WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:05.040 Mar there is Maxwell House, really the only coffee. 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:07.719 In the world where your father says so, and your 3 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:18.879 father knows best. 4 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:21.960 Yes, it's father knows best. 5 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:25.960 Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young his father A half 6 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.920 hour visit with your neighbors, The Anderson brought to you 7 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:33.759 by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always 8 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:51.520 good to the last drop. Since the dark beginnings of time, 9 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.159 superstition has played a dismal part in the fumbling progress 10 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:58.960 of man. We, however, live in an enlightened age, and 11 00:00:59.359 --> 00:01:01.840 thank good we've thrown off. 12 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:03.439 The yoke of ignorant superstition. 13 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.159 Well, I mean, knocking on wood. 14 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:10.120 Isn't really a superstition. You do it just because. 15 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:13.959 Well, anyway, in Springfield, in the white frame house on 16 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:17.000 Maple Street, we find Jim Anderson packing for a trip 17 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.439 to Chicago, and for a change, everything is peaceful and 18 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:21.799 quiet like this. 19 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:24.359 Jim, it certainly won't hurt to take. 20 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.799 Them along, Margaret, I'm only going to be gone three days. 21 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:28.840 How many pairs of socks do you think I can wear? 22 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:31.079 Well, you never can tell, dear, and it's best to 23 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:32.200 be on the safe side. 24 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:36.120 Twelve pairs of socks anybody think I was going to 25 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:39.239 Alaska for the entire winter, Jim. 26 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:41.920 They weigh practically nothing, and I certainly all. 27 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:43.280 Right, all right, put them in. I don't have enough 28 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:44.920 socks for everybody at the whole convention. 29 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:50.200 Dad, we're upstairs, bud, Jim, you don't need all those shirts? 30 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.879 What do you mean all those shirts? I'm only taking six. 31 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.959 But you'll only be away three days, you said so yourself. 32 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:00.719 Well, honey, I've got to look neat all the big 33 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:02.319 shots from the Home Office will be there. 34 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:05.079 I think three shirts are quite enough. You just have 35 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:06.480 to be a little careful, that's all. 36 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.280 Okay, three shirts, fine thing. 37 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:11.439 A man can't even pack the bag away he wants 38 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:12.360 to stay. 39 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:14.680 Dad, can I talk to you for a minute about what? 40 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:17.439 Well, handkerchiefs. Mustn't forget handkerchiefs. 41 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:18.719 I've already put them in there. 42 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.360 Oh, thank you? Well, what is it, buddy? 43 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:22.439 Uh? 44 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:23.840 Could I have three dollars? 45 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:24.520 No? 46 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:28.439 What happened to that bottle opener I had in the 47 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.560 top drawer, Jim. 48 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:33.840 If it's going to be that kind of convention, it. 49 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:40.879 Isn't, Margaret, But I just thought, well, never mind, Dad, 50 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:42.120 But I said, no. 51 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:44.719 I know, Dad, But this is an emergency. 52 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:46.840 What kind of an emergency? 53 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:48.000 The worst kind? 54 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:51.319 I've never known you to have any other. Why do 55 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:52.240 you need three dollars? 56 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.280 Well, it's for the baseball team. I need another bat. 57 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:57.560 You mean you've broken the old one already? 58 00:02:58.199 --> 00:02:58.280 No? 59 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:02.280 But well I I think I've used up all the hits. 60 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:03.479 You what? 61 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.439 I'm in an awful sump? Dad, I haven't had a 62 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:08.960 hit in two weeks. And if I can just buy 63 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:10.639 a beat with some hits in it, that's. 64 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:13.080 The most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life. 65 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.520 You've got a perfectly good bat. Why weighte three dollars 66 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:18.120 on another one? 67 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.039 But Dad, I've got to do something to change my luck. 68 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:25.280 Luck superstitious twaddle. If you can't get a hit with 69 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:27.479 the old bat, you won't get one with a new one, either, 70 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:29.960 But articularly if I have to pay. 71 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.400 For it, Well, I guess I'm all packed. 72 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.080 You haven't forgotten anything, have you, Dear? 73 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:36.520 I don't think so. But how about taking the bag 74 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:37.759 downstairs like a good fellow. 75 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.039 Okay, but look, Dad, we're playing a very important game 76 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:41.919 this afternoon. 77 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.000 In just a moment, Bud, what is it? Kathy? 78 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:47.840 I don't care what she says? 79 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:48.639 You can't go. 80 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:49.520 Mother. 81 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:51.879 Betty says I can't go to the club with her 82 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:54.479 this afternoon, and you said I could. 83 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.199 I said I'd ask her, dear mother. 84 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.319 It's bad enough going out with a boy I don't 85 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:00.759 even know, but if I have. 86 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:04.319 To drag her along, they're gonna play tennis and I 87 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:04.840 want to. 88 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:06.159 Watch, Kathy. 89 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.360 If Betty says you can't go, then you can't go, 90 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:09.560 and I'll stop arguing. 91 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:15.080 You love her more than you love me. That's why 92 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:16.480 you're always sticking. 93 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.480 Up for I'm not sticking up for anybody. You can 94 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:20.920 watch Bud play baseball. 95 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:26.920 No, what, holy cow, Dad, you don't know what you're doing. 96 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:28.519 Oh, I don't, huh. 97 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:33.959 She's worse on a black cat. She's worse on an umpire. 98 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.199 Now listen, Bud. There's no reason but dead. 99 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:39.920 You've never heard her. She sounds like a fire siren. 100 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:42.480 She gets both teams rattled. 101 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:51.560 Hmm, a bunch of sandlodders. 102 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:54.519 It's all right, Kathy, you can stay home with me 103 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:55.959 this afternoon. 104 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:57.279 But I want to do something. 105 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:59.199 We'll find something to do. 106 00:04:59.399 --> 00:04:59.959 How about the beast? 107 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:03.839 But okay? Not having enough trouble. They want me to 108 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:04.480 take her all. 109 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:06.800 Father, What is it. 110 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:09.839 Betty is mister Davis's nephew, tall and dark? 111 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:11.000 How do I know? 112 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:13.839 I've never even seen him? What difference does it make anyway? 113 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.519 Well, Janie Liggott told my fortune yesterday and the cards 114 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.639 said to be careful of a tall dark man. 115 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:21.680 And if he's tall and dark. 116 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.519 Betty, if he's eight feet tall and has hair made 117 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:26.480 of licorice, you're still going out with him. 118 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:29.279 He's only going to be in town this weekend. 119 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:32.399 And I gave it Davis my word father, idiotic thing 120 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.439 I've ever heard in my life, just because Janie Liggott 121 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:36.639 hasn't got a brain in her head. 122 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.560 It wasn't Janie's idea of father. She has a fortune 123 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:41.079 telling set and it's wonderful. 124 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:43.360 It costs four dollars. 125 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:45.360 Oh, pardon me. 126 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.480 I thought it was one of the cheap two dollars sets. 127 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:52.560 Jim. I know you're going to say it silly, but 128 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:55.040 I did have a dream about a wedding. 129 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.000 Last night, Margaret, not you too. 130 00:05:57.639 --> 00:05:57.879 Well. 131 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.120 You remember my grandmother Williams. 132 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.920 It's a hot and todd kid, Jim. 133 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:07.439 Grandmother Williams was a very sweet woman, and she said, 134 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:09.839 when you dream of a wedding, it means trouble. 135 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:12.600 Well, that depends on who's getting married. 136 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:13.199 Jim. 137 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.639 You certainly don't believe in that poppy cock. 138 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:17.759 Do you. 139 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:18.839 Well? 140 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:21.839 No, But if Betty's going to feel uneasy. 141 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:22.879 Feel uneasy about what? 142 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:25.839 Since when is a dream something to be afraid of. 143 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:27.959 I'm not afraid of dreams. 144 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:31.759 Batty nine years old, and she's the only intelligent one 145 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:32.480 in the whole house. 146 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:35.199 You're a very sensible little girl, Kathy. 147 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:38.759 I'm not afraid of anything because I've got a lucky 148 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:41.920 penny and a rabbit's foot and a horseshoe and Margaret. 149 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:45.879 What's gotten into this family anyway? These aren't the Middle Ages. 150 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.639 This is the twentieth century. We're supposed to be intelligent 151 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:49.480 human beings. 152 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:51.920 Jim. It's not that we believe in these things. 153 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:55.160 And what does it mean all this twaddle about dreams 154 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:57.920 and fortune tellers and bats with hits in them? 155 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.839 You sound like a bunch of stone simpletons. 156 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:05.399 Why father, now, just a moment, Jim Anderson, you have 157 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:08.560 just as many silly little superstitions as anyone else. 158 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:10.120 I certainly do not. 159 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.480 You most certainly do, Kathy. 160 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:16.519 Yes, Daddy, go downstairs and help Bud. 161 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:17.720 What's he doing? 162 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:19.959 Do I know what he's doing? 163 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:27.399 Go downstairs and find out and help him. Jee Wills, 164 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:29.160 Now see here, Margaret. 165 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.160 Yes, in my time, I've. 166 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.639 Walked under hundreds of letters, broken, thousands of mirrors, ignored, 167 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:37.279 millions of black cats. And if you can call that 168 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.199 being superstitious. 169 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:42.560 I'll bet that's Charlie. Who Charlie Davis and father? If 170 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:43.600 he's tall and dark? 171 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.759 Betty, what father Janie says? 172 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:48.439 I don't care what Janie said. You are going out 173 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:49.439 with Charlie Davis. 174 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.519 Oh pooh, Betty for you, she'd be right down, bud, 175 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:55.360 Go ahead, Betty. 176 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.600 If this is a twentieth century, why do I have 177 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.279 to be treated like somebody's slave. 178 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:01.079 I don't know what's gotten inn of that curl. 179 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:02.879 What are you looking for? 180 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:03.160 Dear? 181 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:05.879 My gray hat was right up here on the shelf. 182 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:07.800 It's downstairs in the hall closet. 183 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:09.639 I mean my old gray hat, the one I always 184 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:11.279 wear a convention, Jim. 185 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:13.720 It was all worn. Oh, it was dirty and the 186 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:14.680 ribbon was faded. 187 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:19.000 Margaret, What did you do with my hat? 188 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:19.879 Well? 189 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:22.000 I gave it to mister Adams. 190 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:25.000 Mister you mean the junk man. 191 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.240 Yes, dear, you gave my. 192 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:29.600 Hat to the junk man. 193 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.559 Jim, you have a brand new hat, Margaret, How could 194 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:34.919 you do a thing like that to me? 195 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.720 That was my luck? I mean, how could you? 196 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.639 But you said, I've worn that hat to conventions for 197 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:43.639 fifteen years. 198 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:45.679 You know I never go to a convention without it. 199 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:47.279 What were you thinking of? 200 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:47.960 Father? 201 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:50.960 He is tall and he's got the blackest hair you 202 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:52.759 ever saw. I won't go with it, and you can't 203 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:53.159 make me. 204 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:56.039 Oh, I can't, can't I Betty Anderson. 205 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:57.279 You'll go out with that boy or you'll never go 206 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:01.000 out again. Good Father, There enough trouble give a man's 207 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:02.360 hat away at a time. 208 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:03.600 Like this, Betty. 209 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:05.799 After all, your father knows best, and if he's. 210 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:08.759 All right, I'll go. But if anything happens to me, 211 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:10.519 you'll have no one to blame it yourself. 212 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:14.200 Betty, your father's going away, aren't you going to say goodbye? 213 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:14.799 Sure? 214 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:15.799 Goodbye? 215 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:18.840 And I hope you have a very nice time. 216 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:23.720 Most ridiculous thing. 217 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.919 I've ever heard of, perfectly good hat sitting up on 218 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:27.320 a shelf, not hurting a soul. 219 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:29.600 Jim, you said you weren't superstitious. 220 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:32.720 Superstitious? What a superstition got to do with it? I 221 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:34.519 like that hat. It was the best hat. 222 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:36.879 I've ever had, but it was all worn out. It 223 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.559 was a perfect hat for going to conventions. 224 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.120 And you know it, Bud. 225 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:42.679 Jim, do you want me. 226 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:44.799 To get mister Adams on the phone. 227 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.799 Oh, mister Adams. 228 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:48.639 The junk man. 229 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:51.879 Tell him I want my gray hat back. 230 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:55.279 It's in the closet, dead, my old gray hat. Tell 231 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.360 him I'll give him five dollars for it, But that hat, Bud. 232 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.960 Okay, Dad, Jim, you're being very foolish about this whole thing. 233 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:04.919 Oh I am am. 234 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.960 I just because I have a lucky just because I 235 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.679 happen to like a certain hat, I'm being foolish. 236 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:14.519 That's fine, Jim. Your train leaves in less than an hour, Well. 237 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:16.840 Let it leave. I'll take a plane. I'll walk. 238 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:19.879 But until mister Adams comes back with my hat, I'm 239 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.720 not going to What is it, Kathy. 240 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:23.960 Mister Jalis is here? 241 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:27.759 No, what does he want? I'll be right down. Ed. 242 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:29.080 Take your time, Jim. 243 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.639 Norry, Jim, Please don't make a fuss in front of Ed. 244 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:35.320 Of course not. You know I've got better sense than that. 245 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:36.320 I do. 246 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:40.120 Well. 247 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:42.120 I guess I've got everything except my hat. 248 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:45.080 I don't understand, Jim. After that long speech you made 249 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:46.879 about dreams and fortune. 250 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:49.240 Telling, Margaret, my hat has nothing to do with dreams 251 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:50.240 and fortune tellers. 252 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.000 Isn't the question of superstition or anything like that. I 253 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:55.639 merely want my hat. 254 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.799 And in the future, will you please leave my things alone? 255 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:02.039 Yes, dear, I'm not asking for anything unusual. 256 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.200 Just don't give my hats to the junk man. 257 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:06.679 All right, Dear. 258 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:08.879 Jim, I'm sorry to board jan at a time like this, 259 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:10.240 I know you must be kind of busy. 260 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:11.200 Well, it's all right. 261 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:12.200 How are you crying? 262 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:13.879 Margaret? That's fine, Jim. 263 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:16.360 I have some property in Chicago, and I wonder if 264 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:18.120 you'll do me a big favor while you're there. 265 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:19.879 Sure, n I'll be glad to dad. 266 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:21.440 Mister Adams wasn't there. 267 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:23.720 That's impossible. He must be. 268 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:28.120 There, Okay, but missus Adams said he wasn't. She's going 269 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:29.320 to say she can find. 270 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:31.480 Them, Margaret. Now do you see what you've done? 271 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:31.919 Jim? 272 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:33.559 You said I know what I said. 273 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:35.399 But good grief on anything wrong? 274 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:35.720 Jim. 275 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.440 Everything's wrong. We've had nothing but trouble all day. My 276 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:42.919 good hat's gone, the junk man's gone. Betty didn't even 277 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:44.639 want to go out with your nephew just because he's 278 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:45.399 tall and dark. 279 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.960 You mean, Charlie, have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? Oh, 280 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:49.919 I don't understand. 281 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:52.919 Oh, Janie Leggett has some kind of an idiotic sept 282 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:53.879 that tells fortunes. 283 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:56.360 And she told Betty well, I understand that part all right. 284 00:11:57.159 --> 00:11:57.799 Used to be quite a. 285 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:01.960 Hand with a ouiji boid. I don't understand about Charlie. Oh, 286 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.000 there's nothing to worry about. 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Buy look for 309 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:40.720 it featured these days at the lowest prices in months. 310 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:45.279 Enjoy the coffee that's always good to the last drop, 311 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:58.480 double double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble. 312 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:01.480 It's a far cry from the Witches of Macbeth to 313 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:04.639 the Andersons of Springfield, but not as far as you 314 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.919 might think. An hour has passed and the situation has 315 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:12.200 altered only slightly. Bud is out playing baseball, Kathy is 316 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.559 out playing well, whatever it is that nine year old 317 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.840 girls play. But in the white frame house on Maple Street, 318 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:22.240 the air is charged with nervous tension. Not a word 319 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:24.679 has been heard from Betty and the Andersons, and Ed 320 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:28.360 Davis can do nothing but wait, like this, don't like this, 321 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:30.279 don't like it at all. 322 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:33.759 Look Ed, I don't care what you do, but do something. Well, 323 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:35.159 let's try this. 324 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:36.279 Hm. 325 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:37.840 Let me see now. 326 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.919 Jim, I don't understand how you can sit there at 327 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:43.960 a time like this and play Canasta. 328 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.000 Well, what do you want me to do, Margaret. 329 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:51.399 We haven't left a stone unturned. We've called all our friends, 330 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:54.240 the club, all the authorities, and they've promised to let 331 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.240 us know the second either one of them turns up. 332 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.200 There must be someone else we can call, like who. 333 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.240 I'm not even sure calling the police was such a 334 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:05.279 good idea, Jim. You've got to understand my position. After all, 335 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:07.519 Charlie is my nephew and we don't know where he 336 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.840 is the idiot. We don't know where Betty is or 337 00:15:10.840 --> 00:15:12.879 how the boy with the dark hair got into it. 338 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:17.840 It's very confusing. Whose turn is it? Well, the whole 339 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:19.360 thing is certainly nothing to worry about. 340 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.320 That's because Janie Leggett is a superstitious little twerp. 341 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:25.240 Jim, After all the us you made about your hat, 342 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:27.320 how can you call anyone superstitious? 343 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:30.159 My hat has nothing to do with it, and I 344 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:31.159 didn't make a fuss. 345 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:32.799 Then why did you miss your train? 346 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:36.559 Because I decided to fly and I wanted to find 347 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:37.519 out what happened to Betty. 348 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:41.360 That's all, nothing complicated about it, and it has nothing 349 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:42.480 to do with superstition. 350 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:45.080 I guarantee that when Betty shows up, there'll be a 351 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:46.919 perfectly logical explanation. 352 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:47.120 Of the whole thing. 353 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:48.600 Well, I hope you're right. 354 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.679 Of course, I'm right. Go ahead, Ed, it's your turn. 355 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:57.320 You haven't put down a card? Oh well, just a minute, 356 00:15:58.440 --> 00:15:59.879 certainly taking long enough. 357 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.360 I have a right to think about it, don't I 358 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:03.440 just don't rush me. 359 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:06.759 You know, when I was a boy, we lived in 360 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:08.840 an old house on the North Side, and the place 361 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:12.919 was simply crawling with ghosts. Well one day, wait a minute, 362 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:15.120 don't tell me you believe in ghosts. 363 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.840 Why not? Well, it's ridiculous. Everybody knows there's no such thing. 364 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.639 Oh they do, do they? Well, let me tell you, Jim, 365 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:28.279 there wasn't a night went by, did he? I'm sorry? 366 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:30.919 I what are you doing home? Bud? Thought you're going 367 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:31.720 to play baseball? 368 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:35.720 Well I started to play, But gosh, Ded, I told 369 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:37.120 you that bat wasn't any good. 370 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.879 Bud? What on earth happened to your eye? 371 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:44.440 God's another shiner? But have you been fighting again? 372 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.639 I got hit with a baseball. 373 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:49.519 That's great. You know, if this keeps up, you're going 374 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:50.679 to have that eye worn out. 375 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:53.919 I couldn't help it, Dad, I asked you to let 376 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:54.879 me buy another bat. 377 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:57.720 You were hit with a ball. What does a bat 378 00:16:57.799 --> 00:16:58.559 have to do with it? 379 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:01.679 Well, they took me out a pitter and while I 380 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:03.720 was sitting on the bench, I got hit in the eye. 381 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:07.480 There, you see, that's what you get for being superstitious. 382 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:09.200 Why aren't you on the train? 383 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:15.319 Who said anything about a train? 384 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:18.400 Jim? But his only doing the things you taught him. 385 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:20.640 I taught him. When did I teach him anything about 386 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:21.920 a bat with no hits in it? 387 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.680 Well, it amounts to the same thing. Just because you're 388 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:26.319 concerned over a silly old hat. 389 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:28.039 I'm not concerned about my hat. 390 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:30.640 The hat has nothing to do with it. And Margaret, 391 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:32.440 will you please stop changing the subject? 392 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:35.039 Oh no, not again? 393 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:39.960 What was that the glazier's delight, Kathy? 394 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:45.119 But tell Kathy to come in here, please, Okay, tells 395 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.079 me I can't get a new bat, and then blame 396 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:47.720 the whole. 397 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:48.000 Thing on me. 398 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.960 As I was saying, Jim, we had a rocking chair 399 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:55.119 in our living room and every night it went back 400 00:17:55.160 --> 00:18:00.559 and forth, back and forth, back and forth. What does 401 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.960