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Father Knows Best: Season 1

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26 episodes · premiered Oct 3, 1954

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  1. Episode 1: Bud Takes Up the Dance Oct 3, 1954 · 30m Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
  2. Episode 2: Lesson in Citizenship Oct 10, 1954 · 30m Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.
  3. Episode 3: The Motor Scooter Oct 17, 1954 · 30m Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
  4. Episode 4: Football Tickets Oct 24, 1954 · 30m 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…
  5. Episode 5: Live My Own Life Oct 31, 1954 · 30m Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
  6. Episode 6: Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation Nov 7, 1954 · 30m Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
  7. Episode 7: Bud's Encounter With the Law Nov 14, 1954 · 30m 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…
  8. Episode 8: Thanksgiving Day Nov 21, 1954 · 30m 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…
  9. Episode 9: Second Honeymoon Nov 28, 1954 · 30m 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…
  10. Episode 10: Typical Father Dec 5, 1954 · 30m Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
  11. Episode 11: Margaret Goes Dancing Dec 12, 1954 · 30m 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…
  12. Episode 12: The Christmas Story Dec 19, 1954 · 30m Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
  13. Episode 13: Sparrow in the Window Dec 26, 1954 · 30m 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.
  14. Episode 14: Boy's Week Jan 2, 1955 · 30m Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
  15. Episode 15: A Friend of Old George's Jan 9, 1955 · 30m An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
  16. Episode 16: Bud the Snob Jan 16, 1955 · 30m 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…
  17. Episode 17: The Promised Playhouse Jan 23, 1955 · 30m 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.
  18. Episode 18: Jim the Farmer Jan 30, 1955 · 30m 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…
  19. Episode 19: Father of the Year Feb 6, 1955 · 30m 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.
  20. Episode 20: The Mink Coat Feb 13, 1955 · 30m 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.
  21. Episode 21: The Matchmaker Feb 20, 1955 · 30m Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
  22. Episode 22: Bud the Bridesmaid Feb 27, 1955 · 30m 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…
  23. Episode 23: Proud Father Mar 6, 1955 · 30m Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.
  24. Episode 24: Father Delivers the Papers Mar 13, 1955 · 30m Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
  25. Episode 25: No Partiality Mar 20, 1955 · 30m Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.
  26. Episode 26: Close Decision Mar 27, 1955 · 30m 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.