September 26, 2025 • 28 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 (00:00):
Mother, is Nashville House the best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, if father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Anderson brought
to you.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
By Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by
more people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
They say, curiosity once killed a cat, a faith that's
both proper and fitting. So why not give thanks for
the good fortune that let you pry yet not die
like a kid. The point we're trying to make is
that curiosity is not confined to cats.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's a human frailty as well.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
And when it comes to FRAILDI is well, we doubt
that you'll find anyone quite as human or as frail
as our dear friends in Springfield, the Andersons like this.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Margaret, May I say that, in my long years as
a lover of good red beef, never has a more
succulent morsel passed my lips.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We thank you, dear.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Why did he say he liked the roast beef? Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
And now as a fitting climax to an unforgettable repast.
May I be favored with a cup of mister Maxwell's finest.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Of course, dear, but he wants his coffee. Oh there
you are.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Thank you from the bottom of a happy and carefree heart,
I say thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
He sold a.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Big policy this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Oh, Farley Granger? What was that there? Janey said? It
was finally Granger, as if she.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Knew, realizing full well that I ought to have my
brains examined.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Still, I asked, what about Farley Granger?
Speaker 6 (02:19):
There isn't any reason at all for thinking that's who
she meant?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Who who meant?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Had a hopper? Betty.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
These things must be approached delicately. You've got to sneak
up on them or they fly away. Tell me, Betty,
how's everything done around the gas works?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Father?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Janey Niggott said that had a hopper meant Farley Granger
in her column, And it's just ridiculous. He never even
goes to places like that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
There you are, Margaret, you see everything's all cleared up.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's nice.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Hey have a creamy sugar please, Hey, I Dan, thank you?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
All right, Kathy, let's not doddle. Mommy and daddy are in.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
A hurry, Yes, mommy, Oh, why do they do things
like that? Like what, dear put things like that in
the paper?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well? I tried it once and didn't hurt much. All right, Betty?
What do they put in the paper?
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Things like this? Here? I cut it out?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
What young and handsome star was seen leaving? What sunset
stripped nightclub with? What blonde young starlet?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Isn't that exasperating?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Is that the whole thing?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And Jenny has the nerve to say it's Folly Granger?
She does, She certainly does.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Isn't that stupid?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh, it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Why anyone with half an eye can see they mean lassie.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Father?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well look at it, blonde young Oh you mean the
boy father.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
It is not funny.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, no, And I don't think you have any right
to laugh at me.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
My father wasn't laughing at you, dear.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
He certainly was.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Now, wait a minute, do you mean you're going to
let a little thing like this upset you?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It isn't a little thing. How would you feel if
you didn't know who it was? I think I'd pull
through somehow, at least they ought to give you a here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, just a minute, Bud, Betty. Let's say you do
figure out who they.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Mean, then what Well, then I'll know.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You know what they said about curiosity, kill the cat,
and this whole thing is nothing but a silly attempt
to satisfy your morbid curiosity.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I have to know things, don't I.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Not things like who came out of where? With?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
What?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's being curious about the most meaningless sort of trivia?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
What's trivia?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I wouldn't care if it were something important, But how
can you sit there and make yourself miserable about.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Something that doesn't amount to a row of beans in
the first place?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What's trivia?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Trivia are things that are trivial, They're unimportant? Why because
they don't amount to anything? Like this whole conversation I'd.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Avoid, Dad, Bud, I was agreeing with him.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Peter Lawford, I'll bet that's you it wise, Betty. He's
young and.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Goes out with Betty.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yes, Father, I don't care if it's Groucho Marx on
a white horse.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Forget about it.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
But I I said, forget about it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Jumping creepers daddy, And I don't want any trouble with
you either, but I have to ask.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
You something, Jim, I don't think you're being very nice.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
How can anybody be nice when he's being smothered than
quiz kids?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just because the children ask a few innocent questions and.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
They don't do anything but ask questions from the time
they get up in the morning until they go to
bed at night.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Who's on first? What's on? Which? It's enough to make
a man commit harakiri?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
What's horra kiri?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Look, Kevy, leave your father alone, dear, he's in one
of those moves.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
One of what moves. I was in a wonderful mood,
wasn't i? But well, I was so full of roast beef.
I loved everybody in the whole world. The milk of
human kindness was practically oozing out of me.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But well, my children don't want to bother. They want
an encyclopedia with ears. Well, but you bet that what
what you said, yes, Sir.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Richard Carlson, not who.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It was, Margaret. I think I'll go for a walk,
a long walk, all.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right, dear, And if you happen to pass the leggots.
Be sure to drop in the leggots. We're going to
their party.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Remember, oh, say we better hurry up.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
You didn't tell me what Harry Carey was.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You mean Harry Carey? She means horror Carey. She she
most certainly does, see.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Daddy, that's Kathy? What is it?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Margaret? Do all children ask as many questions as ours?
How do you stand it?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
All mothers have a system. When they reach a point
just one degree short of hysterics, they go shopping.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, I suppose that's as good an excuse as.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Any, Jim, I'm so glad you mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Mentioned what shopping? I mentioned shopping.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
You'll never guess where I'm at downtown this afternoon, Farley Granger,
No head a hopper, Jim, am I close. Do you
remember the two boys who had the cabin next to
ours at Round Lake two summers ago? Yes, I'm at
the toll one.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You did, uh huh? What's he doing in Springfield?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
He said that. The other one? Oh, what was his name?
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Freddy? Soon?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No, it wasn't Freddy.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It was something like Freddy.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, it isn't important, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No anyway, minute, Margaret, I got the name on the
tip of my tongue.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Let me see, I know his name as.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well as I know my own. Eddie, Eddy, Betty, Margaret please, oh.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Vitty, you remember the two boys who had the cabin
next to ours? I do.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Are you sure it wasn't Freddy?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, dear, I'm sure I.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Can see him, just as plain, sort of chunky with
dark hair, Hector Smith, and I ran into him during
the World.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Series in Cleveland that year. That's the one who is pitching.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, I just wanted to know you see, that's what
I mean by curiosity.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I'm trying to figure out something vitally important. What
was that?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Why is it important for you enough for us?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Because you don't even remember the man? What man Freddy?
His name wasn't Freddy here something like Freddy? Was it
Bobby Feller? No, he pitched the first game?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Now look me, it was Harry Carey? Who was I
don't know?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Margaret? Why is it that anytime I tried to Bernie,
wasn't it Bernie? I don't think so Bernie Kearnie. Bernie
only gave up two hits in the whole game, Bud, please,
and he lost anyway? Now, look bad, Jim.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It isn't that important?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It certainly is.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I was just about to say the name, and he
drove a clear out of my mind with that ridiculous
crackle about a silly baseball game.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Silly that was.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
One of the finest games they ever had in the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Only six hits in the whole game, Ernie, Ernie and
Ernie Jim.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
How would you like to give up two hits and
then lose the game one and nothing?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Bud? Will you please stop it and let me think?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Jim, we've got to get ready to go.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Where to the leggats? Or would you rather stay?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
No, no, you don't worry about me. I'll be ready
to leave anytime you are. If a thing like that
happened to me, I'd shoot myself. If you keep this up,
you won't have to.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
When I want to know something, it's more of a curiosity.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But when he I think you better start clearing the table.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But father Kenny, that's what it was Kenny?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
All right, buddy, go ahead, No it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Kinny Kenny, No jumping creepers.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No is he a south paw? Who the picture for
the last time?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
South Paw?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I'm this awful. I can see him as though we
were standing right in front of me. He's left handed.
Who is a southpaw? Who said anything about a south paw? Did? No?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I didn't. I asked what it was.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well, I told you a softball is left handed.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Why, Margaret, are you going upstairs and comb my hair?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hector?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He'll know, Jim, you're not going to call Hector?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Why Lorne and take me a minute.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Curiosity killed a cat.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
There, he Please, Curiosity has nothing to do with it.
I just feel like calling Hector, that's all.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Why.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Because he's one of my best friends, that's why.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But dear, you're going to see him in the morning.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Well, I want to find out about my soul. That's
what I want to find out. He borrowed it last week.
He got it back yesterday. Nobody asked you.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Just wait a.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Minute, I've got it. It was Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Of course, Ernie Franklin. Well, thank goodness for this.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
You see, I knew.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
If you just leave me alone for a minute, what
do you have to say?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Who did Ernie Franklin?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I didn't meet Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
You most certainly did. You said you met him downtown
the day while you were shot.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
No, dear, don't you remember I told you I met
the other one?
Speaker 9 (12:05):
Oh no, Well, when it comes to names, father can't
boast of the world's best memory. But more often than not, ladies,
(12:28):
the man of the house knows exactly what he's talking about.
For instance, when he says finest coffee I ever tasted,
why that's high praise. Indeed, yes, ma'am, because that man
you serve coffee too. He's the world's greatest coffee expert.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
The number one expert on coffee is your husband. Of course,
you might say we're in the expert class too. Our
Maxwell House coffee is enjoyed by more families than any
other brand. But the man who says the final word
on the coffee you poor, he's your husband. And tomorrow,
if you'll serve your husband our Maxwell House, we promise
(13:07):
you his warmest smile and discompliment marvelous, best coffee ever.
We're sure that's what he'll say. In fact, we'll give
you your money back if he doesn't. You see, no
coffee taste like Maxwell House, because no coffee's made.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Like Maxwell House.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
There's only one recipe for that famous good to the
last drop flavor. A recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended
just so, and only Maxwell House has this recipe. So
we say, take home a pound of our coffee tomorrow.
Serve your husband Maxwell House. If he doesn't say best
coffee ever, why just send us the can an unused portion,
(13:46):
and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is plainly printed on every familiar blue tin. So how
about it tomorrow, serve your husband the coffee with the
world's most famous flavor. Maxwell House coffee, always good to
the last drop.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
It's after midnight in Springfield, and but one small light
blinks its cheer from the white frame house on Maple Street.
That's in the master bedroom, where the master, if we
may speak loosely, is still giving his problem the old College.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Try like this.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
Bil's Tour, Phil's Tour, Bill Phillips, Phil Billips, Jim Jim Phillips.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Jim h. You realize, of course, that the leggots will
probably never speak to us again.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Why I didn't do anything to them?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You sat in the corner and mumbled to yourself all night.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, I wasn't hurting anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And every five minutes you're run to the telephone.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
I was only trying to get hector. You know that
he certainly picked a fine evening.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
To go out, so did we.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I'm going to call Heck, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
To Candid's two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I'll be right back. Honey, you call a doctor two
o'clock in the morning. Why can't you call a friend?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Friend?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Fine friend he turned out to be introduces you to people,
then you can't remember their names.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Ruins a perfectly good evening just because he hasn't got.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Sense enough to stay home when you need him. Now,
what happened to the light switch? M every time you
want the darn thing and someplace else?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Anyway, two o'clock isn't so late. A buns of people
stay up until two o'clock. Probably isn't even in bed yet.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Oh ah, hello, hen ah heck, this is Jim Anderson. No, no, hey,
this is Jim. Did I wake you up? It's Jim
Jim Anderson, Oh, Jim, heck.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Do you remember those two friends of yours who had
the cottage next to us.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
At Round Lake?
Speaker 11 (16:19):
What were their names? Those friends of yours who had
the cottage next two hours? Margaret met the call in
downtown this morning, and we can't remember.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
His name, only jumping cat face. What's the matter two o'clock?
I know, heck, but look it began with a be.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
And if you'll just tell me to say you woke
me up at two o'clock in the morning, just ask
me a guy's name, I'll be through in a minute.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Honey, Heck, I know it sounds crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Heck, you've got to help me. It's driving me out
of my mind. Listen to me a minute. Hello, Heck,
well that's fine, just fine.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
What did heck you say?
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
He hung up on me. No, just hung up.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Well, we might as well face it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Calling people at two o'clock in the morning isn't exactly
the way to endear yourself to your fellow man.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Okay, if that's the way he feels about it, just
wait until he wants something.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Now, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Well, you know what they say, when all the world's
again you and you haven't got a friend, there's only
one thing you can do to bring a happy end.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Go make yourself a sandwich.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Who said that, I.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Did, Jim.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
If you eat anything now, you'll be up all night.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I'll be up all night anyway. What's in the ice box? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
The usual things?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Six pairs of roller skates, twelve pairs of glosshes.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Uh huh uh, very funny, you're so cute.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well what do we generally have in the icebox?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Ice? Well, what do you know? Food? Let's see now,
cold ham.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Jim, Will you please leave that alone? Watch tomorrow night's dinner.
Just sit down. I'll fix a sandwich for you.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
What kind?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh, I'll think of something here we are. How about
a nice melted cheese, the kind we used to make
up of the lake. Oh, Margaret, why, Jim, you always
like melted cheese?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
That isn't what I mean? Why did you have to
mention the lake? What I'd almost forgotten about the name.
And now well, now you've started it all over again.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
All I said was that i'd make a melted cheese sandwich.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Did somebody call me?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Well? If it isn't the boy with a building tapeworm?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Why aren't you in bed?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I heard somebody open the ears box. You know, Margaret,
I think he must be part blood.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Hunh, Bud Anderson, you go right back to bed where
you belong.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Can I even have one family?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Not even half a sandwich. You march right upside.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That's the second honey. Let's not be hasty about this.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
After all, he's a growing boy and he hasn't had
anything to eat since seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Eleven o'clock. What this is my second tip? Okay, Bud,
you heard your mother up to bed.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
But I hardly ate anything last time, and I'm a
growing boy.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I said up to bed mother.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Oh dear, we're in the kitchen, Betty.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Hey, I wonder if davisond Remember he was up at
the lake.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Don't you dare call the Davis? But if he knows
the name, haven't you thought of the name yet?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Never mind, Bud, I thought of the picture. Fine, you
saw the second game, but it was bob lemon.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I heard the most mysterious noises. Why don't we call it?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Oh hello, Betty, pull up a chair. Wonder this or
anything in the ice box? Nobody ever goes to sleep.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
What's going on down here?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Nothing is going on down here. We're all going back
to bed.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Wait a minute, Margaret, as long as we're up, we
might as well have a sandwich or something.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Jim Anderson, how do you expect You don't seem to
understand I'm hungry.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Didn't the legget serve anything?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yes, but not to your father, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He was busy in a corner communing with the spirits.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I sat there very quietly. I didn't disturb a soul.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
But just because I didn't put on a lady's hat
and dance around with my pants rolled up. Jim, Well,
that's what al K was doing, and everybody thought it
was very funny.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Mother, he didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Well, it was just.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Readers. I forgot all about Kathy.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Jim.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Do you see what you've done?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You've got the whole family up.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I didn't wake anybody. All I did was make a
phone call.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Caddy, Patty, you wake everybody in the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Wasn't burg worse? No? It was father.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Gee, well, I've had just about enough of this.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
But put the cheese back into Bud. What happened to
the cheese?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Cheese?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I had a whole slab.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Of cheese on the table.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh, Bud, gosh, I was just sort of nibbling And.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Was it a whole slab?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Well, I guess that takes care of that. Go ahead,
Bud up to bed. I thought we were gonna have
a sandwich.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Say what are you doing getting the milk?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Say that's an idea, but let them have their milk.
Here are you coming upstairs?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Well? Did you want some turn off the lights when
you run out of food?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And don't you dare touch that ham?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Okay, mom, good.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Night, we'll be up in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Mother, all right, dear, good night, good night.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
No, Margaret, it's a funny thing. Every time I try
to get into the icebox, something happens.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You've had your moments meaning what?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, I remember a certain leg of lamb.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Oh, honey, that was twelve years ago.
Speaker 12 (22:28):
I know.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I suppose twelve years from now you'll still be telling
me about that same dizzy leg of lamb.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Mommy, go to sleep, Kathleen.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Are you sure it wasn't Burglars.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yes, we're quite sure, Kit and I stop worrying about it.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Daddy, shut up with Burglars.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I'll tell you all about it in the morning and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay, good night, good night, Angel, good night, Kathy. Oh dear,
what a night?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
What a night? Is right? I'm glad it's almost over.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Well, at least you stop thinking about that silly name. Oh,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Dear Margaret.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yes, Jim, you know that cat, cat, the one that
was killed by curiosity?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh that one.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
What do you suppose did it?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I don't know, dear.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Maybe the name of another cat had met up at
round Lake.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Jim, you've got to be sensible. You can't keep this
up the rest of the night.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You certainly can't. Do you realize that in less than
four hours it'll be daylight?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
What was that?
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I said?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
That's it? That's the name Daylight. I mean Jack Daily,
That's who it was.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, thank you, yes, dear Jack Daily.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Now will you please turn.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Off the light and come to bed?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Oh no, not yet, you haven't finished. What did he want? Who?
Dear Jack Daily?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Oh? I thought I told you.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
He just said to stay Hello, good night Margaret.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
This weekend, how will you choose the coffee you buy
for your family?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So many brands?
Speaker 9 (24:44):
How can you pick the one coffee that gives you
the most in flavor for your money?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, on your grocer's shelves, there is.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
One coffee, our Maxwell House coffee that's famous for flavor.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Above all others. And tomorrow the world's greatest coffee experts
can tell.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
You why, yes, tomorrow, poor, a cup of Maxwell House
for your husband.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
He's the expert. We mean.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
When he gives you his warmest smile and says best
coffee ever, you'll know why Maxwell House is famous for flavor.
And when you count all the cups of truly good
coffee you get from that one pound, well, you know
it's Maxwell House for value too. To morrow, then look
for the sign of good coffee, the big white cup,
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and drop on our friendly blue tin. That's Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
It's been quite a night for the Amersons, one they'll
long remember now. The house is dark, the night is still,
but it isn't over, no, sir, not by a long
shot like this.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Jim, Jim, All phones ringing? Good, Jim, please answer the phone. Okay, Hello,
dad's the falls ringing?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Jim, Please go downstairs and answer the phone.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Four o'clock?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Four o'clock? He's got the little fishes. What kind of
an idiot would call us at four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I don't know, Dear. Please put on your rope, Jim, you'll.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Catch your DEA's a cold.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Four o'clock. This is somebody's idea of a joke. Wake
people up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Oh, they have their brains examined, spend a whole night
trying to fall asleep, and then the phone has to bring.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All right, I'm calling hello, Oh Jim, let's just hack now.
Look Jim, are you sure began with a bee?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (27:22):
No, Join us again next week when we'll be back
with Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson,
(27:45):
with Roy Barkie and the.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast where Ted Donaldson and Bud,
June Whickley, Rhoda Williams, Norama, Jean Nielsen, Herb Bigran, and
yours truly Bill Forman. So until next Thursday, good night
and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's
favorite brand.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Bothera Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James. Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows
immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
For authentic police drama, It's Dragnet on NBC
Mother, is Nashville House the best coffee in the whole world?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, your father says so, and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, if father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Anderson brought
to you.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
By Maxwell House, the coffee that's bought and enjoyed by
more people than any other brand of coffee at any price.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Maxwell House always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
They say, curiosity once killed a cat, a faith that's
both proper and fitting. So why not give thanks for
the good fortune that let you pry yet not die
like a kid. The point we're trying to make is
that curiosity is not confined to cats.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's a human frailty as well.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
And when it comes to FRAILDI is well, we doubt
that you'll find anyone quite as human or as frail
as our dear friends in Springfield, the Andersons like this.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Margaret, May I say that, in my long years as
a lover of good red beef, never has a more
succulent morsel passed my lips.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We thank you, dear.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Why did he say he liked the roast beef? Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
And now as a fitting climax to an unforgettable repast.
May I be favored with a cup of mister Maxwell's finest.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Of course, dear, but he wants his coffee. Oh there
you are.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Thank you from the bottom of a happy and carefree heart,
I say thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
What's the matter with him?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
He sold a.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Big policy this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Oh, Farley Granger? What was that there? Janey said? It
was finally Granger, as if she.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Knew, realizing full well that I ought to have my
brains examined.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Still, I asked, what about Farley Granger?
Speaker 6 (02:19):
There isn't any reason at all for thinking that's who
she meant?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Who who meant?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Had a hopper? Betty.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
These things must be approached delicately. You've got to sneak
up on them or they fly away. Tell me, Betty,
how's everything done around the gas works?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Father?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Janey Niggott said that had a hopper meant Farley Granger
in her column, And it's just ridiculous. He never even
goes to places like that.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
There you are, Margaret, you see everything's all cleared up.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That's nice.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Hey have a creamy sugar please, Hey, I Dan, thank you?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
All right, Kathy, let's not doddle. Mommy and daddy are in.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
A hurry, Yes, mommy, Oh, why do they do things
like that? Like what, dear put things like that in
the paper?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well? I tried it once and didn't hurt much. All right, Betty?
What do they put in the paper?
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Things like this? Here? I cut it out?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
What young and handsome star was seen leaving? What sunset
stripped nightclub with? What blonde young starlet?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Isn't that exasperating?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Is that the whole thing?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And Jenny has the nerve to say it's Folly Granger?
She does, She certainly does.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Isn't that stupid?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh, it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Why anyone with half an eye can see they mean lassie.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Father?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Well look at it, blonde young Oh you mean the
boy father.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
It is not funny.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, no, And I don't think you have any right
to laugh at me.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
My father wasn't laughing at you, dear.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
He certainly was.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Now, wait a minute, do you mean you're going to
let a little thing like this upset you?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It isn't a little thing. How would you feel if
you didn't know who it was? I think I'd pull
through somehow, at least they ought to give you a here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, just a minute, Bud, Betty. Let's say you do
figure out who they.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Mean, then what Well, then I'll know.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You know what they said about curiosity, kill the cat,
and this whole thing is nothing but a silly attempt
to satisfy your morbid curiosity.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I have to know things, don't I.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Not things like who came out of where? With?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
What?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
That's being curious about the most meaningless sort of trivia?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
What's trivia?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I wouldn't care if it were something important, But how
can you sit there and make yourself miserable about.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Something that doesn't amount to a row of beans in
the first place?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
What is it? Kathy?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What's trivia?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Trivia are things that are trivial, They're unimportant? Why because
they don't amount to anything? Like this whole conversation I'd.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Avoid, Dad, Bud, I was agreeing with him.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Peter Lawford, I'll bet that's you it wise, Betty. He's
young and.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Goes out with Betty.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yes, Father, I don't care if it's Groucho Marx on
a white horse.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Forget about it.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
But I I said, forget about it.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Jumping creepers daddy, And I don't want any trouble with
you either, but I have to ask.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
You something, Jim, I don't think you're being very nice.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
How can anybody be nice when he's being smothered than
quiz kids?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Just because the children ask a few innocent questions and.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
They don't do anything but ask questions from the time
they get up in the morning until they go to
bed at night.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Who's on first? What's on? Which? It's enough to make
a man commit harakiri?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
What's horra kiri?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Look, Kevy, leave your father alone, dear, he's in one
of those moves.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
One of what moves. I was in a wonderful mood,
wasn't i? But well, I was so full of roast beef.
I loved everybody in the whole world. The milk of
human kindness was practically oozing out of me.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Wasn't it.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But well, my children don't want to bother. They want
an encyclopedia with ears. Well, but you bet that what
what you said, yes, Sir.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Richard Carlson, not who.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It was, Margaret. I think I'll go for a walk,
a long walk, all.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right, dear, And if you happen to pass the leggots.
Be sure to drop in the leggots. We're going to
their party.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Remember, oh, say we better hurry up.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
You didn't tell me what Harry Carey was.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You mean Harry Carey? She means horror Carey. She she
most certainly does, see.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Daddy, that's Kathy? What is it?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Margaret? Do all children ask as many questions as ours?
How do you stand it?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
All mothers have a system. When they reach a point
just one degree short of hysterics, they go shopping.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, I suppose that's as good an excuse as.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Any, Jim, I'm so glad you mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Mentioned what shopping? I mentioned shopping.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
You'll never guess where I'm at downtown this afternoon, Farley Granger,
No head a hopper, Jim, am I close. Do you
remember the two boys who had the cabin next to
ours at Round Lake two summers ago? Yes, I'm at
the toll one.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You did, uh huh? What's he doing in Springfield?
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
He said that. The other one? Oh, what was his name?
Speaker 8 (07:53):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Freddy? Soon?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
No, it wasn't Freddy.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It was something like Freddy.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, it isn't important, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No anyway, minute, Margaret, I got the name on the
tip of my tongue.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Let me see, I know his name as.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well as I know my own. Eddie, Eddy, Betty, Margaret please, oh.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Vitty, you remember the two boys who had the cabin
next to ours? I do.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Are you sure it wasn't Freddy?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Yes, dear, I'm sure I.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Can see him, just as plain, sort of chunky with
dark hair, Hector Smith, and I ran into him during
the World.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Series in Cleveland that year. That's the one who is pitching.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Well, I just wanted to know you see, that's what
I mean by curiosity.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I'm trying to figure out something vitally important. What
was that?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Why is it important for you enough for us?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Because you don't even remember the man? What man Freddy?
His name wasn't Freddy here something like Freddy? Was it
Bobby Feller? No, he pitched the first game?
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Now look me, it was Harry Carey? Who was I
don't know?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Margaret? Why is it that anytime I tried to Bernie,
wasn't it Bernie? I don't think so Bernie Kearnie. Bernie
only gave up two hits in the whole game, Bud, please,
and he lost anyway? Now, look bad, Jim.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It isn't that important?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It certainly is.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I was just about to say the name, and he
drove a clear out of my mind with that ridiculous
crackle about a silly baseball game.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Silly that was.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
One of the finest games they ever had in the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Only six hits in the whole game, Ernie, Ernie and
Ernie Jim.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
How would you like to give up two hits and
then lose the game one and nothing?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Bud? Will you please stop it and let me think?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Jim, we've got to get ready to go.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Where to the leggats? Or would you rather stay?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
No, no, you don't worry about me. I'll be ready
to leave anytime you are. If a thing like that
happened to me, I'd shoot myself. If you keep this up,
you won't have to.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
When I want to know something, it's more of a curiosity.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But when he I think you better start clearing the table.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But father Kenny, that's what it was Kenny?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
All right, buddy, go ahead, No it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Kinny Kenny, No jumping creepers.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
No is he a south paw? Who the picture for
the last time?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
South Paw?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I'm this awful. I can see him as though we
were standing right in front of me. He's left handed.
Who is a southpaw? Who said anything about a south paw? Did? No?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I didn't. I asked what it was.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well, I told you a softball is left handed.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Why, Margaret, are you going upstairs and comb my hair?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hector?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He'll know, Jim, you're not going to call Hector?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Why Lorne and take me a minute.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Curiosity killed a cat.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
There, he Please, Curiosity has nothing to do with it.
I just feel like calling Hector, that's all.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Why.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Because he's one of my best friends, that's why.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But dear, you're going to see him in the morning.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Well, I want to find out about my soul. That's
what I want to find out. He borrowed it last week.
He got it back yesterday. Nobody asked you.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Just wait a.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Minute, I've got it. It was Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Of course, Ernie Franklin. Well, thank goodness for this.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
You see, I knew.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
If you just leave me alone for a minute, what
do you have to say?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Who did Ernie Franklin?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I didn't meet Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
You most certainly did. You said you met him downtown
the day while you were shot.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
No, dear, don't you remember I told you I met
the other one?
Speaker 9 (12:05):
Oh no, Well, when it comes to names, father can't
boast of the world's best memory. But more often than not, ladies,
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the man of the house knows exactly what he's talking about.
For instance, when he says finest coffee I ever tasted,
why that's high praise. Indeed, yes, ma'am, because that man
you serve coffee too. He's the world's greatest coffee expert.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
The number one expert on coffee is your husband. Of course,
you might say we're in the expert class too. Our
Maxwell House coffee is enjoyed by more families than any
other brand. But the man who says the final word
on the coffee you poor, he's your husband. And tomorrow,
if you'll serve your husband our Maxwell House, we promise
(13:07):
you his warmest smile and discompliment marvelous, best coffee ever.
We're sure that's what he'll say. In fact, we'll give
you your money back if he doesn't. You see, no
coffee taste like Maxwell House, because no coffee's made.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Like Maxwell House.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
There's only one recipe for that famous good to the
last drop flavor. A recipe demanding certain choice coffees blended
just so, and only Maxwell House has this recipe. So
we say, take home a pound of our coffee tomorrow.
Serve your husband Maxwell House. If he doesn't say best
coffee ever, why just send us the can an unused portion,
(13:46):
and we'll gladly refund the price you paid. Our address
is plainly printed on every familiar blue tin. So how
about it tomorrow, serve your husband the coffee with the
world's most famous flavor. Maxwell House coffee, always good to
the last drop.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
It's after midnight in Springfield, and but one small light
blinks its cheer from the white frame house on Maple Street.
That's in the master bedroom, where the master, if we
may speak loosely, is still giving his problem the old College.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Try like this.
Speaker 8 (14:27):
Bil's Tour, Phil's Tour, Bill Phillips, Phil Billips, Jim Jim Phillips.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Jim h. You realize, of course, that the leggots will
probably never speak to us again.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Why I didn't do anything to them?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You sat in the corner and mumbled to yourself all night.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, I wasn't hurting anybody.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And every five minutes you're run to the telephone.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
I was only trying to get hector. You know that
he certainly picked a fine evening.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
To go out, so did we.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I'm going to call Heck, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
To Candid's two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I'll be right back. Honey, you call a doctor two
o'clock in the morning. Why can't you call a friend?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Friend?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Fine friend he turned out to be introduces you to people,
then you can't remember their names.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Ruins a perfectly good evening just because he hasn't got.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Sense enough to stay home when you need him. Now,
what happened to the light switch? M every time you
want the darn thing and someplace else?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Anyway, two o'clock isn't so late. A buns of people
stay up until two o'clock. Probably isn't even in bed yet.
Speaker 10 (15:50):
Oh ah, hello, hen ah heck, this is Jim Anderson. No, no, hey,
this is Jim. Did I wake you up? It's Jim
Jim Anderson, Oh, Jim, heck.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Do you remember those two friends of yours who had
the cottage next to us.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
At Round Lake?
Speaker 11 (16:19):
What were their names? Those friends of yours who had
the cottage next two hours? Margaret met the call in
downtown this morning, and we can't remember.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
His name, only jumping cat face. What's the matter two o'clock?
I know, heck, but look it began with a be.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
And if you'll just tell me to say you woke
me up at two o'clock in the morning, just ask
me a guy's name, I'll be through in a minute.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Honey, Heck, I know it sounds crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Heck, you've got to help me. It's driving me out
of my mind. Listen to me a minute. Hello, Heck,
well that's fine, just fine.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
What did heck you say?
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
He hung up on me. No, just hung up.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Well, we might as well face it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Calling people at two o'clock in the morning isn't exactly
the way to endear yourself to your fellow man.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Okay, if that's the way he feels about it, just
wait until he wants something.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Now, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Well, you know what they say, when all the world's
again you and you haven't got a friend, there's only
one thing you can do to bring a happy end.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Go make yourself a sandwich.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Who said that, I.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Did, Jim.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
If you eat anything now, you'll be up all night.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I'll be up all night anyway. What's in the ice box? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
The usual things?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Six pairs of roller skates, twelve pairs of glosshes.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Uh huh uh, very funny, you're so cute.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well what do we generally have in the icebox?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Ice? Well, what do you know? Food? Let's see now,
cold ham.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Jim, Will you please leave that alone? Watch tomorrow night's dinner.
Just sit down. I'll fix a sandwich for you.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
What kind?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Oh, I'll think of something here we are. How about
a nice melted cheese, the kind we used to make
up of the lake. Oh, Margaret, why, Jim, you always
like melted cheese?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
That isn't what I mean? Why did you have to
mention the lake? What I'd almost forgotten about the name.
And now well, now you've started it all over again.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
All I said was that i'd make a melted cheese sandwich.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Did somebody call me?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Well? If it isn't the boy with a building tapeworm?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Why aren't you in bed?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I heard somebody open the ears box. You know, Margaret,
I think he must be part blood.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Hunh, Bud Anderson, you go right back to bed where
you belong.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Can I even have one family?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Not even half a sandwich. You march right upside.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That's the second honey. Let's not be hasty about this.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
After all, he's a growing boy and he hasn't had
anything to eat since seven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Eleven o'clock. What this is my second tip? Okay, Bud,
you heard your mother up to bed.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
But I hardly ate anything last time, and I'm a
growing boy.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I said up to bed mother.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Oh dear, we're in the kitchen, Betty.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Hey, I wonder if davisond Remember he was up at
the lake.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Don't you dare call the Davis? But if he knows
the name, haven't you thought of the name yet?
Speaker 7 (19:47):
Never mind, Bud, I thought of the picture. Fine, you
saw the second game, but it was bob lemon.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I heard the most mysterious noises. Why don't we call it?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Oh hello, Betty, pull up a chair. Wonder this or
anything in the ice box? Nobody ever goes to sleep.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
What's going on down here?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Nothing is going on down here. We're all going back
to bed.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Wait a minute, Margaret, as long as we're up, we
might as well have a sandwich or something.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Jim Anderson, how do you expect You don't seem to
understand I'm hungry.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Didn't the legget serve anything?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yes, but not to your father, Margaret.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He was busy in a corner communing with the spirits.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I sat there very quietly. I didn't disturb a soul.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
But just because I didn't put on a lady's hat
and dance around with my pants rolled up. Jim, Well,
that's what al K was doing, and everybody thought it
was very funny.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Mother, he didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Well, it was just.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Readers. I forgot all about Kathy.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Jim.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Do you see what you've done?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You've got the whole family up.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I didn't wake anybody. All I did was make a
phone call.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Caddy, Patty, you wake everybody in the neighborhood.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Wasn't burg worse? No? It was father.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Gee, well, I've had just about enough of this.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
But put the cheese back into Bud. What happened to
the cheese?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Cheese?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I had a whole slab.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Of cheese on the table.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh, Bud, gosh, I was just sort of nibbling And.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Was it a whole slab?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Well, I guess that takes care of that. Go ahead,
Bud up to bed. I thought we were gonna have
a sandwich.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Say what are you doing getting the milk?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Say that's an idea, but let them have their milk.
Here are you coming upstairs?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Well? Did you want some turn off the lights when
you run out of food?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
And don't you dare touch that ham?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Okay, mom, good.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Night, we'll be up in a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Mother, all right, dear, good night, good night.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
No, Margaret, it's a funny thing. Every time I try
to get into the icebox, something happens.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You've had your moments meaning what?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, I remember a certain leg of lamb.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Oh, honey, that was twelve years ago.
Speaker 12 (22:28):
I know.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
I suppose twelve years from now you'll still be telling
me about that same dizzy leg of lamb.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Mommy, go to sleep, Kathleen.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Are you sure it wasn't Burglars.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yes, we're quite sure, Kit and I stop worrying about it.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Daddy, shut up with Burglars.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I'll tell you all about it in the morning and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay, good night, good night, Angel, good night, Kathy. Oh dear,
what a night?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
What a night? Is right? I'm glad it's almost over.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Well, at least you stop thinking about that silly name. Oh,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Dear Margaret.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yes, Jim, you know that cat, cat, the one that
was killed by curiosity?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Oh that one.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
What do you suppose did it?
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I don't know, dear.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Maybe the name of another cat had met up at
round Lake.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Jim, you've got to be sensible. You can't keep this
up the rest of the night.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You certainly can't. Do you realize that in less than
four hours it'll be daylight?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
What was that?
Speaker 6 (23:37):
I said?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
That's it? That's the name Daylight. I mean Jack Daily,
That's who it was.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, thank you, yes, dear Jack Daily.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Now will you please turn.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Off the light and come to bed?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Oh no, not yet, you haven't finished. What did he want? Who?
Dear Jack Daily?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Oh? I thought I told you.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
He just said to stay Hello, good night Margaret.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
This weekend, how will you choose the coffee you buy
for your family?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So many brands?
Speaker 9 (24:44):
How can you pick the one coffee that gives you
the most in flavor for your money?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, on your grocer's shelves, there is.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
One coffee, our Maxwell House coffee that's famous for flavor.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Above all others. And tomorrow the world's greatest coffee experts
can tell.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
You why, yes, tomorrow, poor, a cup of Maxwell House
for your husband.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
He's the expert. We mean.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
When he gives you his warmest smile and says best
coffee ever, you'll know why Maxwell House is famous for flavor.
And when you count all the cups of truly good
coffee you get from that one pound, well, you know
it's Maxwell House for value too. To morrow, then look
for the sign of good coffee, the big white cup,
(25:27):
and drop on our friendly blue tin. That's Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
It's been quite a night for the Amersons, one they'll
long remember now. The house is dark, the night is still,
but it isn't over, no, sir, not by a long
shot like this.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Jim, Jim, All phones ringing? Good, Jim, please answer the phone. Okay, Hello,
dad's the falls ringing?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Jim, Please go downstairs and answer the phone.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Four o'clock?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Four o'clock? He's got the little fishes. What kind of
an idiot would call us at four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I don't know, Dear. Please put on your rope, Jim, you'll.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Catch your DEA's a cold.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Four o'clock. This is somebody's idea of a joke. Wake
people up in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Oh, they have their brains examined, spend a whole night
trying to fall asleep, and then the phone has to bring.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
All right, I'm calling hello, Oh Jim, let's just hack now.
Look Jim, are you sure began with a bee?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (27:22):
No, Join us again next week when we'll be back
with Father Knows Best, starring Robert young Is, Jim Anderson,
(27:45):
with Roy Barkie and the.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Maxwell House Orchestra in our cast where Ted Donaldson and Bud,
June Whickley, Rhoda Williams, Norama, Jean Nielsen, Herb Bigran, and
yours truly Bill Forman. So until next Thursday, good night
and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House, America's
favorite brand.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Of coffee, always good to the last drop.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Bothera Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by
Ed James. Now stay tuned in for Dragnet, which follows
immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
For authentic police drama, It's Dragnet on NBC
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