Father Knows Best

Live My Own Life

30 min

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

Grandpa Jim's Rejuvenation

30 min

Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.

Bud's Encounter With the Law

30 min

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

30 min

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.

Second Honeymoon

30 min

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...

Typical Father

30 min

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

Margaret Goes Dancing

30 min

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.

The Christmas Story

30 min

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