Father Knows Best
TV-G
7.4
1954
Comedy
, Family
Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.
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- Cast：
- Robert Young , Jane Wyatt , Elinor Donahue , Billy Gray , Lauren Chapin
Episode 26 : Close Decision
March. 27,1955
Margaret worries the entire day over what will become of Bud’s future if he doesn’t develop good character. This is tied in with a baseball game Bud is trying to get to play in.
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Episode 25 : No Partiality
March. 20,1955
Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.
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Episode 24 : Father Delivers the Papers
March. 13,1955
Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
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Episode 23 : Proud Father
March. 06,1955
Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.
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Episode 22 : Bud the Bridesmaid
February. 27,1955
Margaret's cousin (from the previous episode) is set to wed in the Anderson household, but things go wrong, due to the nervousness of the prospective bride and groom, and the wedding is called off. Poor Bud is reeled in to do a stand-in for the bride at the rehearsal.
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Episode 21 : The Matchmaker
February. 20,1955
Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
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Episode 20 : The Mink Coat
February. 13,1955
Even though finances have grown a little tight in the Anderson household, Jim buys Margaret a mink coat that ends up being more trouble than it’s worth.
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Episode 19 : Father of the Year
February. 06,1955
Jim is happy to learn his kids are planning to enter him in a Father of the Year contest. But things, of course, don’t go smoothly.
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Episode 18 : Jim the Farmer
January. 30,1955
Jim wants to give up his office job in order to move into the country to lead a quiet, and less stressful, life as a farmer. Margaret doesn't think that he means it seriously, but he crosses more lines to fulfill his dream than he ever has before.
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Episode 17 : The Promised Playhouse
January. 23,1955
After making a big deal about people keeping their word, Jim is forced to put his words into practice to set a good example for his family.
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Episode 16 : Bud the Snob
January. 16,1955
Bud is deemed a snob by the girls in school because he won’t speak to any of them. When Jim talks it over with him, he discovers that Bud‘s real problem is that he becomes tongue-tied around them.
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Episode 15 : A Friend of Old George's
January. 09,1955
An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
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Episode 14 : Boy's Week
January. 02,1955
Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
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Episode 13 : Sparrow in the Window
December. 26,1954
Kathy discovers a wounded Sparrow on the windowsill of the house—which she then considers hers—and the whole family becomes involved in trying to help it get better.
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Episode 12 : The Christmas Story
December. 19,1954
Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
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Episode 11 : Margaret Goes Dancing
December. 12,1954
Jim and Margaret rarely disagree on anything. But when he finds out Margaret signed them up to take dancing lessons, Jim refuses to do so, and ends up defiantly going to his old club, leaving her to take lessons alone.
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Episode 10 : Typical Father
December. 05,1954
Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
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Episode 8 : Thanksgiving Day
November. 21,1954
Kathy writes the best poem in the fourth grade on what Thanksgiving means to her, and Jim builds the poem up in his mind to unreasonable expectations for a fourth grader. When he actually finds out what the poem consists of, his hopes for Kathy’s future are deflated and he disparages the poem to Margaret, unwitting that Kathy has overheard.
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Episode 7 : Bud's Encounter With the Law
November. 14,1954
Bud becomes increasingly paranoid when Kathy (who has a fascination with the new washing machine, and puts everything in there) places a letter addressed to him by the police department in the washing machine, and ruins the letter, so he doesn’t know why he is asked to be there within seven days.
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Episode 6 : Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation
November. 07,1954
Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
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Episode 5 : Live My Own Life
October. 31,1954
Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
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Episode 4 : Football Tickets
October. 24,1954
Jim gets tickets to an important football game, and picks one of the kids to go with him—only to be blackmailed by an important client (who wants to go to the game, too) out of one of his tickets. He then tries frantically to find a second one.
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Episode 3 : The Motor Scooter
October. 17,1954
Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
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Episode 2 : Lesson in Citizenship
October. 10,1954
Jim tells his family to help others and winds up in more trouble than before.
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Episode 1 : Bud Takes Up the Dance
October. 03,1954
Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
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