October 9, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mother, is Maxwell House to best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee. Look for
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that's always good to the last drop. He pie the
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board with bunches, cheer and gathered to the feast and
toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. You know,
the Pilgrims started the custom of Thanksgiving. But there are
others whose trials and tribulations on an average Thanksgiving Day
their inspection and a certain amount of sympathy. Take, for example,
the Anderson's who live in Springfield in a white frame
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house on Maple Street. They count their blessings and give
their thanks. But with three children in the house, even
a simple rite like Thanksgiving can be a pretty complicated affair.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Like this, mother, we're into den Betty, is it all
right by far?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Your hearings.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Betty, if you have anything to ask your mother, come
down here and ask her.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Sounds like she was reared in a barn. Stands up
there screaming her head on.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Jim. Kathy is waiting to read her poem.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Kathy, go ahead, yes, Daddy, go ahead, dear.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, now what are you waiting for?
Speaker 7 (01:54):
I have to be introduced.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Pardon me, ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the competition
in the fourth grade, Miss Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Is that better?
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Now?
Speaker 6 (02:08):
You have to applaud?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Okay, thank you? What a ham.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Has to get her applause before she reads the poem.
Jim doesn't want to take any chances.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
All right here, anytime you're ready.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Yes, mommy.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Anderson, fourth grade.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, wait a minute, what was that name? The name?
Your name?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Say it again, Kathleen Joy Anderson.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Where did the joy come from? Your name is Kathleen
Louise Anderson.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
But I don't like Louise.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You what, Jim?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Kathy and I talked it all about.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
My mother's name is Louise. And if it's good enough,
for my mother. It's good enough for her.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's only a middle name, dear, And if she doesn't
like it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Why shouldn't she like it? What's wrong with it?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Nothing, Jim. But it's her name.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You're daring right, it's her name. She's not gonna change it.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
Now, Go ahead, Mommy, go ahead, dear, she wills.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
My grandmother and her mother were named Louise. There's no
reason why she should want to change it.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, what read the poem Yes.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Daddy, Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Louise Anderson.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That's more like it fourth grade. That's much better, Jim,
Please all right, Kathy, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like He's when you get an Easter money,
or even like your birthday when your uncle sends you money.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
What, Jim, when did her uncle ever send her money
or anything else?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Kathy?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
She's nine years old. He's never sent her a button,
gives her money. He's so tidy he can't even sit.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Down, Jim, Amison. I know you don't like him, but
he's been very good to my sister, and if Kathy
needs him for her.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Poems Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and your brother
in law boy?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Is that a combination?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Go ahead, Kathleen, Yes, mommy.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Not from the beginning, Kathy, Start
where you left off.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
I don't remember where I was.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Your uncle was giving you money. Oh that's something we
can all remember. Yes, Daddy, this isn't a form. It's
a fairy tale. Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
If you say one more, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Is it all right if I start up near Christmas?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Start anywhere you like, but start okay?
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Gray.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you get an Easter Bunny,
or even like your birthday when your uncle gives you money.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I didn't say a word, Go ahead, day.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
It isn't like the Fourth of July or Decoration Day
or summer vacation or Halloween.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Kathy, when are you going to stop telling us what
it isn't like? Can tell us what it is like?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
How can she when you keep interrupting.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
We're supposed to be a poem about Thanksgiving, isn't it?
And what if she said it isn't like Christmas? It
isn't like the fourth of July? Who said it was.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The poem has already won the contest. We're just supposed
to listen, as we're just supposed to listen.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Go ahead, dear, you mean from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
No, no, start after that funny part where your uncle
gives you money.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration
Day or summer vacation or Halloween.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
When all the kids can.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Play no good agree, scare a man half.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Out of his wits?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Father, Is it all right if.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I borrow your earrings? Which you've done?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Ashes all over the floor, Well I'll clean it up, Margaret,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Nothing happened. I knocked over the ashtray. That's all. Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Thanksgiving is a different day. Excuse me, Kathy, I have
to speak to mother.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Let her finished the poem.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Betty, Father, I told Janie niggtt i'd be there early.
She's counting on me. You don't have to read a
poem over the radio. Oh no, you mean she's gonna
read that horrible thing in public.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I didn't see you winning any free turkey dinner.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I didn't have to. The leggots are gonna have three turkey.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Wait a minute, the way you kids talk, you think
we'd never had a turkey in this house. Jim, I've
got a good mind to keep you all home.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Father, Jim, isn't the question of turkey. Kathy's principal told.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You why couldn't they have the dinner some other day?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But Thanksgiving dinner was surprize dear for all eighth grades.
It's become a major event.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And the leggots, if somebody looks cross eyed, Jennie Niggett
has a party.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Father, you said, I know.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
What I said.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
And it'll be a relief to get you all out
of the house. Your mother won't have to spend all
day cooking at dinner. You'll wolf down in twenty minutes. Jim,
we'll have a little peace around here. Even if it
is Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like the
bes Kathy, I haven't.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Asked about the ear rings.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Which earrings Betty, the ones with the rhinestones. Oh, dear,
those are much too old for you.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Oh no, they aren't, mother, really they aren't.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Thanksgiving is a different day.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Just a minute, Kathy, Betty, if your mother says they're
too old for you, but they aren't.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Father, I tried them all.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Don't you think something less formal would be more suitable?
Speaker 9 (08:39):
But mother, after all, rhinestones in the afternoon not good,
not good at all.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
How about the little pearl one?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh much better? May I, of course?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Dear? Oh thank you, mother, you're an angel.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Go ahead, Kathy, Maybe I ought to get the vacuum cleaner.
The whole rug's a mess.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Just leave it, Jim, I'll clean it later. Take me
a second, Jim, All right, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No, yes, get it over with please.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like the best.
It's even better than Sunday, which is called the day
of rest. Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Oh goodbye, Do you don't have a nice time?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
What are you doing with my suitcase?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day in here?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Bring a suitcase.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Gosh, I'm not gonna hurt it. Dad.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Did anybody say you could borrow my suitcase? No? Dad,
why are you taking it?
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Well, I have to carry them in something. Carry what
the football letters? They're gonna give them out at for dinner.
And the coach said, head back where you got it.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
But the coach said I could eat with a team.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I said, put it back. Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day, Jim.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He isn't going to hurt anything.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
That's not the point. He has no right to take
things without asking for them.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
But you were busy, Dad. I tried to ask you
this morning, Remember, I said, Dad, And you said you
thought it was.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
Going to be wonderful for you and mom Dad, Thanksgiving
dinner and a restaurant for a change. And I said, Dad,
and you said you thought everybody made too much of
a fuss about Thanksgiving anyway. And I said Dad, and
you said, but hm.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Take the suitcase, oh boy, And next time ask for it.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I tried to Dad.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I said, good.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Okay, Dad, goodbye?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Now is Billy here?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Dear you bark out frock well, have a good time, Turkey.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I won't see you later. Bye.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
But are you driving downtown with Joe Phillips?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (11:04):
Dat, Why don't you drop Kathy off at the school Okay,
come on, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
I haven't finished my poem.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well why haven't you. I haven't heard anything else for
the past hour.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
I tried to read it, and first you said that
uncle Rick.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Come on, Kathy, I'm late.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Nobody ever lets me do anything just because I'm the
littlest one in the family.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
As you read the poem.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Everybody thinks they can pick on me.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Kathy, Thanksgiving is my favorite day, dear. That's where you left.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Off, and they don't have any right to.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day, though the skies are gray
and murky, because that's the day when I get to
eat the drastic of a turkey.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Well that's the end.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Some poem, but.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's a very lovely poem, Kathy, Thank you, mommy.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You mean that won the competition? Jim, Well, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
It's very good. A little sentimental, perhaps, but very good.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Thank you. Daddy.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Get your colt, Kathy, and let's go.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Mister Bryan said he bring me home. Mommy.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's fine, dear, And don't forget to listen to the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
We want to behave yourself.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Come on, will you start feeling me?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Why do you always have to pull.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Me thanks for the suitcase.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's all right. I have a nice time, Bud, you too, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You a good girl, Kathleen.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
I'm well, my dear.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, I'm completely exhausted. I don't know where to get all.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
That energy, Margaret. Did she really win the competition with
that poem?
Speaker 11 (12:59):
She's only in the fourth grade, Jim, that's very good
for the fourth grade.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
When I was nine, I could write poems like that
standing on my head.
Speaker 9 (13:07):
Well, if you've ever seen Kathy study, you'd know that
that's probably the way she wrote it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Margaret, Yes, dear, have you noticed how quiet it is? Yes, dear,
has been this quiet for weeks, has it?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
No, Dear?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
It does you good to get away from the kids
for a while, gives you a chance to relax, take
things easy, read your paper and uh things.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yes, dear, get the kids out of the house.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And it makes all the difference in the world. Get
a little piece and quiet, don't you, Yes, dear. All
that excitement and shouting and running up and downstairs absolutely unnecessary,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I suppose so, dear, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yes, dear, I'm lonesome, Yes.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Dear, Well, father has a right to feel lonesome. After all,
(14:29):
Thanksgiving is a family day. But whether or not the
family can gather to join in the festivities, we all
have many things to be thankful for.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
We Maxwell House people.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
For instance, we're happy that our coffee is America's favorite brand,
happy that in so many homes, Thanksgiving dinner means a
pot of Maxwell House coffee brewing on the stove, as
well as the turkey in the oven and the pumpkin
pies cooling on the shelf. We take a lot of
pride in our coffee, and we want you to know
you can count on Maxwell House every cup you pour.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
We'll keep it always.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Good to the last drop on Thanksgiving Day and every
day in the year.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
That was very good, Barbara, very good. Indeed.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Now our next winner is a Rugget individualist.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Indeed, Jim. It's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
She put her thoughts on Thanksgiving into verse and will
now read the poem which won for her the competition
in the fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And Kathy if she's got again, We just wanted to know.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Louise Anderson, fourth Gray. Thanksgiving
is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
(16:06):
It isn't just like Christmas when you're parents give you toys.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Well, why doesn't she go on? Jim, please go with Kathleen.
It isn't as if she had to remember anything. She's
got it right in front of her.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
She's probably very nervous.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Well, she can read, can't she? Kathleen, we're waiting. I
want to go.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I know what's gotten into all the poor little thing.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Miss Anderson just remembered a previous engagement. We'll have better
luck with our next little guest, the winner of the
competition in the fifth grade.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You see, Margaret, I told you she shouldn't have gone.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh my poor baby.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I've never heard anything like that in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
She was frightened, Jim, that's all, frightened of what.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
You can't shut her up when she's in the house,
so she's supposed to talk. She makes a noise to
sound like Georgie Jessel. I tell you, Margaret, Yes, Jim,
do you think we ought to go down and get her?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Oh? I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Poor kid probably crying her heart out.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
She'll get over it, and don't forget they promised her
two drumsticks.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I don't know she didn't sound very hungry.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Do I what you promised me a Thanksgiving dinner at
the townhouse?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Remember, yes, I didn't, didn't I.
Speaker 11 (17:35):
I'll get my hat and coat, or would you rather
have me sue you for breach of promise?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Margaret?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Jim, there isn't anything wrong, is there?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Oh? No money, Everything's fine. It's just that.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Well, yes, I've been doing a lot of thinking. And
would you mind very much if we didn't go out? Why, Jim,
I know I promised you at.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Dinner, but well, I'd just rather eat here.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
There isn't anything to eat, Sure there is.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I saw a whole heap of hamburger in the icebox.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Hamburger on Thanksgiving Day, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
To tell you the truth, this doesn't seem much like Thanksgiving,
not like the kind of Thanksgiving we used to know.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
Well, it's finally happened after only eighteen years. You're tired
of me.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You know what I mean, don't you, Honey?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Thanksgiving has always been a special sort of a day
for me, even when I was a boy.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
It was more than just a holiday.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
It was a time when the whole family got together
and had fun.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
We used to go out into the country to my grandmother's.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We did too go to my grandmother's.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I mean, the whole family used to be there, my
uncle Rob and his wife and their eight children, and
my uncle Will and his wife and their ten children.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
That must have been cozy.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh it was waiting shifts. My grandmother always swore she
was feeding half the neighbors kids.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Oh it was fun.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Did you play games after dinner?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Heck no, we were so stuffed we couldn't move.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh, you were a bunch of sissies.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
We used to play going to Jerusalem, or musical chairs
or charades.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
That's pretty hard to do with just two people, isn't it. Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
There's one thing we mustn't forget. This is a new generation.
Speaker 9 (19:23):
It's a different sort of generation, with new ideas and
a new sense of values.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Times have changed.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Mmmm, they have. Let's let's go into the kitchen and
see what we can throw together.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
You're an old sentimentalist in Manderson, that's what you are.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And I love you.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I love you too. You know, maybe if the kids
get home early, we can all go to a movie
or something. How'd you like that?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I wouldn't count on it.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Dear Betty said not to expect her before midnight, and
Bud's dinner won't start until six.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Well, Kathy isn't going to stay out all night, is she?
Speaker 11 (19:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Okay, then we'll take Kathy to the movie, so we'll.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
See Dare it all depends bad?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I am mom?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Hi Dad? What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Fixing a hamburger? Want one?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
What happened to the dinner? What dinner at the training
table with the football team? Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
That dinner?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
I guess I just wasn't hungry.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Weren't hungry you?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'm going to call doctor Simmons.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Wait a minute, Margaret, Bud, if you aren't hungry, why
the hamburger?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
The hamburger?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It pardoned me? The three hamburgers?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Oh well, I guess I got hungry.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh God, if you don't feel well, please tell us.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
But I do feel well, Mom, I feel fine.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Look, but if you don't want to tell us the truth.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
But I am telling you the truth. I didn't like
the dinner. That's all a bunch of big goof sitting
around talking about football. What good is that?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Since when don't you like to talk about football?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
What good is that?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Since when don't you like to talk about football.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Just second, Kathy, it's me father.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
What's she doing home?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
What on earth?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Uh? We're in the kitchen, Betty, I'll.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
Be right, Oh, dear, Just when everything was going so well, Margaret,
why do you immediately assume that something is wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Maybe the Leggas decided not to have a party, or
maybe Betty had the wrong day. Lots of things could
have happened.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The party was today, I know it was.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, maybe it hasn't started yet.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
What's everybody doing in the kitchen? But hi, Bud, what
are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Oh? Nothing much?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Want a hamburger?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Okay, never mind the hamburgers, Bud.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
We've got things to discuss that are much more important
than hamburgers.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Do you feel all right, dear?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Why you told.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Your mother you wouldn't be home until midnight?
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well, I well, I wasn't going to, but I came
up with the most awful headache.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Jim, you just said you felt fine. I do?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Oh, I mean I do, except for this headache.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I'm going to call missus Ligot and ask her mother.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
You know, if there was anything wrong. I tell you
I always have hal.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I yes, Do you have mine?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Margaret? Kathy? Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Daddy.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
We're in the kitchen. Come on in, yes, daddy, See Margaret,
I told you we should.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Have gone down, for I had no way of knowing.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
What's the matter with Kathy?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Your sister reads the first line of her poem and
bursts into tears.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
No kidding.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
What's the poor little thing?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Hullo, Hello, sweetheart, come out over here and tell you,
daddy all your troubles.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I don't have any troubles, Daddy. I'm just not happy.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Well, it isn't anything to cry about, is it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It was a lovely poem, darling, even if you didn't
read it.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
And don't you worry not head. If anybody makes fun
of you, I'll pokem might then.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I don't care if they do make fun of me.
I didn't want to read my poem, not to them.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Why, Cathy, they're your friends.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
I don't want them.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's Thanksgiving and I wanted my mommy and my daddy
and my sister and my brother.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
I was lonesome, Kathy, Donnie alone, mother, Yes, Betty, I
was lonesome too.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh no, wait a minute, oh Jim, Margaret, yes me too.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Good grief.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You sound like the third act of Uncle Tom's Cabins.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
The matter with you, Bud?
Speaker 10 (24:01):
Nothing, I just feel like blowing my nose, that's all.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Well, blow it. Get busy with a hamburger.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
Okay, Dad, I'll about little food for the hungry Anderson, Well.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I'm starving hamburgers. It's a fine thing to serve for
a Thanksgiving dinner, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It sounds fine to me.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I don't care what part of the hamburger I get,
as long as it's the drumstick had that girl?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Kathy? Well, what are we waiting for. Let's sit down
and be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I'll take over the Bud.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I'm going fine, Mom, don't argue with the chef, Margaret,
just sit down and relax.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Well, four hamburgers coming up, Well that'll take care of me.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But what are they gonna eat?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Oh you big pig, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Kids, Before we dig into these juicy Thanksgiving burghers, may
I say something day. This has been I think the
happiest Thanksgiving day of my entire life, and if you
don't mind, I'd like to say a special grace. Oh Lord,
we give thee thanks from the bottom of our humble
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hearts for the blessings thou hast seen fit to bestow
upon us.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
We thank THEE for the food that grace is our
tape and the roof that covers our head.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
We thank THEE for the privilege of living as free
men in the country which respects our freedom, our personal
rights to worship and think.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Can speak as we choose.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
But most of all, Dear Lord, we thank THEE for
making us a family, for giving us sincerity and understand.
We thank THEE for giving us the most cherished gift
of family may.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Know the gift of love for one another.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Man, it's morning now, and in the Anderson Breakfast note,
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life is eased back into its accustomed group. Thanksgiving Day
is over, but the Anderson's, well, they go on forever
like this.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Why can't I wear lipsticks? Claudia mceue doesn't. She's only twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Here's your coffee, dear, thank you?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Well?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Well?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
What well?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Why can't I because I said you couldn't I eat
your breakfast?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Jeez?
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Where's oh Margaret.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
We've got to do something about that boy. You're beginning
to shake the house.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't speak to him, dear.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
If he can't take it easy on the stairs, don't
feed him so much. One of these days is going
to go right through dad. Good morning, mom, Sit down,
eat your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Good morning, dear, he didn't say anything to me, high esquirk.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Mother.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Do you know what Bud did?
Speaker 6 (27:14):
He use my good cologne on his hair?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Good morning, Betty, I used two draws.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
He used practically the whole bottle.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I did not. Good morning, Betty, mother.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
If I can't have a little privacy with.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
My own day, Betty, why, good morning, Good morning father.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That's better, Sit down, eat your breakfast.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
You know, Margaret, there's one thing I'm really going to
enjoy about our Thanksgiving Day dinner yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
What's that, dear?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
We're probably the only family in Springfield that won't be
eating leftover turkey.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
For the next month. Yes, dear, what are we going
to have for dinner tonight?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Leftover hamburgers.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
So you don't think your family will ever be hungry again,
Well you just wait till tomorrow morning. The kids will
be banging their spoons for breakfast the same as ever.
So be ready with steaming bowls of hot Post wheatmeal
and tell the youngsters it's hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal. Yes,
hot Post sweetmeal. With solid whole wheat nourishment and rich
nut like flavor that hop Along sure goes for hot
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post wheatmeal. You'll see you'll all agree it's the best
hot cereal you ever hate.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
These days, stores everywhere are featuring lower.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Prices on Maxwell House coffee, the lowest prices in months.
Bring home one of those familiar blue tins tomorrow and
enjoy coffee that's always good to the last drop us
again next week, when we'll be back with Father Knows
Best starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargee
and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Forman.
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
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the makers of Maxwell House. Father Knows Best was transcribed
in Hollywood and written by Ed Jane. Now stay tuned
in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of these.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Stations exciting dragnetters. Next, then we the people on MBC
Mother, is Maxwell House to best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father. A half
hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to you
by Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee. Look for
that familiar blue Maxwell House tim featured in stores everywhere
at lower prices, the lowest prices in months. Enjoy coffee
that's always good to the last drop. He pie the
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board with bunches, cheer and gathered to the feast and
toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. You know,
the Pilgrims started the custom of Thanksgiving. But there are
others whose trials and tribulations on an average Thanksgiving Day
their inspection and a certain amount of sympathy. Take, for example,
the Anderson's who live in Springfield in a white frame
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house on Maple Street. They count their blessings and give
their thanks. But with three children in the house, even
a simple rite like Thanksgiving can be a pretty complicated affair.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Like this, mother, we're into den Betty, is it all
right by far?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Your hearings.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Betty, if you have anything to ask your mother, come
down here and ask her.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Sounds like she was reared in a barn. Stands up
there screaming her head on.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Jim. Kathy is waiting to read her poem.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Kathy, go ahead, yes, Daddy, go ahead, dear.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, now what are you waiting for?
Speaker 7 (01:54):
I have to be introduced.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Pardon me, ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the competition
in the fourth grade, Miss Kathleen Anderson.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Is that better?
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Now?
Speaker 6 (02:08):
You have to applaud?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Okay, thank you? What a ham.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Has to get her applause before she reads the poem.
Jim doesn't want to take any chances.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
All right here, anytime you're ready.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Yes, mommy.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Anderson, fourth grade.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, wait a minute, what was that name? The name?
Your name?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Say it again, Kathleen Joy Anderson.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Where did the joy come from? Your name is Kathleen
Louise Anderson.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
But I don't like Louise.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You what, Jim?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Kathy and I talked it all about.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
My mother's name is Louise. And if it's good enough,
for my mother. It's good enough for her.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's only a middle name, dear, And if she doesn't
like it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Why shouldn't she like it? What's wrong with it?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Nothing, Jim. But it's her name.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You're daring right, it's her name. She's not gonna change it.
Speaker 8 (03:14):
Now, Go ahead, Mommy, go ahead, dear, she wills.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
My grandmother and her mother were named Louise. There's no
reason why she should want to change it.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, what read the poem Yes.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Daddy, Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Louise Anderson.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That's more like it fourth grade. That's much better, Jim,
Please all right, Kathy, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like He's when you get an Easter money,
or even like your birthday when your uncle sends you money.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
What, Jim, when did her uncle ever send her money
or anything else?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Kathy?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
She's nine years old. He's never sent her a button,
gives her money. He's so tidy he can't even sit.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Down, Jim, Amison. I know you don't like him, but
he's been very good to my sister, and if Kathy
needs him for her.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Poems Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and your brother
in law boy?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Is that a combination?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Go ahead, Kathleen, Yes, mommy.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Not from the beginning, Kathy, Start
where you left off.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
I don't remember where I was.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Your uncle was giving you money. Oh that's something we
can all remember. Yes, Daddy, this isn't a form. It's
a fairy tale. Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
If you say one more, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Is it all right if I start up near Christmas?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Start anywhere you like, but start okay?
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Gray.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
It isn't just like Christmas when your parents give you toys.
It isn't even like Easter when you get an Easter Bunny,
or even like your birthday when your uncle gives you money.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I didn't say a word, Go ahead, day.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
It isn't like the Fourth of July or Decoration Day
or summer vacation or Halloween.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Kathy, when are you going to stop telling us what
it isn't like? Can tell us what it is like?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
How can she when you keep interrupting.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
We're supposed to be a poem about Thanksgiving, isn't it?
And what if she said it isn't like Christmas? It
isn't like the fourth of July? Who said it was.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Jim?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The poem has already won the contest. We're just supposed
to listen, as we're just supposed to listen.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
Go ahead, dear, you mean from the beginning.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
No, no, start after that funny part where your uncle
gives you money.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Okay, It isn't like the fourth of July or Decoration
Day or summer vacation or Halloween.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
When all the kids can.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Play no good agree, scare a man half.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Out of his wits?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Father, Is it all right if.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I borrow your earrings? Which you've done?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Ashes all over the floor, Well I'll clean it up, Margaret,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Nothing happened. I knocked over the ashtray. That's all. Go ahead, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Thanksgiving is a different day. Excuse me, Kathy, I have
to speak to mother.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Let her finished the poem.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Betty, Father, I told Janie niggtt i'd be there early.
She's counting on me. You don't have to read a
poem over the radio. Oh no, you mean she's gonna
read that horrible thing in public.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Thanksgiving is a lucky day.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I didn't see you winning any free turkey dinner.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I didn't have to. The leggots are gonna have three turkey.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Wait a minute, the way you kids talk, you think
we'd never had a turkey in this house. Jim, I've
got a good mind to keep you all home.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Father, Jim, isn't the question of turkey. Kathy's principal told.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You why couldn't they have the dinner some other day?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But Thanksgiving dinner was surprize dear for all eighth grades.
It's become a major event.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
And the leggots, if somebody looks cross eyed, Jennie Niggett
has a party.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Father, you said, I know.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
What I said.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
And it'll be a relief to get you all out
of the house. Your mother won't have to spend all
day cooking at dinner. You'll wolf down in twenty minutes. Jim,
we'll have a little peace around here. Even if it
is Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like the
bes Kathy, I haven't.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Asked about the ear rings.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Which earrings Betty, the ones with the rhinestones. Oh, dear,
those are much too old for you.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Oh no, they aren't, mother, really they aren't.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Thanksgiving is a different day.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Just a minute, Kathy, Betty, if your mother says they're
too old for you, but they aren't.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Father, I tried them all.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Don't you think something less formal would be more suitable?
Speaker 9 (08:39):
But mother, after all, rhinestones in the afternoon not good,
not good at all.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
How about the little pearl one?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Oh much better? May I, of course?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Dear? Oh thank you, mother, you're an angel.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Go ahead, Kathy, Maybe I ought to get the vacuum cleaner.
The whole rug's a mess.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Just leave it, Jim, I'll clean it later. Take me
a second, Jim, All right, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No, yes, get it over with please.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Thanksgiving is a different day, the day I like the best.
It's even better than Sunday, which is called the day
of rest. Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Oh goodbye, Do you don't have a nice time?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
What are you doing with my suitcase?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day in here?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Bring a suitcase.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Gosh, I'm not gonna hurt it. Dad.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Did anybody say you could borrow my suitcase? No? Dad,
why are you taking it?
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Well, I have to carry them in something. Carry what
the football letters? They're gonna give them out at for dinner.
And the coach said, head back where you got it.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
But the coach said I could eat with a team.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I said, put it back. Holy cow.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day, Jim.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He isn't going to hurt anything.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
That's not the point. He has no right to take
things without asking for them.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
But you were busy, Dad. I tried to ask you
this morning, Remember, I said, Dad, And you said you
thought it was.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
Going to be wonderful for you and mom Dad, Thanksgiving
dinner and a restaurant for a change. And I said, Dad,
and you said you thought everybody made too much of
a fuss about Thanksgiving anyway. And I said Dad, and
you said, but hm.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Take the suitcase, oh boy, And next time ask for it.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I tried to Dad.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I said, good.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Okay, Dad, goodbye?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Now is Billy here?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Dear you bark out frock well, have a good time, Turkey.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I won't see you later. Bye.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
But are you driving downtown with Joe Phillips?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (11:04):
Dat, Why don't you drop Kathy off at the school Okay,
come on, Kathy.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
I haven't finished my poem.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Well why haven't you. I haven't heard anything else for
the past hour.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
I tried to read it, and first you said that
uncle Rick.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Come on, Kathy, I'm late.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Nobody ever lets me do anything just because I'm the
littlest one in the family.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
As you read the poem.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Everybody thinks they can pick on me.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Kathy, Thanksgiving is my favorite day, dear. That's where you left.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Off, and they don't have any right to.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Thanksgiving is my favorite day, though the skies are gray
and murky, because that's the day when I get to
eat the drastic of a turkey.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Well that's the end.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Some poem, but.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's a very lovely poem, Kathy, Thank you, mommy.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You mean that won the competition? Jim, Well, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
It's very good. A little sentimental, perhaps, but very good.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Thank you. Daddy.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Get your colt, Kathy, and let's go.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Mister Bryan said he bring me home. Mommy.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's fine, dear, And don't forget to listen to the broadcast.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
We want to behave yourself.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Come on, will you start feeling me?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Why do you always have to pull.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Me thanks for the suitcase.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's all right. I have a nice time, Bud, you too, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You a good girl, Kathleen.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
I'm well, my dear.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, I'm completely exhausted. I don't know where to get all.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
That energy, Margaret. Did she really win the competition with
that poem?
Speaker 11 (12:59):
She's only in the fourth grade, Jim, that's very good
for the fourth grade.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
When I was nine, I could write poems like that
standing on my head.
Speaker 9 (13:07):
Well, if you've ever seen Kathy study, you'd know that
that's probably the way she wrote it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Margaret, Yes, dear, have you noticed how quiet it is? Yes, dear,
has been this quiet for weeks, has it?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
No, Dear?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
It does you good to get away from the kids
for a while, gives you a chance to relax, take
things easy, read your paper and uh things.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yes, dear, get the kids out of the house.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
And it makes all the difference in the world. Get
a little piece and quiet, don't you, Yes, dear. All
that excitement and shouting and running up and downstairs absolutely unnecessary,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I suppose so, dear, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yes, dear, I'm lonesome, Yes.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Dear, Well, father has a right to feel lonesome. After all,
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Thanksgiving is a family day. But whether or not the
family can gather to join in the festivities, we all
have many things to be thankful for.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
We Maxwell House people.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
For instance, we're happy that our coffee is America's favorite brand,
happy that in so many homes, Thanksgiving dinner means a
pot of Maxwell House coffee brewing on the stove, as
well as the turkey in the oven and the pumpkin
pies cooling on the shelf. We take a lot of
pride in our coffee, and we want you to know
you can count on Maxwell House every cup you pour.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
We'll keep it always.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Good to the last drop on Thanksgiving Day and every
day in the year.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
That was very good, Barbara, very good. Indeed.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Now our next winner is a Rugget individualist.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Indeed, Jim. It's Kathy.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
She put her thoughts on Thanksgiving into verse and will
now read the poem which won for her the competition
in the fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Kathleen.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And Kathy if she's got again, We just wanted to know.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Thanksgiving Day by Kathleen Joy Louise Anderson, fourth Gray. Thanksgiving
is a lucky day for all the girls and boys.
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It isn't just like Christmas when you're parents give you toys.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Well, why doesn't she go on? Jim, please go with Kathleen.
It isn't as if she had to remember anything. She's
got it right in front of her.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
She's probably very nervous.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Well, she can read, can't she? Kathleen, we're waiting. I
want to go.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I know what's gotten into all the poor little thing.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Miss Anderson just remembered a previous engagement. We'll have better
luck with our next little guest, the winner of the
competition in the fifth grade.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
You see, Margaret, I told you she shouldn't have gone.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh my poor baby.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I've never heard anything like that in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
She was frightened, Jim, that's all, frightened of what.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
You can't shut her up when she's in the house,
so she's supposed to talk. She makes a noise to
sound like Georgie Jessel. I tell you, Margaret, Yes, Jim,
do you think we ought to go down and get her?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Oh? I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Poor kid probably crying her heart out.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
She'll get over it, and don't forget they promised her
two drumsticks.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I don't know she didn't sound very hungry.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Do I what you promised me a Thanksgiving dinner at
the townhouse?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Remember, yes, I didn't, didn't I.
Speaker 11 (17:35):
I'll get my hat and coat, or would you rather
have me sue you for breach of promise?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Margaret?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Jim, there isn't anything wrong, is there?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Oh? No money, Everything's fine. It's just that.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Well, yes, I've been doing a lot of thinking. And
would you mind very much if we didn't go out? Why, Jim,
I know I promised you at.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Dinner, but well, I'd just rather eat here.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
There isn't anything to eat, Sure there is.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I saw a whole heap of hamburger in the icebox.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Hamburger on Thanksgiving Day, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
To tell you the truth, this doesn't seem much like Thanksgiving,
not like the kind of Thanksgiving we used to know.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
Well, it's finally happened after only eighteen years. You're tired
of me.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You know what I mean, don't you, Honey?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Thanksgiving has always been a special sort of a day
for me, even when I was a boy.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
It was more than just a holiday.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
It was a time when the whole family got together
and had fun.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
We used to go out into the country to my grandmother's.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We did too go to my grandmother's.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
I mean, the whole family used to be there, my
uncle Rob and his wife and their eight children, and
my uncle Will and his wife and their ten children.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
That must have been cozy.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh it was waiting shifts. My grandmother always swore she
was feeding half the neighbors kids.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Oh it was fun.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Did you play games after dinner?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Heck no, we were so stuffed we couldn't move.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh, you were a bunch of sissies.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
We used to play going to Jerusalem, or musical chairs
or charades.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
That's pretty hard to do with just two people, isn't it. Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
There's one thing we mustn't forget. This is a new generation.
Speaker 9 (19:23):
It's a different sort of generation, with new ideas and
a new sense of values.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Times have changed.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Mmmm, they have. Let's let's go into the kitchen and
see what we can throw together.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
You're an old sentimentalist in Manderson, that's what you are.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And I love you.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I love you too. You know, maybe if the kids
get home early, we can all go to a movie
or something. How'd you like that?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I wouldn't count on it.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
Dear Betty said not to expect her before midnight, and
Bud's dinner won't start until six.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Well, Kathy isn't going to stay out all night, is she?
Speaker 11 (19:56):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Okay, then we'll take Kathy to the movie, so we'll.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
See Dare it all depends bad?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I am mom?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Hi Dad? What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Fixing a hamburger? Want one?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
What happened to the dinner? What dinner at the training
table with the football team? Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
That dinner?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
I guess I just wasn't hungry.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Weren't hungry you?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'm going to call doctor Simmons.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Wait a minute, Margaret, Bud, if you aren't hungry, why
the hamburger?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
The hamburger?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It pardoned me? The three hamburgers?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Oh well, I guess I got hungry.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh God, if you don't feel well, please tell us.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
But I do feel well, Mom, I feel fine.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Look, but if you don't want to tell us the truth.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
But I am telling you the truth. I didn't like
the dinner. That's all a bunch of big goof sitting
around talking about football. What good is that?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Since when don't you like to talk about football?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
What good is that?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Since when don't you like to talk about football.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Just second, Kathy, it's me father.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
What's she doing home?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
What on earth?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Uh? We're in the kitchen, Betty, I'll.
Speaker 9 (21:13):
Be right, Oh, dear, Just when everything was going so well, Margaret,
why do you immediately assume that something is wrong.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Maybe the Leggas decided not to have a party, or
maybe Betty had the wrong day. Lots of things could
have happened.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The party was today, I know it was.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, maybe it hasn't started yet.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
What's everybody doing in the kitchen? But hi, Bud, what
are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Oh? Nothing much?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Want a hamburger?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Okay, never mind the hamburgers, Bud.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
We've got things to discuss that are much more important
than hamburgers.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Do you feel all right, dear?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Why you told.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Your mother you wouldn't be home until midnight?
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well, I well, I wasn't going to, but I came
up with the most awful headache.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Jim, you just said you felt fine. I do?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Oh, I mean I do, except for this headache.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Jim.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I'm going to call missus Ligot and ask her mother.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
You know, if there was anything wrong. I tell you
I always have hal.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I yes, Do you have mine?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Margaret? Kathy? Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Daddy.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
We're in the kitchen. Come on in, yes, daddy, See Margaret,
I told you we should.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Have gone down, for I had no way of knowing.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
What's the matter with Kathy?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Your sister reads the first line of her poem and
bursts into tears.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
No kidding.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
What's the poor little thing?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Hullo, Hello, sweetheart, come out over here and tell you,
daddy all your troubles.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I don't have any troubles, Daddy. I'm just not happy.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Well, it isn't anything to cry about, is it.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It was a lovely poem, darling, even if you didn't
read it.
Speaker 10 (22:55):
And don't you worry not head. If anybody makes fun
of you, I'll pokem might then.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I don't care if they do make fun of me.
I didn't want to read my poem, not to them.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Why, Cathy, they're your friends.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
I don't want them.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
It's Thanksgiving and I wanted my mommy and my daddy
and my sister and my brother.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
I was lonesome, Kathy, Donnie alone, mother, Yes, Betty, I
was lonesome too.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh no, wait a minute, oh Jim, Margaret, yes me too.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Good grief.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
You sound like the third act of Uncle Tom's Cabins.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
The matter with you, Bud?
Speaker 10 (24:01):
Nothing, I just feel like blowing my nose, that's all.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Well, blow it. Get busy with a hamburger.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
Okay, Dad, I'll about little food for the hungry Anderson, Well.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I'm starving hamburgers. It's a fine thing to serve for
a Thanksgiving dinner, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
It sounds fine to me.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
I don't care what part of the hamburger I get,
as long as it's the drumstick had that girl?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Kathy? Well, what are we waiting for. Let's sit down
and be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I'll take over the Bud.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I'm going fine, Mom, don't argue with the chef, Margaret,
just sit down and relax.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Well, four hamburgers coming up, Well that'll take care of me.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But what are they gonna eat?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Oh you big pig, Margaret.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Kids, Before we dig into these juicy Thanksgiving burghers, may
I say something day. This has been I think the
happiest Thanksgiving day of my entire life, and if you
don't mind, I'd like to say a special grace. Oh Lord,
we give thee thanks from the bottom of our humble
(25:17):
hearts for the blessings thou hast seen fit to bestow
upon us.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
We thank THEE for the food that grace is our
tape and the roof that covers our head.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
We thank THEE for the privilege of living as free
men in the country which respects our freedom, our personal
rights to worship and think.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Can speak as we choose.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
But most of all, Dear Lord, we thank THEE for
making us a family, for giving us sincerity and understand.
We thank THEE for giving us the most cherished gift
of family may.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Know the gift of love for one another.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Man, it's morning now, and in the Anderson Breakfast note,
(26:23):
life is eased back into its accustomed group. Thanksgiving Day
is over, but the Anderson's, well, they go on forever
like this.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Why can't I wear lipsticks? Claudia mceue doesn't. She's only twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Here's your coffee, dear, thank you?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Well?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Well?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
What well?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Why can't I because I said you couldn't I eat
your breakfast?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Jeez?
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Where's oh Margaret.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
We've got to do something about that boy. You're beginning
to shake the house.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't speak to him, dear.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
If he can't take it easy on the stairs, don't
feed him so much. One of these days is going
to go right through dad. Good morning, mom, Sit down,
eat your breakfast.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Good morning, dear, he didn't say anything to me, high esquirk.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Mother.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Do you know what Bud did?
Speaker 6 (27:14):
He use my good cologne on his hair?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Good morning, Betty, I used two draws.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
He used practically the whole bottle.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I did not. Good morning, Betty, mother.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
If I can't have a little privacy with.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
My own day, Betty, why, good morning, Good morning father.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
That's better, Sit down, eat your breakfast.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Jumping creepers.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
You know, Margaret, there's one thing I'm really going to
enjoy about our Thanksgiving Day dinner yesterday.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
What's that, dear?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
We're probably the only family in Springfield that won't be
eating leftover turkey.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
For the next month. Yes, dear, what are we going
to have for dinner tonight?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Leftover hamburgers.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
So you don't think your family will ever be hungry again,
Well you just wait till tomorrow morning. The kids will
be banging their spoons for breakfast the same as ever.
So be ready with steaming bowls of hot Post wheatmeal
and tell the youngsters it's hop Along Cassidy's favorite hot cereal. Yes,
hot Post sweetmeal. With solid whole wheat nourishment and rich
nut like flavor that hop Along sure goes for hot
(28:37):
post wheatmeal. You'll see you'll all agree it's the best
hot cereal you ever hate.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
These days, stores everywhere are featuring lower.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Prices on Maxwell House coffee, the lowest prices in months.
Bring home one of those familiar blue tins tomorrow and
enjoy coffee that's always good to the last drop us
again next week, when we'll be back with Father Knows
Best starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson, with Roy Bargee
and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly, Bill Forman.
So until next Thursday, good night and good luck from
(29:12):
the makers of Maxwell House. Father Knows Best was transcribed
in Hollywood and written by Ed Jane. Now stay tuned
in for Dragnet, which follows immediately over most of these.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Stations exciting dragnetters. Next, then we the people on MBC
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