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Speaker 2: Well, your father says so, and father knows best.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's father knows best.
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Speaker 4: for you. Well, the town of Springfield is lovely to
Speaker 4: behold this Christmas Eve. About noon today, the first snowflakes
Speaker 4: began to fall, and soon the air was filled with
Speaker 4: the whirling cristals came down heavily all afternoon. Now every
Speaker 4: lawn and park is white, every roof and chimney top
Speaker 4: and out on Maple Street. This frosty Christmas Eve. Every
Speaker 4: house seems to have its windows brightly aglobe. Every house
Speaker 4: that is, except the Andersons.
Speaker 3: They're not home, you see there. Well, let's go back
Speaker 3: to ten o'clock this morning.
Speaker 4: Margaret was wrapping packages on the dining room table and
Speaker 4: Jim was helping her, like this.
Speaker 2: Hold your finger on this, will you dear? There? We
Speaker 2: are that not should hold? Don't you think?
Speaker 3: Honey?
Speaker 5: Are you planning to send me along with the package?
Speaker 2: What's the matter?
Speaker 3: You tied my thumb in there?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry there. Yeah, I wonder if there's anyone I've forgotten.
Speaker 5: Well, from the number of packages scattered around here, you
Speaker 5: couldn't have forgotten anyone.
Speaker 3: Not in Springfield anyway.
Speaker 2: Oh, they're not so many there. It just looks like
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 3: I can't figure it out. We don't know that many people,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 2: Now, Look, this one goes to the Kirby's. You remember
Speaker 2: last year they gave us that lovely salad bowl and
Speaker 2: we only sent them a card. M hm. This one
Speaker 2: is for the Morrises. I feel we certainly owe them
Speaker 2: a gift.
Speaker 3: But honey, now wait, you.
Speaker 2: Asked a question, and I'm answering you. This package goes
Speaker 2: to the Rodneys. I didn't send them a thing last year,
Speaker 2: and the year before that they gave us that huge
Speaker 2: box of pears, I know. But the big boxes for
Speaker 2: the Carters. And then there's the Blakes and the Rogers
Speaker 2: and the Millbanks send the duke Plains and the Newman's
Speaker 2: and the Lewises. They all gave us something last Christmas.
Speaker 2: You see. I keep a record of these things, dear,
Speaker 2: I have it all written down.
Speaker 5: Fine, I'm not objecting to the idea of remembering our
Speaker 5: friends at Christmas.
Speaker 2: Well you wondered why all the packages.
Speaker 3: Well, it just seems that suddenly Christmas has lost something.
Speaker 3: It used to be so much simpler.
Speaker 5: The spirit of Christmas had a different meaning, I.
Speaker 2: Know, dear, But when people have given to us.
Speaker 3: It, honey, it's become a matter of bookkeeping.
Speaker 5: Christmas used to be a quiet and beautifully religious holiday,
Speaker 5: time for the children, time for bringing happiness to others.
Speaker 5: What does it become a mad scramble to buy a
Speaker 5: lot of things you can't afford to give to people
Speaker 5: who don't need them. Now, dear, why can't we have
Speaker 5: Christmas the way it used to be?
Speaker 3: Quiet?
Speaker 5: And simple, with the real Christmas spirit, when you gathered
Speaker 5: your family and friends around the fire, and the children
Speaker 5: hung up their stockings and the church bells on Christmas
Speaker 5: Eve and the carol are singing.
Speaker 3: That's the way Christmas should be.
Speaker 2: I know, dear, but I'm in the dining room, Daddy.
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch my here now. Mother, So if
Speaker 1: Janie calls, will you take the message?
Speaker 2: What message?
Speaker 1: Well, it's very important, you see, Janie knows simply dozens
Speaker 1: of girls who work at Burton's department store, and they're
Speaker 1: going to call her the second Ralph comes in the store,
Speaker 1: and then Janie's gonna call me.
Speaker 5: Brent says, if you'll forgive my unseemly curiosity, what is
Speaker 5: the purpose of this elaborate spy system.
Speaker 1: Why to find out what Ralph's going to give me
Speaker 1: for Christmas?
Speaker 2: Naturally? Oh, naturally, But dear, a Christmas present is supposed
Speaker 2: to be a surprise.
Speaker 1: Of course, mother, But how can I be surprised if
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of gold lockett that's heard
Speaker 1: shaped with my initials on and he's going to buy me?
Speaker 3: Uh wait a minute, how is that again?
Speaker 7: I'll be upstairs, mother, if Janie called.
Speaker 1: You need to call me to the phone unless the
Speaker 1: lockett is a wristwatched.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: If that doesn't know, now, don't let it upset you.
Speaker 2: She's just a normal teenage girl.
Speaker 3: But honey, the whole idea of Christmas.
Speaker 2: We're in the dining room, bod Hey, tonight's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3: Can you believe it? Christmas Eve?
Speaker 2: And you'd better go down in the basement and bring
Speaker 2: up the decorations for the tree.
Speaker 3: We haven't got a tree yet.
Speaker 2: Besides, I haven't got time right now.
Speaker 8: Joe and I gotta get some stuff together. We're going
Speaker 8: out with Christmas carols.
Speaker 2: Christmas carols.
Speaker 5: You I don't question it, Margaret, Thank Heaven, there's one
Speaker 5: person in this family who has the true Christmas spirit.
Speaker 3: Allow me to congratulate you, son. You have the right idea.
Speaker 5: There's nothing fine around Christmas Eve than to go around
Speaker 5: singing carols.
Speaker 3: Oh we're not gonna sing him, dad, Oh what are
Speaker 3: you gonna do with him?
Speaker 8: We got a deal with Gus down at the used
Speaker 8: car lot.
Speaker 2: He has a sound talk.
Speaker 8: You know, with the big horns on top and a
Speaker 8: record player inside.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, wait, this is a cool idea.
Speaker 8: Gus is gonna drive the sound talk all over town
Speaker 8: this afternoon, and Joe and I we're gonna be inside
Speaker 8: playing the Christmas Carol records. But well, I'm not really
Speaker 8: gonna play the records. Joe's gonna do that, And I'm
Speaker 8: gonna read the commercials. Commercials sure for Gus McCarthy's use Carlot.
Speaker 8: Joe plays a Carol. And then I read a commercial.
Speaker 8: I got some cool ideas? How do you like this one?
Speaker 8: It starts out resking Mary gentlemen in a nineteen thirty
Speaker 8: six two doors edan with bike side.
Speaker 2: Oh but maybe you'd better?
Speaker 8: Or oh what fun it is to ride in a
Speaker 8: nineteen forty club coop with overdrive and new seat covers.
Speaker 3: Pretty look, but I.
Speaker 8: Saw a mommy kissing Santa Claus in a nineteen forty
Speaker 8: eight convertible with radio.
Speaker 3: How do you like those? Pretty good? Hun Dad? Pretty good?
Speaker 3: But have you lost your mind?
Speaker 7: This?
Speaker 3: This is Christmas?
Speaker 2: Your father's right, But that's carrying it entirely too far.
Speaker 8: But if I don't work on the truck this afternoon,
Speaker 8: I won't get to ride on it in the parade tonight,
Speaker 8: parade on Christmas Eve? Sure, the Big Santa Claus parade.
Speaker 3: They can.
Speaker 2: I have floats and bands and cowboys, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: What no skyrockets? Well now I've heard everything.
Speaker 5: Peace on earth, goodwill toward man, introduced with a brass
Speaker 5: vand Daddy.
Speaker 3: What is it? Kitten?
Speaker 1: When are we gonna get our tree? Oh?
Speaker 2: You better go down and get one, dear, they'll be
Speaker 2: all gone.
Speaker 8: I could have gotten one wholesale from Gus's used carlock.
Speaker 8: He sells Christmas trees too.
Speaker 1: Can we have a purple tree this year?
Speaker 7: Daddy?
Speaker 3: A purple tree?
Speaker 1: They're selling them on the vacant lot next to the
Speaker 1: pool hall. Red, yellow, pink, orange, purple. You can get
Speaker 1: any color you want except green. You're talking about the tree.
Speaker 1: I vote for a pink one.
Speaker 3: What's wrong with green? Nothing?
Speaker 8: Except it just looks like a tree.
Speaker 3: What's a tree supposed to look like? Daddy?
Speaker 1: Can we get one of those neon lights?
Speaker 5: Oh, for a pea's sake, neon lights? Purple Christmas trees,
Speaker 5: grass bands? What has happened to you?
Speaker 3: Kids? Have you forgotten the meaning of Christmas? Have you
Speaker 3: forgotten everything you've learned in Sunday School?
Speaker 1: No, father, It's just that things are different Nowland when
Speaker 1: you were a boy. This is nineteen fifty.
Speaker 5: Three different nothing. You can change everything else, but not Christmas.
Speaker 5: Am I right, Margaret, you have the floor.
Speaker 9: Dear.
Speaker 5: The whole trouble is that Christmas has been turned into
Speaker 5: another super colossal all color production. Well it's all wrong,
Speaker 5: and as far as this family is concerned, we're putting
Speaker 5: a stop to it.
Speaker 3: This year. We're going to celebrate.
Speaker 5: Christmas as it should be celebrated, simply and naturally, without
Speaker 5: all the hoop de doo and fall the all.
Speaker 3: This is going to be a real Christmas.
Speaker 7: I don't understand what you mean. Father.
Speaker 5: Well, to begin with, we're not going to buy one
Speaker 5: of those painted trees. We're going to get in the
Speaker 5: car and drive up the Pine mountain and cut our
Speaker 5: own tree.
Speaker 3: Oh why can we, Daddy?
Speaker 2: You don't really.
Speaker 3: Mean that, certainly I do. You kids, gather up some
Speaker 3: warm clothes, but get the saw out of the garage.
Speaker 1: But Father, it's at least fifty miles up there.
Speaker 2: You can buy a tree for a couple of buckstead.
Speaker 3: Now that's what I'm talking about. All you kids can
Speaker 3: think of is buy bye bye. This is a part
Speaker 3: of Christmas.
Speaker 5: You've never even experienced going out into the woods and
Speaker 5: cutting your own Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: The weather forecast at snow today.
Speaker 5: Oh, we'll be up there and back in three or
Speaker 5: four hours. Not going to snow that much. Besides, I
Speaker 5: have chains. Now, get your coats.
Speaker 7: I'm getting ma, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: This sounds like a real peachy Christmas.
Speaker 3: It will be, princess, you'll see, Dear.
Speaker 2: I have all those packages to deliver to the Rogers.
Speaker 3: And the new miss Roll them in the car, Honey,
Speaker 3: we'll deliver them on our way back.
Speaker 2: You're sure this is a good idea.
Speaker 3: Am I sure? Margaret? Believe me, this is going to
Speaker 3: be a Christmas none of us will ever forget.
Speaker 7: Are we almost there? Daddy?
Speaker 3: Oh? Another mile or two? Maybe?
Speaker 7: Father? It's starting to snow again.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's snow coming down.
Speaker 10: It isn't conflicts, gosh.
Speaker 5: Just a little flurry, nothing to worry about. Come on,
Speaker 5: cheer up, everybody. It's almost Christmas eve.
Speaker 7: What is there to cheer up about.
Speaker 8: Joe's probably out on the sound truck playing dick the
Speaker 8: holes with bowls of holly and selling cars like crazy.
Speaker 2: But we're not talking about that, remember, Okay.
Speaker 3: Now, if you kids think you have a hard life.
Speaker 5: Look at that little grocery store back off the road there,
Speaker 5: miles from everything.
Speaker 3: How would you like to live there? Well?
Speaker 7: I wouldn't, that's all. I just wouldn't.
Speaker 3: What if you had to?
Speaker 7: Well, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: What if you had to?
Speaker 7: I said, I wouldn't, Yo, But what if you had to?
Speaker 7: Mother too? About to stop it?
Speaker 3: But stop it?
Speaker 7: Are we almost there? Daddy?
Speaker 5: Oh it won't be long, kitten. Look at that snow
Speaker 5: drifting down. Isn't that beautiful? We're going to have a
Speaker 5: white Christmas?
Speaker 2: It's lovely, dear? But do you think we should try
Speaker 2: to go any farther?
Speaker 3: Just around the next band?
Speaker 1: Why we had to dry clear up here into the
Speaker 1: wilderness to get a Christmas tree?
Speaker 5: You'll understand, Princess, when we're back home this evening, when
Speaker 5: the fragrance of the tree fills the whole house.
Speaker 7: What happened, daddy?
Speaker 3: Nothing? The snow's a little deeper.
Speaker 7: Here, bother, we're not moving?
Speaker 3: Are we stuck? Dead? No, we're not stuck.
Speaker 7: Why aren't we moving, dear?
Speaker 2: We can't go any farther. It's snowing so hard now
Speaker 2: you can't see ahead. Can you turn around?
Speaker 3: I won't try to turn around. The only thing we
Speaker 3: can do is back up.
Speaker 7: We're moving.
Speaker 3: What's the matter, I'm afraid we're stuck.
Speaker 2: Oh no, Jim, we can't be now.
Speaker 3: There's nothing to get excited about. We'll get out of
Speaker 3: here somehow. Take the wheel, Margaret, button now, get out
Speaker 3: in the push. Come on, Bud, I can't even see.
Speaker 7: What do you want me to do, Jim?
Speaker 3: Put it in reverse.
Speaker 7: I can't hear you.
Speaker 3: The snow's getting deep there, snow us. We can't move it. Uh,
Speaker 3: shut off the border, Margaret.
Speaker 7: So what do we do now, dear?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Have to leave the car and walk back? Yeah, well,
Speaker 5: come on, everybody, I'll take the keys.
Speaker 2: Margaret, all right, button up your coat, Kathy that he
Speaker 2: bring those two blankets.
Speaker 7: We can't walk all the way back in this snow.
Speaker 5: I know that we're going back to that little grocery
Speaker 5: store we passed.
Speaker 3: It's only about a quarter of a mile.
Speaker 5: Close the car doors, okay, Kathy.
Speaker 3: Now all stay together. We've been a hurry. It's getting dark, daddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3: Yes, almost.
Speaker 2: I got snow in my shoe and snow down my neck.
Speaker 2: Can you see where you're going?
Speaker 3: Gym? Yeah? I could see marooned.
Speaker 7: On top of a mountain in a blizzard.
Speaker 3: All right, stop complaining. It could be worse.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we could have come up here in our bathing suit.
Speaker 2: I don't know why we had to come up here, Yo,
Speaker 2: what was the idea?
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you, my freezing friends. This is that
Speaker 1: warm and beautifully ben known as a simple old fashioned Christmas.
Speaker 11: Here's a pre Christmas story. It begins in a house
Speaker 11: and concerns if you please a young husband and spouse.
Speaker 11: They're hanging up holy reeds, trimming the tree, wrapping dozens
Speaker 11: of presents to fill, all with glee. Then hark, as
Speaker 11: the hall clock strikes ten, they both stop, and, worn
Speaker 11: out and tired in a chair, they both drop, says
Speaker 11: the man with a yawn. Do you think, dear, we might,
Speaker 11: though it's late. Risks some coffee and maybe a bite,
Speaker 11: says his wife with a grin that is cheery and bold.
Speaker 11: You can have all the coffee you think you can
Speaker 11: hold for I bought instant sanka just for your sake.
Speaker 11: It's free from caffeine, will keep no one awake. So
Speaker 11: they sat and sipped sanka and found it so good
Speaker 11: they drank.
Speaker 3: Even more than they usually would.
Speaker 11: Yet, when later that night Sata poked in his head,
Speaker 11: both husband and wife were asleep in their bed. There's
Speaker 11: my story, my friends, And though not like the jingle
Speaker 11: that whimsical legend of cheery Chris Kringle, it carries a
Speaker 11: message important and true. You can drink instant sanka and
Speaker 11: sleep the night through.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: As I said earlier, the white frame house on Maple
Speaker 4: Street is dark this Christmas Eve. About noon today, Jim
Speaker 4: Anderson revolted against his family's attitude toward the Yule tide
Speaker 4: and decided that this year they should discover the joys
Speaker 4: of a simple, old fashioned Christmas.
Speaker 3: Nice thought, Yes, how is it working out? Terrible?
Speaker 4: They drive up to Pine Mountain to cut their own
Speaker 4: tree and ended up in a snowbank. Now with a
Speaker 4: car abandoned, Jim and the family groped their way through
Speaker 4: the blizzard toward an isolated roadside store like this.
Speaker 10: I think is frozen?
Speaker 7: How much?
Speaker 6: Father?
Speaker 3: Is it? Yaddy? It must be right ahead of us.
Speaker 5: If it weren't snowing so hard, we could probably see
Speaker 5: it there.
Speaker 3: It is dead.
Speaker 7: You see the light?
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's the storm, Mummy.
Speaker 2: Oh well, thank Heaven.
Speaker 3: That looks real pretty for Christmas Eve, doesn't it? Holly
Speaker 3: Reith in the window.
Speaker 1: All I'm interested in right now is getting back to Springfield.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be at at least three parties tonight.
Speaker 8: If we get back in time, I can still ride
Speaker 8: in the parade with Joel on the sound truck.
Speaker 2: All those gifts are still in the car gym. We'll
Speaker 2: have to get them out somehow. They have to be
Speaker 2: delivered tonight.
Speaker 3: All right, one thing at a time. Let's get in
Speaker 3: here and thaw.
Speaker 10: First, Daddy, look at that.
Speaker 7: They've got a.
Speaker 1: Fire in a barrel.
Speaker 5: That's not a barrel, kidding, that's an old fashioned pot belly.
Speaker 2: Oh, this looks like the kind of a store my
Speaker 2: father used to talk about.
Speaker 8: Look at the stuff hanging from the ceiling, landings and snowshoes,
Speaker 8: all kinds of.
Speaker 3: Jump black gully. It smells just like the old general
Speaker 3: store back in my hometown.
Speaker 7: Who runs the place?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if it's Lumon Abner. Hello, anybody here?
Speaker 7: Where's the telephone?
Speaker 3: Oh it's here someplace.
Speaker 2: You children had better take your coats off now I'm
Speaker 2: on the stove. We weren't expecting anyone in tonight.
Speaker 7: How did you folks.
Speaker 2: Get up here?
Speaker 5: Well, our car stalled up the road. I wonder if
Speaker 5: we could use your telephone where.
Speaker 2: You'd be most welcome to use it if we had one.
Speaker 7: No telephone?
Speaker 5: Well, hello, there is if your car it snowed in
Speaker 5: up the road, Yes, that's ours.
Speaker 6: And we must have passed on the road without seeing
Speaker 6: each other. I just walked up there to see if
Speaker 6: you needed help.
Speaker 2: Well, that was very thoughtful of you. We were looking
Speaker 2: for a telephone.
Speaker 12: Well, I guess the nearest phone is down at the
Speaker 12: Harpers place, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Tom Yeah, And you'd never make it down there tonight,
Speaker 6: not with the snow coming down like it is.
Speaker 7: But how are we gonna get back to Springfield?
Speaker 6: I'm afraid you're not going to get back tonight, Miss,
Speaker 6: probably not tomorrow either.
Speaker 1: Ah, growl, Here goes Christmas and all our plans.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't feel too bad about it.
Speaker 2: Miss.
Speaker 6: It may not be so noticeable, but it's Christmas here too,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 3: And since Maggie and.
Speaker 6: Me you're so we're marooned up here in a manner
Speaker 6: of speaking, and since you folks are stranded too, why
Speaker 6: don't we just say we're all stranded together, snowbound as
Speaker 6: it were.
Speaker 3: Well, that's very nice.
Speaker 2: Of you, but we can't just move in on you.
Speaker 2: And why not? You look like nice folks. Tom and
Speaker 2: ne are alone here.
Speaker 12: I'll put some more plates on the table, and there's
Speaker 12: plenty of beds upstairs.
Speaker 7: Can we do it?
Speaker 1: Please? Mommy, please?
Speaker 2: It seems like a dreadful imposition.
Speaker 6: It's nothing of the kai. I'm Tom Terrell and this
Speaker 6: is my wife, Maggie.
Speaker 3: How do you do well? Uh, we'rethy Anderson's a little
Speaker 3: one is Kathy. I'm Ally Bud, my daughter Betty, my
Speaker 3: wife Marret. Hello, and i'm Jim.
Speaker 1: Well, we're happy you're going to be with us.
Speaker 6: We hadn't planned much of a Christmas, just two of us,
Speaker 6: but now that there's some kids around, by golly, it's
Speaker 6: beginning to seem like Christmas.
Speaker 9: Come on, help me light up some more lamps.
Speaker 3: Bud.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll tell you what we always did with our
Speaker 6: youngsters on Christmas.
Speaker 3: We gave them the run of the store. So help yourselves.
Speaker 9: Candy, cookies, anything you want?
Speaker 1: Do you mean it?
Speaker 3: O man, steady out, don't get carried away.
Speaker 1: Oh mother, Look at these adorable old fashioned teacops.
Speaker 2: In a minute, dear, look here, bub look at that, yah.
Speaker 3: But look at this list.
Speaker 6: To my golly, it's good to hear youngsters around the
Speaker 6: place again.
Speaker 2: How many children do you have too? A boy and
Speaker 2: a girl.
Speaker 12: But they're both grown up now gone away. Seems like
Speaker 12: such a short time we had them with us. Well,
Speaker 12: would you like to come out in the kitchen with me, Margaret?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll help you put things on.
Speaker 6: Jim, if you want to hang up your things the
Speaker 6: bedrooms right up.
Speaker 3: The stairway there. Oh good, I'll take these blankets and
Speaker 3: coats up.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: You kids finding anything back there?
Speaker 7: Sure? All kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm found a school book back there, mister Tarrell. It's
Speaker 1: the same rue are used.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it belonged to my daughter. She looked a lot
Speaker 6: like you when she was youry. Did you have some kids,
Speaker 6: mister Taroll, Yes, we have two, bud.
Speaker 1: Where are they, mister Carroll.
Speaker 9: Well they've grown up and gone, Kathy.
Speaker 1: Aren't you lonesome without your children?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: We are sometimes I think we missed the most at
Speaker 6: Christmas time. You kids don't know how much you mean
Speaker 6: to your folks at Christmas.
Speaker 2: We never thought about it.
Speaker 1: I guess we always just thought how much Christmas meant
Speaker 1: to us.
Speaker 6: We used to have our tree here by the store,
Speaker 6: and Judy and Bill would decorate it and put the chambers,
Speaker 6: the chinsel and the stars and the little glass bells
Speaker 6: that they're all in the box back in the corner
Speaker 6: where the kids packed them away.
Speaker 1: Don't you have any Christmas?
Speaker 9: No, Kathy, not anymore. There's no one to decorate the tree.
Speaker 3: Dumb.
Speaker 7: I need some wood for the store.
Speaker 3: All right, I'll get it, I'll get it.
Speaker 8: What are you crying about, Trim?
Speaker 7: I just feel sad, sad?
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Speaker 7: Maybe we'll climb.
Speaker 1: Up on a box and get down those snow shoes.
Speaker 1: You're going back to the car.
Speaker 7: Well, what's wrong with the children? Mind what they didn't eat?
Speaker 2: I don't know they're plotting something.
Speaker 6: They run me out of the store or told me
Speaker 6: to stay back here and lock the door.
Speaker 2: Maybe you'd better go out front and see what they're doing, Jim.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're all right, honey, leave them alone.
Speaker 2: Whatever they're doing. They've been at it for over an hour.
Speaker 13: All right, everybody come in now, turn off all the lamps.
Speaker 7: Well, for pity's sakes, what are they?
Speaker 3: Well, let's go in.
Speaker 7: What in the world?
Speaker 3: Well, will you look at that?
Speaker 1: It's chris See remember, Oh, a tree decorated and with
Speaker 1: candles from the Anderson's.
Speaker 7: Merry Christmas to mister and missus Terarrrell.
Speaker 3: If that don't beat all, it's beautiful kids. How did
Speaker 3: you do it?
Speaker 1: Well, mister Tarrell said they had the decorations. So Bud
Speaker 1: went up to the car and got the saw and
Speaker 1: some things. Then he went out and cut the trees.
Speaker 1: I helped put on the decorations.
Speaker 3: Look what's under the tree?
Speaker 9: Where those packages come from?
Speaker 1: Santa Clus You can't open them till Christmas morning.
Speaker 3: Pard, aren't those your packages from the car?
Speaker 2: I told them they could do it, Dear, they changed
Speaker 2: the tags.
Speaker 3: I guess this is a miracle. Mother.
Speaker 9: We have a family care gathered around the.
Speaker 2: Christmas tree, just the way it used to be.
Speaker 8: Snow coming down outside, candles on the tree, of warm
Speaker 8: fire in the stove.
Speaker 7: Oh, it's lovely, so lovely.
Speaker 1: The only thing that's missing is the Christmas Carol.
Speaker 14: Julie, when she was a little girl, would stand up
Speaker 14: at the top of the stairs, and the way she
Speaker 14: sang it reminded you of the angels who sang it
Speaker 14: to the shepherd's on that wondrous night.
Speaker 2: Kathy?
Speaker 14: Where is Kathy, O little town of bathly Ham?
Speaker 13: How still we see easy Lie, horb fid dreamlesslie, the
Speaker 13: Silan stars go by, Yeddy, my dark street Chin the
Speaker 13: ever lasting.
Speaker 1: Line thoughts, hand feet, years.
Speaker 7: Of years to night.
Speaker 2: Father.
Speaker 1: Yes, Princess, thank you for our first real Christmas.
Speaker 15: This is Robert Young, from all of us in the
Speaker 15: Henderson family to all of you, the most sincere wish
Speaker 15: that the Christmas Spirit, in its fullest meaning be yours
Speaker 15: for now and always good night.
Speaker 16: You know there's no other evening in all the year
Speaker 16: like this night before Christmas. Now, after weeks of busy shopping,
Speaker 16: folks are warmly settled in comfortable living rooms, looking forward
Speaker 16: to the excitement of tomorrow morning. Well, we hope you
Speaker 16: find just what you wanted under that tree. And at
Speaker 16: this time, may we the Post Cereals Company, take the
Speaker 16: opportunity of thanking all of you for making our products
Speaker 16: such favorites all over the country. Yes, Post Cereals have
Speaker 16: long been famous for superior quality and fine flavor. Rest
Speaker 16: assured we'll keep them that way for you always one
Speaker 16: of posts outstanding favorites is Post forty percent brand Flakes,
Speaker 16: and it's now more delicious than ever because it has
Speaker 16: a new magic oven flavor and wonderful crisper texture. Remember
Speaker 16: if you haven't tried them yet, start enjoying Post Bran
Speaker 16: flakes soon and a very merry Christmas from the whole
Speaker 16: Post Cereals family.
Speaker 4: Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Speaker 4: Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson. Until then,
Speaker 4: good night and good luck from the makers of Post
Speaker 4: forty percent brand plates, the cereal preferred and eaten by
Speaker 4: far more people than any other brand plates and Instant Sanka,
Speaker 4: the delicious coffee that lets you sleep in our cast
Speaker 4: where Rhoda Williams's, Betty Ted Donaldson, Geane Vanderpyle, Helen Strome,
Speaker 4: Genett Nolan, and Herb Butterfield.
Speaker 17: Calcium helps grown ups to a more vigorous life. And
Speaker 17: now there's calcium in hot wheat meal. Calcium helps your
Speaker 17: body run smoothly. And now there's calcium in hot wheat meal.
Speaker 17: Calcium helps you to enjoy a more active life.
Speaker 3: And now there's calcium in hot wheat meals.
Speaker 17: Yes, a one ol serving contains one third of your
Speaker 17: daily calcium needs, and post wheatmeal is a whole wheat cereal, creamy, smooth, delicious.
Speaker 3: Cooks instantly get.
Speaker 17: New post wheatmeal with more calcium than any other cereal,
Speaker 17: hot or cold.
Speaker 4: Baba No's Best, based on characters created by Ed James,
Speaker 4: was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West and
Speaker 4: Roswell Roger.
Speaker 7: This is Bill Forman's speaking