Where to watch Father Knows Best Season 1
Father Knows Best season 1 is free to watch in Australia on Tubi. Season 1 was released on 3 October 1954.
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Father Knows Best Season 1 air dates
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Air dates: TMDB.
Father Knows Best Season 1 episodes
S01 E01
Bud Takes Up the Dance
30m
Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
S01 E02
Lesson in Citizenship
30m
Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.
S01 E03
The Motor Scooter
30m
Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
S01 E04
Football Tickets
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 tickets. He then tries frantically to find a second one.
S01 E05
Live My Own Life
30m
Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
S01 E06
Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation
30m
Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
S01 E07
Bud's Encounter With the Law
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 the washing machine, and ruins the letter, so he doesn’t know why he is asked to be there within seven days.
S01 E08
Thanksgiving Day
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.
S01 E09
Second Honeymoon
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 then when the kids take the news too easy, Jim and Margaret are befuddled.
S01 E10
Typical Father
30m
Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
S01 E11
Margaret Goes Dancing
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, leaving her to take lessons alone.
S01 E12
The Christmas Story
30m
Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
S01 E13
Sparrow in the Window
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.
S01 E14
Boy's Week
30m
Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
S01 E15
A Friend of Old George's
30m
An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
S01 E16
Bud the Snob
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 around them.
S01 E17
The Promised Playhouse
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.
S01 E18
Jim the Farmer
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 crosses more lines to fulfill his dream than he ever has before.
S01 E19
Father of the Year
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.
S01 E20
The Mink Coat
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.
S01 E21
The Matchmaker
30m
Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
S01 E22
Bud the Bridesmaid
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 called off. Poor Bud is reeled in to do a stand-in for the bride at the rehearsal.
S01 E23
Proud Father
30m
Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.
S01 E24
Father Delivers the Papers
30m
Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
S01 E25
No Partiality
30m
Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.
S01 E26
Close Decision
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.
Episode names, air dates, runtimes and summaries: TMDB. Air dates are the first broadcast anywhere.