Episode
Father Knows Best: The Persistent Guest
Overview
Bud’s new friend, Fred, won't leave the Anderson house.
Details
- Series
- Father Knows Best
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 26
- Air date
- 1956-03-07
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Persistent Guest is Episode 26 in Season 2 of Father Knows Best. It aired on 1956-03-07. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 25: The Grass is Greener
Jim’s old college friend, Charlie Bradley, a successful industrial tycoon, is in town. Charlie, along with Jim, were a part of a group known as The Four Musketeers, in college. Of the four, Jim appears to be the least ‘successful.’
Episode 27: Family Reunion
The family tries to think up excuses to keep from going to Margaret's family reunion.
More episodes from this season
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.
Episode 28: Family Dines Out
Betty tells a wealthy friend, Eloise Sanders, that she’s going to a charity dinner at a club. But it’s expensive and she hasn’t asked her father, yet.
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 29: Bud, the Boxer
Bud gets in a tussle with a boy, Eddie, at school, then dreads facing him the next day because the kid wants to fight him. Jim makes Bud face him in a boxing ring to settle it, knowing that Bud will have to face Eddie, eventually. Later, Jim has Bud take boxing lessons.
Episode 22: The Bus to Nowhere
Betty becomes irritable with her family as she goes through an existential crisis.
Episode 30: Betty, Girl Engineer
Betty takes a vocational guidance course and signs up to get practical experience to become an engineer, but she gets a lot of flack for it because she’s a girl.
Episode 21: Bud, the Wallflower
Bud seems determined not to go to a Senior/Freshman dance that is Sadie Hawkins-themed.
Episode 31: The Martins and the Coys
Jim and a family friend, Frank, fight over an insurance claim and dissolve their friendship over it. Betty and his son, Bob, are dating and this affects them, too.
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 32: Dilemma for Margaret
Margaret is asked to represent her branch of the PTA by giving a speech, but later decides against doing so because of some mischief Betty gets into.