The Andersons are not overjoyed at the prospect of going to Margaret's family reunion.
Bud's first day at college is a little more than he can handle.
The Andersons' gardener is chosen to make a presentation to the governor.
A young lawyer who just arrived in town tries desperately to meet Betty.
Bud dates the daughter of the football coach to ensure he gets on the team.
Jim tries to repeat a remembered bicycle trip.
Bud tells Kathy about his first disillusionment.
Jim and Margaret decide to attend their college homecoming.
Kathy is hurt when she realizes that all her girlfriends are shunning her.
Bud takes a job at the same gas station where Betty's boyfriend works.
Jim and Kathy both learn a lesson when each is cheated by someone they trusted.
Margaret tries to convince her family that her new job is a very important one.
Betty wins a movie star's look-alike contest.
Margaret recalls an earlier time when Jim went all out to help Kathy with a school project.
When Bud is stopped for reckless driving, he fears he will lose his license.
A magazine writer is asked to write an article on the Anderson family.
Betty is dismayed when she realizes that she has never won first place in any event.
Kathy is terrified when she realizes that a white lie she started has snowballed.
Frank asks Margaret's help to romance a girl.
Bud is unfairly accused of cheating.
The Andersons are initially disappointed with Jim's surprise.
Bud tells Jim that he would like to work for him when he gets out of college.
Betty secretly plans to help Bud out of a jam he's gotten himself into.
Kathy recalls when she thought she was adopted.
The Andersons enter a picture contest with the winners going to Hawaii.
Margaret gets a tutor for Bud to help him with his English class.
Betty chastizes her friends for poking fun at a college student.
Betty finds that she is competing with the same young man for several positions.
Bud tries to impress a girl in Chicago with money he does not have.
Betty's friends almost have a falling out just as they're planning to get married.
Jim recounts to Kathy how Betty once had to face graduating from high school.
Ralph, Betty's boyfriend, asks for her hand in marriage.
Betty is assigned to write a theme on devoted brothers and sisters.
Kathy is stricken by puppy love for a neighborhood boy.
Bud plans a homecoming week with the accent on the space age.
The Andersons' gardener lies about his family.
Jim plans to teach the children a lesson and almost loses the class.
The Anderson children learn that their parents weren't married in a church and decide to do something about it.
Bud is given the responsibility of taking care of a neighbor's car.
Betty decides to re-enact the town's founding.
An Indian exchange student (Rita Moreno) visits.
When Bud phones a girl for a date, Jim thinks he's rude and suggests an apology.
Margaret wins a car in an orphanage's raffle.
Jim gets the Anderson family into discovering the wonders of modern living.
The Andersons recall an earlier Christmas they spent out in the country.
Jim offers to coach Bud's basketball team.
Kathy becomes president of a family corporation.
Uncle Charlie is sure that Jim has spoiled his children rotten.
Bud finds he cannot replace the money he borrowed.
Jim tries to help his cousin Leonard find a job.
Bud gets a swelled head after he hears several girls talking about him.
Bud finds himself with more than one problem when he "rescues" his sister.
Kathy decides that she wants to be an adult.
Jim learns that he is being considered to receive an outstanding citizen award.
Betty learns a dance competitor's secret.
Margaret has a problem of conflicting dates when Jim goes to New York and she has a club meeting planned.
Bud has problems deciding between two girls whom he wants to date.
Jim and Margaret are pleasantly surprised when they are visited by a mutual college friend.
The Andersons recall a near catastrophe when Jim decided to "help" Bud with his romance.
Jim is puzzled after he is awakened in the middle of a strange dream.
Jim and Margaret become alarmed when Bud starts dating the daughter of a very rich man.
Bud is amazed to learn that his class yearbook is to be dedicated to an unpopular teacher.
Kathy decides that she's had enough and wants to leave home.
Bud is told that if he does not pass physics, he will not graduate.
The Andersons are too engrossed in a TV show to pay any attention to Kathy.
Bud wants to break tradition at graduation.
Bud is torn in his loyalties when a new teacher comes to school.
Landlord Margaret has a dispute with a neighbor.
Bud lends a strong authoritative hand in organizing a school picnic.
The Andersons' former gardener finds himself in trouble with the law.
Betty resents having her mother in her class.
Bud and Jim have a disagreement when Jim insists Bud tell the football coach that he broke training.
Kathy thinks she is going to miss her chance to see Greer Garson.
Bud is amazed that his parents do not argue like other parents he knows.
Jim and Margaret are stunned when Bud seems to have more success raising Kathy than they have.
Writer Betty casts her family in "Faust."
Kathy takes a horseshoe to bed with her and wishes for a pony.
Bud is embarrassed after he implies that he has enlisted in the armed forces.
Betty becomes Kathy's weekend-camp counselor.
Bud thinks that learning the bongos will make him the life of the party.
Kathy is disappointed when she learns that Jim won't be able to hear her read her biography of him.
Betty is at first elated when she is invited to the same concert by two different suitors.
Bud decides that he would like to be a mind reader.
The rest of the Anderson family becomes indignant when Margaret shows special attention to another family.
Bud is accused of causing $100 worth of damage to a neighbor's property.
Betty is concerned over Bud's failure to present himself in a socially acceptable manner.
Betty is concerned that her cousin will present a bad impression to her friends.
Bud teases his father about being married.
Betty takes up the cause to save a popular restaurant from being closed.
Bud is struck with puppy love when he sees a woman in the supermarket.
Margaret is an eyewitness to a mole hill rising into a mountain all by itself.
The Andersons are bewildered when a dog rings their doorbell in the middle of the night.
Margaret secretly takes fly-casting lessons in hopes of winning a contest.
Betty is ashamed to learn that her plot to ensnare a local boy has been discovered.
Jim tries desperately to finish his work before he has to leave on a trip.
After Bud sees a successful man, he decides to quit school and go to work.
Bud suffers in cramped, but stylish, shoes.
Betty leads the fight to have a nearby hedge removed from a dangerous intersection.
Bud develops a crush on a girl from "the wrong side of the tracks.".
When Jim and Margaret decide Betty should go to college, they make all the plans for her.
Bud tries to seem older for a beautiful date.
Betty decides it is time she went out on her own, so she moves in with a friend of hers.
The Andersons arrange a face-saving banquet for a poverty-stricken author.
Betty asks her family not to celebrate her birthday when she learns that gift giving has become meaningless.
The Andersons have a dispute over fashion.
Betty learns a valuable lesson while teaching others at college.
Bud gets a job at the local newspaper, much to Margaret and Jim's disapproval.
Jim has problems handling a young man he is supposed to be helping.
A kindly Spanish man adopts the Andersons and becomes their gardener.
Jim considers buying an island when the family starts complaining at home.
Margaret takes an impulsive shopping trip.
Jim and Margaret are tired of always chaperoning the neighborhood parties.
Bud's short-wave radio picks up a distress call from a ship at sea.
Bud learns what it is like to be suckered when he's taken in twice by the same man.
Betty falls in love with an Army pilot stationed at the local base.
Bud's plans to go to Hillsborough go astray, but he doggedly persists.
The Anderson household is turned upside down when Cornel Wilde comes to talk with Jim.
Bud's purchase of a used car causes dissension in the Anderson household.
Bud learns a lesson in safety when he is sentenced to crossing-guard duty for dangerous driving habits.
Bud's heroic deed was really an accident.
Betty faces a dilemma when a promise threatens to keep her from winning the Flower Queen title.
Kathy is nervous when she learns that she is to compete in the county spelling contest.
Bud wants his donation to be known.
The Andersons agree to let Betty baby-sit for a neighborhood child.
A friend of Jim's comes to his house on a business matter, and it proves to be embarrassing.
Jim's helpful suggestions to Bud about romancing a woman backfire.
Margaret decides to sell the family's baby crib and scales.
Margaret's father gets restless when people start suggesting that he retire.
An unknown workman helps the Andersons restore their faith in themselves.
Bud makes his point to Jim as they each learn that there are some things that you just aren't cut out to do.
Jim decides that his children should solve their own problems.
The Andersons try to save a historic landmark that is marked for destruction.
After Bud is refused a job because of another's dishonesty, Bud decides that dishonesty is the key to success.
The Andersons invite the wife of a close friend to be their house guest.
Bud falls for a flirtatious new classmate.
Kathy thinks she has put a magic curse on Bud.
Betty is picked as queen of the sports banquet because of her beauty instead of her ability.
Bud is wrongfully accused of cheating in school.
Jim suspects that his family is conspiring to keep him from a hunting trip.
Jim and Margaret feel that they are being relegated to the roles of "old fogies.".
Bud tries to rid himself of the unwanted attentions of a girl.
Margaret believes that she has premonitions.
A man (Robert Young) boards a stage to free a prisoner.
Bud befriends a boy who is a compulsive thief.
Jim and Kathy go on a free-for-all to determine who will be the family tyrant.
Bud is faced with academic failure while Betty shines in school.
When Jim refuses to buy Betty a gown for a special dance, she sets out to earn the money herself.
Jim is upset when his attempt to prove a point in faith toward mankind apparently fails.
Bud is disappointed when he doesn't get an invitation to a Sadie Hawkins dance.
When Betty decides that life is devoid of significance, she prepares to leave home.
Jim decides he will never understand women, regardless of age, when he runs head on with Kathy.
Bud is astounded when he learns that his revolutionary forebear was a scoundrel.
The Andersons learn that Jim is one of the "Four Musketeers" of his college days.
Jim is intrigued by a friend of Bud's who never seems to go home.
The Andersons' annual trip to Margaret's family reunion is threatened.
The Andersons are divided when they receive two dinner invitations for the same night.
Bud takes up boxing and decides on it as a career.
Betty meets opposition to her plans to be an engineer.
A family feud threatens to separate friends when Jim and a friend have a business falling out.
Margaret thinks Betty participated in a prank.
Bud promises Jim's help in getting an all-star ball team to town.
Jim's unselfishness in helping Kathy inspires Betty and Bud to help each other more.
Jim accuses the children when $10 is missing.
Kathy fears that she is an adopted child.
Betty realizes that her graduation from high school will bring an end to many things.
Bud's first dance is threatened when he learns that his parents are going to be there.
Jim's definition of citizenship gets the Andersons into trouble.
Bud finally gets Jim's permission to get a scooter, but he doesn't get Margaret's permission.
Jim has too many guests and not enough tickets to a football game.
Bud decides that he would be happier if he got his own apartment.
Jim is convinced that he has one foot in the grave.
After Bud gets a summons to appear at the police station, the family panics.
Jim's plans to celebrate Thanksgiving fall apart.
Jim and Margaret plan to get away from the children for a second honeymoon.
Jim's over-reactive imagination takes control of his actions when he fears his daughter is about to elope.
Jim and Margaret go their separate ways when Margaret signs up for dancing lessons.
Jim is disappointed by his family's attitude toward Christmas and decides to do something about it.
When Jim gets a traffic ticket, his court day coincides with Bud's appointed day as judge.
A total stranger arrives at the Anderson household on the verge of a birthday celebration.
When Bud's shyness with girls causes a misunderstanding, he is branded a snob.
When Jim decides the family should start living up to its promises, he ends up having to spend a night in the playhouse.
Jim goes through an identity crisis when he decides he wants to lead the simple life.
The Anderson children enter an essay into a contest nominating Jim as "Father of the Year.".
Jim finds his life being controlled by circumstances when he buys a mink coat for Margaret.
A young man's helpful suggestion to Betty backfires when his own plan is used to ensnare him in matrimony.
Bud's refusal to help out in a wedding rehearsal plays an important part in a couple's reunion.
Jim tells his family that their lack of courage is responsible for his lack of confidence.
Jim learns what it's like to deliver papers when Bud is ordered to bed for a few days.
Jim refuses to interfere when Kathy sets her sights on Betty's boyfriend.
Jim decides that Bud can't play in the church baseball game because he hasn't done his chores.