Speaker 1: Now listen to Father Knows Best Transcribe, starring Robert Young
Speaker 1: has Father Welcome to Springfield and another half hour visit
Speaker 1: with the folks in the white frame house on Maple Street.
Speaker 1: Sit back and enjoy life with the Andersons Kathy, Bud, Betty,
Speaker 1: Margaret and Jim as the head of this typical American
Speaker 1: household again sets out to prove that Father knows Best.
Speaker 1: We'll join the Andersons in just a moment. You've probably
Speaker 1: heard it said that the Series E United States Savings
Speaker 1: Bond has been improved. You probably know that it pays
Speaker 1: back more money in less time than ever before. Now
Speaker 1: I'd like to tell you how that these improvements benefit you.
Speaker 1: Say you buy a thousand dollars bond, actually you know
Speaker 1: you only pay seven hundred fifty dollars for it. Formally
Speaker 1: that bond would mature in ten years, But now the
Speaker 1: improved Series E bond matures in nine years and eight months,
Speaker 1: and it pays you four dollars for every three dollars
Speaker 1: you invest. Also, you can hold the improved Series E
Speaker 1: Savings Bond beyond maturity and earn even further interest three
Speaker 1: percent interest compounded semiannually for as long as ten additional years.
Speaker 1: At that time, your original investment of seven hundred fifty
Speaker 1: dollars is worth well over thirteen hundred dollars. That's an
Speaker 1: eighty percent return on your original investment. You'll feel more
Speaker 1: secure tomorrow if you buy Improve Series E savings bonds. Today,
Speaker 1: they say curiosity once killed a cat, a fate that's
Speaker 1: both proper and fitted. So why not give thanks for
Speaker 1: the good fortune that let you pry yet not die
Speaker 1: like a kitten. The point we're trying to make is
Speaker 1: that curiosity is not confined to cats. It's a human
Speaker 1: frailty as well. And when it comes to frailties, well,
Speaker 1: we doubt that you'll find anyone quite as human or
Speaker 1: frail as our dear friends in Springfield and Anderson's like this, Margaret,
Speaker 1: May I say that, in my long years as a
Speaker 1: lover of good red beef, never has a more succulent
Speaker 1: morsel passed my lips.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, dear what he said.
Speaker 3: He liked the.
Speaker 1: Roast beef all and now, as a fitting climax to
Speaker 1: an unforgettable repast, may I be favored with that delicious Napoleon.
Speaker 4: Of course, dear God, he wants his dessert all there
Speaker 4: you are.
Speaker 1: Thank you from the bottom of a happy and carefree heart.
Speaker 1: I say, thank you.
Speaker 4: What's the matter with him?
Speaker 3: He sold a big policy in this afternoon?
Speaker 5: Oh Robert Wagner?
Speaker 2: What was that?
Speaker 3: Dear?
Speaker 4: Janey said it was Robert Wagner as.
Speaker 1: If she knew, realizing full well, and I ought to
Speaker 1: have my brains examined. Still, I asked, what about Robert Wagner.
Speaker 5: There isn't any reason at all for thinking that's who
Speaker 5: she meant?
Speaker 1: Who? Who meant?
Speaker 4: Luella Parsons?
Speaker 2: Betty just a moment, dear.
Speaker 1: These things must be approached delicately. We've got to sneak
Speaker 1: up on them or they fly away. Tell me, Betty,
Speaker 1: how's everything down around the gas works?
Speaker 5: Father Janie Leggett said that Luella Parsons meant Robert Wagner
Speaker 5: in her column, and it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4: He never even goes to places like that.
Speaker 1: Oh, there you are, Margaret. You see everything's all cleared up.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 1: May I have the cream and sugar? Please?
Speaker 3: Here you are?
Speaker 1: Dad?
Speaker 4: Thank you, all right, Kathy, Now, let's not dawdle.
Speaker 2: Mommy and Daddy are in a hurry.
Speaker 5: Yes, mommy, Oh, Why do they do things like that?
Speaker 5: Like what, dear put things like that in the paper?
Speaker 1: Well? I tried it once and it didn't hurt much,
Speaker 1: all right, Benny? What do they put in the paper
Speaker 1: things like this?
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 4: I cut it out, m what.
Speaker 1: Young and handsome star was seen leaving? What sunset stripped nightclub? With?
Speaker 1: What blonde young starlet?
Speaker 4: Isn't that exasperating?
Speaker 1: Is that the whole thing?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: And Jane has the nerve to say it's Robert Wagner.
Speaker 4: She does, She certainly does. Isn't that stupid?
Speaker 1: It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Why anyone
Speaker 1: with half an eye can see they mean Lassie.
Speaker 2: Father?
Speaker 1: Well look at it, blonde young Oh you mean the
Speaker 1: boy father.
Speaker 4: It isn't funny.
Speaker 1: No, no, And I.
Speaker 4: Don't think you have any right.
Speaker 6: To laugh at me.
Speaker 2: Your father wasn't laughing at you.
Speaker 4: He certainly was.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, do you mean you're going to let
Speaker 1: a little thing like this upset you?
Speaker 4: It isn't a little thing. How would you feel if
Speaker 4: you didn't know who it was?
Speaker 1: I think I'd pull through somehow.
Speaker 4: At least they ought to give you a hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a minute, Bud, Betty. Let's say you do
Speaker 1: figure out who they mean, then what Well, then I'll know.
Speaker 1: You know what they say about curiosity that killed a cat,
Speaker 1: and this whole thing is nothing but a silly attempt
Speaker 1: to satisfy your morbid curiosity.
Speaker 4: I have to know things, don't.
Speaker 1: I not things like who came out of where?
Speaker 3: With?
Speaker 1: What? That's being curious about the most meaningless sort of trivia?
Speaker 6: What's trivia?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't care if it were something important, But how
Speaker 1: can you sit there and make yourself miserable about something
Speaker 1: that doesn't amount to a row of beans in the
Speaker 1: first place? Goaty, what is it? Kathy?
Speaker 6: What's trivia?
Speaker 1: Trivia? Things that are trivial, they're unimportant? Why because they
Speaker 1: don't amount to anything? Like this whole conversation had a.
Speaker 3: Boy, dad, Bud.
Speaker 5: I was agreeing with him, Barley Granger. I'll bet that's who.
Speaker 1: It was, Betty.
Speaker 4: He's young and goes out, Betty.
Speaker 1: Yes, father, I don't care if it's Groucho Marx on
Speaker 1: a white horse, forget about it.
Speaker 4: But I only I said forget.
Speaker 1: About it, jumping creeper. And I don't want any trouble
Speaker 1: with you either, But.
Speaker 7: I have to ask you something, Jim, I don't think
Speaker 7: you're being very nice.
Speaker 1: Nice? How can anybody be nice when he's being smothered
Speaker 1: in quiz kids.
Speaker 4: Just because the children ask a few innocent questions.
Speaker 1: If they don't do anything but ask questions from the
Speaker 1: time they get up in the morning until they go
Speaker 1: to bed at night. Who's on first? What's on? Which?
Speaker 1: It's enough to make a man commit horror? Kirie?
Speaker 6: What's horror?
Speaker 2: Kirie?
Speaker 1: Now? Look, Kathy, leave.
Speaker 2: Your father alone, dear. He's in one of those moods.
Speaker 1: One of what moods. I was in a wonderful move,
Speaker 1: wasn't i, bud Well? I was so full of roast beef.
Speaker 1: I loved everybody in the whole world. The milk of
Speaker 1: human kindness was practically oozing out of me, wasn't it?
Speaker 1: But won an encyclopedia with ears?
Speaker 3: You bet dad?
Speaker 1: What what you said? Yes, Sir.
Speaker 4: Rock Hudson, That's.
Speaker 1: Who it was, Margaret. I think I'll go for a walk,
Speaker 1: a long walk, all.
Speaker 7: Right, dear, And if you happen to pass the leggots,
Speaker 7: be sure to drop in the leggots. We're going to
Speaker 7: their party, remember.
Speaker 1: Ooh, say, we'd better hurry up.
Speaker 6: You didn't tell me what Harraciley was.
Speaker 1: You mean harry carry she means harakiri? She does, she
Speaker 1: certainly does. Daddy, Yes, Kathy, what is it? Margaret? Do
Speaker 1: all children ask as many questions ours? How do you
Speaker 1: stand it? Oh?
Speaker 2: Mothers have a system.
Speaker 7: When they reach a point just one degree short of hysterics,
Speaker 7: they go shopping.
Speaker 1: Well, I suppose that's as good an excuse as any.
Speaker 2: Jim, I'm so glad you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: Mentioned what shopping? I mentioned shopping.
Speaker 7: You will never guess who I met downtown this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Robert Wagner. No, Thellella Parsons, Jim, am I close.
Speaker 7: Do you remember the two boys who had the cabin
Speaker 7: next to ours at.
Speaker 2: Round Lake two summers ago? Yes, I met the tall one.
Speaker 1: You did, Uh huh? What's he doing in Springfield?
Speaker 2: Well? He said that. The other one.
Speaker 4: Oh, what was his name?
Speaker 1: Freddy something?
Speaker 4: No, No, No, it wasn't Freddy.
Speaker 1: Well, something like Freddie.
Speaker 2: Well, it isn't important Eddie. No anyway, Wait.
Speaker 1: A minute, Margaret, I've got the name on the tip
Speaker 1: of my tongue. Oh, remy, I know his name as
Speaker 1: well as I know my own. Eddie, Teddy Betty Margaret.
Speaker 7: Please, Oh Betty, you remember the two boys who had
Speaker 7: the cabin next to ours? I do.
Speaker 1: Are you sure it wasn't Freddy?
Speaker 2: Yes, dear, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I can see him just as plain, sort of chunky
Speaker 1: with dark hair, Hector Smith, and I ran into him
Speaker 1: during the World Series in Cleveland that year.
Speaker 2: That's the one who was pitching.
Speaker 3: But well, I just wanted to know.
Speaker 1: You see, that's what I mean by curiosity. Well I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out something vitally important. Hah, what was that?
Speaker 4: Why is it important for you and not for us?
Speaker 1: Because you don't even remember the man? What name Freddy?
Speaker 2: His name wasn't Freddy, dear?
Speaker 1: Well it was something like Freddy?
Speaker 3: Was it Bobby Feller? No, he pitched the first game?
Speaker 2: Now, look he was Roy Rogers?
Speaker 4: Who was I don't know?
Speaker 1: Why is it that anytime I try to Bernie, wasn't
Speaker 1: it Bernie?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Bernie Serniejernie only.
Speaker 3: Gave up two hits in the whole game, but please.
Speaker 1: Lost anyway. Now, look, Bud Jim, it isn't that important.
Speaker 1: It certainly is. I was just about to say the name,
Speaker 1: and he drove a cleare out of my mind with
Speaker 1: that ridiculous prattle about a silly baseball game.
Speaker 3: Silly, but that was one of the finest games they
Speaker 3: ever had in a World series. Only six hits in
Speaker 3: the whole.
Speaker 1: Game, Leernie Murnie, Ernie, Jim.
Speaker 3: Would you like to give up two hits and then
Speaker 3: lose the game one to nothing?
Speaker 1: But will you please stop and let me think?
Speaker 2: Jim, we've got to get ready to go.
Speaker 1: Where to the.
Speaker 4: Legas or would you rather stay home?
Speaker 1: Oh? No, you don't worry about me. I'll be ready
Speaker 1: to leave any time you are, because.
Speaker 3: A thing like that happened to me. I shoot myself.
Speaker 1: If you keep this up, you won't have to.
Speaker 4: When I want to know something, it's morbid curiosity. But
Speaker 4: when he Betty, I think you'd better start clearing the table.
Speaker 1: But father said, Kenny, that was it all right?
Speaker 3: Betty?
Speaker 5: Go ahead?
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't Kenny, Kenny.
Speaker 4: No chumping creepers?
Speaker 2: No? Was he a south fall?
Speaker 1: Who the picture? But for the last time, cow Pak,
Speaker 1: isn't this awful? I can see him as though he
Speaker 1: were standing right in front of me.
Speaker 3: He's left handed.
Speaker 1: Who is a softball? You said anything about a softball?
Speaker 3: Kathy did.
Speaker 4: Oh I didn't. I asked what it was.
Speaker 3: Well, I told you a soft boys left handed.
Speaker 7: Why, Margaret, I'm going upstairs and comb my hair.
Speaker 4: Hector, he'll know, Jim, you're not going to call Hector?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: Did lonely take me a minute?
Speaker 4: Curiosity killed a cat, Betty?
Speaker 1: Please, curiosity has nothing to do with it. I just
Speaker 1: feel like calling Hector, that's all. Why. Because he's one
Speaker 1: of my best friends, That's why.
Speaker 2: But dear, you're going to see him in the morning.
Speaker 1: Well, I want to find out about my hammer. That's
Speaker 1: what I want to find out. He borrowed it last week.
Speaker 1: He brought it back yesterday. Nobody asked you.
Speaker 3: Was just talking.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I've got it. Yeah, I've got it, Margaret.
Speaker 1: It was Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 4: Of course, Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 2: Well, thank goodness for that.
Speaker 1: You see, I knew if you just leave me alone
Speaker 1: for a minute. What did he have to say? Who
Speaker 1: Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 2: I didn't meet Ernie Franklin.
Speaker 1: You most certainly did. You said you met him downtown
Speaker 1: today while you were shopping.
Speaker 7: No, dear, don't you remember I told you I met
Speaker 7: the other boy?
Speaker 1: Oh? No, Well, when it comes to names, Father can't
Speaker 1: boast of the world's best memory. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to the really important things, Father always remembers that having
Speaker 1: your fortune told can be a lot of fun, especially
Speaker 1: if wonderful things are predicted for your future. But what
Speaker 1: a pity, there's no guarantee they'll come true. Now, I
Speaker 1: can make a prediction about your financial future that will
Speaker 1: come true. I predict that you're going to get extra
Speaker 1: dollars to spend in less than ten years just by
Speaker 1: investing today in United States savings bonds. That prediction is
Speaker 1: absolutely guaranteed because for every three dollars you put in,
Speaker 1: you'll get back four dollars when your savings bonds mature.
Speaker 1: And I can predict even more money in your future
Speaker 1: because when you hold your savings bonds beyond maturity, you'll
Speaker 1: earn still further interests. The improved rate of three percent
Speaker 1: interest compounded semiannually continues for as long as ten years
Speaker 1: beyond the maturity date of your bonds. Finally, I predict
Speaker 1: you'll feel more secure tomorrow if you buy United States
Speaker 1: savings bonds to day. Why don't you? I guarantee every
Speaker 1: prediction I've made for you will come true, it's after
Speaker 1: midnight in Springfield, and but one small light blinks its
Speaker 1: cheer from the white frame house on Maple Street. That's
Speaker 1: in the master bedroom, where the master, if we may
Speaker 1: speak loosely, is still giving his problem the old college
Speaker 1: tribe like.
Speaker 8: This, Bill Stewart, Phil Stewarts, Bill Phillips, Phil Phillips, Jim,
Speaker 8: Jim Phillips.
Speaker 7: Jim, what you realize? Of course, the leggos will probably
Speaker 7: never speak.
Speaker 2: To us again.
Speaker 1: Why I didn't do anything to them?
Speaker 7: Sat in the corner and mumble to yourself all night. Well,
Speaker 7: I wasn't hurting anybody, and every five minutes you ran
Speaker 7: to the telephone.
Speaker 1: I was only trying to get hector. You know that
Speaker 1: he certainly picked a fine evening to go out.
Speaker 2: So did we. Jim, where are you going?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call Heck, that's where I'm going, But you can't.
Speaker 2: It's two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back, Honey. You call a doctor two
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. Why can't you call a friend? Friend?
Speaker 1: Fine friend he turned out to be introduces you to people,
Speaker 1: then you can't remember their names. Ruins are perfectly good evening.
Speaker 1: Just because he hasn't got sense enough to stay home
Speaker 1: when you need Now, what happened to the light switch?
Speaker 1: H every time you want a darn thing at someplace else? Anyway,
Speaker 1: two o'clock isn't so late. Lots of people stay up
Speaker 1: until two o'clock. Probably isn't even in bed yet, I hope. Oh. Hello, heck, hello, heck,
Speaker 1: this is Jim Anderson. Isn't here? No, heck, this is Jim.
Speaker 1: Did I wake you up? Who is? It's Jim? Jim Anderson? Jim?
Speaker 1: What's the matter?
Speaker 3: Heck?
Speaker 1: Do you remember those two friends of yours who had
Speaker 1: the cottage next to us at Round Lake? I suppose though?
Speaker 1: What were their names? Who those friends of yours who
Speaker 1: had the cottage next to ours? What about him? Margaret
Speaker 1: met the tall one downtown this morning and we can't
Speaker 1: remember his name.
Speaker 8: I don't know, Elizabeth, it's Holly jumping catfish.
Speaker 1: What's the matter. It's after two o'clock, I know. Heck,
Speaker 1: but look it began with a B. And if you'll
Speaker 1: just tell me to say you woke me up at
Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning to ask me a guy's
Speaker 1: name in a minute, honey, heck, I know it sounds
Speaker 1: crazy crazy, you're nuts. Heck, you've got to help me.
Speaker 1: It's driving me out of my mind o'clock in the morning. Heck,
Speaker 1: listen to me a minute. Eh hello, heck, well that's fine,
Speaker 1: just fine.
Speaker 2: What did hector say, dear?
Speaker 3: He hung up on me?
Speaker 1: No, just hung up.
Speaker 7: Well we might as well face it calling people at
Speaker 7: two o'clock in the morning. Isn't it exactly the way
Speaker 7: to endear yourself to your fellow man.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the way he feels about it. Just wait
Speaker 1: until he wants something.
Speaker 2: Now, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Well, you know what they say, when all the world's
Speaker 1: again you and you haven't got a friend, There's only
Speaker 1: one thing you can do to bring a happy end.
Speaker 1: Go make yourself a sandwich.
Speaker 2: Who said that?
Speaker 3: I did, Jim?
Speaker 2: If you eat anything now, you'll be up all night.
Speaker 1: I'll be up all night anyway. What's in the icebox?
Speaker 2: Oh, the usual thing.
Speaker 7: Six pairs of roller skates, twelve pairs of galoshes.
Speaker 1: Very funny, you're so cute.
Speaker 2: Well, what do we generally have in the ice box?
Speaker 1: Ice? Well, what do you know?
Speaker 3: Food?
Speaker 1: Let's see now, cold ham?
Speaker 2: Jim, will you please leave out alone? But I just
Speaker 2: want to that's tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Nice dinner. Now, just sit down and I'll fix the
Speaker 7: sandwich for you.
Speaker 1: What kind?
Speaker 2: I'll think of something? Here we are?
Speaker 7: How about a nice melted cheese, the kind we used
Speaker 7: to make up at the lake? Oh, Margaret, why Jim
Speaker 7: you've always liked melted cheese.
Speaker 1: That isn't what I mean? Why did you have to
Speaker 1: mention the lake? What I'd almost forgotten about the name?
Speaker 1: And now well, now you started it all over again.
Speaker 4: All I said was that I'd make a melted cheese sandwich.
Speaker 3: Did somebody call me?
Speaker 1: Well? It is the boy with a build in tapeworm?
Speaker 2: Why aren't you in bed?
Speaker 3: I heard somebody open the eyes box?
Speaker 1: You know, Margaret, I think he must be part bloodhound.
Speaker 7: Bud Anderson, you go right back to bed where you belong.
Speaker 3: Can I even have one samwar?
Speaker 2: Not even half a sandwich?
Speaker 1: You march right up, and let's not be hasty about this.
Speaker 1: After all, he's a growing boy and he hasn't had
Speaker 1: anything to eat since seven o'clock.
Speaker 3: Uh, eleven o'clock. What this is my second trip?
Speaker 1: Okay, Bud? You heard your mother up to bed.
Speaker 3: But I hardly ate anything last time and I'm a
Speaker 3: growing boy.
Speaker 1: I said up to bed mother.
Speaker 2: Oh dear, we're in the kitchen, Betty, say.
Speaker 1: I wonder if ed Davis did remember he was up
Speaker 1: at the lake that summer.
Speaker 2: And Jim, don't you dare call it Davis?
Speaker 1: But if he knows the name?
Speaker 3: You just thought of the name yet?
Speaker 1: Never mind?
Speaker 3: But I thought of the pitcher.
Speaker 1: Fine, you saw the second game, but it was bob Lemonry.
Speaker 4: Noises in the kitchen. Why don't we call it?
Speaker 1: Oh hello, Betty, pull up a chair.
Speaker 3: No wonder, there's never anything in the ice box. Nobody
Speaker 3: ever goes to sleep.
Speaker 4: What's going on down here? Nothing is going on down here.
Speaker 4: We're all going right.
Speaker 2: Back to bed.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Margaret, as long as we're up, we
Speaker 1: might as well have a sandwich or something.
Speaker 2: Jim Anderson, how do you weaken?
Speaker 1: I don't seem to understand I'm hungry.
Speaker 4: Didn't the legget serve anything?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yes, but not to your father, Margaret. He was busy
Speaker 7: in the corner communing with the spirits.
Speaker 1: I sat there very quietly. I didn't disturb a soul,
Speaker 1: but just because I didn't put on a lady's hat
Speaker 1: and dance around with my pants rolled up. Jim, Well,
Speaker 1: that's what Paul Hersty was doing, and everybody thought it
Speaker 1: was very funny.
Speaker 2: Mother.
Speaker 5: He didn't. Well, it was Jeddy, Oh creepers. I forgot
Speaker 5: all about Kathy.
Speaker 2: Jim.
Speaker 4: Do you see what you've done? You've got the whole
Speaker 4: family up.
Speaker 1: I didn't wake anybody. All I did was make a
Speaker 1: phone call.
Speaker 4: It's all right, Cathie. Daddy, you'll wake everybody in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Was it burblar?
Speaker 2: It was fother gee.
Speaker 4: I've had just about enough of this, Bud.
Speaker 2: Put the cheese back in it. But what happened to
Speaker 2: the cheese?
Speaker 3: What cheese?
Speaker 7: I had a whole slab of cheese on the table, Oh, Bud.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I was just on a nibbling and.
Speaker 3: Slab.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess that takes care of that. Go ahead, Bud.
Speaker 1: Why up to bed?
Speaker 3: I thought we were gonna have a sandwich? Betty?
Speaker 2: Now what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Get the milk?
Speaker 3: Say that's an idea, but oh.
Speaker 2: Let them have their milk. Deer? Are you coming up there?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 3: I did you want something?
Speaker 1: Dad? Yes, turn off the lights when you run out
Speaker 1: of food, and don't.
Speaker 2: You dare touch that hand?
Speaker 3: Okay, Mom, good night.
Speaker 2: We'll be up in a few minutes.
Speaker 6: Mother.
Speaker 2: All right, dear, good night.
Speaker 1: Good I And then wonder, it's a funny thing. Every
Speaker 1: time I try to get into the ice box, something happens.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You've had your moments, meaning what?
Speaker 4: Well, I remember a certain leg of land, Honey.
Speaker 1: That was twelve years ago.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 1: I suppose twelve years from now you'll still be telling
Speaker 1: me about that same dizzy leg of land.
Speaker 2: Oh, go to sleep, Kathleen.
Speaker 6: Are you sure it wasn't Burglars.
Speaker 1: We're quite sure, kitten. I'll stop worrying about it.
Speaker 6: Betty said it was Burglar's.
Speaker 7: We'll tell you all about it in the morning, and
Speaker 7: go to sleep, Okay, good night, good night, Angel.
Speaker 1: Good night, Kathy.
Speaker 2: Oh dear, what a night.
Speaker 1: When the night is right, I'm glad it's almost over.
Speaker 7: Well, at least you've stopped thinking about that silly name.
Speaker 2: Oh I am sorry, dear.
Speaker 1: Margaret.
Speaker 2: Yes, Jim, you.
Speaker 1: Know that cat cat, the one that was killed by curiosity.
Speaker 2: Oh, that one.
Speaker 1: What do you suppose did it?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Dear.
Speaker 1: Maybe the name of another cat had met up at
Speaker 1: round Lake.
Speaker 7: Huh, Jim, you've got to be sensible.
Speaker 2: You can't keep this up the rest of the night.
Speaker 1: I can.
Speaker 2: Huh, you certainly can't.
Speaker 7: Do you realize that in less than four hours it'll
Speaker 7: be daylight?
Speaker 1: What was that?
Speaker 2: I said?
Speaker 3: That's it?
Speaker 1: That's the name?
Speaker 3: What is Daylight?
Speaker 1: I mean, Jack Daily, That's what it was.
Speaker 2: Will say good.
Speaker 1: That's the fellow you met, isn't it.
Speaker 7: Yes, dear Jack Daily, Now when you please turn out
Speaker 7: for light.
Speaker 2: And come to day?
Speaker 1: Oh no, not yet, you haven't finished. What did he want?
Speaker 5: Who?
Speaker 1: Dear Jack Daily?
Speaker 2: Oh? I thought I told you.
Speaker 7: He just said to say hello, good.
Speaker 8: Night, dear good night.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: The Anderson's will be right back. But speaking of another family,
Speaker 1: have you heard about the Joneses. They're going to Europe
Speaker 1: for six weeks. They'll start in England, then visit Holland, Belgium,
Speaker 1: France and Italy. It'll be a wonderful trip, a lifelong
Speaker 1: dream come true. You probably think mister Jones got a
Speaker 1: fancy raise. Well he didn't, and nobody left him a
Speaker 1: fortune either. Then how can he afford a trip to Europe?
Speaker 1: That's simple. He and missus Jones plan for it. They
Speaker 1: save money regularly through United States Savings bonds. Yes, the
Speaker 1: Joneses are going to Europe now, but someday it can
Speaker 1: be your turn. Do as they did. Put your money
Speaker 1: where it'll earn you extra money, four dollars for every
Speaker 1: three dollars you invest in United States Savings bonds and
Speaker 1: listen now. The maturity date of the bonds has been shortened,
Speaker 1: and you'll get your money back with interest in less
Speaker 1: than ten years. Start planning today. Your United States Savings
Speaker 1: bonds can take you to Europe too. It's been quite
Speaker 1: a night for the Anders. One they'll long remember. Now.
Speaker 1: The house is dark, the night is still, but it
Speaker 1: isn't over, no, sir, not by a long shot.
Speaker 9: Like this, Jim, Jem, But what's the matter?
Speaker 6: The telephone's dream good?
Speaker 2: Jim? Will you please answer the phone?
Speaker 1: Okay, Hello, there the phone's ringing.
Speaker 7: Father, Hello, Jim, please go downstairs and answer the phone.
Speaker 1: Okay, what time is it?
Speaker 2: Four o'clock?
Speaker 1: Four o'clock? He gods, a little fishes. What kind of
Speaker 1: an idiot would call us at four o'clock?
Speaker 7: I don't know, dear, but please put on your rope, Jim,
Speaker 7: you'll catch your.
Speaker 2: Death of cold.
Speaker 1: I'll be all right, four o'clock. If this is somebody's
Speaker 1: idea of a joke. Wake people up in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night. I'll have their brains examined, spend the
Speaker 1: whole night trying to fall asleep. And then the phone
Speaker 1: asked the ring all right on coming, Hello, Hello Jim,
Speaker 1: this is Heck. Oh now look heck Jim. Are you
Speaker 1: sure it began with a b?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: No? Join us again next week when we'll be back
Speaker 1: with Father Knows Best, Daring Robert Young is, Jim Anderson been.
Speaker 1: Our cast were Ted Donalds and His Budd, Jean Vanderfiel,
Speaker 1: Helen Strom, Rhoda Williams, Herb Bigrant, and Yours Truly Bill Forman.
Speaker 1: Father Knows Best was an NBC Radio Network production written
Speaker 1: by Ed Jane, directed by Max Hutto, and transcribed in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I'd like to take a moment here to remind you
Speaker 1: about some of the excellent entertainment that's yours for the
Speaker 1: listening each Friday on NBC Radio.
Speaker 8: There's the compact Pleasant Quarter Hour featuring Eddie Fisher with
Speaker 8: the Music You Asked to Hear.
Speaker 1: And the equally popular Rosemary Clooney Show featuring fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: of sentimental song stylings brought to you by one of
Speaker 1: America's most popular young singers. Be sure to include the
Speaker 1: program of both Eddie Fisher and Rosemary Clooney in your
Speaker 1: Friday night listening schedule. Also on Friday nights over many
Speaker 1: NVC radio stations, listen to The Baron and the Bee,
Speaker 1: featured in your all time favorite Jack Pearl
Speaker 8: As Baron Munchhausen, and Tonight, listen to the Adventures of
Speaker 8: Counterspy on NBC