October 3, 1954 • 30m
Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
October 10, 1954 • 30m
Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.
October 17, 1954 • 30m
Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
October 24, 1954 • 30m
Jim gets tickets to an important football game, and picks one of the kids to go with him—only to be blackmailed by an important cl...Read more
October 31, 1954 • 30m
Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
November 7, 1954 • 30m
Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
November 14, 1954 • 30m
Bud becomes increasingly paranoid when Kathy (who has a fascination with the new washing machine, and puts everything in there) pl...Read more
November 21, 1954 • 30m
Kathy writes the best poem in the fourth grade on what Thanksgiving means to her, and Jim builds the poem up in his mind to unreas...Read more
November 28, 1954 • 30m
Jim's weekend retreat, just he and his wife, seems like a perfect idea, at first. But he doesn't want to pass this on to the kids ...Read more
December 5, 1954 • 30m
Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.
December 12, 1954 • 30m
Jim and Margaret rarely disagree on anything. But when he finds out Margaret signed them up to take dancing lessons, Jim refuses t...Read more
December 19, 1954 • 30m
Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.
December 26, 1954 • 30m
Kathy discovers a wounded Sparrow on the windowsill of the house—which she then considers hers—and the whole family becomes involv...Read more
January 2, 1955 • 30m
Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.
January 9, 1955 • 30m
An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.
January 16, 1955 • 30m
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 t...Read more
January 23, 1955 • 30m
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.
January 30, 1955 • 30m
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. Marga...Read more
February 6, 1955 • 30m
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.
February 13, 1955 • 30m
Even though finances have grown a little tight in the Anderson household, Jim buys Margaret a mink coat that ends up being more tr...Read more
February 20, 1955 • 30m
Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.
February 27, 1955 • 30m
Margaret's cousin (from the previous episode) is set to wed in the Anderson household, but things go wrong, due to the nervousness...Read more
March 6, 1955 • 30m
Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.
March 13, 1955 • 30m
Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.
March 20, 1955 • 30m
Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.
March 27, 1955 • 30m
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...Read more