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- Father Knows Best
- Season 1
- Episode 10
Typical Father
Father Knows Best - S1 - E10
Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
Father Knows Best: Season 1 - 26 Episode s
1x1 - Bud Takes Up the Dance
October 3, 1954
Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
1x2 - Lesson in Citizenship
October 10, 1954
Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.
1x3 - The Motor Scooter
October 17, 1954
Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
1x4 - Football Tickets
October 24, 1954
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.
1x5 - Live My Own Life
October 31, 1954
Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
1x6 - Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation
November 7, 1954
Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
1x7 - Bud's Encounter With the Law
November 14, 1954
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.
1x8 - Thanksgiving Day
November 21, 1954
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.
1x9 - Second Honeymoon
November 28, 1954
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...
1x10 - Typical Father
December 5, 1954
Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
1x11 - Margaret Goes Dancing
December 12, 1954
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.
1x12 - The Christmas Story
December 19, 1954
Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
1x13 - Sparrow in the Window
December 26, 1954
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.
1x14 - Boy's Week
January 2, 1955
Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
1x15 - A Friend of Old George's
January 9, 1955
An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
1x16 - Bud the Snob
January 16, 1955
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.
1x17 - The Promised Playhouse
January 23, 1955
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.
1x18 - Jim the Farmer
January 30, 1955
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.
1x19 - Father of the Year
February 6, 1955
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.
1x20 - The Mink Coat
February 13, 1955
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.
1x21 - The Matchmaker
February 20, 1955
Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
1x22 - Bud the Bridesmaid
February 27, 1955
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.
1x23 - Proud Father
March 6, 1955
Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.
1x24 - Father Delivers the Papers
March 13, 1955
Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
1x25 - No Partiality
March 20, 1955
Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.
1x26 - Close Decision
March 27, 1955
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.