Half the fun growing up even in the 70's was meeting friends and hanging out. Today teens want to all be a TH-cam star and dream of having friends most claim they are all alone... I'm glad I grew up without cell phones.
the only youtube videos that carry on into the 21st century this kind of innocent clever humor is Bob and Brad the old guys that teach physiotherapy tips to the great unwashed of this generation. Watching their sweet innocent dialogues made me think of this series from my childhood.
Thank you, thank you! This was a wonderful treat to see!! I've not seen this show for 30 years or more. You made my night...it's been a rotten week and you've wiped all that away!! Thank you for bringing me some happiness.
I just wish they would have EXTENDED the show by, maybe, showing Betty and Bud go through college or something. They could call it, "Father Knows Best, the College Years". :-) Growing up in a dysfunctional family myself, it was so good to see brothers and sisters who actually CARE about each other, instead of like mine: a a self-centered narcissist who didn't mature past the age of 6 (emotionally), and a vengeful pathological liar who loves to punish people.
My dad recommended this show to me (he grew up with it). Here I am in my 50's and laughing hysterically at this show - I love it. A strong male father figure and wholesome family values only make it all the better.
I grew up in a home I thought was like this, until it all fell apart. Then from the age of ten I was in foster home after foster home, until I ended up in a home like this for real. It was so beautiful because I knew the difference.
I thought I had it bad. Man, that must be about the worst thing ever. My dad at least was nice before he went to work. We had a home, such as it was. All the best to you. brother.
I'm a big fan of classic radio and I listen to Father Knows Best ....Our Miss Brooks....Dragnet etc. I'm only 54 yet these old shows are FAR more entertaining than most TV nowadays. This show in particular is a great example of the transfer from radio to tv.
You have a great teacher.This show was on before I was born but I had heard people talk about it.I finally got a chance to watch and enjoyed it..Some teachers are recommending Geoge Burns and Gracie Allen Show.I recently watched it and loved it.
Thank you. Such good memories of my childhood during that era. I feel sorry for the folks that never experienced it and the fact that they don't realize what they missed.
It's so good to see others with the same opinion, about Robert Young. I feel the same way about Jane Wyman, too. Hollywood knew what they were doing when they matched these two. They both have faces that you can trust. All there joy inside them just radiates out, into genuine happiness. Every since I was a little girl and first saw them, I loved them instantly, and still feel the same today about them.✌🏽
i was raised in a single mom home alone with a miserable woman and it was hell. I used to watch this program and yearn to live in the TV like these people. Same with watching Donna Reed and the Dick Van Dyke show. I can actually remember wishing Laura was my mom and envying their little boy Richard. Ridiculous but true as I live to tell it.
I remember watching this show back in the 1950s when it first came out on old real television no flat screens !!! Still watching this great series! In real Life Billy Gray loved his Motor Cycles, and I just corresponded with him. Time goes by too quickly. Now we are the Seniors of society, but sometimes wish time would sit still.
Interesting and actually kind of fun and cute. I find it interesting that the parents are shown so sympathetic to their kid's embarrassments and so engaged in their lives.
back when families actually cared about each other and made sure they always helped their loved ones watching shows like this makes me want to go back in time
The guy playing Bud was a great actor. Knowing Hollywood (even in those days) he'd probably had a few lovers by the time he was making this series. But seriously, the values of that show were excellent. I used to watch it here in Australia in the early 1960's -- along with Our Miss Brooks and Dobie Gillis. Great stuff.
Just a little note here the girl who played "Marcia" also played "Lucia" in the Our Lady of Fatima in 1952. And she was was on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet show in 1955. Look up her IMDB credits she was truly '50s acting dynamite.
JimboParadox - you obviously are not an American nor do you know any. The majority of us are decent, hard working people, struggling to raise our families well in an evil age. (And not all foreigners are the fine, upstanding people you claim...there are good and bad in ALL ethnic groups. Try not to be so full of hate and prejudice)
@@cynthiaesquibel3191 Interesting how you tell this person to not be full of " hate and prejudice" when his comment is a rebuttal to a hateful, prejudiced comment about liberals and foreigners. That doesn't seem to bother you. No rebuke for that?
Why are there political comments here? This was a time when we were not so politically divided and that is what made that time great. Why can't we just agree that this was a good show and not be divisive?
Yes, I was really disheartened to see all the poison comments here. I hope Lauren that one day we will figure out how to lessen the divide. As for the show, as a young lad I remember watching the early 60s primetime reruns with the family. Good times.
Agreed. These people can never shut up and just enjoy the show. We ALL enjoyed these old shows, and many of us still do, regardless of political party. Why are these people always so damn angry? Geez.
A lot of good shows back then but my 2 all time favorites are Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver. Met Billy Gray years ago at a convention and that treasured moment is the highlight of celebrity encounters I experienced.
I love this show. Jane Wyatt is a very pretty lady. Robert Young was very likable. Kathy was a scene stealer. The music was dramatic and sentimental. Every episode tried to teach you a nice life lesson. This show teaches you how to raise a nice family. However, as a black American, the only thing I dislike about the show is like most shows set during the 50s black people didn’t exist. Other than that, this is a wonderful family comedy.
I know bro. It shows you what is was like back then. I couldn't imagine being black and never seeing my people represented on tv. Gotta give Props to Jack Benny. It was the 50's and Rochester was a top-billed co-star. Even better, Benny was Jewish!
Wasn't Amos & Andy out there? I Spy, Redd Fox, and Louis Armstrong? Your race was a minority back then maybe more so than today and black people seemed to want to be separate from the whites rather than the other way around. I know because I grew up in close association with a black family. Their mother used to cut my hair and their 2nd son was one of the closest friends I've ever had. Later he even dated my cousin. Makes me wonder where some people get their memories. Whites in general are good people, so are blacks; long as they don't have that simmering hatred in their hearts. Edited to say - the hatred that goes both ways.
There were not black people on TV shows because they objected to how they were portrayed. Amos and Andy got cancelled due to pressure from black organizations. But A & A had respectable characters, they dressed well, had jobs, did not engage in crime, etc. It was a comedy. Look at the white comedies They have silly people doing dumb things, or dramas with white crooks, they could portray whites any way they liked with no problem. Black people did it to themselves. They came back with Good Times, The Jeffersons, all those had black people with faults or being silly, just like the white people shows. Denzel Washington even said this.
If you really want comedy ahead of its time, I loved the Van Dyke show, The Donna Reed Show, and The Doris Day Show. Joined the world of being a more “vintage fan” when I was 15 or 16 and now at 19 I still enjoy the classics
My pop sure never wore a suit & tie when he landed on the couch.Fact that tie was off when he hit the car after work .And how nice...No stinking cell phones in sight.
This episode was first shown on television in late '54. My dad never wore a suit at home like Mr. Anderson, but I guess many other dads did. Anyway, even after so many decades, Father Knows Best is one of my current favorite TV shows of all time. By the way, if you watch this episode with the automated Closed Captioning turned on, be prepared for more laughs than what the story provides!
Until I watched this show, I have only known Eleanor as Ellie Walker who worked for a short time in Walker's Drug Store on The Andy Griffith Show. I like her character here.
If this episode was made today, the parents would be on their smartphones rather than reading a newspaper together. The children would not be out and about visiting their neighbors but would be locked in their rooms drooling over their smartphones and tweeting a lot of trifling nonsense or cyber bullying a nerdy classmate.
No actually believe it or not kids still regularly go out to get out of the house with friends. Just because people spend time online doesn't mean they never spend time doing other things. Sometimes you can't go out. And reading the newspaper takes attention away from others as much as a phone does. People don't become inable to divert their attention just because instead of paper they use electronics.
Imagine an America where children respected their parents, an America where Mom was able to stay home to care for the children, while Dad worked all day to bring home the bacon... Imagine an America without liberals and that America is yours!
Imagine an America where we can watch and enjoy these old shows without some angry dumbass getting all political about it. Everyone I know my age ( in my 60' s) is a liberal, everyone of us loves these shows and everyone of us respects the family. Not only that, but we respect Jesus's words love thy neighbor. .So just shut up.
j.d. di giusto, Oh, is more tan that ! An America without sexual revolution; an America without drugs like a poissonous red tide; an America without the satanic new world order agenda (dozens and dozens of ongoing plans to destroy America and the world); an America without the flaunted "pride" to be atheist or make mockery of God, the moral, the ethic, the values, and the True Religión. And surely there are many more.
@@z_vietfr.4977 You sound like an..er..lovely person. Such elegance of expression, and umm.. intelligent wit. I hope the New Year will bring you some help for your anger issues.
Born after this tv series was created, what a shame! Yet, we have the shows to show us what a great life it used to be. Far from this hellish apocalyptic era we’re living.
I had no mom, and dad was a raging alcoholic. I clung to these shows. All I ever wanted was to be tucked in, In a normal house, with a mom and dad shutting the light off for me. I did ok but that lack of that love has never left me, even at 64.. I used to stare into the Christmas tree and wish, One day I would be out of there. I was starring at my tree last week, thinking back. Is there a god? There is something that looks out for good girls and boys. I know. survived. My brother was an abusive ASSHOLE. Haven't talked to him in 20 years, and that was only because dad died. Robert Young, Yeah.
@@TheJetfighter666 Robert Young was an alcoholic as well (although, to his credit, he did eventually get help). He also battled depression most of his life. However, his children and grandchildren loved him dearly. He sought help for his depression following a suicide attempt in 1991 and spoke out about it, hoping it would encourage others to seek help. I don't think anyone had a bad word to say about him.
This is the Best Nostalgic Show ! Cracks Me up how Father lights up a Cigarette in the house !!! Funny to see people smoking on planes and in Resturant’s ! 1-2-2023
The narrative of a middle-class family in which each member submits to a patriarchal society is really looking at the period with rose-coloured glasses. And, it is not helpful to re-inforce that in an era when women were expected to stay at home and not have any sort of career, that families were in a better place. I think it is better to watch these shows in context, understanding that they are just stories, as much as this looks lovely and wholesome, much like the Andy Hardy series of the 1930s they were simply ideologies, they were not the realities of the period.
Yes, it sort of makes me cringe how cloying these shows are (although when I watched them as a child I did not recognize it). What is particularly sad though, is that today, despite all the social progress we have made, there are still people ready to insult you for suggesting our society is better off now.
I'm 46, and I only started watching Father Knows Best (and also Dennis the Menace) last week. I'm in the middle of season 2 of both shows right now, and I love them. Last night was the first time I saw an episode of Dennis the Menace that I didn't like because of witchcraft being in it. I just finished season 2 episode 13, and this is the first episode of that show I didn't like :( 'Margaret's premonition.' I got to love these shows over the last week, but I am so SICK of witchcraft being brought into every SINGLE sitcom I watch. The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, The Andy Griffith Show, Dennis the Menace, Father knows Best.... although I WILL give them credit, I don't remember ever seeing anything in Green Acres; one show out of 6 (I guess that's just about right)
14:23-14:25 Hey it's Susan Whitney who played "Venerable Sister Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos" in Warner Bros. Pictures feature film "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)". At least I've already watched the movie and it's nice. By the way, I have no idea what's happening to her right now. But I'm sure she's still alive and well and I hope she'll returns to the film entertainment industry as a veteran hollywood film actress soon.
Bud, saying jeepers?? What is he 9, or something🤭?? Learning to dance, and going to a dance wasn't, THAT bad!!! Who hasn't (except for, the 'dork-wads') gone to a high school dance, by the time, they were a freshman?? Emotional, ain't he🤔?? Here's Elenore Donahue, just several years before she herself, would be dating. Dating Andy Griffith, that is, on the 1st. season, of his show☺️.
These shows were just awesum,a great family sitcom from the 50's,I watch every episode I can,or record.!!!a great group of actors who played there rolls so we'll,the "anderson family" well always have a place in my ❤️!!!!
stickloaf in 1954-55 the average commercial time for a 30 minute program was two minutes, four thirty second commercials. One after the opening credits, two at half way, and one before the epilogue.
There were families like this, Oscar, mine was one and I knew several others that were, too. We were regular, middle class families where the father was head of the family and respected as such, worked hard to support his family and enjoyed family life and being g a father. The women were good wives and mothers and put the welfare of their children before any career or "me" time. We kids all got along (mostly), minded our parents, obeyed the rules, and did well in school. We had a great neighborhood and were fortunate to have grown up there. We were very lucky, my childhood friends and I
The funny thing about these old tv shows, they weren't real. These are scripted shows, with many actors who went home did drugs, drank themselves drunk, and of course some abused their families. For many actors, coming to the set to act out these fairy tale family scenes are what got them through their childhood, or teen years, or even marriages. The old "glitz and glamour" of Hollywood, many times destroyed lives, but often saved lives as well. Countless stories of child actors who grew up to tell horrific stories of abuse are a dime a dozen. But these shows- even though they weren't real, attracted a large audience of people who they themselves may have needed an escape, perhaps time away from their own life's problems. The best loved shows are the ones who come so close to perfecting an imitation of life- one that we wish we had or aspire to have. For me, it was Love Boat & Fantasy Island. For my sister, it was Hogan's Heroes and Mary Tyler Moore Show. When I hear celebrities say they don't let their kids watch tv or that they don't own a tv, I always feel bad for their kids. Without pop culture you wouldn't know what's crappy and what's artistic. Who wants to end up being a clone of their parents?
Hindsight has placed an unfair judgement on this show. It really had a lot going for it, for this genre. It had substantive themes under cover of "wholesome family" show. Often it showed real sensitivity and real emotions. One episode even introduced Kafka and reading--amazing. Robert Young embued much quality to what could have been, well, refined sugar.
Feminism thought it would improve the world with ideas about women being morally superior to men. They might have been before the '60s. And I think the same group brought in ideas about about not disciplining children and it really hasn't made the world a better place.
No. That is a barometer. That style was very popular in the 1950s. Nearly every home had a barometer in those days. Today, very few people know what one is.
@@TheBermudaMan Its not that it's not funny we've just gotten used to a society that's more mean-spirited and crude. The music people make, the clothes they wear, tattoos everywhere, piercings all over their bodies, unshaven men, women that curse like sailors, rampant obesity, and actors slapping people at awards shows are just a normal part of our society now.
Half the fun growing up even in the 70's was meeting friends and hanging out. Today teens want to all be a TH-cam star and dream of having friends most claim they are all alone... I'm glad I grew up without cell phones.
When a TV show actually made you smile inside and out.
Yes, TV should always uplift not degrade nor be dark.
People back then, were braindead 'Sheeple's'🐑😁!!
@@shawnmartin7872Amen to that!
I remember watching this as a kid in the 80's. Good memories, and I still love it. I miss the innocence of it all.
I wish ppl still talked like this. And mothers actually mothered the children like this.
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you peace, hope you’re safe and well?
I miss sweet, wholesome, innocent shows like this!
Love watching the reruns of the oldies and the besties!
@@patriciawilder8512 I DO TOO!!!!
This is one of many wholesome, clean. Innocent shows. My childhood was richer for it.
Me too. Specially with whats going on now in the world
the only youtube videos that carry on into the 21st century this kind of innocent clever humor is Bob and Brad the old guys that teach physiotherapy tips to the great unwashed of this generation. Watching their sweet innocent dialogues made me think of this series from my childhood.
My teacher got me to watch this for an assignment about family culture in the 50's and I must say that this is a good show
Same. I'm doing exactly that right now.
I watch this because it’s good, not for school
Nathan Goad Im doing that same assignment
Literally same
IKR! I am glad I found these types of shows.
I love how articulate they are
Thank you, thank you! This was a wonderful treat to see!! I've not seen this show for 30 years or more. You made my night...it's been a rotten week and you've wiped all that away!! Thank you for bringing me some happiness.
Compare this show to television now.What a difference a day makes.
So sad too. I loved watching reruns of this as a kid in the 80s and 90s.
Here we are in 2019, and Father Knows Best is probably my favorite tv show of all time. Yes, really.
Same and I’m 14
Yeah, mine too
r/lewronggeneration
AGREED! It's a break from the chaos!
I just wish they would have EXTENDED the show by, maybe, showing Betty and Bud go through college or something. They could call it, "Father Knows Best, the College Years". :-) Growing up in a dysfunctional family myself, it was so good to see brothers and sisters who actually CARE about each other, instead of like mine: a a self-centered narcissist who didn't mature past the age of 6 (emotionally), and a vengeful pathological liar who loves to punish people.
My dad recommended this show to me (he grew up with it). Here I am in my 50's and laughing hysterically at this show - I love it. A strong male father figure and wholesome family values only make it all the better.
I grew up in a home I thought was like this, until it all fell apart. Then from the age of ten I was in foster home after foster home, until I ended up in a home like this for real. It was so beautiful because I knew the difference.
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I thought I had it bad. Man, that must be about the worst thing ever. My dad at least was nice before he went to work. We had a home, such as it was. All the best to you. brother.
did both of your parents fuck around?
@Georg Andexler Andexler Yes, that is terrible too.
One of best family sitcoms of the all time.
Loved Robert Young in Father Knows Best and especially Dr Marcus Welby. He was a very handsome man and a fine actor. Watch his reruns still.🥰🥰🥰
I'm a big fan of classic radio and I listen to Father Knows Best ....Our Miss Brooks....Dragnet etc. I'm only 54 yet these old shows are FAR more entertaining than most TV nowadays. This show in particular is a great example of the transfer from radio to tv.
My teacher is making us watch it over the virus break. Luckily, this was really good.
Same here
You have a great teacher.This show was on before I was born but I had heard people talk about it.I finally got a chance to watch and enjoyed it..Some teachers are recommending Geoge Burns and Gracie Allen Show.I recently watched it and loved it.
@@marvinabigby5509 yeah, I enjoyed it I wish there was still stuff like this on tv but now it's just fabricated drama crap.
Watched it when I was a kid over summer break. One of my all time favorite shows. Good to see young folks still enjoy it.
Wth kind of teacher would recommend this lol
I like father knows best. I watch it every morning.
Hello Shirley, How are you doing?
Thank you. Such good memories of my childhood during that era. I feel sorry for the folks that never experienced it and the fact that they don't realize what they missed.
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sad part is, i realise what ive missed!
I love this show! If everyone had a father like him the world would be a much better place.
It's so good to see others with the same opinion, about Robert Young. I feel the same way about Jane Wyman, too. Hollywood knew what they were doing when they matched these two. They both have faces that you can trust. All there joy inside them just radiates out, into genuine happiness.
Every since I was a little girl and first saw them, I loved them instantly, and still feel the same today about them.✌🏽
i was raised in a single mom home alone with a miserable woman and it was hell. I used to watch this program and yearn to live in the TV like these people. Same with watching Donna Reed and the Dick Van Dyke show. I can actually remember wishing Laura was my mom and envying their little boy Richard. Ridiculous but true as I live to tell it.
@@helenlauer9545 you had a good perspective and that's what counts. God bless you.
That's a delusional thought, you produced.
@@helenlauer9545 I hope you in turn, didn't accomplish the same thing🤔??
I could have used these shows as an example of how to raise my kids instead of Dr. Phil...maybe he should have watched these shows!
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Joanne, hope you’re safe and well?
I remember watching this show back in the 1950s when it first came out on old real television no flat screens !!! Still watching this great series! In real Life Billy Gray loved his Motor Cycles, and I just corresponded with him. Time goes by too quickly. Now we are the Seniors of society, but sometimes wish time would sit still.
Interesting and actually kind of fun and cute. I find it interesting that the parents are shown so sympathetic to their kid's embarrassments and so engaged in their lives.
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you John, hope you’re safe and well?
Yeah it’s kind of healing for me to see such a nurturing yet playful family dynamic.
Always thought Robert Young was so handsome. Poor man fought many demons
Funny show. And Jane and Elinor were one of the prettiest mother daughter combos in TV history.
One of my top 3 shows from the golden age of television....
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Came here for a university assignment and honestly, not all disappointed :D
I loved this show. I'd forgotten how funny it was.
I have the series on DVD.. Love the Anderson Family.. Good feeling heartwarming show!!
Alicia Pilotta can you tell me where did you get the DVD please??
@@gabygalindo153 i ordered every season on Amazon..
Thank you very much for the info Alicia!!😊
@@gabygalindo153 your very welcome!! Enjoy them!!
Same here! Now I just wish I had the complete Marcus Welby, M.D. series, simply because Robert stars in that, too.
I really wish I had family like this
Me too!
back when families actually cared about each other and made sure they always helped their loved ones watching shows like this makes me want to go back in time
We surely need show like this back in our lives for sure.
Evelyn Miranda, maybe in Heaven (God´s Paradise, God´s Glory), no chance at all in this world threwn to the hell.
The guy playing Bud was a great actor. Knowing Hollywood (even in those days) he'd probably had a few lovers by the time he was making this series. But seriously, the values of that show were excellent. I used to watch it here in Australia in the early 1960's -- along with Our Miss Brooks and Dobie Gillis. Great stuff.
Just a little note here the girl who played "Marcia" also played "Lucia" in the Our Lady of Fatima in 1952. And she was was on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet show in 1955. Look up her IMDB credits she was truly '50s acting dynamite.
What happened to GREAT SHOWS LIKE THIS.
JimboParadox what country are you from
JimboParadox - you obviously are not an American nor do you know any. The majority of us are decent, hard working people, struggling to raise our families well in an evil age. (And not all foreigners are the fine, upstanding people you claim...there are good and bad in ALL ethnic groups. Try not to be so full of hate and prejudice)
@@alank5560 He is too much of a coward to answer you!
@@cynthiaesquibel3191 Interesting how you tell this person to not be full of " hate and prejudice" when his comment is a rebuttal to a hateful, prejudiced comment about liberals and foreigners. That doesn't seem to bother you. No rebuke for that?
@J. Muller You sound like an idiot.
10/5/20: Still watch & love this show. Miss days like these when life was simpler.
They were so happy without internet and social network! What did these geeks inventors do with our society? Horrible.
Why are there political comments here? This was a time when we were not so politically divided and that is what made that time great. Why can't we just agree that this was a good show and not be divisive?
Yes, I was really disheartened to see all the poison comments here. I hope Lauren that one day we will figure out how to lessen the divide.
As for the show, as a young lad I remember watching the early 60s primetime reruns with the family. Good times.
This was great TV !! Nowadays some cry baby has got to whine about everything !!! ✌📺
Agreed. These people can never shut up and just enjoy the show. We ALL enjoyed these old shows, and many of us still do, regardless of political party. Why are these people always so damn angry? Geez.
I Like Ike!
Kids are so much fun; we use to run in and out of the house trying to run faster than our parents could talk. lol
Yea I watch this show. Every morning one of my favorite shows never gets old takes me back in time when things were simple
A lot of good shows back then but my 2 all time favorites are Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver. Met Billy Gray years ago at a convention and that treasured moment is the highlight of celebrity encounters I experienced.
anthony perdue loved father knows best☺️
So glad to find this on TH-cam
Cindy Oteri all episodes are on Hulu
@@SuperCoalBlox Sweet thanks
"You're so easy to follow. That's cause you're so easy to lead"
Thank you for finally releasing this on DVD. I will be buying this.
I love this show. Jane Wyatt is a very pretty lady. Robert Young was very likable. Kathy was a scene stealer. The music was dramatic and sentimental. Every episode tried to teach you a nice life lesson. This show teaches you how to raise a nice family. However, as a black American, the only thing I dislike about the show is like most shows set during the 50s black people didn’t exist. Other than that, this is a wonderful family comedy.
I know bro. It shows you what is was like back then. I couldn't imagine being black and never seeing my people represented on tv. Gotta give Props to Jack Benny. It was the 50's and Rochester was a top-billed co-star. Even better, Benny was Jewish!
Must be a very ambiguous feeling for every Afro-American that loves Americana vintage culture.
Wasn't Amos & Andy out there? I Spy, Redd Fox, and Louis Armstrong? Your race was a minority back then maybe more so than today and black people seemed to want to be separate from the whites rather than the other way around.
I know because I grew up in close association with a black family. Their mother used to cut my hair and their 2nd son was one of the closest friends I've ever had. Later he even dated my cousin.
Makes me wonder where some people get their memories. Whites in general are good people, so are blacks; long as they don't have that simmering hatred in their hearts.
Edited to say - the hatred that goes both ways.
There were not black people on TV shows because they objected to how they were portrayed. Amos and Andy got cancelled due to pressure from black organizations. But A & A had respectable characters, they dressed well, had jobs, did not engage in crime, etc. It was a comedy. Look at the white comedies They have silly people doing dumb things, or dramas with white crooks, they could portray whites any way they liked with no problem. Black people did it to themselves. They came back with Good Times, The Jeffersons, all those had black people with faults or being silly, just like the white people shows. Denzel Washington even said this.
If you really want comedy ahead of its time, I loved the Van Dyke show, The Donna Reed Show, and The Doris Day Show. Joined the world of being a more “vintage fan” when I was 15 or 16 and now at 19 I still enjoy the classics
My pop sure never wore a suit & tie when he landed on the couch.Fact that tie was off when he hit the car after work .And how nice...No stinking cell phones in sight.
This episode was first shown on television in late '54. My dad never wore a suit at home like Mr. Anderson, but I guess many other dads did. Anyway, even after so many decades, Father Knows Best is one of my current favorite TV shows of all time. By the way, if you watch this episode with the automated Closed Captioning turned on, be prepared for more laughs than what the story provides!
Back when society wasn’t catering to the mentally ill
I grew up with this..still love it.. Elanor Donahue was my favorite all time female actor
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Wendell, hope you’re safe and well?
Until I watched this show, I have only known Eleanor as Ellie Walker who worked for a short time in Walker's Drug Store on The Andy Griffith Show. I like her character here.
Please release a box set!
mother: bud been acting very strange the last few days father: buds been acting strange sense he's been born.
Hello Amy, How are you doing?
If this episode was made today, the parents would be on their smartphones rather than reading a newspaper together. The children would not be out and about visiting their neighbors but would be locked in their rooms drooling over their smartphones and tweeting a lot of trifling nonsense or cyber bullying a nerdy classmate.
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No actually believe it or not kids still regularly go out to get out of the house with friends. Just because people spend time online doesn't mean they never spend time doing other things. Sometimes you can't go out. And reading the newspaper takes attention away from others as much as a phone does. People don't become inable to divert their attention just because instead of paper they use electronics.
Love this show. So much better than the news right now 😂
Imagine an America where children respected their parents, an America where Mom was able to stay home to care for the children, while Dad worked all day to bring home the bacon... Imagine an America without liberals and that America is yours!
Imagine an America where we can watch and enjoy these old shows without some angry dumbass getting all political about it. Everyone I know my age ( in my 60' s) is a liberal, everyone of us loves these shows and everyone of us respects the family. Not only that, but we respect Jesus's words love thy neighbor. .So just shut up.
j.d. di giusto, Oh, is more tan that ! An America without sexual revolution; an America without drugs like a poissonous red tide; an America without the satanic new world order agenda (dozens and dozens of ongoing plans to destroy America and the world); an America without the flaunted "pride" to be atheist or make mockery of God, the moral, the ethic, the values, and the True Religión. And surely there are many more.
@@z_vietfr.4977 You sound like an..er..lovely person. Such elegance of expression, and umm.. intelligent wit. I hope the New Year will bring you some help for your anger issues.
I love this show ❤️
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Thank you for posting...
Born after this tv series was created, what a shame! Yet, we have the shows to show us what a great life it used to be. Far from this hellish apocalyptic era we’re living.
I always growing up wanted Robert Young to be my dad.
I had no mom, and dad was a raging alcoholic. I clung to these shows. All I ever wanted was to be tucked in, In a normal house, with a mom and dad shutting the light off for me. I did ok but that lack of that love has never left me, even at 64.. I used to stare into the Christmas tree and wish, One day I would be out of there. I was starring at my tree last week, thinking back. Is there a god? There is something that looks out for good girls and boys. I know. survived. My brother was an abusive ASSHOLE. Haven't talked to him in 20 years, and that was only because dad died. Robert Young, Yeah.
@@TheJetfighter666 Robert Young was an alcoholic as well (although, to his credit, he did eventually get help). He also battled depression most of his life. However, his children and grandchildren loved him dearly. He sought help for his depression following a suicide attempt in 1991 and spoke out about it, hoping it would encourage others to seek help. I don't think anyone had a bad word to say about him.
😂😂😂😂 I'm at 10:55 & I'm cracking up at Cathy - "sissy, yeah, yeah, yeah sissy!".
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you eileen, hope you’re safe and well?
Those fake laughs are ridiculous and occured even in not funny situations like the noises Bud made in the beginning what's so funny about that ?
Yeah. I make funny noises all the time and never hear a laugh track.
I just love Elinor Donihue
This is the Best Nostalgic Show ! Cracks Me up how Father lights up a Cigarette in the house !!! Funny to see people smoking on planes and in Resturant’s !
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wonderful show. I watched it growing up, always enjoyed it.
"Full Episode"? Not a chance; short by two minutes. Nice print quality though.
The narrative of a middle-class family in which each member submits to a patriarchal society is really looking at the period with rose-coloured glasses. And, it is not helpful to re-inforce that in an era when women were expected to stay at home and not have any sort of career, that families were in a better place. I think it is better to watch these shows in context, understanding that they are just stories, as much as this looks lovely and wholesome, much like the Andy Hardy series of the 1930s they were simply ideologies, they were not the realities of the period.
Sensible. TU Many a woman had a horrible husband back then, and suffered dreadfully because they were stuck.
100%
Yes, it sort of makes me cringe how cloying these shows are (although when I watched them as a child I did not recognize it). What is particularly sad though, is that today, despite all the social progress we have made, there are still people ready to insult you for suggesting our society is better off now.
@Mel Ah such a lovely person. Those pure conservative values and that classy, classy language...
The 50s was an amazing time to be alive
How about 70s
Or 80s
I loved this show as a little girl.
I find comfort watching 1950 shows. ..yet I was born in 1980. It's like I seen them before.
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you moe, hope you’re safe and well?
I'm 46, and I only started watching Father Knows Best (and also Dennis the Menace) last week. I'm in the middle of season 2 of both shows right now, and I love them. Last night was the first time I saw an episode of Dennis the Menace that I didn't like because of witchcraft being in it. I just finished season 2 episode 13, and this is the first episode of that show I didn't like :( 'Margaret's premonition.' I got to love these shows over the last week, but I am so SICK of witchcraft being brought into every SINGLE sitcom I watch.
The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, The Andy Griffith Show, Dennis the Menace, Father knows Best.... although I WILL give them credit, I don't remember ever seeing anything in Green Acres; one show out of 6 (I guess that's just about right)
whats wrong with witchcraft?
@@evaneatsbacon ,
If you enjoy serving Satan, nothing.
Witchcraft? Do
You even know what witchcraft is? You must love Bewitched.😂
14:23-14:25
Hey it's Susan Whitney who played "Venerable Sister Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos" in Warner Bros. Pictures feature film "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)". At least I've already watched the movie and it's nice.
By the way, I have no idea what's happening to her right now. But I'm sure she's still alive and well and I hope she'll returns to the film entertainment industry as a veteran hollywood film actress soon.
our current fav show to watch on FETV every week day! :D
OUR FAMILY ALL WATCHED THE SAME SHOWS; ALL GOOD FAMILY SHOWS.
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you lois, hope you’re safe and well?
Haha the wisdom of parents
Lol, I was raised by a single mom and grew up watching Al Bundy, Homer Simpson and Duckman, within just a few decades our culture did a complete 180.
The downhill slide really started with the legalization of abortion. If you can kill babies, then anything goes.
Bud, saying jeepers?? What is he 9, or something🤭?? Learning to dance, and going to a dance wasn't, THAT bad!!! Who hasn't (except for, the 'dork-wads') gone to a high school dance, by the time, they were a freshman?? Emotional, ain't he🤔?? Here's Elenore Donahue, just several years before she herself, would be dating. Dating Andy Griffith, that is, on the 1st. season, of his show☺️.
pero y el audio latino. fuimos muchos los que crecimos con esta serie hermosa.
So wholesome!
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Judy, hope you’re safe and well?
@@brianwalter8152 Hi
Alguien habla español por aqui???
I love father knows best I watch it on fetv every morning
I’ve heard FETV is better a version of METV
I really really wish I had family like this
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Actually, "Kitten" had it wrong. Good sissies know how to dance, lol. It's the palumping middle linebackers who have problems with the dance steps.
Real acting!
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These shows were just awesum,a great family sitcom from the 50's,I watch every episode I can,or record.!!!a great group of actors who played there rolls so we'll,the "anderson family" well always have a place in my ❤️!!!!
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@@brianwalter8152 weirdo
Brings back memories 🙂
Love these episodes great show should be on television now 😊
I REMEMBER THIS........THE RERUNS.....LAURIN CHAPIN AS KITTEN
Basement Bud, sounds like a future President in the making
Too bad some of the early episodes are edited..these 22 minute episodes are missing about 3-4 minutes, each.
you must be forgetting we had commercials back then so 23 minutes is typical of the 30 minute time slots
K Webster
stickloaf in 1954-55 the average commercial time for a 30 minute program was two minutes, four thirty second commercials. One after the opening credits, two at half way, and one before the epilogue.
Such a sweet show. Seriously.
It's some really racists comments on here and that's sad this was wholesome based on morals and values not race ppl wake up
I grew up during this period in America and the show was about as 'realistic' as 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Waltons'.
There were families like this, Oscar, mine was one and I knew several others that were, too. We were regular, middle class families where the father was head of the family and respected as such, worked hard to support his family and enjoyed family life and being g a father. The women were good wives and mothers and put the welfare of their children before any career or "me" time. We kids all got along (mostly), minded our parents, obeyed the rules, and did well in school. We had a great neighborhood and were fortunate to have grown up there. We were very lucky, my childhood friends and I
The funny thing about these old tv shows, they weren't real. These are scripted shows, with many actors who went home did drugs, drank themselves drunk, and of course some abused their families. For many actors, coming to the set to act out these fairy tale family scenes are what got them through their childhood, or teen years, or even marriages. The old "glitz and glamour" of Hollywood, many times destroyed lives, but often saved lives as well. Countless stories of child actors who grew up to tell horrific stories of abuse are a dime a dozen. But these shows- even though they weren't real, attracted a large audience of people who they themselves may have needed an escape, perhaps time away from their own life's problems. The best loved shows are the ones who come so close to perfecting an imitation of life- one that we wish we had or aspire to have. For me, it was Love Boat & Fantasy Island. For my sister, it was Hogan's Heroes and Mary Tyler Moore Show. When I hear celebrities say they don't let their kids watch tv or that they don't own a tv, I always feel bad for their kids. Without pop culture you wouldn't know what's crappy and what's artistic. Who wants to end up being a clone of their parents?
^ Found the Boomer
I still watch this show every morning on antenna t.v. at 9am and again at 9:30am. This is one of the beginning shows. It's nostalgic
I do to. Nice clean comedy without all that filth and ugly stuff. ❤
Robert Young showed me it was OK to smoke cigarettes.
Hindsight has placed an unfair judgement on this show. It really had a lot going for it, for this genre. It had substantive themes under cover of "wholesome family" show. Often it
showed real sensitivity and real emotions. One episode even introduced Kafka and reading--amazing. Robert Young embued much quality to what could have been, well, refined sugar.
Feminism thought it would improve the world with ideas about women being morally superior to men. They might have been before the '60s. And I think the same group brought in ideas about about not disciplining children and it really hasn't made the world a better place.
5:55 is that a clock shaped like a giant watch in the background?
No. That is a barometer. That style was very popular in the 1950s. Nearly every home had a barometer in those days. Today, very few people know what one is.
Called a banjo clock..very popular in the first part of century..you will see them in other movies!
It is a barometer. It looks like on the long neck was a thermometer. We had a round barometer without the long neck with the thermometer.
This is actually funny, and it has class!
It's absolutely impossible to watch this in the 21st century with a straight face.
Why would you that? It’s a sitcom. It’s supposed to be funny.
@@WedgePee Back in the '50's, maybe. Now it's just ironically funny.
@@TheBermudaMan How, pray tell?
@@WedgePee Because this kind of humor is about as funny as a blank wall nowadays.
@@TheBermudaMan Its not that it's not funny we've just gotten used to a society that's more mean-spirited and crude. The music people make, the clothes they wear, tattoos everywhere, piercings all over their bodies, unshaven men, women that curse like sailors, rampant obesity, and actors slapping people at awards shows are just a normal part of our society now.
Love this...such a joy to watch again...
Hello Ginger, How are you doing?
Bud, has a girl???!!!. Sounds just like Married with children, only 30 years before the Bundys