September 24, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows that.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Best transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father. A
half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to
you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's
always good.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
To the last drop. Here's a review of the weather
in Springfield.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Snow today, snow yesterday, snow the day before. It's getting
pretty deep, especially around the white frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
This evening, the thermometer on the.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Anderson's front hivered down to zero, Icicles rubbed frosty shoulders
on the eaves, and the snowman in the front yard
settled down for a long winter night. It's the kind
of night when a fella just can't wait to get
home to.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Family and fireside.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
That's why Jim Anderson is heading toward Maple Street at
full speed, head down, holding his hat and kicking up
snow with every step like this.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I ever get home, I'll never go outside again. Three
more blocks?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Humstranders?
Speaker 7 (01:33):
Oh, hello, Hannigan, frosty night to night, Miss Rander.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, Frosty Knight.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
Well, how's all the family, Miss Branders?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
All they're fine? How's yours?
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Oh, finest can be you know, don't be long before
my oldest lad would be stepping into the police force.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
This lady's father glad to hear it.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Hannigan, Well, hey passed your house a moment ago and
there was your lead bud out of shoveling the front wall.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
He's a good worker.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Well, I'm my father, mister Anderson. Yes, sir, teaching your
young ones. They're working with, I always say to me,
and it's the toil of the two hands brings the
blessings of late.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Well I'm sorry to rush you off, mister, and you
know you're holding up an officer on duty.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
I'll be talking to you later when I have Marteine.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Oh, thanks, best regards to the battle mate, and Sandel Hanigan, fine,
time to chit chat. I don't know why I always
run into him when I'm in a hurry. I think
I've frozen a couple of toes.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
I'm mister Anderson, by mister, and.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
He can't stop to talk.
Speaker 9 (02:39):
Billy, have you seen Betty, Billy?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I haven't been home yet I'm on my way home now.
I'd appreciate it very much if you.
Speaker 9 (02:46):
Were supposed to call me this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
If I live long enough to get home, I'll have
her call you. She isn't home, I'll have her call
you anyway. Goodbye, Billy.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Could she still be at school?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That's where she is at school?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I called the school.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
She wasn't there.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Try again.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Maybe you got the wrong number.
Speaker 9 (03:05):
I tried twice. It was the right number.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Try again. Maybe you got the wrong school, mister Billy.
I have to keep moving.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Maybe she's over at Janie Liggots.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes, that's probably where she is.
Speaker 9 (03:17):
Are you in a hurry, mister Anderson?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
No, I only want to get home before I become
part of the scenery.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I think I see daddy, Bud.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Two dollars and fifty cents makes two fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
He's standing down in the corner.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Three in a quarter.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Where down by the tree he's bending over.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
That's the mailbox.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Mom.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Did you find a quarter anyplace?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It looked like Daddy? I can't hear you, Bud.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Did you take a quarter off my dress? Escort Jimmy comes?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Where did you lose?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's on the corner?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What corner.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
I found it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I can't hear a word your day.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Daddy's coming next three and a half.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Margaret, I'm home, God, Daddy's home.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
I heard him.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Hello, Dear, I a kitten. Hello, Bud, coo Daddy, Dad,
what a night? That wind goes right through you.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I'm glad you're home, Dear.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Hello, Honey, nearly froze my feet making polite conversation Dad, done.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
By the radiator, Dear Daddy.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Car stranded all along main street, snowplow broke down.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
The paper says more snow tonight, Dad.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Hex Smith couldn't start his car this morning. Daddy had
to boil water to thaw out the annie freeze. Dad,
it keeps up like this. I'm going to be dad, Bud,
what do you want?
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I want to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Why didn't you say so?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Me too, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Come out in the kitchen when you finished here.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Dad, I'm listening, Bud. My ears right here, little fraud it.
But it's working fine.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Can we get paid now, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (05:06):
Our jobs?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (05:07):
You said i'd get fifty cents if I shovel the
snow off the front walk.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh yes, I want to discuss that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I earned my ten cents. I cleaned all the ashes
out of the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Very good kitting. But about the.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yes, mommy, did you track ashes across the dining room rug?
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Two quarters will be all right, dad?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Now wait, I couldn't help it, Mommy, five.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
Dins would be all right just a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
But you shovel the snow off the front walk? All right?
But why did you stop at the driveway driveway? The
sidewalk is clear, the driveway has two feet of snow.
What are the pedestrians supposed to do tunnel through?
Speaker 8 (05:47):
You didn't tell me to clear the driveway.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I didn't leave any ashes in the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
No, you left them on the rug. Why didn't you
sweep them up?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Nobody told me to?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Kathy? What did you carry the ashes in a sifter?
Speaker 8 (06:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
What was an orange crave?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I did what you told me to do, Dad, I
know you did, and so did Kathy. But the point is,
and this is something you must remember if you're going
to be successful, you must always do a little bit
more than you're expected to do. Why Because that's the
way you get ahead. Look at me. This afternoon, I
spent an hour plowing through the snow to call on
a prospect. Some people might have stayed in a warm
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office and called him on the phone. Not me. I
went out there.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Did you sell him insurance?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Uh? No, But that's not the point. In the long run,
it pays off. It's that extra effort, doing just a
little more than is required of you that brings success.
Are you home, father in the living room? Betty? Have
I made myself clear?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
But sure?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Dad, Kathy, I guess so?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Hello father?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh Betty? Hi, mister Anderson, Oh hello, Billy, I see
you found it. Yeah, well, this looks like a delegation
of two. What am I in for now?
Speaker 10 (07:05):
Well, my sorority is having a sleigh ride Friday night.
We're going out to the Logic Cook's Crossing for supper,
and we'd like you to be a chaperone.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Where's the broom.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Money sleigh ride party? In weather like this.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
You have to have snow for a sleigh ride, mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Snow, yes, but it's cold. You won't get horses out
in this weather. You'll have to use reindeer.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Father, it'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
That's fun freezing to death on a pile of hay.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
Nobody ever froze to death on a sleigh ride.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
It's always the first time.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Bud. Where are you going with the snow shovel out
to shovel snow? That's logical, I guess.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Hello, Mother, Hello, dear, good evening, missus Anderson, Hello.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Billet, I thought I heard your voice in here.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Mother.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
The sorority is having a sleigh ride Friday night, and
we want father to be a chaperone.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, I guess he's old enough, Betty.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Isn't it enough that I pay your tuition at college,
pay your sorority dues without being a chaperone in the bargain?
Speaker 10 (08:09):
No, Jim, Father, we had a special reason for asking you,
didn't we, Billy.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Sure, For what special reason would you want me to
chaperone a sleigh ride? Did you decide that I'd freeze
faster than anyone else?
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Well, Father, it's because you always like to do more
than just what's required of you.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
That's your reputation, mister Anderson.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
It is.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
The other fathers probably wouldn't do it because it's beyond
the line of duty.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Well, go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Excuse me, Kathy, what are you doing on the floor?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm picking up ashes.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
You'll do it, won't you?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Father? Oh, all right.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
Here's the permit from the college. The chaperone has to
sign it right here, here's a pen.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
We'll get your old raccoon coat out of the attic
and your long woolen sock.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That he holds the paper.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Still your foot up, Daddy, his ashes under it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I wonder if we still have your red stocking cap.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Lift the other foot, Daddy, lift it up.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Do you mind if I put the other one down first?
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Here's your pen, Bailly.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
I knew you'd do it. Mister Anderson, you're a solid citizen.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
If it's this cold Friday night, I will be.
Speaker 10 (09:23):
Well.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
I gotta go.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
Home, Betty, I see you tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Good night, everybody, Good Betty.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
How many will be going on this sleigh ride?
Speaker 10 (09:31):
About twenty eight? Fourteen boys and fourteen girls?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Twenty eight your mother and me?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Makes thirty Wait, who said I was going?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Button? Kathy makes thirty two?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Can I go?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Good father?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
We're going on a sleay ride. We're going on a
sleeve ride back.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But Jim, I'm not invited.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You are I invited you. I'll have to take Butter
along to help with the equipment. That leads nobody to
stay with Kathy, So we'll take her along, Not Kathy.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
You're going on a sleep ride by.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You've got the driveway, Kathy.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
Father, it isn't really necessary. I mean, you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Have to go.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Now, wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
The college only requires two sponsors for the sleigh ride,
and we already have two faculty members going along. You
don't have to go.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
A minute ago, you were twisting my arm to get
me into this. Now I'm being pushed off a sleigh.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't see it either. If it isn't necessary for
your father to go, why did you want him for
a chaperone?
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Well, the truth is we had to get someone to
provide the food. Oh, father, you can't ask your professor
to buy twenty five quarts of oyster stew.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh no, But what about this permit I sign? It
says I understand that as a sponsor, I am to
expect the highest standard of conduct, and any breach of
conduct shall be reported. A sponsor agrees to be present
at the beginning and to remain until the close of
the social function.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh that's just a farm.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
They don't expect you to do.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
All that, Betty, Are you sure of course, mother.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well, they may not expect me to do all that,
but as I told Kathy and Budd and as you
reminded me, I'm the kind of a fellow who likes
to do more than is expected of it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But Father, I had a sleigh light, Bud, you ask.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Daddy, Kathy, stop waving the brew?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Are we dead?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Furthermore, I'm going to help out with the entertainment. We'll
take the portable phonograph and some records. We'll have music
during supper. Oh no, they love it. I'll play over
the waves while you eat your oyster shoes, Jim.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Afterwards we can play Run Sheep, Run and spin the pan.
Speaker 10 (11:50):
This is my sorority. I'll be the laughing stock of
the whole college.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I told you it's a sleigh hye mother?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Please, Jim, why don't you take your name off the
permit and just pay for the food?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
What food? Well? Who are these two faculty members who
are going along.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
A long player?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You don't know them, father, No, but I'd like to
who are they?
Speaker 8 (12:13):
You can't get into this conversation.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Nanny Osborne, he's an associate professor of history, and his
date Mary McCormick. She was president of the sororiti last year.
Oh fine, well, she's twenty one.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
A great pair of chaperones. Why don't you have Kathy
and Bud?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Jim, I've met mister Osborne. He's at least twenty.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Five, a doddering old man.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Don't you trust us?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Father? It's not that I don't trust you, but there's
simply no reason for a crowd of youngsters to go
out to a lot of books.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
Crossing is a perfectly respectable place, father, It's run by
nice people.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't care who runs it these days, young people.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Why do you say these days?
Speaker 10 (12:55):
Kids today are just as capable of thinking for themselves
as you and mother were when you were young. And
she went on sleigh rides and her father didn't go along, that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Was different, Jim, Dear, be reasonable.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm being perfectly reasonable.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
The last time Aunt Martha was here, she told me
about a sleigh ride.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You and on, father.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I remember all about it. Your mother and I missed
the ride home and her father had to come out
in the bob slid and pick us out.
Speaker 10 (13:21):
Well, that would never happen to me.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It makes no difference. I know these sleigh rides, and
I'm going to chaperon this one. And that's final.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Jumping creeper, Jim, there's no reason to get so upset.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Who's upset? I remember our sleigh rides. We always had
an older person with us.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You really remember, of course I do, Jim, that sleigh ride.
Aunt Martha told about it.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It was before we were married. You and I were
stranded at the halfway house.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
We were, Jim, You and I never went to the
halfway house. That was another girl.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
An old fashioned sleigh ride. Wonderful, yes, And even though
Jim Anderson's chaperone may not look forward to it quite
as much as he did that night twenty years ago,
the Country's sleigh Ride has certainly remained a well loved
American tradition, and down through the years, Maxwell House Coffee
has grown to be as real and heartwarming a part
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of American living as the Country sleigh Ride. In fact,
in this nation of coffee lovers, more families buy and
enjoy Maxwell House coffee than any other brand at any price. Now,
the reason our Maxwell House is chosen above all other
coffees is for its wonderful, good to the last drop flavor,
and that flavor belongs to Maxwell House alone. You see
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countless grades and varieties of coffee grow all over the world,
but the Maxwell House people insist on the very choicest
extra flavor varieties from the mountain plateaus of Latin America.
They select fancy Manizales coffees for fragrant mellowness, superb Medlins
for extra richness, Choice Booker among Us coffees for fine
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full body. In fact, Maxwell House buys more of these
fine flavor coffees than anyone else in the world. That's right,
more than anyone and only the Maxwell House people know
how to blend these premium vintage coffees in just the
right proportions to create that one and only good to
the last drop flavor. If you haven't yet enjoyed that
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truly superb flavor, the flavor of coffee at its downright
satisfying best, start serving our Maxwell House coffee this weekend.
It's the one coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
The way to get ahead in this world is to
always do a little more than is expected, a worthy
principle well expressed by Jim Anderson. He's done considerably more
than Betty expected him to, and is he getting ahead
well slowly. It's Friday night, and in the kitchen Jim
is directing last minute preparations for a snowy trek to
Cook's Crossing Lodge like this.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I have everything in the car, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Did you get the extra blanket?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I have extra everything.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
Jeannie and the gang are outside. We're leaving father.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We'll be there waiting for you when you arrive. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Why can't we go on the sleigh?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I've locked all the doors. Where's Bud?
Speaker 8 (16:38):
I'm here just waiting.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Why can't we go on the sleigh?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
There isn't room, Cathy?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Can we go now?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
How do we have everything?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We're ready, Margaret. I know the things you need for
a sleigh.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Ride, so I've been told.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Margaret. Please, we've all been ready for twenty minutes. The
motor of the car is run. If you don't hurry,
we'll be out of gas.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Or what are you standing here for? Why aren't you
in the car?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We're waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I've been ready for half an hour.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Let's go. Get in the car. Come on, Bud, I
get to sit next to the window.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You're sure we have everything, Jane, yes, Margaret, I have checked.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
We have everything. Just get in the car.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Be sure the door is locked.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's locked all right.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
What's the matter, jim.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
My house keys?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What about the keys?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I left them upstairs on the dresser, Oh, Jim, But yes, Dan,
you've been sitting around doing nothing. We've had to do everything. Now,
help me get a window open. We have to get
the house keys. Dad.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
I've got the keys in my pocket. Can you see
anything out there?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Dead?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I can see the front fender.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Why couldn't we go on the sleigh with Daddy?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I told you Kathy there wasn't room.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Darned windshield wipers?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Jim, do you have to drive with your head out
the window?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
No? I wouldn't have to if we had radar. Happy
had to take the wiper blades off this afternoon and
wash them.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
There was nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
No, but she'd drive them over the stove. It's like
scraping the windshield with a pair of pretzels.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I only tried to help.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I told you to wash the windshield, not the wipers.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You said we should do more than we were asked
to do.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Always still on the road.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Let me get my head.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Out of here.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You're getting snow in your ears, Daddy. What you're getting
snow in your ears?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm getting at my eyes too.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Jim, can't see a thing, Jim.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Why'd I get my head in out?
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Why don't you roll the window clear down?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's snowing, bud, Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Was it Dorothy Sharp? Who the girl you took on
the sleigh ride that night?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Margaret?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I'm trying to navigate through a snowstorm. I can't think
about something that happened twenty years ago. What difference does
it make who she was?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I just wonder.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'm all a silly thing, some girl I knew when
we were kids.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
When don't we get there, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
At the rate we're going, we'll be right on time
for the summer festival.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh that'll be fun.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
He was kidding. Knuckle ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
The slave probably made cooks crossing a half hour ago.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You don't have to worry, Jim. Betty has the food.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I'm not worrying about the food.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Relaxed, Dear. I'm sure we'll be there in time to
start everybody home. We won't leave any couples to be
picked up later.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Danny said, you got left once. How to happen, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Well, this young lady and I were in the kitchen
doing the dishes, and nobody in the crowd told us
they were leaving, just you and.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The young lady doing dishes.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Yes, young lady, Holy.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Call, Let's just drop the subject. Kathy.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Let her ask all the questions she wants. I have
nothing to hide.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
There's a crossfoad, Dad, and slow down. I'll read the sign.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
When are we gonna get there, daddy.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Kathy Westbrook?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Three miles?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I know where we are. That's the river road, exactly
a quarter of a mile ahead. The road turns right.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Are we almost there, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Snow's getting thicker. We'll have to mark off a quarter
of a mile on the speedometer. What's wrong with a speedometer?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It says we're going ninety two miles an hour?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You get a ticke.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Of Daddy, speedometer stuck. Everything on the dashboard is stuck.
What in the name of Caesar.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
It should work? I adjusted everything on the dashboard.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh brother, I should have a screwdriver. All I asked
you to do was wipe it all.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
I just tried to do a little extra Dad.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
No speedometer, no nothing, but start counting the telephone poles.
There were one hundred and fifty feet apart. When we
get to eight, that's where we turn. Okay, Dad, one,
are we almost there, Daddy, don't breathe down the back
of my neck, Jim.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
Two.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yes, Margaret was the girl from out of town.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Girl? Oh Margaret? What does it matter who she was
or where she came from?
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Three?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I can count on the fingers of one hand the
girls outside of you that I had more than one
date with the whole time I was in college.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh, I believe you.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, there was Ellen King. How many times did I
go out with her? Or just once?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I'm counting telephone poles.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Then there was Clara Harkness went out with her once?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
It was twice, Jim, there were about four girls.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You had three dates with Hail?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Well, what if it was three? What if it was five?
What if it was fifteen?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Where was I?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's lost?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Are you counting, Bud?
Speaker 8 (22:11):
I got mixed up?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Oh no, now we.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh Jim, what happened?
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Nothing at all? The road turned and we didn't What
are we stopping for?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But I told you to count the polls.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
I was till you started counting girls.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I was a great. Now we're stuck back up, daddy, Margaret,
do something with that child.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
She only made a suggestion, Jim.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Back up, what's behind us? Bud, Snow, what are you
going to do?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Back up if I can.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
We're not moving, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
All right, let's get out.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
What are we getting out for?
Speaker 8 (23:09):
So?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Lighting the car? Caddy?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
I'm not heavy yet, going on it?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
What do you want us to do?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Jim? When I race the motor? Everybody push the bird,
push on the front fenders.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Ready, go ahead, Dead, No use, it won't budge.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You didn't push hard up that The wheel has just
been around, Jim, I.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Know, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Let me out. I have to get the jack out
of the trunk with the blankets under the back wheels.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Jim, not our good blankets?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
All right, but open the trunk, Okay, I'll hand things out. Uh,
here's a record player, Margaret. Here are the blankets.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's cold out here, Yes.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
It's cold.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Every hold out your arms, Bud here.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
I can't see over these blankets.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Dad, there's nothing to see. Where's that darn jack?
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Dead?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Slave probably got the cook's crossing. They've had supper dead? What, Bud,
we don't have a jack?
Speaker 8 (24:17):
What mister Davis wanted to borrow a spark plug wrench
and I gave him the whole toolbox.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
But you didn't.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
I did I remembered what you said about cold daddy?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh, we can't stand out here, do you?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh right, get back in the car. What a knight?
How did I ever get into this fool sleigh ride?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Betty said you didn't have to come along. I wasn't worried.
Of course, I haven't had your experience with sleigh rocks.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
It must be miles to the nearest farmhouse. You stay
with the kids, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Oh, Dad, here comes to sleigh the horse, Thank Heaven.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
What a stroke of luck. Hello there, that's you, miss
j Anderson. Yes, I went off the road.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Are you all right?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Father? We're fine, Princess.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I'll throw your rope, mister Anderson hooking, onto the bumper
and i'll pull you out.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Great now, you see, Margaret, my plan for this is
going to work out perfectly. We'll follow a slave to
the lodge. We'll all have supper together.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Haven't father.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
We were worried about you.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Just a little mishap, nothing serious. We'll be on our
way to the lodge in five minutes.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
On our way, father, we're going home. The party's over.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Well, don't stand with your mouth open, Jim, you'll catch cold.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
And father, you know what all the girls said, they
think you're the most wonderful chaperone we've ever had.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
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Speaker 4 (27:03):
Well, the stars are shining brightly in Springfield tonight.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The snow of.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Last night lies clean, unruffled, the smooth as the tide
of life in the Anderson household.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It's good to spend an evening at home catch up
on some reading.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I have some pleasant news. Jim oh I called the
lodge this morning to see if there were any extra
charges for the party last night.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
No charges, that's good news.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Not only that, but the caretaker said, we had a
lovely daughter and it was the most well behaved group
you'd ever seen.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I could have told him that.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You see, all your worries were for nothing.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
When was I worry?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Incidentally, I remember the name of that girl, the one
you took on the sleigh ride. Was Mary Alton?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Say that's right, it was Wait a minute, how did
you remember I was.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
On that same party with another boar?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Who was he?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Oh? It isn't important.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Hey, what's your hurry? We're having coconut cream pie for supper.
Your wife must love you to go to all that work.
Why it's no work with Jello coconut cream pudding and
pie filling.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
You mean it, sure?
Speaker 5 (28:34):
With a new Jello coconut cream pudding and pie filling.
You just add milk and bring.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
To a boil. Hey, I'm going to get some from
my wife.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
You get some too, Yello coconut cream pudding and pie
filling for red letter desserts.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Join us again next week when we'll be back Where
Father Knows Yes, starring Robert Young is Jim Anderson with
Roy Bargey's orchestra In Our Cast, Baroda Williams is Betty,
Jean Vanderpyle, Ted Donaldson, Norma Jean Nilson, Sam Edwards, Pat mcgehan,
and Yours Truly Bill Foreman. So goodnight and good luck
from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee,
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Always good to the last drop. Father Knows Best was
transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
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on NBC
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows that.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Best transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father. A
half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andersons, brought to
you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's
always good.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
To the last drop. Here's a review of the weather
in Springfield.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Snow today, snow yesterday, snow the day before. It's getting
pretty deep, especially around the white frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
This evening, the thermometer on the.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Anderson's front hivered down to zero, Icicles rubbed frosty shoulders
on the eaves, and the snowman in the front yard
settled down for a long winter night. It's the kind
of night when a fella just can't wait to get
home to.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Family and fireside.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
That's why Jim Anderson is heading toward Maple Street at
full speed, head down, holding his hat and kicking up
snow with every step like this.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I ever get home, I'll never go outside again. Three
more blocks?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Humstranders?
Speaker 7 (01:33):
Oh, hello, Hannigan, frosty night to night, Miss Rander.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, Frosty Knight.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
Well, how's all the family, Miss Branders?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
All they're fine? How's yours?
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Oh, finest can be you know, don't be long before
my oldest lad would be stepping into the police force.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
This lady's father glad to hear it.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Hannigan, Well, hey passed your house a moment ago and
there was your lead bud out of shoveling the front wall.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
He's a good worker.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Well, I'm my father, mister Anderson. Yes, sir, teaching your
young ones. They're working with, I always say to me,
and it's the toil of the two hands brings the
blessings of late.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Well I'm sorry to rush you off, mister, and you
know you're holding up an officer on duty.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
I'll be talking to you later when I have Marteine.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Oh, thanks, best regards to the battle mate, and Sandel Hanigan, fine,
time to chit chat. I don't know why I always
run into him when I'm in a hurry. I think
I've frozen a couple of toes.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
I'm mister Anderson, by mister, and.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
He can't stop to talk.
Speaker 9 (02:39):
Billy, have you seen Betty, Billy?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I haven't been home yet I'm on my way home now.
I'd appreciate it very much if you.
Speaker 9 (02:46):
Were supposed to call me this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
If I live long enough to get home, I'll have
her call you. She isn't home, I'll have her call
you anyway. Goodbye, Billy.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
Could she still be at school?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
That's where she is at school?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I called the school.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
She wasn't there.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Try again.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Maybe you got the wrong number.
Speaker 9 (03:05):
I tried twice. It was the right number.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Try again. Maybe you got the wrong school, mister Billy.
I have to keep moving.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Maybe she's over at Janie Liggots.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes, that's probably where she is.
Speaker 9 (03:17):
Are you in a hurry, mister Anderson?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
No, I only want to get home before I become
part of the scenery.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I think I see daddy, Bud.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Two dollars and fifty cents makes two fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
He's standing down in the corner.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Three in a quarter.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Where down by the tree he's bending over.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
That's the mailbox.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Mom.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Did you find a quarter anyplace?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It looked like Daddy? I can't hear you, Bud.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Did you take a quarter off my dress? Escort Jimmy comes?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Where did you lose?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's on the corner?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What corner.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
I found it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I can't hear a word your day.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
Daddy's coming next three and a half.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Margaret, I'm home, God, Daddy's home.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
I heard him.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Hello, Dear, I a kitten. Hello, Bud, coo Daddy, Dad,
what a night? That wind goes right through you.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I'm glad you're home, Dear.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Hello, Honey, nearly froze my feet making polite conversation Dad, done.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
By the radiator, Dear Daddy.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Car stranded all along main street, snowplow broke down.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
The paper says more snow tonight, Dad.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Hex Smith couldn't start his car this morning. Daddy had
to boil water to thaw out the annie freeze. Dad,
it keeps up like this. I'm going to be dad, Bud,
what do you want?
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I want to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Why didn't you say so?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Me too, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Come out in the kitchen when you finished here.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Dad, I'm listening, Bud. My ears right here, little fraud it.
But it's working fine.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Can we get paid now, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (05:06):
Our jobs?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (05:07):
You said i'd get fifty cents if I shovel the
snow off the front walk.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh yes, I want to discuss that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I earned my ten cents. I cleaned all the ashes
out of the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Very good kitting. But about the.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yes, mommy, did you track ashes across the dining room rug?
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Two quarters will be all right, dad?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Now wait, I couldn't help it, Mommy, five.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
Dins would be all right just a minute.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
But you shovel the snow off the front walk? All right?
But why did you stop at the driveway driveway? The
sidewalk is clear, the driveway has two feet of snow.
What are the pedestrians supposed to do tunnel through?
Speaker 8 (05:47):
You didn't tell me to clear the driveway.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I didn't leave any ashes in the fireplace.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
No, you left them on the rug. Why didn't you
sweep them up?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Nobody told me to?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Kathy? What did you carry the ashes in a sifter?
Speaker 8 (06:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
What was an orange crave?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I did what you told me to do, Dad, I
know you did, and so did Kathy. But the point is,
and this is something you must remember if you're going
to be successful, you must always do a little bit
more than you're expected to do. Why Because that's the
way you get ahead. Look at me. This afternoon, I
spent an hour plowing through the snow to call on
a prospect. Some people might have stayed in a warm
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office and called him on the phone. Not me. I
went out there.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
Did you sell him insurance?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Uh? No, But that's not the point. In the long run,
it pays off. It's that extra effort, doing just a
little more than is required of you that brings success.
Are you home, father in the living room? Betty? Have
I made myself clear?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
But sure?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Dad, Kathy, I guess so?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Hello father?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh Betty? Hi, mister Anderson, Oh hello, Billy, I see
you found it. Yeah, well, this looks like a delegation
of two. What am I in for now?
Speaker 10 (07:05):
Well, my sorority is having a sleigh ride Friday night.
We're going out to the Logic Cook's Crossing for supper,
and we'd like you to be a chaperone.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Where's the broom.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Money sleigh ride party? In weather like this.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
You have to have snow for a sleigh ride, mister Anderson.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Snow, yes, but it's cold. You won't get horses out
in this weather. You'll have to use reindeer.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Father, it'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
That's fun freezing to death on a pile of hay.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
Nobody ever froze to death on a sleigh ride.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
It's always the first time.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Bud. Where are you going with the snow shovel out
to shovel snow? That's logical, I guess.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Hello, Mother, Hello, dear, good evening, missus Anderson, Hello.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Billet, I thought I heard your voice in here.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Mother.
Speaker 10 (07:55):
The sorority is having a sleigh ride Friday night, and
we want father to be a chaperone.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, I guess he's old enough, Betty.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Isn't it enough that I pay your tuition at college,
pay your sorority dues without being a chaperone in the bargain?
Speaker 10 (08:09):
No, Jim, Father, we had a special reason for asking you,
didn't we, Billy.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Sure, For what special reason would you want me to
chaperone a sleigh ride? Did you decide that I'd freeze
faster than anyone else?
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Well, Father, it's because you always like to do more
than just what's required of you.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
That's your reputation, mister Anderson.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
It is.
Speaker 10 (08:34):
The other fathers probably wouldn't do it because it's beyond
the line of duty.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Well, go ahead, Jim.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Excuse me, Kathy, what are you doing on the floor?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm picking up ashes.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
You'll do it, won't you?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Father? Oh, all right.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
Here's the permit from the college. The chaperone has to
sign it right here, here's a pen.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
We'll get your old raccoon coat out of the attic
and your long woolen sock.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That he holds the paper.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Still your foot up, Daddy, his ashes under it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I wonder if we still have your red stocking cap.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Lift the other foot, Daddy, lift it up.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Do you mind if I put the other one down first?
Speaker 10 (09:13):
Here's your pen, Bailly.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
I knew you'd do it. Mister Anderson, you're a solid citizen.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
If it's this cold Friday night, I will be.
Speaker 10 (09:23):
Well.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
I gotta go.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
Home, Betty, I see you tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Good night, everybody, Good Betty.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
How many will be going on this sleigh ride?
Speaker 10 (09:31):
About twenty eight? Fourteen boys and fourteen girls?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Twenty eight your mother and me?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Makes thirty Wait, who said I was going?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Button? Kathy makes thirty two?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Can I go?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Good father?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
We're going on a sleay ride. We're going on a
sleeve ride back.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But Jim, I'm not invited.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
You are I invited you. I'll have to take Butter
along to help with the equipment. That leads nobody to
stay with Kathy, So we'll take her along, Not Kathy.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
You're going on a sleep ride by.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You've got the driveway, Kathy.
Speaker 10 (10:07):
Father, it isn't really necessary. I mean, you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Have to go.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Now, wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
The college only requires two sponsors for the sleigh ride,
and we already have two faculty members going along. You
don't have to go.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
A minute ago, you were twisting my arm to get
me into this. Now I'm being pushed off a sleigh.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I don't see it either. If it isn't necessary for
your father to go, why did you want him for
a chaperone?
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Well, the truth is we had to get someone to
provide the food. Oh, father, you can't ask your professor
to buy twenty five quarts of oyster stew.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh no, But what about this permit I sign? It
says I understand that as a sponsor, I am to
expect the highest standard of conduct, and any breach of
conduct shall be reported. A sponsor agrees to be present
at the beginning and to remain until the close of
the social function.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh that's just a farm.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
They don't expect you to do.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
All that, Betty, Are you sure of course, mother.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Well, they may not expect me to do all that,
but as I told Kathy and Budd and as you
reminded me, I'm the kind of a fellow who likes
to do more than is expected of it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But Father, I had a sleigh light, Bud, you ask.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Daddy, Kathy, stop waving the brew?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Are we dead?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Furthermore, I'm going to help out with the entertainment. We'll
take the portable phonograph and some records. We'll have music
during supper. Oh no, they love it. I'll play over
the waves while you eat your oyster shoes, Jim.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Afterwards we can play Run Sheep, Run and spin the pan.
Speaker 10 (11:50):
This is my sorority. I'll be the laughing stock of
the whole college.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I told you it's a sleigh hye mother?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Please, Jim, why don't you take your name off the
permit and just pay for the food?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
What food? Well? Who are these two faculty members who
are going along.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
A long player?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You don't know them, father, No, but I'd like to
who are they?
Speaker 8 (12:13):
You can't get into this conversation.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Nanny Osborne, he's an associate professor of history, and his
date Mary McCormick. She was president of the sororiti last year.
Oh fine, well, she's twenty one.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
A great pair of chaperones. Why don't you have Kathy
and Bud?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Jim, I've met mister Osborne. He's at least twenty.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Five, a doddering old man.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Don't you trust us?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Father? It's not that I don't trust you, but there's
simply no reason for a crowd of youngsters to go
out to a lot of books.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
Crossing is a perfectly respectable place, father, It's run by
nice people.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't care who runs it these days, young people.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Why do you say these days?
Speaker 10 (12:55):
Kids today are just as capable of thinking for themselves
as you and mother were when you were young. And
she went on sleigh rides and her father didn't go along, that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Was different, Jim, Dear, be reasonable.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I'm being perfectly reasonable.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
The last time Aunt Martha was here, she told me
about a sleigh ride.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You and on, father.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I remember all about it. Your mother and I missed
the ride home and her father had to come out
in the bob slid and pick us out.
Speaker 10 (13:21):
Well, that would never happen to me.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It makes no difference. I know these sleigh rides, and
I'm going to chaperon this one. And that's final.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Jumping creeper, Jim, there's no reason to get so upset.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Who's upset? I remember our sleigh rides. We always had
an older person with us.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You really remember, of course I do, Jim, that sleigh ride.
Aunt Martha told about it.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It was before we were married. You and I were
stranded at the halfway house.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
We were, Jim, You and I never went to the
halfway house. That was another girl.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
An old fashioned sleigh ride. Wonderful, yes, And even though
Jim Anderson's chaperone may not look forward to it quite
as much as he did that night twenty years ago,
the Country's sleigh Ride has certainly remained a well loved
American tradition, and down through the years, Maxwell House Coffee
has grown to be as real and heartwarming a part
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of American living as the Country sleigh Ride. In fact,
in this nation of coffee lovers, more families buy and
enjoy Maxwell House coffee than any other brand at any price. Now,
the reason our Maxwell House is chosen above all other
coffees is for its wonderful, good to the last drop flavor,
and that flavor belongs to Maxwell House alone. You see
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countless grades and varieties of coffee grow all over the world,
but the Maxwell House people insist on the very choicest
extra flavor varieties from the mountain plateaus of Latin America.
They select fancy Manizales coffees for fragrant mellowness, superb Medlins
for extra richness, Choice Booker among Us coffees for fine
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full body. In fact, Maxwell House buys more of these
fine flavor coffees than anyone else in the world. That's right,
more than anyone and only the Maxwell House people know
how to blend these premium vintage coffees in just the
right proportions to create that one and only good to
the last drop flavor. If you haven't yet enjoyed that
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truly superb flavor, the flavor of coffee at its downright
satisfying best, start serving our Maxwell House coffee this weekend.
It's the one coffee that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
The way to get ahead in this world is to
always do a little more than is expected, a worthy
principle well expressed by Jim Anderson. He's done considerably more
than Betty expected him to, and is he getting ahead
well slowly. It's Friday night, and in the kitchen Jim
is directing last minute preparations for a snowy trek to
Cook's Crossing Lodge like this.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I have everything in the car, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Did you get the extra blanket?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I have extra everything.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
Jeannie and the gang are outside. We're leaving father.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
We'll be there waiting for you when you arrive. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Why can't we go on the sleigh?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I've locked all the doors. Where's Bud?
Speaker 8 (16:38):
I'm here just waiting.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Why can't we go on the sleigh?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
There isn't room, Cathy?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Can we go now?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
How do we have everything?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We're ready, Margaret. I know the things you need for
a sleigh.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Ride, so I've been told.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Margaret. Please, we've all been ready for twenty minutes. The
motor of the car is run. If you don't hurry,
we'll be out of gas.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Or what are you standing here for? Why aren't you
in the car?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We're waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I've been ready for half an hour.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Let's go. Get in the car. Come on, Bud, I
get to sit next to the window.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
You're sure we have everything, Jane, yes, Margaret, I have checked.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
We have everything. Just get in the car.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Be sure the door is locked.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's locked all right.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
What's the matter, jim.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
My house keys?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What about the keys?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I left them upstairs on the dresser, Oh, Jim, But yes, Dan,
you've been sitting around doing nothing. We've had to do everything. Now,
help me get a window open. We have to get
the house keys. Dad.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
I've got the keys in my pocket. Can you see
anything out there?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Dead?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I can see the front fender.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Why couldn't we go on the sleigh with Daddy?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I told you Kathy there wasn't room.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Darned windshield wipers?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Jim, do you have to drive with your head out
the window?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
No? I wouldn't have to if we had radar. Happy
had to take the wiper blades off this afternoon and
wash them.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
There was nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
No, but she'd drive them over the stove. It's like
scraping the windshield with a pair of pretzels.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I only tried to help.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I told you to wash the windshield, not the wipers.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
You said we should do more than we were asked
to do.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Always still on the road.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Let me get my head.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Out of here.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You're getting snow in your ears, Daddy. What you're getting
snow in your ears?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm getting at my eyes too.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Jim, can't see a thing, Jim.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Why'd I get my head in out?
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Why don't you roll the window clear down?
Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's snowing, bud, Jim.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Was it Dorothy Sharp? Who the girl you took on
the sleigh ride that night?
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Margaret?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I'm trying to navigate through a snowstorm. I can't think
about something that happened twenty years ago. What difference does
it make who she was?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I just wonder.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'm all a silly thing, some girl I knew when
we were kids.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
When don't we get there, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
At the rate we're going, we'll be right on time
for the summer festival.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh that'll be fun.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
He was kidding. Knuckle ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
The slave probably made cooks crossing a half hour ago.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
You don't have to worry, Jim. Betty has the food.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I'm not worrying about the food.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Relaxed, Dear. I'm sure we'll be there in time to
start everybody home. We won't leave any couples to be
picked up later.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Danny said, you got left once. How to happen, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Well, this young lady and I were in the kitchen
doing the dishes, and nobody in the crowd told us
they were leaving, just you and.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The young lady doing dishes.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Yes, young lady, Holy.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Call, Let's just drop the subject. Kathy.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Let her ask all the questions she wants. I have
nothing to hide.
Speaker 8 (20:15):
There's a crossfoad, Dad, and slow down. I'll read the sign.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
When are we gonna get there, daddy.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Kathy Westbrook?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Three miles?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I know where we are. That's the river road, exactly
a quarter of a mile ahead. The road turns right.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Are we almost there, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Snow's getting thicker. We'll have to mark off a quarter
of a mile on the speedometer. What's wrong with a speedometer?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It says we're going ninety two miles an hour?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You get a ticke.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Of Daddy, speedometer stuck. Everything on the dashboard is stuck.
What in the name of Caesar.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
It should work? I adjusted everything on the dashboard.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh brother, I should have a screwdriver. All I asked
you to do was wipe it all.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
I just tried to do a little extra Dad.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
No speedometer, no nothing, but start counting the telephone poles.
There were one hundred and fifty feet apart. When we
get to eight, that's where we turn. Okay, Dad, one,
are we almost there, Daddy, don't breathe down the back
of my neck, Jim.
Speaker 8 (21:25):
Two.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yes, Margaret was the girl from out of town.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Girl? Oh Margaret? What does it matter who she was
or where she came from?
Speaker 8 (21:36):
Three?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I can count on the fingers of one hand the
girls outside of you that I had more than one
date with the whole time I was in college.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh, I believe you.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, there was Ellen King. How many times did I
go out with her? Or just once?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I'm counting telephone poles.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Then there was Clara Harkness went out with her once?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
It was twice, Jim, there were about four girls.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You had three dates with Hail?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Well, what if it was three? What if it was five?
What if it was fifteen?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Where was I?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That's lost?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Are you counting, Bud?
Speaker 8 (22:11):
I got mixed up?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Oh no, now we.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh Jim, what happened?
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Nothing at all? The road turned and we didn't What
are we stopping for?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But I told you to count the polls.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
I was till you started counting girls.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I was a great. Now we're stuck back up, daddy, Margaret,
do something with that child.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
She only made a suggestion, Jim.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Back up, what's behind us? Bud, Snow, what are you
going to do?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Jim?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Back up if I can.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
We're not moving, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
All right, let's get out.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
What are we getting out for?
Speaker 8 (23:09):
So?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Lighting the car? Caddy?
Speaker 9 (23:11):
I'm not heavy yet, going on it?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
What do you want us to do?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Jim? When I race the motor? Everybody push the bird,
push on the front fenders.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Ready, go ahead, Dead, No use, it won't budge.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
You didn't push hard up that The wheel has just
been around, Jim, I.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Know, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Let me out. I have to get the jack out
of the trunk with the blankets under the back wheels.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Jim, not our good blankets?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
All right, but open the trunk, Okay, I'll hand things out. Uh,
here's a record player, Margaret. Here are the blankets.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's cold out here, Yes.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
It's cold.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Every hold out your arms, Bud here.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
I can't see over these blankets.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Dad, there's nothing to see. Where's that darn jack?
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Dead?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Slave probably got the cook's crossing. They've had supper dead? What, Bud,
we don't have a jack?
Speaker 8 (24:17):
What mister Davis wanted to borrow a spark plug wrench
and I gave him the whole toolbox.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
But you didn't.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
I did I remembered what you said about cold daddy?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh, we can't stand out here, do you?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh right, get back in the car. What a knight?
How did I ever get into this fool sleigh ride?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Betty said you didn't have to come along. I wasn't worried.
Of course, I haven't had your experience with sleigh rocks.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
It must be miles to the nearest farmhouse. You stay
with the kids, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (24:52):
Oh, Dad, here comes to sleigh the horse, Thank Heaven.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
What a stroke of luck. Hello there, that's you, miss
j Anderson. Yes, I went off the road.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Are you all right?
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Father? We're fine, Princess.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I'll throw your rope, mister Anderson hooking, onto the bumper
and i'll pull you out.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Great now, you see, Margaret, my plan for this is
going to work out perfectly. We'll follow a slave to
the lodge. We'll all have supper together.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Haven't father.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
We were worried about you.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Just a little mishap, nothing serious. We'll be on our
way to the lodge in five minutes.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
On our way, father, we're going home. The party's over.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Well, don't stand with your mouth open, Jim, you'll catch cold.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
And father, you know what all the girls said, they
think you're the most wonderful chaperone we've ever had.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
The hearty, good cheer and a fragrant cup of Maxwell
House coffee. That's one pleasure most Americans will count on
throughout the new year. For the famous good to the
last drop flavor of Maxwell House has made it America's
favorite coffee. And once you try our Maxwell House coffee,
taste the rich, full bodied goodness of our blend, I'm
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sure you'll agree it's the best coffee you ever tasted.
Then just count all the truly good cups you get
from each pound, and you'll say Maxwell House is Today's coffee.
By this weekend, then look for the big white cup
and drop on the familiar blue Maxwell House tin. Select
the grind that's just right for the way you make coffee, regular,
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drip or pulverized. Take home Maxwell House, the one coffee
that's always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Well, the stars are shining brightly in Springfield tonight.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The snow of.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Last night lies clean, unruffled, the smooth as the tide
of life in the Anderson household.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
It's good to spend an evening at home catch up
on some reading.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I have some pleasant news. Jim oh I called the
lodge this morning to see if there were any extra
charges for the party last night.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
No charges, that's good news.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Not only that, but the caretaker said, we had a
lovely daughter and it was the most well behaved group
you'd ever seen.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I could have told him that.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You see, all your worries were for nothing.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
When was I worry?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Incidentally, I remember the name of that girl, the one
you took on the sleigh ride. Was Mary Alton?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Say that's right, it was Wait a minute, how did
you remember I was.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
On that same party with another boar?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Who was he?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Oh? It isn't important.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Hey, what's your hurry? We're having coconut cream pie for supper.
Your wife must love you to go to all that work.
Why it's no work with Jello coconut cream pudding and
pie filling.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
You mean it, sure?
Speaker 5 (28:34):
With a new Jello coconut cream pudding and pie filling.
You just add milk and bring.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
To a boil. Hey, I'm going to get some from
my wife.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
You get some too, Yello coconut cream pudding and pie
filling for red letter desserts.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Join us again next week when we'll be back Where
Father Knows Yes, starring Robert Young is Jim Anderson with
Roy Bargey's orchestra In Our Cast, Baroda Williams is Betty,
Jean Vanderpyle, Ted Donaldson, Norma Jean Nilson, Sam Edwards, Pat mcgehan,
and Yours Truly Bill Foreman. So goodnight and good luck
from the makers of Maxwell House, America's favorite brand of coffee,
(29:18):
Always good to the last drop. Father Knows Best was
transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
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