Episode
Father Knows Best: Betty's Brother
Overview
Bud is having trouble in school and the family are hard-pressed to find out why. Eventually, Jim and Margaret come to the conclusion that, since he’s entered high school, he’s lost his confidence over being constantly compared to Betty and her accomplishments.
Details
- Series
- Father Knows Best
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 1956-01-11
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Betty's Brother is Episode 18 in Season 2 of Father Knows Best. It aired on 1956-01-11. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 17: Jim, the Tyrant
Jim comes home early from work, after a long, hard day, and expects to gain comfort from his family, but is quickly disillusioned when they all are too absorbed in their own interests and tasks to pay attention to him. This just makes his mood more sour and he declares at dinner that if he must, he will become a tyrant. This leads to unwelcome consequences.
Episode 19: Betty Earns a Formal
Betty gets a job to pay for a new, expensive formal for the Cinderella Ball at the country club.
More episodes from this season
Episode 16: Betty Hates Carter
Betty is indignant when Jim arranges a date for her with an old insurance salesman buddy’s son, Carter.
Episode 20: The House Painter
Jim has a bet with Betty and Margaret concerning human nature, integrity and the man painting their house—Mr. Everett.
Episode 15: Bad Influence
Bud gets in trouble when his latest friend turns out to be a kleptomaniac.
Episode 21: Bud, the Wallflower
Bud seems determined not to go to a Senior/Freshman dance that is Sadie Hawkins-themed.
Episode 14: Stage to Yuma
Tate Idsen saves a stagecoach from savage Indians in a flashback sequence.
Episode 22: The Bus to Nowhere
Betty becomes irritable with her family as she goes through an existential crisis.
Episode 13: Margaret's Premonition
Margaret has a premonition of danger for Jim’s upcoming business trip, and tries to get Jim to postpone it. But Jim believes it’s a bunch of superstitious nonsense, and insists on going anyway.
Episode 23: Kathy, the Indian Giver
Kathy is taught about fair trading from her father—and ends up trading her doll for a real baby.
Episode 12: Bud, the Ladykiller
Bud gets irritated by a girl (whom he refers to as “Dumb Dora”) who has a crush on him, hurts her feelings when his irritation leads to cruelty, and must make amends.
Episode 24: The Historical Andersons
When Bud receives an assignment to write a term paper about a Revolutionary War hero, he ends up researching the life of a relative—Major Nathaniel Oliver Anderson.