Episode
Father Knows Best: Betty, Girl Engineer
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Father Knows Best
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 30
- Air date
- 1956-04-11
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Betty, Girl Engineer is Episode 30 in Season 2 of Father Knows Best. It aired on 1956-04-11. The runtime is 30 min.
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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 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.
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Episode 34: Father, the Naturalist
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Episode 25: The Grass is Greener
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Episode 35: The Ten Dollar Question
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Episode 36: Adopted Daughter
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