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Aunt Martha Visits

Father Knows Best · April 26, 1951 · 29 min · 4,415 words

The transcript of “Aunt Martha Visits”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast April 26, 1951. 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. Guess it's Father Knows Best, transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbors the Anderson's, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House.

The coffee that's always good to the last drop. Now is the time of year when a strange malady falls upon the land, affecting people from every walk of life, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers, rookies and bookies and Senator Kit Fauver.

It's an affliction that kills off thousands of grandmothers and brings a peculiar gleam to millions of eyes. It's known as baseball fever. baseball fever and nowhere is it more prominent than in a certain white frame house on Maple Street in the fair city of Springfield like this well sure but they had the tying run

on third didn't they the situation called for a squeeze play and you know it Jim your eggs are getting ice cold one out in the man on third knee lets the batter hit away but Keller hits a long ball that if you hit a home run we'd have won the game but if you're not interested

in but he didn't hit a home run he popped up well sure but he could have hit a home run The paper says it might snow. If I'd been running the team, I'd have squeezed the man in.

Maybe Kelleher does know how to bun. Three people in Miami were lost in a blizzard. Anybody who doesn't know how to bun has no right playing in AAA ball. I didn't say he didn't. I said maybe he didn't.

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