Episode
Father Knows Best: The Matchmaker
Overview
Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
Details
- Series
- Father Knows Best
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1955-02-20
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Matchmaker is Episode 21 in Season 1 of Father Knows Best. It aired on 1955-02-20. The runtime is 30 min.
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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 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.
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Episode 19: Father of the Year
Jim 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.
Episode 23: Proud Father
Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.
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.
Episode 24: Father Delivers the Papers
Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
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 25: No Partiality
Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.
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 26: Close Decision
Margaret 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.
Episode 15: A Friend of Old George's
An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
Episode 14: Boy's Week
Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.