Father Knows Best : Season 1

Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.

Jim tells his family to help others and winds up in more trouble than before.

Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.

Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.

Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.

Jim's weekend retreat, just he and his wife, looks like a perfect idea to Jim. First 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 quite stunned. 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 ...

Jim and Margaret rarely disagree on anything. When a couple asks them to take dancing lessons, Jim goes to his own club only to find it dull.

Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree and become stranded there.

Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.

An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.

Jim unwillingly says he will sleep in Kathy's playhouse

Jim wants to give up his office job in order to move into the country to lead a quiet and less stressy life as a farmer. His wife doesn't think that he means it seriously but he has crossed many more lines to fulfill his dream than he ever did before. Soon the life at home turns more quiet than he expected and Jim starts to despair at home because no one from the office calls him, and his replacement and the secretary despair at the office because they don't want to phone and disturb him.

Jim sells the house and plans to move out into the country.

Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.

Margaret's cousin gets married in the Anderson house with Bud as the stand-in bridesmaid.

Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.

Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.