| Edition |
Fullscreen ed. |
| Description |
5 videodiscs (ca. 1050 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast on CBS television during the 1955-1956 season. |
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Contains all 35 episodes from the second season. |
| Audience |
Not rated; appropriate for all audiences. |
| Summary |
Television series about a "typical" mid-century, middle-class, Midwestern American family living in Springfield, Ohio: Jim Anderson, insurance salesman and father, his wife Margaret, and their children Betty, Bud and Kathy. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Art of salesmanship ; Father's private life ; Lessons in civics ; First disillusionment ; Woman in the house ; New girl at school ; Kathy makes magic -- Disc 2. Advantage to Betty ; The big test ; Father is a dope ; Spirit of youth ; Bud, the ladykiller ; Margaret's premonition ; Stage to Yuma ; Bad influence -- Disc 3. Betty hates Carter ; Jim, the tyrant ; Betty's brother ; Betty earns a formal ; The house painter ; Bud, the wallflower ; The bus to nowhere -- Disc 4. Kathy, the Indian giver ; The historical Andersons ; The grass is greener ; The persistent guest ; Family reunion ; Family dines out ; Bud, the boxer -- Disc 5. Betty, girl engineer ; The Martins and the Coys ; Dilemma for Margaret ; Hero father ; Father, the naturalist ; The ten dollar question ; Adopted daughter ; Betty's graduation. |
| Note |
Special features: Extended flashback episode: "First Disillusionment", which aired during the sixth season (11/16/1959) ; Robert Young western "Stage to Yuma" (12/7/1955), the "lost" episode of Father Knows Best, which hasn't aired in syndication since the 1980s ; "The teacher", from Robert Young's very next TV series, Window on Main Street ; Daddy's girls, part 2: all -new interviews with Lauren Chapin and Elinor Donahue. |
| Subject |
Fathers -- Ohio -- Springfield -- Drama.
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Parent and child -- Ohio -- Springfield -- Drama.
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Spouses -- Ohio -- Springfield -- Drama.
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Siblings -- Ohio -- Springfield -- Drama.
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Families -- Ohio -- Springfield -- Drama.
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Springfield (Ohio) -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Television programs.
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Situation comedies (Television programs)
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Television programs for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Young, Robert, 1907-1998.
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Wyatt, Jane, 1910-2006.
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Donahue, Elinor, 1937-
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Gray, Billy, 1938-
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Chapin, Lauren, 1945-
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Rodney-Young Productions (Firm)
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Shout! Factory (Firm)
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Vivendi Visual Entertainment (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Father knows best (Television program)
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| Standard No. |
826663109795 |
| Music No. |
SF10979 Shout Factory |
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