October 8, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Stay tuned now for Robert Young starring in Father Knows Best,
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(00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young as
Father Right, Welcome to Springfield. In another half hour, is
it with the folks in the White Frame House on
Maple Street. Sit back and enjoy life with the Anderson's Kathy, Bud, Betty,
(01:09):
Margaret and Jim has the head of this typical American
household again sets out to prove that father knows bess.
(01:42):
Have you ever noticed that the last two pictures on
a roll of film are not much to look at?
The reason is that people are always discovering that there
are a couple of pictures left on an old film
in their camera, so they shoot most anything just to
finish off the row.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
This sounds like a fairly.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Harmless practice, but let me warn you it can sometimes
lead to grave complications like this.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, look here, Kathy, there are a couple of pictures
left on this roll.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Come on outside and I'll take your picture.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Oh goody. Can I put on some lipstick?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Not.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Can I put on one of Betty's dresses and some beets?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
No, Kathy, it's not that important.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
All I want to do is finish this role of
film so we can get it developed. Come on, we'll
go out in the backyard. Now, stand over there, next
to the maple tree.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We'll see if I can remember how to work this thing.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Hey, Mom, I gotta go see Claude Messner.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Whren't your picture taken bad?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Why don't you stand next to Kathy there and I'll
take both of you.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I haven't got time now.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Mom, this will only take a second.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Come on, well, make it snappy, because I've got to
take these blue jeans to Claude because he's in a
phone booth.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yes, well it'll only take kefy you have to do.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Claud Mesni's in a telephone booth.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
That's what I thought you said. But why does he
need blue jeans?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
He ripped a big hole in his pants and he's
too embarrassed to walk home.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I see it's quite an emergency.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I can see that it is. Well, we'll hurry this along.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Why doesn't he walk home backwards?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Dry?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Odd?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Turned blue?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
All right, now, children look sweet and natural.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well make up your mind. Which do you want? Sweet
or natural?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Just try to smile a little and put the blue
jeans down.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Bud, Wait a minute, there comes daddy. Maybe you want
to get in this picture too.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Hurry it up. I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Hurry daddy. When's your picture taken? He can't hear you,
shrim when's your picture taken?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
As soon as I get my bathing suit on.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Hello, honey, Hello dear, what's going on here? A little photography?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Oh it's nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I just found we had a couple of pictures left
on this old film, so I thought i'd finish it off.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Good idea. We haven't taken any pictures of the kids
for a long time. Now. Ought to get Betty in
this too.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Where is she upstairs?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I think, Kathie, Why don't you go call Betty?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Okay, Hey, I can't wait much longer. I gotta get
down there right away.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Why where do you have to go in such a hurry?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
It's an errand of mercy. Dad, Oh, Claude mesnus in
a phone booth.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Without food or water, without pans.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
He ripped his and I gotta get him some good
ones down to him so he can get out of there.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, I wouldn't rush it. It's a nice feeling to
know that Claude is being contained, at least temporarily. Claude
embarrassed that I doubt.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
All right, are you ready bad?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wait a minute, I think you've got a bad angle, then, Margaret,
U let me have the camera for a minute.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I just want to get a quick shot of it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, now, if you shoot him more from this angle,
you'll get a better background.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
More contract Snap it up, Dad, Margaret?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Is this camera any good anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
As far as I know, it is.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Seems like the last batch we took out a lot
of light streaks on them.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
That was because you tried to develop them yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, it was the camera. Wait a minute, this is
Ed Davis over in his garage. He might know what's
wrong with He's quite a camera hound, Hey, Ed, Ed, Jim, Yeah,
I wonder if you'd come over and take a look
at this camera. I think there's something wrong with it.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Really, dear, it's not as important all I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Do, Jim, panformatic X forty one. What do you got
your speed set at? Uh speed? What does your light
meter indicate? Light meter? What you ought to have? Jim
is a how are you? Margaret?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I guess Jim trying to get you interested in photography. Well, actually,
all would you take a look at this camera. I
think I've got a leak in my bellows.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I'm sure you have.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Hey, gosh, Jim, where'd you get this old relic? I
tell you what you ought to get, Jim, one of
those new little Retinaflex party if you know you can
pick up one for only one hundred and the quarter. Now, yeah,
I certainly ought to take advantage of a bargain like that.
Come over and I'll show you mine. If I've got
any film left, I'll let you take a couple of shots. Yeah,
(06:30):
that sounds like a good idea.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well wait, Jim, I just want to finish off that back.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Margaret, don't let the kids get away.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Oh dear mom, I gotta get these pants down to Claude.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Take my picture and let me go.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
How can I ed took our camera with him?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Here we are, Mommy, you daddy. I don't want my
picture taking.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
My hair's a miss steady. It doesn't matter in the
first place. All I wanted to do was just finish off.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Can I go help Claude?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Now?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Might as well.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Your father'll probably be overdeads all the rest of the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I'll be back quick as I can.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
All right, Hey, I thought we were all gonna have
our picture taken.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I thought so too. Come on, we might as well
go back in the house.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Boy, I sure wasted a good face washing.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It's not wasted.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It doesn't hurt to be clean, even when you're not
having a picture taken. Going in, Betty, I was just thinking, mother,
well you can think inside.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Come on, Kathy, I.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Was just thinking what if I do my hair in
ringlets all over the top and then in.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The back, I can Why did you leave it the
way you've been wearing it?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I like it that way.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Ralph says, it doesn't bring out my personality.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh well, I'm sure he's an expert on that subject.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Ralph says that there's a definite correlation between how a
girl does her hair and her personality. He says he's
been making a special study of this to help me.
He's got twenty pictures of Marilyn Monroe sixteen, of Abel
Gardener fourteen, of Brita Hayward. I wonder if that's really
why he's got those pictures.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I oh bad.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You certainly made that trip in a hurry.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
How is claud I.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Haven't been there yet.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Why what happened?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well? I just remembered something.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Claude told me he was in a phone booth, but
he didn't tell me where the phone booth is at.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Well, why don't you call him and ask him?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Stupid?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Oh yeah, sure, Why didn't I think of that? Of
all the down in a minute, I don't know what
number to call.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Hey open the door, somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Bud help your father looks like he's loaded down with
the whole camera store out there jumping.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Ows, what have you got there?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Don't just stand there, grab some of this stuff?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, okay, what's this? The sunlamb?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No floodlight? Did you're going to take pictures? You might
as well do it right?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Are you taking it up professionally?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Father? No, of course not. Your mother said she wanted
some pictures of you kids. So I, how do you
like this camera? Margaret?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
You didn't buy it, did you?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh? No, no, of course not, just borroed it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, good.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All I bought was the flash equipment and the floodlights.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
You bought the flood.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
What four? Well? I had some extra ones and he
let me have them for practically nothing.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I understand the nothing. How much is the practically.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Thirty five dollars? Jim Anderson, Honey, we're going to need
all this stuff after we get our own retinaflex.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Forty who said we were going to get a Platina
text forty ed.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Says he knows where we can get one for twenty
percent off.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That'll still be one hundred dollars. And the amount of
picture taking.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We do it, well, that's just it. We don't take
pictures because we don't have any good equipment, and we
ought to take pictures because the children will never be
this age again. We ought to have a record of
these golden years.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
All right, all right, that Ed is some salesman who's
got golden ears, he said, years dopey, Well, come on,
let's get this stuff set up.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Uh want to do it here or in the living room?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I thought we were gonna take him in the backyard.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh no, Ed says. The only way you could take
pictures outside on a day like this is with a
double or Q. Hayes filter, And all he has is
a double ort W filter.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I don't see how a man could be so ill equipped.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Father.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Will I have time to run down to the hairdressers
first and get a fast set?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Certainly? Not, my gosh. All we want to do is
get a couple of little casual shots.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Casual, he says.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Well, I'm not going to have my picture taken looking
this way.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
What other way have you got to look?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
God, plug this cord in over there. We'll get a
couple of casual kitchen shots to warm up, and then
move on into the living room. You ought to be
in on these two, Margaret, you can be standing by
the stove.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yes, we certainly.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Want that in our record of these golden years.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Oh, i'll get it. Mother be thinking what I can
do with my hair.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I'll about cutting it off.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Who oh, yes he's here, just a minute here. But
it's for you that I know who that is.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Well, Claude, I started down, but you didn't tell me
what phone booth you're in, doug store. Okay, I'll be
right down as soon as I have my picture taken.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, I'll hurry.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Bye, I gotta get right down there, Dad.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
This will just take a second.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
But but Claude says his position is getting untenable.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Untenable I didn't think you even knew that word.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
But Claude says, there's two women standing outside the phone
booth waiting to use the phone I see, and one
of them has an umbrella with the bloom handle.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That's fairly untenable. All right, Can I go now, dad, Sure,
just as soon as I got a good shot here.
But Dad, do you stand by your mother there and
I'll get a light reading here.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well, just take the picture and don't fool around with
this nonsense.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Jim.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, Well, I can't set the camera until after I
get a light reading.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Jim, you know there's a much simpler way.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
To do this.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, you're right, I'll do it too. I'll call ahead
and have him take the pictures.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
No, I mean get our Oh wait, and I'm home.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Had to drive myrtle downtown to shop. I know what
I can do, though, I can call Simpson at the
photo gallery. He can tell me how to operate this stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Really, Jim clau just take a second book.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I've never seen so much fuss over nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Rick out, we were gonna take some pictures.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Mommy, we are, we are, we are.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Hello. I'd like to speak to mister Simpson please, Dad,
thank you, Dad, claud mister Simpson. Oh, this is Jim
Anderson and I fine. Thanks, And I was just going
to get a few pictures of the family. But I
need a little advice on how to operate the equipment.
It's a retinaflex forty no good at all. Huh uh
(13:08):
oh Dad, I see, uh huh. Well now that does
sound like a sensible thing to do. Oh sure, well
that'll be fine, mister Simpson. I appreciate this very much. Goodbye. Well,
it's all fixed up now.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
What did you buy this time?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I didn't buy anything. We're going to do this the
easy way. Mister Simpson is sending out a professional photographer
to take the pictures.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
A professional photographer jumping creepers. Those pictures usually get on
the society page. No, I have to go down to
the hairdressers.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Wait a minute, Betty, I'll go with you.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
We hold on here, Budge, you're good.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Suits of the cleaners. Run by there and see if
it's ready.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
But I've got to have a new dress too.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Mother.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I simply have got to wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I've got to get Kathy something cute too. Come on, Kathy,
oh by, hurry to the cleaners.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Tho, hey, wait up, well, how do you like that?
All that fuss over absolutely nothing at all? Act two
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I'll back to Father knows Best. Remember what I said
(15:13):
about trying to finish off those last two exposures on
an old roll of film. You can see now that
it's fairly dangerous stuff to monkey around with. Margaret's innocent
little camera adventure has now been pushed into a major project,
and the man who did most of the pushing is
the most bewildered of all like this, But Margaret, why
do you have to go to all this bother and
(15:34):
expense when all we want to do is get a
couple of casual pictures.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Jim, you don't hire a professional photographer to take casual pictures?
Does my hair look like anything at all.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
It looks fine, but I still say that all I'm.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Dra could do with it in such short time he
had to practically sneak us in between some of his
other appointments.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Did Bud get his suit from the cleaner?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't know. He said he had to take those
pants down to Claude in the phone boots.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh dear, what time will the photographer be?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Margaret?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Will you calm down?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
All were going to do this.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I never did find anything real cute for Kathy. I
hope what I bought will look all right.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Why does she need anything new? We want a picture
of Kathy, not her dress.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Jim snapping a couple of shots in the backyard is
one thing. Having poetraits take it is an entirely different matter.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
We'll be sending these pictures to all the.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Relatives and simply will not do what said yourself that
we ought to have some decent pictures of the children.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Mother, It is.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Dressed simply and utterly and utterly and simply will not do.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You liked it fine at the store.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Oh it makes me look as though I'm getting dressed
up to have my picture taken. Oh, father, don't be
so utterly rectangular? Mother, What could I wear that would
make it look as though the camera.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Just happened to catch me in a kind of careless,
off hand homie pose. But very glad.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
About a smoking jacket and carpet slippers, father, Jim bloomers
and tennis shoes.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Father, this is serious and expensive.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So far these pictures have cost me about one hundred
and ninety dollars.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
That doesn't include posties to send them out to all
the relatives.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Hello, what, well, stop gibbering so I can understand what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Oh well, just a minute.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
It's Claude Messner and he wants to know where Buddy is.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well, he must be down there by now.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
What am I tell him? He sounds pretty frantic.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well tell him that Bud started down there quite a
while ago, so he certainly should be the Wait a minute,
wait a minute, here he is now, hurry.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Up, Bud Cloud's on the phone.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh god, I want to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He wants to talk to you too. Hello, Well, don't
jump out of your shirt.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Claud I was down there, but there's such a long
long I'm waiting to use the phone.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I couldn't get up to the phone booth.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
This may work into a plot for full eighth novel.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
I tried to Claude, but every time I tried to
move up in the line, everybody get mad at me,
especially that lady with the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Claude may be the first man in history to start
to death in a phone booth.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Well, Claude, it didn't matter anyway, because I forgot the pants. Okay, okay,
I'll get him down there right away.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Wait a minute, Bud, where are you going, Claude? Well
you can't now the photographer will be here any minute.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
God, how are you going to get into the phone
booth this time? If you couldn't when you were down
there before?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We got a plan.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Oh, when I walk in the drug store, I'm supposed
to yell fire and everybody will run out.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
What they'll probably do is all try to get into
the phone booth to report the fire.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
But did you get your suit from the cleaners?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I had time to yet.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Let's see now, I guess the davenport there would be
the best place to the picture. You children could be sitting,
and your father and I could stand behind you.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Mother. We're not making an old tin type I.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Better get a straw hat and a cane.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
You know that Davenport looks a little shabby.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh'll hold it right there. We're not going to buy
a new Davenport.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I was just thinking what Aunt Matty will say when
she gets one of these pictures and starts going over
it with a magnifying glass.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
She always I don't care what.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Aunt Matty says. This thing has gotten completely out of hand.
Margaret and I can't figure out why.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Jim, whose idea was it to call a photographer?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, I talked to him, but my gosh, all I
was trying to get I just gotta get down there
and rescue claud.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Wait a minute, but there's the photographer. Now you can
go as soon as he's through.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Gee, Mom, it'll take him an hour to get set up.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No, it won't, Betty, go answer the door. I don't
want him to see me looking like this.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Anybody home, Oh it's Ed Davis. Come on in.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Ed.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I just got home and discovered you'd left your old
camera over in my place. Jim, here you are, Oh
that old thing. How'd you come out with the pictures? Well,
to tell the truth, Ed, we didn't take any didn't
take any Well, I wasn't too sure how to use
the camera job on the market, and Margaret wanted to
get some really good portraits of the kids I wanted,
(20:24):
so I called the Simpson and he's sending out Simpson. Oh, Jim, Jim, Jim,
why did you do that? Well, by the time you
wind up with the enlargements and the color tints and
the fancy folders, it'll cost you a fortune. It already has. Well, Jim,
that all alone will run you a good fifty five
or sixty dollars. It will certainly. Well, I guess there's
(20:46):
nothing we can do now we've already called him. Well,
cancel it, tell him not to come. I'll call him
for you. Where's your phone?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Well ed?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
All right, Margaret, I'm just glad to do this for you.
I'll take those pictures for you myself with my little
ret Dad. I'll get your better pictures, and i'll get
your both color slides and prints, and it won't run
your well, it won't run you much over forty five
forty five, Dad, well, maybe fifty. You mind if I
use your phone and dany.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Excuse me, mister Davis, but can I make a quick
call first?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It's awful important for sure, So I'm going ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I just got a call Claude at the drug store.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
You say, is it the drug store? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Well good?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
You're telling him to pick up a half dozen flashballs? Huh?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It depends on how close they are of the phone booth.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'll get the floodlights hooked up. Where are they, Jim
in the kitchen? Okay, I'll get him.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Hello Claude, Jim, are you going to let Ed do this?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Isn't this Claude? Medicinach?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I don't know what to think.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
He is?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
What happens? It's a pretty good photographer, I think.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Gee, well, thanks by Well Cord finally got out of
the phone booth.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well good, he's in the hospital now he is?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
What happens?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Lady hit him over the head with umbrella.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Well I don't blame her. That was a dumb thing
for him to do in the first place.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I wonder if you'll need those pants to get out
of a hospital.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, got the lights, pluck him in over there. What
do you, Jim? Yeah, get through with the phone butt.
Yeah good, Now I'll get hold of Simpson.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Oh, Ed, maybe we ought to let him go ahead?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You worry, Margaret, don't you worry. I can handle this
all right, No trouble at all. Oh, hello, Simpson, we'll
put him on.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Okay, Mommy, I'm all guess.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, he's a man here yet, No angel, Simpson say,
I'm calling for Jim Anderson. He's changed his mind on
the picture, so just cancel it.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Hey, is it off again?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
That's the second time today I've washed for nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well, Jim Fields, you're a little high Simpson. I didn't
say that. Or you can fight that out with Jim.
Oh fine, fine, well that sounds fair enough. Sure, sure, okay, goodbye, Okay, Jim,
I fixed that up. You certainly did. Simpson wants you
to pay five bucks for the canceled appointment, but you're
(23:12):
still saving money.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Now, then let's get lined up here, Betty. How about
you sitting in the rocking chair there, the rocking chair. Yeah,
that should make a nice picture of that sweet old
fashioned dress you have on Old Fashion by George. You
look just like a flower from an old lavender bouquet.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Oh, brother, Bud, sit her defeat there, huh, and sort
to rest one arm on her lap. I better go
see how claw it is caffy used to stand back
of Bud.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Don't you think it ease Jim? Please? Oh, I'm sorry, Caffy,
you stand back of Bud. Put one arm around Betty.
Hear the hand on Bud's shoulder.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Before I go hugging Betty. I want to know if
we're going to take these pictures? Are we still fooling around?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, Jim, flip the switch on the flood lights. Now
get a light reading here? Okay, here goes something blew
out there? Where's your cuesboxed? Jim? H right inside the
basement door. Okay, I'll give him a look, see a look.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
See I had a feeling something like this would happen.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Well, I couldn't help it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Mother.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Do I really look like a sweet, old fashioned rocking
chair girl.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Just an old flower and an old lavender bouquet?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Oh? Keep quiet?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Oh, if that's Senson, tell him I'm not here.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I don't feel much like fighting right now.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Oh, how are you.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Claud I almost wish I'd spent this day with Claude
in the phone booth.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Uh huh, Okay, I'll get him over to you right away.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Five.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Where is he still in the hospital?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, but he wasn't hurt.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
He just pretended he was so they'd carry him out
of the drug store on at the stretchers so nobody'd
see his whipped pans.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That kid's thinking all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
But now we need some good ones to get home
from the hospital. I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Oh well, wait, Bud, we may take some.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Pictures straight up, got some bad news for you, Jim.
You mean there's more. Every single fuse is blown, and
I think there's a short somewhere, so you better call
him electrician. Well that's just dandy. So I guess we
can't shoot the pictures now, but well maybe we can
get some some other times. Yeah, yeah, fine, Well thanks anyway,
(25:52):
I don't thank me. I haven't done anything. You've got
a great deal more than you realize.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
Well, now what twice I washed my face today when.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I deliver the pants.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Now, wait, I just got a good idea. There are
a couple of pictures left on this old camera of ours.
Why don't we go out in the backyard and finish
off this roll. The Anderson's will be back in just
(26:31):
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(27:15):
been a pretty rugged day, but Jim finally solved everything
with his brilliant suggestion of finishing off those last two
pictures in their old camera. As a matter of fact,
that's what the Andersons are doing right now. They're in
the backyard, grouped around the maple tree as Jim focuses
the camera like this. Okay, steady, now, I'll get this
other shot and would be all through.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Dad, I gotta deliver the.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Past, steady, Bud, straighten up, Eddie, don't look quite so
glamorously sloppy. That's it. Don't make faces, Kathy, I'm just smiling.
Hold it here we go there, all of it now,
wasn't that much simpler than all that fall? The role
you were going through, Margaret? Oh yeahs much always seems
(28:01):
the best way to do a thing is, Oh what's no?
Somebody left? The time exposure on the film is ruined.
Oh no, well, I'll go over to Edge and borrow
a camera from him.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
You wouldn't dare?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
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(28:48):
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(00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young as
Father Right, Welcome to Springfield. In another half hour, is
it with the folks in the White Frame House on
Maple Street. Sit back and enjoy life with the Anderson's Kathy, Bud, Betty,
(01:09):
Margaret and Jim has the head of this typical American
household again sets out to prove that father knows bess.
(01:42):
Have you ever noticed that the last two pictures on
a roll of film are not much to look at?
The reason is that people are always discovering that there
are a couple of pictures left on an old film
in their camera, so they shoot most anything just to
finish off the row.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
This sounds like a fairly.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Harmless practice, but let me warn you it can sometimes
lead to grave complications like this.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well, look here, Kathy, there are a couple of pictures
left on this roll.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Come on outside and I'll take your picture.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Oh goody. Can I put on some lipstick?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Not.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Can I put on one of Betty's dresses and some beets?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
No, Kathy, it's not that important.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
All I want to do is finish this role of
film so we can get it developed. Come on, we'll
go out in the backyard. Now, stand over there, next
to the maple tree.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We'll see if I can remember how to work this thing.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Hey, Mom, I gotta go see Claude Messner.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Whren't your picture taken bad?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Why don't you stand next to Kathy there and I'll
take both of you.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I haven't got time now.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Mom, this will only take a second.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Come on, well, make it snappy, because I've got to
take these blue jeans to Claude because he's in a
phone booth.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yes, well it'll only take kefy you have to do.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Claud Mesni's in a telephone booth.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
That's what I thought you said. But why does he
need blue jeans?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
He ripped a big hole in his pants and he's
too embarrassed to walk home.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I see it's quite an emergency.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I can see that it is. Well, we'll hurry this along.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Why doesn't he walk home backwards?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Dry?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Odd?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Turned blue?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
All right, now, children look sweet and natural.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Well make up your mind. Which do you want? Sweet
or natural?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Just try to smile a little and put the blue
jeans down.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Bud, Wait a minute, there comes daddy. Maybe you want
to get in this picture too.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Hurry it up. I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Hurry daddy. When's your picture taken? He can't hear you,
shrim when's your picture taken?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
As soon as I get my bathing suit on.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Hello, honey, Hello dear, what's going on here? A little photography?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Oh it's nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I just found we had a couple of pictures left
on this old film, so I thought i'd finish it off.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Good idea. We haven't taken any pictures of the kids
for a long time. Now. Ought to get Betty in
this too.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Where is she upstairs?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I think, Kathie, Why don't you go call Betty?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
Okay, Hey, I can't wait much longer. I gotta get
down there right away.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Why where do you have to go in such a hurry?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
It's an errand of mercy. Dad, Oh, Claude mesnus in
a phone booth.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Without food or water, without pans.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
He ripped his and I gotta get him some good
ones down to him so he can get out of there.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, I wouldn't rush it. It's a nice feeling to
know that Claude is being contained, at least temporarily. Claude
embarrassed that I doubt.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
All right, are you ready bad?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wait a minute, I think you've got a bad angle, then, Margaret,
U let me have the camera for a minute.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I just want to get a quick shot of it.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, now, if you shoot him more from this angle,
you'll get a better background.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
More contract Snap it up, Dad, Margaret?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Is this camera any good anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
As far as I know, it is.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Seems like the last batch we took out a lot
of light streaks on them.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
That was because you tried to develop them yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, it was the camera. Wait a minute, this is
Ed Davis over in his garage. He might know what's
wrong with He's quite a camera hound, Hey, Ed, Ed, Jim, Yeah,
I wonder if you'd come over and take a look
at this camera. I think there's something wrong with it.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Really, dear, it's not as important all I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Do, Jim, panformatic X forty one. What do you got
your speed set at? Uh speed? What does your light
meter indicate? Light meter? What you ought to have? Jim
is a how are you? Margaret?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I guess Jim trying to get you interested in photography. Well, actually,
all would you take a look at this camera. I
think I've got a leak in my bellows.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I'm sure you have.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Hey, gosh, Jim, where'd you get this old relic? I
tell you what you ought to get, Jim, one of
those new little Retinaflex party if you know you can
pick up one for only one hundred and the quarter. Now, yeah,
I certainly ought to take advantage of a bargain like that.
Come over and I'll show you mine. If I've got
any film left, I'll let you take a couple of shots. Yeah,
(06:30):
that sounds like a good idea.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Well wait, Jim, I just want to finish off that back.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Margaret, don't let the kids get away.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Oh dear mom, I gotta get these pants down to Claude.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Take my picture and let me go.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
How can I ed took our camera with him?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Here we are, Mommy, you daddy. I don't want my
picture taking.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
My hair's a miss steady. It doesn't matter in the
first place. All I wanted to do was just finish off.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Can I go help Claude?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Now?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Might as well.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Your father'll probably be overdeads all the rest of the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I'll be back quick as I can.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
All right, Hey, I thought we were all gonna have
our picture taken.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I thought so too. Come on, we might as well
go back in the house.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Boy, I sure wasted a good face washing.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It's not wasted.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It doesn't hurt to be clean, even when you're not
having a picture taken. Going in, Betty, I was just thinking, mother,
well you can think inside.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Come on, Kathy, I.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Was just thinking what if I do my hair in
ringlets all over the top and then in.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The back, I can Why did you leave it the
way you've been wearing it?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I like it that way.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Ralph says, it doesn't bring out my personality.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh well, I'm sure he's an expert on that subject.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
Ralph says that there's a definite correlation between how a
girl does her hair and her personality. He says he's
been making a special study of this to help me.
He's got twenty pictures of Marilyn Monroe sixteen, of Abel
Gardener fourteen, of Brita Hayward. I wonder if that's really
why he's got those pictures.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I oh bad.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You certainly made that trip in a hurry.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
How is claud I.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Haven't been there yet.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Why what happened?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well? I just remembered something.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Claude told me he was in a phone booth, but
he didn't tell me where the phone booth is at.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Well, why don't you call him and ask him?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Stupid?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Oh yeah, sure, Why didn't I think of that? Of
all the down in a minute, I don't know what
number to call.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Hey open the door, somebody.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Bud help your father looks like he's loaded down with
the whole camera store out there jumping.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Ows, what have you got there?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Dad?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Don't just stand there, grab some of this stuff?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, okay, what's this? The sunlamb?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No floodlight? Did you're going to take pictures? You might
as well do it right?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Are you taking it up professionally?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Father? No, of course not. Your mother said she wanted
some pictures of you kids. So I, how do you
like this camera? Margaret?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
You didn't buy it, did you?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh? No, no, of course not, just borroed it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, good.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All I bought was the flash equipment and the floodlights.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
You bought the flood.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
What four? Well? I had some extra ones and he
let me have them for practically nothing.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I understand the nothing. How much is the practically.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Thirty five dollars? Jim Anderson, Honey, we're going to need
all this stuff after we get our own retinaflex.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Forty who said we were going to get a Platina
text forty ed.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Says he knows where we can get one for twenty
percent off.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That'll still be one hundred dollars. And the amount of
picture taking.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We do it, well, that's just it. We don't take
pictures because we don't have any good equipment, and we
ought to take pictures because the children will never be
this age again. We ought to have a record of
these golden years.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
All right, all right, that Ed is some salesman who's
got golden ears, he said, years dopey, Well, come on,
let's get this stuff set up.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Uh want to do it here or in the living room?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I thought we were gonna take him in the backyard.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh no, Ed says. The only way you could take
pictures outside on a day like this is with a
double or Q. Hayes filter, And all he has is
a double ort W filter.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I don't see how a man could be so ill equipped.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Father.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Will I have time to run down to the hairdressers
first and get a fast set?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Certainly? Not, my gosh. All we want to do is
get a couple of little casual shots.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Casual, he says.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Well, I'm not going to have my picture taken looking
this way.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
What other way have you got to look?
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
God, plug this cord in over there. We'll get a
couple of casual kitchen shots to warm up, and then
move on into the living room. You ought to be
in on these two, Margaret, you can be standing by
the stove.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yes, we certainly.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Want that in our record of these golden years.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Oh, i'll get it. Mother be thinking what I can
do with my hair.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I'll about cutting it off.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Who oh, yes he's here, just a minute here. But
it's for you that I know who that is.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Hello.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Well, Claude, I started down, but you didn't tell me
what phone booth you're in, doug store. Okay, I'll be
right down as soon as I have my picture taken.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, I'll hurry.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Bye, I gotta get right down there, Dad.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
This will just take a second.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
But but Claude says his position is getting untenable.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Untenable I didn't think you even knew that word.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
But Claude says, there's two women standing outside the phone
booth waiting to use the phone I see, and one
of them has an umbrella with the bloom handle.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That's fairly untenable. All right, Can I go now, dad, Sure,
just as soon as I got a good shot here.
But Dad, do you stand by your mother there and
I'll get a light reading here.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well, just take the picture and don't fool around with
this nonsense.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Jim.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, Well, I can't set the camera until after I
get a light reading.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Jim, you know there's a much simpler way.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
To do this.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, you're right, I'll do it too. I'll call ahead
and have him take the pictures.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
No, I mean get our Oh wait, and I'm home.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Had to drive myrtle downtown to shop. I know what
I can do, though, I can call Simpson at the
photo gallery. He can tell me how to operate this stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Really, Jim clau just take a second book.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I've never seen so much fuss over nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Rick out, we were gonna take some pictures.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Mommy, we are, we are, we are.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Hello. I'd like to speak to mister Simpson please, Dad,
thank you, Dad, claud mister Simpson. Oh, this is Jim
Anderson and I fine. Thanks, And I was just going
to get a few pictures of the family. But I
need a little advice on how to operate the equipment.
It's a retinaflex forty no good at all. Huh uh
(13:08):
oh Dad, I see, uh huh. Well now that does
sound like a sensible thing to do. Oh sure, well
that'll be fine, mister Simpson. I appreciate this very much. Goodbye. Well,
it's all fixed up now.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
What did you buy this time?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I didn't buy anything. We're going to do this the
easy way. Mister Simpson is sending out a professional photographer
to take the pictures.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
A professional photographer jumping creepers. Those pictures usually get on
the society page. No, I have to go down to
the hairdressers.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Wait a minute, Betty, I'll go with you.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
We hold on here, Budge, you're good.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Suits of the cleaners. Run by there and see if
it's ready.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
But I've got to have a new dress too.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Mother.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I simply have got to wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I've got to get Kathy something cute too. Come on, Kathy,
oh by, hurry to the cleaners.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Tho, hey, wait up, well, how do you like that?
All that fuss over absolutely nothing at all? Act two
of Father Knows Best. After these words, and now here's
(14:18):
a word about some of the fine shows you'll hear
tomorrow night on the NBC Radio Network Comedy Rules the
Roost when Bob Hope presents his fast paced, typical topical humor,
and tomorrow evening you'll hear Miss Jane Wyman as guest
of the Bob Hope Show. So be sure to listen
tomorrow and then stay tuned as Phil Harris and Alice
Faye brighten the airwaves with thirty minutes of hilarious comedy
(14:40):
and some of the nation's most popular music. Along with
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I'll back to Father knows Best. Remember what I said
(15:13):
about trying to finish off those last two exposures on
an old roll of film. You can see now that
it's fairly dangerous stuff to monkey around with. Margaret's innocent
little camera adventure has now been pushed into a major project,
and the man who did most of the pushing is
the most bewildered of all like this, But Margaret, why
do you have to go to all this bother and
(15:34):
expense when all we want to do is get a
couple of casual pictures.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Jim, you don't hire a professional photographer to take casual pictures?
Does my hair look like anything at all.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
It looks fine, but I still say that all I'm.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Dra could do with it in such short time he
had to practically sneak us in between some of his
other appointments.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Did Bud get his suit from the cleaner?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't know. He said he had to take those
pants down to Claude in the phone boots.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh dear, what time will the photographer be?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Margaret?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Will you calm down?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
All were going to do this.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I never did find anything real cute for Kathy. I
hope what I bought will look all right.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Why does she need anything new? We want a picture
of Kathy, not her dress.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Jim snapping a couple of shots in the backyard is
one thing. Having poetraits take it is an entirely different matter.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
We'll be sending these pictures to all the.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Relatives and simply will not do what said yourself that
we ought to have some decent pictures of the children.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Mother, It is.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Dressed simply and utterly and utterly and simply will not do.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
You liked it fine at the store.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Oh it makes me look as though I'm getting dressed
up to have my picture taken. Oh, father, don't be
so utterly rectangular? Mother, What could I wear that would
make it look as though the camera.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Just happened to catch me in a kind of careless,
off hand homie pose. But very glad.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
About a smoking jacket and carpet slippers, father, Jim bloomers
and tennis shoes.
Speaker 8 (17:11):
Father, this is serious and expensive.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So far these pictures have cost me about one hundred
and ninety dollars.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
That doesn't include posties to send them out to all
the relatives.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Hello, what, well, stop gibbering so I can understand what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Oh well, just a minute.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
It's Claude Messner and he wants to know where Buddy is.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well, he must be down there by now.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
What am I tell him? He sounds pretty frantic.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well tell him that Bud started down there quite a
while ago, so he certainly should be the Wait a minute,
wait a minute, here he is now, hurry.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Up, Bud Cloud's on the phone.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh god, I want to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
He wants to talk to you too. Hello, Well, don't
jump out of your shirt.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Claud I was down there, but there's such a long
long I'm waiting to use the phone.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I couldn't get up to the phone booth.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
This may work into a plot for full eighth novel.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
I tried to Claude, but every time I tried to
move up in the line, everybody get mad at me,
especially that lady with the umbrella.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Claude may be the first man in history to start
to death in a phone booth.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Well, Claude, it didn't matter anyway, because I forgot the pants. Okay, okay,
I'll get him down there right away.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Wait a minute, Bud, where are you going, Claude? Well
you can't now the photographer will be here any minute.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
God, how are you going to get into the phone
booth this time? If you couldn't when you were down
there before?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We got a plan.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Oh, when I walk in the drug store, I'm supposed
to yell fire and everybody will run out.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
What they'll probably do is all try to get into
the phone booth to report the fire.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
But did you get your suit from the cleaners?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I had time to yet.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Let's see now, I guess the davenport there would be
the best place to the picture. You children could be sitting,
and your father and I could stand behind you.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Mother. We're not making an old tin type I.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Better get a straw hat and a cane.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
You know that Davenport looks a little shabby.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh'll hold it right there. We're not going to buy
a new Davenport.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I was just thinking what Aunt Matty will say when
she gets one of these pictures and starts going over
it with a magnifying glass.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
She always I don't care what.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Aunt Matty says. This thing has gotten completely out of hand.
Margaret and I can't figure out why.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Jim, whose idea was it to call a photographer?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, I talked to him, but my gosh, all I
was trying to get I just gotta get down there
and rescue claud.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Wait a minute, but there's the photographer. Now you can
go as soon as he's through.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Gee, Mom, it'll take him an hour to get set up.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No, it won't, Betty, go answer the door. I don't
want him to see me looking like this.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Anybody home, Oh it's Ed Davis. Come on in.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Ed.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I just got home and discovered you'd left your old
camera over in my place. Jim, here you are, Oh
that old thing. How'd you come out with the pictures? Well,
to tell the truth, Ed, we didn't take any didn't
take any Well, I wasn't too sure how to use
the camera job on the market, and Margaret wanted to
get some really good portraits of the kids I wanted,
(20:24):
so I called the Simpson and he's sending out Simpson. Oh, Jim, Jim, Jim,
why did you do that? Well, by the time you
wind up with the enlargements and the color tints and
the fancy folders, it'll cost you a fortune. It already has. Well, Jim,
that all alone will run you a good fifty five
or sixty dollars. It will certainly. Well, I guess there's
(20:46):
nothing we can do now we've already called him. Well,
cancel it, tell him not to come. I'll call him
for you. Where's your phone?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Well ed?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
All right, Margaret, I'm just glad to do this for you.
I'll take those pictures for you myself with my little
ret Dad. I'll get your better pictures, and i'll get
your both color slides and prints, and it won't run
your well, it won't run you much over forty five
forty five, Dad, well, maybe fifty. You mind if I
use your phone and dany.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Excuse me, mister Davis, but can I make a quick
call first?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It's awful important for sure, So I'm going ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I just got a call Claude at the drug store.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
You say, is it the drug store? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Well good?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
You're telling him to pick up a half dozen flashballs? Huh?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
It depends on how close they are of the phone booth.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'll get the floodlights hooked up. Where are they, Jim
in the kitchen? Okay, I'll get him.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Hello Claude, Jim, are you going to let Ed do this?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Isn't this Claude? Medicinach?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I don't know what to think.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
He is?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
What happens? It's a pretty good photographer, I think.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Gee, well, thanks by Well Cord finally got out of
the phone booth.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Well good, he's in the hospital now he is?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
What happens?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Lady hit him over the head with umbrella.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
Well I don't blame her. That was a dumb thing
for him to do in the first place.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I wonder if you'll need those pants to get out
of a hospital.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, got the lights, pluck him in over there. What
do you, Jim? Yeah, get through with the phone butt.
Yeah good, Now I'll get hold of Simpson.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Oh, Ed, maybe we ought to let him go ahead?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You worry, Margaret, don't you worry. I can handle this
all right, No trouble at all. Oh, hello, Simpson, we'll
put him on.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Okay, Mommy, I'm all guess.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, he's a man here yet, No angel, Simpson say,
I'm calling for Jim Anderson. He's changed his mind on
the picture, so just cancel it.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Hey, is it off again?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
That's the second time today I've washed for nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well, Jim Fields, you're a little high Simpson. I didn't
say that. Or you can fight that out with Jim.
Oh fine, fine, well that sounds fair enough. Sure, sure, okay, goodbye, Okay, Jim,
I fixed that up. You certainly did. Simpson wants you
to pay five bucks for the canceled appointment, but you're
(23:12):
still saving money.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Now, then let's get lined up here, Betty. How about
you sitting in the rocking chair there, the rocking chair. Yeah,
that should make a nice picture of that sweet old
fashioned dress you have on Old Fashion by George. You
look just like a flower from an old lavender bouquet.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Oh, brother, Bud, sit her defeat there, huh, and sort
to rest one arm on her lap. I better go
see how claw it is caffy used to stand back
of Bud.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Don't you think it ease Jim? Please? Oh, I'm sorry, Caffy,
you stand back of Bud. Put one arm around Betty.
Hear the hand on Bud's shoulder.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Before I go hugging Betty. I want to know if
we're going to take these pictures? Are we still fooling around?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, Jim, flip the switch on the flood lights. Now
get a light reading here? Okay, here goes something blew
out there? Where's your cuesboxed? Jim? H right inside the
basement door. Okay, I'll give him a look, see a look.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
See I had a feeling something like this would happen.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Well, I couldn't help it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Mother.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Do I really look like a sweet, old fashioned rocking
chair girl.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Just an old flower and an old lavender bouquet?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Oh? Keep quiet?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Oh, if that's Senson, tell him I'm not here.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I don't feel much like fighting right now.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Oh, how are you.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Claud I almost wish I'd spent this day with Claude
in the phone booth.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Uh huh, Okay, I'll get him over to you right away.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Five.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Where is he still in the hospital?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, but he wasn't hurt.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
He just pretended he was so they'd carry him out
of the drug store on at the stretchers so nobody'd
see his whipped pans.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That kid's thinking all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
But now we need some good ones to get home
from the hospital. I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Oh well, wait, Bud, we may take some.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Pictures straight up, got some bad news for you, Jim.
You mean there's more. Every single fuse is blown, and
I think there's a short somewhere, so you better call
him electrician. Well that's just dandy. So I guess we
can't shoot the pictures now, but well maybe we can
get some some other times. Yeah, yeah, fine, Well thanks anyway,
(25:52):
I don't thank me. I haven't done anything. You've got
a great deal more than you realize.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
Well, now what twice I washed my face today when.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I deliver the pants.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Now, wait, I just got a good idea. There are
a couple of pictures left on this old camera of ours.
Why don't we go out in the backyard and finish
off this roll. The Anderson's will be back in just
(26:31):
a moment. Monday means music on NBC, and here are
some of the wonderful programs you'll hear next Monday evening
when you set your dial to the NBC Radio Network.
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(26:52):
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Remember you always hear the finest programs on the NBC
Radio Network. And now back to the Anderson's. Well, it's
(27:15):
been a pretty rugged day, but Jim finally solved everything
with his brilliant suggestion of finishing off those last two
pictures in their old camera. As a matter of fact,
that's what the Andersons are doing right now. They're in
the backyard, grouped around the maple tree as Jim focuses
the camera like this. Okay, steady, now, I'll get this
other shot and would be all through.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Dad, I gotta deliver the.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Past, steady, Bud, straighten up, Eddie, don't look quite so
glamorously sloppy. That's it. Don't make faces, Kathy, I'm just smiling.
Hold it here we go there, all of it now,
wasn't that much simpler than all that fall? The role
you were going through, Margaret? Oh yeahs much always seems
(28:01):
the best way to do a thing is, Oh what's no?
Somebody left? The time exposure on the film is ruined.
Oh no, well, I'll go over to Edge and borrow
a camera from him.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
You wouldn't dare?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Join up again next week and we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Annist. Father
Knows Best is an NBC Radio Network production in cooperation
with Pavalier Enterprises. In our cast were Roda Williams as Betty,
Gene Vanderpyle, Ted Donaldson, Helen Strom, and Barney Phillips. Father
Knows Best, based on characters created by Ed James, is
written by Paul West and Roswell Rodgers, directed by Arthur Jacobson,
(28:48):
and transcribed in Hollywood. This is bill forman speaking tonight
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