Father Knows Best (1954)

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19546 Seasons30m episodes6.6

Comedy, Family

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Runtime: 30m episodes
Genre: Comedy
Certificate: TV-G
Origin: US

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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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Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 3, 1954
Network: CBS
Studio: Columbia Pictures Television

Time to finish

102 hrs

203 episodes. About 15 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Robert Young

Jim Anderson

Jane Wyatt

Margaret Anderson

Elinor Donahue

Betty Anderson

Billy Gray

Bud Anderson

Lauren Chapin

Kathy Anderson

SERIES

19546 Seasons30m episodes6.6

Comedy, Family

TMDB6.6

Votes28

Your rating

Runtime: 30m episodes
Genre: Comedy
Certificate: TV-G
Origin: US

About

Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.

Where to watch

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E1 · Airs Oct 3, 1954 · 30m
Bud Takes Up the Dance
Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
E2 · Airs Oct 10, 1954 · 30m
Lesson in Citizenship
Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.
E3 · Airs Oct 17, 1954 · 30m
The Motor Scooter
Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
E4 · Airs Oct 24, 1954 · 30m
Football Tickets
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.
E5 · Airs Oct 31, 1954 · 30m
Live My Own Life
Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
E6 · Airs Nov 7, 1954 · 30m
Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation
Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
E7 · Airs Nov 14, 1954 · 30m
Bud's Encounter With the Law
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.
E8 · Airs Nov 21, 1954 · 30m
Thanksgiving Day
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.
E9 · Airs Nov 28, 1954 · 30m
Second Honeymoon
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 learns that the kids have plans with them; and then when the kids take the news too easy, Jim and Margaret are befuddled. They leave, but soon they start thinking about their kids and after reaching the lodge they want to phone in - but no one answers the call...
E10 · Airs Dec 5, 1954 · 30m
Typical Father
Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
E11 · Airs Dec 12, 1954 · 30m
Margaret Goes Dancing
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.
E12 · Airs Dec 19, 1954 · 30m
The Christmas Story
Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
E13 · Airs Dec 26, 1954 · 30m
Sparrow in the Window
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.
E14 · Airs Jan 2, 1955 · 30m
Boy's Week
Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
E15 · Airs Jan 9, 1955 · 30m
A Friend of Old George's
An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
E16 · Airs Jan 16, 1955 · 30m
Bud the Snob
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.
E17 · Airs Jan 23, 1955 · 30m
The Promised Playhouse
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.
E18 · Airs Jan 30, 1955 · 30m
Jim the Farmer
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.
E19 · Airs Feb 6, 1955 · 30m
Father of the Year
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.
E20 · Airs Feb 13, 1955 · 30m
The Mink Coat
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.
E21 · Airs Feb 20, 1955 · 30m
The Matchmaker
Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
E22 · Airs Feb 27, 1955 · 30m
Bud the Bridesmaid
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.
E23 · Airs Mar 6, 1955 · 30m
Proud Father
Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.
E24 · Airs Mar 13, 1955 · 30m
Father Delivers the Papers
Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
E25 · Airs Mar 20, 1955 · 30m
No Partiality
Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.
E26 · Airs Mar 27, 1955 · 30m
Close Decision
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.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 3, 1954
Network: CBS
Studio: Columbia Pictures Television

Time to finish

102 hrs

203 episodes. About 15 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Robert Young

Jim Anderson

Jane Wyatt

Margaret Anderson

Elinor Donahue

Betty Anderson

Billy Gray

Bud Anderson

Lauren Chapin

Kathy Anderson

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