Episode
Father Knows Best: The Promised Playhouse
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Father Knows Best
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1955-01-23
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Promised Playhouse is Episode 17 in Season 1 of Father Knows Best. It aired on 1955-01-23. The runtime is 30 min.
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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 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.
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Episode 19: Father of the Year
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Episode 14: Boy's Week
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Episode 20: The Mink Coat
Even 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.
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.
Episode 21: The Matchmaker
Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
Episode 12: The Christmas Story
Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
Episode 22: Bud the Bridesmaid
Margaret'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.
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 23: Proud Father
Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.