Date With The Angels S1E09 - The Blue Tie
Transcript
00:00 [Music]
00:19 You have a date with the angel, starring Betty White.
00:25 Bill Williams as Gus Angel, presented by the Plymouth Dealers of America,
00:32 who proudly sell and service the beautiful new Plymouth for $19.57.
00:42 The time, about six months after Vicki and Gus Angel were married.
00:47 The main character, a plain blue tie.
00:50 The plot, something old and something new, something borrowed and something blue. Up.
00:57 [Music]
00:59 Just a minute.
01:02 Vicki, I'm frantic.
01:03 What's the matter?
01:04 I'm on my way home from work, so I don't have time to use psychology on you. I need your help.
01:09 Anything, Dolly. What is it?
01:11 Oh, right. Here it is without Freud.
01:13 Ethel's a bridal consultant down at the department store, and yesterday she quit.
01:18 So?
01:19 Well, the job's available, but I want you to take it.
01:22 All the bridal consultant has to do is tell young, engaged couples that their marriage will be a complete flop,
01:27 unless they buy everything at Barton Hill's department store.
01:32 They tell them how lucky they are to have found love, and how happy they'll be after they're married.
01:38 In other words, you're a fountain of misinformation.
01:42 Dolly, don't talk that way. There are lots of happily married couples.
01:46 That's why I thought of you. You believe all that jazz.
01:52 Even if I wanted to, you know how Gus feels about my working.
01:55 Well, I promised the department manager I'd find somebody.
01:58 Well, you better unpromise the department manager.
02:01 I can't. It's me.
02:07 Hi, hon.
02:08 Hello, sweetheart.
02:10 Well, ask him.
02:13 Ask me what?
02:18 You wouldn't want me to take a job at Martindale's department store, would you?
02:21 No.
02:22 No, see?
02:24 Don't use a negative approach.
02:27 Gus, wouldn't it be nice if Vicki went to work for a while and brought home some extra money?
02:32 No.
02:34 What I meant was these temporary jobs can develop into something permanent.
02:38 Well, I've simply got to find somebody.
02:41 Sorry, Dolly.
02:42 We still have a luncheon date tomorrow, don't we, dear?
02:44 We sure have. I'll be downtown all day. I'm riding in with Gus.
02:47 Well, I tried.
02:48 I'm sorry. I hope you find somebody.
02:50 I know it's old-fashioned, honey, but that's how I feel about it.
02:54 Here's how I feel about it.
02:56 Oh, I'm glad I believe in this kind of jazz.
03:00 Nothing.
03:01 Honey, will you do me a favor while you're downtown tomorrow?
03:03 Anything you...
03:06 What?
03:07 Pick me up a blue tie to go with my gray suit.
03:10 Okay. It'd be kind of fun to buy you a present for no reason at all.
03:14 Blue polka dot?
03:15 Uh-uh. Plain blue.
03:18 What color stripes?
03:20 Plain blue.
03:22 Plain blue.
03:25 How many mermaids?
03:28 Honey, a plain blue tie.
03:32 A plain blue tie.
03:35 Okay.
03:38 I don't know what we're going to do, Mrs. Feenig.
03:52 I can't spend all my time in the bridal department.
03:55 They're opening the doors downstairs, and we don't have a bridal consultant.
04:00 Mr. Wallace, I cannot go through another day like yesterday.
04:02 I just can't face all those starry eyes by myself.
04:06 What about your friend?
04:08 She chickened out.
04:11 Well, call her up and get her down here. I'll talk her into it.
04:14 Well, can't personnel handle it?
04:18 Well, you're on your own.
04:20 They're playing my song.
04:31 May I help you, miss?
04:33 I'm beyond help. I'm already a missus.
04:35 Oh, hi, Vicki.
04:37 Sorry my back was turned.
04:39 Hey, it's only 9 o'clock.
04:41 You changed your mind.
04:43 Changed my mind about what?
04:45 Oh, bless your heart. Here's the bridal book.
04:47 Now get all the romantic little boobs to sign it,
04:49 and for heaven's sake, get their addresses,
04:51 because if we don't sell them anything here, we beat them to death with circulars.
04:55 I didn't come down here to work.
04:58 Now here's the sales book.
04:59 There are seven cotton copies for each sale, and no matter--
05:01 What do you mean you didn't come down here to work?
05:03 I came down to buy Gus a tie.
05:05 Take the job and you get a 20% discount.
05:07 I just couldn't, darling.
05:09 Not even for an old friend?
05:11 It's just that Gus feels so strongly about my work.
05:14 Okay, Vicki. No hard feelings.
05:17 [chuckles]
05:19 [laughs]
05:36 They're, uh-- They're pretty, aren't they?
05:39 They're beautiful.
05:41 It's just that I don't want to hurt Gus.
05:44 Just take the job for one day.
05:46 Darling, it's just--
05:48 [doorbell rings]
05:49 Stick around. They want me in the front office.
05:51 How do you know?
05:53 Because I am the one for whom the bells toll.
05:57 [doorbell rings]
06:02 [laughter]
06:04 [laughter]
06:12 [laughter]
06:29 [laughter]
06:31 [laughter]
06:36 Boy, am I out of bombs.
06:41 [laughter]
06:43 Hey, you're just about my Margaret size.
06:52 I beg your pardon?
06:54 Oh, well, she's my wife.
06:56 Yesterday.
06:58 Are those any good?
07:00 I think so.
07:01 They seem to be well made, and I imagine they'd launder nicely.
07:04 Well, could a girl get along on, say, a dozen pair of those things?
07:08 [laughter]
07:09 She sure could.
07:11 Oh, sweet, would you wrap me up a dozen and let me get out of here?
07:14 Oh, well, I couldn't very well do that.
07:16 But would you like me to help you pick some off?
07:18 What color is this, you mean?
07:19 Any color. Just throw them in a sack, huh?
07:21 Well, what have we here?
07:23 I'll, uh-- I'll wait over there.
07:25 [laughter]
07:28 Mr. Wallace!
07:30 Mr. Wallace, may I present Mrs. Angel.
07:32 How do you do?
07:34 Oh, you do just 10, 11, 12.
07:37 I just selected these for that gentleman over by the elevator.
07:41 Oh, I better have him wrapped before he discovers how much they cost.
07:44 Well, good for you.
07:46 We've been trying to move those slips for a long time.
07:49 Welcome to the Bartendale team, Miss Angel.
07:52 Oh, no.
07:53 Nobody was here, and he looked so helpless.
07:55 Well, you see how much we need you.
07:57 Now we have a wonderful retirement plan at age 65.
08:01 [laughter]
08:04 Mr. Wallace, I came down here to buy a plain man's blue tie.
08:08 Splendid!
08:10 You're entitled to a 10% discount.
08:12 Donnie said 20%.
08:14 That's wonderful!
08:16 I didn't realize you wanted to become a permanent employee.
08:19 [laughter]
08:20 Hey, look here a minute, Vicki.
08:22 I can't get Junior away from the elevator.
08:24 [laughter]
08:26 Mr. Wallace.
08:27 Yes?
08:28 I didn't come down here for a job.
08:29 I've never sold anything in my life.
08:31 Oh, I thought you understood.
08:34 This isn't selling.
08:36 You advise these young brides.
08:38 You sympathize with their problems.
08:40 You guide them into choosing the silver pattern they will cherish.
08:44 You become their friend.
08:46 Don't I sell?
08:48 Oh, if they insist.
08:50 [laughter]
08:51 I'll tell you what.
08:53 We'll give you a sales book just in case.
08:56 You've been very kind, and I hate to say no, but I--
08:59 Oh, fine.
09:00 There are one or two details to take care of if personnel.
09:03 Oh--
09:04 Donnie!
09:05 Welcome to the Martindale team, dear.
09:07 [laughter]
09:10 Well, I was sort of trapped into it.
09:13 Is that a business call, Miss Angel?
09:16 I have to hang up now, Mom.
09:18 Well, it's not so much selling.
09:20 It's more advisory.
09:22 I really have to go, sweetie.
09:24 I advise brides and grooms.
09:27 Oh, no, nothing like that.
09:28 No, I just tell them what to do.
09:30 [laughter]
09:32 Fine, fine, good.
09:34 Goodbye, darling.
09:36 Miss Angel?
09:37 Missus.
09:38 I assumed you'd know about personal calls
09:41 when you asked for this job.
09:43 When I asked?
09:45 [laughter]
09:48 Take care of the customers.
09:50 [laughter]
09:56 Oh, dear.
09:57 I'm looking for a wedding dress.
10:00 Anything she wants.
10:03 What size?
10:04 We're loping.
10:06 [laughter]
10:07 Loping?
10:08 Well, I think that's just--
10:11 from home.
10:13 [laughter]
10:15 Well, it's--
10:18 come to think of it, Emily,
10:20 we didn't need that ladder.
10:22 Oh, that's the way we did it in the movie.
10:25 Don't you remember, Dallas?
10:27 Oh, it was so romantic.
10:29 [laughter]
10:33 It sure was.
10:35 That clarabow is some chicken.
10:37 [laughter]
10:39 And you got the idea from that.
10:41 Well, that must have been 25, 30 years ago.
10:44 Heck, no.
10:45 We saw it last night on television.
10:47 [laughter]
10:49 Say, better make it snappy, dearie.
10:51 We've got to be on that plane to Las Vegas in an hour.
10:54 Las Vegas?
10:55 Yeah, we want to go someplace where it's nice and quiet.
10:58 [laughter]
11:00 Well, I don't like to rush you,
11:01 but you'll just barely have time to get to the airport.
11:04 Oh, Dallas, I don't know what we're going to do.
11:06 I didn't want to look all gussied up for you, Dallas.
11:11 Well, as long as you're so pressed for time,
11:13 why don't you get your wedding things in Las Vegas?
11:15 [laughter]
11:17 They got a drag queen show up there?
11:19 Oh, they have some lovely shops.
11:21 It's nicer, nicer than this.
11:23 [laughter]
11:24 Thank you, my dear.
11:26 We'll send you a slice of wedding cake.
11:29 [laughter]
11:30 Good luck to you.
11:31 [laughter]
11:32 Marsdale's going to love you, dear.
11:34 [laughter]
11:37 [music]
11:43 May I help you?
11:44 Hello, where's Ethel?
11:45 Ethel?
11:46 Oh, she's no longer with us.
11:48 Is there something I could do?
11:49 We've come for the final fitting for the bridal gown.
11:51 The name is Johansson.
11:52 Johansson.
11:53 If you'll just make yourselves comfortable,
11:55 I'll be right with you.
11:56 Oh, I can't wait to see it.
11:57 Oh, it's going to be lovely.
11:58 I know it is.
11:59 I bet it is.
12:00 Oh, Miss Johansson.
12:02 Well, Mr. Wallace.
12:04 It's very nice to see you.
12:05 I believe your gown is all ready.
12:07 Well, Mr. Wallace, I'd like you to meet one of my bridesmaids.
12:10 This is Virginia Nelson.
12:12 How do you do?
12:13 [laughter]
12:14 Well, Miss Nelson, if you catch the bouquet,
12:17 Martindale stands ready to serve you.
12:19 Oh, Mr. Wallace.
12:20 [laughter]
12:21 Here we are.
12:22 [laughter]
12:23 Now, this should look beautiful.
12:25 [laughter]
12:26 Oh, have I got the wrong dress?
12:28 [laughter]
12:29 Miss Angel.
12:30 Mrs.
12:31 Look at the size of this thing.
12:33 [laughter]
12:38 You could hold a wedding reception in here.
12:41 [laughter]
12:44 Miss Angel.
12:47 Miss says Johnson.
12:50 Please bring Miss Johansson's gown.
12:52 Oh, no, Mr. Wallace.
12:53 It says Johansson.
12:56 Johnson.
12:57 Well, if it doesn't, I should say it.
12:59 Isn't that funny?
13:00 I don't-- excuse me.
13:01 [laughter]
13:04 New girl, you understand.
13:06 She's trying.
13:08 But very trying.
13:11 [laughter]
13:12 [music playing]
13:15 Mr. Wallace is looking for you.
13:18 So let him look.
13:21 What's your problem?
13:23 I don't think I'll work this afternoon.
13:25 Oh, don't let Wallace bother you.
13:27 He gave up solitaire because of the emotional strain.
13:30 [laughter]
13:32 It's not that.
13:33 It's Gus.
13:34 I'm doing the very thing he asked me not to.
13:37 Well, just finish out the day.
13:38 Gus doesn't ever have to know anything about it.
13:41 We don't have that kind of a marriage.
13:44 There's never been a bit of deceit in the whole six months.
13:48 [laughter]
13:50 Then I won't tell him either.
13:52 [laughter]
13:54 Have you seen the tattooed they call spring blossoms?
13:57 Spring blossoms?
13:58 Lovely.
13:59 I have that at home.
14:00 Is it in his catalog?
14:01 Oh, you can't get it here.
14:02 We got ours at Benson's department store.
14:05 [laughter]
14:06 Do you know it's $23 cheaper than anything in this book?
14:10 [laughter]
14:11 Maybe if we got that, I could afford one of your wedding gowns.
14:14 Do you want to take a look?
14:15 Yes.
14:16 I'll be right with you.
14:17 Thank you.
14:18 You got another phone call.
14:23 [laughter]
14:24 I'm busy with a customer.
14:25 Would you take the message?
14:26 I did.
14:27 Wilma thinks maybe she'll serve veal cutlets Thursday night after all.
14:32 [laughter]
14:33 Well.
14:34 Oh, Mr. Wallace, we don't carry the spring blossom pattern in silverware, do we?
14:39 No, we don't.
14:40 But we do carry spring festival, which is similar and much more durable.
14:45 No.
14:46 No, I think I'll take your suggestion and get my silverware at Benson's.
14:49 [laughter]
14:54 Shall we take a look at these gowns?
14:56 This is a lovely one.
14:57 [laughter]
15:02 Good morning.
15:03 Oh, may we help you, sir?
15:05 I'd like to get a little something for my wife.
15:07 Is Mrs. Koenig around?
15:09 No, I'm afraid she's busy.
15:11 Perhaps Miss-- no, she's sent you across the street.
15:14 [laughter]
15:16 Just wait here.
15:17 I'm sure Mrs. Koenig will be right back.
15:19 Thank you, sir.
15:20 Oh, may I help you, sir?
15:25 Oh, boy.
15:26 [laughter]
15:28 I'm meeting a client uptown in 20 minutes, so we'll have to make this fast.
15:32 Oh, I was you, yes.
15:34 Now, Vicki made a remark last night that gave me an idea.
15:37 I'd like to get her a little something for no reason at all.
15:39 We don't sell them.
15:40 Don't you think?
15:41 No, make a block.
15:42 A very nice block.
15:43 Here we are.
15:44 I'll see what's in the other room.
15:45 You want to wait here?
15:46 Something down here in the bottom shelf, possibly.
15:49 Well, that looks all right.
15:50 Look, you can get the same thing in the basement at half price.
15:53 [laughter]
15:59 No kidding.
16:00 Sure, all you pay for on this floor is the label.
16:03 [laughter]
16:06 You too, Mrs. Koenig?
16:08 [laughter]
16:12 I'll explain later, Mr. Wallace.
16:14 [laughter]
16:15 The basement's right at the bottom of the elevator shaft.
16:18 Thanks a lot, Dolly.
16:19 Oh, by the way, Dolly.
16:24 [laughter]
16:28 I wish you'd stop trying to get Vicki a job.
16:30 I quit trying this morning.
16:32 Good.
16:33 You understand, don't you?
16:35 She just wouldn't fit into a place like this.
16:37 Oh, you are so right.
16:38 You better get going now.
16:40 Oh, thanks again, Dolly.
16:42 [laughter]
16:44 Dolly, I'm glad you understand.
16:47 I do.
16:48 I do, I do, I do.
16:49 Good, good.
16:50 Better run.
16:51 Down in the basement.
16:52 Yes.
16:53 And thanks again, Dolly.
16:54 I'll see you real soon, honey.
16:55 Bye.
16:56 [laughter]
17:07 Is he gone?
17:08 Oh, oh.
17:09 [laughter]
17:12 Mr. Wallace.
17:13 This girl has no business.
17:14 These dresses are too expensive.
17:15 It's no use, miss.
17:17 Well, mrs., what's the matter?
17:19 I just noticed the price tag.
17:21 I can't afford to spend $195 for a dress.
17:24 Are you really going to wear one?
17:26 Well, I know what you can do.
17:29 There's a little place around the corner where you can rent one.
17:31 [laughter]
17:33 I have an idea.
17:35 Where is this place?
17:36 And what do they charge?
17:38 Well, I imagine you can rent one for $20, $25.
17:41 It'll make the evening.
17:42 [laughter]
17:44 And then, if you got your silverware at Benson's,
17:46 you could go to Yellowstone on your honeymoon
17:48 instead of Catalina.
17:49 [laughter]
17:50 Oh, wait till Tom hears about this.
17:52 Where is this place?
17:53 Well, isn't it right around the corner on 3rd Street?
17:55 You can't--
17:56 [laughter]
17:59 I'll go with you.
18:00 Miss Angel.
18:02 Thanks again, miss.
18:03 Tom and I will never forget you.
18:05 Oh.
18:06 [laughter]
18:10 Miss Angel.
18:13 What have you got against Martindale?
18:15 [laughter]
18:18 [music]
18:21 Turned Angel loose with Mrs. Appleton.
18:24 Mr. Wallace, I'm not the bridal consultant.
18:28 But Mrs. Appleton's a personal friend of the Martindales.
18:31 She'll send him to Benson's.
18:33 I don't think so, Mr. Wallace.
18:35 Mrs. Appleton can afford Martindale.
18:38 [laughter]
18:42 Well, good afternoon, Mrs. Appleton.
18:45 Hello, Mr. Wallace.
18:47 My prospective daughter-in-law, Miss Brown.
18:49 Oh, charm.
18:50 Is everything to your satisfaction, Mrs. Appleton?
18:52 Thank you.
18:53 The gowns will be modeled in just a moment, Miss Brown.
18:55 Good.
18:56 And when you see them, Mrs. Appleton, you'll just love--
18:58 That'll be all, Wallace.
19:00 Oh.
19:01 Oh.
19:02 [laughter]
19:04 I'm not too sure about the silver, Mrs. Appleton.
19:08 Call me mother.
19:09 [laughter]
19:10 We have many other silver patterns, Miss Brown.
19:13 No, we like the one I selected.
19:16 Now, about the rest of the trousseau,
19:18 what do you suggest in nightwear?
19:20 Oh, we have some lovely things right over this way.
19:23 Now, this I think is particularly pretty.
19:30 Something sensible.
19:32 Oh, but, Mrs.-- uh, mother, I love that.
19:36 Something in flannelette.
19:38 [laughter]
19:42 Flannelette?
19:44 [laughter]
19:49 Oh, no, no, no.
19:51 That isn't it at all.
19:52 Take it away, young lady.
19:55 I didn't even see it.
19:57 Neither did I.
19:59 It was much too frivolous.
20:01 My Robert wouldn't like it.
20:03 Well, where were we?
20:06 How about all we've settled on is the silverware,
20:08 and I don't think Miss Brown is too sure about that.
20:11 I just thought it might be hard to clean.
20:14 Those cherubs do collect dirt.
20:16 Nonsense.
20:17 I have poor servants.
20:19 Oh, but we aren't going to live with you, Mrs.-- uh, mother.
20:23 Bob and I leased an apartment.
20:25 I persuaded my Robert to cancel the lease
20:27 on that dingy little home.
20:30 It wasn't dingy.
20:31 It was beautiful.
20:33 They'll need crystal.
20:36 Deep-etched roses.
20:39 Is that what you want?
20:40 No.
20:41 I'm the one that's talking to you, young lady.
20:45 My job is to consult the bride.
20:47 Maybe-- maybe if you and your Bob came in
20:50 and selected your own thing.
20:53 Well, she's right.
20:54 My Bob is the type of man who'd be happy to drink
20:57 out of a jelly glass.
20:58 He doesn't need your wretched roses.
21:00 And don't forget the dirty cherubs.
21:02 And the dirty cherubs.
21:06 Young woman, I'm reporting you to Mr. Martindale.
21:09 What's your name?
21:10 Angel.
21:12 Don't get flipped with me.
21:14 [laughter]
21:17 I don't want to be disrespectful, Mrs. Appleton,
21:20 but it just seems to me your Robert and her Bob
21:23 are two different men.
21:24 And I'm going to find out which one I'm getting
21:27 before it's too late.
21:28 And I think your Robert is going to lose.
21:32 I'll never be able to thank you enough, miss.
21:35 Miss?
21:36 Well, Mr. Martindale is going to hear of this immediately.
21:42 [laughter]
21:45 Who's she modeling for?
22:05 Somebody you sent to Benson's?
22:09 Thank you very much.
22:11 Would you mind if I left early today, Mr. Wallace?
22:15 I would love it.
22:17 Well, that's very nice of you.
22:19 There's something I want to pick up for my husband.
22:21 May I see your sales book?
22:25 I just performed a wonderful public service.
22:28 It may interest you to know that you have set
22:31 an all-time record.
22:33 Never in the history of Martindales
22:35 has one of our employees done so much for Benson's.
22:41 Not one sale.
22:45 Didn't Mrs. Appleton buy anything?
22:48 No.
22:49 But she's gone up to see Mr. Martindale about me.
22:52 I thought you ought to know.
22:53 Well, at least that's something.
22:55 [phone ringing]
22:59 Yes, what is--
23:01 Yes, Mr. Martindale.
23:05 Oh, yes, Miss Stangel's here.
23:08 She what?
23:10 Oh, she did?
23:12 Uh, BB Brain.
23:14 Yes, she is.
23:15 Oh, me.
23:16 Uh, oh, yes, sir.
23:17 Thank you, sir.
23:18 And Nink from Hoot.
23:19 Yes, sir.
23:20 That, that, that too.
23:22 [inaudible]
23:32 Anybody home?
23:33 Coming, sweetie.
23:36 What kind of a day did you have?
23:38 Oh, it was sort of a quiet day.
23:39 Just did a $40 claim, caught up on some paperwork,
23:42 and dropped into Martindales.
23:44 Martindales?
23:46 What did you go there for?
23:47 Oh, no special reason, except to buy a little present
23:50 for a very special girlfriend.
23:53 Gosh.
23:55 Did you have lunch with Dolly today?
23:57 Uh-huh.
23:58 Let me see.
24:01 Oh, darling, it's beautiful.
24:04 Glad you like it.
24:06 Uh, what happened to you today?
24:09 Oh, I just love it.
24:12 Well, uh, what happened downtown?
24:16 Oh, well, I had lunch with Dolly.
24:20 You said that before.
24:22 Is she still trying to get you that job?
24:24 No, she gave that up.
24:26 Oh.
24:28 Good.
24:31 Gus.
24:32 Hmm?
24:33 I did spend practically the entire day at Martindales.
24:36 Oh, you women.
24:37 How can you spend a whole day in one store?
24:41 Well, I didn't sell anything, if that's what you mean.
24:44 What'd you do?
24:46 Well, I--
24:50 I bought you a plain blue tie.
24:53 Oh, thank you, honey.
24:55 Oh.
24:56 Got a date with an angel.
25:08 Going to meet her at 7.
25:10 Got a date with an angel, and I'm on my way to heaven.
25:15 [music playing]
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25:54 Good night, everybody.
25:56 (audience applauding)
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