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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Along with I Love Lucy, Leave it To Beaver and The Honeymooners. Then we also ended up getting gems like The Andy Griffith Show, The Donna Reed Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show in the sixties.
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.
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 ❤️!!!!
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.
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.
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.
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!
I watched this in the 50s I was in grammer and then high school. I did not have a home like this but I loved this show and still do. I am in my late 70s now.
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
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.
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?
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.
Finally! After all of the "insurance problems today", it's sweet like "a box of marshmellows" to help our buddy Bud get all of the steps for the big school dance. Stay safe everyone!
I am proud to have all these episodes on DVD! I just wish I also had the whole Marcus Welby, M.D. series, as well. Would be great to have everything with Robert Young on it.
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
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.
15:33 - Marcia (Susan Whitney): “Bud, the Gene Kelly of Springfield? The guy that every girl is just dying to go out with?” And Jim Anderson’s (Robert Young) wide-eyed incredulity as he answered: “This is BUD?!”
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.
I'll tell you this. If these shows were redone, with updated clothes and modernized surroundings, Our children and young adults would have a better grip on reality and responsibility than they do now. This is my America! I learned a lot from television. My dad was illiterate and I had no mom living at home. These shows and their actors are like my good friends and family. As I grow older these shows are my only way of going back to the wonderful days of my youth. ME Tv, Antenna tv, and to some extent Cozy tv are the only television I watch. Also thank god for T.C.M. I miss Johnny Carson so much it hurts. Thank you again Antenna tv for allowing us the old shows to cherish. HI OH! .... How hot was it, Johnny??.......
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.
21:45-21:54 Just as you guys know. Both Susan Whitney and Billy Gray were part of the cast of the 1951 musical film "On Moonlight Bay" starring the legends - Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. The reasons I'm saying this. Because I watched that movie very shortly.
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.
Jane Wyatt-what wonderful memories from when I was a little kid! Wyatt was a very talented actress and very attractive. She was the perfect mother in Father Knows Best! Just sad that the actual reality of the show was far from the actualities. Chapin was abused and Robert Young was drunk most of the time. Yet it still was a wonderful series. I really miss these types of programs.
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.
Thanks to TH-cam I'm watching it for the first time as I type this message. I'm 45 for the record.
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.
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 love how articulate they are
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.
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 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.
One of best family sitcoms of the all time.
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 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.
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.
owlcu good
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.
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.
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.
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.
Huh??a
sad part is, i realise what ive missed!
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 like father knows best. I watch it every morning.
Hello Shirley, How are you doing?
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.
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?
This wasn't real. Also, the daughter was a real life prostitute.
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 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.
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.
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.
😂😂😂😂 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?
Funny show. And Jane and Elinor were one of the prettiest mother daughter combos in TV history.
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.
10/5/20: Still watch & love this show. Miss days like these when life was simpler.
I loved this show. I'd forgotten how funny it was.
Yea I watch this show. Every morning one of my favorite shows never gets old takes me back in time when things were simple
One of my top 3 shows from the golden age of television....
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Along with I Love Lucy, Leave it To Beaver and The Honeymooners. Then we also ended up getting gems like The Andy Griffith Show, The Donna Reed Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show in the sixties.
There were only like 4 shows lol
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
Father definitely knows best !!!!!
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 ❤️!!!!
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you marlon, hope you’re safe and well?
@@brianwalter8152 weirdo
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.
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.
Love this show. So much better than the news right now 😂
Came here for a university assignment and honestly, not all disappointed :D
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☺️
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!
Thank you for finally releasing this on DVD. I will be buying this.
I loved this show as a little girl.
I watched this in the 50s I was in grammer and then high school. I did not have a home like this but I loved this show and still do. I am in my late 70s now.
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you oma, hope you’re safe and well?
So glad to find this on TH-cam
Cindy Oteri all episodes are on Hulu
@@SuperCoalBlox Sweet thanks
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
wonderful show. I watched it growing up, always enjoyed it.
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
This is actually funny, and it has class!
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. ❤
I never had an actual family. I lived vicariously through TV families. And I loved them.
Love these episodes great show should be on television now 😊
Basement Bud, sounds like a future President in the making
Grateful for being to watch this and other things from the older generations.
I love father knows best I watch it on fetv every morning
I’ve heard FETV is better a version of METV
"You're so easy to follow. That's cause you're so easy to lead"
I really wish I had family like this
Me too!
You mean a fake tv family?
Haha the wisdom of parents
our current fav show to watch on FETV every week day! :D
Such a sweet show. Seriously.
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.
Thank you for posting...
I love this show ❤️
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Jamie, hope you’re safe and well?
Love this...such a joy to watch again...
Hello Ginger, How are you doing?
It's kind of relaxing...I love them! Thank you for sharing!
Yes a classic episode of father knows best
Hello Jennifer, How are you doing?
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.
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.
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.
The 50s was an amazing time to be alive
How about 70s
Or 80s
Ya then all the nigs got uppity.
I just love Elinor Donihue
Brings back memories 🙂
Real acting!
So wholesome!
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Judy, hope you’re safe and well?
@@brianwalter8152 Hi
Finally! After all of the "insurance problems today", it's sweet like "a box of marshmellows" to help our buddy Bud get all of the steps for the big school dance. Stay safe everyone!
Always thought Robert Young was so handsome. Poor man fought many demons
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?
I am proud to have all these episodes on DVD! I just wish I also had the whole Marcus Welby, M.D. series, as well. Would be great to have everything with Robert Young on it.
I watch this every Sunday from noon to 1 pm.
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
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?
You look like you were born in 1950 if that helps.
@magx01 what a clever come back that was. Bravo
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.
15:33 - Marcia (Susan Whitney): “Bud, the Gene Kelly of Springfield? The guy that every girl is just dying to go out with?”
And Jim Anderson’s (Robert Young) wide-eyed incredulity as he answered: “This is BUD?!”
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!
Everyone’s college professor told them to watch this, including me best of luck on all of your endeavors everyone!
OUR FAMILY ALL WATCHED THE SAME SHOWS; ALL GOOD FAMILY SHOWS.
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Please release a box set!
I'll tell you this. If these shows were redone, with updated clothes and modernized surroundings, Our children and young adults would have a better grip on reality and responsibility than they do now. This is my America! I learned a lot from television. My dad was illiterate and I had no mom living at home. These shows and their actors are like my good friends and family. As I grow older these shows are my only way of going back to the wonderful days of my youth. ME Tv, Antenna tv, and to some extent Cozy tv are the only television I watch. Also thank god for T.C.M. I miss Johnny Carson so much it hurts. Thank you again Antenna tv for allowing us the old shows to cherish. HI OH! .... How hot was it, Johnny??.......
pero y el audio latino. fuimos muchos los que crecimos con esta serie hermosa.
Never seen this show, love it!!
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.
21:45-21:54
Just as you guys know. Both Susan Whitney and Billy Gray were part of the cast of the 1951 musical film "On Moonlight Bay" starring the legends - Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. The reasons I'm saying this. Because I watched that movie very shortly.
I miss shows like this I love Betty
パパは何でも知っている。長女ベティー、長男バド、末っ子キャシー。
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?
Funny to see Dad smoking outside. I'm 68 yrs old always watched Father knows best and never remember Mr Anderson smoking.
7:11 That voice crack!
Imagine if Hollywood tried making a reboot. Heads would explode just from the name.
04:15 That Dance book is from around 1904.
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.
Jane Wyatt-what wonderful memories from when I was a little kid! Wyatt was a very talented actress and very attractive. She was the perfect mother in Father Knows Best! Just sad that the actual reality of the show was far from the actualities. Chapin was abused and Robert Young was drunk most of the time. Yet it still was a wonderful series. I really miss these types of programs.
I miss these shows and the way we lived back then
Sweet and wholesome family and dad smokes..lol
Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Robert, hope you’re safe and well?