Father Knows Best
Cast & Crew

Robert Young Jim Anderson

Jane Wyatt Margaret Anderson

Elinor Donahue Betty Anderson ("Princess")

Billy Gray James Anderson Jr. ("Bud")

Lauren Chapin Kathy Anderson ("Kitten")

Sarah Selby Miss Thomas

Robert Foulk Ed Davis

Vivi Janiss Myrtle Davis

Yvonne Lime Dotty Snow

Paul Wallace Kippy Watkins

Jimmy Bates Claude Messner

Eugene B. Rodney Producer
⨁Full Cast & CrewUpcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Sunday, July 6
Woman in the House
Season 2 • Episode 5
The Andersons invite the wife of a close friend to be their house guest.
Monday, July 7
The Bus to Nowhere
Season 2 • Episode 22
When Betty decides that life is devoid of significance, she prepares to leave home.
Monday, July 7
Kathy, the Indian Giver
Season 2 • Episode 23
Jim decides he will never understand women, regardless of age, when he runs head on with Kathy.
Tuesday, July 8
The Historical Andersons
Season 2 • Episode 24
Bud is astounded when he learns that his revolutionary forebear was a scoundrel.
Tuesday, July 8
The Grass Is Greener
Season 2 • Episode 25
The Andersons learn that Jim is one of the "Four Musketeers" of his college days.
Wednesday, July 9
The Persistent Guest
Season 2 • Episode 26
Jim is intrigued by a friend of Bud's who never seems to go home.
Wednesday, July 9
Family Reunion
Season 2 • Episode 27
The Andersons' annual trip to Margaret's family reunion is threatened.
Thursday, July 10
Family Dines Out
Season 2 • Episode 28
The Andersons are divided when they receive two dinner invitations for the same night.
Thursday, July 10
Bud, the Boxer
Season 2 • Episode 29
Bud takes up boxing and decides on it as a career.
Friday, July 11
Betty, Girl Engineer
Season 2 • Episode 30
Betty meets opposition to her plans to be an engineer.
Friday, July 11
The Martins and the Coys
Season 2 • Episode 31
A family feud threatens to separate friends when Jim and a friend have a business falling out.
Saturday, July 12
Kathy Makes Magic
Season 2 • Episode 7
Kathy thinks she has put a magic curse on Bud.
Saturday, July 12
Advantage to Betty
Season 2 • Episode 8
Betty is picked as queen of the sports banquet because of her beauty instead of her ability.
Sunday, July 13
Father Is a Dope
Season 2 • Episode 10
Jim suspects that his family is conspiring to keep him from a hunting trip.
Monday, July 14
Dilemma for Margaret
Season 2 • Episode 32
Margaret thinks Betty participated in a prank.
Monday, July 14
Hero Father
Season 2 • Episode 33
Bud promises Jim's help in getting an all-star ball team to town.
Tuesday, July 15
Father, the Naturalist
Season 6 • Episode 14
Margaret recalls an earlier time when Jim went all out to help Kathy with a school project.
Tuesday, July 15
The Ten Dollar Question
Season 2 • Episode 35
Jim accuses the children when $10 is missing.
Wednesday, July 16
Betty's Graduation
Season 2 • Episode 37
Betty realizes that her graduation from high school will bring an end to many things.
Thursday, July 17
No Apron Strings
Season 3 • Episode 1
Bud develops a crush on a girl from "the wrong side of the tracks.".
Thursday, July 17
Never the Twain
Season 3 • Episode 2
Betty prepares for the arrival of a cowboy beau.
Friday, July 18
Betty Goes to College
Season 3 • Episode 3
When Jim and Margaret decide Betty should go to college, they make all the plans for her.
Saturday, July 19
Spirit of Youth
Season 2 • Episode 11
Jim and Margaret feel that they are being relegated to the roles of "old fogies.".
Sunday, July 20
Betty Hates Carter
Season 2 • Episode 16
Betty is enraged when she learns that Jim has arranged a date for her.
Sunday, July 20
Jim, the Tyrant
Season 2 • Episode 17
Jim and Kathy go on a free-for-all to determine who will be the family tyrant.