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00:00 [music]
00:19 You have a date with the angel starring Betty White.
00:25 Bill Williams as Gus Angel, presented by Plymouth.
00:32 Star of the forward look and the Plymouth dealers of America.
00:42 The time, ten months after Vicki and Gus Angel were married.
00:46 The plot, the telephone's a wonderful invention.
00:49 The characters, four wrong numbers.
00:53 [music]
00:58 Boy, Dad, you really ought to read this book.
01:01 It gives you some good ideas on how to run the store.
01:03 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:09 Good morning, Howard, Billy.
01:11 Hello, Miss Spear.
01:13 Getting ready for the weekend, people, I see.
01:16 Yeah, there should be a few up this afternoon, tomorrow.
01:20 Certainly is a nice day.
01:21 Lovely.
01:23 The most fabulously unsanitary way of merchandising.
01:26 The city people like the village quaint,
01:29 and there's nothing quainter than selling pickles out of a barrel
01:32 and putting money in my quaint little cash register.
01:37 Oh, Dad, that idea about city people just completely flips me.
01:41 Well, they think of us as hillbillies,
01:43 why, they've got to take the consequences.
01:45 Your father's right, Billy.
01:48 I keep telling Mark, Jr., you may be a big letter man
01:52 and an honor student up here,
01:54 but to the people from Los Angeles,
01:56 you're just another hillbilly.
01:58 Oh, if I hear that word "hillbilly" again, I'm just going to--
02:03 Oh, by the way, Mark tells me he's taking you to the dance Saturday night.
02:07 Yes, ma'am.
02:08 Oh, that's good.
02:14 Hello, Mr. Stanger.
02:16 How are you, folks?
02:18 How are you, sir?
02:19 Oh, about the same.
02:20 Let's see, you were up here, oh, four weekends past, wasn't it?
02:23 Three.
02:25 Mr. and Mrs. Angel, the shady rest cabin.
02:27 Oh, now I place you.
02:29 How's everything in San Berdue?
02:31 Well, fine, I guess.
02:33 We're from Los Angeles.
02:35 Oh, sure, now I place you.
02:39 I'm going to want two dozen eggs.
02:41 Two dozen eggs.
02:42 And a couple of pounds of bacon.
02:44 Bacon.
02:45 And six quarts of milk.
02:46 Six quarts.
02:47 The other two couple come up with you?
02:49 No, just our nephew.
02:50 Oh.
02:53 He's a teenager.
02:55 You better get 12 quarts.
02:57 I have a teenager at home, and I know.
02:59 I'm Margaret Spear from the other side of the lake.
03:02 Oh, hi, Mrs. Spear.
03:03 This is my husband, Gus Angel.
03:05 How do you do?
03:06 Oh, and this is my daughter, Billy, otherwise known as know-it-all Spank.
03:11 Oh, hi.
03:13 And then I'm going to--
03:16 Well, honey, look, pickles and brine.
03:18 I haven't seen that since I was a kid.
03:20 Let's remember to get some.
03:26 Now, will I?
03:27 Cut it out, huh?
03:30 Our nephew's visiting us from Mississippi, and he's so excited about being up in the mountains.
03:35 He says while he's up here, he's going to study to be a hillbilly.
03:42 Is that so?
03:44 Anything else, Mrs. Angel?
03:46 Oh, some pancake mix.
03:47 Better make it two.
03:48 Yeah.
03:49 And a pound of butter.
03:51 Butter.
03:54 And a pound of chocolate.
03:55 Now, Wheeler.
03:57 Boy, whoever invented this sure wasn't any Edison, but it worked.
04:00 Look, Uncle Gus, when you pull this door here, it hits the little bell.
04:05 My trouble is, it does it on the way back, too.
04:09 Leave the door alone, huh?
04:11 Oh, here.
04:12 Sorry, Uncle Gus.
04:13 Don't forget the milk, Aunt Vicki.
04:14 Don't worry.
04:15 Mr. Spangler's rounding up the herd.
04:17 Boy, this place is sure a blast.
04:19 Oh, hi.
04:20 Hi.
04:21 I think that's about all, Mr. Spangler.
04:23 Oh, you mentioned pickles.
04:25 Hey, mister, all your fish are dead.
04:32 Come on.
04:33 Soup.
04:37 I'll take them in the jar, please.
04:40 Hey, did you ever see so much junk?
04:41 This is like a real young belly stower.
04:43 You know what this is, Aunt Vicki?
04:45 A butter churn.
04:46 And look at that fat old rat standing over there.
04:52 What's the matter, Wheeler?
04:53 Well, I meant the potbelly stove.
04:55 Not that fat.
04:56 Not that lady.
04:57 Not that lady.
04:59 Never mind.
05:00 Just never mind, Wheeler.
05:03 Would you put that on the charge, please, Mr. Spangler?
05:06 Yes, of course.
05:11 I'm sure he didn't mean that you, uh--
05:14 well, you know how thoughtless teenagers are.
05:16 A lot depends on their upbringing, Mr. Angel.
05:20 Howard, here's my list.
05:22 Will you please send them over in the morning?
05:24 Yes, ma'am.
05:35 I just don't know what to say.
05:37 Well, honest, mister, I meant the potbelly stove.
05:39 Not that fat.
05:40 Forget it.
05:44 Oh, hello, Mr. and Mrs. Jansen.
05:46 I'll be with you in a minute.
05:48 Hey, they used to be city folks.
05:51 Live here all the year round now.
05:53 They like it up here.
05:54 We know 'em.
05:55 Do?
05:56 We were at a party at their house once.
05:58 Well, honey, they wouldn't remember us.
06:00 Sure they will.
06:01 I sold them quite a policy.
06:03 Hey, what are you whispering about?
06:06 Hello, Mr. Jansen.
06:08 Why, hello there.
06:11 Look who's here.
06:13 Well, for heaven's sake.
06:16 How have you been?
06:17 Well, fine.
06:19 How about you?
06:20 Couldn't be better.
06:22 That's a small world, isn't it?
06:25 It certainly is.
06:27 Mr. Angel was just saying-- he said, Vicki, he said,
06:31 I'll bet you haven't seen the Jansen since their party
06:34 last June.
06:35 And I said, that's right.
06:37 And I'll bet you haven't seen Mr. Jansen since you sold him
06:40 that insurance policy.
06:41 Gus?
06:42 And I'll bet I've told Paul a thousand times we must have
06:45 Gus and Vicki Angel up to the lodge.
06:47 Haven't I, Paul?
06:49 Practically every day, Catherine.
06:58 This is our nephew, Wheeler.
07:00 Why.
07:01 Oh, your nephew, huh?
07:03 How old are you, Wheeler?
07:04 Well, I'm 16, sir.
07:06 Oh, how nice.
07:09 Are you going to the welcome dance tomorrow night, Wheeler?
07:12 We haven't even heard about the dance.
07:14 Wheeler hasn't even seen our cabinies yet.
07:16 Put three tickets in with their groceries, Mrs. Bangler.
07:19 Oh, you simply must come.
07:22 Well, that's very nice of you.
07:23 We'd love to-- I mean, you want to give your uncle a hand?
07:26 That's very sweet of you.
07:27 Well, it's very nice to see you.
07:28 Bye.
07:29 By the way, where are you staying?
07:32 Oh, we're at 17 Ponderosa Road.
07:34 Bye.
07:35 See you.
07:36 Thanks again for the tickets.
07:37 Bye.
07:38 Bye, Mrs. Bangler.
07:39 Bye.
07:40 Oh, how are you?
07:42 How are you?
07:52 Well, here we are.
07:55 Boy, this place is as rusty as you said it was.
08:00 Rusty?
08:03 Oh, I'm glad you like it up here, Wheeler.
08:05 We were a little afraid you might get bored.
08:07 Me?
08:08 Why, this is the kind of junk I like.
08:10 Did you ever start to think that city living makes us a bunch of flabby misfits?
08:14 Well, now, take you and Uncle Gus.
08:15 Thanks a lot.
08:19 You're doing something about it.
08:20 You bought this place up here in the mountains so you wouldn't get any flabbier than you already are.
08:25 I'm always saying something I don't mean.
08:28 We understand, Wheeler.
08:30 Say, did the Jetsons strike you as acting a little peculiar?
08:34 Now that you mention it, yes.
08:36 That's a telephone.
08:38 I know, but it's broke.
08:39 The numbers fell off.
08:42 That's a party line.
08:43 You just tell the operator, whoever you want.
08:45 Boy, these hillbillies up here are smarter than I thought.
08:48 Down home, we have to dial.
08:54 Honey, I don't want to lecture you, but I do want you to understand something.
08:59 Your Uncle Gus and I come up here every three or four weeks,
09:02 and we just have to get along with the people who live up here all year round.
09:05 So, in case you have to go to the store for something,
09:09 would you try to think a little before you point at somebody and say,
09:12 "Look at that fat old wreck over there."
09:15 I meant the stove, honest Aunt Vicki.
09:18 I know you did, but you just don't think before you talk.
09:23 See, your Uncle Gus and I believe that the permanent residents up here
09:27 resent the weekenders a little bit.
09:30 So we have to be real careful.
09:32 After all, these people aren't hicks or hillbillies.
09:37 Okay, end of lecture.
09:40 I dig it, Aunt Vicki.
09:42 You know, sometimes I get to thinking about me, and you're right.
09:45 My tongue starts talking before my brain finds out what's going on.
09:51 Uncle Gus, you shouldn't do that.
09:53 Well, there's an old man down home that threw his back out lifting heavy things.
09:59 What a little morale booster he is.
10:03 Wheeler explained the whole thing to me, darling.
10:05 His tongue just has a head start on his brain.
10:08 Aunt Vicki, your refrigerator ain't making any ice cubes.
10:13 That's a new invention, Wheel.
10:15 It's called an ice box.
10:17 You put ice in it and it keeps things cold.
10:19 What a brat.
10:21 Down home, we have to plug them in.
10:35 The transistors must be busting or something, Uncle Gus.
10:38 I hear voices.
10:40 That's the party line, Wheeler, and we don't butt in on conversations.
10:43 I won't.
10:44 Wheeler, we have a delicate problem up here.
10:47 I know, Uncle Gus. Aunt Vicki explained it to me.
10:50 She says the hicks up here don't like to be called hillbillies.
10:56 And the next time I see two fat old wrecks standing side by side,
10:59 I should make sure the one I point to is a stove.
11:04 That's not quite it, but you get the idea.
11:08 Maybe I ought to apologize to that lady, Uncle Gus.
11:11 I could tell her that I was pointing at the stove,
11:13 but she took up so much room.
11:15 No, no, that's not it.
11:18 Why not something smooth like, um...
11:20 Say something, Mrs. Spear, so I'll know which one of you to put the coal in.
11:24 Who've you been talking to?
11:33 Somebody.
11:35 Thank goodness.
11:36 Hello?
11:37 Hello?
11:39 Hello?
11:41 Hello?
11:43 Hello?
11:45 What are you thinking?
11:51 I was just wondering how smart it was to let Wheeler go down to the village for ice by himself.
11:56 Very smart.
11:58 It was the only way I could get you to myself.
12:03 Probably the juvenile authorities.
12:07 Hello!
12:09 How are you?
12:10 Hi, how do you do?
12:11 Oh, what a lovely place you have.
12:14 Uh-huh.
12:15 Well, we just dropped by to see if you'd like to help us decorate the canoe club tomorrow afternoon for the dance.
12:22 It's, uh, well, it's sort of a social privilege up here.
12:26 Well, I'd love to.
12:28 Get you in good with the natives.
12:31 You'll be fine.
12:33 Say, I'd like you to meet our daughter.
12:35 Oh!
12:36 Come in here, honey.
12:37 Come in, Christine.
12:39 Nobody's going to find you, Christine.
12:47 This is Mr. and Mrs. Angel.
12:49 Straighten up, dear.
12:52 We're very happy to meet you, Christine.
12:55 What do you say to Mrs. Angel?
12:57 Thank you.
12:59 Too bad Wheeler isn't here.
13:01 He went down to the village.
13:03 Wheeler's there, nephew, dear.
13:05 Won't you all sit down for goodness sake?
13:07 Oh, no, I'm sorry, but we really can't stay.
13:10 Well, are we going to see you at the dance, too, Christine?
13:12 Well, she doesn't want to go because she doesn't have a date.
13:15 Why doesn't Wheeler take Christine?
13:18 Why, fine, sure.
13:24 I don't know what his plans are.
13:26 What plans?
13:27 Wheeler doesn't know anybody up here.
13:28 He'll be happy to take you, dear.
13:30 Oh, Dixie, no!
13:32 Oh, that just sounds wonderful.
13:34 Now, I'll check with you later to find out the details.
13:37 And, oh, we really must go now.
13:39 Straighten up, dear.
13:41 What do you say to the angels?
13:43 Nice to have met you.
13:45 Nice meeting you, too, Christine.
13:47 Thanks so much.
13:48 We'll see you tomorrow, then.
13:50 Bye.
13:51 Nice to see you.
13:52 See you tomorrow.
13:53 Bye.
13:55 [door closes]
13:57 Oh, what those people are doing to that poor child.
14:05 And, honey, I know you were more or less trapped into it,
14:07 but I've learned we must never arrange dates for Wheeler.
14:11 Oh, he's a good-hearted kid.
14:12 He won't mind.
14:14 I'm thinking of Christine.
14:17 We probably point at that poor, self-conscious little thing
14:20 and tell her the kindergarten went that-a-way.
14:25 Even Wheeler has more sense than that.
14:27 Boy, this is what I call an ice cube.
14:32 I told them down there, I said,
14:36 "You hillbillies are pretty smart packing ice to throw at us."
14:40 They don't talk much, do they?
14:41 It depends on who is insulting them.
14:47 Who are the people in the big car we just left?
14:50 Those were clients--
14:51 Those were friends of your Uncle Gus's.
14:54 Did you get a good look at them?
14:55 Nope.
14:56 Looked like a lady and a man and a dog in the back seat.
14:59 Wheeler, we were wondering if you'd do us a favor.
15:11 Sure, Uncle Gus.
15:12 Hey, guess what?
15:13 What?
15:14 I'm taking Billy Spangler to the dance.
15:17 [music playing]
15:19 Just introduce yourself around.
15:29 Everybody's so friendly up here.
15:32 Oh, here's the clever one.
15:34 Ah!
15:35 Hello there.
15:36 Hi, Mrs. Spears.
15:42 Hi.
15:43 What's the matter with everybody?
15:44 I haven't even broke anything yet.
15:46 Well, whatever it is, be as friendly as you can.
15:51 Oh, Mrs. Angel.
15:56 How nice of you to come and help.
15:58 I'll get you a ladder and some pins and put you right to work.
16:01 Let's see.
16:02 I think I left the pins up on the table.
16:05 Oh.
16:06 I see you brought Wheeler.
16:08 Christine's just dying to meet him.
16:11 Oh, Mrs. Janssen.
16:12 I'm afraid Wheeler already made arrangements for tonight,
16:15 and he won't be able to take Christine to the dance.
16:18 Well, hi.
16:23 Look at that conky girl over there, Vicki.
16:25 Mrs. Janssen has some work for us to do, Wheeler.
16:32 Why don't you get the pins?
16:33 They're up on the table.
16:34 She must think she's little Bo Peep.
16:37 Well, you just go get the pins, Wheeler.
16:39 Well, you're not looking at the right one, Angel.
16:41 You're not looking at the right one, Aunt Vicki.
16:43 There, now get the pins!
16:46 Come back, Boop.
16:48 Oh, nice to see you again, Mrs. Janssen.
16:53 He just doesn't think.
16:55 He's really a wonderful boy.
16:57 What a shame it doesn't show.
17:01 Come along, Christine.
17:02 Please, Mrs. Janssen, don't be like that.
17:05 Come on, Christine.
17:07 Hi.
17:08 Is there something I could do to help, Mrs. Spear?
17:15 No, thank you.
17:17 Oh, on second thought, perhaps you'd like to do something
17:20 about making it a little warmer in here.
17:23 I'll keep talking so you'll know which stove to put the coal in.
17:35 Mrs. Spear, I was merely correcting my nephew,
17:38 and even he wasn't being malicious.
17:40 Mrs. Angel, it appears that your nephew thinks he's taking
17:45 my daughter to the dance.
17:47 Well, he invited her, and she accepted.
17:49 We hillbillies think that he had no right to ask her,
17:53 knowing he already had a date with my son.
17:56 That's right.
17:57 Well, wait a minute.
17:59 Isn't that up to her?
18:00 Here are the pins, Aunt Vicki.
18:01 Oh, may I?
18:02 Oh, there!
18:03 [laughter]
18:05 I'll get it.
18:06 [laughter]
18:08 Wheeler, I understand Billy already had a date with another boy.
18:11 Yeah, but her and me and him don't care.
18:13 But her pa, I can kind of jerk you about it.
18:15 Wheeler!
18:16 [laughter]
18:17 I think he's insecure.
18:19 Go get some more pins.
18:22 Oh, oh, excuse me, sir.
18:24 I thought you-- oh, boy.
18:26 [laughter]
18:28 Mr. Spear, I can explain this whole thing to you.
18:32 Mrs. Spear, I can explain this whole thing that you're talking about.
18:35 You see, what happened is Wheeler had never--
18:37 [laughter]
18:43 Mrs. Angel, I don't know how much of this is deliberate.
18:48 Deliberate?
18:49 You and your family seem to be going out of your way
18:52 to make things uncomfortable for the people up here.
18:55 Oh, that's not true.
18:56 We love it up here.
18:57 Well, you certainly have a strange way of showing it.
18:59 I should say you do.
19:02 It just so happens I was listening on the party line
19:04 and heard you insult the whole community.
19:07 No, I didn't.
19:08 And I assure you that never in my life have I been referred to
19:12 as a pot-bellied stool.
19:14 And I don't know why you think you have the right
19:16 to come up here and humiliate us.
19:18 We live in the mountains, but we're not hillbillies.
19:21 And furthermore, your nephew is extremely rude.
19:25 And when youngsters are rude,
19:27 they've learned it from their elders.
19:29 It rubs off.
19:30 And speaking for the whole village,
19:32 if you don't like us,
19:33 you can very well take your family and leave.
19:36 Excuse me.
19:37 It's quite obvious that you--
19:38 I know it ain't polite to talk to grown-ups like I'm going to,
19:41 but you ain't being polite to Aunt Vicki either.
19:44 Her and Uncle Gus have been trying to tell me
19:46 that you folks ain't hillbillies
19:48 and that I should be careful what I say
19:50 because it ain't polite to hurt nice people's feelings.
19:53 And I thought my Aunt Vicki was right about you folks
19:55 until now, but nice folks don't hurt people.
19:59 And there's two sides to every story.
20:02 Well, anyway, bawl me out if you want to,
20:05 but don't talk to me, Aunt Vicki,
20:07 because I think she's a-- a real lady.
20:11 Thank you, Wheeler.
20:15 Now let's get out of here.
20:17 [laughter]
20:24 [music]
20:27 [thud]
20:28 [laughter]
20:31 [music]
20:36 What happened then?
20:39 That's when the balloons went up.
20:41 [laughter]
20:43 And then I said a bunch of silly junk and we left.
20:46 Silly junk? Gus, he was--
20:49 Well, you gave him quite a blast.
20:52 Yeah, I'm sorry, Uncle Gus.
20:54 What a ridiculous mess this is.
20:57 He said he was sorry, Gus.
21:01 Listen, we're going to that dance.
21:03 We are?
21:04 You're darn right we are.
21:05 No one's going to make my family
21:06 hold up like squirrels in a tree.
21:08 Gee, Uncle Gus, you're a real crash.
21:11 [laughter]
21:12 We're going to that party
21:13 and we're going to have a good time, right, Wheeler?
21:15 Right. Right, Aunt Vicki.
21:16 Right.
21:17 I'll go change.
21:19 [music]
21:21 I want to hear one of them say just one word out of line.
21:24 That's all.
21:25 Good evening.
21:28 Uh, ladies and gentlemen, I know it's early,
21:32 but we might as well get started.
21:35 [knocking]
21:36 The dance is here.
21:37 [laughter]
21:38 As you all know, this is our welcome dance.
21:40 So you all, you rounders, pick the partner
21:43 you'd like to welcome to the village.
21:46 Let's let them down.
21:48 [music]
21:52 Welcome to the village, Mr. Angel.
21:55 [music]
22:07 Welcome to the village, Wheeler.
22:09 Come on, let's blast off.
22:11 No thanks, I can't.
22:12 Here comes your old man, your father.
22:16 Uh, Mrs. Angel?
22:18 Mr. Spangler, I'm sorry about what I said.
22:21 Oh, don't just stand there, boy.
22:22 Go on and blast off.
22:24 [laughter]
22:28 He's a nice kid.
22:30 They both are.
22:31 You know, that speech he made this afternoon
22:32 wasn't a Gettysburg address,
22:34 but it sure made us stop and think.
22:38 Welcome to the village.
22:40 [music]
22:56 [laughter]
22:57 Thank you, Mrs. Angel, thank you.
22:59 Thank you, that was great.
23:02 Oh, you were doing all right.
23:05 That's certainly right.
23:06 Oh, that was fun.
23:09 Gus, you think we ought to get Wheeler to ask Christine
23:13 for just one dance?
23:14 No, sweetheart, that's exactly what Janson expects us to do.
23:17 Client or no client, Wheeler dances with anybody he wants to.
23:21 Oh, hey, Mr. Ball, I want to get some punches.
23:23 Wheeler.
23:27 Gus.
23:30 You know, Wheeler is right.
23:31 She does dress like Little Bo Peep.
23:35 Honey, we better get over to this.
23:39 Boy, what a clunky thing to say.
23:41 That thing couldn't possibly hold more than two gallons.
23:44 It can, too, because the opaqueness of the cut glass,
23:48 well, it makes all kinds of optical illusions.
23:51 Well, maybe.
23:53 What's your name?
23:55 Chris.
23:56 Mine's Wheeler.
23:57 How come you wear those clunky clothes?
23:59 [laughter]
24:02 What's wrong with them?
24:03 Well, you look like Little Miss Muffet,
24:05 and that's a tough advice always.
24:09 Like we say down home, you can't tell a flamingo's got good looks
24:12 until it comes out of the swamp.
24:16 Do I have good looks?
24:18 Well, sure.
24:19 Wear your daddy's shirt and some blue jeans, you'd be a blast.
24:23 Still says that thing don't hold more than two gallons.
24:25 Sure it does.
24:26 [music playing]
24:29 [music playing]
24:33 [music playing]
24:59 Welcome to the village, Mrs. Angel.
25:02 [music playing]
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25:39 [music playing]
25:42 Got a date with an angel, going to meet her at 7.
25:48 Got a date with an angel, and I'm on my way to heaven.
25:53 [music playing]
25:56 [music playing]
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26:29 [applause]
26:33 [music playing]
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