Father Knows Best: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Bud Takes Up the Dance
Oct 3, 1954 · 30 min
Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
Lesson in Citizenship
Oct 10, 1954 · 30 min
Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.
The Motor Scooter
Oct 17, 1954 · 30 min
Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
Football Tickets
Oct 24, 1954 · 30 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
Live My Own Life
Oct 31, 1954 · 30 min
Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation
Nov 7, 1954 · 30 min
Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
Bud's Encounter With the Law
Nov 14, 1954 · 30 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 depar
Thanksgiving Day
Nov 21, 1954 · 30 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 a
Second Honeymoon
Nov 28, 1954 · 30 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;
Typical Father
Dec 5, 1954 · 30 min
Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
Margaret Goes Dancing
Dec 12, 1954 · 30 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 cl
The Christmas Story
Dec 19, 1954 · 30 min
Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
Sparrow in the Window
Dec 26, 1954 · 30 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.
Boy's Week
Jan 2, 1955 · 30 min
Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
A Friend of Old George's
Jan 9, 1955 · 30 min
An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
Bud the Snob
Jan 16, 1955 · 30 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-t
The Promised Playhouse
Jan 23, 1955 · 30 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.
Jim the Farmer
Jan 30, 1955 · 30 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
Father of the Year
Feb 6, 1955 · 30 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.
The Mink Coat
Feb 13, 1955 · 30 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.
The Matchmaker
Feb 20, 1955 · 30 min
Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
Bud the Bridesmaid
Feb 27, 1955 · 30 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 weddi
Proud Father
Mar 6, 1955 · 30 min
Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.
Father Delivers the Papers
Mar 13, 1955 · 30 min
Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
No Partiality
Mar 20, 1955 · 30 min
Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.
Close Decision
Mar 27, 1955 · 30 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.