Father Knows Best

Bud makes a date on Margaret's birthday.

Betty prepares for the arrival of a cowboy beau.

When Jim and Margaret decide Betty should go to college, they make all the plans for her.

Bud tries to seem older for a beautiful date.

Betty decides it's time she went out on her own and moves in with a friend.

The Andersons arrange a face-saving banquet for a poverty-stricken author.

Betty asks her family not to celebrate her birthday when she learns that gift-giving has become meaningless.

Jim makes a risky deal with Bud when they agree on a $10-a-week allowance.

The Andersons have a dispute over fashion.

Betty learns a valuable lesson while teaching others at college.

Bud gets a job at the local newspaper, much to Margaret and Jim's dismay.

The Andersons are worried when Betty goes to New York to attend a friend's wedding.

Betty is accepted by a self-appointed group of "acceptable" students.

An elderly man is forced to accept reality when Kathy crashes his dream world.

Christmas is threatened when Jim's sister spends the holidays with the Andersons.

Jim has problems handling a young man he is supposed to be helping.

A kindly man named Frank offers to be the Andersons' gardener.

Jim considers buying an island when the family starts complaining at home.

Margaret takes an impulsive shopping trip.

Jim and Margaret are tired of always chaperoning the neighborhood parties.

Bud's shortwave radio picks up a distress call from a ship at sea.

Bud learns what it's like to be suckered when he's taken in twice by the same man.

Betty falls in love with an Army pilot stationed at the local base.

Bud's plans to go to Hillsborough go astray, but he doggedly persists.

The Anderson household is turned upside down when Cornel Wilde comes to talk with Jim.