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starring tommy reddig as jeff miller

jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

and of course

lassie

come on

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come on

stay

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okay come on

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you're having entirely too much fun come

on now once more and good

okay come on

okay lassie once more come on

morning ellen

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play

oh you would turn up in a time like this

hi clay hi yourself what have you been

doing to your mother my son seemed to

think i needed to have a little fun but

i didn't need to be trounched on well

that's exactly what you do need

to be trounced on

no

more playing less work i've been

thinking about it

oh sorry girl

she knows he always brings something for

her

that's funny

and i've never really noticed how small

you are

i never realized you were quite so tall

as a matter of fact i would say you were

just tall enough

tall enough for what

follow me

well what can i do jeff

your mother's an irresistible woman

looks crooked doesn't it

sure does well it isn't

must be the house that's crooked

either the floor slopes down and the

ceiling slopes up something

well i think we can move that rod and

look straight maybe you can not i

you know what you really need here is a

big picture window

just tell me the size you want and i'll

put it in

and then outside

a flower garden

no

a great barber you know ever since i was

a kid i wanted a great barber well think

how it beat it after a hard day's work

to sit out there and watch the sun go

down

you know well just a few changes this

room could be lovely

well that doorway

it should be white

and on this wall

a fieldstone fireplace

oh

play you're dreaming

she needs a man around the house someone

handy with tools

oh hello mr miller

hello clay

i guess i sort of got carried away

well i think if i just raise this an

inch or two it'll look straight

george i do that as soon as i got a

chance

oh i know dear justin clay's taller

that's all

did you want something dad

no

no

well how does that look oh that's fine

oh thanks clay

hello i'd like you to do something for

me

well a week from saturday's my birthday

i'll bet you want mom to bake your cake

well not exactly jeff

i do want your mother to help me

celebrate it

ellen how would you like to go dancing

in the capital city

and we can have dinner at the cherry

tree inn

i haven't been to the cherry tree inn

since

oh no play i couldn't of course you

could

well not only that but i haven't danced

in ages

and isn't it time you did

would be nice

will you think about it

all

right well i better get going i promise

matt brockway give him a hand with a

grainge report

i'll fool you

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so long jeff

see if you can't talk your mom to having

some of that fun you recommended

goodbye clay

thanks for fixing the curtains

come on sweetie let's dance

oh come on

i thought you had ironing to do and

cookies debate that can wait a little

you like dancing once you get the hang

of it oh come on

boy thank you lassie

oh you dance divinely

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look at her jeff she's better than i am

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jeff

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that was a very rude thing to do

i'm talking to you jeff

what's got into you

nothing

what is it jan

i want to know

jeff

you were acting goofy

goofy

yeah with clay

oh

well

maybe i was acting a little bit goofy

but we all do sometimes don't we

not you

well now wait a minute i'm not so

different and it isn't every day that i

get an invitation to go dance and you're

going to

you want to go i know you do

what's going on here

mom's going out with clay horton

they're gonna have dinner together and

they're going dancing together and

they're going all the way to capital

city

now

is that so dreadful

hasn't it occurred to either one of you

that i might enjoy doing something

different for just one evening

i never thought i'd live to save the day

one day

no matter

no matter

well it's a good deal of matter

what's got into the two of you

now i love both of you more than

anything in life but you don't own me

i've got a right to

to think for myself

now i'm going to tell you something

i hadn't intended going with clay

because i didn't want to start anything

but now i am going

i'm going because you two obviously have

to learn that i am not a crutch who

happens to be around for you to lean on

whenever you feel like leaning

you go fishing when you want to fish

and you go to the grange meeting

whenever you feel like gabbing

well

i'm going dancing because i want to

dance

oh play i'm having a little trouble with

my two men

but i'm going with you saturday night

wonderful

but what's the trouble

well it's so simple and yet so

complicated

they're jealous

i expected that from jeff

he went tearing out of here like a

tornado and dad followed him well i'm

not worried about mr miller ellen but i

would like to come out and talk to jeff

you mind

i don't know what would you say

well i i can tell him something a

knuckle of mine told me when i was a kid

it might clear things up boy

all right

but don't be surprised if you don't get

much cooperation

don't worry

all right

thanks clay bye

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hi jeff

hi

well i heard some big bass jump in the

lake as i came by

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i guess they do buy better at the

sundown don't they

yeah i guess so

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sorry lassie forgot about you

so you're sore with me too

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you shouldn't be sorry though jeff

you said yourself you wanted your mother

to have some fun

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jeff

have you ever thought that

well at all

kids and grownups

we all have responsibilities

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well take yourself for instance

you have chores to do

you take care of lassie and you do your

homework

well you understand that kind of

responsibility

right

i guess so

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well there's another kind too

there's a responsibility of growing up

learning to be independent

well that's that's learning to be on

your own

you see nobody can really amount to much

if they have to depend on other people

all the time

your mother has a big responsibility to

jeff

when the time comes for you to be on

your own she

well she has to be able to let you go

that isn't easy

animals birds

will they know when it's time to become

independent

but sometimes people like to hold on

that's not good

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it's like using water wings after you've

learned how to swim

it's kind of silly isn't it

i guess so

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you think it over

after a while it'll begin to make sense

so long jack

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uh

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ever since he put that ad in the paper

we don't see heidly harem except for

breakfast and supper

he's working

we're tall

i don't know exactly but it must be

important to him so i'm willing to wait

to find out

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hi jeff hi

look what came out on the bus from

capital city what is it just something i

bet you never seen

flowers

just an orchid that's all i'm getting 50

cents to deliver to your mom

from clay horton

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ain't seen you looking so pretty since

the day you got mad

thank you dear

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that play

betty robbed the county fund to buy you

that fancy posie

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you play guests here you better behave

or you're going to find yourself

drinking his help in lemonade instead of

blueberry cordial

you're all dressed up like you were

going to a wedding

as a matter of fact the last time i wore

this dress i did go to a wedding tutti

lipton's

and now she has four-year-old twins

darling i baked you a coconut cake and

there's a fine bone for lassie okay

everything's already on the stove

i'm sure you can enjoy your dinner

hello where's everybody

in here playing

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ellen you look lovely thank you sir

and happy birthday

thank you ma'am

hello jeff

hi

mr miller hello

classy

well you ready to go

we want to drink your health first

grass has some cordial we've been saving

for a special occasion

i'm just gonna have some pink lemonade

i don't want any mom

right now that is i have to gather the

eggs eggs are all gathered boy and

candled i thought maybe after summer

tonight you and me could play yourself

some chickens you better be on your

guard dad jeff beat me three games

straight last time

later mom

i have to look at my turtles phyllis has

a cold

all right jeff

you can wish clay a happy birthday right

now then

happy birthday sir

thank you very much

hello fussing about this here cordial

stuff we're gonna have it let's not

light her by the whale

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would you like me to set the things on

the table before we go oh go on get your

commission to frazzle my nerves

you take good care of her you here bear

in mind you're up for a re-election

paulov

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he must be nursing his turtles he should

eat pretty soon i'll scare myself

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so

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come on boy

you and me you're gonna put on the

feedback

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i'd give a dollar to know what you're

thinking

huh

sorry you came

oh clay of course not

what's eating you jeff

nothing

it might be nothing

all right i'll tell you

i gotta make me a lot of money so as i

can get independent and take care of

myself

when it's time to go away

you fixing to go away

after one day so

so mom can lead her own life and

not be bothered with me

come here jeff

now you listen sharp to me

the time ain't ever coming when your mom

won't want to be bothered with you

not unless she gets married or something

look jeff i've been thinking that

maybe you and me have been

jumping ahead of ourselves just because

you're always aiming to have an evening

out

now i've been thinking too that

maybe we've been

selfish you see you're a young woman

i'm an old woman

and maybe your mom needs someone her own

age

same as you need booking

you've got top spot in your mars heart

and made anything or anybody can ever

change that

you really think so

i know so

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how'd you like to wet your whistle with

some of that pink lemonade swell

what's bothering you william

oh i

keep seeing jeff's face why he looked

when he went out of the house i don't

worry about him ellen he'll be all right

you know there are rules when you're out

in a date

oh

number one is you forget about

everything else

all right

i'll try

good

oh no oh

a chaperone

we've got a chaperone well i know when

i'm licked

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well no move

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that's four shoe shines you only i'll

have to go to church steady to collect

them you want a chance to get even sure

set

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it's mom and clay

one thunder brought you back so soon

i suggest you ask your furry friend

she went with us she went with and came

between us

uh

oh now i got it just been as twittery as

a bluejay i'll go and touch him oh no

wait a minute i want to fix some food

for this poor starving officer of the

law first we'll deal with jeff later

by the way mr miller

where is the perpetrator of this crime

take this to clay girl

oh this isn't for me lassie

from the culprit

suppose i dare open it

it could be a bomb it is not it's a

swallow three-cell flashlight and

oh

come all the way in jeff

i'm sorry i spoiled things

well jeff it seems like the miller

family wasn't quite ready for your

mother's first date we are now aren't we

grams we are

clay do you think you could take mom out

dancing next saturday night her dress

looks so pretty and maybe your flower

will still be okay if she puts it in the

ice box

oh you think so ellen well i think it

might

then it's all set uh will you promise to

keep this four-footed private detective

home i promise

then it's all set well clay we got a

nice cake with a couple of pieces out of

it i could rustle up a candle and put on

the top we could at least give you some

sort of a birthday party

there's some ice cream in the ice house

i'll go get it come on lastly

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well you've sure got you in there lassie

all right

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you