September 27, 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):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Now listen to Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Father.
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home appliances. You've heard of tailan Charlie, haven't you. You know,
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the youngest member of a family who lives on hand
me downs and leftovers. Well, his lot isn't really so bad,
but every now and then Charlie decides it's time to rebel.
And at a certain white frame house on Maple Street,
a Charlie rebellion is underway. Only this Charlie's name is Kathy.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Like this, turn blue, Bud.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
What did I do you see? Margaret?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Well, I certainly prefer it to drop dead, you too, Betty?
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Turn blue, Kathy? Try a different color, all right? Then
turn purple, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Come in here.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
She's been acting this way for days. I think we
ought to take her to a doctor.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You take me to a doctrine. You know what, I'll
tell him?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Turn blue, Kathy, stop at this instance.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Look here, Kitting, that's no way for little girls to.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Act little girls. Little girls, that's all I ever hear.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Betty and Bud get everything and I don't get anything
just because they happen to be born first.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Kathleen, that's not true. It's true. There's no difference in
the way we treat you children. Is that?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
So Betty gets a brand new green formal and I
get her old pink dress made over.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
If you don't like the color of your dress, why
don't you give it the same treatment you've given.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Us this morning?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
What do you mean, Daddy, turn blue?
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Anybody want to go out and play catch? Kathy?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
No, I won't. You've got a brand new mitten, I've
got your old one.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Want to play catch?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Dan?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
I'd like to, Bud, but I promised myself i'd clean
the basement this morning.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Hey, Mom, don't put that doughnut away. I'll eat it.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Help yourself, Bud?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Can I have a donut too? Mommy?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Oh, I'm sorry, dear, that was the last one. How
about a glass of milk?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I only get leftovers, and no, you're even giving those
to somebody else.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It's the very idea. You get as much, if not more,
than Betty and Bud left over if.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I'm lucky, Margaret, if she feels that way, let's be
sure we may be showing partiality without realizing it. From
now on, let's bend over backward to see that Kathy
is treated like the others. Well, Ray, every time Betty
and Bud get a present, Kathy will get the same
thing or something absolutely equal. Every time they're granted a privilege,
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Kathy will be granted an equal privilege.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Is that a three way deal?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Dad? Certainly, there you are, Kathy. You're on equal footing
with the others.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
If Bud goes to the movies, you go to the
movies too. If Betty gets a new permanent, you get
a new permit.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Oh boy, Bud gets a donut, you get a donut.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
If Betty gets a new dress, you get a new dress. Dad.
If Bud gets a tire for his motor scooter, you
get a tire for your bicycle. Dad. If Betty gets
I get it.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
If Betty gets the phone, you get it. The next time.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I'm serious about this, Margaret. Dad. Oh, hi, Jane, what
is it, Bud?
Speaker 8 (04:10):
What would I do with a permanent.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
For Heaven's sake, Bud, I don't mean it that literally, Bud.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Weren't you going to play baseball?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Mom?
Speaker 8 (04:20):
How about it, squirt?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Not until I get a new mip, all right.
Speaker 8 (04:25):
I was gonna get Joe Phillips in the first place.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Oh, I know it would be all right with mother.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Don't think I don't appreciate it, because I do.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I do, I do.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Goodbye? Should I explain our agreement to Betty?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Just so I don't have to?
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Mother, I'm going to ask you the most divine favor?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Oh dear, all right, what is it, Betty?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Well, there's just the most excruciating new boy in the
dramatic club, and Janie says it's all right if I
ask him to dinner tonight.
Speaker 10 (04:51):
May I?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Oh, if it's all right with Janie, you needn't ask
your mother. After all, who does the cooking around here?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Jane?
Speaker 9 (04:58):
Of course, not father. You don't understand.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
There is the understatement of the year.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
This is leap Yere week.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
All the girls at school are supposed to ask fellas
they've never been out with for dates.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And here it is Saturday already.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
What does Janie have to do when your waiting till Saturday?
Speaker 9 (05:16):
Well, I borrowed her evening wrap last week, so I
had to give her first choice of date. And she
planned all along to ask this new love bug, and
then last minute she lost her nervous So she's gonna
ask Lilly Smith? And boy am I ever glad?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Boy am I ever glad that leap hear doesn't come
any oftener?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well, I suppose it'll be all right, Betty.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
You'll love him?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Mother, he's real, real George.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's a peculiar name.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Father, that's just an expression, Betty.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
What makes you think this George will swallow the baby?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Well, he's just dying to go out with me.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Last Thursday, when I left dramatic class, he said good night,
and it was obvious that what he really meant with Betty.
As soon as I get the nerve to ask you,
I'll be taking you home on Thursday night.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Well, you must be a splendid actor to be able
to read so much in so little.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
All right, ask George. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Good, Then I'll ask a boy to dinner tonight too.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What Kathy, are you still here?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Naturally? And I know a boy who's real, real George too.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
What she talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Dear, your father and I have promised Kathy that from
now on she is to be treated just like you
older children.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
If you can ask a boy to dinner, so can I.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Daddy said so, Mother, I'm trying to make an impression
on this boy. I can't have Kathy and Jimmy Woody
at the same table.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I'm not asking Jimmy Woody.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
So fair, Kathy. Maybe you'd have more fun if you
waited until another night. After all, Betty and her friend
are older.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I knew what.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, I'm the youngest again. And you're going to go
back on your words, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
We did make a promise to Kathy, and if Betty's
going to be a complete idiot about Leapier, there's no
reason why Kathy shouldn't be an idiot too.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Just a minute, jim Betty, I want you to go
upstairs and straighten your room. Kathy, you finished drying the dishes.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Well, all right, but I have to call him soon.
And nothing better happen to spoil my evening. Nothing better
happen to spoil my evening.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Either, Jim. I don't think you had any right to
side with Kathy.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Like that, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
We made a promise, yes, but this is important to Betty.
Kathy and her friend could be very embarrassing to someone
Betty's age.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well, it's important to Kathy too.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Besides, she might decide to make it really embarrassing for
Betty if we disappoint her.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Less Kathy promises to behave herself, she can have her
dinner in the den.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Say that's the way out of it, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Let Kathy invite her friend and the two of them
can roast wheaties and play games.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well that might work out, of course, and.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I think I'll join them.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Did you decide I was equal?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Kathy? I asked you to dry the dishes.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
They were all done.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's all right, Kathy. You can invite your friends tonight,
can I?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Mommy?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Yes, Dear, you better call him before your sister ties
up the phone for the balance of the year. Call
him me, of course, go on leap while the calendar
is on your side.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh, daddy, I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
What do you mean you couldn't.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Golly, he's so wonderful, he's so strong, He's got the
biggest muscles of anyone in the playground. You call him
for me?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Was your friend? Isn't he?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
But Daddy, he can kick a kickball twice as far
as anyone else.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I just couldn't call him.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Go ahead, Jim, what this is your idea? Cupid is
supposed to handle messages?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All right, I'll do it.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Never let it be said that Jim Anderson was afraid
to face a few muscles, particularly over the telephone.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Oh, daddy, you're wonderful.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Now where you're.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Going to look at Howard's number? What a charming evening.
One of our guests will say, wherefore are the potatoes,
and the other will kick them at him.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Hurry up, daddy, I've got it all right, I'm coming here.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It is mapel two three A.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
Let's see white, missus Lee White, and your friend's name
is Howard.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Uh huh, hurry up? Call him daddy, all.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Right, And whatever you do, don't.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Say it was my idea.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I just hope Howard isn'tess back. Oh hello, is this
missus White? Well, my name is Anderson, Missus White.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
My daughter and your son Howard are evidently pretty good friends.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And my daughter thought daddy.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
That is Missus Anderson, and I thought it would be
awfully nice if Howard had.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Dinner with us this evening.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
That is, of course, if you allow him out at night, fine,
I can assure you we'll take good care of him.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yes, I'll hang on, Missus.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
White, Oh, daddy, is he coming?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Howard's cleaning up the basement, but his mother gave her permission.
She's asking Howard now.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Oh, I hope he'll come.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Maybe you'll come early and lend a hand with our basement.
Oh yes, Missus White, Oh he will. Well, that's fine.
Suppose I pick Howard up at about five thirty and
then I'll drive him home again afterwards.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Are you sure he can get home safely? Thank you
very much?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Goodbye, Oh, Daddy, Howard's coming. Howard's coming.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
It's funny his mother didn't seem the least concerned about
how or when he got home. I certainly don't think
a fourth grader should be out by himself after dark.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Fourth graders, Howard why happens to be the assistant director
at the school playground.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
What He's in charge every afternoon from three to five.
It's part of his college work.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Kathy, do you mean to say, I've invited a grown
up physical education student to be your date?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Why not? Oh, daddy, he's so strong?
Speaker 9 (11:43):
But Kathy, well, I finished my room. Now, may I
have some privacy while I call my date?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Go ahead? You sure you can do it yourself?
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Of course, I'm sure. What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
I've just played John Olan for Kathy, and I'll be
happy to do the same for you.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Father.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
I am perfectly capable of fighting Howard for dinner.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Howard, Yes, Howard?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Why Howard?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Why?
Speaker 11 (12:09):
Oh no, Daddie Anderson turn blue?
Speaker 12 (12:28):
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Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's an hour before the guests arrive at the Anderson's
on Maple Street for an unexpected yet very exclusive dinner party.
All the guests are Howard White, his dinner partner. Well,
equality rains, so take your pick.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Like this, Just give me one reason why Howard White
would be interested in you. Just one reason. I'm a girl,
I said, a reason, not an opinion.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Verty.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Howard's mine.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
He's mine, He's mine.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's a good thing. Howard has enough biceps to go around.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Honestly, every time I think of father calling a grown
man's mother to ask him to dinner. Father, how could
you have done such a thing?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
How could you?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It was quite easy, I use the telephone.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Oh, come on, girls, we'll all have fun. We'll share Howard.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
It's going to spoil all my plans for the evening.
I thought we'd sit by the fire reading Romeo and
Juliet together.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Oh, Daddy said, Howard and I could play games together. Well,
he can't very well play kicking games with you while
he's reading Shakespeare with me.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Oh, I don't know. He could just kick his lines around.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Anyway. We weren't going to play kicking games.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Thank goodness for that.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
And don't you go making any plans for him, Betty,
because he's mine.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
He is not he's mine.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
He's mine.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Girls, I've had about enough of this.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Go to your rooms and try to remember you're both
supposed to be ladies.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
That thing a lady, she's a child, and she's acting
like one.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Just like one, and you, Tulula, are acting just a
little too much today.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Go on, take off and cool off, girls.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Your guest, our guest will be here in about thirty minutes.
You'd both better get dressed.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
All she needs is a broom. The word gets around school.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What my father did, Margaret? What's wrong with us? It
sounds like we're raising a couple of hair pulling she tigers, now, Jim,
our own.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Daughters ready to scratch each other's eyes out over a man.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
And such a man, I can hardly wait to.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Meet him, Margaret, I'm worried if you're not.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
The least you could do is try to help me
find a peaceful solution to this mess.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Let's be realistic for a minute. Howard undoubtedly thought you
were asking him to be Betty's guest, and it isn't
logical that a boy of twenty would be interested in
the girl nine years old.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I guess you're right, Margaret, Then.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Why don't you explain it to Kathy before Howard arrives.
She'll understand.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Oh sure, Kathleen.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Anderson, take off my sweater this second.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I will not. It's my turn to wear it.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Jim, that talk, daddy, Daddy, tell Betty I can wear
her sweater and tell her Daddy.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Imagine the nerve.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Mother, my Christmas cashmere, my most prized possession. Why do
you have Betty's sweater on Angel, you have an you
one of your own, not one ten sizes too big, boar.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Can't you see how good it goes of my green skirt?
Can't you? Daddy?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
What green skirt?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
She's wearing it?
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Only it's under the sweater.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
It does seem to be a little large, Kathy, But sloppy.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Joels are fashionable. That is not a sloppy joe. It
is on me.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Kathleen returned Betty's sweater.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
But she woreried yesterday, and what Daddy said this morning
means I can wear it today.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
You know very well it means no such thing, Betty.
I'll get your sweater. Please finish dressing.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Yes, mother, Sometimes I wish I didn't have so much acting.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Tell thank you for the sweater.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Kathleen, Okay, here it is.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
That's a good girl.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Now I better take a look at the dinner. You
two don't need me, do you, Jim, Well, something might
boil over.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, we're my own sweater just because I'm the ugly one.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Why, kitten, you're not ugly and your own sweater is
very pretty.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
It is not it fits.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Howard likes me, Sure he does. Kitten in a way.
Sit down, let's talk a minute.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Okay, been kind of rough around here today, hasn't it.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I'm sorry, Daddy, But if Betty thinks she can take
Howard away from me just like that, she's wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
The whole thing was an unfortunate mistake, Catty.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Betty didn't know you and Howard were friends when she
decided to ask him to dinner.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
But she didn't ask him.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
You asked him for me, remember, And he likes me
real well, honest, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I can tell by the way he treats me at
the playground.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I suppose you tell me all about it, baby.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
It kind of all started at second Dase. I tried
to steal second and Howard called me safe, so I
wasn't even sorry.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I skinned my knee.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh that follows?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
And then do you know what he did? He put
a bandage on my knee.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
That was nice.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Did he ever bandage Betty's knee?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Well, let's hope not.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Look, Kathy, wouldn't you just as soon asked Jimmy Woody
to dinner some other night.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I don't want Jimmy Woody some other night.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
If I want Howard tonight.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Katty, there's no need to cry, and I invited him first, Katy,
I was going to be here in a very few minutes.
We'll figure something out. You don't want him to see
those tears, do you?
Speaker 11 (19:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, then why don't you just go put your sweater
on for dinner? Okay? Okay, daddy, Okay?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
How did it go about as successfully as Stanford in
the Rose Bowl?
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Jim, didn't you settle it?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Margaret?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Look, Kathy's being silly, all right, but she's quite serious.
I just couldn't tell her it was no goal.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I know, dear, But that doesn't solve our problem.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Well, the problem can solve itself. The girls will share
real George Howard, and that's that. We're going to stay
a happy family.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
If it kills us, Jim he's here, what shall we do?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
We could water bag it from upstairs, but Jim, he'll
probably have his good suit. The only other alternative is
to answer the door and get it over with.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
But Hi, Dan, what are you doing ringing the doorbell?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I just wanted to see who answers it when I'm
not home.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Well, now you see, but I must admit it's certainly
good to see you, Bud, honest Da Any problems, want
to have anyone to dinner?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Huh, your father means how was the movie tired?
Speaker 13 (21:13):
Turned out to be one of those sticky deals about
two girls mooning over one guy.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
And you know how those things are, Dad, I'm afraid
I do.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Terridly nice to see.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Oh, Bud, Hey, what's going on around here?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Bud? Quit while you're ahead, and don't ask.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The girls are having a guest for dinner. A guest.
Speaker 13 (21:38):
Oh you should have told me. I would have brought
Joe home. We're supposed to have stuff equal around here,
aren't we?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Stuff is equal. We're all having the same guests.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Oh who is he?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Howard White?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Do you know him?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
But I know who he is. I just rode past
him about a block down the street.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
He's less than a block away.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yeah, hey, you know what, I'll bet he's heading here.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
He'll walk right by. If he's smart, he's cunning.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
He's cunning.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I saw him from the window.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Now, listen, girls, one thing has to be understood. You're
going to be ladies. While Howard's our guest. You're going
to share him equally.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Now I'm sitting next to him at dinner.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
You are not.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I am Howard can sit between you.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
That looks silly, father, the three of us on one side,
and Bud and the food on the other.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I don't mind.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Well, we'll have to change the table in a hurry.
It set for two on the side. Now he's turned
up the walk.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
He's turned up the walk.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
It's really nothing with those muscles.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Wait, mother, why don't we do it the fair way.
Let Howard decide which one of us he'd prefer to
sit next to.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Betty.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
That's okay with me. Howard won't fail me, don't, I'll
get it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I don't want Howard trampled.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Oh you two are as bad as those boons.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
In the picture. Good evening, I'm jimanis. How do you do, sir?
I'm hard wife.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Oh let me take your coat, Howard. I can't tell
you how happy we are to have you all of us.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Thank you, Howard, how terribly nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Hi, Howard, Kathy, Betty. I didn't know you two were sisters. Occasionally, Margaret,
this is Howard wife.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
How do you do? Howard?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Hello, missus Anderson.
Speaker 14 (23:34):
I'm sorry I'm late, but mother insisted I wait to
bring some of these cookies she just baked.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Well, thank you that was very kind of her.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
How is your mother, Howard? I haven't talked with her
since this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Why don't you come sit on the sofa, Howard next
to me.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Look, Howard, I brought my kickball inside to show you.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Kathleen, Babe, you're not supposed to play kickball in the
living room.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I'll turn her blue personally.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Oh, Howard, you haven't met, but.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Hi, bun, say, i've seen you around.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Sure, I rode past you five minutes ago.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
Oh no, you're on the high school basketball team.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I saw your play last week.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
He did.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
How nice? Howard?
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Would you like to see you out there?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Alert? I played a little ball myself.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Hey you're Hollerd. Why had a boy boy?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I like to pass break the coaches giving a bud.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It keeps your billy, huh.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Sure, but it's fun. We're running through some new plays tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Get me Mady for the tournament. Oh, I like to
see them.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Would you like to see my electric football game?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Howard?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Maybe later, Kathy. I think we'd better sit down to dinner.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Now, don't you, Jim sure? Everyone say, of course? Well good.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
We're a very informal family, Howard. No particular places at
the table very casual.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You know, you know that's fine with me. Tell you what,
We let you choose your seat since you're the guest.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
That's a splendid idea, Jim.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Well, Howard, who would you like to sit next to
Betty Kathy?
Speaker 14 (25:20):
Well, mister Anderson, if it's all the same to you,
I'd sure like to hear about those basketball plays.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So I think I'll sit next to Buden. You'll sit
next to.
Speaker 13 (25:36):
Gee If you're that interested in the place, Howard, why
don't you come to practice for.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
What's so funny?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
You two have been telling each other to turn blue
all day.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well you've got it, you know.
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Speaker 2 (27:12):
The leap here dinner at the Anderson's is over. The
honored guest is at a basketball practice with Bud and
proving that misery loves company. Two young ladies who leap
too late at Howard White have been turning blue together,
aided by Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Like this.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
But soft what night through yonder window breaks? It is
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Speaker 5 (27:55):
I think I'll retire now.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Oh no, couldn't we have just one more good cry
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Go to bed?
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the youngest member of a family who lives on hand
me downs and leftovers. Well, his lot isn't really so bad,
but every now and then Charlie decides it's time to rebel.
And at a certain white frame house on Maple Street,
a Charlie rebellion is underway. Only this Charlie's name is Kathy.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Like this, turn blue, Bud.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
What did I do you see? Margaret?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Well, I certainly prefer it to drop dead, you too, Betty?
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Turn blue, Kathy? Try a different color, all right? Then
turn purple, Kathy.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Come in here.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
She's been acting this way for days. I think we
ought to take her to a doctor.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You take me to a doctrine. You know what, I'll
tell him?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Turn blue, Kathy, stop at this instance.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Look here, Kitting, that's no way for little girls to.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Act little girls. Little girls, that's all I ever hear.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Betty and Bud get everything and I don't get anything
just because they happen to be born first.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Kathleen, that's not true. It's true. There's no difference in
the way we treat you children. Is that?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
So Betty gets a brand new green formal and I
get her old pink dress made over.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
If you don't like the color of your dress, why
don't you give it the same treatment you've given.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Us this morning?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
What do you mean, Daddy, turn blue?
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Anybody want to go out and play catch? Kathy?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
No, I won't. You've got a brand new mitten, I've
got your old one.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Want to play catch?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Dan?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
I'd like to, Bud, but I promised myself i'd clean
the basement this morning.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
Hey, Mom, don't put that doughnut away. I'll eat it.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Help yourself, Bud?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Can I have a donut too? Mommy?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Oh, I'm sorry, dear, that was the last one. How
about a glass of milk?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I only get leftovers, and no, you're even giving those
to somebody else.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It's the very idea. You get as much, if not more,
than Betty and Bud left over if.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I'm lucky, Margaret, if she feels that way, let's be
sure we may be showing partiality without realizing it. From
now on, let's bend over backward to see that Kathy
is treated like the others. Well, Ray, every time Betty
and Bud get a present, Kathy will get the same
thing or something absolutely equal. Every time they're granted a privilege,
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Kathy will be granted an equal privilege.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Is that a three way deal?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Dad? Certainly, there you are, Kathy. You're on equal footing
with the others.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
If Bud goes to the movies, you go to the
movies too. If Betty gets a new permanent, you get
a new permit.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Oh boy, Bud gets a donut, you get a donut.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
If Betty gets a new dress, you get a new dress. Dad.
If Bud gets a tire for his motor scooter, you
get a tire for your bicycle. Dad. If Betty gets
I get it.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
If Betty gets the phone, you get it. The next time.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I'm serious about this, Margaret. Dad. Oh, hi, Jane, what
is it, Bud?
Speaker 8 (04:10):
What would I do with a permanent.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
For Heaven's sake, Bud, I don't mean it that literally, Bud.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Weren't you going to play baseball?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Mom?
Speaker 8 (04:20):
How about it, squirt?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Not until I get a new mip, all right.
Speaker 8 (04:25):
I was gonna get Joe Phillips in the first place.
Speaker 9 (04:27):
Oh, I know it would be all right with mother.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Don't think I don't appreciate it, because I do.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I do, I do.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Goodbye? Should I explain our agreement to Betty?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Just so I don't have to?
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Mother, I'm going to ask you the most divine favor?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Oh dear, all right, what is it, Betty?
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Well, there's just the most excruciating new boy in the
dramatic club, and Janie says it's all right if I
ask him to dinner tonight.
Speaker 10 (04:51):
May I?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Oh, if it's all right with Janie, you needn't ask
your mother. After all, who does the cooking around here?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Jane?
Speaker 9 (04:58):
Of course, not father. You don't understand.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
There is the understatement of the year.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
This is leap Yere week.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
All the girls at school are supposed to ask fellas
they've never been out with for dates.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And here it is Saturday already.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
What does Janie have to do when your waiting till Saturday?
Speaker 9 (05:16):
Well, I borrowed her evening wrap last week, so I
had to give her first choice of date. And she
planned all along to ask this new love bug, and
then last minute she lost her nervous So she's gonna
ask Lilly Smith? And boy am I ever glad?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Boy am I ever glad that leap hear doesn't come
any oftener?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Well, I suppose it'll be all right, Betty.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
Oh wonderful.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
You'll love him?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Mother, he's real, real George.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's a peculiar name.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Father, that's just an expression, Betty.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
What makes you think this George will swallow the baby?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Well, he's just dying to go out with me.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Last Thursday, when I left dramatic class, he said good night,
and it was obvious that what he really meant with Betty.
As soon as I get the nerve to ask you,
I'll be taking you home on Thursday night.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Well, you must be a splendid actor to be able
to read so much in so little.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
All right, ask George. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Good, Then I'll ask a boy to dinner tonight too.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What Kathy, are you still here?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Naturally? And I know a boy who's real, real George too.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
What she talking about?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Mother?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Dear, your father and I have promised Kathy that from
now on she is to be treated just like you
older children.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
If you can ask a boy to dinner, so can I.
Speaker 9 (06:38):
Daddy said so, Mother, I'm trying to make an impression
on this boy. I can't have Kathy and Jimmy Woody
at the same table.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I'm not asking Jimmy Woody.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
So fair, Kathy. Maybe you'd have more fun if you
waited until another night. After all, Betty and her friend
are older.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I knew what.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, I'm the youngest again. And you're going to go
back on your words, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
We did make a promise to Kathy, and if Betty's
going to be a complete idiot about Leapier, there's no
reason why Kathy shouldn't be an idiot too.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Just a minute, jim Betty, I want you to go
upstairs and straighten your room. Kathy, you finished drying the dishes.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Well, all right, but I have to call him soon.
And nothing better happen to spoil my evening. Nothing better
happen to spoil my evening.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Either, Jim. I don't think you had any right to
side with Kathy.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Like that, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
We made a promise, yes, but this is important to Betty.
Kathy and her friend could be very embarrassing to someone
Betty's age.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well, it's important to Kathy too.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Besides, she might decide to make it really embarrassing for
Betty if we disappoint her.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Less Kathy promises to behave herself, she can have her
dinner in the den.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Say that's the way out of it, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Let Kathy invite her friend and the two of them
can roast wheaties and play games.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well that might work out, of course, and.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I think I'll join them.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Did you decide I was equal?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Kathy? I asked you to dry the dishes.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
They were all done.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
It's all right, Kathy. You can invite your friends tonight,
can I?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Mommy?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Yes, Dear, you better call him before your sister ties
up the phone for the balance of the year. Call
him me, of course, go on leap while the calendar
is on your side.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Oh, daddy, I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
What do you mean you couldn't.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Golly, he's so wonderful, he's so strong, He's got the
biggest muscles of anyone in the playground. You call him
for me?
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Was your friend? Isn't he?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
But Daddy, he can kick a kickball twice as far
as anyone else.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I just couldn't call him.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Go ahead, Jim, what this is your idea? Cupid is
supposed to handle messages?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
All right, I'll do it.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Never let it be said that Jim Anderson was afraid
to face a few muscles, particularly over the telephone.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Oh, daddy, you're wonderful.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Now where you're.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Going to look at Howard's number? What a charming evening.
One of our guests will say, wherefore are the potatoes,
and the other will kick them at him.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Hurry up, daddy, I've got it all right, I'm coming here.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It is mapel two three A.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
Let's see white, missus Lee White, and your friend's name
is Howard.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Uh huh, hurry up? Call him daddy, all.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Right, And whatever you do, don't.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Say it was my idea.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I just hope Howard isn'tess back. Oh hello, is this
missus White? Well, my name is Anderson, Missus White.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
My daughter and your son Howard are evidently pretty good friends.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And my daughter thought daddy.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
That is Missus Anderson, and I thought it would be
awfully nice if Howard had.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Dinner with us this evening.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
That is, of course, if you allow him out at night, fine,
I can assure you we'll take good care of him.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yes, I'll hang on, Missus.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
White, Oh, daddy, is he coming?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Howard's cleaning up the basement, but his mother gave her permission.
She's asking Howard now.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Oh, I hope he'll come.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Maybe you'll come early and lend a hand with our basement.
Oh yes, Missus White, Oh he will. Well, that's fine.
Suppose I pick Howard up at about five thirty and
then I'll drive him home again afterwards.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Are you sure he can get home safely? Thank you
very much?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Goodbye, Oh, Daddy, Howard's coming. Howard's coming.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
It's funny his mother didn't seem the least concerned about
how or when he got home. I certainly don't think
a fourth grader should be out by himself after dark.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Fourth graders, Howard why happens to be the assistant director
at the school playground.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
What He's in charge every afternoon from three to five.
It's part of his college work.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
Kathy, do you mean to say, I've invited a grown
up physical education student to be your date?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Why not? Oh, daddy, he's so strong?
Speaker 9 (11:43):
But Kathy, well, I finished my room. Now, may I
have some privacy while I call my date?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Go ahead? You sure you can do it yourself?
Speaker 9 (11:51):
Of course, I'm sure. What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (11:53):
I've just played John Olan for Kathy, and I'll be
happy to do the same for you.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Father.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
I am perfectly capable of fighting Howard for dinner.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Howard, Yes, Howard?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Why Howard?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Why?
Speaker 11 (12:09):
Oh no, Daddie Anderson turn blue?
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Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's an hour before the guests arrive at the Anderson's
on Maple Street for an unexpected yet very exclusive dinner party.
All the guests are Howard White, his dinner partner. Well,
equality rains, so take your pick.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Like this, Just give me one reason why Howard White
would be interested in you. Just one reason. I'm a girl,
I said, a reason, not an opinion.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Verty.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Howard's mine.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
He's mine, He's mine.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's a good thing. Howard has enough biceps to go around.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Honestly, every time I think of father calling a grown
man's mother to ask him to dinner. Father, how could
you have done such a thing?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
How could you?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It was quite easy, I use the telephone.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Oh, come on, girls, we'll all have fun. We'll share Howard.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
It's going to spoil all my plans for the evening.
I thought we'd sit by the fire reading Romeo and
Juliet together.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Oh, Daddy said, Howard and I could play games together. Well,
he can't very well play kicking games with you while
he's reading Shakespeare with me.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Oh, I don't know. He could just kick his lines around.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Anyway. We weren't going to play kicking games.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Thank goodness for that.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
And don't you go making any plans for him, Betty,
because he's mine.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
He is not he's mine.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
He's mine.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Girls, I've had about enough of this.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Go to your rooms and try to remember you're both
supposed to be ladies.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
That thing a lady, she's a child, and she's acting
like one.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Just like one, and you, Tulula, are acting just a
little too much today.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Go on, take off and cool off, girls.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Your guest, our guest will be here in about thirty minutes.
You'd both better get dressed.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
All she needs is a broom. The word gets around school.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What my father did, Margaret? What's wrong with us? It
sounds like we're raising a couple of hair pulling she tigers, now, Jim,
our own.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Daughters ready to scratch each other's eyes out over a man.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
And such a man, I can hardly wait to.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Meet him, Margaret, I'm worried if you're not.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
The least you could do is try to help me
find a peaceful solution to this mess.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Let's be realistic for a minute. Howard undoubtedly thought you
were asking him to be Betty's guest, and it isn't
logical that a boy of twenty would be interested in
the girl nine years old.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I guess you're right, Margaret, Then.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Why don't you explain it to Kathy before Howard arrives.
She'll understand.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Oh sure, Kathleen.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Anderson, take off my sweater this second.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I will not. It's my turn to wear it.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Jim, that talk, daddy, Daddy, tell Betty I can wear
her sweater and tell her Daddy.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Imagine the nerve.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
Mother, my Christmas cashmere, my most prized possession. Why do
you have Betty's sweater on Angel, you have an you
one of your own, not one ten sizes too big, boar.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Can't you see how good it goes of my green skirt?
Can't you? Daddy?
Speaker 1 (17:07):
What green skirt?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
She's wearing it?
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Only it's under the sweater.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
It does seem to be a little large, Kathy, But sloppy.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Joels are fashionable. That is not a sloppy joe. It
is on me.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Kathleen returned Betty's sweater.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
But she woreried yesterday, and what Daddy said this morning
means I can wear it today.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
You know very well it means no such thing, Betty.
I'll get your sweater. Please finish dressing.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Yes, mother, Sometimes I wish I didn't have so much acting.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Tell thank you for the sweater.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Kathleen, Okay, here it is.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
That's a good girl.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Now I better take a look at the dinner. You
two don't need me, do you, Jim, Well, something might
boil over.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah, we're my own sweater just because I'm the ugly one.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Why, kitten, you're not ugly and your own sweater is
very pretty.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
It is not it fits.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Howard likes me, Sure he does. Kitten in a way.
Sit down, let's talk a minute.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Okay, been kind of rough around here today, hasn't it.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I'm sorry, Daddy, But if Betty thinks she can take
Howard away from me just like that, she's wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
The whole thing was an unfortunate mistake, Catty.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Betty didn't know you and Howard were friends when she
decided to ask him to dinner.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
But she didn't ask him.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
You asked him for me, remember, And he likes me
real well, honest, Daddy.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I can tell by the way he treats me at
the playground.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I suppose you tell me all about it, baby.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
It kind of all started at second Dase. I tried
to steal second and Howard called me safe, so I
wasn't even sorry.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I skinned my knee.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh that follows?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
And then do you know what he did? He put
a bandage on my knee.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
That was nice.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Did he ever bandage Betty's knee?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Well, let's hope not.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Look, Kathy, wouldn't you just as soon asked Jimmy Woody
to dinner some other night.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I don't want Jimmy Woody some other night.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
If I want Howard tonight.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Katty, there's no need to cry, and I invited him first, Katy,
I was going to be here in a very few minutes.
We'll figure something out. You don't want him to see
those tears, do you?
Speaker 11 (19:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, then why don't you just go put your sweater
on for dinner? Okay? Okay, daddy, Okay?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
How did it go about as successfully as Stanford in
the Rose Bowl?
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Jim, didn't you settle it?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Margaret?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Look, Kathy's being silly, all right, but she's quite serious.
I just couldn't tell her it was no goal.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I know, dear, But that doesn't solve our problem.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Well, the problem can solve itself. The girls will share
real George Howard, and that's that. We're going to stay
a happy family.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
If it kills us, Jim he's here, what shall we do?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
We could water bag it from upstairs, but Jim, he'll
probably have his good suit. The only other alternative is
to answer the door and get it over with.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
But Hi, Dan, what are you doing ringing the doorbell?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
I just wanted to see who answers it when I'm
not home.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Well, now you see, but I must admit it's certainly
good to see you, Bud, honest Da Any problems, want
to have anyone to dinner?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Huh, your father means how was the movie tired?
Speaker 13 (21:13):
Turned out to be one of those sticky deals about
two girls mooning over one guy.
Speaker 8 (21:19):
And you know how those things are, Dad, I'm afraid
I do.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Terridly nice to see.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Oh, Bud, Hey, what's going on around here?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Bud? Quit while you're ahead, and don't ask.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The girls are having a guest for dinner. A guest.
Speaker 13 (21:38):
Oh you should have told me. I would have brought
Joe home. We're supposed to have stuff equal around here,
aren't we?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Stuff is equal. We're all having the same guests.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Oh who is he?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Howard White?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Do you know him?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
But I know who he is. I just rode past
him about a block down the street.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
He's less than a block away.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
Yeah, hey, you know what, I'll bet he's heading here.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
He'll walk right by. If he's smart, he's cunning.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
He's cunning.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I saw him from the window.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Now, listen, girls, one thing has to be understood. You're
going to be ladies. While Howard's our guest. You're going
to share him equally.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Now I'm sitting next to him at dinner.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
You are not.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I am Howard can sit between you.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
That looks silly, father, the three of us on one side,
and Bud and the food on the other.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I don't mind.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Well, we'll have to change the table in a hurry.
It set for two on the side. Now he's turned
up the walk.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
He's turned up the walk.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
It's really nothing with those muscles.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Wait, mother, why don't we do it the fair way.
Let Howard decide which one of us he'd prefer to
sit next to.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Betty.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
That's okay with me. Howard won't fail me, don't, I'll
get it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I don't want Howard trampled.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Oh you two are as bad as those boons.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
In the picture. Good evening, I'm jimanis. How do you do, sir?
I'm hard wife.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Oh let me take your coat, Howard. I can't tell
you how happy we are to have you all of us.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Thank you, Howard, how terribly nice to see you.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Hi, Howard, Kathy, Betty. I didn't know you two were sisters. Occasionally, Margaret,
this is Howard wife.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
How do you do? Howard?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Hello, missus Anderson.
Speaker 14 (23:34):
I'm sorry I'm late, but mother insisted I wait to
bring some of these cookies she just baked.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Well, thank you that was very kind of her.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
How is your mother, Howard? I haven't talked with her
since this afternoon.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Why don't you come sit on the sofa, Howard next
to me.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Look, Howard, I brought my kickball inside to show you.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
Kathleen, Babe, you're not supposed to play kickball in the
living room.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I'll turn her blue personally.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
Oh, Howard, you haven't met, but.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Hi, bun, say, i've seen you around.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Sure, I rode past you five minutes ago.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
Oh no, you're on the high school basketball team.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I saw your play last week.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
He did.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
How nice? Howard?
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Would you like to see you out there?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Alert? I played a little ball myself.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Hey you're Hollerd. Why had a boy boy?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
I like to pass break the coaches giving a bud.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It keeps your billy, huh.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
Sure, but it's fun. We're running through some new plays tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Get me Mady for the tournament. Oh, I like to
see them.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Would you like to see my electric football game?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Howard?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Maybe later, Kathy. I think we'd better sit down to dinner.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Now, don't you, Jim sure? Everyone say, of course? Well good.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
We're a very informal family, Howard. No particular places at
the table very casual.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You know, you know that's fine with me. Tell you what,
We let you choose your seat since you're the guest.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
That's a splendid idea, Jim.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
Well, Howard, who would you like to sit next to
Betty Kathy?
Speaker 14 (25:20):
Well, mister Anderson, if it's all the same to you,
I'd sure like to hear about those basketball plays.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So I think I'll sit next to Buden. You'll sit
next to.
Speaker 13 (25:36):
Gee If you're that interested in the place, Howard, why
don't you come to practice for.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
What's so funny?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
You two have been telling each other to turn blue
all day.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well you've got it, you know.
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Speaker 2 (27:12):
The leap here dinner at the Anderson's is over. The
honored guest is at a basketball practice with Bud and
proving that misery loves company. Two young ladies who leap
too late at Howard White have been turning blue together,
aided by Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Like this.
Speaker 9 (27:34):
But soft what night through yonder window breaks? It is
the east, and Juliet is the Sun. A Rise, bear Sun,
and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and
pale with greed. That was beautiful, Thank you, little sister.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I think I'll retire now.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
Oh no, couldn't we have just one more good cry
together before we.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Go to bed?
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Speaker 2 (29:01):
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Jean Vander Pyle, Roda Williams, Ted Donaldson, and Roland Morris.
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