 In just a moment enjoy my son Jeep. First though this week a group of your friends reach their 21st birthday. You visit with them each weekday over the station. Of course we mean the barbers of one man's family. Yes for 21 years you've been sharing the happiness and tribulations of this lovable family circle and you can continue to enjoy them Monday through Friday. You'll also enjoy your other weekday favorites. Bob Hope, Dave Garroway, the news of the world and John Cameron Swayze. Now it's my son Jeep on NBC. How? This heat big chief running low. I mean good evening. This is Dr. Robert Allison speaking. Sometimes referred to as Jeep's father and better known recently as Grove Falls outstanding Indian chief. It was just one of those things not really anyone's fault but if you had to put your finger on someone you could do worse than put it on my young offspring. My little miss to fix it. My son Jeep. Yes it's my son Jeep. The bright and warm hearted adventures of the Allison family of Grove Falls. Transcribed by the National Broadcasting Company and starring Donald Cook as Doc with young Martin Houston as irrepressible unpredictable ten-year-old Jeep Allison. Some of the nicest moments around our house take place after supper. We all gather in the living room Mrs. Bixby our housekeeper Jeep Peggy Barbara Miller who works for me but who is like a member of the family. This is when we talk over the events of the day and plan the events for the days coming up. This is also when I usually get no inkling whatsoever of what's in store for me. By the way everybody I'm being installed Friday night. You're being what a miss Bixby would you mind telling us what you're talking about. I'm being installed by the sisters of many haha you know my large I've been elected many haha for 1953 you mean what's left of 1953. She was an Indian princess up in Minnesota or someplace. Gosh you're gonna be a princess miss Bixby in a manner of speaking yes. Congratulations do we call you your royal highness. Just call me many. I think it's a great honor for the whole family congratulations. Yeah I think it's swell. The only reason I brought it up is I'm gonna need some help with the costumes. Costumes how many are you going to wear. Just one. The others are Mr. Mooney. You mean our milkman. Is he a sister of the many haha. Oh mercy no. What is he then a brother of many haha. He ain't no relation at all but every year when the new many haha gets installed she has to have a chief for the occasion. What's he called chief bottle washer. He's doctor. He's chief running bear how come Mr. Mooney's taking you gotta have somebody I saw him when he was delivering the milk this morning I asked him. Mrs. Bixby how could you how could I what don't you know the woman's not supposed to make the first advances you're supposed to wait for the man to ask you. Yeah well Peggy when you get to be my age you're allowed a few privileges. You don't waste time beating around the bush you get right to the point haha. It was a joke I suddenly got the picture of Mr. Mooney clattering up the back steps and Mrs. Bixby saying I'll have three courts this morning and how would you like to be chief running bear. I'm sure Miss Bixby didn't say that. No I ordered four courts. You mean you really you really did jump in and ask him like that how did he take it. He bought a little but when I told him what an honor it was and how all the refreshments was free he gave in. Miss Bixby what does many haha do. Do. Don't do anything except preside at the meetings. Oh my land. What's the matter. I just remembered that I got to make a speech in Indian course not. What do I say. Oh well that's simple you just say. Well no no you say. Go on doctor. Well you what do you mean go on I can't just toss it off it requires little thought between the five of us we certainly ought to be able to make up one speech don't worry the whole thing to me all right to speech there you are Miss Bixby your troubles are over sure I know all about Indians well if you think you can do it you go ahead it'll sure take a big load off my mind this installation means a lot to me I mean it's a lot to all of us this is a project for the whole family we've got to make this the greatest installation many haha's have ever had here here Miss Bixby deserves nothing but the best who works harder and does more for other people now it's our chance to do something for her of course we're going to help father Barbara and I are going to work with Mrs. Bixby on the costume that's right and Jeep's going to write the speech that's right and pop's gonna and what are you gonna do pop well I'll be available for anything that comes up feel perfectly free to call on me at any time well this is one project you can't possibly get involved in father unless you want to help with the sewing oh so you think I have no use in this project well mark my words before it's over you will probably be begging me to help you please hand me the scissors Peggy here you are thank you you threw that sleeve Barbara not quite now as soon as you are I got the other one basted Mrs. Bixby what's Mr. Mooney like well then say child you see him as often as I do well I mean what's he like when he's not being a milkman well he's like most other many's age kind of set in his ways I wonder why he never got married maybe nobody asked him maybe he ain't bad looking nice steady sort of fella Mrs. Bixby are you interested in him me mercy no child what gave you that idea well after all he's taking you to the installation on the other way around I'm taking him ladies sewing circle hard at work I see doctor you're standing in my life no sorry what's this piece cloth honestly father what does it look like well it looks like half a sarong it's Mr. Mooney's costume where's the rest of it that's all there is there isn't anymore you mean that poor fellas got to go to the installation dressed in nothing but this half a sarong it's not a sarong father it's an Indian loincloth besides that ain't all of his costume well I'm glad to hear that he wears a couple of bracelets too and that's all that's all well won't you be a little conspicuous you couldn't you wear a few more clothes nope it's traditional whole ceremony is you see when mini ha ha and her chief enter the hall everybody forms in two lines and we walk between them up to the throne and then the 12 handmaidens of mini ha ha go into their war dance why because it's traditional then they need around us in a circle and I make my speech well meanwhile what is Mr. Moody doing besides shivering nothing chief running bear it's certainly the appropriate name yeah did you make up the name to fit the costume or the costume to fit the name and neither one father you heard Mrs. Bixby everything's traditional all I know is I wouldn't be caught dead in this costume what do you wear Ms. Bixby well this long skirt here in the moccasins and the jacket it seems to me your partner is getting a dirty deal you're going to be all dressed up nice and warm poor Mr. Mooney is going to be freezing to death well Mrs. Bixby tomorrow is the big night are you excited yep tired to working on those costumes all week warm me up well now that they're finished you'll have a chance to relax oh then say child I can't relax there's eight million things to do in connection with the installation I'll be on that phone all day tomorrow are you people sure there's nothing I can do to help on this project we're sure doctor for everybody but me's been so busy the past three days I'm beginning to feel useless I just finished it finished what the speech I wrote from Ms. Bixby what's this mr. Mooney's costume is that all he's wearing that in two bracelets come on son let's hear the speech yeah let's hear it hmm how what do you mean how by reading it to us that's the first word pop how oh excuse me how he big mini hog glad to be here glad to see so many squalls and wigwam hug hug hug he big mini hog and just a second what's this big heat business that's be big well whichever it is I ain't a big woman golly miss big speed that's only Indian talk oh excuse me many hot smoke pipe of peace with pale face silly there won't be any pale faces there except mr. Mooney is that doesn't matter you always say pale face when you talk in the end sounds better where was I well many moons ago sisters of many hot I started lodge hug whole tribe happy with Lodge uh mini ha ha happy with Lodge uh me promise bare meat and plenty buffalo and wigwam when winter come uh great spirit smile on sisters uh mini ha ha smile on sisters uh me promise all sisters who pay up wampum on time go happy hunting ground when they die hug how well how'd you like it Barbara well dear I thought it was very Indian what did you think peg isn't the end kind of morbid all that talk of dying well gosh no all Indians want to go to the happy hunting ground the Spitzbees just saying that they pay up their dues they'll go you know come to think of it no many ha ha's ever made a speech in genuine Indian before how'd you like it pop I'm very impressed old boy but it did seem to me there was one too many which one well now this one right here oh you've been a real help honey the whole family has you know what I do without you I'm all set for the installation got my costume got my speech and I got mr. Mooney hi jeep where's miss fixby potmater stay in bed a little longer this morning rest up for tonight that's right big shindig tonight isn't it huh huh guess you're looking forward to it huh sure all them free eat gotta admit it jeep I'm a man who likes his food you're not gonna be so thin then I never figured that out I keep eating and eating nothing happens kind of discouraging or it would be if I didn't enjoy eating so much anyway I'll bet you look real good in your costume well sure I kind of fancy myself an Indian costume all them feathers you're not wearing any feathers no I guess it wouldn't be with buckskin britches you're wearing any britches no oh oh got one of them kneeling jackets instead hey you're not wearing a jacket hey listen what am I wearing the loincloth is that all and two bracelets now jeep I've been up since the crack at dawn night and no mood for jokes I wasn't choking mr. Mooney you mean I'm supposed to walk into that hall in front all them women in nothing but a loincloth and two bracelets I won't do it well no sir Elmer Mooney is not going to allow himself to be made the lap and stalker grow falls oh gee you mean you're not going to go with Miss Bixby tonight that's exactly what I mean she's gonna be real unhappy I wear that dare loincloth I'll be twice as unhappy but this means a lot to miss Bixby can help you get back on my rounds friendship is one thing but making a certain cool to yourself is another golly what I tell him poor miss Bixby she do she's gotta have a chief well no two ways about it I'll just have to find somebody to take her afternoon miss Bixby I just come by cause you come by to get your costume I come by to tell you right here I go get it for you hold on there I didn't come by for no costume I come to tell you I can't go with you tonight you can't go my brother over in Lakewood was suddenly took sick and I've got to take care of him but what am I gonna do I know it's awful late to let you know but you'll find somebody else wait a minute Elmer Mooney I happen to know you ain't got any brothers did I say brother I meant my cousin yes come over and take care of me take care of you I thought he was the one who was sick did I say he was sick I meant me yep I'm I'm the one who's sick you don't look sick to me looks are mighty deceiving Mr. Bixby now that ain't all this deceiving you're as healthy as you've ever been even that ain't saying very much now let's have the truth well if you gotta know I'm gonna be sick tonight oh you ain't even making sense Elmer how can you tell now you're gonna be sick tonight I always get a warning in advance ain't no use fighting it either there it is you realize you're leaving me high and dry don't you can't help it ain't my fault I got this sickness coming on coming on faster and faster well there goes running there now what do I do what's the matter you look funny Mr. Mooney ain't gonna take me to the installation oh well that's what I came to tell you oh a ball is silly how'd you find out he told me how'd you find out he was just here told him he'd look swollen that costume but he just wouldn't believe him and his sickness why couldn't he be man enough to tell me the real costume what about the costume I told Mr. Mooney what he was wearing tonight he got all upset oh so that's the reason said he'd be the laughing stock of grow falls but nobody ever objected to the loincloth before I even told him about the tube racists guess he was expecting to wear more than that my own installation ruin I'm sorry miss Bixby I didn't mean to scare him off of course you didn't child oh anyway it's water under the bridge now problem is who am I going to get that's what I've been working on I asked the mailman when he's married went down the filling station but Mr. Rogers said he wouldn't get dressed up like an Indian if it paid him well you tried honey you can't do more than that yes no pop in the office mm-hmm hey I got an idea and if you don't have anything to worry about me ask you something naturally what well it's a kind of a what you call a hypo a hypo a hypo something question hypothetical yeah I guess that's it or anyway if there was a family there was somebody in it that everybody loved and she was in trouble when they help miss Bixby you've got me completely confused as usual is this a hypothetical mrs. Bixby or our mrs. Bixby hypo and this imaginary person's in trouble mm-hmm shouldn't everybody do everything they can to help her certainly they should everybody in this imaginary family loves her very much and you can tell her I said so she pop thanks nothing of it you want to tell miss Bixby or shall I tell her what that you're gonna take her to the installation what well then you say what I said no such thing and you know it pop what you're gonna do mr. Mooney is not gonna go and she hasn't anybody else well can she ask around some place but the party's tonight it's too late what's the matter with mr. Mooney is he sick no he just doesn't want to go why you wouldn't be interested in this reason that's where you're wrong I'm hanging on your every word what made mr. Mooney change his mind the loincloth well no wonder I don't blame him a bit and now you come to me and after beating around the bush for five minutes you ask me to wear it oh no not me but you look so good in it part that's your opinion I don't happen to share it I refuse to make a spectacle of myself running around in an oversized handkerchief I don't happen to be an Indian when we go to the beach all your wears a pair of trunks the installation is not being held at the beach but pop wouldn't at least try the loincloth on the answer is no absolutely definitely no turn around father I told you you had the build for it you look wonderful never mind the soft soap I look ridiculous and you know it no you don't Bob you look very good you'll be the hit of the party oh no I won't because I'm not going I don't know why I let myself be talking to putting this on in the first place but I'm going straight upstairs and take it off she pop you can't do that oh I can't huh watch me but all week father you've been saying that mrs. Bixby's installation is a family project and you're the only one who hasn't done anything yet well maybe so but this is asking too much it seems to me that I heard someone say before the weeks over you'll be begging me to help well we're begging you that's right throw my words back at me is getting so a man can't open his mouth without without putting his foot in it father there was no way out you've got to do this for mrs. Bixby well I don't mind taking her but why can't I wear more clothes because father this costume is traditional it's also chilly I got an idea pop you know the red flannel underwear you wear when you go ice skating and put that on underneath the loincloth well that's a good suggestion Bob it'll keep you warm the answer is no absolutely definitely no turn around father I like the effect better without the red flannels mmm aesthetically speaking yes but this way he's a little more dressed I know but he doesn't look much like an Indian chief anymore I don't feel like one either I'm going back upstairs and they go off this ridiculous outfit and forget the whole thing but you can't do that father you promise I didn't promise to provide the sisters of Minnehaha with an evening of laughs when next you see me I shall be wearing trousers I'll probably never take them off again as long as I live pop what you want mrs. Bixby's whole evening spoiled well of course I don't oh all right stop making me feel like a heel I'll go and I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time too I'll bet they said the same thing to Joan of Arc as they were tying her to the stake just one thing though now that you're wearing the red flannels your your face looks awfully pale I got an idea we'll make pop's face up so it matches the red flannel the answer is no absolutely definitely no for a G up here don't forget the back of his neck is he talking off yet Barbara well he's not as red as the flannels yet but he's getting there hey what's that trickling down the back of my neck I'm sorry pop got too much water on the sponge I guess and what is this stuff anyway red ink oh honestly father no some makeup I use when I played Pocahontas's father in the Thanksgiving play what do I look like Barbara I mean truthfully oh interesting you can take the towel off now pop I'm through I wish I was hmm I have to admit it cheap you did a good job you sure did feels like I was wearing a mud pack gee I was just thinking too bad I can't dress up like an Indian and go with you you can take my place you could go as as little chief get father in soup oh my goodness who's that oh oh doctor oh for a second I didn't recognize you that's the first ray of hope I've had maybe nobody at the installation will recognize me either you look wonderful Mrs. Bixby you like it Barbara very much you'll be the best dressed mini ha ha your large has ever had she must be you look like a real princess oh do I Jeep doctor I can't tell you how grateful I am for your going with me I know how you hate the idea no no I don't not at all I simply feel a trifle self-conscious after all I've never gone to the social gathering in my underwear before I guess we're all ready to go all right Jeep will you get my coat you can't wear a coat pop why not it's cool outside I'm not going like this oh don't worry doctor I got a blanket for you here what you you expect me to all right I'll put it around your shoulders father I'll never forgive that mr. Mooney that coward I have half mine to find another milkman one will be a little more cooperative well let's get out of here you two have a good time and don't worry about getting home early I'll stay with Peggy and Jeep until you get back night pop if anybody wants to know who painted your face don't forget the time that was made don't look so unhappy father you'll be the most attractive man in the place and the only one is there a backdoor to this hall we can sneak into well there is not we're going up the front steps like everybody else well I just thought I'd ask one thing I forgot to tell you doctor when last year's mini ha ha hands me the warm pump belt that's when I make my speech then I hand the warm pump belt to you and you got to make a little speech too no well it ain't a real speech doctor just a few and no absolutely definitely no did you make the speech last night pop yes what you say I don't remember a single word the whole evening is just one unpleasant memory let's talk about something else she or she even going to tell me about the party well how can I it was one long never felt more ridiculous in my life people staring at me all night you know something those red flannels itch things I go through for this family hey you didn't wash all the makeup off pop there's still someone your right ear I left that there purposely a reminder to confine my future insanity is to the privacy of my own home no they've got a picture of you and Mrs. Bixby on the page oh no now everybody in town will be laughing at me oh how dare they publicize my disgrace I'll never leave it down I ought to sue that editor that knuckleheaded an income poop but it's a very good picture for me I'll bet it is Robert Allison doctor and part-time Indian chief I do not very well I'll cut it out and put it in my scrapbook well hey well well you're going with a picture don't you think I want to see it too but but you just say all you know how pop is when he's upset well it really is a very good picture father well let me see well gee it is a good picture you look terrific pot well it isn't too bad is it and listen to what the paper says about you dr. Robert Allison one of our fair city's younger medical men play chief running there to mrs. Henrietta Bixby's mini ha ha and carried the whole thing off beautifully he looked every inch the Indian brave the handsomest chief the lodges managed to snag in 22 years of installations wait pop aren't you proud oh well who cares what the newspapers say I read some more Peggy the traditional chief's costume was augmented for the occasion by another garment which shall remain nameless a ye editor applauds dr. Allison's good sense and foresight he will probably be the first chief who doesn't wind up with a bad case of influenza oh that is right young fellow I was looking up sometime my goodness that phone's been ringing ever since we got up this morning by the way mrs. Bixby have you seen the morning paper have I seen it I just called up and asked him to send over 10 more copies oh good idea leave a couple in the office for the patients can I have one to take to school pop well I don't see why not I'll take this one for my scrapper landscape dr. you wouldn't believe all the nice things everybody's saying about you really oh half the lodges called up already to congratulate me and bringing you and and to ask you to the picnic this summer well I think that could be arranged I never saw anybody makes it a big hit before and in that speech you thought up on the spur of the moment everybody loved it what did you say father oh a little of this and that but what I don't remember anyway pop we're sure proud of you we certainly are and there ain't no doubt about it it was the most successful installation any mini ha ha ever had well that just goes to prove that if you accept a social obligation don't make a fuss about it if you go into it with the right attitude and spirit you're bound to come out all right my son jeep was created and written by water black and William Hendrick and directed by Dan Sutter tonight's cast featured Lynn Allen as Barbara Miller John laser as Peggy and Leona Powers as mrs. Bixby with Cameron Andrews and introduced young Martin Houston as 10-year-old Jeep starring in the role of doc is one of America's finest actors and most versatile comedians Donald Cook currently starring in the Broadway hit the moon is blue and now this is Fred Collins inviting you to be with us again next week same time same station for another transcribe visit with radio's number one family the Allison's of Grove Falls and my son jeep tonight it's the Phil Harris Alice face show on NBC