1 00:00:02,380 --> 00:00:04,040 Hi. Welcome to our show. 2 00:00:53,610 --> 00:00:54,610 How's it look, Buffy? 3 00:00:57,030 --> 00:00:58,030 It's beautiful. 4 00:00:58,690 --> 00:01:00,410 Except we forgot the RSVP. 5 00:01:00,850 --> 00:01:03,110 I didn't know what it meant, so I didn't put it in. 6 00:01:03,890 --> 00:01:07,310 I think it means they want to know if you're coming or not, so they can have 7 00:01:07,310 --> 00:01:08,310 enough hamburgers. 8 00:01:08,870 --> 00:01:09,870 I'll put it in. 9 00:01:12,110 --> 00:01:13,110 Mr. 10 00:01:13,430 --> 00:01:15,590 Davis is home, children. You better prepare for dinner. 11 00:01:15,870 --> 00:01:16,870 Okay, Mr. French. 12 00:01:17,110 --> 00:01:18,110 RSVP. 13 00:01:18,490 --> 00:01:19,770 I beg your pardon? 14 00:01:20,330 --> 00:01:22,310 So you'll know if you have enough hamburgers. 15 00:01:22,750 --> 00:01:25,950 Oh, I see, I see, yes. But I happen to be preparing lamb chops. 16 00:01:26,790 --> 00:01:30,330 Mr. French, Jody made a beautiful invitation to the father -son dinner. 17 00:01:31,050 --> 00:01:32,050 May I see it? 18 00:01:32,090 --> 00:01:33,090 Sure. 19 00:01:34,650 --> 00:01:37,790 That's very good, Jody. It's almost professional. 20 00:01:38,830 --> 00:01:41,770 Hello. Hi. What are you doing? Having a convention here? 21 00:01:42,110 --> 00:01:45,090 You can give him the invitation now, Mr. French. What invitation? 22 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,800 If I told you, then I wasted all that time just making it. 23 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:50,140 Okay. 24 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,920 You are invited to attend father -son dinner in the school cafeteria. 25 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:56,280 Gee, that's nice. 26 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:58,320 Is that blue suit still fitting? 27 00:01:58,860 --> 00:02:01,220 We may have to lengthen the sleeves a little, sir. 28 00:02:01,540 --> 00:02:03,220 We already did that once. 29 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,300 Well, we'll buy him a new one. 30 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:06,640 How soon are we going to eat? 31 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:08,460 Whenever you're ready, sir. 32 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:10,100 Ten minutes okay? 33 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:11,640 Yes. 34 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:12,959 Uncle Bill? 35 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,930 Yeah. Is it okay if we call your dad from now on? 36 00:02:20,470 --> 00:02:21,510 Why do you want to do that? 37 00:02:22,430 --> 00:02:27,250 So we wouldn't have to explain why you're taking us to stuff instead of our 38 00:02:27,250 --> 00:02:28,250 father. 39 00:02:28,810 --> 00:02:35,790 Well, I'm not your real father, Jody. I try to kind of fill in for him, but 40 00:02:35,790 --> 00:02:37,830 I never could take his place. 41 00:02:39,170 --> 00:02:42,090 But you do everything your father does, and besides. 42 00:02:42,940 --> 00:02:44,860 I can't even remember our real father. 43 00:02:45,620 --> 00:02:47,260 I can't remember him either. 44 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:50,720 It's even getting hard to remember our mother. 45 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:56,680 Sure. 46 00:02:57,380 --> 00:03:01,260 Well, let's think about it a while, huh? 47 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:08,780 Okay. Uncle Bill, I know it sounds silly, but is it all right if I just try 48 00:03:08,780 --> 00:03:10,000 just to see how it sounds? 49 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,400 Go ahead. 50 00:03:14,140 --> 00:03:15,140 Thanks, Dad. 51 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:16,280 You're welcome. 52 00:03:16,660 --> 00:03:17,660 Come on, let's eat. 53 00:03:18,660 --> 00:03:20,200 We better wash up for dinner. 54 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,620 Yeah, because Mr. French and Dad will be waiting for us. 55 00:03:27,780 --> 00:03:31,160 Hey, Jody just said something kind of got me shook up. 56 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,360 Oh, he picks those words up from the other kids, Uncle Bill. He doesn't know 57 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:35,999 what they mean. 58 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,420 No, I don't mean that kind of words. No, he wants to... 59 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:43,880 Tell everybody that I'm his father. He wants to call me dad and all of that. 60 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,540 I wouldn't mind that either, Uncle Bill. 61 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:48,880 It seems natural. 62 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,540 No, I don't want you to forget your real mother and father. 63 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,560 Buffy and Jody were young when it happened. 64 00:03:56,580 --> 00:03:58,800 Of course, it's different with me. 65 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:05,840 And yet, I guess no matter how much you love somebody, as the years go on, the 66 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:06,920 memory fades. 67 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:19,720 Will there be anything else, sir? 68 00:04:20,019 --> 00:04:21,019 No, thanks. 69 00:04:23,340 --> 00:04:28,560 You know, sir, in some ways you've been, well, rather parents to the children, 70 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,600 sir. 71 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:31,000 No, not really. 72 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:36,020 You know, it's only been a few years and I'm forgetting about parents already. 73 00:04:37,140 --> 00:04:38,240 I understand, sir. 74 00:04:39,220 --> 00:04:40,460 I don't want them to do that. 75 00:04:41,820 --> 00:04:44,900 Unless I can show them these pictures, but that wouldn't mean much to them. 76 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:45,900 just an album. 77 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:48,680 Yes, sir. 78 00:04:49,820 --> 00:04:53,500 Maybe if I took them back to Indiana and they met some of the people that used 79 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:55,200 to know their folks, that might do something. 80 00:04:56,780 --> 00:04:58,760 Sort of sentimental journey, sir. 81 00:05:09,420 --> 00:05:12,040 Well, that's what I like to see, everybody doing their homework. 82 00:05:12,420 --> 00:05:13,920 That's not what I like to see. 83 00:05:14,180 --> 00:05:15,460 Hi, Uncle Bill. Join the group. 84 00:05:16,659 --> 00:05:18,760 I got a nice surprise for you kids. 85 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:21,240 Do we have to guess? 86 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,300 Nope. Got an airplane ticket. 87 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:26,080 Airplane tickets? 88 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:30,320 With the nice surprises that you're going away again, that's no nice 89 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,080 Not just me. We're all going to go this weekend. 90 00:05:35,380 --> 00:05:36,980 Oh, boy. Where to? 91 00:05:37,260 --> 00:05:38,360 I hope it's fishing. 92 00:05:39,740 --> 00:05:41,040 We're going to go to Indiana. 93 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,380 What are we going back there for? 94 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:50,540 Well, I got a look at some property back there, and I thought you might want to 95 00:05:50,540 --> 00:05:52,760 go along and see where you used to live. 96 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:55,340 Do we have to? 97 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,200 No, you don't have to. We'll go if you want to. 98 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,840 Well, it might be fun, at least the airplane park. 99 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:06,900 Sure, I'd like to revisit some of the old places. 100 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,080 I can get permission to get you out of school on Monday. 101 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:14,000 Hey, maybe it would be fun. 102 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:19,240 Okay. We'll fly out of here tomorrow night, then. 103 00:06:21,220 --> 00:06:23,300 Jody's going to be fencing all those old places. 104 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,240 I don't remember much about them. 105 00:06:26,740 --> 00:06:29,440 Neither do I. So there'll be new places to have. 106 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,280 It's a little different from New York, isn't it? Right. 107 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,040 In my room, they got cherries on the wallpaper. 108 00:07:11,660 --> 00:07:14,300 And the bathtub has paws on it, like a lion. 109 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,580 Well, it's a pretty old house. Oh, I love seeing it again. 110 00:07:18,940 --> 00:07:20,620 This was always such a pretty street. 111 00:07:21,380 --> 00:07:24,140 Your father and I used to deliver papers right on that street. 112 00:07:24,580 --> 00:07:27,520 I'd fold them up, and he'd throw them up on the porches, because they'd go in 113 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:28,520 the bushes sometimes. 114 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,120 Hey, we'd better go see Mr. 115 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:31,700 Thompson. I want to keep him waiting. 116 00:07:33,070 --> 00:07:37,570 That was real nice of Mr. Thompson to open the school on Saturday just for us. 117 00:07:38,730 --> 00:07:41,690 Well, I told him we were only going to be here a couple of days. Besides, he 118 00:07:41,690 --> 00:07:43,510 knew your folks real well. How about that? 119 00:07:44,350 --> 00:07:45,690 He must be pretty old. 120 00:07:47,550 --> 00:07:48,550 Come on. 121 00:07:57,790 --> 00:07:59,730 You look about the same, Mr. Thompson. 122 00:08:00,590 --> 00:08:03,810 I guess we're more comfortable with our old ways. 123 00:08:04,630 --> 00:08:06,870 That's why the school board keeps me here. 124 00:08:08,850 --> 00:08:12,810 Sometimes I can remember the boys and girls from years ago. 125 00:08:14,090 --> 00:08:15,090 Bob Davis. 126 00:08:15,570 --> 00:08:16,630 Like yesterday. 127 00:08:17,590 --> 00:08:20,510 Walking these halls, sitting in the class. 128 00:08:22,270 --> 00:08:24,810 Your father was one of our star athletes. 129 00:08:25,550 --> 00:08:29,590 His team won the state basketball championship the year he was captain. 130 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,020 Never let me forget that one. 131 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:34,720 Trophy's there in the caves. 132 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,140 The 63rd Street Tigers won a trophy, too. That's my team, Mr. Thompson. 133 00:08:40,539 --> 00:08:41,760 Good for you. 134 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:49,540 If I remember correctly, your mother played the lead in the Pirates of 135 00:08:49,540 --> 00:08:50,540 that year. 136 00:08:50,980 --> 00:08:51,980 Let's see. 137 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:54,480 Mary Patterson. 138 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,200 Ah, there she is. 139 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,280 That's the whole cast, but I imagine you can recognize your mother. 140 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:05,440 No. 141 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,280 She's in the first row, in the middle, Buffy. 142 00:09:11,020 --> 00:09:13,380 Oh, she looks like a little girl. 143 00:09:15,660 --> 00:09:17,320 She was 16 then. 144 00:09:18,740 --> 00:09:20,080 Let's see the trophy, huh? 145 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,640 Yeah, it's supposed to be arranged. It cost me years. 146 00:09:28,660 --> 00:09:30,420 The kids fiddle with them. 147 00:09:31,060 --> 00:09:32,060 Yeah, there it is. 148 00:09:34,940 --> 00:09:39,480 Yeah, I guess this was one of the best basketball teams Emerson High ever 149 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:40,480 produced. 150 00:09:40,980 --> 00:09:42,880 Bob Davis was the heart of it. 151 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:45,140 Long time ago. 152 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:48,000 You don't forget boys like your dad. 153 00:09:49,780 --> 00:09:50,780 It's heavy. 154 00:10:00,620 --> 00:10:03,420 I'm glad to see you, Bill. What are you doing back here? 155 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:05,400 Oh, we're just having a little visit. 156 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:07,440 Made some changes, didn't you? 157 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:10,980 Yeah, you got to keep up or folks will go clear downtown. 158 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:12,320 Yeah. 159 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,520 You got a lot of stuff in here, Mr. Bradley. 160 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,640 Yeah, almost like a department store. 161 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,880 You sure got yourself a nice family here, Bill. 162 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:22,180 Only Bob's kids. 163 00:10:22,940 --> 00:10:23,940 Oh, 164 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:29,640 why, I knew your daddy when he was, well, about so high. 165 00:10:30,540 --> 00:10:34,000 He was a lot different from your Uncle Bill here. When they were kids, I mean. 166 00:10:34,380 --> 00:10:38,520 Now, Bill was always coming in to get stuff to build his model dams and 167 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:39,479 out of. 168 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,780 Uncle Bill makes real dams and bridges now. 169 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,740 He built a tunnel under a river so a train could come through. 170 00:10:46,420 --> 00:10:47,580 You don't say. 171 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,400 But you must have seen a lot of our father, too, didn't you, Mr. Bradley? 172 00:10:52,060 --> 00:10:53,060 Oh, sure. 173 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,960 Every time he busted a window playing baseball, he'd come in to find out how 174 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:58,400 much I'd charge him to fix it. 175 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,260 Got so I'd give him a job on Saturdays just so he'd have enough to fix all them 176 00:11:03,260 --> 00:11:04,260 busted windows. 177 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,140 I sure did like that kid, though. 178 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:09,560 Hey, look, Bob. 179 00:11:11,060 --> 00:11:13,420 Excuse me. I deliver those screens, Grandpa. 180 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:14,479 Oh, good. 181 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,920 Bill, this is my grandson, Alan. 182 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:18,840 Hello, Alan. Alan, Mr. 183 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:20,420 Davis, and his niece. 184 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:21,840 Sissy. 185 00:11:22,660 --> 00:11:23,800 Hello. Working here? 186 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,680 I just help out on the weekends. 187 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,780 I go to state during the week. Oh, my parents went to state. 188 00:11:29,060 --> 00:11:30,060 You're local. 189 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:31,680 I don't think I've seen you before. 190 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,560 The Davises live in New York now, Alan. But their father used to come in here 191 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:37,980 all the time when he was a kid. 192 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,260 Grandpa's got a memory that won't quit. 193 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:44,560 I can remember when Bob Davis got himself engaged. 194 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:46,360 I remember that day. 195 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:50,260 It was the evening of the... 196 00:11:50,750 --> 00:11:52,430 Yeah, the 4th of July. 197 00:11:52,730 --> 00:11:56,770 The next day, Bob went downtown and put an ad in the paper to announce the 198 00:11:56,770 --> 00:12:01,130 engagement. Gave everybody around here a big laugh, too, because it appeared in 199 00:12:01,130 --> 00:12:02,550 the column under Help Wanted. 200 00:12:03,990 --> 00:12:05,870 Oh, excuse me, I've got a customer. 201 00:12:06,890 --> 00:12:07,890 Oh, 202 00:12:08,630 --> 00:12:09,930 I never heard that story before. 203 00:12:10,210 --> 00:12:11,530 Your father must have been quite a guy. 204 00:12:11,830 --> 00:12:12,830 Oh, he was. 205 00:12:13,170 --> 00:12:14,630 My mother was wonderful, too. 206 00:12:15,550 --> 00:12:18,670 You know, coming back here, I can almost see them. 207 00:12:19,470 --> 00:12:20,470 Almost. 208 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,360 If you're not busy tonight, maybe I could take you around to some of the old 209 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:26,360 places. 210 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,600 You know, like the park and the community center. 211 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:30,440 Would you like that? 212 00:12:31,540 --> 00:12:33,340 Yes, I'd like that very much. 213 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:42,040 Hi. Hello. 214 00:12:42,860 --> 00:12:43,860 Oh, 215 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,340 I just came out for a breath of air. Hot, isn't it? 216 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,140 Oh, we covered a lot of territory today. 217 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,580 We must have walked ten miles. 218 00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:54,190 I'll bet this place is bigger than New York. 219 00:12:55,090 --> 00:12:59,050 Oh, I almost forgot. While you were out, Miss Pringle called. 220 00:12:59,850 --> 00:13:00,890 Miss Pringle? 221 00:13:02,470 --> 00:13:04,590 How old is she now? 222 00:13:05,390 --> 00:13:10,330 Well, she says that she won't go until she's ready. And she's not ready yet. 223 00:13:10,650 --> 00:13:12,370 She was 83 this summer. 224 00:13:13,010 --> 00:13:14,090 Who's Miss Pringle? 225 00:13:14,550 --> 00:13:18,450 She's a piano teacher. I guess every kid in town took lessons from Miss Pringle. 226 00:13:18,780 --> 00:13:19,780 Did you? 227 00:13:19,900 --> 00:13:23,260 Yeah, I wasn't very good, though. Your dad was a lot better than me. Miss 228 00:13:23,260 --> 00:13:26,140 Pringle said I had two left ears and both of them were tin. 229 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:28,860 That sounds like Miss Pringle. 230 00:13:29,140 --> 00:13:31,620 Well, she heard you were in town. That's why she called. 231 00:13:31,820 --> 00:13:33,360 And she'd like you to come and see her tomorrow. 232 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,060 Wouldn't miss it for the world. 233 00:13:35,380 --> 00:13:36,700 Well, here's me. 234 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:40,120 Uncle Bill, do we have to go? 235 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:43,320 We see piano teachers in New York. 236 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:45,200 Not like this one. 237 00:13:45,940 --> 00:13:47,180 Let's go play on the swing, Buffy. 238 00:13:47,380 --> 00:13:48,380 Me first. 239 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:02,040 Doesn't seem to be working, does it? 240 00:14:06,420 --> 00:14:10,640 When somebody talks about mom or dad, Buffy and Jody react as if it's some 241 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:11,740 stranger they never met. 242 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:14,500 You're the only dad they remember. 243 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,380 Who said we came out here so they could remember their mom and dad anyway? 244 00:14:22,580 --> 00:14:24,580 I'm beginning to understand a few things. 245 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:26,600 You are, huh? 246 00:14:27,810 --> 00:14:32,090 Okay, well, maybe I thought a trip home would kind of stir up their memories a 247 00:14:32,090 --> 00:14:33,090 little bit. 248 00:14:36,130 --> 00:14:38,430 They act like they've never been here before. 249 00:14:51,250 --> 00:14:54,530 Uncle Bill, I wish I could remember where we used to live here. 250 00:14:55,250 --> 00:14:56,250 Well... 251 00:14:58,030 --> 00:14:59,570 I'd rather live in New York. 252 00:15:02,630 --> 00:15:03,509 Come on. 253 00:15:03,510 --> 00:15:04,510 Want to get washed up? 254 00:15:05,110 --> 00:15:06,110 Okay. 255 00:15:08,030 --> 00:15:09,030 You coming? 256 00:15:09,330 --> 00:15:10,330 Okay, Uncle Bill. 257 00:15:15,350 --> 00:15:17,290 It's just like your dad. Only we had bicycles. 258 00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:21,590 Really? I think I'm going to go in and put a clean shirt on. Okay. 259 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:38,320 What are you thinking about? 260 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,900 How beautiful it is by moonlight. 261 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:44,900 I forgot how crickets sound. 262 00:15:50,580 --> 00:15:53,140 What's it like here now, on the 4th of July? 263 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:54,780 Nothing ever changes. 264 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:56,100 Don't you remember? 265 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:57,760 Not really. 266 00:15:58,560 --> 00:15:59,900 Well, it's hot as blazes. 267 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:05,900 And then there's a picnic in the park, and a band concert, and then the mayor 268 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:06,900 makes a speech. 269 00:16:07,950 --> 00:16:09,810 And after it gets dark, they're fireworks. 270 00:16:11,570 --> 00:16:12,770 Now what are you thinking about? 271 00:16:14,810 --> 00:16:17,390 What it was like the night my mother and father got engaged. 272 00:16:17,910 --> 00:16:19,730 And how my father must have looked. 273 00:16:20,010 --> 00:16:21,010 And my mother. 274 00:16:30,350 --> 00:16:33,530 Uncle Bill, they have the same comics here as they do in New York. 275 00:16:34,290 --> 00:16:35,590 That's because they're syndicated. 276 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,040 That means you're right. 277 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:41,700 Well, I'm off to church. 278 00:16:43,180 --> 00:16:44,820 Never fails, does it? No. 279 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:50,240 Boy, it's going to be hot today. 280 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,660 How would you like to go out to the lake after we see Miss Pringle? 281 00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:54,799 I would. 282 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:55,659 Me too. 283 00:16:55,660 --> 00:16:57,000 I can't go to the lake, Uncle Bill. 284 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,300 Alan's going to come over later. 285 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,580 Okay. The call's for you, Mr. Davis. A Mr. French from New York. 286 00:17:02,820 --> 00:17:04,660 Oh. Well, see you all later. 287 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:05,459 Bye -bye. 288 00:17:05,460 --> 00:17:06,460 Bye. 289 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,220 Mr. French is probably calling us because he misses us. 290 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:12,480 We've only been here two days. 291 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:15,180 It seems longer. 292 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:16,599 I hope nothing's wrong. 293 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,319 Mr. French is just probably calling to see if we're having a good time. 294 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:21,560 Are we? 295 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:23,460 Not really, but Uncle Bill is. 296 00:17:23,819 --> 00:17:24,819 That's good. 297 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:28,180 Yeah, you're right. 298 00:17:28,580 --> 00:17:31,280 Yeah, I know their number. I'll call them this afternoon, French. 299 00:17:32,540 --> 00:17:35,060 May I inquire, sir, as to how the experiment is progressing? 300 00:17:36,020 --> 00:17:37,110 Oh. Oh, terrible. 301 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:39,070 I might as well have saved the plane fare. 302 00:17:40,250 --> 00:17:41,250 I'm sorry, sir. 303 00:17:41,330 --> 00:17:45,310 And now with your trip cut short by this emergency, there seems to be little 304 00:17:45,310 --> 00:17:46,310 chance, really. 305 00:17:46,790 --> 00:17:49,230 Well, as long as we're here, I'll keep trying. 306 00:17:50,190 --> 00:17:51,190 We'll see you tonight. 307 00:17:51,570 --> 00:17:52,570 All right, bye. 308 00:18:01,710 --> 00:18:04,010 Uncle Bill, did Mr. French say he misses us? 309 00:18:04,330 --> 00:18:07,810 Oh! Sure he does. We're going to see him tonight anyway. We have to go back. 310 00:18:08,490 --> 00:18:09,490 You? 311 00:18:09,930 --> 00:18:10,930 Anything matter? 312 00:18:11,130 --> 00:18:14,130 No, just business. I have a meeting in New York tomorrow morning. 313 00:18:16,130 --> 00:18:17,210 That's okay, Uncle Bill. 314 00:18:17,470 --> 00:18:19,650 Only we have permission to stay out of school tomorrow. 315 00:18:20,150 --> 00:18:22,590 I don't mind going back to school tomorrow, Buffy. 316 00:18:23,170 --> 00:18:24,250 Boy, you've changed. 317 00:18:25,530 --> 00:18:27,530 Well, we've still got time to go see Pringle. 318 00:18:39,850 --> 00:18:41,750 Are you sure I can't help you serve, Miss Pringle? 319 00:18:42,430 --> 00:18:43,610 Perfectly able to help myself. 320 00:18:43,990 --> 00:18:44,990 Thank you. 321 00:18:49,390 --> 00:18:53,830 I don't know why it is, but I never saw a boy yet that could resist chocolate 322 00:18:53,830 --> 00:18:54,830 cake. 323 00:18:54,990 --> 00:18:56,070 Thank you, Miss Pringle. 324 00:18:56,550 --> 00:18:58,170 Bet you never saw a girl either. 325 00:18:59,290 --> 00:19:01,010 Doesn't your canary sing, Miss Pringle? 326 00:19:01,230 --> 00:19:02,209 It used to. 327 00:19:02,210 --> 00:19:03,210 It's pretty old. 328 00:19:03,630 --> 00:19:07,650 My memory's not so good these days either, but I do remember some of my 329 00:19:08,830 --> 00:19:11,450 Couldn't forget Bob Davis, even if I tried. 330 00:19:13,350 --> 00:19:16,110 Did my father like taking piano lessons, Miss Pringle? 331 00:19:17,550 --> 00:19:22,630 He loathed it. You never saw a boy arrive so slow and depart so fast. 332 00:19:23,530 --> 00:19:25,450 He was always fiddling with something. 333 00:19:26,170 --> 00:19:27,170 Mostly a ball. 334 00:19:27,250 --> 00:19:28,930 Couldn't wait to get back to his game. 335 00:19:29,310 --> 00:19:34,690 Of course, he wasn't the only one. I've got a box full of... Just a minute. 336 00:19:43,470 --> 00:19:46,110 Always meant to return this stuff, but didn't always remember. 337 00:19:52,170 --> 00:19:53,170 Bob David. 338 00:19:53,830 --> 00:19:56,490 Wrote his name on it so he'd be sure to get the same one back again. 339 00:19:57,970 --> 00:19:59,190 Guess he never did, though. 340 00:20:00,150 --> 00:20:01,150 Jody? 341 00:20:03,670 --> 00:20:04,890 Might as well take it. 342 00:20:06,030 --> 00:20:07,030 Bob David. 343 00:20:07,810 --> 00:20:09,650 Kind of smudged, but you can still read it. 344 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,300 Thank you, Miss Pringle. Our team can use it for practice. 345 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,000 Hey, did you check and see if the kids have got everything? 346 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:30,480 Yep. Where are they? 347 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,100 Well, they're in the kitchen with Mrs. Mallory, and she's making them a whole 348 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:37,320 lot of sandwiches to take on the plane because we can't make her believe that 349 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:38,360 you get fed on the plane. 350 00:20:40,810 --> 00:20:42,490 I'm sorry I got to cut the visit short. 351 00:20:42,810 --> 00:20:45,450 Oh, that's okay, Uncle Bill. It was really nice for me. 352 00:20:46,390 --> 00:20:48,190 I'm sorry it didn't mean much to Jody. 353 00:20:48,870 --> 00:20:51,310 Well, we tried. I guess it didn't take. 354 00:20:52,170 --> 00:20:55,250 Uncle Bill, why didn't we go to our old house where I grew up? 355 00:20:57,190 --> 00:20:59,070 Oh, I don't know, honey. 356 00:20:59,350 --> 00:21:05,670 The people bought it, bought it furnished, and I guess I just didn't 357 00:21:05,670 --> 00:21:07,670 want to see strangers in there with your old things. 358 00:21:09,420 --> 00:21:10,760 But I'd like to see it again. 359 00:21:11,540 --> 00:21:12,540 You sure? 360 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,760 Mm -hmm. If the people who are living there don't mind. It won't mean a thing 361 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:17,760 Buffy and Jody. 362 00:21:18,780 --> 00:21:20,860 Okay. We'll stop in on the way to the airport. 363 00:21:28,940 --> 00:21:30,760 It looks so different, Mrs. Lacey. 364 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,140 Well, we refurnished about two years ago. 365 00:21:33,860 --> 00:21:35,900 I don't remember this place at all. 366 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:37,600 Me neither. 367 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,280 Well, you were real little guys when you lived here. 368 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,720 Well, this is your house and your mother's and father's. 369 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,440 Sure seems strange not to see our own things here. 370 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,420 I replaced them one by one. 371 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,300 You know, there is one piece. 372 00:21:51,660 --> 00:21:52,660 A desk. 373 00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:55,520 I refinished it. That's why you didn't recognize it. 374 00:21:56,180 --> 00:21:57,180 Right over there. 375 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:01,300 I'm afraid it's rather messy. 376 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,920 I remember this desk now. It was in the study. 377 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,960 And there were some books in one of the drawers. 378 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,840 I intended to send it to the children's hospital, but never got around to it. 379 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,860 Maybe you'd like to look them over. 380 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,540 Thanks. I'll go see how my roast is doing. 381 00:22:20,060 --> 00:22:21,100 Do we have enough time? 382 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,080 Oh, yeah. A few minutes will make a difference. 383 00:22:26,140 --> 00:22:28,080 Hey, this one's a baby book. 384 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:29,440 So is this one. 385 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,220 There's a postcard in it, though. 386 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:34,680 And it's addressed to Jody. 387 00:22:35,540 --> 00:22:36,540 Hey. 388 00:22:37,290 --> 00:22:38,510 Master Jody Davis. 389 00:22:38,890 --> 00:22:39,950 That's me, all right. 390 00:22:41,150 --> 00:22:45,190 Dear son, your mother said you were worried I wouldn't be home in time to 391 00:22:45,190 --> 00:22:46,190 you to the lake. 392 00:22:48,070 --> 00:22:50,950 I wouldn't miss our Sundays together for anything in the world. 393 00:22:51,490 --> 00:22:54,850 I bought a fishing rod exactly right for a three -year -old boy. 394 00:22:57,310 --> 00:22:59,590 The X on the picture is my hotel room. 395 00:23:00,130 --> 00:23:01,150 Wish you were here. 396 00:23:01,390 --> 00:23:02,390 Your dad. 397 00:23:05,150 --> 00:23:06,150 Wish you were here. 398 00:23:06,700 --> 00:23:07,700 Dad. 399 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:14,460 Maybe you children would like to see the backyard where you used to play. 400 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,180 Sure. Come on, Jody. 401 00:23:17,580 --> 00:23:19,400 I'm sure glad we came to Indiana. 402 00:23:19,980 --> 00:23:23,360 Just imagine, a postcard from my dad. 403 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:28,360 How about that? 404 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,780 Well, I don't think it's so strange, Uncle Bill. 405 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:33,800 Nothing else works. 406 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:40,520 At the school, the hardware store, even the baseball that belonged to his dad 407 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:41,520 when he was a little kid. 408 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:43,780 But that's just it. 409 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,120 Everybody we met talked about a little kid named Bob Davis. 410 00:23:48,820 --> 00:23:51,780 That little kid was a stranger to Jody. 411 00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:57,380 Jody was looking for a man, not a little boy. He was looking for his father. 412 00:23:59,660 --> 00:24:02,460 Funny. So I took a postcard, huh? 413 00:24:04,620 --> 00:24:05,980 A nickel postcard. 414 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,400 Addressed to dear son. 415 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,380 Saying wish you were here. 416 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,600 Signed, your dad. 417 00:24:16,980 --> 00:24:18,700 Well, I guess we can go home. 418 00:24:31,210 --> 00:24:33,170 Thanks for watching. See you next week. 419 00:24:33,390 --> 00:24:34,530 On Family Affair.