Season 1
26 episodes · Oct 3, 1954
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S1E1Bud Takes Up the Dance
Oct 3, 195430mBud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
- S1E2
Lesson in Citizenship
Oct 10, 195430mJim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.
- S1E3
The Motor Scooter
Oct 17, 195430mJim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
- S1E4
Football Tickets
Oct 24, 195430mJim 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.
- S1E5
Live My Own Life
Oct 31, 195430mBud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
- S1E7
Bud's Encounter With the Law
Nov 14, 195430mBud 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.
- S1E8
Thanksgiving Day
Nov 21, 195430mKathy 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. When he actually finds out what the poem consists of, his hopes for Kathy’s future are deflated and he disparages the poem to Margaret, unwitting that Kathy has overheard.
- S1E9
Second Honeymoon
Nov 28, 195430mJim'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. 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...
- S1E10
Typical Father
Dec 5, 195430mJim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
- S1E11
Margaret Goes Dancing
Dec 12, 195430mJim 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.
- S1E12
The Christmas Story
Dec 19, 195430mJim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
- S1E13
Sparrow in the Window
Dec 26, 195430mKathy 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.
- S1E14
Boy's Week
Jan 2, 195530mJim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
- S1E15
A Friend of Old George's
Jan 9, 195530mAn unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
- S1E16
Bud the Snob
Jan 16, 195530mBud 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.
- S1E17
The Promised Playhouse
Jan 23, 195530mAfter 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.
- S1E18
Jim the Farmer
Jan 30, 195530mJim 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.
- S1E19
Father of the Year
Feb 6, 195530mJim 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.
- S1E20
The Mink Coat
Feb 13, 195530mEven 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.
- S1E21
The Matchmaker
Feb 20, 195530mMargaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
- S1E22
Bud the Bridesmaid
Feb 27, 195530mMargaret'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.
- S1E24
Father Delivers the Papers
Mar 13, 195530mBud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
- S1E26
Close Decision
Mar 27, 195530mMargaret 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.