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A Spooky Cemetery

Father Knows Best · October 26, 1950 · 29 min · 4,004 words

The transcript of “A Spooky Cemetery”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast October 26, 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 best. Yes, it's Father Knows Best, transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors the Andersons, 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. And all us other chillin' when the supper things is done.

We set around the kitchen fire and has the mostest fun. I listen to the witch tales that Annie tells about, and the goblin that gets ya if ya don't watch out. It's Halloween in Springfield, and the white frame house on Maple Street looks dark and deserted.

Maybe that's because it is dark and deserted. The Andesans, you see, are heading home after a weekend in the country with their friends, the Palmer's. And at the moment we find them, that is, their car is parked on a muddy and rain-spattered road between...

How am I supposed to know where they are? They don't even know themselves, like this. What does the sign say, bud? I don't know, it's dark out here. Well, light a match. Oh, okay. I don't know what's the matter with that boy. He doesn't have enough sense to come in out of the rain.

If he did, he couldn't read the sign, could he, dear? Hmm. Can you see it now, bud? Yeah. Well, what does it say? No trespassing. That's a great help. Alright, come on back. Okay. Daddy.

What is it, Cathy? My feet are cold. Well, put them in your pocket. Mother. Jim, that wasn't very enough. She's done nothing but complain for the last three hours. She's hungry, she's sleepy, she's tired, she's cold.

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