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my feet

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starring tommy reddig as jeff miller

jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

and of course

lassie

yes yes honey there's somebody at the

front door will you see who it is

all right

it's been so long since i heard that

bell i've forgotten what it sounded like

someone looking for directions likely

nobody else would come to the front door

maybe it's a man with an electric

refrigerator

it's for you mom

who is it a man he wanted to see you i

showed him into the parlor

thank you dude so yeah wait a minute now

wait a minute

you didn't go buy that electric

refrigerator

really good

what'd he look like oh

the man who do you suppose

i don't know

like a man

did he look like a salesman

what's a salesman look like

i'm phineas monroe mr miller monroe home

furnishings in capital city i happen to

be in calverton this morning on my way

back to capitol city and i attended the

service such a lovely little church i

heard you sing mrs miller and i've come

here to offer you a business proposition

won't you sit down

thank you i just have a few minutes i'll

come right to the point

mrs miller i think you'll have a

beautiful singing voice

well thank you softs opener monroe's has

a radio program

monroe's musical

five evenings a week from six to seven a

12-piece orchestra and a good male

singer nothing high for luton mind you

just good down-to-earth music what's he

selling bananas

mr miller

i'd like you to sing on our program

you're not serious mr monroe i was never

more serious in my life i'll give you a

hundred dollars a week and a three-month

contract with options

and you can start a week from monday

that'll give you time to find a place to

live in capital city

well what uh what's the matter mrs

miller a hundred dollars a week's a lot

of money for a beginner oh no it isn't

the money mr monroe your offer's more

than generous well what is it then

moving to capitol city leaving the farm

you won't have to leave the farm you can

spend weekends here

i'm sure your husband wouldn't mind

my husband's dead oh

it's my son jeff and his grandfather

well that's no problem take him with you

easier said than done

just a country boy i don't think he'd

like the city

and it's for gramps well he was born on

this farm and and his roots go deep

it would be like trying to move an old

oak tree however i i'll talk to them

about it

needless to say i i'm thrilled and

flattered

but they are my family and they've got

to be consulted well that's fair enough

you know where to reach me i'm sure

neither of them the boy or the

grandfather will stand in the way of

your career

sit down

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we got ourselves a problem son

i don't want to live in capital city

well it's not what you want for me

either

it's what jamaa's got coming to her

she's young

pretty

and she seems like a matter like

well she gets to sing in church

well that ain't like singing on radio

for a hundred dollars a week

that's a lot of money

we don't need money do we grams well

not much

you and me but it's different with her

she won't have to sew her own dresses

anymore do you think mom really wants to

go to capital city well i wouldn't blame

her if she did

what about us

will you go wrong with it

and leave you alone i would not

let's look at it this way

what your mom got here

cooking and washing

cleaning house denim garden with the a

crotchy old man and a boy for company

now that ain't much

but mind you

she won't go if we tell her we don't

want her to

good

is that what you're going to tell her

well what do you want me to say

did i want to go to capitol city

that i want to leave you and porky and

everything

yeah

dad

well we got to face it now

coming

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what do i do

jeff boy

you gotta decide that for yourself

but don't worry

i'm on your team

whatever you do

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the gentleman who just came to call on

me was a mr monroe from capital city

he has a radio program there yeah i

heard it it's not so much uh man singing

and fiddles fiddling all right mr music

critic

now what would you say if i told you

that

he wants me to sing on his radio program

well i'd say it was about time you got

somebody good

for a hundred dollars a week

golly

but

but there is a catch to it

it would mean i'm moving to capital city

you mean i get to live in capital city

well just five days a week we come back

here for weekends

can i go to school there and see the

movies and baseball games

you mean you'd like to move to capitol

city oh gosh yes

that is if you want to well i'd love to

but i never thought

what about you dad me

oh no

my roots are too deep ellen uh moving to

saffron's pretty risky business but when

it comes to an old tree that's what i

told mr monroe

well it's it's out

united we stand divided we fall hey what

are you talking about

you don't think i leave you here all

alone five days a week and why not do

you think i'm helpless since when do i

need a petticoat around well i can do

things that i've been wanting to do for

years

say we can go mom can we please

well

all i can say is that

given a little time i

i could grow pretty fond of you too

well all of which isn't getting dinner

on the table you two must be starved

you won't forget to feed my lizard

scramps

and herman

herman who's he

you know herman my bullfrog oh

yeah yes

the answer all right i'll take care of

them when i come home saturday

might be a ma won't find a place to live

been gone since morning

she'll find a place

maybe it won't be so bad

give you a chance to learn big city life

who wants to fireman's pretty hard life

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wouldn't hurt you to learn something

else

that i know ten times more than those

kids in the city

all that you taught me gramps

you think any of those city kids is not

a skinner woodchucker pick a chicken do

you think they know where to find turtle

eggs

i guess not

gosh it's gonna be awful

here comes mom

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i think i saw every apartment in capital

city and there aren't too many available

yeah must have wanted fancy rent oh you

have no idea

i finally saw one place small but clean

and and the rent is not landish

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present for you

you with love oh thanks ellen thanks

thanks mom

did you take it

take what the apartment

oh

well it was the only thing i could

find but there's a catch

they don't allow dogs dear you'd have to

leave lassie with gramps

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it's asking an awful lot for you to give

up glassy i know that

and it was going to make you terribly

unhappy well i don't want you to do it

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just tell me dear we'll call the whole

thing off

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yes

you

boy

yes don't you know any better

quick bouncing that ball against here

sounds like an earthquake

yes ma'am where'd you come from i

haven't seen you around here before

we moved in yesterday well you'll move

out mighty fast if you can't learn to

behave yourself

yes ma'am

hey

what you doing oh nothing that's a dopey

thing to be doing nothing you go to

school here

nah no school now it's summer i might

start school here maybe

i got a ball so what you want to play

now i gotta go meet the guys what guys

we have a club

hi son

hi mom

sorry i was away so long but you do with

yourself all day

nothing much

kid just came by but he didn't want to

play

that's all

well you will make friends soon we've

only been here one day

sure

there's any consolation to you i didn't

have such a happy day myself why

i don't know

everything's rush rush rush

look come on in help me dinner

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go on

eat willy

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oh goodness

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i don't know whether i'm a rotten cook

or i just ain't hungry

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and you sure ain't much help when it

comes to cheering up somebody

i'm going in the center room and read

the paper

you can go along too

but not if you're going to lay around

like the end of the world

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okay suck if you wanna

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me

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boy am i glad to see you

how'd you ever find me 30 miles

i had a dream about you last night we

were down by the lake fishing oh it's

you

again whose dog is that

mine you get that ugly beast out of here

no animals allowed in this building

she's not hurting anyone did you hear

what i said you get that animal off the

steps but don't give me any of your back

talk you get her out of here immediately

or i'll call the police

lassie

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does that child belong to you

why yes well he's been making nothing

but trouble ever since the day you moved

in here and now he thinks he's gonna

keep that ugly beast in the house

my son is not a troublemaker and our

lassie is beautiful

and we know that animals are not

permitted in this house they are not

permitted anywhere and neither is

singing and playing the piano at all

hours this was a decent respectable

house until you people moved in and i

want to tell you i won't stand by you

just give me a few minutes and and we'll

drive lassie back to the farm you mean

we can stay

well we can stay tonight

the hell

you found lassie too you found us she

came all the way to capitol city well

i'll be here 38 mule i've been looking

high and low for her since last night

say what happened to your leg oh wait

just twisted my ankle a little that's

all it's nothing what about your hand or

this

it'll burn pot handle you know

don if i don't think you've grown

and you look good too ellen

you mean i haven't aged since monday

gee grant

i figured to clean up friday before you

got here

what difference does it make i'll have

it straightened up in no time

and uh i broke that plate that annie

caldwell sent you from the world's fair

one less thing to dust come on out of

here both of you i've got to get some

work a million things to ask you you've

been the lizard yes i've heard the

business

i suffer some airplane cars in the mail

did they come

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i hate it gramps gosh how i hate it

that bad eh how about your mom

see you having a good time i don't see

how she could be she goes to rehearsal

then she comes back and practices and

then we sit around that's all

then there's this lady who lives in the

house who's always yelling at me

gosh it's awful

well between you and me and lassie

they've been so good around here either

with you and your mom gone

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hello jenny

ellen

yes just a little while ago i'll tell

you about it later

listen i want you to do something for me

ring this phone as if there were a call

coming in from the outside

right

thanks dear

hello

oh oh hello mr monroe

oh i'm sorry you couldn't reach me in

town i i had to drive back to the farm

for the day

really

oh

i see

of course i understand

no no it's perfectly all right mr monroe

thanks for calling

goodbye

well

set yourselves for a shock

no more job what do you mean

he's decided to continue the program the

way that it was before without a female

singer so i guess we moved back here

honest mom

now would i tell you that

no jeff

not honest

mr monroe didn't really call but it

doesn't matter

as far as i'm concerned the job's over

i should have known that none of us

could be happy

including lassie

unless we were together

as for you young man the holiday's over

i'll bet your room's a mess i want it

and spam before you go out to plate

sure mom hold up wait a minute

before any of us do anything there's

something i've got to get off of my

chest

follow me

now

i'm going to play and sing and lassie's

going to bark and nobody's gonna stick

her head out the window and tell us to

stop

ready

one two three

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you