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00:00You have a date with the Angels, starring Betty White, Bill Williams as Gus Angel,
00:30presented by the Plymouth Dealers of America, who proudly sell and service the beautiful new Plymouth for 1957.
00:43The time, about six months after Vicki and Gus Angel were married.
00:48The characters, well, you remember the Hatfields and the McCoys.
00:53The plot, Love Thy Neighbor.
00:55He's still at it, huh?
01:06Hasn't stopped for five minutes.
01:09No, honey, don't get inquisitive. None of our business if two families want to fight.
01:14I'm not inquisitive. I'm just nosy.
01:17Listen to that Murphy when he gets mad.
01:24You can expect one problem family on the block, but why do we have to get stuck with two?
01:29Kathy Murphy's heading this way.
01:31It's high.
01:32We can't. It's shuffing the light.
01:35Shut up, Finley. I'm forking.
01:39Finley.
01:40Hi, Vicki.
01:41Can I borrow Gus for a little while?
01:43Sure. Come on in.
01:45What's wrong?
01:46Murph is throwing things.
01:48But you're up here.
01:49Oh, Murph doesn't throw things at me.
01:51We've got a pact with each other.
01:55Who is he mad at?
01:57Oh, those creeps that live next door to us.
01:59The Finleys.
02:00Oh, come on, Gus, please.
02:01I can't handle him when he gets like this.
02:03But wouldn't it be better if I was...
02:04You better go, sweetheart.
02:06All right.
02:07Don't let him hit Gus.
02:08Oh, he won't.
02:09You take your coat.
02:10It's only two houses down.
02:11Oh, you men, do what she says.
02:13Honey, I don't think that's a good idea.
02:18That's all right.
02:19Oh, so you are the one.
02:20How do you like?
02:23Come on, come on.
02:24He's wrecking my kitchen.
02:26You can next later.
02:29Don't you get mad.
02:33All right, all right.
02:34Get legal about it.
02:35Go ahead.
02:36I got a lawyer, too, Billy.
02:40How many times do I have to...
02:41Mrs. Angel?
02:44Mr. Finley.
02:45May I come in?
02:47Yes, come in.
02:52What is it, Mr. Finley?
02:54I came to ask a favor, Mrs. Angel.
02:57Why did you come in that way?
03:00To ask a favor.
03:00I know, but...
03:03Well, how can I help you, Mr. Finley?
03:05It's about Mr. Finley.
03:08I see.
03:09He's terribly upset.
03:11I've never seen my boy like this.
03:13Oh, your boy.
03:15The bald-headed one.
03:18He was angry once before when he was 37.
03:22At that time, I put it down to immaturity.
03:25Someone coughed on his backswing.
03:31Oh.
03:33Does your son play golf?
03:36My husband's playing tomorrow with his boss.
03:40What's that got to do with it?
03:42Well, I thought...
03:43What do you want me to do, Mr. Finley?
03:46Just come over and talk to him.
03:49Your son hardly knows who I am.
03:51He trusts you.
03:52Me?
03:53You're the only one in the whole block he does trust.
03:56That hardly gives me the right to interfere.
03:58It's the nicest thing he's said about anybody since the Depression.
04:03Well, as soon as my husband gets back...
04:05He needs you now.
04:08All right, I'll go with you.
04:10Please hurry.
04:11Would you write?
04:12I'll be right back on that paper, Mr. Finley.
04:20Is your son throwing things, too?
04:22No, he's staring.
04:26Can you just prop it up?
04:30Staring?
04:31At what?
04:32At the wall.
04:33That's the worst kind of staring, you know.
04:38This is the front door, Mr. Finley.
04:41Oh.
04:43He's just staring.
04:45What started all this in the first place?
04:46Just one of those things.
04:48All right, Finley.
04:49All right, this is definitely my last word.
04:53Yeah, I'm going to try to tell you.
04:54Mr. Finley, this is the ultimatum.
05:04Well, I guess I will not.
05:09Oh, hi, lover.
05:11It's okay, Gus.
05:13Storm's over.
05:13Hiya, Gus.
05:14Hi, Merc.
05:14Here, let me do that.
05:15You must be poofed.
05:16Yeah, I am.
05:19This one ran kind of long.
05:21I guess I blew my top.
05:23So I see.
05:24Well, I guess you won't be needing me anymore.
05:25Oh, well, stick around.
05:26We don't want them to think I slipped my trolley, do we, lover?
05:30Wayne, it's none of my business.
05:32Now, stick around.
05:32Let me show you how it works.
05:33You see, me and this Finley character next door had some words.
05:36So instead of belting them, I come home and do this.
05:40Make sense?
05:41Oh, sure.
05:42Yeah, I see.
05:42That way Merv lets off steam and nobody gets hurt.
05:45Well, Vicki's all alone up there and I got to...
05:47Oh, maybe I shouldn't have run for Gus, but I couldn't turn you off.
05:50Usually he doesn't get past the cups and saucers.
05:52But, lover, you did it for me.
05:56No, stick around.
05:58Let me put on a pot of coffee, right?
05:59Well, I don't think the pot will stay on the stove.
06:03Isn't that beautiful?
06:06That was Finley and I kicked his teeth in.
06:09It does look a little like him at the house.
06:11Oh, I think you broke his nose, too.
06:14Yeah, the big interfering nose.
06:17Well, I better be running along.
06:19Oh, I'm sorry to a bit scared you, Gus, but this one was really a loo-lo.
06:24Hey, Gus.
06:25Yeah?
06:26Do you know what that egghead said to me?
06:29Who?
06:30Finley!
06:31He had the nerve to offer me his professional services, free.
06:36He did?
06:37Well, I don't blame you for blowing your stack.
06:40What professional services?
06:41What did he do?
06:42Ah, he's a professor of psychology.
06:44Ah, ah, ah, lover.
06:49Say, why don't you go down to Vicki's and Gus's and have a cup of coffee?
06:53Oh, yeah, yeah.
06:55Oh, well, thanks for asking me.
06:56Serve the coffee in tin cups.
06:58I'll be okay, Cassie, as long as I don't see Finley.
07:04Well, thanks again, Gus.
07:06So long.
07:07Bye, lover.
07:08Bye, sweet.
07:18Oh, dear.
07:19He's fighting harder than ever.
07:23He is?
07:23Who is he fighting with?
07:26Himself.
07:31Well, I really don't see what good I can do, Mr. Finley.
07:33He likes you, Mrs. Angel.
07:35Try to make him talk.
07:48Mr. Finley?
07:49Yes?
07:50Well, I meant him.
07:57Mr. Finley?
07:59He's the lady you trust, boy.
08:01Mrs. Angel.
08:02The one with the neat hedge.
08:07Mr. Finley?
08:08Oh, that doesn't do any good.
08:10He can't see without his glasses.
08:12You see, when he takes off the glasses, that's his way of shutting out the world.
08:21Oh, uh-huh.
08:22Well, I'm sorry I couldn't have been of more help.
08:25Goodbye, Mr. Finley.
08:27Don't go, Mrs. Angel.
08:32Are you all right now, Mr. Finley?
08:37Never felt better in my life.
08:39Father, if you can't follow the conversation, stay out of it.
08:46I will not have disrespect for my children.
08:49Go to your room.
08:54He was really very worried about you.
08:56I'm sorry, Father.
08:58It was very nice of you to concern yourself over our problem, Mrs. Angel,
09:01but I think I have it all worked out now.
09:05That Murphy person is a throwback.
09:08Well, I'm glad it's all settled.
09:10I'm glad you agree.
09:11If you asked me, they wouldn't let him in the ape house at the zoo.
09:16Finley, I'm sure they would.
09:18No, only...
09:22Only a throwback like Murphy would cause such a commotion
09:25over a simple thing like Father running across his lawn.
09:28He runs across his lawn?
09:31With the car.
09:36Father has difficulty backing out of the driveway.
09:40That's because you don't put the wheels straight
09:42when you put the car in the garage.
09:45You're supposed to turn the wheels, Father.
09:47Automobiles don't run on tracks.
09:50At any rate, this Murphy and I had a complete discussion
09:53with a man so illiterate that I offered him my professional services.
09:56What kind of services?
09:58What do you do, Mr. Finley?
10:00I'm retired.
10:03You have to meet Father.
10:06I'm a professor of psychology.
10:10I see.
10:11Well, I really better be running along now.
10:14I'll escort you home.
10:15Oh, no, no, that's not a bit necessary.
10:18I just lived down...
10:18Well, I don't see why you...
10:20Come on in, Murph.
10:22Mickey.
10:23Mickey, honey, I brought Murph back with me.
10:27That's funny.
10:31She doesn't seem to be here.
10:33Honey, here's the note.
10:37What do you make of this?
10:38I'll be right back on that paper, Mr. Finley.
10:44If it's got anything to do with the Finleys,
10:46it ain't supposed to make sense.
10:50You don't blame me for getting mad, do you, Angel?
10:52Oh, of course, Matt, Murph.
10:55Well, I'm glad to see it my way.
10:57Every day, regular as clockwork,
11:00the old man is back across my lawn,
11:02and when I yell at him,
11:04he tells me to go to my room.
11:10Uh-huh.
11:11I can take it from the old man,
11:15but I can't stand that bald-headed,
11:17juvenile, delinquent son of his.
11:22Oh, here she is.
11:25You didn't have to walk me home,
11:27but thank you.
11:27You never can tell, Mrs. Angel,
11:29when that Murphy creature
11:30might be lurking in the bushes.
11:32What Murphy creature?
11:34The one with a low forehead
11:36and receding hairline.
11:40Low forehead?
11:41Are you trying to insult my wife?
11:45Of course not.
11:47Good night.
11:49I'll be going, too.
11:50Uh, wait a couple of minutes, Murph.
11:51Now, let me out of here, Angel.
11:53I just figured out something.
11:55If he wasn't talking about Cassie,
11:56he was talking about me.
11:57What are you going to do?
11:59I don't know,
12:01but I feel much better.
12:02Now, the cusp says that I'm in the right.
12:04See you later.
12:08I didn't say one word
12:09about him being in the right.
12:11Whatever we do, sweetheart,
12:13let's keep out of it.
12:14Oh, you're right, honey.
12:15Let's stay away from those people.
12:17All I ask is that they stay away from me.
12:20They'd better.
12:21How is Mr. Inchaw
12:22coming by for you in the morning?
12:24Well, being the boss,
12:25he's got it all figured out.
12:27He's going to pick me up at 6.30
12:28because he wants to see you off at 7.
12:30Uh-huh.
12:31And then when you bring him back here for lunch,
12:33I'll have the Murphys and the Finleys here
12:34so all seven of us can sit down to eat together.
12:37Oh, honey, don't even kid like that.
12:40Oh, imagine Henshaw with that bunch.
12:43That is a sickening thought, isn't it?
12:46You better hit the sack.
12:47It's getting kind of late.
12:48I guess I'd better.
12:49I'll get a glass of milk first.
12:50All right.
12:51Cassie.
13:01Good morning, dear.
13:05What is it, Cassie?
13:06Well, I thought you'd like to see some of the work
13:08that Murph's been doing this morning.
13:13Oh, no.
13:14Oh, I hope you're proud of yourself, dear.
13:19Me?
13:21Nice to know which of your friends runs around
13:23calling your husband a throwback.
13:25Cassie, I did no such thing.
13:27Oh, come off it.
13:29Well, I didn't.
13:30Well, I suppose you weren't at the Finleys last night.
13:33Well, yes.
13:34But yes, and Finley couldn't wait to get to the phone to call
13:36to tell us what you said.
13:38Oh, I...
13:39Cassie, you've got to believe me.
13:41I didn't call Murph a throwback.
13:43Well, then what did you say?
13:45Oh, Mr. Finley said Murph wouldn't be allowed
13:47in the ape house at the zoo, and I said he would.
13:53That's different.
13:57So why did he say that you said them to me?
13:59Whatever Mr. Finley said was wrong.
14:01You mean it?
14:02You'd cross your heart and hope to spit?
14:04I'd cross a...
14:04Oh, Cassie.
14:06Well, all right, then.
14:07Take your word against his any day.
14:10Oh, uh...
14:11I hope I didn't sound sore or anything.
14:14Oh, of course not.
14:15Here, don't forget this.
14:16Oh, yeah.
14:17Maybe Murph can kick it back into shape.
14:20Well, so long, Vic.
14:22Bye, Cassie.
14:30Hello?
14:31Oh, Murph.
14:33No, Cassie just left.
14:35While I have you on the phone,
14:36I want you to know that what Cassie said Mr. Finley said,
14:39I said I didn't say at all.
14:42Let me put that another way.
14:43I did not call you a throwback.
14:48No, I wouldn't want to call him a liar.
14:52Good.
14:53As long as you understand.
14:55Fine.
14:56Goodbye, Murph.
14:57Mr. Finley.
15:07Would you please come down to our house, Mrs. Angel?
15:10My son is having problems.
15:12Mr. Finley, I just can't get involved again.
15:16My husband's bringing his boss here for lunch,
15:18and I don't even have the house cleaned up.
15:19Please hurry.
15:20The way things are going,
15:21he'd be taking off his glasses any minute.
15:25I just can't leave.
15:27All right.
15:28I'll have my boy come up here.
15:29No.
15:30No, I'll go with you.
15:32But I can't stay more than a minute.
15:34What is it this time?
15:35Now, Mrs. Murphy claims that you deny categorically
15:38having referred to Mr. Murphy as a throwback.
15:40Yes.
15:41I've already told you that four times.
15:43Mrs. Angel, I believe I can quote you verbatim.
15:46Oh, come off it.
15:47When I referred to that Murphy person as a throwback,
15:52you said, quote.
15:54Well, I'm glad that's settled.
15:56Oh, so you're the one who said it.
15:57I never denied having said it.
15:59I simply stated that Mrs. Angel agreed with me.
16:02I didn't mean it the way it sounds.
16:04Boy, you forgot to say unquote.
16:08Father, if you can't follow the conversation,
16:10stay out of it.
16:11I have been following the conversation.
16:13That's how I know you didn't say unquote.
16:15Oh, let's turn off all the hot air.
16:18Look, Vicki, didn't you just tell me
16:20that everything this boob said was wrong?
16:22I didn't say it that way, Mr. Finley.
16:25Now, whose side are you on, anyway?
16:27I'm not on anybody's side.
16:29I don't even know what it's all about.
16:30If you don't know what it's about, Mrs. Angel,
16:32then you shouldn't interfere.
16:35You'll have to excuse me.
16:36I have to get the house cleaned up.
16:38Don't bother.
16:39We have a lady that comes in twice a week.
16:41She means her house, Father.
16:47Put a muzzle on him.
16:50And in turn, may I suggest a cage
16:52for that anthropoid next door?
16:55Look, Buster, I'm trying to be a lady.
16:58You're not trying hard enough.
16:59Father.
17:00And you didn't say unquote.
17:05You're ready?
17:35Come in, Mr. Henshaw.
17:39Why, Vicki has done wonders for this place.
17:42Oh.
17:43See, you still got the elephants.
17:45We do?
17:46Oh, we do.
17:47We wouldn't be without them, sir.
17:49Yes, I picked them out myself.
17:52Well, look.
17:53Cool, sir.
17:53One of my favorite people.
17:55How's the bride?
17:56Bride?
17:57We've been married six months.
17:58How was the golf game?
18:00Oh, Gus beat me in spite of himself.
18:02I'm afraid lunch isn't going to be very fancy.
18:05I've had several interruptions.
18:07Well, you don't have to get fancy for me.
18:09I'd like to wash up if you don't mind.
18:11Oh, surely help yourself.
18:12Thanks.
18:13I'm sure glad you thought of the elephants.
18:19I wasn't sure for a minute whether the Henshaws were the elephants or the horses.
18:23You better get dressed, honey.
18:25I'll be right with you.
18:26I'll get things ready.
18:26I'll hear.
18:27Hi.
18:31We'd like to see Mrs. Angel.
18:33But, uh, can't you come back some other time?
18:35We have company.
18:36I don't see nobody.
18:38I must speak to Mrs. Angel.
18:39I understand that she's been libeling me.
18:42But then my information came from a fairly unreliable source.
18:47Your wife said he was a liar.
18:54Vicki, will you please come here?
18:57I tried to tell him we have company.
19:01We have.
19:03I want to ask you all to do me a favor.
19:05Mrs. Angel, did you or did you not call me a liar?
19:09Of course not.
19:10Will you people please go home?
19:13Don't stare at me with those bug eyes.
19:16She called you a liar.
19:18She didn't want to, but she did.
19:20Oh, she didn't want to.
19:21No, see, she said, I wouldn't want to call him a liar.
19:25Well, that's what you said.
19:27Oh, please.
19:29My husband's boss is in the other room, and it'd be very embarrassing if he came out here and found us in the middle of a neighborhood squabble.
19:35I thoroughly understand.
19:37We'll wait till he leaves.
19:38Oh, can't you see Vicki's on the hook?
19:40Can't you see Vicki's on the hook?
19:42You'll just forget the whole thing, Vicki.
19:43Oh, thanks, Kathy.
19:45Well, so long, folks.
19:46Come back later.
19:47Well, well, well.
19:48Am I intruding?
19:49They're just some neighbors of ours, sir.
19:51They were just leaving.
19:53Oh, nonsense.
19:54Don't let me interfere with your friends.
19:56My name's Henshaw.
19:58Mr. Finley, Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, Mr. Henshaw.
20:01We were just leaving.
20:02You were?
20:04I mean, don't leave on my account.
20:07Oh, don't do this sort of thing to me, Gus.
20:09I like to feel that I'm included among your friends.
20:12Well, that's just a lot of...
20:14Come on in.
20:18Sit down.
20:20Mr. Henshaw.
20:26Well, what do you do for a living, Mr., uh...
20:29Uh, Murphy.
20:30Murphy.
20:30I got an office job now, but I used to hack cabs.
20:33That's a very expressive term.
20:35To hack.
20:37Yeah, we have a phrase in the insurance business that, uh...
20:40Weren't there three of you?
20:43Unfortunately, yes.
20:45Has Mr. Henshaw seen what you've done to the patio, darling?
20:48I don't believe he has.
20:49Uh, don't sit way over there.
20:51Come over here.
20:51Join the conversation.
20:54There is a small matter in which I'd appreciate your cooperation.
20:57Uh, Gus put in 20 new flagstones, Mr. Henshaw.
21:00Well, we've got to look at that.
21:02Now, this is just a hypothetical case, mind you.
21:04Oh?
21:05That patio is a real backbreaker, sir.
21:07Gus even mixed the cement himself.
21:10Now, let us assume that there are two neighbors, A and B.
21:14A has a father who never hurt anybody in his life.
21:17B is a throwback.
21:19Let's skip all this A and B jazz, huh?
21:25This friend of mine lives next door to a real goony family.
21:29And every day, the old man backs the car across the lawn.
21:33Would anyone...
21:34Yeah, good idea, honey.
21:35Now, what I want to know is, doesn't my friend have a right to be a little sore?
21:40Possibly.
21:41Well, I would think that would depend upon the extent of the damages.
21:45I can fill you in on that.
21:47The nice neighbor surveyed the alleged damage, and at no time did the kindly old gentleman
21:52penetrate the lawn further than 11 inches.
21:54Yeah, but how deep?
22:01Very easy.
22:02We settled a claim like this last year.
22:05No, no, that didn't apply.
22:07That was a woman driver.
22:08Oh, well.
22:10Psychologically, women are too emotionally unstable to drive at all.
22:13If I had my way, no woman would ever be issued a driver's license.
22:17Oh, come off it, Henshaw.
22:20Well, thank you, O'Farton.
22:22Oh, you men make me sick with all this jive about women can't do this and women can't do that.
22:28I thoroughly believe that women are eminently qualified to cheap house and mine babies.
22:33Well, thanks a lot.
22:35All you men do is play golf and chase secretaries.
22:38I resent her, Mrs. Finley.
22:40Murphy's the name.
22:42Finley, Murphy, whatever the name.
22:43I still resent it.
22:45Right now, love, but don't get hot.
22:46Don't get hot.
22:47Here we are.
22:48All through history, women have proven to be social inferiors.
22:51Oh, dry up.
22:52That's perfect.
22:54Women are not reliable risks.
22:56They're not built right to do anything sensible.
22:59Oh, how stupid can you get?
23:00During the war, women had to run streetcars and rivet airplanes and hack cabs and work in shipyards and drive trains and join the wax and the waves.
23:10They were built right for that.
23:12Vicki!
23:13Yes, and the men got back just in time to keep the country from falling apart.
23:16Oh, why don't you put on a muzzle?
23:21Yeah!
23:21You talk just like my wife.
23:26Ah, they're all the same.
23:31If women had...
23:32Men have one sort of brains of women, and you come back here.
23:40That's probably the police.
23:41Well, Mr. Finley!
23:48Mr. Finley!
23:50What is it, Father?
23:53Well, Father?
23:55The car is stuck out in the alley.
23:58Have you been driving around the block again?
24:01No.
24:02Then how did the car get stuck in the alley?
24:04I backed it through the garage.
24:09Well, let's get that taken care of, and then we can come back and finish where we left off.
24:15Well, if it has the car, it's back to his garage.
24:17How about the hall?
24:18How about the hall?
24:19Mr. Henshaw, I really don't know how to apologize, sir.
24:22I'm so sorry for what I said.
24:24Sorry?
24:25Well, I haven't been in a brand again like this for 15 years.
24:29It's positively stimulating.
24:31It is.
24:32Next time, I'm going to bring my wife.
24:35She'll drive that Finley right out of his mind.
24:47What did I do to deserve that?
24:49I don't know.
24:50Got a date with an angel
25:01Going to meet her at seven
25:03Got a date with an angel
25:05And I'm on my way to heaven
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