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Family Spending

Father Knows Best · October 5, 1950 · 29 min · 4,137 words

The transcript of “Family Spending”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast October 5, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Father Knows Best plays Father Knows Best free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Mother is Maxwell House the best coffee in the whole world? Well your father says so and your father knows best. Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father. A half hour visit with your neighbors the Anderson's.

Brought to you by Maxwell House. The coffee that's bought and enjoyed by more people than any other brand of coffee at any price. Maxwell House always good to the last drop. In the latter part of the 18th century, Dr. Friedrich Anton Mesmer conducted an amazing series of experiments in the field of hypnotism.

In his work, Mesmer used rabbits, chickens, even people, with results we can describe only as astonishing. There was one field, however, which he neglected to investigate, the hypnotic influence of the average salesman on the average American home.

In Springfield and the White Frame House on Maple Street, this subject is now about to be explored, but thoroughly, like this. Margaret. Yes, dear. What's this? What's what, dear? This? Oh, that. That's a magazine.

I know it's a magazine, but what are we doing with a copy of the poultry breeders bulletin in Gazette? Well, we had our choice between that and the mining engineer's monthly manual. So you took the poultry breeders bulletin and gazette?

Naturally, it wouldn't have any use for a magazine about mining engineers, would we? Margaret. Yes, dear. Have you developed a sudden interest in poultry? No. A poultry breeder? Jim, don't be ridiculous. Well, you don't just go out and buy a thing like this without some reason.

I didn't go out. He brought it here. Who did? Well, I don't know his name, but he was a very nice boy. And he's working his way through Harvard. You mean we bought a subscription for this thing?

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