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Becomes Ill

Father Knows Best · December 14, 1950 · 29 min · 3,963 words

The transcript of “Becomes Ill”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast December 14, 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 really the only coffee in the world? Well, your father says so, and your father knows this. Oh! Oh! Yes, his father knows this. Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young, his father.

A half hour visit with your neighbors, the Andesans, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House. The coffee that's always good to the last drop. Beyond the last horizon's rim, Beyond Adventure's farthest quests, somewhere they rise serene and dim, the happy, happy hills of rest.

Well, rise they may, these restful hills, but there's one thing on which you can depend. They have nothing to do with Springfield or the White Frame House on Maple Street. When it comes to rest, the Andesans live in a world apart, a world in which sanity itself sometimes hangs by a slender thread.

Like this. Jim. Jim. Jim? What? What's the matter? This is the fourth and last time. Are you or are you not going to get out of bed? I don't know. What time is it? Nine o'clock.

It is, huh? It certainly is. To tell you the truth, I don't feel so hot. What, Jim, what is it? I feel kind of achy all over. Darling, if you'd only said something. How could I say anything?

I was asleep. I've better call Dr. Simmons. Leave Dr. Simmons alone. But if you don't feel alone... I don't need him, Margaret. I'm coming down with a little coal, and I don't need a doctor to tell me to stay in bed and keep warm.

Jim... I'll do it myself and send him a bill. Jim, you're sure there's nothing really wrong with you? Of course I'm sure. Outside of feeling miserable, I feel fine. Oh, dear. Now what? The girls are coming over this afternoon to play bridge.

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