Episode 1: Bud Takes Up the Dance
1954-10-0330 min
Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
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Father Knows Best Season 1 — Episodes and Where to Watch
26 episodes · first aired 1954-10-03
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Episode 2: Lesson in Citizenship
1954-10-1030 min
Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.
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Episode 3: The Motor Scooter
1954-10-1730 min
Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
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Episode 4: Football Tickets
1954-10-2430 min
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 5: Live My Own Life
1954-10-3130 min
Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
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Episode 6: Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation
1954-11-0730 min
Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
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Episode 7: Bud's Encounter With the Law
1954-11-1430 min
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 8: Thanksgiving Day
1954-11-2130 min
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 9: Second Honeymoon
1954-11-2830 min
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...
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Episode 10: Typical Father
1954-12-0530 min
Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
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Episode 11: Margaret Goes Dancing
1954-12-1230 min
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 12: The Christmas Story
1954-12-1930 min
Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
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Episode 13: Sparrow in the Window
1954-12-2630 min
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 14: Boy's Week
1955-01-0230 min
Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
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Episode 15: A Friend of Old George's
1955-01-0930 min
An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
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Episode 16: Bud the Snob
1955-01-1630 min
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 17: The Promised Playhouse
1955-01-2330 min
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 18: Jim the Farmer
1955-01-3030 min
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 19: Father of the Year
1955-02-0630 min
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 20: The Mink Coat
1955-02-1330 min
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 21: The Matchmaker
1955-02-2030 min
Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
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Episode 22: Bud the Bridesmaid
1955-02-2730 min
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 23: Proud Father
1955-03-0630 min
Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.
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Episode 24: Father Delivers the Papers
1955-03-1330 min
Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
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Episode 25: No Partiality
1955-03-2030 min
Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.
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Episode 26: Close Decision
1955-03-2730 min
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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