Production Credits

           Production ........................... Screen Gems, Inc.
                                                  Robert G. Young & Eugene
                                                  B. Rodney Production

Cast:

           Robert Young ......................... Jim Anderson

           Jane Wyatt ........................... Margaret Anderson

           Elinor Donahue ....................... Betty Anderson (Princess)

           Billy Gray ........................... James 'Bud' Anderson, jr.

           Lauren Chapin ........................ Kathy Anderson (Kitten)

027 [2.01-55] Art Of Salesmanship / Der Zauberlehrling

    Selling sauce-boats is the newest way for Bud to make money fast. And
    like many times before he soon wants to give up. But Jim sees in Bud
    the man who once will take over his business and since a businessman
    doesn't give up that fast he wants his son to go through it and sell
    all sauce-boats. Jim has to write a sketch for a show.

028 [2.02-55] Father's Private Life

029 [2.03-55] Lesson in Civics / Gute Buerger

    A new highway gets built. And for that the old community hall should
    be pulled down. That's something Jim wouldn't like to see since the
    hall is a historical monument and also memories from his youth are
    connected with this hall. Everyone from the family sees how much the
    hall means to Jim and they use different ways to inform the public or
    organize help. Kathy, who also wants to help, writes a letter to the
    mayor - with all the unfledged names Jim has called him in his anger.

030 [2.04-55] First Disillusionment

031 [2.05-55] Woman In The House

032 [2.06-55] New Girl At School

033 [2.07-55] Kathy Makes Magic / Kathys Zauberkasten

    Kathy has traded her skaters for a magician's box. Now practicing magic
    she also wants to turn things into something else. Soon things she's
    tried succeed, also her cat-turning-into-bird trick. Then, mad at her
    brother and his friend, she wishes they'd die. Soon Bud feels pretty
    bad and also Bud's friend ends up sick (both because of smoking cigars).
    Now Kathy blames herself and thinks Bud's really going to die ...

034 [2.08-55] Advantage To Betty / Unverdiente Lorbeeren

    Betty made it into the tennis team which is playing for the county
    championships. A reporter comes by to take a picture of the team
    but also one from the beauty Betty alone. And exactly this photo
    makes the round in all newspapers, making her the number one player.
    But the number one actually belongs to the team's captain Jula. Now
    not only the relationship between Betty and Jula, who play the
    doubles together, suffers but also Betty's play.

035 [2.09-55] The Big Test

036 [2.10-55] Father Is A Dope / Vater ist der Duemmste

    After watching a family show on TV, Jim thinks that his family tries
    to play exactly the same tricks to prevent him from going on a hunting
    trip with his neighbor.

037 [2.11-55] The Spirit Of Youth / Ewige Jugend

    After the kids start to think their parents are old, Jim and Margaret
    decide to go to their Alma Mater to attend Jim's reunion and mingle
    with the students.

038 [2.12-55] Bud, The Ladykiller / Der Herzensbrecher

    Dora has a crush on 'James jr.'. But a geek is the last thing Bud
    wants. Unfortunately, his parents like her and put him into an
    awkward position when they demand he should apologize after being
    rude to her. Since she doesn't accept the apology he has to
    ask her out to the upcoming dance.

039 [2.13-55] Margaret's Premonition

040 [2.14-55] Stage To Yuma

041 [2.15-55] Bad Influence

042 [2.16-55] Betty Hates Carter / Tochter zu verschenken

    For an upcoming ball, Jim has set up a date with Carter (a business
    friend's son) for Betty. She isn't very delighted that her dad has
    done that without asking and the only way to pay it back is to let
    him down. Although she tries really hard, mutual repulsion leads to
    mutual attraction for Betty and Carter ...

043 [2.17-56] Jim, The Tyrant / Vater ist ein Tyrann

    A bad day at the office results in a bad tempered Jim. And when
    no one at home pays any attention it gets even worse and he starts
    talking about the family lacking discipline and values - and it
    would need a tyrant to change this situation. On the next day after
    Kathy's the one who was neglected, bothered the other family members
    and, among others, crashed a window, she knows what she has to expect
    when she must face a tyrannic dad ...

044 [2.18-56] Betty's Brother / Immer in Bettys Schatten

    Kathy is quite proud to have a sister like Betty. But for Bud it's
    a tough life in senior high, to have such a well-known, ambitious
    and smart sister. And with the others teasing him all the time his
    behavior (missing self-confidence, starting fights, ...) starts to
    worry both his parents and the principal who don't have a clue what's
    going on.

045 [2.19-56] Betty Earns A Formal / Betty wird fluegge

    Since her wishes get costly, Jim refuses to buy a new dress for
    Betty - he instead wants her to earn the money herself. When she
    does so, angst raises that from now own his daughter won't need
    him any longer. And even more fear starts to bother Jim when
    Betty, on one hand, doesn't want the others to know where she's
    working, and on the other hand when her parents spot her uniform.

046 [2.20-56] The House Painter / Die menschliche Natur

    The house gets painted and the painter soon is the target of a bet:
    Betty, who does a survey on 'What's the Cause for our Daily Doings',
    gets into an discussion with her dad who thinks the answer is one's
    sense of responsibility and not, like results so far, egoism. To
    prove his point Jim suggests a bet: If the painter turns down Jim's
    offer to use cheap, bad quality paint (and in exchange earn some
    extra money) instead of good quality - Jim's right. Else he loses
    and must buy his wife (the needed) car ...

047 [2.21-56] Bud, The Wallflower

048 [2.22-56] Bus To Nowhere / Bus nach nirgendwo

    The last few days Betty has no fun, she's sullen and does nothing.
    No one gets through to her, not even her parents. Betty faces a
    personal crisis when she has to find answers, basically, to the
    meaning-of-life question. The only way out for her is to put Bud's
    story (which he has written as an assignment) into reality: Enter a
    bus and go as far as the money takes her ...

049 [2.23-56] Kathy, The Indian Giver / Ein guter Tausch

    Left alone by her siblings once again, and playing again with her
    just-says-'Mama' baby doll Kathy starts thinking about having a real
    baby. And the chances are good because her best friend Susi is so fed
    up with her baby sister that they both trade doll against baby. The
    Andersons are quite shocked when they find out and immediately return
    the baby. Kathy now gets mad because a lesson learned earlier on says:
    a trade is a trade and can't be canceled unless both parties agree.

050 [2.24-56] The Historical Andersons / Welch ein Held

    Bud should write an assignment on a great man from the War of
    Independence. Inspired by his dad he chooses Major Nathaniel Oliver
    Anderson, an ancestor of the Andersons. A story about the Major -
    thanks to Bud - soon makes the round and the citizens already
    celebrate the discovery of a war hero, but, unfortunately, Bud's
    enthusiasm was too early when he and Betty discover that he in
    fact was the opposite of a hero.

051 [2.25-56] The Grass Is Greener / Das Geheimnis des Erfolges

    Charly Bradley, a college pal of Jim's, is in town. Charly, now a
    tycoon, Jim and two others were known as the Four Musketeers back
    then. All of them made a fortune, except Jim who's just selling
    insurance polices. Upon realizing this (after a 'hint' by Kathy)
    he soon starts feeling bad, not having reached a high success in
    business.

052 [2.26-56] The Persistent Guest

053 [2.27-56] Family Reunion

054 [2.28-56] Family Dines Out / Hohe Ziele

    Betty found a new friend in Elouise Sanford, a girl from the higher
    society. To impress her, as well as not to lose her, she agrees that
    she and her parents are also attending the opening of the Country
    Club. First Jim is against it since he can hardly afford it, but
    then after he notices how much it'd mean to her, he agrees. Bud,
    meanwhile, has taken on a job as cook in a restaurant: he won the
    job because he told he would bring along customers - his parents
    and siblings. Unfortunately, his first day collides with the club's
    opening.

055 [2.29-56] Bud, The Boxer / Kampfgeist

    Eddie Jarvis, a bully, has it for Bud. When Bud chickens out on
    a fight, his father wants him to settle this fight in the boxing
    ring. Bud does - and loses the fight after only a short time. His
    father, however, encourages him to join the local boxing club. Soon
    he becomes a star, after he not only shows promising results but
    also beats club member Eddie. Now Bud wants to face the champion.
    While Jim thinks he made the right decision in forcing Bud to join,
    his mother as well as Betty are absolutely against Bud taking on
    boxing, let alone fighting in the ring.

056 [2.30-56] Betty, Girl Engineer / Maedchen unerwuenscht

    After a week of presentations, the students can sign up for a job
    they are interested in and want to learn more about to gain some
    practical work experience. Betty decides to go for engineering.
    Despite the fact that everyone's against it (because she's a girl),
    she wants to try it anyway - at least until the man she works with
    runs her down, too.

057 [2.31-56] The Martins And The Coys

058 [2.32-56] Dilemma For Margaret

059 [2.33-56] Hero Father / Vater ist der Groesste

    Duke Snider and his All-Star baseball team is touring the States
    again. Of course Bud and his friends would like to see him stop
    for a play in Springfield, but since Springfield's just a small
    dot on the map this seems impossible. Bud, nevertheless, has faith
    in his father's abilities to make the impossible come true ...

060 [2.34-56] Father, The Naturalist / Eine schlaflose Nacht

    At the next Indian Meeting, Kathy shall get a promotion to tribe
    princess. The only thing in her way is that she still needs five
    different herbs for her folder. So she begs her dad to come home
    and give her a ride into the woods in the evening since she has
    waited until the last minute. Although he has a lot do do, Jim
    agrees to help. After a short rest in the wood, Kathy leaves her
    folder with all her previously collected things behind. At home,
    after she notices, she's totally devastated. It's late and it's
    a long way - so there's no chance to get it back. But this bugs
    Jim ... Bud and Betty have a big fight when Betty asks him for
    a favor but he has anything else to do than to help his sister.

061 [2.35-56] The $10.000 Question

062 [2.36-56] Adopted Daughter

063 [2.37-56] Betty's Graduation / Der Anfang vom Ende

    For Kathy the end of Junior High approaches and she fears that this
    could be the beginning of the end. Jim tells her that this is definitely
    not the case and reminds her of Betty's very same feelings when she
    graduated from high school years ago and the nearer the great day came
    the more she got anxious about what's coming afterwards.
    [Note: Since Kathy (and Lauren Chapin) is about four years older (except
     the flashbacks) this actually seems to be ep.203, the revamped ep.063.
     See also note preceding the titlelisting]