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 client (who wants to go to the game, too) out of one of his tickets. He then tries frantically to find a second one.

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Episode 5

Live My Own Life

1954-10-31 · 30m

Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.

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Episode 6

Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation

1954-11-07 · 30m

Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.

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Episode 7

Bud's Encounter With the Law

1954-11-14 · 30m

Bud becomes increasingly paranoid when Kathy (who has a fascination with the new washing machine, and puts everything in there) places a letter addressed to him by the police department in the washing machine, and ruins the letter, so he doesn’t know why he is asked to be there within seven days.

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Episode 8

Thanksgiving Day

1954-11-21 · 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 unreasonable expectations for a fourth grader. When he actually finds out what the poem consists of, his hopes for Kathy’s future are deflated and he disparages the poem to Margaret, unwitting that Kathy has overheard.

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Episode 9

Second Honeymoon

1954-11-28 · 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 when he learns that the kids have plans with them; and then when the kids take the news too easy, Jim and Margaret are befuddled. They leave, but soon they start thinking about their kids and after reaching the lodge they want to phone in - but no one answers the call...

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Episode 10

Typical Father

1954-12-05 · 30m

Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.

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Episode 11

Margaret Goes Dancing

1954-12-12 · 30m

Jim and Margaret rarely disagree on anything. But when he finds out Margaret signed them up to take dancing lessons, Jim refuses to do so, and ends up defiantly going to his old club, leaving her to take lessons alone.

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Episode 12

The Christmas Story

1954-12-19 · 30m

Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.

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Episode 13

Sparrow in the Window

1954-12-26 · 30m

Kathy discovers a wounded Sparrow on the windowsill of the house—which she then considers hers—and the whole family becomes involved in trying to help it get better.

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Episode 14

Boy's Week

1955-01-02 · 30m

Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.

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Episode 15

A Friend of Old George's

1955-01-09 · 30m

An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.

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Episode 16

Bud the Snob

1955-01-16 · 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 that Bud‘s real problem is that he becomes tongue-tied around them.

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Episode 17

The Promised Playhouse

1955-01-23 · 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.

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Episode 18

Jim the Farmer

1955-01-30 · 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. Margaret doesn't think that he means it seriously, but he crosses more lines to fulfill his dream than he ever has before.

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Episode 19

Father of the Year

1955-02-06 · 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.

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Episode 20

The Mink Coat

1955-02-13 · 30m

Even though finances have grown a little tight in the Anderson household, Jim buys Margaret a mink coat that ends up being more trouble than it’s worth.

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Episode 21

The Matchmaker

1955-02-20 · 30m

Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.

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Episode 22

Bud the Bridesmaid

1955-02-27 · 30m

Margaret's cousin (from the previous episode) is set to wed in the Anderson household, but things go wrong, due to the nervousness of the prospective bride and groom, and the wedding is called off. Poor Bud is reeled in to do a stand-in for the bride at the rehearsal.

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Episode 23

Proud Father

1955-03-06 · 30m

Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.

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Episode 24

Father Delivers the Papers

1955-03-13 · 30m

Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.

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Episode 25

No Partiality

1955-03-20 · 30m

Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.

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Episode 26

Close Decision

1955-03-27 · 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 baseball game Bud is trying to get to play in.

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