Name: Father Knows Best
Uploaded: 2020-10-03T13:43:03.000Z
Description: Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems of his growing family.

Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems of his growing family.

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Bud uses an old book to teach himself to dance in time for his very first date and his very first dance.

Father Knows Best: S1 E1 - Bud Takes Up The Dance

Jim's definition of citizenship gets the Andersons into trouble.

Father Knows Best: S1 E2 - Lesson In Citizenship

Jim and Margaret disagree on whether Jim should buy Bud a motor scooter.

Father Knows Best: S1 E3 - The Motor Scooter

Jim and Margaret go to the big football game every year. This year, Margaret finds she cannot go and Betty is promised the ticket-until Jim offers it to someone else.

Father Knows Best: S1 E4 - Football Tickets

Bud feels beleaguered by his parents and siblings, and believes he is ready to take responsibility for his own life. The teenager decides to move out of the house to live on his own.

Father Knows Best: S1 E5 - Live My Own Life

Jim wants to play badminton, but his kids see him as too old for such things. When a school chum writes that he has become a grandfather, Jim is convinced that the best years of his life are behind him.

Father Knows Best: S1 E6 - Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation

Kathy plays with the new washing machine and keeps throwing everything in it. This time, Betty's items for Girls in Government Club are included as well as a letter to Bud from the police. Betty's items are ruined and Bud gets a surprise.

Father Knows Best: S1 E7 - Bud's Encounter With The Law

When Kathy writes a prize-winning Thanksgiving poem, Jim envisions his "Kitten" as the next Emily Brontë. His proud fantasy is shattered when he actually reads the poem.

Father Knows Best: S1 E8 - Thanksgiving Day

Jim and Margaret could use some time away from the house, so they plan a weekend getaway. Jim worries that the kids will be upset if they go, but they adjust more easily to the time apart than their parents.

Father Knows Best: S1 E9 - Second Honeymoon

Betty is falling hard for a new guy, and it upsets her father. Jim becomes convinced that Betty is exhibiting all the "recognizable symptoms" of someone who is about to elope.

Father Knows Best: S1 E10 - Typical Father

Jim and Margaret go their separate ways when Margaret signs up for dancing lessons.

Father Knows Best: S1 E11 - Margaret Goes Dancing

Jim is disappointed by his family's attitude toward Christmas and decides to do something about it.

Father Knows Best: S1 E12 - The Christmas Story

When Kathy discovers an injured sparrow on the windowsill, the family takes the little bird in to nurse it back to health. Jim promises her it will get well-and worries what will happen if it doesn't.

Father Knows Best: S1 E13 - Sparrow In The Window

When Jim gets a traffic ticket, his court day coincides with Bud's appointed day as judge.

Father Knows Best: S1 E14 - Boy's Week

Bud is getting a reputation as a snob; his difficulty in talking with girls is being misinterpreted as standoffishness.

Father Knows Best: S1 E16 - Bud The Snob

Jim demands that his family start living up to the promises they've made to people. "A promise is supposed to mean something," he tells them. Then Kathy reminds him of a pledge he made to her, and Jim winds up sleeping in her homemade playhouse.

Father Knows Best: S1 E17 - The Promised Playhouse

Jim goes through an identity crisis when he decides he wants to lead the simple life.

Father Knows Best: S1 E18 - Jim The Farmer

The Anderson children enter an essay into a contest nominating Jim as "Father of the Year.".

Father Knows Best: S1 E19 - Father Of The Year

Jim finds his life being controlled by circumstances when he buys a mink coat for Margaret.

Father Knows Best: S1 E20 - The Mink Coat

Margaret wages a campaign to get her cousin's boyfriend to propose. Though Louise is hesitant to "trap" Tom, Margaret is sure she knows what to do and takes over.

Father Knows Best: S1 E21 - The Matchmaker

Cousin Louise is getting married in the Anderson home. Margaret is going all-out on the wedding, and Jim is not happy about the bills. When a case of wedding jitters keeps Louise out of the rehearsal, Bud has to stand in for the bride.

Father Knows Best: S1 E22 - Bud The Bridesmaid

After he runs into a friend who brags about his overachieving children, Jim wants to help inspire his own brood to acts of greatness. He feels they lack courage and challenges them to face their fears.

Father Knows Best: S1 E23 - Proud Father

Jim learns what it's like to deliver papers when Bud is ordered to bed for a few days.

Father Knows Best: S1 E24 - Father Delivers The Papers

Jim refuses to interfere when Kathy sets her sights on Betty's boyfriend.

Father Knows Best: S1 E25 - No Partiality

Jim decides that Bud can't play in the church baseball game because he hasn't done his chores.

Father Knows Best: S1 E26 - Close Decision

Bud makes his point to Jim as they each learn that there are some things that you just aren't cut out to do.

Father Knows Best: S2 E1 - Art of Salesmanship

Jim feels that his children need to work out their own problems.

Father Knows Best: S2 E2 - Father's Private Life

The county wants to build a new highway right through the old community hall.

Father Knows Best: S2 E3 - Lessons in Civics

After Bud is refused a job because of another's dishonesty, Bud decides that dishonesty is the key to success.

Father Knows Best: S2 E4 - First Disillusionment

Jim wants to invite a friend of his over to the Anderson home.

Father Knows Best: S2 E5 - Woman in the House

There is a new girl at school and it is love at first sight for Bud Anderson.

Father Knows Best: S2 E6 - New Girl at School

Kathy trades her skaters for a magician's box.

Father Knows Best: S2 E7 - Kathy Makes Magic

Betty is picked as queen of the sports banquet because of her beauty instead of her ability.

Father Knows Best: S2 E8 - Advantage to Betty

For once in his life Bud has studied hard for a big test.

Father Knows Best: S2 E9 - The Big Test

Jim becomes paranoid after watching a family sitcom on television.

Father Knows Best: S2 E10 - Father is a Dope

Betty, Bud and Kathy are convinced that Mom and Dad are very old.

Father Knows Best: S2 E11 - Spirit of Youth

Bud tries to rid himself of the unwanted attentions of a girl.

Father Knows Best: S2 E12 - Bud, the Ladykiller

Margaret's recent predictions have convinced that family that she has psychic powers.

Father Knows Best: S2 E13 - Margaret's Premonition

Robert Young tells us at the beginning that "the family is on vacation this week"(lucky them) and then proceeds to introduce what is clearly meant to be a Western pilot for an entirely different show.

Father Knows Best: S2 E14 - Stage to Yuma

Bud has a new friend. Unfortunately, his new friend is a kleptomaniac and Bud gets blame for his friend's actions.

Father Knows Best: S2 E15 - Bad Influence

Jim has decided to play match maker for his daughter for an upcoming ball.

Father Knows Best: S2 E16 - Betty Hates Carter

Jim has had a bad day at work. When he comes home from the office his mood is amplified when the family ignores him

Father Knows Best: S2 E17 - Jim, the Tyrant

Because of the large age difference between Kathy and Betty, it has been easy for Kathy to be proud to have a sister like Betty. Bud is close in age to Betty and now is attending the same school. It is tough for him to follow after Betty.

Father Knows Best: S2 E18 - Betty's Brother

Jim refused to buy a formal dress for the dance for Betty because it cost too much money.

Father Knows Best: S2 E19 - Betty Earns a Formal

The Anderson's are getting their house painted. This starts a moral discussion and the family wage a bet. Betty and Jim are having a discussion about responsibility and pride in a job well done versus the old mighty dollar.

Father Knows Best: S2 E20 - The House Painter

Bud is depressed because he has not been invited to the Sadie Hawkins dance at school. He decides to plan a camping trip.

Father Knows Best: S2 E21 - Bud, The Wallflower

Betty has been depressed for over a week. No one has been able to cheer her up. Betty seems to be facing a personal crisis and is searching for the meaning of life.

Father Knows Best: S2 E22 - The Bus to Nowhere

Kathy is much younger than Bud and Betty. Though they love her they often do want to play with her. Kathy is tired of being left alone with her dolls to play. She wants to have a real baby sister to play with.

Father Knows Best: S2 E23 - Kathy, The Indian Giver

Bud is given an assignment to write an essay about a great man from the War of Independence.

Father Knows Best: S2 E24 - The Historical Andersons

In college Jim spent so much time with his four college pals that they were known as the Four Musketeers. Charly Bradley, one of his college pals, is in town.

Father Knows Best: S2 E25 - The Grass is Greener

Bud has a new friend that he has invited to stay over night at the Anderson Home.

Father Knows Best: S2 E26 - The Persistent Guest

Margaret is excited about her family reunion. Her excitement is not shared by the family. They have found all kinds of excuses to prevent them from going to her reunion.

Father Knows Best: S2 E27 - Family Reunion

Betty has a new friend, Elouise Sanford. Elouise is from an upper class family. Betty is concerned that she will not be able to keep the friendship unless Elouise thinks they are from the same class.

Father Knows Best: S2 E28 - Family Dines Out

Eddie Jarvis is the school bully. He challenges Bud to a boxing match.

Father Knows Best: S2 E29 - Bud, The Boxer

After a job fair, Betty decides she would like to be an engineer.

Father Knows Best: S2 E30 - Betty, Girl Engineer

Betty and her boyfriend are getting along wonderful until his father and Jim have a fight. After the fight, he refuses to see her ever again.

Father Knows Best: S2 E31 - The Martins and the Coys

Margaret is candid about some minor issues with her children.

Father Knows Best: S2 E32 - Dilemma for Margaret

Bud impresses his classmates when his father gets Duke Snider to make a visit to Springfield.

Father Knows Best: S2 E33 - Hero Father

Kathy is excited because if she can find five more herbs, her folder will be complete and she can get her promotion to tribe princess.

Father Knows Best: S2 E34 - Father, the Naturalist

Jim and Margaret are so tired of the family dynamics. The children will not stop tattling on each other. They offer a ten dollar review to the child that does not tattle for one week.

Father Knows Best: S2 E35 - The Ten Dollar Question

Kathy is cleaning up and finds a receipt for $25 from the adoption center. She is sure that she has been adopted and is determined to get Jim and Margaret to confuss the truth to her.

Father Knows Best: S2 E36 - Adopted Daughter

As Betty approaches her completion of High School she grows anxious. Jim tries to reassure her. As graduation grows nearer no one can reconcile Betty's fears.

Father Knows Best: S2 E37 - Betty's Graduation

Bud's new girlfriend Georgia is jealous of Bud's family life. Because of this, she tries to make him chose between her and his mother.

Father Knows Best: S3 E1 - No Apron Strings

Betty falls in love with a cowboy on a dude ranch. Neither her experience nor the love lasts.

Father Knows Best: S3 E2 - Never In Twain

Margaret and Jim are excited about Betty starting college. Sadly, in their excitement, they overlook what their daughter actually wants to do.

Father Knows Best: S3 E3 - Betty Goes To College

Bud tries to date an older woman named Marisa by lying about his age. However, things get sticky when Marissa wants to go to an exclusive restaurant.

Father Knows Best: S3 E4 - Man About Town

Buds homing pigeon and Betty scare the family by not returning home immediately.

Father Knows Best: S3 E5 - The Homing Pigeon

Jim finds himself in a sticky situation after having loaned money to an old high school teacher who dreams of becoming an acclaimed author.

Father Knows Best: S3 E6 - Spaghetti For Margaret

Betty asks her family not to celebrate her birthday when she learns that gift giving has become meaningless.

Father Knows Best: S3 E7 - Betty's Birthday

Jim gives Bud an allowance in order to teach him about the value of money.

Father Knows Best: S3 E8 - Bud, The Millionaire

At a PTA fundraiser, the Anderson parents and kids chose to swap styles for the day.

Father Knows Best: S3 E9 - The Old Days

Betty becomes jealous when all the attention at school is directed at the new girl.

Father Knows Best: S3 E10 - Whistle Bait

Bud hates his job, but feels that he can not quit because he has been bragging about it at home.

Father Knows Best: S3 E11 - The Great Guy

Betty goes to New York to help out in her friends wedding. While there, she ends up in the gossip column with her friends new brother-in-law.

Father Knows Best: S3 E12 - The Family Goes To New York

Betty tries to get in with the upper class kids at school while along the way losing sight of what really matters in life.

Father Knows Best: S3 E13 - Betty Goes Steady

Jim and the family meet Mr. Lydum, a smooth talker, who wants to invest in his and his childrens ideas. Jim has trouble deciding whether Lydum is fake or the real deal.

Father Knows Best: S3 E14 - The Good Prospect

Everyone is worrying that the visiting Aunt Neva will ruin Christmas.

Father Knows Best: S3 E15 - The Angel's Sweater

Jims boss asks Jim to teach his son Woody how to be a successful salesman. To Jims horror, though Woody is a gregarious guy, Woody prefers to be carefree and does not want to be an insurance salesman.

Father Knows Best: S3 E16 - The Promising Young Man

Margaret hires a Spanish gardener. When the work is done, Jim goes to pay him, but the gardener has increased his price.

Father Knows Best: S3 E17 - Margaret Hires A Gardener

Margaret, Jim, and the rest of the family are shipwrecked on an island.

Father Knows Best: S3 E18 - Swiss Family Anderson

Bored with being a housewife, Margaret goes shopping and has a portrait made of herself. Jim understands that Margaret it is not just boredom that motivates her to take this break.

Father Knows Best: S3 E19 - Brief Holiday

Jim and Margaret are tired of always chaperoning the neighborhood parties.

Father Knows Best: S3 E20 - The Lawn Party

While Bud is showing his family how he has learned to use a short wave radio, they overhear a distress call from a boat.

Father Knows Best: S3 E21 - Short Wave

Bud loses the money he was supposed to use to pay the tailor. One of the Carnival booth owners cons him into thinking that he can work for him to earn the money back.

Father Knows Best: S3 E22 - Carnival

Betty is saddened when her new boyfriend, who is a jet pilot, is transferred to Alaska.

Father Knows Best: S3 E23 - Betty And The Jet Pilot

Margaret and Jim let Bud go to Hillsborough to do research so long as Kippy is with him. Unfortunately, at the last minute, Kippy does not go. Buds parents find out and worry about Bud.

Father Knows Best: S3 E24 - Trip To Hillsborough

Actor Cornell Wild gets in an accident and asks Jim for legal advice.

Father Knows Best: S3 E25 - An Evening To Remember

Bud buys a $10 car to impress his girlfriend. Unfortunately, the car needs a lot of work and does not impress his girlfriend.

Father Knows Best: S3 E26 - Bud Buys A Car

Bud learns a lesson in safety when he is sentenced to crossing-guard duty for dangerous driving habits.

Father Knows Best: S3 E27 - Safety First

Bud becomes a town hero after preventing a bank robbery.

Father Knows Best: S3 E28 - Bud, The Hero

Betty finishes first in a track race in addition to becoming the flower queen.

Father Knows Best: S3 E29 - Betty, The Track Star

Kathy is nervous about the school spelling bee, so Betty give her a penny and convinces her that it has special powers.

Father Knows Best: S3 E30 - The Spelling Bee

Bud decides to donate to the church, but gets angry when Kippy makes it appear that he gave money instead of Bud.

Father Knows Best: S3 E31 - Bud, The Philanthropist

Jim and Margaret decide to baby-sit for Betty so that she can go out.

Father Knows Best: S3 E32 - Baby In The House

Jim and Margaret find out that an unsuccessful classmate, who they thought would become a doctor, is actually a bad salesman now and unhappy with his job.

Father Knows Best: S3 E33 - Class Prophecy

Bud asks Jim how to get Judys attention while Judy asks Margaret how to get Buds attention.

Father Knows Best: S3 E34 - The Art Of Romance

Margaret helps out a young pregnant woman.

Father Knows Best: S3 E35 - Margaret Disowns Her Family

Margarets father decides to retire because of health problems. However, when Margaret and Jim figure out what is the real source of his sickness, her father will have to decide if he really wants to stop working.

Father Knows Best: S3 E36 - Grandpa Retires

The Andersons regain their confidence with the help of Sageman.

Father Knows Best: S3 E37 - Shoot For The Moon

Bud must decide between defending the new teacher at school, or joining the rest of the class in revolt.