TV-G | 30min | Comedy, Family, Music | Episode aired 30 October 1963
In an effort to raise enough money to buy a new dress, Patty enlists Richard and Cathy to help run her new babysitting, or tot tending, service.
Director: Stanley Prager
Writers: R.S. Allen, Sidney Sheldon, William Asher
Stars: Patty Duke, William Schallert, Jean Byron
In an effort to raise enough money to buy a new dress, Patty enlists Richard and Cathy to help run her new babysitting, or tot tending, service.
Director: Stanley Prager
Writers: R.S. Allen, Sidney Sheldon, William Asher
Stars: Patty Duke, William Schallert, Jean Byron
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00:00What time is it?
00:075.15.
00:09That's the tenth time you've asked me in the last half hour.
00:12Here.
00:13I don't need a watch. I need a dress.
00:16To tell time?
00:17To make time with Richard.
00:19He was supposed to have picked me up two hours ago.
00:21Do you know where he is?
00:22With Sue Ellen Turner.
00:24She has a new evening gown for the Saturday night dance.
00:27Richard wouldn't break a date with you.
00:29You haven't seen that evening gown.
00:32There he is.
00:34His Royal Highness has finally decided to show up.
00:37Well, he's not going to keep me waiting for two hours while he's out with another girl.
00:40Patty, don't worry.
00:43I'm not going to bawl him out or get hysterical and cry.
00:46I'm going to be very loose.
00:48I'm going to be very calm and sophisticated.
00:50I'm going to say to him,
00:52Richard, that's the most inconsiderate thing I've ever heard of.
00:56I've been waiting for you for two hours,
00:58and if you think you can just come around whenever you feel like it and tell me you're sorry,
01:01and that it'll never happen again, and that you want me to take you back, well, I won't do it.
01:04I don't care if I ever see you again.
01:06Sue Ellen Turner can have you for all I care.
01:08Oh, you can take Sue Ellen to the dance Saturday night.
01:11Okay, I will.
01:26Parkway Square.
01:47American Door.
01:56American Door.
02:22I don't care if I ever see Richard again. I can take him or leave him.
02:25Why are you so upset?
02:27I don't mind leaving him, but I don't want him to leave me.
02:30Richard said he misunderstood about Saturday.
02:33I'm sure if you called him, everything would work out.
02:35Do you think I would stoop low enough to call him?
02:38What did he say?
02:40He's still taking Sue Ellen.
02:43You'd better hurry up, Patty. We'll be late for school.
02:45We're having our chemistry final this morning.
02:47They can't teach you chemistry in school.
02:49Either you have it or you haven't.
02:51I have it.
02:53You're the most popular girl at school.
02:55Ha! I can't even get a date with my own steady.
02:58Just because some blonde comes up with a copy of a Paris original.
03:02You know, it's funny about boys.
03:05You think you have them all figured out, then whammo, you're nowhere.
03:09Yesterday I was an expert. Today I'm a wallflower.
03:16That's it.
03:17That's what?
03:18The dress I'm wearing to the Saturday night dance.
03:21I thought Richard broke his date with you.
03:23Well, he'll unbreak it when he sees me in that dress.
03:26Patty, it's so expensive.
03:28Where will you get the money?
03:29Papa will give it to me.
03:31Are you certain?
03:32Positively.
03:34I can wrap him around my little finger.
03:36All I have to say to him is,
03:39Papa, darling.
03:41No.
03:42Are you serious?
03:43Test me.
03:44But it's for the dance Saturday night.
03:46It'll be the most important dress of my whole life.
03:48You don't need a dress that expensive, Patty.
03:51Papa, if I don't get the dress, I'll lose Richard.
03:53That's the first promising thing you've said yet.
03:57I'm old enough to pick my own dresses.
03:59Honey, when you're old enough to earn your own money,
04:01you'll be old enough to pick your own dresses.
04:03But while your mother and I are paying, we're picking.
04:06I'll pay for it myself.
04:08All I need is an advance on my allowance.
04:10You're already well into next year.
04:13Boy, they talk about teenagers going through a difficult stage.
04:16What about parents?
04:18Now, Patty, there's very little that your mother and I refuse you.
04:21Yeah, but when you do, it's a matter of life and death.
04:24I'd hardly put Richard in the category of life and death.
04:27I could lose him.
04:29I don't think that's gonna happen.
04:30He never even dates any other girls.
04:32That's just it.
04:33He thinks I'm great because he has nobody to compare me to.
04:36You should see Sue Ellen.
04:38That's really unfair competition.
04:40Don't underestimate yourself, honey.
04:42One date with her and he'll probably never look at me again.
04:45Patty, if Richard is so fickle that he can be swayed by a dress,
04:49do you really think he's worth having?
04:51Yes.
04:52Now will you buy me the dress?
04:54No.
05:05But Patty, your father said you can't have the dress.
05:08Oh, no.
05:09He said, honey, when you're old enough to earn your own money,
05:12you'll be old enough to pick your own dresses.
05:14So?
05:15All I have to do is think of some business to go into.
05:18But you can't possibly earn that much money between now and Saturday.
05:21All I need is enough for the down payment.
05:24Now, what can I do?
05:26You can forget it, Patty.
05:28Have you ever earned any money?
05:31Sure.
05:32I've done lots of things.
05:34To it, what?
05:36Well...
05:38When I was five, I had a newspaper stand out front.
05:41As soon as Papa finished reading the morning papers, I'd go out and sell them.
05:44And I've done some babysitting.
05:46Babysitting?
05:47Oh, you mean tot tending.
05:49When Father had a newspaper assignment in London,
05:51I used to do that to earn extra money.
05:53Well, babysitting or tot tending, it's no good.
05:57You get a dollar an hour, but you can go two or three weeks
05:59before somebody asks you to sit.
06:01There's no organization to it.
06:08An organization for babysitting.
06:12And that's why you brought me over here?
06:15And all the nutty ideas.
06:17Nutty idea?
06:19That's what they said about Columbus when he went looking for America.
06:22Don't you see?
06:23If we organize all the babysitters at school to work for our agency,
06:27and they pay us a commission...
06:28Why?
06:29Because we get them the jobs.
06:31The people with the babies call our agency.
06:33Why?
06:34Because they can make one call
06:36and be sure of getting a babysitter trained in talcumming, burping,
06:38diapering, and pablumum and numbing.
06:41And who trains them?
06:43We do.
06:44All right, I do.
06:46But it's silly of me to explain all that to your executive brain.
06:49It's your...
06:51My what brain?
06:53Executive.
06:55I mean, you'd be sitting behind that big old desk.
06:59Doctor's babysitting service.
07:01One sitter?
07:02Right.
07:03What address?
07:04Hold it, please.
07:05Doctor's babysitting service, Richard L. Harrison speaking.
07:08One moment, please.
07:10Doctor's babysitting service, Richard L. Harrison, president and manager speaking.
07:15I mean, you'd be doing all that and assigning the sitters?
07:18Okay, boss, 320 Park Avenue.
07:19Right on, boss.
07:20I'm the double boss.
07:21And of course, you'd also be busy handling the agency commissions
07:25and putting our profits in the bank?
07:28Well, I can see you're going to need someone to run it for you,
07:32or you'll make a mess of it.
07:33You said it, boss.
07:35Is that, uh, doctor's babysitting service?
07:39Well, I sat for Dr. Fletcher once.
07:42I'm a doctor's babysitter.
07:45And it's obvious to a big executive brain like yours that calling it that
07:48will give parents confidence in us.
07:51Won't it?
07:52Yes, it will.
07:54Yes, it will.
07:57Oh.
08:02Mom's reading glasses to make me look older and more reliable.
08:08Yeah, they do a lot for you.
08:20J.R. Gresham.
08:27I'll take that now.
08:29What's in it?
08:30Baby supplies.
08:31Well, it seems like I should carry it.
08:33In the medical profession, the nurse does the heavy work, not the doctor.
08:36Well, listen now, don't you tell those people I'm really a doctor.
08:40All right.
08:43Are you still taking those pills for your stomach?
08:45Sure, in the morning and before I go to bed.
08:48Well, at least I can say you're taking medicine.
08:51Somebody's coming.
08:53Well, here we go, our first call.
08:56Good luck.
09:00Are you Mrs. Gresham?
09:01Yes.
09:02Do you have a child who sometimes needs the services of a babysitter?
09:05Well, I do have a five-year-old boy, but when we want a sitter,
09:08we usually phone around and manage to find somebody.
09:13Oh, my goodness.
09:15I dropped my doctor's babysitting service kit, which is full of baby supplies
09:18and which all our sitters carry because we're so efficient at babysitting.
09:21I know.
09:22And if you use our service, you don't have to do all that phoning around.
09:25One call to doctor's babysitting agency will bring a qualified, trained babysitter to your door
09:29practically before you hang up.
09:31If we could step inside and tell you about some of our services,
09:34we have a whole gob of advantages.
09:41After you, Doc.
09:45You seem quite young.
09:47You did say Doc.
09:49Yes, ma'am.
09:50Harrison.
09:51M.D.?
09:52No, ma'am. Richard L.
09:54We call him Doc because he's taking medicine.
09:57Really?
09:58Yes, ma'am. Night and day.
09:59It's my stomach. It's nervous.
10:01My name is Patricia Lane.
10:03Miss Patricia Lane.
10:05I have never married.
10:07Won't you sit down?
10:09At least I can listen to a few of your agency's gobs of advantages.
10:13Well, our biggest advantage is that we can always keep an eye on everything.
10:21Are you all right?
10:23Yes, ma'am.
10:24I was just so interested in telling you about our agency's advantages,
10:27I didn't see the little old chair.
10:29Our other advantage is that all our babysitters are trained in baby care.
10:34Well, that is an advantage.
10:37Not only are they trained, but wait till you see the kit.
10:42Each of our cities carries this doctor's babysitter service and baby service kit.
10:47It's very complete.
10:52Talcum powder.
10:55Diapers.
11:00Safety pins.
11:03Blanket.
11:05And rattle.
11:07Honey, do you know what those landlords have done?
11:12They have arranged to bring up that zoning revision at the council meeting tonight.
11:16Can they get it passed?
11:17Well, not if we get every tenant in the building down there to protest.
11:20And that's what we have to do. Now.
11:22We can't leave Edmond alone, and there are the other parents.
11:25Wait.
11:26These youngsters have a babysitting service.
11:30You think they're reliable?
11:31Well, they're cute and very sincere,
11:34and I'm sure they're a lot more conscientious than the teenage sitters that we usually get.
11:39Miss Lane.
11:41Could you get five babysitters here by seven o'clock?
11:46Well, our sitters do have a lot of jobs tonight.
11:51Five.
11:53Yes, ma'am.
11:55Well, you'd better hurry.
11:56Don't worry. We'll be back.
12:01Miss Lane.
12:02Yes.
12:05We did it. We're in business.
12:07You promised her five sitters.
12:09Now, where are we going to get five sitters?
12:12Why not?
12:13All the kids are in this building.
12:14I'll get Kathy.
12:15The three of us can handle it.
12:16And think of the money we're going to make.
12:18I wish I really were a doctor.
12:20I feel sick.
12:21Come on. What can go wrong?
12:23I won't know until seven o'clock.
12:29Aren't you ready yet?
12:30I'll be there as soon as I can.
12:32If I don't post my letter to father before eight o'clock, it'll be a day late and he'll worry.
12:36Oh, Patty dear, that's no way to eat your dinner.
12:39I know, Mom, but my whole future as a businesswoman and a wife depends on what happens tonight.
12:44You don't want me to be an old maid, do you?
12:47Where are you going?
12:48To work.
12:49Remember, you said if I earned it, I could buy it.
12:51Buy?
12:52Buy.
12:53Buy what?
12:54Bye-bye.
13:03Honey, the meeting starts in 15 minutes.
13:05Oh, come in, Mr. Mickle.
13:06Oh, we're leaving now, Gresham. I just wanted a word with the sitters.
13:09Uh, Patty, Richard, this is Mr. Mickle. He's in apartment number four.
13:12How do you do?
13:13I want you to treat my little Bobby with care and consideration.
13:16Oh, we will, sir.
13:18Well, some of the sitters have been prejudiced against Bobby.
13:21He's a wonderful, charming, perfectly normal boy.
13:24Both his psychiatrists say so.
13:27Better get started. I'll be right behind you.
13:29Hello, Charlie.
13:30Oh, hello, Mickle.
13:31Uh, kids, this is Mr. Anderson in apartment number seven.
13:34How do you do?
13:35Now, listen, I want you to put your best sitter in my apartment, number seven.
13:39You see, little Rollo is only six months old.
13:42And, well, he's just a baby, and he misses us so much.
13:47And, well, he cries when we're gone.
13:51There, there, Charlie.
13:52Rollo will be all right?
13:54I promise you, sir, we'll take special care of Rollo.
13:56Oh, thank you.
14:01In all my life, I've never seen a man so crazy about a puppy.
14:04Puppy?
14:05Puppy.
14:08Well, I guess from now on, it's doctor's baby and puppy sitting service.
14:13Daddy, Richard, this is Edmund.
14:15Oh, hi, Edmund.
14:16Now, he can stay up and watch TV until eight o'clock, but after that, it's sleepy-bye.
14:20Good night, son.
14:21Good-bye, Daddy. Good-bye, Mommy.
14:24Well, you get Edmund started on his television.
14:27I'll go open the doors to the apartment so we can hear anything that goes on.
14:30Good idea.
14:32What do you want to watch tonight, Edmund?
14:34I want wagon train.
14:36Wagon train isn't on right now.
14:38I want wagon train.
14:40I want wagon train.
14:42I want wagon train.
14:49I've already got a problem with little Edmund.
14:51Well, change him.
14:52I will not.
14:54Anyhow, that's not the problem.
14:56All right, I'll be there in a minute. I want to look in on the puppy.
14:59Hello there, nice...
15:02Puppy?
15:04Come on, let's go. Nice to watch it.
15:23Are you all right?
15:25Oh, my.
15:26I want to watch wagon train.
15:29Oh, boy, we got to do something about that little Edmund.
15:32I want to watch wagon train.
15:35I want to watch wagon train.
15:40Are you the babysitter?
15:42Yeah, I am.
15:43Could you come in here, please?
15:46Number four, you know both the psychiatrists.
15:50I better handle it.
15:52Oh, no.
15:53Rallo, you take the puppy over with Edmund.
15:57After Rallo, anything will be a pleasure.
16:00Come on, Rallo.
16:02Sweet Rallo.
16:04Nice Rallo.
16:06I can handle him fine.
16:09Come on.
16:11Puppy.
16:13Puppy.
16:21You all right in there, babysitter?
16:29Good, I don't want to knock you off too early.
16:31I figure I can get a couple more hours of fun out of you tonight.
16:34Oh, you little...
16:35You little...
16:36Mind your own business, kiddo. I've already been called everything.
16:39The one I like best is the babysitter killer of Avenue B.
16:45That was a mean trick, popping that bucket of water over the door.
16:47Please don't tell anybody. Please.
16:50Well, I don't know.
16:52Please don't. That trick's strictly amateur stuff.
16:55You're ruining my reputation around the neighborhood.
17:01You'll be good. I'll do the best I can.
17:04But I'm just a fun-loving little monster.
17:06Okay, let's get some action around here.
17:09Let's go.
17:27Sorry I'm late. How's the babysitting business?
17:30Business?
17:31War!
17:32War!
17:38Don't worry. The wagon train will be along any second now.
17:44Bobby promised he'd be good if we read to him.
17:46So Patty went to get his book.
17:49I have both babies in the other bedroom.
17:51They're sleeping beautifully.
17:52After a while, I'll move them to number six.
17:55Well, here's bedtime storybook, The Life and Times of Jack the Ripper.
18:00You didn't mean to go for that mother goose jazz, did you?
18:04I have to get back to my nursery.
18:06If you need me, call.
18:08My healthy little body is too charged with energy to listen to a book.
18:14I want you to play a game with me.
18:16I know a nice little game I'd like to play with you.
18:18Richard, I think that's illegal.
18:20I want to play pin the tail on the donkey.
18:22All right. If it'll keep him out of trouble, I'll play with him.
18:26I'll play with you, but we won't play pin the tail on the donkey.
18:30Okay, you ain't got no donkey anyway.
18:33We'll play finger in the ear.
18:35Finger in the ear?
18:36I close my eyes and see if I can put my finger in your ear without looking.
18:41Okay, but we'll do it the other way around.
18:43I'll put my finger in your ear.
18:46Well...
18:50Okay, now...
18:53Okay...
18:55Okay...
19:10Richard.
19:12Put him into bed. He's asleep.
19:21Ain't that sweet?
19:23Shh.
19:24Yes, it is.
19:25And you've been very sweet, too.
19:27The last five minutes, anyway.
19:33Hey, don't turn it up. You might wake Edmund.
19:36I'll just look at it. Do you have any doubt?
19:39Good.
19:40Everything's quiet, huh?
19:42At last.
19:43Yeah.
19:55You...
20:05The parents will be back any second. If the Gresham's find Edmund awake...
20:08Oh, boy, I'm just naturally good at being bad.
20:11Put him to bed. I'll get him to sleep.
20:14Perhaps you'd better go, too, and let me handle Bobby.
20:16Oh, no. I got us into this. I'll handle him.
20:19You're the boss.
20:21You heard what she said, and from now on, I'm gonna boss.
20:24Sit there.
20:29Mother Goops, old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone.
20:33When she got there, the cupboard was barren, so the poor dog had none.
20:37Oh, look at the puppy in the picture.
20:40There's no puppy.
20:42There, a little bitty puppy.
20:44I can see it. Look closer.
20:47Where?
20:49I don't care how impermissive your parents are.
20:51Ah, kiddo.
21:06That Bobby's not to be believed. I don't know what he'll do next.
21:09I think we'd better find out.
21:11I'll go peek in the Gresham's kitchen to see what he's up to.
21:14The parents are back!
21:20How's Rollo? He's all right, isn't he?
21:22Oh, he's fine. He's number six, and so are Edmund and the other babies.
21:26Where's Bobby?
21:31Bobby!
21:33I'm in the kitchen, Patty. Come on in.
21:36I've got a big surprise for you.
21:38A surprise?
21:40I've got a big surprise for you.
21:43A surprise. Isn't that sweet?
21:46Why don't you go in and you surprise him?
21:54Bobby?
21:57You want anything, Patty? I'll clean you off.
22:06Boy, oh boy, I'm ready.
22:09Not tonight.
22:10If you're not, you're sure gonna be. Come here.
22:27Kathy, you look beautiful.
22:29If you didn't have a date tonight, I'd take you to that dance myself.
22:32Thank you, Uncle Martin. Isn't Patty ready yet?
22:35She's putting on the finishing touches.
22:37Raising a daughter is really an education.
22:39For instance, men always wonder when it is you women start being late for dates.
22:43You start in your teens.
22:44We need the branches.
22:54How do you like my new dress?
22:56You look too good for Richard Harrison.
22:58See, you must have really impressed him with your business ability for him to break his date with Sue Ellen and take you out.
23:03I didn't impress him. I put him in a state of shock.
23:06He's taking me out because he says I'm helpless without him.
23:09That's a marvelous approach, dear. Remember it.
23:12You mean it's been used before?
23:14I won't say it's old, but I'd be willing to bet that Eve asked Adam if he'd mind reaching up and pulling down the branch so she could pick the apple.
23:23There's the boy.
23:27Hi.
23:28Hi, Patty.
23:29Good evening.
23:30Hi, Kathy. Here's your corsage.
23:32Thank you, Craig.
23:33Here's the corsage I brought for you, Patty.
23:35And here's one I found on the doorstep.
23:38On the doorstep?
23:41To Patty from a secret admirer.
23:43Boy, some guy's got a lot of nerve.
23:46Who sent it?
23:47How do I know?
23:48Is a girl expected to know all our secret admirers?
23:51Well, let me see it.
23:53Bobby. Bobby.
23:55That little monster.
23:57That's some secret admirer.
23:59Don't laugh.
24:00It was very sweet of him.
24:02Gives you kind of a warm feeling to know you reformed a bad little boy.
24:06Whatever you say.
24:07Oh!
24:37A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights
24:39What a crazy pair
24:41But they're cousins
24:44Identical cousins
24:46And you'll find
24:48They laugh alike
24:49They walk alike
24:50At times they even talk alike
24:52You can lose your mind
24:54When cousins
24:56Are two of a kind
25:07You