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starring tommy redig as jeff miller

jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

and of course

lassie

mom look what i found the loft the

millions drop taking pictures

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i didn't know we had all these tropican

pictures why didn't somebody tell me the

word is stereotypical and i didn't know

either

what's so funny

look

oh

my grandmother and grandfather used to

ride a tandem bicycle like this

i thought you were helping me clean out

the loft oh he found some old

stereotypical pictures all of those

things

i thought i threw them away years ago

why would you throw them out they're

king because they're a blame time waster

that's why

people can't leave well enough alone

they're always inventing new

contraptions

that new contraption happens to be 50

years old if it's a day well it was a

time waster then and it's a time waster

now here he is supposed to help me and

what's he doing looking and wasting the

time

that's enough for now jeff we look at

him after seven oh

what are you complaining about

you got it kind of easy around here when

i was your age i know you worked from

sun up to sundown you're done talking i

did

for some reason or other you never stop

to consider that times have changed

since you were a boy well it take the

time of this change so much

it's the boys i'm trying to protect them

from growing up useless

if i ever thought a little harmless

amusement like looking through a

stereotyping viewer would make jeff

useless

you think not eh

well i'm gonna tell you something i've

never told you before

you remember my cousin alf

city slicker

yeah that's the one

how did you know because you've told me

about him a dozen times

he ran away from the farm when he was

18. he went to paris he studied painting

and he married an artist model

he sounds fascinating well here's

something i didn't tell you oh

the reason alf went bad was because of

that right there that was alps ruination

i don't quite understand

he got ideas from that he sit in the

house to live long day looking at

pictures instead of working

but he turned out to be an artist don't

you think artists work

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wow

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the grand canyon again

gosh it looks just like you could jump

right down in it

you've already seen it

oh

it's beautiful

well that's not for one evening

just once more mom oh no enough is

enough we've been through them four

times if you want to look through them

again tomorrow you may put everything

back in the box jeff

just one hour and 15 minutes

what

i said one hour and 15 minutes wasted oh

dad stop it was very interesting gosh

gramps you would have had fun looking

too and just tell me one thing i could

learn just one

what do you learn when you play checkers

with matt brockway

no comparison checkers is a game of

skill

this is harmless amusement a little

amusement never hurt anyone

see who it is

evening jeff

hi

you lizzy something for us well no not

rightly but i ain't to leave it here if

nobody's got any objections

uh

where is everybody mom and gramps are in

the parlor what is it well reckon i

better take this in the parlor then your

mall won't want it cluttering up the

kitchen

mr hubbard's got a package even ellen

george how how are you what you got

there well it ain't for you george it's

for matt brockway come down by truck

from his brother's place in creston

where'd you bring it here for well you

know the brockways are away dad they're

visiting bertie's folks in victor falls

figured as much house and barn all

locked up so if it ain't going to be no

trouble i'd like to leave it here save

me a trip oh of course no trouble at all

put it on the table here jeff take this

off here

what is it mr hubbard well now jeff it's

something mighty special yes sir mighty

special can we say it well no

i don't see why not

now you just get a hold of yourself

because your eyes are sure gonna pop

you all set

a television set i'd never have guessed

it matt brock away by that don't touch

it no his brother got a new model with

one of them big screens so he sent this

here one down the mat is kind of a gift

boy wait till porky sees it what good is

that going to do ain't no television in

calverton well they say you can tune in

capital city pretty good whether you can

or not it's nice to know that progress

is coming to calverton another year and

everybody in town will be owning one

dang foolishness

well i got to be going

take the pad are we jeff put the cover

back on

this

don't come with it it's mine we ain't

gonna let us set up here naked are you

ain't no more naked in that radio i'll

find a cover for it well

bye now bye i'll see you out there

do you want to get electrocuted how can

i get electrocuted if it's not even

plugged in well i don't know but keep

your hands off

can't we plug it in and try it no we

can't why not because it doesn't belong

to us jeff that ain't the only reason we

know what the other reason is and we

won't discuss it this late at night well

i'm going to bed good night good night

good night

oh you mustn't let gramps attitude

disturb you jeff it just takes a long

time for him to get used to new things

but why what's he got against television

golly television

oh

he hasn't anything against television

really it's just that it's new and

gramps is funny about new things oh it

was the same with the telephone and the

radio and you know how long i've been

trying to get an electric refrigerator

well i have to wait that long to get

television till i have a beard down to

here

no sit down to here

come on off to bed we have an early

dentist appointment

come on

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so

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i'm trying to get it working

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my

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i'm

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well

don't look at me

i wasn't doing nothing i was sleeping

peaceful as a lamb never mind you can go

back to bed now you too jeff

i'm sorry

i never thought he'd sneak behind our

backs like that he wouldn't have to

sneak if you weren't such an old stick

in the mud good night

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stack of rest of the apple crates

spraying equipment needs fixing

entire nation is my tobacco

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what's matter

you try and tell me you're interested in

that contraption get away from me it's

caused enough trouble already

you know i got no truck for things like

that

besides we got work to do come on

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can't get nothing but noise on anyway

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huh

now if you mention this to a single soul

now

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you can have ants for only 99.50 down

you can have any one of marty martin's

special blue ribbon new car guarantee

automobiles

see marty martin tomorrow or call today

cheap enough you know what you're

talking about

5050 wwcr tv

stay tuned for the midday matinee

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what's the matter with these

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oh

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it's busted for sure now

oh lassie

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well come on we got to get over to chris

and get these things fixed before they

come home

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anybody here

hello hello

this electric repair shop uh like the

sign says out there i wouldn't lie well

i got a vision set here needs fixing

vision said eh

looks like you never seen one before

well i ain't seen many of them

what seems to be wrong with her she's

busted

well i figured that

you wouldn't have lugged her in here

nice dog you got there

never mind the dog can you fix this

contraption well now that all depends as

i said before i ain't seen many of them

the sign out there says electric a

little bit

i know what it says i put it up myself

well what's wrong with it

yeah that's that's hard to say

well

maybe you could tell better about it if

you looked inside instead out

yeah i suppose it would huh

as far as i'm concerned i never was too

sharp in this electrical stuff well the

sign out there says it

sign says electrical repairs

now there's all kinds of repairs

house wiring clock fixing

heaters appliances all i'm asking you

can you as i was saying

is all kinds

now as far as i'm concerned i i

specialize in lamps well ain't labs

electric oh no sir no sir most of miss

kerosene you know i i change them to

electric

now if you wanted this uh vision machine

changed into a lamp are you crazy or

something why would i want a vision set

changed into a lamp you'd be surprised

the number of things that are being

turned to lamps these days you take mrs

paddleford's grandfather i'm making a

lamp out of him oh no oh i ain't

finished it yet

yeah yeah

yeah when i put a shade on his it's

going to look mighty pretty well i don't

want no lamps made into nothing all i

want is this vision set fix now can you

fix it to catch it yeah i guess it'll do

no harm to take a look at his innards

now will it

well are you gonna look are you gonna

stand there john i got no time for john

you know that's the trouble with people

these days they ain't got no time for

nothing now it was only yesterday that i

was saying

pete wentworth i said pete

pete there is no good of you

um

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you've been two hours

be right there

about time

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well

and she's working you sure

six dollars and two cents worth sure six

dollars and two cents probably could

have bought a new one for that

you know what was wrong with it

how should i know that's why it cost six

dollars and two cents

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what's the two cents for

i scratched my finger fixing her medical

supplies

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still haven't told me what you did today

no

nothing much

things you worked from the minute we

left until the minute we got home

i'll get it

hello

oh hello matt

it's matt brockway

yes cal hubbard brought it last night

oh that's very sweet of you

yes we certainly will

oh that's fine thank you so much matt

goodbye

you know about the television set that's

why he called well

nothing wrong with it

what's he worrying about

as good as new

whatever gave you the idea that matt was

worried

nothing

as a matter of fact

they won't be back until tomorrow night

and he'd like us to use the set honest

honesty

after supper

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now

just sit down and

i'll turn around it's all right to go

how do you know so much about it

well uh uh what's to know about it

jeff you hang on to lassie

why because i don't want to jumping at

it again i'm not going to

well

i'll switch it on

oh

it actually works

that ain't nothing it gets better as it

warms up the sparrow

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she's upside down

why that piece of animus pole cat i knew

he cheated me

he charged me six dollars and two cents

to fix it and here we gotta stand in the

house to see the picture why i live

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now dad uh please don't lose your temper

i'm sure it's just a matter of turning

something around well i'll turn him

around or inside out if he don't fix

that right now you've got plenty of time

the broccolis won't be back until late

tonight if he can't fix it take it to

someone else

mom do you think maybe while we're in

preston

i could get gramps to look at a

television set for us

i think maybe we could

come on get a move object come on

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where's lassie

oh she's waiting for that dog to come

out again if we're going to get a

television she's got to learn that

there's just pictures

are we going to have a television grams

i said if

it's better or nothing

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