Father Knows Best

1 ▶ Bud Takes Up the Dance Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance. Not watched yet 30m 2 ▶ Lesson in Citizenship Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications. Not watched yet 30m 3 ▶ The Motor Scooter Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it. Not watched yet 30m 4 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 5 ▶ Live My Own Life Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself. Not watched yet 30m 6 ▶ Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill. Not watched yet 30m 7 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 8 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 9 ▶ 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... Not watched yet 30m 10 ▶ Typical Father Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious. Not watched yet 30m 11 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 12 ▶ The Christmas Story Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there. Not watched yet 30m 13 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 14 ▶ Boy's Week Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day. Not watched yet 30m 15 ▶ A Friend of Old George's An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party. Not watched yet 30m 16 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 17 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 18 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 19 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 20 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 21 ▶ The Matchmaker Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married. Not watched yet 30m 22 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m 23 ▶ Proud Father Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence. Not watched yet 30m 24 ▶ Father Delivers the Papers Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired. Not watched yet 30m 25 ▶ No Partiality Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man. Not watched yet 30m 26 ▶ 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. Not watched yet 30m