Kathy is nervous about the school spelling bee, so Betty give her a penny and convinces her that it has special powers.

Betty finishes first in a track race in addition to becoming the flower queen.

Bud becomes a town hero after preventing a bank robbery.

Because Bud violates a traffic law, he must do community service as a crossing guard.

Bud buys a 10 car to impress his girlfriend. Unfortunately, the car needs a lot of work and does not impress his girlfriend.

Actor Cornell Wild gets in an accident and asks Jim for legal advice.

Margaret and Jim let Bud go to Hillsborough to do research so long as Kippy is with him. Unfortunately, at the last , Kippy does not go. ...

Betty is saddened when her new boyfriend, who is a jet pilot, is transferred to Alaska.

Bud loses the money he was supposed to use to pay the tailor. One of the Carnival booth owners cons him into thinking that he can work for ...

While Bud is showing his family how he has learned to use a short wave radio, they overhear a distress call from a boat.

Bud plans a lawn party and his parents find out.

Bored with being a housewife, Margaret goes shopping and has a portrait made of herself. Jim understands that Margaret it is not just ...

Margaret, Jim, and the rest of the family are shipwrecked on an island.

Margaret hires a Spanish gardener. When the work is done, Jim goes to pay him, but the gardener has increased his price.

Jims boss asks Jim to teach his son Woody how to be a successful salesman. To Jims horror, though Woody is a gregarious guy, Woody prefers ...

Everyone is worrying that the visiting Aunt Neva will ruin Christmas.

Jim and the family meet Mr. Lydum, a smooth talker, who wants to invest in his and his childrens ideas. Jim has trouble deciding whether ...

Betty tries to get in with the upper class kids at school while along the way losing sight of what really matters in life.

Betty goes to New York to help out in her friends wedding. While there, she ends up in the gossip column with her friends new ...

Bud hates his job, but feels that he can not quit because he has been bragging about it at home.

Betty becomes jealous when all the attention at school is directed at the new girl.

At a PTA fundraiser, the Anderson parents and kids chose to swap styles for the day.

Jim gives Bud an allowance in order to teach him about the value of money.

Betty decides that she does not want to celebrate her birthday.

Jim finds himself in a sticky situation after having loaned money to an old high school teacher who dreams of becoming an acclaimed author.

Buds homing pigeon and Betty scare the family by not returning home immediately.

Bud tries to date an older woman named Marisa by lying about his age. However, things get sticky when Marissa wants to go to an exclusive ...

Margaret and Jim are excited about Betty starting college. Sadly, in their excitement, they overlook what their daughter actually wants to ...

Betty falls in love with a cowboy on a dude ranch. Neither her experience nor the love lasts.

Buds new girlfriend Georgia is jealous of Buds family life. Because of this, she tries to make him chose between her and his mother.

As Betty approaches her completion of High School she grows anxious. Jim tries to reassure her. As graduation grows nearer no one can ...

Kathy is cleaning up and finds a receipt for 25 from the adoption center. She is sure that she has been adopted and is determined to get ...

Jim and Margaret are so tired of the family dynamics. The children will not stop tattling on each other. They offer a ten dollar review to ...

Kathy is excited because if she can find five more herbs, her folder will be complete and she can get her promotion to tribe princess.

Bud impresses his classmates when his father gets Duke Snider to make a visit to Springfield.

Margaret is candid about some minor issues with her children.

Betty and her boyfriend are getting along wonderful until his father and Jim have a fight. After the fight, he refuses to see her ever ...

After a job fair, Betty decides she would like to be an engineer.

Eddie Jarvis is the school bully. He challenges Bud to a boxing match.

Betty has a new friend, Elouise Sanford. Elouise is from an upper class family. Betty is concerned that she will not be able to keep the ...

Margaret is excited about her family reunion. Her excitement is not shared by the family. They have found all kinds of excuses to prevent ...

Bud has a new friend that he has invited to stay over night at the Anderson Home.

In college Jim spent so much time with his four college pals that they were known as the Four Musketeers. Charly Bradley, one of his ...

Bud is given an assignment to write an essay about a great man from the War of Independence.

Kathy is much younger than Bud and Betty. Though they love her they often do want to play with her. Kathy is tired of being left alone with ...

Betty has been depressed for over a week. No one has been able to cheer her up. Betty seems to be facing a personal crisis and is searching ...

Bud is depressed because he has not been invited to the Sadie Hawkins dance at school. He decides to plan a camping trip.

The Andersons are getting their house painted. This starts a moral discussion and the family wage a bet. Betty and Jim are having a ...

Jim refused to buy a formal dress for the dance for Betty because it cost too much money.

Because of the large age difference between Kathy and Betty, it has been easy for Kathy to be proud to have a sister like Betty. Bud is ...

Jim has had a bad day at work. When he comes home from the office his mood is amplified when the family ignores him

Jim has decided to play match maker for his daughter for an upcoming ball.

Bud has a new friend. Unfortunately, his new friend is a kleptomaniac and Bud gets blame for his friends actions.

Robert Young tells us at the beginning that "the family is on vacation this week"lucky them and then proceeds to introduce what is clearly ...

Margaret's recent predictions have convinced that family that she has psychic powers.

At school a dorky classmate of Buds has a crush on him.

Betty, Bud and Kathy are convinced that Mom and Dad are very old.

Jim becomes paranoid after watching a family sitcom on television.

For once in his life Bud has studied hard for a big test.

Betty is excited her tennis team has made the championships.

Kathy trades her skaters for a magician's box.

There is a new girl at school and it is love at first sight for Bud Anderson.

Jim wants to invite a friend of his over to the Anderson home.

Bud is upset because he has lost a job to another boy.

The county wants to build a new highway right through the old community hall.

Jim feels that his children need to work out their own problems.

Bud thinks he can earn much money fast by selling sauce-boats.

Bud is slacking offhes not doing his chores and hes put off memorizing a poem to recite in church. Margaret insists he skip his softball ...

Kathy demands equal rights with Betty and Bud. Jim agrees and says that whatever Betty gets to do, Kathy gets to do too.

The customers on Buds paper route have been complaining about him to his boss. When Mr. Collins tells Jim about it, Jim assures him that ...

After he runs into a friend who brags about his overachieving children, Jim wants to help inspire his own brood to acts of greatness.

Cousin Louise is getting married in the Anderson home. Margaret is going all-out on the wedding, and Jim is not happy about the bills. When ...

Margaret wages a campaign to get her cousins boyfriend to propose. Though Louise is hesitant to trap Tom, Margaret is sure she knows what ...

Money is tight and Jim lectures the family on fiscal responsibility. The very next day he is presented with an extraordinary opportunity to ...

The Springfield newspaper is sponsoring a Father of the Year contest. The Anderson children set out to write the winning essay, but can't ...

Feeling stressed out from all the pressure at work, Jim decides to give up his job, move to the country and become a farmer.

Jim demands that his family start living up to the promises theyve made to people.

Bud is getting a reputation as a snob his difficulty in talking with girls is being misinterpreted as standoffishness.

The family has a lovely dinner and special event planned for Kathys birthday. Shes been looking forward to it, but an uninvited visitor ...

After Kathy breaks another window, Jim is committed to teaching his kids about personal responsibility.

When Kathy discovers an injured sparrow on the windowsill, the family takes the little bird in to nurse it back to health.

In an attempt to remind his family of the real meaning of Christmas, Jim decides the Andersons will cut down their own Christmas tree this ...

Margaret is sure she could never get Jim to agree to take dancing classes with her.

Betty is falling hard for a new guy, and it upsets her father.

Jim and Margaret could use some time away from the house, so they plan a weekend getaway.

When Kathy writes a prize-winning Thanksgiving poem, Jim envisions his Kitten as the next Emily Bront.

Kathys on a tear, throwing everything she can get her hands on into her new spaceship, a/k/a the family washing machine.

Jim wants to play badminton, but his kids see him as too old for such things.

Bud feels beleaguered by his parents and siblings, and believes he is ready to take responsibility for his own life.

Jim and Margaret go to the big football game every year. This year, Margaret finds she cannot go and Betty is promised the ticketuntil Jim ...

Jim and Margaret disagree on whether Jim should buy Bud a motor scooter.

Jim sets out to teach his layabout kids a proper life ethic.

Bud uses an old book to teach himself to dance in time for his very first date and his very first dance.