Episode
Father Knows Best: The Christmas Story
Overview
Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
Details
- Series
- Father Knows Best
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1954-12-19
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Christmas Story is Episode 12 in Season 1 of Father Knows Best. It aired on 1954-12-19. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 11: Margaret Goes Dancing
Jim 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.
Episode 13: Sparrow in the Window
Kathy 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.
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Episode 10: Typical Father
Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
Episode 14: Boy's Week
Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
Episode 9: Second Honeymoon
Jim'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...
Episode 15: A Friend of Old George's
An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
Episode 8: Thanksgiving Day
Kathy 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.
Episode 16: Bud the Snob
Bud 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.
Episode 7: Bud's Encounter With the Law
Bud 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.
Episode 17: The Promised Playhouse
After 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.
Episode 6: Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation
Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
Episode 18: Jim the Farmer
Jim 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.