Father Knows Best

1954
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Father Knows Best: Season 2 episodes (37)

1 Art of Salesmanship
8/31/55
Bud thinks he can earn much money fast by selling sauce-boats.
2 Father's Private Life
9/7/55
Jim feels that his children need to work out their own problems.
3 Lessons in Civics
9/14/55
The county wants to build a new highway right through the old community hall.
4 First Disillusionment
9/21/55
Bud is upset because he has lost a job to another boy.
5 Woman in the House
9/28/55
Jim wants to invite a friend of his over to the Anderson home.
6 New Girl at School
10/5/55
There is a new girl at school and it is love at first sight for Bud Anderson.
7 Kathy Makes Magic
10/12/55
Kathy trades her skaters for a magician's box.
8 Advantage to Betty
10/19/55
Betty is excited her tennis team has made the championships.
9 The Big Test
10/26/55
For once in his life Bud has studied hard for a big test.
10 Father is a Dope
11/2/55
Jim becomes paranoid after watching a family sitcom on television.
11 Spirit of Youth
11/9/55
Betty, Bud and Kathy are convinced that Mom and Dad are very old.
12 Bud, the Ladykiller
11/16/55
At school a dorky classmate of Bud's has a crush on him.
13 Margaret's Premonition
11/30/55
Margaret's recent predictions have convinced that family that she has psychic powers.
14 Stage to Yuma
12/7/55
Robert Young tells us at the beginning that "the family is on vacation this week"(lucky them) and then proceeds to introduce what is clearly meant to be a Western pilot for an entirely different show.
15 Bad Influence
12/14/55
Bud has a new friend. Unfortunately, his new friend is a kleptomaniac and Bud gets blame for his friend's actions.
16 Betty Hates Carter
12/28/55
Jim has decided to play match maker for his daughter for an upcoming ball.
17 Jim, the Tyrant
1/4/56
Jim has had a bad day at work. When he comes home from the office his mood is amplified when the family ignores him
18 Betty's Brother
1/11/56
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.
19 Betty Earns a Formal
1/18/56
Jim refused to buy a formal dress for the dance for Betty because it cost too much money.
20 The House Painter
1/25/56
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.
21 Bud, The Wallflower
2/1/56
Bud is depressed because he has not been invited to the Sadie Hawkins dance at school. He decides to plan a camping trip.
22 The Bus to Nowhere
2/8/56
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.
23 Kathy, The Indian Giver
2/15/56
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.
24 The Historical Andersons
2/22/56
Bud is given an assignment to write an essay about a great man from the War of Independence.
25 The Grass is Greener
2/29/56
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.
26 The Persistent Guest
3/7/56
Bud has a new friends that he has invited to stay over night at the Anderson Home.
27 Family Reunion
3/14/56
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.
28 Family Dines Out
3/28/56
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.
29 Bud, The Boxer
4/4/56
Eddie Jarvis is the school bully. He challenges Bud to a boxing match.
30 Betty, Girl Engineer
4/11/56
After a job fair, Betty decides she would like to be an engineer.
31 The Martins and the Coys
4/18/56
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.
32 Dilemma for Margaret
4/25/56
Margaret is candid about some minor issues with her children.
33 Hero Father
5/2/56
Bud impresses his classmates when his father gets Duke Snider make a visit to Springfield.
34 Father, the Naturalist
5/9/56
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.
35 The Ten Dollar Question
5/16/56
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.
36 Adopted Daughter
5/23/56
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.
37 Betty's Graduation
5/30/56
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.

About this show

Maybe he didn't always know best, but beginning in 1954 insurance salesman Jim Anderson (Robert Young) of Springfield, Ohio, was America's favorite head of household.

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4.8
96 reviews
Stephen “Dezz's husband” Crawford
December 21, 2014
More seasons and seasons of The Donna Reed show. I was so happy to see Father Knows Best on here, I like Leave It To Beaver and Bewitched but those shows are always available be it on Netflix or at the store so am glad to see these 4 seasons. Granted it was before I was born but you don't see tv like this much less reality. The kids are relatable they aren't perfect but they aren't complete jerk like the disrespect on tv 2day*mrs.crawford.
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Norma Jacobs
March 8, 2018
I have always loved this show, I still watch it everyday! I would give it a 10 rating if I could! Life just seemed so much simpler in those days. I cry when I watch certain shows, I and laugh a lot @ other shows, but I love the morals and values that are deeply played out by each character in each episode! Families today could learn a lot by watching this show! We live in a very sad world. Respect is a thing of the past! Family ties don`t compare too how it was back then! 😂😂
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Dallas Lakey
February 21, 2015
since the other old shows aren't. I watched every episode and I wish that there were more seasons of it. It's too bad that they took it off of TV.
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