Father Knows Best (1954)

Episode 1: Bud Takes Up the Dance

Oct 03, 1954

Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.

Episode 2: Lesson in Citizenship

Oct 10, 1954

Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.

Episode 3: The Motor Scooter

Oct 17, 1954

Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.

Episode 4: Football Tickets

Oct 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...

Episode 5: Live My Own Life

Oct 31, 1954

Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.

Episode 6: Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation

Nov 07, 1954

Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.

Episode 7: Bud's Encounter With the Law

Nov 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 addres...

Episode 8: Thanksgiving Day

Nov 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 ...

Episode 9: Second Honeymoon

Nov 28, 1954

Jim's weekend retreat, just he and his wife, seems like a perfect idea, at first. But he doesn't want to pass this on to the kids when he le...

Episode 10: Typical Father

Dec 05, 1954

Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.

Episode 11: Margaret Goes Dancing

Dec 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...

Episode 12: The Christmas Story

Dec 19, 1954

Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.

Episode 13: Sparrow in the Window

Dec 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 ...

Episode 14: Boy's Week

Jan 02, 1955

Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.

Episode 15: A Friend of Old George's

Jan 09, 1955

An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.

Episode 16: Bud the Snob

Jan 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 p...

Episode 17: The Promised Playhouse

Jan 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.

Episode 18: Jim the Farmer

Jan 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 thi...

Episode 19: Father of the Year

Feb 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.

Episode 20: The Mink Coat

Feb 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 wo...

Episode 21: The Matchmaker

Feb 20, 1955

Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.

Episode 22: Bud the Bridesmaid

Feb 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 prospec...

Episode 23: Proud Father

Mar 06, 1955

Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.

Episode 24: Father Delivers the Papers

Mar 13, 1955

Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.

Episode 25: No Partiality

Mar 20, 1955

Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.

Episode 26: Close Decision

Mar 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 B...