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00:00Robert Young and Jane White with Eleanor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin in Father Knows Best.
00:30Jim, what in the world are you doing?
00:48Found them.
00:50What are those for?
00:51We're playing badminton at the Phillips tonight.
00:54Oh, you better get your Jim Bloomers.
00:55My what?
00:56I haven't done this since I won all those athletic trophies at college.
00:59Athletic trophies.
01:00You won a loving cup in a poetry contest, that's all.
01:04Well, it was sort of an athletic poem, Margaret.
01:06I think it was called Benny at the Bat or something.
01:09Anyway, they said 8 o'clock.
01:11Boy, I'm raring to go.
01:13Wham!
01:13Dear, are you really serious about this?
01:16About what?
01:17Well, playing badminton.
01:19After all these years.
01:21Margaret, you make us sound like a couple of old fuddy-duddies.
01:24Remember, you're only as old as you feel.
01:26You're just as young as the day I married you.
01:35Nothing.
01:39What a shame to waste such talent at badminton.
01:42Hey, Dad, can I...
02:01Harmony, what's that?
02:03What's what?
02:04That thing you're wearing.
02:07This thing happens to be my alma mater sweater, and I'll thank you to show it a little more respect.
02:13You ought to be a great athlete to win one of these letters, bud.
02:15I thought you won it in a poetry contest.
02:17If you and Betty want to get to Evelyn Brickett's wedding on time, you better get a move on.
02:21Can I borrow your old razor?
02:23Yeah, it's in the...
02:24Like what?
02:26A razor, and brush, and shaving cream, aftershave lotion, band-aid.
02:31Are you serious?
02:33Still think I'm a kid, eh, Dad?
02:35Well, I do think you're rushing the season a little.
02:38Well, I'm gonna be an usher tonight, Dad.
02:40There's nothing more icky than a fuzzy-faced usher.
02:43Except maybe a scar-faced one.
02:44I've got a steady hand.
02:46Look, son, let me give you a tip.
02:48Cling to your youth.
02:50Time has a habit of moving forward, never backward, never motionless.
02:53Stay with it as long as you can.
02:55Okay?
02:56Okay.
02:57Now can I?
02:58In your what?
02:59Here's your razor.
03:01It's in the medicine cabinet.
03:03Thanks, Governor.
03:06Dad?
03:07Huh?
03:07Is it true you're gonna play badminton tonight?
03:09Yep, the old athlete relives the triumphs of his youth.
03:12Well, take it easy.
03:14Remember, you're my only father.
03:25Father, if you don't tell that lame-brained son of yours to...
03:29What's that?
03:31What's what?
03:33Well, that.
03:35Oh, my alma mater sweater.
03:38Well, they told me about it, but I didn't know it looked like that.
03:41Like what?
03:41Well, like what they were in the olden times.
03:45Betty, that was only 20 years ago.
03:47Well, he has the same letters today, anyway.
03:49Did I tell you how I won this letter?
03:51Squash.
03:52I thought squash was a vegetable.
03:53Well, they don't play squash the way they used to anymore.
03:58They don't do a lot of things the way they used to.
04:00They don't give letters for poetry, either.
04:03Poetry?
04:03I got a loving cup.
04:05This I got for squash.
04:07Now, get going, princess.
04:08You and Bud will be late for the wedding.
04:10Oh, of course I'll be late.
04:12I can't get under the shower because your son is in the bathroom shaving.
04:15Of all the ridiculous things.
04:18Your brother's growing up.
04:20He's no longer a beardless youth.
04:22Oh, father, I've seen more fuzz on peaches.
04:25Betty, this is no joking matter.
04:27Time has a habit of...
04:29Run along, princess.
04:30He'll be out of there in the jiffy.
04:31This house stifles me.
04:33When I get married, I'm going to have three bathrooms.
04:36Three for just the two of you?
04:38Well, then it won't always be just two of us, father.
04:43Mother tells me you're going to play badminton.
04:46You've got to be kidding.
04:48Kidding?
04:48I never was more serious in my life.
04:50What's wrong with playing badminton?
04:52Nothing, father.
04:53But I've grown so fond of you, I wouldn't want anything to happen.
04:58Why do they keep saying that?
05:00I'm as young as I have a mind to be.
05:03If badminton comes, can squash be far behind.
05:06I'm the same man I was 20 years ago.
05:09Only keener, quicker, wiser.
05:12Wiser?
05:13And why am I playing badminton at my age?
05:19Where did you get that crazy sweater?
05:23Kathy, I didn't hear you come in kidding.
05:25Does the space helmet go with that?
05:28Kathy, you too.
05:29What are you supposed to be, Daddy?
05:35The doddering, antiquated shadow of my former self.
05:39Huh?
05:39Never mind.
05:41So you're going over to Patty's house tonight?
05:43And my little girl is really growing up.
05:46I know it.
05:47But you're still Daddy's little girl, aren't you?
05:51Right now I am.
05:53But you know how kids are.
05:54They grow like wheat.
05:57No.
05:58But remember, no matter how big you are, you'll always be my little girl.
06:03Okay.
06:04If that's the way you want it.
06:06Yeah.
06:07That's the way I want it.
06:08Jim?
06:09Yes, dear?
06:10I have a special delivery letter for you.
06:12I'll be right out.
06:13Jim, what are you trying to do?
06:21Funny thing.
06:22The old legs aren't what they used to be.
06:24I could have told you that.
06:26What do you know about old legs?
06:27I have a pair of them myself.
06:29They cave in on me at the end of a long day.
06:31It's from Eddie Gilbert.
06:33Eddie Gilbert.
06:35I haven't seen old Eddie since high school.
06:39I wonder what he's up to these days.
06:41Oh, what a guy.
06:43I remember he had more energy than sense.
06:47Oh, he says he's going to be in Springfield tomorrow.
06:49Might stop by.
06:49Oh, good.
06:51He's been having a little trouble with rheumatism lately.
06:55I can't imagine anything like that catching up with an active guy like Eddie.
06:59Well, of course he's not as young as he used to be.
07:02What do you mean?
07:02He's no older than I am.
07:04You're younger.
07:06Younger?
07:07And rheumatism?
07:09Well, that's the way it is when those years start to come up like that.
07:11Oh, dear, what a shame.
07:13Poor old Eddie.
07:14And here we are talking about badminton.
07:17Oh, which reminds me, I'm not ready.
07:19Margaret, are you sure you feel up to this?
07:21Well, yes, I think so.
07:24Well, don't you?
07:25Well, yes, I think so.
07:27I'm just thinking about you, dear.
07:29Oh, don't worry about me, dear.
07:30I'll manage.
07:31Oh.
07:32Now, a sweater and a skirt should be right.
07:33Shouldn't it?
07:34Uh, don't you want to hear the rest of the letter?
07:37All right.
07:38It's been a long time since I've seen old Eddie.
07:42He's a grandfather.
07:44He is?
07:45He has three grandchildren.
07:46Oh.
07:46Why, that just can't be.
07:48Why not?
07:49He once told me he had a daughter a year or two older than Betty.
07:53And the kids call him Gramps.
07:55Yes, I just can't believe.
07:57Mother, my zipper's stuck.
07:58Will you help me?
07:59Gramps.
08:00Margaret, he's a year younger than I am.
08:02I know.
08:03You said so, dear.
08:04Who is Mother?
08:04Oh, an old school chum of your father's.
08:07Gramps.
08:08There.
08:08Now, let's see how you look.
08:10You look lovely, dear.
08:12Doesn't he, Jim?
08:14What?
08:18Where did you get that dress?
08:20I'm going to be a bridesmaid at Evelyn's wedding.
08:22Why did you ever buy anything as matronly as that?
08:25It's matronly.
08:26It's too old for her.
08:28Betty, put something else on.
08:30Father.
08:31But, Jim, all the bridesmaids are dressed exactly alike.
08:33But all the bridesmaids aren't 17.
08:35What has that got to do with it?
08:37Well, in that dress, she could be going to her own wedding.
08:40Ever since that silly letter arrived...
08:43Oh, that has nothing to do with it.
08:46Father, Evelyn's one of my best friends.
08:49It's an honor to be a bridesmaid.
08:51Now, don't cry, darling.
08:53You're going and in that dress.
08:55Put some powder on your nose.
08:56You're not the one who's supposed to cry at weddings.
09:02Well, and what are you made up for?
09:05What?
09:06I'm an usher.
09:07You look wonderful, dear.
09:08Dad, just fine.
09:10Thanks, Mom.
09:11What's wrong with the blue suit?
09:13I couldn't wear that.
09:14Besides, all the fellas are going to be dressed like this.
09:16It's the latest thing in college.
09:17College?
09:19That's right.
09:20You'll be in college in three more years.
09:22Two and a half.
09:23What's wrong with Dad?
09:24Nothing much.
09:26Just a slight attack of time.
09:28Here, let me fix your tie.
09:29I'm ready.
09:29Daddy, what's the matter with Daddy?
09:34Daddy's thinking, darling.
09:36Father, are you all right?
09:38Gramps.
09:41Huh?
09:41What are you all staring at?
09:43I was just about to ask you that question.
09:45Oh, creepers.
09:46Look what tired it's getting to be.
09:47Oh, Harry, you'll be late.
09:48You've got to drop me off my paddy top, Harry.
09:50Have a wonderful time.
09:51Wait.
09:53My little brood.
09:55My family.
09:57It's so nice to see you all leaving together this way.
10:02Someday soon, you'll be going your separate ways.
10:04And we'll get together only on important holidays.
10:07Margaret, our children are really growing up.
10:11Cry many.
10:12I should hope so.
10:14Father, we're excruciatingly late.
10:16Paddy's waiting.
10:19Run along, children.
10:21Bye.
10:21Bye.
10:22Bye.
10:23Goodbye.
10:31Wow.
10:33What brought that on?
10:35Nothing.
10:36I...
10:37Well, it isn't easy to watch your children growing up.
10:41It isn't easy, but it's nice.
10:42It's sad.
10:43It is not.
10:44Yes, it is.
10:45Any day now.
10:46Betty will be getting married and flying away.
10:49Bud will be married before we know it.
10:51He'll fly away.
10:52Next, Kathy will be flying away.
10:55Who's left?
10:57Just us, old buzzards.
11:00Remember, it's nearly 8 o'clock.
11:01I'm not dressed.
11:02You're not shaved.
11:03What for?
11:04Oh, badminton, remember?
11:05Oh, do you think we should at our age?
11:09I certainly do.
11:10Come on up and get shaved.
11:11Margaret, wait.
11:12Jim, it's late.
11:13Honey, do I look like a man upon whom time has taken its toll?
11:17You look just as young as the man I knew won a poetry contest 20 years ago.
11:22Margaret, I have a confession to make.
11:24You cheated at the poetry contest.
11:27It's just that I wasn't really very good at squash.
11:32I knew it.
11:33You never fooled me.
11:35Maybe you'd better call the Phillips.
11:37Tell them something came up.
11:39We can't make it.
11:39Can't make it?
11:41My fire is burning low.
11:43Oh, not jumping, jittery, badminton boy.
11:46I'm a little tired, Margaret.
11:48I think I'll go to bed.
11:50At 8 o'clock?
11:51Oh, Jim, for heaven's sake.
11:53Margaret, would you please get me a hot water bottle?
12:23When did you get in?
12:34Yesterday.
12:36I'm a grandfather, you know.
12:39You look it.
12:40Guess how old I am.
12:43You're a year younger than I.
12:45Correct.
12:46But you look old enough to be my father.
12:50Correct.
12:53Pretty warm in here.
12:58Never play squash?
13:00Played it and ate it.
13:03Never played it.
13:05Always ate it.
13:07Did you like it?
13:08Hate it.
13:09How's your rheumatism, Eddie?
13:12How dare you?
13:14No one ever accused me of rheumatism and got away with it.
13:17I challenge you.
13:18Stop!
13:34Stop!
13:35How dare you take advantage of an old man?
13:38He's a year younger than I am.
13:39Don't change the subject.
13:41How many times have I told you not to play with him?
13:44At my age, I can't be choosy.
13:46I can beat him at squash, too, I bet you.
13:48I bet you can't beat him at poetry.
13:50Yeah.
13:51I challenge you to poetry.
13:53Now, grandfather, I don't want you overexerting yourself.
13:56Poetry?
13:56It's your age, gramps.
13:58Grandaddy, if you're going to recite poetry, you better have a nap.
14:02They're right, Grandpa Jim.
14:04Grandpa Jim?
14:05He's a year younger than I am.
14:08Ha ha.
14:08Yeah, but you've got rheumatism.
14:10Don't worry.
14:11It won't be long and you'll have it, too.
14:13I will not.
14:14You will so.
14:14I will not.
14:15You will so.
14:16Margaret.
14:17You will so.
14:18Not if I take good care of myself.
14:20I'll keep my feet dry.
14:22I'll stay out of dress.
14:23Dress warmly.
14:24I'll lick this thing.
14:25I will.
14:25It's inevitable.
14:26Old age and rheumatism, they go together like ham and egg.
14:30I won't accept it.
14:31I won't.
14:32I won't.
14:33I'll never grow old.
14:35Never.
14:35Never.
14:36Never.
14:39Never.
14:40Never.
14:40I'll never grow old.
14:41Never.
14:42Jim.
14:42Please.
14:43Jim.
14:43Wake up.
14:45You should have seen yourself.
14:49You called me an old man.
14:50Oh, you were dreaming.
14:52Now get dressed and we'll have some breakfast.
14:54No, Margaret, please.
14:56Well, what's the matter?
14:57I have to take care of myself.
14:59Could I...
15:00Could I have breakfast in bed this morning?
15:02I think this has gone far enough, Jim.
15:06Well, you're beginning to sound a little ridiculous.
15:08Please, Margaret, I need all the sympathy you can muster.
15:11And to think that only yesterday you were going like a blast furnace.
15:16Squash, badminton...
15:17That was yesterday, honey.
15:19I'm considerably older this morning.
15:21It must have been a long night.
15:25All right.
15:26I'll bring you your breakfast.
15:28Father, look.
15:30The bridal bouquet.
15:32Where did you get that?
15:34Last night.
15:35I caught it.
15:36You know what that means, don't you?
15:39Uh...
15:39What?
15:41That I'll be the next bride.
15:43Betty, you're only 17?
15:46That's a ridiculous superstition.
15:48Well, lots of girls get married at 17.
15:50Oh, with their parents' consent, of course.
15:53Oh, Father, I wish you'd seen it.
15:55It was so wonderful.
15:57All the flowers and the beautiful dresses.
16:00And everybody was so solemn.
16:05But here comes the bride.
16:11Betty, stop it.
16:14What's going on?
16:15Father's sick.
16:16It's that badminton.
16:18Those games aren't for men your age.
16:19I tried to warn you last night.
16:21Your father didn't play badminton last night.
16:23And your breakfast is on the table.
16:26Bud's right, Margaret.
16:26A man has to be his age.
16:28I have to take care of myself.
16:32What'd you bring me for breakfast?
16:34Mush, milk, and swybock.
16:36Technically, I'm the mother,
16:53whatever.
16:54I think that's it.
16:55I've got to sit here.
16:57What's going on, Maurice?
16:58Maybe you need to be a kid.
16:59I don't know what you're trying to do to try to go.
17:00I don't know.
17:01But when you're treated as me,
17:01look.
17:01The øorsa meg, but I will take you off.
17:01So I have to get me off.
17:02Well, I could go on.
17:03you see children your father's at that certain age they either want to burn up the world or
17:18to find a nice warm rock to crawl under it doesn't take much to push them either way
17:22your father is obsessed with the ridiculous idea that you're growing up too quickly
17:27this gives him a feeling that he's growing old quickly we've got to get him out from
17:32under that rock this is my plan
17:36where are the children they'll be here my and at what mortuary are you applying today
17:48man reaches my age he can't dress like a school boy i can't recall you ever dressed like a school
17:54boy i did though when i went to school
17:56those wonderful carefree youthful days oh come on dear smile no sir margaret i've come to the
18:05realization at last it's the kids growing up that makes you feel old oh nonsense margaret don't be
18:11blind to the truth your son shaved last night well that doesn't make me whistler's mother
18:15and betty went to the wedding soon too soon she'll be going to her own
18:19perhaps that's a wishful thought on your part jim
18:22i'd want betty with me forever and kathy overnight at a friend's house that's the first time she slept
18:29in a bed other than her own margaret that's growing up
18:33oh i don't know poor poor innocent margaret my child wife
18:40that's all
18:42calling kx2j3 calling kx2j3 over
18:49hello kx2j3 reporting captain sonar
18:53hey wait let me see your space helmet don't take it off i'll lose all my oxygen pressure
18:58oh my god i'm gonna have it she'll get it stuck on her big fat old head
19:01oh my god don't miss it the stingy face
19:03it's my space helmet you're not gonna hurt it
19:05you will too quit pulling
19:06i'm just gonna look at him
19:08i'm not even touching him
19:11all right kids break it up and come to the table
19:13help help they're after me
19:15oh kaff i did my hands on you
19:17wait a minute what's going on here
19:21yes sir
19:24i was just telling your mother how proud i was of the way you were growing up into such
19:30well-mannered ladies and gentlemen
19:31and now you come tearing into this room like a bunch of wild
19:35comanches
19:35comanches
19:36margaret what's got into them they act like two-year-olds
19:39that's children for you they never grow up
19:42oh it's probably for me joe
19:45i'll get it it's probably ralph
19:46i'll get it
19:47i've got it
19:47don't be too hard on them jim
19:50i think you'd expect too much of them
19:51after all dear they're only children
19:54margaret i think i'll have some lunch
20:04any uh steaks in the freezer
20:06mm-hmm how many do you want
20:08oh two or three
20:09even four if you wish
20:10it's for you father
20:12thank you princess
20:14how about i miss the french fries too
20:17hiya son
20:18nice work
20:21hello
20:23eddie eddie gilbert
20:26sure i got your letter yesterday
20:28how are you feeling
20:29good good
20:32sure we're gonna be home
20:33we'll be glad to see you
20:35where are you now
20:36well you're just a couple of minutes from here
20:39i'll tell you what i'll pick you up old fellow
20:41are you sure you can make it
20:45fine
20:46we'll see you in a little while
20:47oh and uh
20:48don't rush now
20:49sure
20:51goodbye
20:52poor old codger
20:56who was it dear
21:03that was old eddie gilbert
21:05he'll be here in a minute
21:05oh i hope you ask him to stay for lunch
21:07who's eddie gilbert
21:08he's an old school chump of mine princess
21:10i haven't seen him in years
21:11he's a grandfather now
21:12he used to be such a life of the party too
21:15poor fellow
21:16i guess he wasn't fortunate enough
21:18to have such young children as i have
21:20me dear
21:22well you know
21:23his children have grown up
21:24flown away
21:24just he and his wife left alone
21:26maybe that's why he's turned into an old man
21:29before his time
21:29nothing left to live for
21:31well
21:32maybe he's like you dear
21:33old one day
21:35young the next
21:36when your children are grown
21:39that's the end of the line
21:40i could tell from the tone of eddie's letter
21:42rheumatism
21:43you know
21:43hardening of the arteries
21:45oh there he is
21:46come on honey
21:47we'll meet him together
21:48poor devil
21:49always such a youthful
21:53bubbling sort of a guy
21:54anderson
21:57huh
21:58i'm gilbert
21:59not eddie gilbert
22:02sure
22:03don't you remember me jim
22:05you used to call me crazy eddie
22:08i mean
22:12where's the
22:14you don't have a chain
22:16neither of you
22:18you look just like you did
22:19when you won the poetry contest
22:21i can't believe it
22:24eddie
22:25jim
22:25excuse me
22:27i'm margaret anderson
22:28mr gilbert
22:29how do you do
22:30delighted to meet you
22:31margaret this is eddie
22:32yes
22:32won't you come in
22:34thank you
22:35give me your coat eddie
22:37oh thanks
22:37gee you look great jim
22:39so do you
22:40i i can't believe it
22:42can you margaret
22:45believe what dear
22:46well from the letter
22:47you know
22:48i i i thought you'd be
22:49older looking eddie
22:50why
22:51because i'm a grandfather
22:52shall we go in
22:54what i thought i don't feel like a grandfather jim
22:57oh i did have a touch of rheumatism once
23:00but that's when gladys and i went ice skating
23:02i fell through the ice and got wet
23:03what do you do to keep looking so fit jim
23:08well we uh play badminton
23:11and uh don't we margaret
23:13oh yes jim's an excellent badminton player
23:16he didn't play squash too well i remember
23:18no i never was very good at that
23:23tell me eddie
23:24what do you do now that the children are grown and married
23:26what do we do
23:28we're living man
23:29gladys and i are doing all the things we couldn't do before
23:33we told the kids now look
23:34we love you both very much
23:36we'll always be around when you need us
23:39but we're not going to be babysitters
23:41we're free man
23:43we're having the time of our lives
23:45you see that margaret that's what i've been telling you
23:48margaret always worried what she'd do
23:49when betty went off and got married
23:51you see honey you'll be free
23:53doesn't mean you're old if you're a grandma
23:55you're only as old as you feel i always say
23:57of course
23:58you're never old while the heart is young i always say
24:01and i always say
24:03what a difference a day makes
24:05jim are you ready
24:13be right there honey
24:14where are you going mother
24:16well your father and i are going over the phillipses for a little while
24:19look out below
24:19oh jim be careful
24:23you hurt yourself
24:24me anderson the ox
24:26what's in the suitcase father
24:27nothing you ready there
24:28what's in the suitcase daddy
24:30you'd better tell them
24:32that's our equipment
24:33we're going over to the phillips for badminton
24:34then we're going horseback riding
24:36after that a little skiing
24:37and if your mother feels up to it
24:38oh stop
24:39goodnight children
24:41come on girlie
24:42let's go kiddo
24:44you're not going to have to do it
24:47look at this
24:48what is that
24:50you're going to have to do it
24:52and
24:53you're going to have to do it
24:54THE END
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