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#1 - Bud and the Debutante
Season 5 Episode 31
Aired 4/13/1959
Bud tries to impress a wealthy girl by taking her to an expensive restaurant.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#2 - The Great Anderson Mystery
Season 5 Episode 36
Aired 5/18/1959
The Andersons act out a detective story when the television breaks down.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#3 - The Meanest Professor
Season 5 Episode 33
Aired 4/27/1959
Bud regrets writing a bad article about a professor after the professor finds the article.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#4 - Crisis Over a Kiss
Season 5 Episode 22
Aired 2/9/1959
Bud tries to save Betty from her boyfriend but Betty resents the help.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#5 - Formula for Happiness
Season 5 Episode 30
Aired 4/6/1959
Strange things begin to happen when Jim's dreams start to come true.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#6 - Bud, the Caretaker
Season 5 Episode 8
Aired 11/3/1958
Bud finds a dent on the back of the car he is watching for a friend.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#7 - The Ideal Father
Season 5 Episode 18
Aired 1/12/1959
Uncle Charlie believes the children are spoiled when they forget Jim's birthday.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#8 - A Man of Merit
Season 5 Episode 24
Aired 2/23/1959
Jim learns that he is to be appointed as an outstanding person in the community.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#9 - An Extraordinary Woman
Season 5 Episode 28
Aired 3/23/1959
The Anderson's are visited by an author on African Culture.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#10 - The Good Samaritan
Season 5 Episode 17
Aired 1/5/1959
5Jan59 Bud must do a good deed for an English report and ends up resenting the whole world.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#11 - It's a Small World
Season 5 Episode 26
Aired 3/9/1959
Margaret must decide to attend a luncheon or go with Jim on an important trip.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#12 - Two Loves Has Bud
Season 5 Episode 27
Aired 3/16/1959
Bud has a hard time when he must decide between two girls to take to the prom.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#13 - The Gold Turnip
Season 5 Episode 38
Aired 6/1/1959
1Jun59 Bud feels that there is no use for tradition so he starts to break all traditions.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#14 - The Christmas Story
Season 5 Episode 14
Aired 12/15/1958
The family recalls as they are putting up the Christmas tree, how Jim wanted them to cut their own tree, and in the process got stranded in a cabin.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#15 - Big Shot Bud
Season 5 Episode 19
Aired 1/19/1959
Bud gets into hot water when he tries to buy Margaret a bottle of expensive perfume.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#16 - Bud, the Campus Romeo
Season 5 Episode 21
Aired 2/2/1959
When Bus refuses dates, the girl launch an anti-Bud campaign.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Betty Makes a Choice
Season 5 Episode 25
Aired 3/2/1959
Betty is faced with a hard decision that will affect her future.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Be Kind to Bud Week
Season 5 Episode 2
Aired 9/22/1958
Bud thinks Betty has an ulterior motive when she is kind to him.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#19 - The Basketball Coach
Season 5 Episode 15
Aired 12/22/1958
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#20 - Kathy's Romance
Season 5 Episode 3
Aired 9/29/1958
Kathy's new boyfriend is more interested in Jim than of Kathy.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#21 - Betty, the Pioneer Woman
Season 5 Episode 9
Aired 11/10/1958
Betty plays the founder of Springfield's wife in a play of what really happened.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#22 - Vine Covered Cottage
Season 5 Episode 1
Aired 9/15/1958
Betty and Ralph plan to get married, but find it is not as happy as they thought.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#23 - Hard Luck Leo
Season 5 Episode 20
Aired 1/26/1959
Leo visits and takes advantage of the whole family until something surprising happens.
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Voice From the Past
Season 5 Episode 4
Aired 10/6/1958
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#25 - The Art of Romance
Season 5 Episode 29
Aired 3/30/1959
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Bud and the Debutante" is the best rated episode of "Father Knows Best" season 5. It scored 8.5/10 based on 55 votes. Directed by Peter Tewksbury and written by N/A, it aired on 4/13/1959. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Great Anderson Mystery".