September 23, 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):
In a moment, you'll hear Robert Young starring in Father
Knows Best. But first this listening reminder. Tomorrow evening on
most NBC radio stations, listen to the great comedy Shows
presented by Phil Harris and Alice Fay and by Bob Hope.
There's mile a minute fun on the fast paced Bob
Hope Show when Tomorrow night he trades gags and songs
with guest star Bob Crosby. Of course, Les Brown and
(00:21):
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So make it a date to hear the Bob Hope
Show tomorrow evening, and then stay tuned for Phil Harris
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music Friday's Fun Day on NBC Radio. And now it's
Father Knows Best on NBC.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young as
Father Welcome to Springfield, and another half hour is it
with the folks in the White Frame House on a Street.
Sit back and enjoy life with the Andersons, can't they?
(01:02):
Bud Betty Margaret and Jim, as the head of this
typical American household, again sets out to prove that father
knows best. Not too many years ago, an ingenius inventor
(01:38):
by the name of Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
This is an instrument which makes it possible for two
people to talk to each other, even though they may
be some distance apart.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's done with wires now.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The telephone turned out to be a pretty popular gadget.
In fact, so many people acquired telephones that there just
wasn't wire enough to give everyone a private line, so
some people have party lines.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
In the town of Springfield, the.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Andersons have just been placed on a party line, and
it's creating considerable interest like this, Ha.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Ha ha, Bud, what are you doing? Sh I'm missing You
ought to hear this conversation.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Bud Anderson put down that telephone. What's the matter? You're
not supposed to listen to other people's conversations. Why not?
They didn't know I.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Was listening, Margaret, I'm home.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
We're in the den deer.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Oh oh, honey.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Hello dear, how is your day fine? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Hello, Bud? What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Just standing here?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's been a real good day, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Remember Don Sheridan, his wife's the big wheel in the
social set.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yes, I had a note from Missus Sheridan today.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, well I met him today and he mentioned that
his wife wanted you to join some exclusive club that
she runs or something.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
That's what she said. Note. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Nice people to know.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
If things go right, I just might get the insurance
on that automobile agency of his, a big fat account.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Well, there's a saying in town. If you're in with
the Sheridans, you're in period. I think I'll call Pauline
Chambers and tell her about that note from Missus Sheridan.
She knows her quite well, so we want to see them. Oh,
those people are still talking.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Somebody on our line?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yes, the phone company call this morning and said we'd
have to be on a party line temporarilyly get some
new equipment or something. I wonder who.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
They are, who you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I was just wondering who the people are on our line.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Maybe it's a good thing to have somebody else on
the line. Give us a little rest around here. In fact,
the way the kids use this telephone. Those people, whoever
they are, will be lucky if they get a chance
to call the operator. Oh, this chair feels good this evening.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
That's it. I'm a little concerned about what. Well it
seems the new people have been on the line every
time I picked up the phone today.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Uh, just coincidence.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I hope we don't have any trouble with them.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Did you see this little story here on the first page.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I have looked at the paper story about a couple
who got married down in Texas the other day.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
That's so unusual about a couple getting married in Texas.
I imagine it happens every day.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, but get this.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The groom was ninety years old and the bride was
eighty seven. Oh they're taking a honeymoon trip to Florida
on a tandem bicycle.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Well that's interesting. What does it prove, dear, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I guess it shows that people, as they grow older nowadays,
are younger than they used to be.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yes, I suppose so.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, it's true. Look at us, for instance, I.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Don't want to go to Florida on a bicycle.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Look what I mean on he is that forty or
fifty years ago. People out our age considered themselves middle aged.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
What are you leading up to?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, it kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
An interesting thing happened today.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
I was downtown and then have you seen my red shoes?
Speaker 8 (05:10):
I can't.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Oh, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Father, go ahead, Princess, No.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
You were talking and I interrupted.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
What were you saying?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I was just telling your mother. That's sort of an
interesting thing happened downtown today. It's one of those things
that's kind of hard to explain.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Why is it hard to explain?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, it's odd.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I was in the car driving along and this other
car pulled up and sort of drove alongside of me.
I thought at first it was some friend of ours,
somebody I knew.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Then I looked over to.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
See who it was, and I didn't recognize her.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Her a woman, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And a quite young and attractive woman. And she kept
looking over at me and smiling.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh no, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Oh no, an attractive girl smiled at your father, Betty, Now,
don't spoil it. Let him live. After all, it's not impossible.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I didn't say it was impossible.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
It just seems.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean, well, why, Princess, I didn't ask her why?
And I only mentioned it because it seemed kind of
interesting and unusual.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
She probably thought you were someone she knew, a friend
of her father's.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Maybe possibly, but it seemed so odd. She could see
very plainly, we weren't more than ten feet apart.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I can understand it, dear. You're just young, looking and
handsome and irresistible.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh no, honey, I didn't say that.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
You're being silly mother at father, at father's.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Age, not just minute. Let's leave my age out of this.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
On the other hand, though it follows what follows our
psychology prop was saying yesterday how you can always tell
when a man is reach middle age he begins to
think young girls are smiling at him.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Why Betty Princess. The only reason I mentioned the incident
was because, oh, by.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
The way, mother, I'm having dinner over at Janie Niggetts.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
If it's all right, I don't mind if missus Leggott invited.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
You, guess i'd better call and tell Janie it's okay.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
That's funny. Is there somebody on our line?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Oh no, they're not still talking.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
They're not talking, but the receiver must be off the hook.
I could hear a conversation like in a room.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well, hang up, Betty, don't listen.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
I wasn't listening.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Oh, don't be grumpy, father, just because I told you
what our psychology.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 10 (07:59):
Angel I was gonna stay over Patty Davis's, but I didn't.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I came home.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
What happened?
Speaker 10 (08:06):
Old Patty's father thinks he's so cute, always dancing around
and acting silly. I like my daddy a lot better.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, thank goodness, I have someone on my side.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Oh, father, don't be so touchy.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I like you a lot better, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thank you, kitten.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
You're a nice old daddy.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Now wait, just that was the wrong thing to say.
Shrimp boat, you're in trouble now, Princess, do you mind?
I didn't say anything.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Uh, Daddy, you'd better come out in the kitchen with me.
I'm kidding.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
My father is so sensitive all of a sudden.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well, i'll explain it to you. All I said was
the point is, Betty, that your father has reached the
age where he's not really old at all, but he
needs to have someone who sure in that he isn't.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Yeah, well, I'm going over to Jane's.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
We'll probably go to the library.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
I won't be late.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Call us if you want us to pick you up.
I well, this family trying to keep everyone happy.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Dear, are you still in the den.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, I'm still here.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Where'd Kathy go?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
She gave her nice old daddy a pat ony's nice
old head and disappeared.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Oh, Jim, stop being silly. You know the children say
things they don't mean it. They don't even think.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't know, you know the old saying about truth
from the mouths of babes.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh fiddle. I wasn't gonna say this, but I'm positive
that mister and Missus Sheridan are inviting us into their
crowd just because of you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh undoubtedly probably think I'll make a peachy chaperone.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hey Dad, what is it, Bud?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
What goes with our phone? I've been trying to get
Joe for an hour. There's always somebody on a yacking away.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Oh dear, who can they be talking to? Yackity yackty yackity.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Well, they can't talk forever. Just wait till they hang up.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I've been waiting and I have calls to make. I
want to call Pauline and ask her about Missus Sheridan.
How to approach her and Allah, I'll admit I'm a
little nervous.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Nervous.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Why, well, I've never met the Sheridans. We want to
make a good impression.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don't worry, we will.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I know she's been around asking questions about us.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
People have told me I relax, Margaret. She'll find out
soon enough what kind of people we are. I just
got to get hold of Joel.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Why don't you go over there? No, I told him
i'd call him.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
What's the matter with you, Bud?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Can't use the phone? Somebody on their gaving away?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
They won't quit.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Have you tried the phone here and the breakfast room.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
It's the same one as in the den. This is
just an extension.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Are they still talking?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Believe that? Yeah, they're still out of it. Women always talking.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Why don't you tell him to hang up?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
They and you know the whole trouble. They're on the
same line we're on.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Let's get them off.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, how I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Maybe we could scare them off. How well, what if
they thought we were a bunch of gangsters or something
real tough. Yeah, look, I'll put the phone here on
the table so they can hear us talking. Okay, well kid,
I guess the old man did all right when he
not doubled a bank last night.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Yeah, Pop's a real good burglar.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Hey, they stop talking, they're listening.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
God, he said I could go with him on his
next job.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It isn't gonna be much.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
We're gonna hijack a beer truck.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Oh goodie, then we can have beer.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I got all, I lot my gat. Pop says, we
may have to plug a couple of guys.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Hey, it worked.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
They hung up.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
Boy, you're pretty smart, Bud. I wonder who they are.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I don't know one name.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
It kind of seems like I heard somewhere missus Sheridan.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Who else? Who's your fixed?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Bir?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Didn't we.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Why?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
We sure did?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Act two of Father knows best in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
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Speaker 3 (13:14):
Remember what we said about looking into the future, It
just can't be done. And with conditions shaping up as
they are in the white frame house on Maple Street,
maybe it's a good thing. It's bad enough to know
what's happened already, what with Bud and Kathy trying to
discourage the people on the Anderson's party line. No, we
won't even think about what might happen next. Let's just
go back to Margaret and Jim and the dam happily
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unaware of what transpired in the breakfast room a few
moments ago.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
You know, you're right, dear right about what I shouldn't
worry about what kind of an impression we'll make on
missus Sheridan.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
Of course not.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
We're a perfectly respectable family.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
That's what I told you.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I think I'll call Pauline anyway, Well, wonder of wonders,
the people on our line have hung up.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I told you they would. You just have to be paid,
that's all.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
It's just that i've heard that missus Sheridan is so
well strict and proper about everything. Hello, Pauline, this is Margaret. Fine,
say I have some news I received a Pauline. Something's
just come up. I'll call you back in a few minutes. Bye. Well,
(14:24):
now what, Jim? I distinctly heard a receiver being picked up.
Those people on our line were listening in.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh, honey, you're letting your imagination run away with you.
Why would anyone.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Want to listen?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I don't know, but I heard them lit the receiver, Jim.
There must be some way of finding out who those
people are.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
There is ask them.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Oh you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I don't see why not.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Hey, paul you should have heard it. Heard what Kathy
and I fix those people on our line. I bet
they won't bother us anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What have you been doing?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
We scared them out?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
They were gathering away, so I left the phone off
the hook and Kathy and I talked real.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Loud so they could hear us. Oh, Bud, after they
heard us.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I'll bet they'll never use the phone again. They might
even leave town.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I don't understand. It was a slick idea.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
We pretended like Dad.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Was a gangster. What sure scare him?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
We said a lot of stuff about how you robbed
a bank and you and I were going to hijack
a bear top. Bud, you didn't, Well, what's wrong with it?
You want him to quit hog on the line, don't you?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yes? But you should have heard him.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Boy, did they hang up the phone quick?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
They didn't want to take any chances with tough characters
like us.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
But you shouldn't have done that. We don't know who
those people are.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Well, you don't have to worry. They're nobody. We know
somebody named Missus Sheridan.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Well it doesn't make it, ah Sheridan.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Oh that does it? But are you sure?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I heard one woman call the other one missus Sheridan.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Why is it somebody you know? Somebody I know? Bud,
she's she's.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Oh this is.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
The end, the absolute end. Why, Bud Anderson, you stood
right here in this den when I was talking about
Missus Sheridan. Maybe that's where I heard the name. Oh,
oh no, that explains why she was listening in on
my conversation after what she heard before. Oh what am
I going to do?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Jim?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Just calm down, Honey, don't do anything.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I didn't know who she was, Bud. You stood right
on that very spot and heard me.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I wasn't listening, Margaret. Please now be reasonable.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You know as well as I do that, missus Sheridan,
A grown up, intelligent woman is not going to be
taken in by a couple of kids playing gangsters.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Oh you're right. She wouldn't. She'd know it was just
the children acting silly.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
She'd overheard ad else talking. That would be different. I'll
get it, honey. Hello, Yes this is me, me.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Er me me Who you.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Do not know me?
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Jim?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
But I know you for this and this? I watch
you intend today.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
You smile at me.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well you must have the wrong party.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
No, doll, baby, you are the right party.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
My heart tells me, so, Jim, who is it some
girl today?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
When you drive your car alongside mine and I smile
at you.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
And you smile at me.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Oh, that this is the moment I live for?
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Dull baby?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Wait, I didn't I do of you?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Every night?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Ever since I first see you.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Me, I mean, well, I'll hang up, Hang up, My
wife says, to hang up.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Don't baby, you have a wife.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Look, I don't know how you found me, but I find.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
You if you're at the end of the earth all today.
When your eyes looked into mine, I knew, I knew
you were still once. But I'm not the one GM
hang up.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I'm sorry, miss sir.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Promise we'll meet a kid.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
No, I uh, I can't hang up.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Goodbye, miss it must be, it must be.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Goodbye, my love, Goodbye, doll dep.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
I give you a pig kiss. Good bye.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Jim.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
What in the world, how do you like that? That
woman I told you about, the one that smiled at
me this morning, must have found the numbers somehow.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
What did she want me? I guess, Jim, I just
know Missus Sheridan was listening in on the line. What
did the woman say? Oh, my gosh, what did she say?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
She said she dreamed of me every night, called me
her doll baby.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Well that's all I can imagine. What sort of people
Missus Sheridan thinks we are by now, why didn't you
explain to her?
Speaker 11 (19:40):
To me?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Me?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Oh, that surely wasn't her name Mimi?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Honey, I didn't have anything to do with this.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I can't help it if women track me down.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Oh oh, jim, Well we're finished, that's all. This will
be all over town.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You know how people talk, Oh honey, it's easily explained.
How well this girl just called me up?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's all. What could I do?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
It can't be explained.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But you believe me, don't you? Honey?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
She drove her car alongside mine?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Can I help it?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
If she whoa you and your fatal fascination.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It's not my fault.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'll get it.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I'd better answer it. If this is Mimi, Hello, Oh hello,
missus Sheridan. Yes, yes, I received your note. Yes, I'll
be at home. Oh, I'd be delighted to see you
all right, goodbye, Well, missus Sheridan, she's coming right over.
(20:45):
Why don't we just gather up the children and leave?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
What did she say?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
She has something to speak to me about, and it's
quite important. I know she heard everything first, but now
you and Mimi. I can't face her, that's all. I
just won't be here.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I'll wait a minute, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
If she wants to jump at conclusions. Let her jump.
We've done nothing wrong. This whole thing is mother.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
We're in here, Betty, I decided not to go to
the library after all.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
So what's the matter.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
The roof has just falling in?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Well, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
You better start packing your things, Betty? Before this is over,
we'll probably have to leave town.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, Princess, it seems your doddering old father has charmed
a certain unknown French lady named Mimi right out of
her socks.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Oh, father, you're kidding.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
He didn't do it intentionally, that we know, but it's
been done this this Mimi called up here, the one
who smiled at him in the car this morning.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
She didn't, Yes she did.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
How she tracked me down, I'll never understand.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
But you know how some women are.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Don't look so proud of yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, let's face it, honey, it isn't every day a
man my age turns out to be quite so devastating.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Oh fiddle, Well, if you're so devastating, maybe you'd like
to explain how all this happened to missus Sheridan.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Sure, I'll explain to her.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
No you won't.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
There's a car stopping out in front.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
There she is. What am I going to say to her?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
I don't think it's important. I'm much more interested in
father in this sudden charm Betty, stop it.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
He's completely unmanageable. Now, well, here she is. I suppose
there's nothing to do but go and face it.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I'll talk to her if you want, Honey, never.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Mind, Missus Addison, Yeah, I'm missus Sheridan.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Won't you come in? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (22:51):
You must think it a little odd my calling you
and coming over this way, but there's something I feel
and misdiscuss.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yes, I think I understand. Won't you come into the
living room? Thank you? I believe I know why you're here,
Missus Sheridan. Yes, I thought you would know.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Well.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I suppose it is necessary to explain that we somehow
came to share the same telephone line.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
No, it is necessary to explain, but please believe me
what you heard it? Well, I'm terribly embarrassed.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Did you hear everything that I heard?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I either heard it or heard about it, But you
must have mister Anderson get when he knocked over the bank? Missus?
Interesting work?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Jacking beer trucks? Please? You know how children are you
know that was all made up.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Oh, I sort of guessed it was. I have children
of my own, you know, Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
But Missus Anderson or may I call you Margaret? Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Please do your husband, and I'll admit I listened on
the party line, your husband and me me.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
There's something you should know. I know all about it,
Missus Sheridan. Believe me, it's nothing. That's what you think.
There's something about Mimi that you don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Excuse me, Missus Sheridan.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I'm mister Aison.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Well, dull baby, it's silly, absolutely silly.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I don't know this girl, mem she's a perfect stranger.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Oh no, she isn't. She isn't. He knows her very well.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
But who is she?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Your daughter?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, Betty?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
You see after you hung up.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Jim I, who had been listening to the whole thing,
talk to me me when she learned why why she
explained what she had done and.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Why why that rascal?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
So I knew I had to come over here right
away because I knew how you must be feeling.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Margaret. Oh, thank you so much. What's the funniest thing
I've ever heard?
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Me?
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Me?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Oh, well, that's all I wanted to tell you, Margaret,
I'll see you at the club meeting.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Goodbye, mister Anderson.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
It's been a pleasure meeting you, doll, baby.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
It's been a pleasure meeting.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You, I think.
Speaker 12 (25:47):
Oh, by the way, we're getting our private phone lines
back tomorrow. Goodbye, goodbye, Well, my irresistible charmer.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Where is that girl? Betty? Betty? Up here? All Betty?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
The Andersons will be back in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
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Speaker 3 (27:00):
Oh well, it's hard to believe, but the Andersons came
through the day with no damages outside of Jim's slightly
wounded pride. He's nursing that injury right now as he
sits in the living room with Margaret, still trying to explain.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well, things like that do happen.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Honey, Oh, Jim.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
All right, I remember Fred Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Some girl called him out. He didn't know who she was.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Turned out he'd given her his seat on a bus
two years before, a likely story. Besides, I'm not the
world's ugliest man. Second ugliest maybe, but not the ugliest
I know.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Dear.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
By the way, where's Betty?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Oh she went out somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
The point I'm trying to make, Margaret is that it's
not impossible that some young lady might just might find
me attractive.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Sure, sure, probably for me, I'll get it. Hello. Who, Yes,
he's here, it's for you, dear me.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Some Southern girl named Laura says she just hire us
to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Wow, what do you know?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
When you finish? Dear, tell Betty if she's near the
grocery to bring home some potatoes.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
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Knows Best, based on characters created by Ed James, is
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(28:54):
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Speaker 2 (28:55):
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Speaker 1 (29:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young as
Father Welcome to Springfield, and another half hour is it
with the folks in the White Frame House on a Street.
Sit back and enjoy life with the Andersons, can't they?
(01:02):
Bud Betty Margaret and Jim, as the head of this
typical American household, again sets out to prove that father
knows best. Not too many years ago, an ingenius inventor
(01:38):
by the name of Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
This is an instrument which makes it possible for two
people to talk to each other, even though they may
be some distance apart.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's done with wires now.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
The telephone turned out to be a pretty popular gadget.
In fact, so many people acquired telephones that there just
wasn't wire enough to give everyone a private line, so
some people have party lines.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
In the town of Springfield, the.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Andersons have just been placed on a party line, and
it's creating considerable interest like this, Ha.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Ha ha, Bud, what are you doing? Sh I'm missing You
ought to hear this conversation.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Bud Anderson put down that telephone. What's the matter? You're
not supposed to listen to other people's conversations. Why not?
They didn't know I.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Was listening, Margaret, I'm home.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
We're in the den deer.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Oh oh, honey.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Hello dear, how is your day fine? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Hello, Bud? What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Just standing here?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's been a real good day, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Remember Don Sheridan, his wife's the big wheel in the
social set.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Yes, I had a note from Missus Sheridan today.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, well I met him today and he mentioned that
his wife wanted you to join some exclusive club that
she runs or something.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
That's what she said. Note. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Nice people to know.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
If things go right, I just might get the insurance
on that automobile agency of his, a big fat account.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Well, there's a saying in town. If you're in with
the Sheridans, you're in period. I think I'll call Pauline
Chambers and tell her about that note from Missus Sheridan.
She knows her quite well, so we want to see them. Oh,
those people are still talking.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Somebody on our line?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yes, the phone company call this morning and said we'd
have to be on a party line temporarilyly get some
new equipment or something. I wonder who.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
They are, who you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I was just wondering who the people are on our line.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Maybe it's a good thing to have somebody else on
the line. Give us a little rest around here. In fact,
the way the kids use this telephone. Those people, whoever
they are, will be lucky if they get a chance
to call the operator. Oh, this chair feels good this evening.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
That's it. I'm a little concerned about what. Well it
seems the new people have been on the line every
time I picked up the phone today.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Uh, just coincidence.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
I hope we don't have any trouble with them.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Did you see this little story here on the first page.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I have looked at the paper story about a couple
who got married down in Texas the other day.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
That's so unusual about a couple getting married in Texas.
I imagine it happens every day.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, but get this.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The groom was ninety years old and the bride was
eighty seven. Oh they're taking a honeymoon trip to Florida
on a tandem bicycle.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Well that's interesting. What does it prove, dear, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I guess it shows that people, as they grow older nowadays,
are younger than they used to be.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yes, I suppose so.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, it's true. Look at us, for instance, I.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Don't want to go to Florida on a bicycle.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Look what I mean on he is that forty or
fifty years ago. People out our age considered themselves middle aged.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
What are you leading up to?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, it kind of.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
An interesting thing happened today.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
I was downtown and then have you seen my red shoes?
Speaker 8 (05:10):
I can't.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Oh, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Father, go ahead, Princess, No.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
You were talking and I interrupted.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
What were you saying?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I was just telling your mother. That's sort of an
interesting thing happened downtown today. It's one of those things
that's kind of hard to explain.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Why is it hard to explain?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, it's odd.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I was in the car driving along and this other
car pulled up and sort of drove alongside of me.
I thought at first it was some friend of ours,
somebody I knew.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Then I looked over to.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
See who it was, and I didn't recognize her.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Her a woman, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And a quite young and attractive woman. And she kept
looking over at me and smiling.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh no, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Oh no, an attractive girl smiled at your father, Betty, Now,
don't spoil it. Let him live. After all, it's not impossible.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I didn't say it was impossible.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
It just seems.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean, well, why, Princess, I didn't ask her why?
And I only mentioned it because it seemed kind of
interesting and unusual.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
She probably thought you were someone she knew, a friend
of her father's.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Maybe possibly, but it seemed so odd. She could see
very plainly, we weren't more than ten feet apart.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I can understand it, dear. You're just young, looking and
handsome and irresistible.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh no, honey, I didn't say that.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
You're being silly mother at father, at father's.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Age, not just minute. Let's leave my age out of this.
Speaker 9 (07:03):
On the other hand, though it follows what follows our
psychology prop was saying yesterday how you can always tell
when a man is reach middle age he begins to
think young girls are smiling at him.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Why Betty Princess. The only reason I mentioned the incident
was because, oh, by.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
The way, mother, I'm having dinner over at Janie Niggetts.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
If it's all right, I don't mind if missus Leggott invited.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
You, guess i'd better call and tell Janie it's okay.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
That's funny. Is there somebody on our line?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Oh no, they're not still talking.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
They're not talking, but the receiver must be off the hook.
I could hear a conversation like in a room.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well, hang up, Betty, don't listen.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
I wasn't listening.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Oh, don't be grumpy, father, just because I told you
what our psychology.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 10 (07:59):
Angel I was gonna stay over Patty Davis's, but I didn't.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I came home.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
What happened?
Speaker 10 (08:06):
Old Patty's father thinks he's so cute, always dancing around
and acting silly. I like my daddy a lot better.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, thank goodness, I have someone on my side.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Oh, father, don't be so touchy.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I like you a lot better, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Thank you, kitten.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
You're a nice old daddy.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
Now wait, just that was the wrong thing to say.
Shrimp boat, you're in trouble now, Princess, do you mind?
I didn't say anything.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Uh, Daddy, you'd better come out in the kitchen with me.
I'm kidding.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
My father is so sensitive all of a sudden.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well, i'll explain it to you. All I said was
the point is, Betty, that your father has reached the
age where he's not really old at all, but he
needs to have someone who sure in that he isn't.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Yeah, well, I'm going over to Jane's.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
We'll probably go to the library.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
I won't be late.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Call us if you want us to pick you up.
I well, this family trying to keep everyone happy.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Dear, are you still in the den.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yes, I'm still here.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Where'd Kathy go?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
She gave her nice old daddy a pat ony's nice
old head and disappeared.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Oh, Jim, stop being silly. You know the children say
things they don't mean it. They don't even think.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't know, you know the old saying about truth
from the mouths of babes.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh fiddle. I wasn't gonna say this, but I'm positive
that mister and Missus Sheridan are inviting us into their
crowd just because of you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh undoubtedly probably think I'll make a peachy chaperone.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hey Dad, what is it, Bud?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
What goes with our phone? I've been trying to get
Joe for an hour. There's always somebody on a yacking away.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Oh dear, who can they be talking to? Yackity yackty yackity.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Well, they can't talk forever. Just wait till they hang up.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I've been waiting and I have calls to make. I
want to call Pauline and ask her about Missus Sheridan.
How to approach her and Allah, I'll admit I'm a
little nervous.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Nervous.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Why, well, I've never met the Sheridans. We want to
make a good impression.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don't worry, we will.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I know she's been around asking questions about us.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
People have told me I relax, Margaret. She'll find out
soon enough what kind of people we are. I just
got to get hold of Joel.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Why don't you go over there? No, I told him
i'd call him.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
What's the matter with you, Bud?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Can't use the phone? Somebody on their gaving away?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
They won't quit.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
Have you tried the phone here and the breakfast room.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
It's the same one as in the den. This is
just an extension.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Are they still talking?
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Believe that? Yeah, they're still out of it. Women always talking.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Why don't you tell him to hang up?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
They and you know the whole trouble. They're on the
same line we're on.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Let's get them off.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, how I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Maybe we could scare them off. How well, what if
they thought we were a bunch of gangsters or something
real tough. Yeah, look, I'll put the phone here on
the table so they can hear us talking. Okay, well kid,
I guess the old man did all right when he
not doubled a bank last night.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Yeah, Pop's a real good burglar.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Hey, they stop talking, they're listening.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
God, he said I could go with him on his
next job.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It isn't gonna be much.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
We're gonna hijack a beer truck.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Oh goodie, then we can have beer.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I got all, I lot my gat. Pop says, we
may have to plug a couple of guys.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Hey, it worked.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
They hung up.
Speaker 10 (11:55):
Boy, you're pretty smart, Bud. I wonder who they are.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I don't know one name.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
It kind of seems like I heard somewhere missus Sheridan.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Who else? Who's your fixed?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Bir?
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Didn't we.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Why?
Speaker 7 (12:11):
We sure did?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Act two of Father knows best in just a moment.
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Speaker 3 (13:14):
Remember what we said about looking into the future, It
just can't be done. And with conditions shaping up as
they are in the white frame house on Maple Street,
maybe it's a good thing. It's bad enough to know
what's happened already, what with Bud and Kathy trying to
discourage the people on the Anderson's party line. No, we
won't even think about what might happen next. Let's just
go back to Margaret and Jim and the dam happily
(13:34):
unaware of what transpired in the breakfast room a few
moments ago.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
You know, you're right, dear right about what I shouldn't
worry about what kind of an impression we'll make on
missus Sheridan.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
Of course not.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
We're a perfectly respectable family.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
That's what I told you.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I think I'll call Pauline anyway, Well, wonder of wonders,
the people on our line have hung up.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I told you they would. You just have to be paid,
that's all.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
It's just that i've heard that missus Sheridan is so
well strict and proper about everything. Hello, Pauline, this is Margaret. Fine,
say I have some news I received a Pauline. Something's
just come up. I'll call you back in a few minutes. Bye. Well,
(14:24):
now what, Jim? I distinctly heard a receiver being picked up.
Those people on our line were listening in.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh, honey, you're letting your imagination run away with you.
Why would anyone.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Want to listen?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I don't know, but I heard them lit the receiver, Jim.
There must be some way of finding out who those
people are.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
There is ask them.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Oh you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I don't see why not.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Hey, paul you should have heard it. Heard what Kathy
and I fix those people on our line. I bet
they won't bother us anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
What have you been doing?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
We scared them out?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
They were gathering away, so I left the phone off
the hook and Kathy and I talked real.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Loud so they could hear us. Oh, Bud, after they
heard us.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I'll bet they'll never use the phone again. They might
even leave town.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I don't understand. It was a slick idea.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
We pretended like Dad.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Was a gangster. What sure scare him?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
We said a lot of stuff about how you robbed
a bank and you and I were going to hijack
a bear top. Bud, you didn't, Well, what's wrong with it?
You want him to quit hog on the line, don't you?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Yes? But you should have heard him.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Boy, did they hang up the phone quick?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
They didn't want to take any chances with tough characters
like us.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
But you shouldn't have done that. We don't know who
those people are.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Well, you don't have to worry. They're nobody. We know
somebody named Missus Sheridan.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Well it doesn't make it, ah Sheridan.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Oh that does it? But are you sure?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I heard one woman call the other one missus Sheridan.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Why is it somebody you know? Somebody I know? Bud,
she's she's.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
Oh this is.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
The end, the absolute end. Why, Bud Anderson, you stood
right here in this den when I was talking about
Missus Sheridan. Maybe that's where I heard the name. Oh,
oh no, that explains why she was listening in on
my conversation after what she heard before. Oh what am
I going to do?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Jim?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Just calm down, Honey, don't do anything.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
I didn't know who she was, Bud. You stood right
on that very spot and heard me.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I wasn't listening, Margaret. Please now be reasonable.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You know as well as I do that, missus Sheridan,
A grown up, intelligent woman is not going to be
taken in by a couple of kids playing gangsters.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Oh you're right. She wouldn't. She'd know it was just
the children acting silly.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
She'd overheard ad else talking. That would be different. I'll
get it, honey. Hello, Yes this is me, me.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Er me me Who you.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Do not know me?
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Jim?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
But I know you for this and this? I watch
you intend today.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
You smile at me.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Well you must have the wrong party.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
No, doll, baby, you are the right party.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
My heart tells me, so, Jim, who is it some
girl today?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
When you drive your car alongside mine and I smile
at you.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
And you smile at me.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Oh, that this is the moment I live for?
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Dull baby?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Wait, I didn't I do of you?
Speaker 8 (17:54):
Every night?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Ever since I first see you.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Me, I mean, well, I'll hang up, Hang up, My
wife says, to hang up.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Don't baby, you have a wife.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Look, I don't know how you found me, but I find.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
You if you're at the end of the earth all today.
When your eyes looked into mine, I knew, I knew
you were still once. But I'm not the one GM
hang up.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I'm sorry, miss sir.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Promise we'll meet a kid.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
No, I uh, I can't hang up.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Goodbye, miss it must be, it must be.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Goodbye, my love, Goodbye, doll dep.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
I give you a pig kiss. Good bye.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Jim.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
What in the world, how do you like that? That
woman I told you about, the one that smiled at
me this morning, must have found the numbers somehow.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
What did she want me? I guess, Jim, I just
know Missus Sheridan was listening in on the line. What
did the woman say? Oh, my gosh, what did she say?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
She said she dreamed of me every night, called me
her doll baby.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Well that's all I can imagine. What sort of people
Missus Sheridan thinks we are by now, why didn't you
explain to her?
Speaker 11 (19:40):
To me?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Me?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Oh, that surely wasn't her name Mimi?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Honey, I didn't have anything to do with this.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I can't help it if women track me down.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Oh oh, jim, Well we're finished, that's all. This will
be all over town.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
You know how people talk, Oh honey, it's easily explained.
How well this girl just called me up?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
That's all. What could I do?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
It can't be explained.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But you believe me, don't you? Honey?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
She drove her car alongside mine?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Can I help it?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
If she whoa you and your fatal fascination.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
It's not my fault.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
I can't help it.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I'll get it.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I'd better answer it. If this is Mimi, Hello, Oh hello,
missus Sheridan. Yes, yes, I received your note. Yes, I'll
be at home. Oh, I'd be delighted to see you
all right, goodbye, Well, missus Sheridan, she's coming right over.
(20:45):
Why don't we just gather up the children and leave?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
What did she say?
Speaker 5 (20:49):
She has something to speak to me about, and it's
quite important. I know she heard everything first, but now
you and Mimi. I can't face her, that's all. I
just won't be here.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I'll wait a minute, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
If she wants to jump at conclusions. Let her jump.
We've done nothing wrong. This whole thing is mother.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
We're in here, Betty, I decided not to go to
the library after all.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
So what's the matter.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
The roof has just falling in?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Well, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
You better start packing your things, Betty? Before this is over,
we'll probably have to leave town.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, Princess, it seems your doddering old father has charmed
a certain unknown French lady named Mimi right out of
her socks.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Oh, father, you're kidding.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
He didn't do it intentionally, that we know, but it's
been done this this Mimi called up here, the one
who smiled at him in the car this morning.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
She didn't, Yes she did.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
How she tracked me down, I'll never understand.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
But you know how some women are.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Don't look so proud of yourself.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, let's face it, honey, it isn't every day a
man my age turns out to be quite so devastating.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Oh fiddle, Well, if you're so devastating, maybe you'd like
to explain how all this happened to missus Sheridan.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Sure, I'll explain to her.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
No you won't.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
There's a car stopping out in front.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
There she is. What am I going to say to her?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
I don't think it's important. I'm much more interested in
father in this sudden charm Betty, stop it.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
He's completely unmanageable. Now, well, here she is. I suppose
there's nothing to do but go and face it.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I'll talk to her if you want, Honey, never.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Mind, Missus Addison, Yeah, I'm missus Sheridan.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Won't you come in? Thank you?
Speaker 6 (22:51):
You must think it a little odd my calling you
and coming over this way, but there's something I feel
and misdiscuss.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yes, I think I understand. Won't you come into the
living room? Thank you? I believe I know why you're here,
Missus Sheridan. Yes, I thought you would know.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Well.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
I suppose it is necessary to explain that we somehow
came to share the same telephone line.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
No, it is necessary to explain, but please believe me
what you heard it? Well, I'm terribly embarrassed.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Did you hear everything that I heard?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I either heard it or heard about it, But you
must have mister Anderson get when he knocked over the bank? Missus?
Interesting work?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Jacking beer trucks? Please? You know how children are you
know that was all made up.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Oh, I sort of guessed it was. I have children
of my own, you know, Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
But Missus Anderson or may I call you Margaret? Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Please do your husband, and I'll admit I listened on
the party line, your husband and me me.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
There's something you should know. I know all about it,
Missus Sheridan. Believe me, it's nothing. That's what you think.
There's something about Mimi that you don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Excuse me, Missus Sheridan.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I'm mister Aison.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Well, dull baby, it's silly, absolutely silly.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I don't know this girl, mem she's a perfect stranger.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Oh no, she isn't. She isn't. He knows her very well.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
But who is she?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Your daughter?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Betty?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, Betty?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
You see after you hung up.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Jim I, who had been listening to the whole thing,
talk to me me when she learned why why she
explained what she had done and.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Why why that rascal?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
So I knew I had to come over here right
away because I knew how you must be feeling.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Margaret. Oh, thank you so much. What's the funniest thing
I've ever heard?
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Me?
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Me?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Oh, well, that's all I wanted to tell you, Margaret,
I'll see you at the club meeting.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Goodbye, mister Anderson.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
It's been a pleasure meeting you, doll, baby.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
It's been a pleasure meeting.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You, I think.
Speaker 12 (25:47):
Oh, by the way, we're getting our private phone lines
back tomorrow. Goodbye, goodbye, Well, my irresistible charmer.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Where is that girl? Betty? Betty? Up here? All Betty?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
The Andersons will be back in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
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Speaker 3 (27:00):
Oh well, it's hard to believe, but the Andersons came
through the day with no damages outside of Jim's slightly
wounded pride. He's nursing that injury right now as he
sits in the living room with Margaret, still trying to explain.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well, things like that do happen.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Honey, Oh, Jim.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
All right, I remember Fred Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Some girl called him out. He didn't know who she was.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Turned out he'd given her his seat on a bus
two years before, a likely story. Besides, I'm not the
world's ugliest man. Second ugliest maybe, but not the ugliest
I know.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Dear.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
By the way, where's Betty?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Oh she went out somewhere.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
The point I'm trying to make, Margaret is that it's
not impossible that some young lady might just might find
me attractive.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Sure, sure, probably for me, I'll get it. Hello. Who, Yes,
he's here, it's for you, dear me.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Some Southern girl named Laura says she just hire us
to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Wow, what do you know?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
When you finish? Dear, tell Betty if she's near the
grocery to bring home some potatoes.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Join us again next week when he'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Nis. Father
Knows Best is an NBC Radio Network production in cooperation
with Cavalier Enterprises in our cast where Rote Williams as Betty,
Jean Vanderpyle, Ted Donaldson, Helen Strom, and Virginia Gray. Father
Knows Best, based on characters created by Ed James, is
written by Paul West and Roswell Rodgers, directed by Arthur Jacobson,
(28:54):
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Speaker 2 (28:55):
This is bill Forman speaking
Speaker 1 (29:05):
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