Father Knows Best Season 2

Kathy finds a receipt for $25 from the adoption center and believes she was adopted.

The family member who doesn't tattle for one week will receive ten dollars.

Jim fights the elements to collect plants for Kathy's nature folder. Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray.

Former baseball star Duke Snider appears in this episode. Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin. Sandy: Tommy Ivo. Bramer: Kenneth Tobey. Kippy: Paul Wallace.

Margaret admits before the PTA that she can't control her children.

Betty and her boyfriend refuse to see again after Jim and his father fight.

Betty decides to become an engineer. Doyle: Roger Smith. Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin.

The family tries to think up excuses to keep from going to Margaret's family reunion.

Bud new friend won't leave the Anderson house because he has no family.

The last few days Betty has no fun, she's sullen and does nothing. No one gets through to her, not even her parents. Betty faces a personal crisis when she has to find answers, basically, to the meaning-of-life question. The only way out for her is to put Bud's story (which he has written as an assignment) into reality: Enter a bus and go as far as the money takes her.

Betty gets a job to pay for her new formal. Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin.

Bud falters in his attempts to emulate Betty (Elinor Donahue). Robert Young, Jane Wyatt.

Jim decides to be stricter with his children. Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Lauren Chapin, Billy Gray.

Betty is indignant when Jim arranges a date for her with an old insurance salesman buddy’s son, Carter.

Bud gets in trouble when his latest friend turns out to be a kleptomaniac.

Tate Idsen saves a stagecoach from savage Indians in a flashback sequence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bud is accused of cheating because he is suddenly getting high grades in class.

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.

Kathy gets a new magic set, from a trade with a friend, and becomes convinced she can truly wield magic.

Bud learns that the girl he likes is dating his best friend.

Margaret is forced to invite a woman who makes her uncomfortable because she is Jim's friend's wife.

Bud loses a job to a boy who fakes his resume, which leads him to believe it is alright to do this himself

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. Everyone from the family sees how much the hall means to Jim, and they use different ways to organize help.

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.

Jim tries to encourage Bud to take after him in salesmanship.