Father Knows Best

Bud thinks he can earn much money fast by selling sauce-boats.

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

Bud is upset because he has lost a job to another boy.

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

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

Kathy trades her skaters for a magician's box.

Betty is excited her tennis team has made the championships.

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

Jim becomes paranoid after watching a family sitcom on television.

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

At school a dorky classmate of Bud's has a crush on him.

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

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

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

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

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

Because of the large age difference between Kathy and Betty, it was been easy for Kathy to be proud to have a sister like Betty.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In college Jim was 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Margaret is candid about some minor issues with her children.

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

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.

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.

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.

As Kathy approaches her completion of Junior High, she grows anxious. Jim tries to reassure her that Betty felt this way last year, when she graduated High School. As graduation grows nearer no one can reconcile Kathy's fears.