Where to watch Father Knows Best Season 2
Father Knows Best season 2 is free to watch in Australia on Tubi. Season 2 was released on 31 August 1955.
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Father Knows Best Season 2 air dates
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Air dates: TMDB.
Father Knows Best Season 2 episodes
S02 E01
Art of Salesmanship
30m
Jim tries to encourage Bud to take after him in salesmanship.
S02 E02
Father's Private Life
30m
Jim comes home tired one day and is harangued by the kids. So, he and Margaret set up new rules to give him some time to relax—but it ends up backfiring.
S02 E03
Lessons in Civics
30m
A new highway is getting built, and for that the old community hall is going to be pulled down. That's something Jim wouldn't like to see since the hall is a historical monument, and also, memories from his youth are connected with this hall.
S02 E04
First Disillusionment
30m
Bud loses a job to a boy who fakes his resumé, which leads him to believe it is alright to do this himself
S02 E05
Woman in the House
30m
Margaret is forced to invite a woman over who makes her uncomfortable because she is Jim's friend's wife.
S02 E06
New Girl at School
30m
Bud learns that the girl he likes is dating his best friend.
S02 E07
Kathy Makes Magic
30m
Kathy gets a new magic set, from a trade with a friend, and becomes convinced she can truly wield magic.
S02 E08
Advantage to Betty
30m
Betty has recently taken up tennis at school and is chosen for a photo shoot for the paper. This causes friction between her and her doubles partner, Eula, who is the team’s best player.
S02 E09
The Big Test
30m
Bud is accused of cheating because he is suddenly getting high grades in class.
S02 E10
Father Is a Dope
30m
After commenting on a sitcom (“Father Does It Again”) the family watches together one night, Jim speaks about how TV fathers are often portrayed as dumb in comparison with their families. Later, he plans on going hunting and starts believing that Margaret and the kids are secretly trying to get him to stay.
S02 E11
Spirit of Youth
30m
When Jim gets an invitation to a dance for his class reunion—class of ‘33—the kids start behaving as if their parents are ancient. Then, when the kids at their alma mater treat them the same, Jim and Margaret deal with the thought of getting older.
S02 E12
Bud, the Ladykiller
30m
Bud gets irritated by a girl (whom he refers to as “Dumb Dora”) who has a crush on him, hurts her feelings when his irritation leads to cruelty, and must make amends.
S02 E13
Margaret's Premonition
30m
Margaret has a premonition of danger for Jim’s upcoming business trip, and tries to get Jim to postpone it. But Jim believes it’s a bunch of superstitious nonsense, and insists on going anyway.
S02 E14
Stage to Yuma
30m
Tate Idsen saves a stagecoach from savage Indians in a flashback sequence.
S02 E15
Bad Influence
30m
Bud gets in trouble when his latest friend turns out to be a kleptomaniac.
S02 E16
Betty Hates Carter
30m
Betty is indignant when Jim arranges a date for her with an old insurance salesman buddy’s son, Carter.
S02 E17
Jim, the Tyrant
30m
Jim comes home early from work, after a long, hard day, and expects to gain comfort from his family, but is quickly disillusioned when they all are too absorbed in their own interests and tasks to pay attention to him.
S02 E18
Betty's Brother
30m
Bud is having trouble in school and the family are hard-pressed to find out why. Eventually, Jim and Margaret come to the conclusion that, since he’s entered high school, he’s lost his confidence over being constantly compared to Betty and her accomplishments.
S02 E19
Betty Earns a Formal
30m
Betty gets a job to pay for a new, expensive formal for the Cinderella Ball at the country club.
S02 E20
The House Painter
30m
Jim has a bet with Betty and Margaret concerning human nature, integrity and the man painting their house—Mr. Everett.
S02 E21
Bud, the Wallflower
30m
Bud seems determined not to go to a Senior/Freshman dance that is Sadie Hawkins-themed.
S02 E22
The Bus to Nowhere
30m
Betty becomes irritable with her family as she goes through an existential crisis.
S02 E23
Kathy, the Indian Giver
30m
Kathy is taught about fair trading from her father—and ends up trading her doll for a real baby.
S02 E24
The Historical Andersons
30m
When Bud receives an assignment to write a term paper about a Revolutionary War hero, he ends up researching the life of a relative—Major Nathaniel Oliver Anderson.
S02 E25
The Grass is Greener
30m
Jim’s old college friend, Charlie Bradley, a successful industrial tycoon, is in town. Charlie, along with Jim, were a part of a group known as The Four Musketeers, in college. Of the four, Jim appears to be the least ‘successful.’
S02 E26
The Persistent Guest
30m
Bud’s new friend, Fred, won't leave the Anderson house.
S02 E27
Family Reunion
30m
The family tries to think up excuses to keep from going to Margaret's family reunion.
S02 E28
Family Dines Out
30m
Betty tells a wealthy friend, Eloise Sanders, that she’s going to a charity dinner at a club. But it’s expensive and she hasn’t asked her father, yet.
S02 E29
Bud, the Boxer
30m
Bud gets in a tussle with a boy, Eddie, at school, then dreads facing him the next day because the kid wants to fight him. Jim makes Bud face him in a boxing ring to settle it, knowing that Bud will have to face Eddie, eventually. Later, Jim has Bud take boxing lessons.
S02 E30
Betty, Girl Engineer
30m
Betty takes a vocational guidance course and signs up to get practical experience to become an engineer, but she gets a lot of flack for it because she’s a girl.
S02 E31
The Martins and the Coys
30m
Jim and a family friend, Frank, fight over an insurance claim and dissolve their friendship over it. Betty and his son, Bob, are dating and this affects them, too.
S02 E32
Dilemma for Margaret
30m
Margaret is asked to represent her branch of the PTA by giving a speech, but later decides against doing so because of some mischief Betty gets into.
S02 E33
Hero Father
30m
Bud boasts to his friends, Sandy and Kippy, that his dad can get Duke Snider’s All-Stars to come to Springfield.
S02 E34
Father, the Naturalist
30m
Jim fights the elements to collect plants for Kathy's nature folder.
S02 E35
The Ten Dollar Question
30m
Jim makes a bet: the kid who doesn't tattle for one week will receive ten dollars.
S02 E36
Adopted Daughter
30m
Kathy finds a receipt for $25 from the adoption center and believes she was adopted.
S02 E37
Betty's Graduation
30m
While the family is readying for Betty’s graduation, Betty becomes conflicted about the event.
Episode names, air dates, runtimes and summaries: TMDB. Air dates are the first broadcast anywhere.