About
Family man Jim Anderson copes with the everyday problems among his wife Margaret and their three children as they experience day-to-day changes.
Cast
Robert Young
as Jim Anderson
Jane Wyatt
as Margaret Anderson
Elinor Donahue
as Betty Anderson
Billy Gray
as Bud Anderson
Lauren Chapin
as Kathy Anderson
Episodes
Season 1
Bud Takes Up the Dance
Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.
Lesson in Citizenship
Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.
The Motor Scooter
Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.
Football Tickets
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.
Live My Own Life
Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.
Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation
Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.
Bud's Encounter With the Law
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.
Thanksgiving Day
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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