Original subtitles

- "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," presented by--

[theme music]

[SINGING] Hotpoint, Hotpoint, Hotpoint

changes your viewpoint automatically,

because Hotpoint makes the finest things electrically.

New push-button ranges that you adore, refrigerator superstore.

So keep the food that suits your mood.

Get your wishes, and wash those dishes.

Everyone knows Hotpoint is best for clothes, washes 'em clean

and dries 'em smooth.

Your disposition it will surely soothe.

Hotpoint brings all this to you with the Nelson family, too.

Ozzie, Harriet, David, Ricky, "The Ozzie and Harriet Show."

[theme music]

- And now Hotpoint presents America's favorite family

comedy, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,"

starring the entire Nelson family.

Here is Ozzie, who plays the part of Ozzie Nelson.

And of course, his lovely wife, Harriet, as Harriet Nelson.

The older of the Nelson boys, David, appears as David Nelson.

And his younger brother, the irrepressible Ricky,

played by Ricky Nelson.

The Nelson's next-door neighbor Thorny is played by Don DeFore.

[theme music]

- Hey, Mom? - Mhm.

- Have you seen the screwdriver around here?

- I don't think so.

- Pop said he left it here.

- Well, it must be here someplace then.

I've been busy getting dinner.

Hey, stay out of that cookie jar.

- I thought you're too busy to notice anything.

- I don't want you to spoil your dinner.

We're having an especially good one tonight, too.

We're having company. - Oh, who's coming?

- Mr. Dipple. - Oh, terrific.

Maybe he can fix my record player.

He's very good at electrical stuff, you know.

- No, I didn't know.

- Hi, Mom.

- Hello, dear.

Ah, ah, ah!

Out of the cookie jar, David.

- What's the matter with you?

- I just want you to eat a good dinner tonight, my boy.

- Oh, we're having company for dinner, huh?

- Golly, how'd you know?

- Oh, I've been around here a little longer than you have,

little man.

Who's coming over, Mom?

- Mr. Dipple.

Your father invited him for a home-cooked meal.

Mrs. Dipple's out of town for a few days.

- Oh, that's swell.

Maybe he can fix the clutch on my motorbike.

- Now, he's coming over here to have dinner,

not to fix things for you two guys.

- Oh, he likes to fix things, Mom.

- Are you sure?

- Oh, sure.

- Oh, well then maybe he can tell me what's

wrong with my hair dryer.

But let's wait until after dinner to ask him, huh?

- Oh, sure. That's just diplomacy.

- What do you mean by "diplomacy," David?

- Well, instead of asking him when he first comes in,

we wait until Mom's fed him one of her delicious dinners.

You know Mom's about the best cook in the whole world.

- Oh, heck yeah.

Mom is the greatest, especially when it comes to cookies.

- Can't I just have one before dinner, Mom?

They smell so good.

- Well, OK.

You can each have a couple, but not too many.

- Gee, thanks, Mom.

- Thanks, Mom.

Well, David, would you explain that to me again?

Just what is diplomacy?

- Are you kidding?

[theme music]

- Well, can I give you a hand with those, Oz?

- Uh, that's all right. Thanks, Wally.

I got them.

I think I'll put the car in the garage.

- Uh, oh. [laughs]

- Oh. [laughs]

- Oh, hey.

Hey, I got it.

- [laughs]

- Uh, I'm afraid the car's a little too close, Oz.

- Oh, yeah.

I think you're right.

Well, the heck with it.

I'll leave it in the driveway.

- You know, I hate to brag, but I

found a way to eliminate this garage door nuisance over

at our house.

- Well, what did you do, take the door off?

- No. [laughs]

Nothing so drastic.

I-- I rigged up an automatic door.

You know, it's like an electric eye,

and the garage door opens while you're still in the car.

- Oh, I've heard about those, but I've never known

anybody who owned one before.

Where'd you buy it?

- Oh, I didn't buy it, Oz.

I rigged it up myself.

It wasn't too difficult.

- Hey, that's darn clever.

- Oh, hiya, Mr. Dipple. Hiya, Pop.

- Hello, Ricky. - Hello, son.

- Say, do you think you could fix my record

player after dinner if I ask you real diplomatically?

- Well, no, no. - Oh.

- Now, just a second, Rick.

Mr. Dipple is here to relax and enjoy himself.

- Now, I'll tell you what I'll do, Rick.

I'll make it deal with you.

I'll fix your player if you teach me

how to comb my hair like you do yours.

- [laughs]

That's easy, Wally.

All you need is an egg beater and a little axle grease.

- [laughs]

- [laughs]

Thank you.

[theme music]

- Dropped them.

[laughter]

Oh, that was a wonderful dinner, Harriet.

- Oh, thank you, Wally.

I'm glad you liked it.

- That apple pie was the best I ever tasted in my life.

- Hey, wouldn't you like another piece, Wally?

- Oh, no thank you, Oz. Don't let me stop you, though.

- Oh, come on, Wally, just one more.

- Oh, no, really. Three is my limit.

I've got to waddle home tonight.

[laughter]

- You don't have to worry about that, Mr. Dipple.

I can give you a ride home on my motorbike.

That is, if I can get it started.

I've been having a lot of trouble with it lately.

I-- - Not yet, David.

- Now, now, now wait a minute, you guys.

Stop dropping hints all over the place.

- Well--

- Mr. Dipple's here to enjoy himself.

- Oz, I-- - Now, I-- I--

I really mean it.

Besides, I'd kind of like to hear more

about that automatic garage door of yours, Wally.

- Oh, nothing spectacular about that.

- Oh, you mean you've actually invented

a garage door that's automatic?

- Well, it's not exactly an original idea.

But this particular design is my own.

It-- it works on the same principle as the electric eye.

- Golly, that must've taken a lot of work.

- Well, I spent several months on the details, Rick.

But the actual installation's very simple.

- Well, sounds like a wonderful time saver, a garage

door that opens automatically. - Yeah.

I think you ought to put it on the market, Wally.

- Yes. - Oh.

[laughs] Everybody says that.

But frankly, Oz, I am no businessman.

- Well, this sounds like a natural to me, though.

I know I'd sure like to have one.

- Well, I'll install one for you tomorrow.

- Oh, [laughs] no.

I couldn't put you to all that trouble.

- Well, it's no trouble at all, Oz, and I'd like to do it.

- Well, under one condition, that I pay for all the material

and do all the work.

You just tell me how to do it.

- We'll talk about that tomorrow.

Harriet, I'm sorry to eat and run.

- Oh, I understand, Wally.

- Thanks again for that wonderful dinner.

- Any time at all.

- We'll show you to the door, Wally.

- Goodnight, boys. - Goodnight, Mr. Dipple.

- Goodnight, Mr. Dipple.

- I think your hat is right out in the hall here.

- I guess we're not very good at diplomacy.

- What do you mean?

- I wanted Mr. Dipple to fix my record player.

You wanted him to fix a motorbike.

And Mom wanted him to fix a hairdryer.

- Yeah. [laughs]

How about that?

- I guess Pop must be smarter than we think.

He won, and he wasn't even playing.

[theme music]

[knocking on door]

- Morning, Harriet.

- Oh, hi, Wally.

Come on in.

You beat Ozzie.

He isn't up yet.

- Oh, yes, I am. [laughs]

- Well. - Good morning, Wally.

- Hiya, Oz. - Well, all set for the big job.

- Oh, well, there's really not too much to do.

- Now, I told you last night I'm going to do all the work.

Just want to find my tools first.

Harriet, have you seen my screwdriver?

- Well, you better have some breakfast first.

- Well, no.

I'd like to get started as soon as possible.

- How about you, Wally? - No, thank you.

I've had breakfast. I'll tell you what I'll do.

I'll go out and get my stuff out of the car, huh?

- Uh, all right, Wally. I'll be right out.

I just want to find my screwdriver.

- Well, dear, don't you want your breakfast?

- Oh. [grunts]

Well, I tell you what, Harriet.

Why don't you put it in my lunch pail,

and I'll eat it on the job?

- There you are, Rick.

I think it'll work now.

- Gee, thanks a lot, Mr. Dipple.

- See, I'm sorry to keep you waiting like this, Wally.

- Oh, say, I'm the one who should apologize.

Now, I-- I hope you're not going to be disappointed.

- Well, what happened? [laughs]

Did you leave part of the automatic door at home?

- No.

Uh, I've installed it already.

- Gee, you shouldn't have gone to all that trouble.

- Oh, hey, Pop, it wasn't any trouble.

- No, of course not.

And Ricky was a big help too. - [laughs]

- Sure.

I got your screwdriver for him, Pop.

- Oh, so that's what happened to it.

Well, [laughs] evidently, you got along pretty well

without me.

- Oz, I saved the best part of all for you.

Shall we give it a try? - Oh, yeah, sure.

- Oh, boy. Let's go.

- OK, Oz.

Just get in the car and follow instructions.

Get in, Ricky.

All right.

Now, you ready? - Yeah.

- OK.

One long blast on the horn.

- Roger.

[horn honking]

- Yeah.

Now flash the lights on and off twice.

- Once, twice.

- Gee.

How about that?

- Hey, that's amazing.

- [laughs]

- Oh, golly.

N-- now, how do you get it down?

- Oh, oh, well, when the car goes through here,

it breaks this beam, you see?

Now it comes down automatically.

- [laughs]

Well, that's wonderful, Wally.

- You like it?

- Gee, who wouldn't?

- Hey, [laughs] what's going on here?

- Oh, hiya, Thorny. - Hi, Oz, Wally.

- Hello, Thorny. - Thorny, you're just in time.

We're making history right here in our yard today.

- Well, I don't know about that.

But you're making a heck of a lot of noise.

[laughter]

- Stand right there.

You're about to witness the most amazing demonstration you've

ever seen.

- Let me do it, Pop. - OK.

[car door closes]

One long honk of the horn.

[horn honking]

Two flashes of the light.

Now watch the garage door.

- Oz, that's terrific.

That's sensational. - Isn't it, though?

- Isn't that great, Mr. Thornberry?

That's an electric eye opening.

- [laughs]

- Yeah.

- And that breaks the beam.

Now watch it.

- Hey, it comes down automatic, too!

That's terrific! - [laughs]

- Boy, I'm going to tell everybody about this.

Don't wear it out before I get back, Pop.

[laughter]

- Where'd you get it, Oz?

- It's Wally's invention.

- No kidding?

- Oh, well, there's several on the market.

But I-- I did work out this one myself.

- Wally, I think it's great.

When you planning on putting this one on the market?

- That's the same thing I asked him.

- Oh, well, I don't think it'd have any commercial value.

- Oh-- - Wally, are you kidding?!

Why, a thing like this would sell like hotcakes!

- Yeah.

Well, I have had several nibbles,

as I told you last night, Oz.

Here's one of the cards here.

- Jackson Bensfield. - Yeah, yeah.

He's a big industrialist.

He's contacted me several times.

- I-- I think Wally ought to call him up.

- Got pretty nice engraving on the cards, Oz.

Why don't you call him, Wally?

- Oh, I don't know.

Um, as I was telling you, Oz, I--

I'm an awful businessman.

- Well, all you have to do is call the man up

and make an appointment. It's as easy is that.

- That's all there is to it. - Yeah.

I know it sounds easy.

But I get all--

I'll tell you what I will do.

If you two would like to handle the business end, I'd--

I'd be happy to have you as partners,

uh, because, as I said before, I'm an awful businessman.

- What do you say, Thorny?

- Well, Oz, I think it's great.

I'll call the man up right away. - Good!

We'll get the ball rolling.

- Why, we'll have a Dipple Door on every garage in town!

It looks like you've made yourself a deal, Wally.

[laughter] - Well, I have made a deal.

Maybe I'm not such a bad businessman after all.

[laughter]

[theme music]

[knocking on door]

- Well, hi, Thorny. - Hi, Oz.

It's all set.

I talked to Mr. Bensfield, and he's

very interested in the idea. - Oh, wonderful.

What did he have to say?

- Well, for one thing, he said I couldn't have called him

at a better time.

And guess who was sitting right in the office?

- Who, for goodness sake?

- Six of the biggest oil men in Texas.

- How about that?

- They were looking for a promising investment,

and Mr. Bensfield said this should

be just the deal for them.

- No kidding?

That sounds wonderful, Thorny. - Yeah.

Naturally, we'll have to put up a small amount of money.

- Well, what for?

- Well, our corporation will be expected

to pay for the patents and the blueprints

and that sort of stuff.

- Oh, yeah.

Well, th-- that sounds reasonable.

- Uh, Mr. Bensfield want to see us this afternoon at 2

o'clock sharp.

See, he's catching a plane for Washington at 3:00.

Oz, this guy is a real operator.

[laughs]

- Sounds like a hot pistol!

- Yeah.

- Hey, we'd better hurry.

I've got to get upstairs and change my clothes.

- Change your clothes?

Oz, you look great just the way you are.

- Oh, no, Thorny.

First impressions are very important.

- [groans]

- We want to look fairly successful ourselves.

Come on. Let's get going.

- [groans] - What's all the excitement?

- Oh, Harriet, Thorny and I have a very important business

engagement.

Would you mind going out back and picking

us a couple of carnations to put in our buttonhole?

- Ah, never mind the carnations.

Let's walk in there really looking successful.

We'll stop by a flower shop and pick up a couple of orchids

to wear.

[theme music]

- Thorny?

Thorny?

- Just a minute. - Come on.

Hurry up.

We've only got about 10 minutes. - Hi, Oz.

Don't worry. We got plenty of time.

- Harriet got a carnation for each of us.

- Oh, fine.

- Wait a minute.

What kind of an outfit do you call this?

- Well, it's my best sport coat, Oz.

- Well, I know, Thorny, but we're not going to play golf.

This is a meeting with an important businessman.

Why didn't you wear your dark suit, the same as I did?

- Oz, that's the idea, to give it a air of casualness,

a nonchalance.

- Well, OK. Come on.

Let's hurry up.

- Oh, it won't matter, Oz, if we're 15 or 20 seconds late.

Now what are you going to do?

- I want to make sure this door is locked.

I've got some valuable tools in there.

Oh, doggone it.

- What's the matter?

- I don't have much gas.

Uh, do you think we have time to stop at the gas station?

- Oh, no, no, no, Oz. Come on.

Let's take my car.

- Well, I'll put this in the garage first.

- OK.

I'll open the door. - Wait a minute.

Thorny.

Come back here.

Haven't you forgotten something?

The Dipple Automatic Door?

- [laughs]

Oh-ho, that's right.

Can you imagine the president of the organization forgetting

that? [laughs]

- The president of the organization?

When did this happen?

- Well, I just elected myself a few minutes ago.

- I think Dipple and I ought to have something

to say about that.

- Look, Oz, we haven't got time to argue about it.

Now come on. Let's go.

- Let's see now, one long blast of the horn,

two flashes of the light.

[car starts]

[engine revs]

[horn honking]

- Oz, that darn thing is amazing.

- Isn't it, though?

Well, you know, with the proper campaign,

we ought to sell a lot of those. - Yeah.

The first thing we got to think of, though,

is a slogan, something like, "Your comfort

is triple with a door by Dipple."

- [laughs]

Well, we'll take up all that stuff at a conference.

- Hey, Oz, the door is closed.

- Well, certainly, it's closed.

Thorny, you keep forgetting this is an automatic door.

It opens and closes by itself.

- Well, I know it's automatic from the outside,

but how do you open it from the inside?

- Well, didn't Dipple tell you?

- No, he didn't.

- Well, I guess you just lift it up by hand.

Is there a handle on it?

- Well, I don't see one.

[banging]

- Can't budge it, huh?

- Nope.

- Oh, well then, obviously, you must use the same combination

from the inside that you use from the outside, you know,

one long beep of the horn and two flicks of the lights.

[horn honking]

- Nope.

Didn't work, Oz.

- Why not?

It worked before.

- [laughs]

Probably it's because the car is facing the wrong way.

Why don't you turn it around so it's facing the door?

- There's a brilliant suggestion.

- Look, Oz, we got to get the door open.

Well, look what time it is.

- Thorny, don't get panicky, will you, please?

How about that little door over there?

- Oh, it's locked. - Oh, that's right.

- Have some valuable stuff inside.

- It's locked. I-- I know.

I-- I mentioned that before. - Now wait a minute.

I've got an idea.

Why don't you hop inside and get the motor racing real good

and throw it in gear?

We'll smash our way out.

- Are you crazy or something? You want us to kill ourselves?

- Oz, are you going to let a fortune slip through our hands

just because you're a coward?

- Yes!

There must be a sensible way to get out of here.

This is ridiculous!

Two full-grown men locked in a garage?

Wait a minute.

[snaps fingers]

We'll just pound on the door until somebody hears us.

- Oh, this is so ridiculous.

Oz, we've got five minutes.

[pounding on door]

- Harriet!

- Help!

- David!

- Help!

- Ricky!

- Open the door!

- Hello out there!

Think anybody heard us?

- Well, I don't know.

If you weren't such a cheapskate,

you'd have had a phone put in here.

- Are you kidding?

Who ever heard of a telephone in a garage?

- Plenty of people will be doing it if they ever

start selling these doors.

- I think this is one of those little bugs

that engineers keep referring to that

have to be straightened out before an invention is

perfected.

- Well, I don't think this invention

will ever go over very big with the claustrophobia crowd.

- Keep banging.

Help!

- Open the door!

- Locked inside the door!

- Help!

- In the garage!

[pounding on door]

- Help!

Help, somebody!

In the garage!

Help!

[clanking]

Oz, what's the matter?

Have you given up?

- I'm just looking through this toolbox.

- Well, what are you looking for, a jimmy?

- Uh, no.

I thought I might have some playing cards here.

But-- - Oh, fine, fine.

We can while away the hours with a few hands of Honeymoon

Bridge, huh?

- We might as well do something.

Looks like we're locked in this darn garage for the afternoon.

- Well, you know, maybe we're lucky this happened.

We might have wound up with a lot of lawsuits on our hands.

Naturally, as president of the company,

you'd be held responsible.

- I still think the Dipple Door is a good idea,

just probably a little more practical for two-car families.

- Two-car families? - Yeah.

The second car drives up and lets the first guy out

of the garage.

Look, why don't you keep pounding,

and I'll lay on the horn?

Somebody's bound to hear us sooner or later.

[horn honking]

- Help!

Help!

[POUNDING ON DOOR AND HORN HONKING]

Help!

- Hey, what's that?

- I don't know.

It sounds like it's coming from the garage.

- Pop's horn must have gotten stuck.

- Help! - Sounds like Mr. Thornberry.

- Open the door.

[horn honking]

Oz, Oz, wait just a minute.

I think I hear somebody coming.

- Is that you, Mr. Thornberry?

- Yeah, it's David.

David, we're in the garage.

Mr. Thornberry and I are in the garage.

- Hey, it's Pop.

Hey, Pop, what are you doing in there?

- Mr. Thornberry and I are locked in here.

- Gee, how'd you do that?

- Well, uh, never mind how we did it.

Uh, we want you to help us get out of here.

Will you help us, please?

- OK, Pop.

I'll be right back with the car.

Stay right there now.

- Stay right there?

Are you kidding?

[theme music]

- Here we are.

What the heck?

This place is deserted.

- Yeah.

Looks like he's already taken off for Washington.

- Say, did you notice the lettering

on the backs of those guys that just went down the hall?

- Yeah.

Say, do you suppose he owns a finance company too?

- Well, either that or-- or vise versa.

Let's sit down and talk this thing over.

What the heck is going on around here?

- May I help you gentlemen? - Oh.

[laughs] How do you do?

You Mr. Bensfield?

- No, I'm Captain Braddock of the Racket Squad.

- Well, uh-- uh, we were looking for a Mr. Bensfield.

- You his lawyers? - No.

- No, no, no.

We just had a little business transaction

we were working out with him. - Yeah.

I guess we missed him.

He said he was leaving for Washington today.

- He's right.

He's on his way to the Washington Street police

station right now.

- You mean he's been arrested?

- Yes, he has.

And if you gentlemen have any sort

of business transaction with him,

you're fortunate we picked him up when we did.

- You mean he's a crook?

- I'm afraid he is.

In fact, he's one of the best-known confidence

men in the game, with a long string of aliases.

Jackson A. Bensfield, alias Dr. Randolph Bigalow,

alias Professor Thaddeus Harwick, alias Major Jonathan

Greenacre, alias Louie the Dip.

- Wow.

- You know, I thought there was something phony about that guy

when I talked to him on the telephone.

- Well, it's lucky we did get locked in the garage.

- Well, it certainly is.

Gee, captain, thanks very much for the information.

- That's my job.

I'm a cop.

- Uh, we'll be seeing you, captain.

Oh, [laughs] when I said, "we'll be

seeing you," that was just a figure of speech, of course.

- Of course.

[theme music]

- Oh, hello dear.

How was your meeting with Mr. Bensfield?

- Well, I hate to say this, but I wasn't very favorably

impressed with him.

- Oh, why?

- Well, he struck me as being a little bit dishonest, Harriet.

- Oh, really?

Why do you say that?

- Well, maybe it's because he's in jail.

[laughs]

- In jail? - Yeah.

How about that?

It seems our Mr. Bensfield is a notorious confidence man.

It's lucky we didn't put any money into this.

- Well, for goodness sakes.

Oh, dear, was Wally with you?

- Well, uh, no.

We phoned him just before we left, but he didn't answer.

I guess he wasn't home.

- Oh.

Well, Mrs. Dipple phoned a little while ago.

And she said Wally was supposed to meet her at the train,

and he never showed up, and she's terribly worried.

He just seems to have disappeared.

- You know, Harriet, I think maybe I know where he is.

- You do?

Where?

- Well, let's put it this way.

There is one little detail to Wally's invention

that hasn't quite been ironed out yet.

Uh, I'll tell you all about it when I get back.

- Where are you going ?

- Just over to Wally's garage to let him out.

[theme music]

Hiya, Wally.

Harriet tells me you were looking for me.

- Oh, yeah, I was, Oz.

I-- I've been doing a little work this morning.

- So I understand.

You fixed Harriet's hair dryer, David's motorbike.

You've been a busy guy. - Yeah.

Oh, I don't mean that, Oz.

I-- I've got something much more interesting than that.

- Oh, really?

- Yeah.

A brand new method for opening the garage door.

No more worries about honking a horn or flashing lights.

- Wh-- what's the gimmick? - Here.

You see this?

- Yeah.

- This is a special high-frequency whistle.

And it-- it's pitched so high that the human ear can't

hear it, and yet it'll break the beam and open the garage door.

- Gee, well, that sounds amazing.

Uh, can I have a little demonstration?

- Yeah. All right.

Now watch.

- Well, how about-- that's the darnedest thing I've ever seen

in my life, Wally.

Hey, that's perfect. - Yeah.

It-- uh, well, there's-- there's just one little problem

connected with it.

- What's that?

- Well, you'll see in a minute.

[dogs barking]

- You can find where to buy your new Hotpoint

by checking your local classified telephone directory.

Look for Hotpoint under the appliance you want.

Ask your local Hotpoint dealer to show you the new Hotpoint

ranges, the new Hotpoint refrigerators, the new Hotpoint

automatic washers and dryers, and the new Hotpoint automatic

dishwashers.

Next week, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,"

starring the entire Nelson family--

Ozzie, Harriet, David, and Ricky--

will be brought to you by Antizyme.

Listerine Antizyme toothpaste stops the major cause

of tooth decay every minute of every day.

- Well, good night, folks. We'll see you again next week.

- Goodnight.

And remember, Hotpoint changes your viewpoint automatically.

- That's what I always say, boy.

- What do you always say, little man?

- "Hotpoint changes your viewpoint automatically."

- The part of Wally Dipple was played by Lloyd Corrigan.

Captain Braddock was Reed Hadley.

This is Verne Smith speaking.

[theme music]