Father Knows Best Family Dines Out (Season 2, Episode 28)
TV-G
TV Episode | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Father Knows Best

Family Dines Out (Season 2, Episode 28)

TV-G

TV Episode | 30 min | Comedy, Family

The Andersons face a dilemma when Betty promises a wealthy friend that they will attend an exclusive charity dinner on the same night that Bud needs the family to eat at the modest drugstore counter where he has just gotten his first job.

Director

William D. Russell

Writers

Dorothy Cooper (teleplay) | Roswell Rogers (story) | Herman Epstein (story) (as Herman J. Epstein) | Ed James (characters)

Producer

Eugene B. Rodney

Cinematographer

Frank G. Carson (as Kit Carson)

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Edit Released

Updated Mar 28, 1956

Release date

Mar 28, 1956 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 6 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 3 wins & 18 nominations

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Robert Young Jim Anderson Jim Anderson See fewer	Crossfire (1947)
Jane Wyatt Margaret Anderson Margaret Anderson See fewer	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Elinor Donahue Betty Anderson Betty Anderson See fewer	Pretty Woman (1990)
Billy Gray Bud Anderson Bud Anderson See fewer	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Lauren Chapin Kathy Anderson Kathy Anderson See fewer	Father Knows Best (1954)
Mary Hennessy Eloise Sanford Eloise Sanford See fewer	The Plainclothesman (1949)
John Dennis Pete Pete See fewer	Soylent Green (1973)