visiting oh.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
All right, then let's call the Phillips for an evening
of bridge.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
They're playing bridge with the Evans tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well, count final. We don't need the Phillips or the Smiths.
We can go out somewhere by ourselves, just you and I.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We'll go to a movie. Hand me the paper. Let's
see what's.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Playing, all right, m here's a nice double bill Across
the Arctic by Zeppelin and Life among the Giant Lizards.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Let's see if the strand is sitting pretty. You know
we've seen that. What's it the Majestic Bambi and the
horn blows at midnight?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
There's nothing playing that we haven't seen. There must be,
is that you barn?
Speaker 9 (09:11):
It's me Mommy, Missus Davison invited me to stay all
night with Patty.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
We're gonna have a keen time, Cathy. Where's my overnight, dad, Mommy.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
On the shelf in your closet. Well, Jim, what have
you decided?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
There are no movies in town, Margaret. Cathy didn't speak
to me when she came in.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Oh, she's excited about going to the Davises.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And I suppose I was a little hasty running the
children out of the house. I certainly don't want them
to feel that I'm trying to get rid of them
or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, they understand, Dear.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I guess I didn't realize how important we are to
the kids, how much they depend on us for help
and understanding and companionship.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Well, Margaret, I'm going to be truthful.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I couldn't go out this evening and leave them. I'm
going to tell them we've changed our minds. We'll have
a real nice evening at home.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Now, that's fine, dear.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Has Betty gone over to Jady's?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
No, she's upstairs.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Oh Betty, Betty, yes, Father, come downstairs a minute. Do
we have any popcorn? Margaret?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
We'll have popcorn, play some cards. What is it, father, Betty?
Your mother and I have changed our plans. We're staying
home tonight. But father, do you have a problem with
those candles for your sorority initiation? We'll work it out.
You can always count on me, you know that.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
But there's no reason for you to stay home.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There isn't.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I wouldn't think of denying you and mother a little freedom. Besides,
I'm going over to Janie Niggetts, her cousin's visiting her
and he's a big fraternity man from Princeton. I've been
dying to meet him, but he's getting office with the candles. Bye, Mother,
have a good time.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Goodbye, Dear, big fraternity man from Princeton.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What does he know about arranging candles?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Don't be bitter, Dear?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Who's being bitter?
Speaker 10 (10:53):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Bob? Come in the living room, Vin, What do you
want d I've been thinking over that transfer former problem
of your son. That's very interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Your mother and I decided not to go out this evening,
So why don't you and I go down in the basement.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Oh, yeah, you don't have to stay home on my account.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Dad, that's all right. You kids come first. You can
always count on your dad.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
But it worked out swell. We called Joe Phillip's uncle.
He's got an electric applying store and he's gonna let
us work on the transformer down there. He's got tools
and everything.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But we have things in the basement. Oh, he has.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Twice as much stuff. You and mom go ahead, don't
worry about me, but Bud, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Mommy, do you have your toothbrush and pajamas?
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Sure? Am, I kickball, Well, you.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Can put them back in your room. Kidding.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Mother and I are staying home so you won't have
to go over to the Davis's. We'll work on your arithmetic, Daddy.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Patty's gonna help me with my arithmetic, and I'm gonna
show her about kickball. Yes, but and when Patty helps
a my arithmetic, I get a's.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
When you help me, I get a B.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Now wait a minute, I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Can I Mommy, good night? Angel?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Can Daddy good night?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
That's gratitude for you. You give the best years of
your life to the kids, bringing them up through the
mumps and measles, working like a dog for them, and
just when they're old enough to be companions to you,
they cast you aside like an old shoe. Now, Jim,
you're not.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Even good enough to do their arithmetic. They'd rather be
down in some two bit electric shop, simpering over some
lame bring with a fraternity pin.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, you were the one who insisted we go out tonight.
You chase them out of the house.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I didn't chase them out.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I only suggested, all right, you suggested, fine, loyalty, Jim.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
The children didn't realize we couldn't find anything.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
To do, Margaret, That's not the reason we decided to
stay home. What was the reason, Well, it was Why
do you ask me?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You know very well, no reservations at the bowling Alley,
no movies we haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I don't know where you've got the silly idea we
have no place to go. There are dozens of things
we can do, places we can go.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Well, good, let's go.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
All right, we'll go.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Where are we going?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
We're going out out where? Any place you want to go?
What would you like to do?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
What would you like to do?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It doesn't matter to me either. This is like playing badminton, Jim,
I have no ideas. You said there were a dozen
things we could do. Now you tell me, all right, we.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Can there's the or we could do. How about I
guess you wouldn't care about doing any of those things.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
No, I guess not.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Well, get the cards. Let's play canasta.
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Speaker 2 (15:24):
You can't always tell how a good idea is going
to turn out. In the white frame house on Maple Street,
Jim Anderson had what seemed to be a beautiful idea,
a free evening for Margaret and himself to do just
as they pleased.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
There were dozens of.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Exciting and interesting things to do, Jim insisted, so they
chose one like this.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Let's see that gives me six sixty, five hundred and
thirty points in game.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I never did like Canaster.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
You were the one who suggested we play there.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
How do you like this? Two people young, almost with friends,
a car, A thousand things we could do sitting here
at home playing Canasta.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, dear, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Let's not go through that again.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Still worrying about the children.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Worrying Why should I worry about them if their parents
no longer mean anything to them?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
All right, Jim, it's not that serious.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Isn't it something of a shock to you, Margaret to
discover that you're not only unnecessary but obsolete?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Bring home the money? That's all I do. Cook the food.
That's all you do. Face it, Margaret, You and I
can be replaced by a bank and a Hamburger.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Stand no, fine, I don't even rate a good restaurant.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Put a little fire on the hearth. We'll huddle together
in our declining years, alone and forgotten.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Telephone, dear, I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Oh, yes, this is Jim Anderson. You have great We
sure will, yes, sir, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Jim, wasn't the world?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
That was the bowling alley? A couple of reservations. Just
cancel out. There's an alley open right now. I told
him we'd be right down for.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
An obsolete bank. You're showing a lot of life.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Don't be ridiculous, Margaret. We have to hurry.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
What happened to the huddling hearth in the declining years?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Margaret? They won't hold the alley all night.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Jim, stop dragging me. We have to let the children
know we're going.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
They know, Margaret, it was clearly understood before they left.
You and I were going out.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well, I think we should at least leave a note.
Give me a pencil, Jim.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
All right here, gosh, an evening out. We could have
done this long ago.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
If we'd had my way, It's simply a matter of
letting the children know that we have a right to
live too. They just take it for granted that we
have to be at their beckon call twenty four hours
a day.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Have you finished, Jim, I can't think when you're talking.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
What do you have to think about? Just say, dear kids,
we've gone out.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
If they come home and we're not here, they'll know
we've gone out.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Then why write a note? Well?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I want to leave something, dear Betty.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
And what you don't realize, Margaret, is that the children
aren't babies anymore. They're old enough to get out and
do things on their own.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
It's better for them if they feel we're not hovering
over them every second.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Let them develop a little independence. What if you put.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Down Dear Betty and Bud, your father and I.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
All you have to do is come right out and
say you're old enough to go out and do things
for yourself.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Without relying on you. Jim, Margaret, haven't you written that
note yet? We could have been at the bowling house.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Jim, Please stop talking and don't paste up and down.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
You think you were writing a play or something.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
There dear Betty and Bud, Your father and I have
gone bowling. If you're hungry when you come home, there's
chocolate cake in the pantry and two custard of claies.
There's cold roast and fresh milk in the refrigerator. All right,
let's go, Jim.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Maybe we should have a bite to eat before we
go home.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Now you've been standing here screaming to go.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
All right, all right, get your things. I just thought
you might be hungry.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I'm ready to go, so am I. We're off. Margaret
as freeze, daddy.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
Oh no, in here, Kathy, Daddy, can you fix a
window in a garage?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Quick?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Fix? What window? And what garage?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
In the davises, Patty and I were practicing kickball.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Your mother and I were.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Just about it, but Daddy let her finish.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Gim Margaret, I told the bowling alley we'd be right down.
Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Well, Patty and I were practicing kickball before we started
our arithmetic, and Patty kicked the ball through the garage window.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, if Patty broke the window, why do I have
to fix it?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Patty was afraid if she told her father she did it,
she'd get spanked.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh, so we.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Told him I did it, but I knew I could
count on you to fix it.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
But Kathy, he said, I could always count on you, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Go look at me, dear.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
All right, I'll do it first thing in the morning.
Come on, Margaret, you.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
Gotta do it right now. The snow will come in
the window. I told mister Davis, you do it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But Kathy, I don't have anything to cover a window.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Isn't there something, Jim?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I could go over and lean against it?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You get cold?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Oh, call the bowling Alley, Margaret. Tell him we'll be
a couple of minutes late. What are you going to do, Jim,
I'm going down in the basement. Maybe we have some tarpaper.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
You're going to put that all instead of glass, Daddy. Yes, Kathy,
you can't see through it.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I know that this is temporary. They call a bowling alley, Margaret.
This will take me about five minutes, and then we'll go.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
The tar paper is black, Daddy, their garage is white.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
We'll paint the garage.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Really, No, Jim, what's the number of the bowling Alley?
Why the bowling Alley?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Call him up? Mother?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Where's father?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
He's in the basement. Jim, why come on quick? Father?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Who are you phoning?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Mother?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Well, your father.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Wants me to bed sick. What's going on?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Father?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I'm looking for tar paper, Margaret? Did you call a
bowling alley?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I don't have the number, Jim.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
What's written down there somewhere?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh, dear father, You've got to help me.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I thought you were Jennie Niggotts.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I was, but we're in a mess.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, the line forms on the left. Kathy's ahead of it, but.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
It is important.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Look at this throw rug. It belongs to Janie Niggot's mother.
It's practically priceless.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We're not buying any rugs.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Here's the target for daddy.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Kathy, take that downstairs.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
What's that, Daddy?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
It's a rug?
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Are you gonna put that over mister Davis's window?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
No, Kathy, Mother, Margaret, if you call the bowling alley.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Jim, I'm looking for the nun to count of wax
on this rug.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Father.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Janie's cousin thought he was so smart, and he spilled
wax all over it, and Janie's mother is furious, and
Janie's father was fit to be tied. So I brought
it home. I knew you'd find a way to get
the wax off of it.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Betty, your mother and I bother.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
You promised you'd never let me down. Jennie's positively desolate.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I'm a little desolate myself.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Let's go fix the window, daddy.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
He's going to work on the rug first.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Aren't you, Father?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Broken windows wax on rugs.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
You said we could always count on you.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
You did, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
All right, Margaret, look up the number of the Bowling Alley.
Tell him we'll be about fifteen minutes late.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
All right, dear, let's go daddy.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Kathy, you find a hammer in some tax While you're
doing that, I'll see what I can do with this rug.
Where's the hammer in the basement with the tools?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Look the way that wax soak into the rug. Do
you suppose gasoline would lift the.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Nap Yes, it'd lift the roof of the house too.
We'll have to use cleaning solvent.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
We can't do that. And here, father, we'll have to
take it out in the garage.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Here's the hammer, daddy.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh, Kathy, that's not a tack hammer, that's a mallet.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
What hammer do you want?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
The little one?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You suppose we could wash the rug.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Father, We probably we could when it was dry, we
could use it for a doily.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I can't find the hammer.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Don't you know some way to clean it?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well? Yeah, the online Kathy.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I was so sure you could do it.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Father.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
How are you getting along?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Gin? Oh? Fine? Rugs hammers must be the girls are
just naturally helpless.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
But you told us to come to you.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Man has to be a carpenter, rug cleaner, magician. What
do they say at the bowling Alley, Margaret, they're waiting, Gin,
Thank heaven, Bud is at least able to do things
for himself down there in that electric shop, working on
his transformer, figuring out his own problems. I'll get it, dear,
I'll answered, Margaret. You take over the rug for a minute.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
All right, all right, I'm coming hello, mister and Yes,
let's is.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Fred down at the bowling Alley. Well, it'll be a
few minutes. We've been delayed. Take your time, mister Anderson.
We've had to close down the alleys for a while.
Our lights have gone out.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Light's going on the whole block is dug No bowling
unless you want to bring a flashlight.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
All right, thanks for calling. Come bye?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
What was that Jim.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Fellowed the Bowling Alley. Their lights are.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Out, yady? Aren't we going to fix the window?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I'm sure that was Jenny Niggot's mother calling. What am
I going to do? Father?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Betty? Give your father a chance to think.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I wish Bud were here. He's the only one who
goes along quietly. Isn't always getting into some count foundering?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
That's Janny's mother?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Probably the Bowling Alley have their lights on again, Daddy.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
If it's mister.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
James, Hello, yeah, this is Budd. Oh hello, Bud? Where
are you down on.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
The basement at the electric shop?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Can you come right down? Come down there?
Speaker 8 (24:44):
What for?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Well, a fuse blew out and we didn't have another one,
so we put a penny in it. It blew out
the lights on the whole block.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh no. The man came over from.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
The Bowling Alley next door.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
He's pretty sore. Oh, Bud?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Can he come down there?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
All right? Stay right there? We have to We can't
see anything, all right? Goodbye, goodbye?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
What happened to Bud?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
They mixed up the fuses in the electric shop, burned
out the lights, put the Bowling Alley out of business.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I have to go down there to rescue him.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
But father, the rug? What about the window? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Children?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Please, phones, doorbells.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I'll go, dear father.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
What am I going to tell Janie's mother?
Speaker 6 (25:32):
What am I gonna tell to Davis?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Come in Evelyn? Oh hello, missus Johnson.
Speaker 10 (25:39):
Well, I couldn't find anyone to stay with our twins,
Miss Anderson.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Oh that's too bad, But I thought.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Someone should use these two tickets to the concert tonight,
so I brought them over to you and Margaret for us. Yes,
you're the only people I know whose children don't need
them anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Missus Johnson, if you only knew.
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Speaker 2 (27:16):
It's a few minutes later in the white frame house
on Maple Street, and Jim Anderson, with quite a collection
of problems himself, is on the telephone trying to help
a certain Missus Johnson with herbs. Margaret and Missus Johnson
are in the kitchen awaiting the results.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Like this, Jim's calling the Bennetts down the street, Evelyn.
I'm sure they'd love to have the tickets. And don't
they have children? Oh? Yes, but theirs are married.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Oh how wonderful it must be to have raised your
family and then settle down to a life of your own.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yes, they can go where they please any time. They're
absolutely free. Oh how I envy them.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Well, I call the Bennetts. They can't go, Why not, Jim?
They're sitting with their grandchildren.
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Join us again next week when we'll be back where
Father Knows This Darling, Robert Young is Jim Anderson, when
Rye Barkis are orchestra. In our cast were Ronda Williams
as Betty, Geen Vanderpyle, Ted Donaldson, Norma, Jean Nilson, and
Edith Simmons.
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