September 29, 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 (00:02):
Mother, is Nextwell House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young is father a half
hour visit with your new neighbors, the Andersons, brought to
you by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed
by more people than any other brand of coffee at
any price. Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
(00:56):
It was Samuel Johnson who said, and with good reason,
I'm sure every man naturally persuades himself that he can
keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
But by length of time and frequency of experiment.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, in Springfield and the white frame house on Maple Street,
just such an experiment is about to begin like this.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Good morning, Margaret, Good morning, dear. Breakfast still be ready
in just a moment.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
That's all right, dear, No hurry, kids aren't done yet,
are They wouldn't No.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But well it is a holiday, Jim, and I just thought.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Oh, it's all right with me, Margaret. After all, this
is the last day of the year, and it's Saturday,
and well, they deserve a little extra rest, don't they.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, yes, dear.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Anyway, it gives me a chance.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
To tell you about something i've I've had it on
my mind for quite a while, and well it's about
time I did something about it. Yes, Dear, from now on,
I'm not going to lose my temper at any time.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
But during nineteen fIF I'm going to be the soul
of patience at home, at the office, everywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Patient. Old Jim that's what they're going to.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Call me, Jim. Yes, Margaret, you remember my grandmother Williams,
not one of my real grandmothers. She was the one
who took care of my mother when she was living
in Middletown after the lumber company sent my father to
Oregon and my sister Kathleen was born.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, but I don't remember her.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh well, she used to have a wonderful saying for
people who wanted to control their tempers.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Margaret, I don't need any special formula. I just won't
lose my temper, that's all I know, dear.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But grandmother Williams used to say, if you think your
temper's going just recite the hottentalk and before you're halfway finished,
Why it's back as like as not.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh that's very pretty. But I'd rather do it my way.
I just won't lose my temper.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Jim, if you were really sincere, you'd at least let
me tell you what the hottentot is.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I don't care what the hottentot is.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
I don't need the hotent Why do you immediately leap
to the conclusion that I need help and controlling my temper.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I just won't lose it. That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You've already lost it.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now, Look, Margaret, I all right, what's the hot and top?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, it's just an old saying we had when I
was a girl. If to hoot and to toot a
hot and tot tot be taught by a hot and
top tutor, the tutor get hot. If the hot and
tot tot hoot and toot at the hot and tot tutor,
that's all there is to it.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I'd rather lose my temper. Well, I'm not gonna walk
around babbling like a six year old.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Idiot in search of a brain.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
So hot to toot the silliest darn thing I've ever
heard doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, it does, dear you. See it says that if
a hot and hot tutor teaches a hot and tot
tot to hoot and toot, well, the tutor has no
one but himself to blame it the hot and tot
hoots and toots at him.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Fine, I'll tell him when he comes in.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Jim, it's just supposed to divert your attention for a moment.
Pet's all. Then you won't lose.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Your temper, Margaret, I'm not going to May I please
have the morning paper.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The paper? Oh well, Betty came down to look at
it first thing this morning. It's in the breakfast note.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh no, is the something wrong there, Margaret? Look what
she did to this paper. How in the world do
they expect a man to read anything as messed up
as this? Why is it that whenever I want to
see anything around here, Jim, somebody always, somebody always.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I will not lose my temper. I shall control my
temper if it kills me.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Good morning mother, Oh, good morning, Betty, morning father. I said,
good morning father.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Father, Betty. I wouldn't bother your father this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But I didn't do anything. Oh, he found out I
drove the car on a flat tire.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Betty, please, Margaret, yes, dear, to hoot and tooth what.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I'll write it down for you, Dear. If to hoot
and to toot, hot and tot tot be taught by
a hot and hot tutor, the tutor get hot if
the hot and tot tot, hoot and toot at the
hot and tot tutor.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Thank you, Good morning, Betty, Good morning father?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And how are you this beautiful morning? I'm fine?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Thank you? Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's fine? Coffee about ready, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yes, dear, here you are, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Well, Benny. Are you and Billy Smith planning on a
big time tonight? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yes, father, mister Smith's into that. Billy have their brand
new car, and we're going to a barn dance.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It'll barn.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
What'll they think of next? Heck and Elizabeth are going
to the party. The Hathaways too, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
If he's letting Billy take the new car, they won't
have any transportation.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
We'd better arrange to pick them up, all right, dar
you call Elizabeth?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Yes, dear, fine, good morning, Mommy, good morning, daddy, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That wasn't you was it?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
What wasn't me? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Morning? Everybody?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
How's every little old thing?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh? Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I thought for a minute we were going to have
two elephants in that house.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Nothing. Only I wish you'd learn to walk down the stairs,
you bet.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Hey, Mom, I'm starving, poor little thing. Well, I haven't
eton since last night, say dad, speaking of money?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Anything about money?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Well, nobody, but I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I see one stack of weed's coming up.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Thank you, ma'am Kathy Mavistair please, yes.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Kaddy, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You're welcome. Christmas is over too.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Oh you're saying, bud, Well, the way I figure it,
a dollar a week is all right when you're fifteen,
but you see, i'll be sixteen in another five or
six months. And well, you see, when you're fifteen you
don't have.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
To worry about girls much. But when you get.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
To be fifteen and a half, well, let's say you
go to the movies and you meet a girl. I mean,
even if she buys her own ticket. You know what
they charge for ice cream, sodas, gosh, even if you
only get a root bear or something or.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
No, no, I didn't mean a lot dead. I just
thought another fifty cents quarter maybe, But.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Don't you realize that if I gave you a larger allowance,
you would never be sure if a girl liked you
for your money or.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yourself, well, gosh, who'd care?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
But eat your breakfast and behave yourself.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
I don't have any breakfast to eat.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'll have your pancakes in just a minute.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
Holy cow.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Everybody else gets more than a dollar, and they don't
even do half the things I do.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
But I've had just about all the complaining. I'm going
to stand if I hear one more word out of you,
so help me. If to hoot and two to hot and.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
All right, but eat your breakfast? Holy oh? What was that?
Never mind what it was? Eat your breakfast and be quiet?
Holy cow.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But I don't know what they teach you in your school,
but for a fifteen year old boy, you have the
most bull vine vocabulary I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
What does that mean? It means stop saying, holy cow? Gee?
Wish here you are?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
But nice hot pancakes?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh thanks mom, Bud? Yes, Dan, did you put ashes
on the driveway last night? Yes? Dan? In the front walk?
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Yes Dan?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Good.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
As soon as you've had your breakfast, please see if
you can find my tire chains, it's going to be
slippery driving tonight.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
Okay, Dan, some more pancakes, Dear.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I'm afraid not, Margaret. I've got to get down to
the office.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It seems such a shame, Jim. Everybody else in town
is taking a full weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Margaret, you certainly don't think I like the idea. But
when mister Gribble.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Says he wants to straighten out his insurance, well we
just straightened out his assurance, that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
But couldn't it wait until Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Oh no, that's next year. Mister Gribble says, it's got
to be examined this year.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Daddy, No, gee whiz, you'd think I was a step
child or something.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Well, I ought to be through by one anyway, so
it won't be too bad if I get through earlier.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I'll come home for lunch. How's that?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh that'll be fine, Dear. Oh Jim, you forgot the paper.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Paper, Oh the thing with the hot and time. Okay,
let me have it are Dear, Thank you be a
good girl.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I will song.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Kids by noon.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'll have my lunch downtown all right, Dear drinking milk.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Kathy, all I ever do is drink milk?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
What I'm to my other rubber?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't know, dear? Did you look in the closet?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Never mind, I've got it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Goodbye, good bye, ba, But I wish you'd learn not
to annoy your father at breakfast.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
I didn't do anything. All I said, know what it sounded?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I he fell down?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
How could he fall down? I put ashes on the sidewalk,
my poor broken back? You fell down?
Speaker 11 (11:13):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yes, I fell down. Why didn't you put ashes on
the steps?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
He didn't say to put ashes on the steps? You
just said to put him on the sidewalk in the driveway, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Where did I put that paper? I don't know, dear,
never mind, I've got it. Gosh, I'm sorry, just a moment.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
If to hoot into hot and tot tot be taught
by a hot and top tutor, the tutor get hot.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
If the hot and tot at the hot and top.
Speaker 12 (11:49):
Tutor bud, yes, put ashes on the steps, well, nobody
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can say, father isn't try This time of year, good
resolutions are mighty important to a man.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Of course, good coffee, truly good coffee like our Maxwell house. Well,
that's important the whole year round, how much it means
that wonderful good to the last drop flavor. No other
coffee gives it to you, no coffee but Maxwell House.
There's a reason for.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
This, a good one.
Speaker 10 (12:43):
It's a recipe, the only recipe in the entire coffee
world for that famous good to the last drop flavor.
After all, what's the most important thing about coffee? Sure,
it's flavor, And that flavor depends on the blend, the
kind of coffee you choose for it, and how you
put them together. Now, in different countries, on different plantations,
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coffee has grown in countless varieties, and you can combine
them in many many ways. But here's the point. There's
only one way, one recipe for our famous Maxwell House flavor.
And this recipe of ours makes the great, big difference
between just any coffee and wonderfully good coffee that can
add something friendly and cheering to every day of the
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year ahead. So think about it. If good coffee really
means something to you, why don't you start enjoying America's
favorite brand. Yes, tomorrow and every day, enjoy Maxwell House coffee.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
In the white frame house on Maple Street lunchtime has
come and gone.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So is dinner time, and Jim Anderson still hasn't returned.
The rest of the family is eaten. But father, Oh
just a minute, here he comes now, mister Gribble of
all the miserable, ill mannered, inconsiderate, unreliable creatures that has
ever been my misfortune.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
To meet, Jim is that you.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I'll be in a minute, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
You, mister Gribble, take the first, second, and third prizes.
I wouldn't care if you owned a dozen factories. You
want to place your insurance with another office, It's perfectly
all right with me, Jim.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Dear, we've been awfully worried.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Who are you talking to, mister Gribble? That puny excuse
for a foghorn?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Mister Gribble, is he here?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I don't know where he is. I've been waiting for
him all day and he still hasn't shown up.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
First it was ten o'clock, then one o'clock, then three,
then five.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Not a dad, anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Oh, everything's fine, just dandy.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
We saved your dinner for you, dear.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
I had a sandwich downtown. The nerve of the guy
keeping me in the office a whole day and then
doesn't even have the decency.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Jim, what is it ma to hoot and to toot?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Oh, hoot and toot my foot even a hot and
Tod has a right to get mad once in a while.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, I suppose you know best, dear Dad.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I wouldn't care if it were just an ordinary business day.
I could understand that. But he knew I was going
to the office just to meet him. He knew it
was a holiday weekend. There wasn't another office open in
the entire building, nobody to talk to, nothing, What what
is it?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
What do you want? Oh?
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Oh, I found the tire chains?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Good they're busted. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
This was such a nice year. Why did it have
to end like this? What's wrong with the change, Bud?
Speaker 9 (15:44):
They're a mess?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Kathy really fixed him?
Speaker 13 (15:47):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I didn't even touch all right, Kathy? Never mind Margaret?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yes, dear.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Do you suppose Kathy could have dictaphones planted around the house.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I wouldn't think so, dear.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But how could she hear us clear out in the kitchen? Yeah,
don't you listen to Bud.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I haven't even seen the tire chain since Thanksgiving?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Well, that's when you're busting them.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Oh, I did not.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
You certainly did.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I certainly didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
You certainly did.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I certainly didn't.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
All Right, kids, Please, I can't take any of that tonight.
I've got a splitting headache and I'd like things to
be peaceful and.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Quiet just for a little while.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Okay, Dan, I didn't bust them.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
All right, Kathy, Time for your bath and then get
ready for bed.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
You mean now?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I mean no, drink your milk, take your bath, go
to bed.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Boy? Am I in a run?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Jim? Maybe if you took a little nap.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Oh, it isn't that bad, honey.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I'll be all right if we can manage just a
little less confusion around here.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
May I talk to you for a minute, please?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Sure? Why doesn't everybody talk to me?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Let's invite the General Consul of the United Nations in
for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Betty, your father has a headache.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Well, Creeper's all I said was could I talk to
him for a minute?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Not a thing, Betty? What is it?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Billy Smith said, his father said, And he could have
the car, but if it's going to be slippery out
and the radio said it was going to be the
worst New Year's Eve we've had in Springfield in over
twenty years, and they wouldn't be surprised if we even
had more snow before morning.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
He can.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
If a hot And.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
This is not the time to annoy your father with
Billy Smith's problems.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
But mother, if it's going to snow, I'll get it. Betty.
Let me put it this way.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
If a blizzard and six other forms of common disaster
were to strike Springfield at this particular moment, I still
wouldn't care what Billy Smith's father's said to Billy Smith.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Hello, oh hello, sure, just a minute, Dan, Yes, it's
mister Smith.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Well, naturally, the way I feel, who else could it
possibly be?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Hello?
Speaker 14 (18:15):
Heck, hey, Jim, you're going to that shim. They get
the Halthaways, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
That's right? Heck?
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Well, I was just wondering, how'd you like to drive
over with us?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You got a new car, you know, Yes, I know. Heck,
but Betty said you were going to let Billy have
your car.
Speaker 14 (18:31):
Yeah, well that's what I wanted to talk to you about, Jim.
You see the way I figure it, After all, Billy
is going with Betty and I've got a brand new car,
and they get a few scratches on that old heap
of yours. It wouldn't make an awful lot of difference.
Did you say something, Jim.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
No, not yet.
Speaker 14 (18:55):
Oh well, like I was saying, now, if you were
to let Billy use your old car, we could go
in my new car.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Toot, how about it, Jim.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
The hot and toot a toot and hack day. Yes.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
No, Never in all my life have I ever heard
anything like that. He wants me to lend Billy my
car so his car won't get scratched up.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
The nerve of the man father.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You mean he said no?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I most emphatically said no, Margaret, what's gotten into everybody?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I don't know if that.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Isn't the worst example of I think the whole world
is going nuts.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I'm going with him never mind, but I'll answer it
doesn't want his car scratched up.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
But if they skid mine into a telephone pole, that'd
be all right.
Speaker 15 (19:53):
Jim My boy, I'm terribly sorry. It wouldn't have had
this happen for the world.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Oh well, come on in gribble, thank you.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
I got all tied up my lawyers and well I
can only hope you'll forgive me.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Oh sure, that's the sort of thing that can happen
to anybody. Let me have your coat, Oh thank you,
I'll just drop it here in the chair.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Damn if you're going to change your clothes. Oh hello, mister.
Speaker 15 (20:16):
Gribble, Missus Anderson, well all dressed up, I see Margaret.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Mister Gribblin and I are going into the den. That
we won't be long, all right, dear, come along, mister Gribble.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
There's no hurry. I'm going to help Betty dress.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Charming woman.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
Missus Anderson absolutely charmed.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You're a lucky man, Jim. Yes, indeed a very lucky man.
Thank you. Sit down at dribble Well's, Jim. Shall we
get started, get what? We got a busy night ahead
of this, so let's go to work. I'll wait a minute.
You mean you came out here to go through your
insurance tonight?
Speaker 15 (20:50):
Well, naturally, this is the thirty first to moo stars
New Year. Got to have my affairs in order by midnight.
Why why, good lord man, what do you mean why?
Because well, because I've always done it that way.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
That's why.
Speaker 15 (21:06):
Let's have an end of this foolness. Doesn't get to work.
Oh would you rather I placed my insurance with another organization?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
If that's that, mister Gribble.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I made a resolution for the new year, so I
want you to notice that I am in complete control
of my temper. My hand is steady, my eye is clear,
and yet very calmly and with absolute composure, I say, mister.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Gribble, you are an idiot. He's gone mad. You know.
I think you're right. But this is New Year's Eve.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I'm going to a party with my wife. We're going
to have a good time. You and your lawyers and
your insurance and your big fat factories can go jump
into the nearest lake.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
He has gone mad. I'm not Jim Anderson. I'm a
hot and hot tot and I don't give a hooon.
So goodbye, mister Gribble. Here's your cody, is your hat?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Goodbye, good luck, and I'll see you around the pool room.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Well, business is picking up, by Jim. Oh you come
on in.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
Heck, well, thanks, don't mind if ad.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh hello, mister Gribble.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Goodbye, mister Gribble.
Speaker 14 (22:25):
It's a matter with him.
Speaker 11 (22:27):
Too much money. What's your excuse, Jim? I I came
over to apologize.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Oh you did. Huh?
Speaker 9 (22:40):
You know, I waited a long time for that car, Jim.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
But well, heck, I'd.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Rather have an old friend than a new car any day.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
How about it, Jim? Sure never even happened. Thanks Pa.
Speaker 14 (22:54):
Oh could we pick Elizabeth up on the way to
the party.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Where's your car?
Speaker 14 (23:00):
Billy's got it outside, and so help me if he
gets one scratch on it.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
You don't suppose he will, do you?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Jim? Why? Of course? Not?
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Busy little place you got here, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Just like living in an alley? Anderson? I want to
talk to you. All right, Let's go back into the den.
Will you excuse us?
Speaker 14 (23:23):
Heck, oh, sure, don't worry about me. I'll take butt
outside and show him the new car.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
All right, mister Gribble? What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Anderson?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yes, Jim, Yes.
Speaker 15 (23:38):
Do you really think I'm an idiot?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Well, when you put it that way, yes, you know
what what You're right?
Speaker 15 (23:56):
But you're the first man in twenty years who have
the courage to tell me, Jim, I'm I'm not really
an idiot.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I'm just lonesome. You well, where's your family? They go
south for the winter.
Speaker 15 (24:12):
Have been doing it for twenty years, and Jim, I
don't mind being alone in that big house, but.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Not on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You mean you've been pulling a gag like this for
twenty years.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well, not exactly like this. I've never been caught before.
Why didn't you say so? You could have spent the
evening with us? You still can. Oh you're going to
a park that's nothing, so are you?
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Well?
Speaker 15 (24:41):
What do you know?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
And I won't even have to talk about insurance?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
God's now what but but but what's.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Going on up there?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
It's okay, jag, mister Smith pushed the horn and it
got stuck.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Oh fine, is anything wrong?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
No, dear, everything's all right, all right, everything's wonderful, happy
no year.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
This time of year, enthusiasm, like mister Gribbles is catching,
and that's something we're all in favor of. We hope
everything's wonderful with you too, Yes, And during the year ahead,
we hope it'll be even more so.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
For our part.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
During nineteen fifty, we're going to see to it that
you enjoy wonderfully good coffee every pound of maxwell house
you open. I know that these days, more than ever before,
you're on the lookout for the most in flavor for
every penny you spend. And next year, just as every
year for more than half a century, that's what you
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can expect in every pound of our Maxwell House coffee,
a generous extra measure of flavor, of freshness and fragrance
in every familiar blue tin. And with this promise from
Maxwell House, let me extend again our sincerest wishes to
you for a very happy and healthy New year.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
The star of our show, mister Robert Young, thank you
very much tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
For the first time since this program.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Went on the air, I'm stepping out of character to
make a personal appeal to our radio audience. During the
next year, which is only a few days away, weon
father knows Best, are to be actively associated with the
Inter Industry Highway Safety Committee, an organization formed at the
personal request of President Truman. The purpose of this committee
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is to combat the greatest menace our nation has ever known,
a menace which each year takes a greater toll of
life than even so fearsome a killer as war. I refer,
of course, to the careless or perhaps just thoughtless drivers
who race with breakneck and fool hearty speed along our
open highways and through our city streets. We'll tell you
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more about it next year, but now we'd like to
jump the gun just a little bit. There's a long
weekend coming up, and it's been predicted that hundreds of men,
women and children will lose their lives during that three
day period.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Think of it.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
The National Safety Council anticipates that horrible and unnecessary loss
of life, and in the past they've been unfortunately correct.
Why don't you do your part this weekend to make
them wrong. Have a good time, have a lot of fun,
but don't take any chances. Drive carefully, drive thoughtfully, and
the happiest of New Years.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
If you like good things, the easy way, the easy way.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Instant Maxwell House, that's for you.
Speaker 13 (28:27):
Good good coffee, no time, no trouble, and it's good
to the very last. You know what, Yes, instant Maxwell
House means great coffee, instantly and your cuff. Here's real
instant coffee, Oh, pure Maxwell House coffee and instant form.
Enjoy instant Maxwell House, instantly, good to the very last.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Jude know what.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Father knows Man was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James. Join us again next week when We'll be
back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson,
with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly,
Bill Forman. So until next Thursday night, for myself and
for the makers of Maxwell House Coffee and Instant Maxwell House,
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let me wish you again a very happy and healthy
New Year. Now stay tuned in for Screen Gild Theater,
which follows immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
James Stewart leads the cast on Screen Guild Theater next
on NBC
Mother, is Nextwell House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young is father a half
hour visit with your new neighbors, the Andersons, brought to
you by Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed
by more people than any other brand of coffee at
any price. Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
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It was Samuel Johnson who said, and with good reason,
I'm sure every man naturally persuades himself that he can
keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
But by length of time and frequency of experiment.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, in Springfield and the white frame house on Maple Street,
just such an experiment is about to begin like this.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Good morning, Margaret, Good morning, dear. Breakfast still be ready
in just a moment.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
That's all right, dear, No hurry, kids aren't done yet,
are They wouldn't No.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
But well it is a holiday, Jim, and I just thought.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Oh, it's all right with me, Margaret. After all, this
is the last day of the year, and it's Saturday,
and well, they deserve a little extra rest, don't they.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well, yes, dear.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Anyway, it gives me a chance.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
To tell you about something i've I've had it on
my mind for quite a while, and well it's about
time I did something about it. Yes, Dear, from now on,
I'm not going to lose my temper at any time.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Well, I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
But during nineteen fIF I'm going to be the soul
of patience at home, at the office, everywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Patient. Old Jim that's what they're going to.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Call me, Jim. Yes, Margaret, you remember my grandmother Williams,
not one of my real grandmothers. She was the one
who took care of my mother when she was living
in Middletown after the lumber company sent my father to
Oregon and my sister Kathleen was born.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, but I don't remember her.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh well, she used to have a wonderful saying for
people who wanted to control their tempers.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Margaret, I don't need any special formula. I just won't
lose my temper, that's all I know, dear.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
But grandmother Williams used to say, if you think your
temper's going just recite the hottentalk and before you're halfway finished,
Why it's back as like as not.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh that's very pretty. But I'd rather do it my way.
I just won't lose my temper.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Jim, if you were really sincere, you'd at least let
me tell you what the hottentot is.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I don't care what the hottentot is.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
I don't need the hotent Why do you immediately leap
to the conclusion that I need help and controlling my temper.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I just won't lose it. That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You've already lost it.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now, Look, Margaret, I all right, what's the hot and top?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, it's just an old saying we had when I
was a girl. If to hoot and to toot a
hot and tot tot be taught by a hot and
top tutor, the tutor get hot. If the hot and
tot tot hoot and toot at the hot and tot tutor,
that's all there is to it.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I'd rather lose my temper. Well, I'm not gonna walk
around babbling like a six year old.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Idiot in search of a brain.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
So hot to toot the silliest darn thing I've ever
heard doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, it does, dear you. See it says that if
a hot and hot tutor teaches a hot and tot
tot to hoot and toot, well, the tutor has no
one but himself to blame it the hot and tot
hoots and toots at him.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Fine, I'll tell him when he comes in.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Jim, it's just supposed to divert your attention for a moment.
Pet's all. Then you won't lose.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Your temper, Margaret, I'm not going to May I please
have the morning paper.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The paper? Oh well, Betty came down to look at
it first thing this morning. It's in the breakfast note.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh no, is the something wrong there, Margaret? Look what
she did to this paper. How in the world do
they expect a man to read anything as messed up
as this? Why is it that whenever I want to
see anything around here, Jim, somebody always, somebody always.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I will not lose my temper. I shall control my
temper if it kills me.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Good morning mother, Oh, good morning, Betty, morning father. I said,
good morning father.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Father, Betty. I wouldn't bother your father this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But I didn't do anything. Oh, he found out I
drove the car on a flat tire.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Betty, please, Margaret, yes, dear, to hoot and tooth what.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I'll write it down for you, Dear. If to hoot
and to toot, hot and tot tot be taught by
a hot and hot tutor, the tutor get hot if
the hot and tot tot, hoot and toot at the
hot and tot tutor.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Thank you, Good morning, Betty, Good morning father?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And how are you this beautiful morning? I'm fine?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Thank you? Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's fine? Coffee about ready, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yes, dear, here you are, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Well, Benny. Are you and Billy Smith planning on a
big time tonight? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yes, father, mister Smith's into that. Billy have their brand
new car, and we're going to a barn dance.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
It'll barn.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
What'll they think of next? Heck and Elizabeth are going
to the party. The Hathaways too, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
If he's letting Billy take the new car, they won't
have any transportation.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
We'd better arrange to pick them up, all right, dar
you call Elizabeth?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Yes, dear, fine, good morning, Mommy, good morning, daddy, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That wasn't you was it?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
What wasn't me? Daddy?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Morning? Everybody?
Speaker 7 (06:35):
How's every little old thing?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh? Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I thought for a minute we were going to have
two elephants in that house.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Nothing. Only I wish you'd learn to walk down the stairs,
you bet.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Hey, Mom, I'm starving, poor little thing. Well, I haven't
eton since last night, say dad, speaking of money?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Anything about money?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Well, nobody, but I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I see one stack of weed's coming up.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Thank you, ma'am Kathy Mavistair please, yes.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Kaddy, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
You're welcome. Christmas is over too.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Oh you're saying, bud, Well, the way I figure it,
a dollar a week is all right when you're fifteen,
but you see, i'll be sixteen in another five or
six months. And well, you see, when you're fifteen you
don't have.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
To worry about girls much. But when you get.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
To be fifteen and a half, well, let's say you
go to the movies and you meet a girl. I mean,
even if she buys her own ticket. You know what
they charge for ice cream, sodas, gosh, even if you
only get a root bear or something or.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
No, no, I didn't mean a lot dead. I just
thought another fifty cents quarter maybe, But.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Don't you realize that if I gave you a larger allowance,
you would never be sure if a girl liked you
for your money or.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yourself, well, gosh, who'd care?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
But eat your breakfast and behave yourself.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
I don't have any breakfast to eat.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'll have your pancakes in just a minute.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
Holy cow.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Everybody else gets more than a dollar, and they don't
even do half the things I do.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
But I've had just about all the complaining. I'm going
to stand if I hear one more word out of you,
so help me. If to hoot and two to hot and.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
All right, but eat your breakfast? Holy oh? What was that?
Never mind what it was? Eat your breakfast and be quiet?
Holy cow.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
But I don't know what they teach you in your school,
but for a fifteen year old boy, you have the
most bull vine vocabulary I've ever heard.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
What does that mean? It means stop saying, holy cow? Gee?
Wish here you are?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
But nice hot pancakes?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh thanks mom, Bud? Yes, Dan, did you put ashes
on the driveway last night? Yes? Dan? In the front walk?
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Yes Dan?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Good.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
As soon as you've had your breakfast, please see if
you can find my tire chains, it's going to be
slippery driving tonight.
Speaker 9 (09:42):
Okay, Dan, some more pancakes, Dear.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I'm afraid not, Margaret. I've got to get down to
the office.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It seems such a shame, Jim. Everybody else in town
is taking a full weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Margaret, you certainly don't think I like the idea. But
when mister Gribble.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Says he wants to straighten out his insurance, well we
just straightened out his assurance, that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
But couldn't it wait until Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Oh no, that's next year. Mister Gribble says, it's got
to be examined this year.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Daddy, No, gee whiz, you'd think I was a step
child or something.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Well, I ought to be through by one anyway, so
it won't be too bad if I get through earlier.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I'll come home for lunch. How's that?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh that'll be fine, Dear. Oh Jim, you forgot the paper.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Paper, Oh the thing with the hot and time. Okay,
let me have it are Dear, Thank you be a
good girl.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I will song.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Kids by noon.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I'll have my lunch downtown all right, Dear drinking milk.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Kathy, all I ever do is drink milk?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
What I'm to my other rubber?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I don't know, dear? Did you look in the closet?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Never mind, I've got it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Goodbye, good bye, ba, But I wish you'd learn not
to annoy your father at breakfast.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
I didn't do anything. All I said, know what it sounded?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I he fell down?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
How could he fall down? I put ashes on the sidewalk,
my poor broken back? You fell down?
Speaker 11 (11:13):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yes, I fell down. Why didn't you put ashes on
the steps?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
He didn't say to put ashes on the steps? You
just said to put him on the sidewalk in the driveway, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Where did I put that paper? I don't know, dear,
never mind, I've got it. Gosh, I'm sorry, just a moment.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
If to hoot into hot and tot tot be taught
by a hot and top tutor, the tutor get hot.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
If the hot and tot at the hot and top.
Speaker 12 (11:49):
Tutor bud, yes, put ashes on the steps, well, nobody
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can say, father isn't try This time of year, good
resolutions are mighty important to a man.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Of course, good coffee, truly good coffee like our Maxwell house. Well,
that's important the whole year round, how much it means
that wonderful good to the last drop flavor. No other
coffee gives it to you, no coffee but Maxwell House.
There's a reason for.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
This, a good one.
Speaker 10 (12:43):
It's a recipe, the only recipe in the entire coffee
world for that famous good to the last drop flavor.
After all, what's the most important thing about coffee? Sure,
it's flavor, And that flavor depends on the blend, the
kind of coffee you choose for it, and how you
put them together. Now, in different countries, on different plantations,
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coffee has grown in countless varieties, and you can combine
them in many many ways. But here's the point. There's
only one way, one recipe for our famous Maxwell House flavor.
And this recipe of ours makes the great, big difference
between just any coffee and wonderfully good coffee that can
add something friendly and cheering to every day of the
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year ahead. So think about it. If good coffee really
means something to you, why don't you start enjoying America's
favorite brand. Yes, tomorrow and every day, enjoy Maxwell House coffee.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
It's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
In the white frame house on Maple Street lunchtime has
come and gone.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
So is dinner time, and Jim Anderson still hasn't returned.
The rest of the family is eaten. But father, Oh
just a minute, here he comes now, mister Gribble of
all the miserable, ill mannered, inconsiderate, unreliable creatures that has
ever been my misfortune.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
To meet, Jim is that you.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I'll be in a minute, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
You, mister Gribble, take the first, second, and third prizes.
I wouldn't care if you owned a dozen factories. You
want to place your insurance with another office, It's perfectly
all right with me, Jim.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Dear, we've been awfully worried.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Who are you talking to, mister Gribble? That puny excuse
for a foghorn?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Mister Gribble, is he here?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I don't know where he is. I've been waiting for
him all day and he still hasn't shown up.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
First it was ten o'clock, then one o'clock, then three,
then five.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Not a dad, anything wrong?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Oh, everything's fine, just dandy.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
We saved your dinner for you, dear.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
I had a sandwich downtown. The nerve of the guy
keeping me in the office a whole day and then
doesn't even have the decency.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Jim, what is it ma to hoot and to toot?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Oh, hoot and toot my foot even a hot and
Tod has a right to get mad once in a while.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, I suppose you know best, dear Dad.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I wouldn't care if it were just an ordinary business day.
I could understand that. But he knew I was going
to the office just to meet him. He knew it
was a holiday weekend. There wasn't another office open in
the entire building, nobody to talk to, nothing, What what
is it?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
What do you want? Oh?
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Oh, I found the tire chains?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Good they're busted. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
This was such a nice year. Why did it have
to end like this? What's wrong with the change, Bud?
Speaker 9 (15:44):
They're a mess?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Kathy really fixed him?
Speaker 13 (15:47):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I didn't even touch all right, Kathy? Never mind Margaret?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yes, dear.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Do you suppose Kathy could have dictaphones planted around the house.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I wouldn't think so, dear.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But how could she hear us clear out in the kitchen? Yeah,
don't you listen to Bud.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I haven't even seen the tire chain since Thanksgiving?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Well, that's when you're busting them.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Oh, I did not.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
You certainly did.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I certainly didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
You certainly did.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I certainly didn't.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
All Right, kids, Please, I can't take any of that tonight.
I've got a splitting headache and I'd like things to
be peaceful and.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Quiet just for a little while.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Okay, Dan, I didn't bust them.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
All right, Kathy, Time for your bath and then get
ready for bed.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
You mean now?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I mean no, drink your milk, take your bath, go
to bed.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Boy? Am I in a run?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Jim? Maybe if you took a little nap.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Oh, it isn't that bad, honey.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I'll be all right if we can manage just a
little less confusion around here.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
May I talk to you for a minute, please?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Sure? Why doesn't everybody talk to me?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Let's invite the General Consul of the United Nations in
for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Betty, your father has a headache.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Well, Creeper's all I said was could I talk to
him for a minute?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Not a thing, Betty? What is it?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Billy Smith said, his father said, And he could have
the car, but if it's going to be slippery out
and the radio said it was going to be the
worst New Year's Eve we've had in Springfield in over
twenty years, and they wouldn't be surprised if we even
had more snow before morning.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
He can.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
If a hot And.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
This is not the time to annoy your father with
Billy Smith's problems.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
But mother, if it's going to snow, I'll get it. Betty.
Let me put it this way.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
If a blizzard and six other forms of common disaster
were to strike Springfield at this particular moment, I still
wouldn't care what Billy Smith's father's said to Billy Smith.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Hello, oh hello, sure, just a minute, Dan, Yes, it's
mister Smith.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Well, naturally, the way I feel, who else could it
possibly be?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Hello?
Speaker 14 (18:15):
Heck, hey, Jim, you're going to that shim. They get
the Halthaways, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
That's right? Heck?
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Well, I was just wondering, how'd you like to drive
over with us?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You got a new car, you know, Yes, I know. Heck,
but Betty said you were going to let Billy have
your car.
Speaker 14 (18:31):
Yeah, well that's what I wanted to talk to you about, Jim.
You see the way I figure it, After all, Billy
is going with Betty and I've got a brand new car,
and they get a few scratches on that old heap
of yours. It wouldn't make an awful lot of difference.
Did you say something, Jim.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
No, not yet.
Speaker 14 (18:55):
Oh well, like I was saying, now, if you were
to let Billy use your old car, we could go
in my new car.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Toot, how about it, Jim.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
The hot and toot a toot and hack day. Yes.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
No, Never in all my life have I ever heard
anything like that. He wants me to lend Billy my
car so his car won't get scratched up.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
The nerve of the man father.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You mean he said no?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
I most emphatically said no, Margaret, what's gotten into everybody?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I don't know if that.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Isn't the worst example of I think the whole world
is going nuts.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I'm going with him never mind, but I'll answer it
doesn't want his car scratched up.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
But if they skid mine into a telephone pole, that'd
be all right.
Speaker 15 (19:53):
Jim My boy, I'm terribly sorry. It wouldn't have had
this happen for the world.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Oh well, come on in gribble, thank you.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
I got all tied up my lawyers and well I
can only hope you'll forgive me.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Oh sure, that's the sort of thing that can happen
to anybody. Let me have your coat, Oh thank you,
I'll just drop it here in the chair.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Damn if you're going to change your clothes. Oh hello, mister.
Speaker 15 (20:16):
Gribble, Missus Anderson, well all dressed up, I see Margaret.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Mister Gribblin and I are going into the den. That
we won't be long, all right, dear, come along, mister Gribble.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
There's no hurry. I'm going to help Betty dress.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Charming woman.
Speaker 9 (20:29):
Missus Anderson absolutely charmed.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You're a lucky man, Jim. Yes, indeed a very lucky man.
Thank you. Sit down at dribble Well's, Jim. Shall we
get started, get what? We got a busy night ahead
of this, so let's go to work. I'll wait a minute.
You mean you came out here to go through your
insurance tonight?
Speaker 15 (20:50):
Well, naturally, this is the thirty first to moo stars
New Year. Got to have my affairs in order by midnight.
Why why, good lord man, what do you mean why?
Because well, because I've always done it that way.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
That's why.
Speaker 15 (21:06):
Let's have an end of this foolness. Doesn't get to work.
Oh would you rather I placed my insurance with another organization?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
If that's that, mister Gribble.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I made a resolution for the new year, so I
want you to notice that I am in complete control
of my temper. My hand is steady, my eye is clear,
and yet very calmly and with absolute composure, I say, mister.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Gribble, you are an idiot. He's gone mad. You know.
I think you're right. But this is New Year's Eve.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I'm going to a party with my wife. We're going
to have a good time. You and your lawyers and
your insurance and your big fat factories can go jump
into the nearest lake.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
He has gone mad. I'm not Jim Anderson. I'm a
hot and hot tot and I don't give a hooon.
So goodbye, mister Gribble. Here's your cody, is your hat?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Goodbye, good luck, and I'll see you around the pool room.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Well, business is picking up, by Jim. Oh you come
on in.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
Heck, well, thanks, don't mind if ad.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh hello, mister Gribble.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
Goodbye, mister Gribble.
Speaker 14 (22:25):
It's a matter with him.
Speaker 11 (22:27):
Too much money. What's your excuse, Jim? I I came
over to apologize.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Oh you did. Huh?
Speaker 9 (22:40):
You know, I waited a long time for that car, Jim.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
But well, heck, I'd.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Rather have an old friend than a new car any day.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
How about it, Jim? Sure never even happened. Thanks Pa.
Speaker 14 (22:54):
Oh could we pick Elizabeth up on the way to
the party.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Where's your car?
Speaker 14 (23:00):
Billy's got it outside, and so help me if he
gets one scratch on it.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
You don't suppose he will, do you?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Jim? Why? Of course? Not?
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Busy little place you got here, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Just like living in an alley? Anderson? I want to
talk to you. All right, Let's go back into the den.
Will you excuse us?
Speaker 14 (23:23):
Heck, oh, sure, don't worry about me. I'll take butt
outside and show him the new car.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
All right, mister Gribble? What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Anderson?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yes, Jim, Yes.
Speaker 15 (23:38):
Do you really think I'm an idiot?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Well, when you put it that way, yes, you know
what what You're right?
Speaker 15 (23:56):
But you're the first man in twenty years who have
the courage to tell me, Jim, I'm I'm not really
an idiot.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I'm just lonesome. You well, where's your family? They go
south for the winter.
Speaker 15 (24:12):
Have been doing it for twenty years, and Jim, I
don't mind being alone in that big house, but.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Not on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You mean you've been pulling a gag like this for
twenty years.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well, not exactly like this. I've never been caught before.
Why didn't you say so? You could have spent the
evening with us? You still can. Oh you're going to
a park that's nothing, so are you?
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Well?
Speaker 15 (24:41):
What do you know?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
And I won't even have to talk about insurance?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
God's now what but but but what's.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Going on up there?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
It's okay, jag, mister Smith pushed the horn and it
got stuck.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Oh fine, is anything wrong?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
No, dear, everything's all right, all right, everything's wonderful, happy
no year.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
This time of year, enthusiasm, like mister Gribbles is catching,
and that's something we're all in favor of. We hope
everything's wonderful with you too, Yes, And during the year ahead,
we hope it'll be even more so.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
For our part.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
During nineteen fifty, we're going to see to it that
you enjoy wonderfully good coffee every pound of maxwell house
you open. I know that these days, more than ever before,
you're on the lookout for the most in flavor for
every penny you spend. And next year, just as every
year for more than half a century, that's what you
(26:00):
can expect in every pound of our Maxwell House coffee,
a generous extra measure of flavor, of freshness and fragrance
in every familiar blue tin. And with this promise from
Maxwell House, let me extend again our sincerest wishes to
you for a very happy and healthy New year.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
The star of our show, mister Robert Young, thank you
very much tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
For the first time since this program.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Went on the air, I'm stepping out of character to
make a personal appeal to our radio audience. During the
next year, which is only a few days away, weon
father knows Best, are to be actively associated with the
Inter Industry Highway Safety Committee, an organization formed at the
personal request of President Truman. The purpose of this committee
(27:04):
is to combat the greatest menace our nation has ever known,
a menace which each year takes a greater toll of
life than even so fearsome a killer as war. I refer,
of course, to the careless or perhaps just thoughtless drivers
who race with breakneck and fool hearty speed along our
open highways and through our city streets. We'll tell you
(27:27):
more about it next year, but now we'd like to
jump the gun just a little bit. There's a long
weekend coming up, and it's been predicted that hundreds of men,
women and children will lose their lives during that three
day period.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Think of it.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
The National Safety Council anticipates that horrible and unnecessary loss
of life, and in the past they've been unfortunately correct.
Why don't you do your part this weekend to make
them wrong. Have a good time, have a lot of fun,
but don't take any chances. Drive carefully, drive thoughtfully, and
the happiest of New Years.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
If you like good things, the easy way, the easy way.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Instant Maxwell House, that's for you.
Speaker 13 (28:27):
Good good coffee, no time, no trouble, and it's good
to the very last. You know what, Yes, instant Maxwell
House means great coffee, instantly and your cuff. Here's real
instant coffee, Oh, pure Maxwell House coffee and instant form.
Enjoy instant Maxwell House, instantly, good to the very last.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Jude know what.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Father knows Man was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James. Join us again next week when We'll be
back with Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson,
with Roy Bargee and the Maxwell House Orchestra and yours truly,
Bill Forman. So until next Thursday night, for myself and
for the makers of Maxwell House Coffee and Instant Maxwell House,
(29:21):
let me wish you again a very happy and healthy
New Year. Now stay tuned in for Screen Gild Theater,
which follows immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
James Stewart leads the cast on Screen Guild Theater next
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