Episode

Father Knows Best: Family Reunion

Name: Father Knows Best: Family Reunion
Released: 1956-03-14
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin

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Overview

The family tries to think up excuses to keep from going to Margaret's family reunion.

Details

Series: Father Knows Best
Season: Season 2
Episode: Episode 27
Air date: 1956-03-14
Runtime: 30 min

Episode context

Family Reunion is Episode 27 in Season 2 of Father Knows Best. It aired on 1956-03-14. The runtime is 30 min.

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Episode 26: The Persistent Guest 1956-03-07 | 30 min Bud’s new friend, Fred, won't leave the Anderson house.

Episode 28: Family Dines Out 1956-03-28 | 30 min 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.

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Episode 29: Bud, the Boxer 1956-04-04 | 30 min 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 24: The Historical Andersons 1956-02-22 | 30 min 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 30: Betty, Girl Engineer 1956-04-11 | 30 min 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 23: Kathy, the Indian Giver 1956-02-15 | 30 min Kathy is taught about fair trading from her father—and ends up trading her doll for a real baby.

Episode 31: The Martins and the Coys 1956-04-18 | 30 min 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 22: The Bus to Nowhere 1956-02-08 | 30 min Betty becomes irritable with her family as she goes through an existential crisis.

Episode 32: Dilemma for Margaret 1956-04-25 | 30 min 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.

Episode 21: Bud, the Wallflower 1956-02-01 | 30 min Bud seems determined not to go to a Senior/Freshman dance that is Sadie Hawkins-themed.

Episode 33: Hero Father 1956-05-02 | 30 min Bud boasts to his friends, Sandy and Kippy, that his dad can get Duke Snider’s All-Stars to come to Springfield.