Jim tells his family to help others and winds up in more trouble than before.

Jim buys Bud a motor scooter but Margaret won't let him have it.

Jim gets tickets to an important football game, and picks one of the kids to go with him—only to be blackmailed by an important client (who wants to go to the game, too) out of one of his tickets. He then tries frantically to find a second one.

Bud moves out, but discovers he can't clean, cook, or take care of himself.

Jim comes to believe that he is over the hill.

Bud becomes increasingly paranoid when Kathy (who has a fascination with the new washing machine, and puts everything in there) places a letter addressed to him by the police department in the washing machine, and ruins the letter, so he doesn’t know why he is asked to be there within seven days.

Kathy writes the best poem in the fourth grade on what Thanksgiving means to her, and Jim builds the poem up in his mind to unreasonable expectations for a fourth grader. When he actually finds out what the poem consists of, his hopes for Kathy’s future are deflated and he disparages the poem to Margaret, unwitting that Kathy has overheard.

Jim's weekend retreat, just he and his wife, seems like a perfect idea, at first. But he doesn't want to pass this on to the kids when he learns that the kids have plans with them; and then when the kids take the news too easy, Jim and Margaret are befuddled. They leave, but soon they start thinking about their kids and after reaching the lodge they want to phone in - but no one answers the call...

Jim becomes worried that things between Betty and a new male friend of hers are getting too serious.

Jim and Margaret rarely disagree on anything. But when he finds out Margaret signed them up to take dancing lessons, Jim refuses to do so, and ends up defiantly going to his old club, leaving her to take lessons alone.

Jim takes the family into the woods to cut down their own tree, and they become stranded there.

Kathy discovers a wounded Sparrow on the windowsill of the house—which she then considers hers—and the whole family becomes involved in trying to help it get better.

Jim receives a traffic ticket and Bud is appointed to be judge on that day.

An unwanted visitor that won't leave spoils Kathy's birthday party.

Bud is deemed a snob by the girls in school because he won’t speak to any of them. When Jim talks it over with him, he discovers that Bud‘s real problem is that he becomes tongue-tied around them.

After making a big deal about people keeping their word, Jim is forced to put his words into practice to set a good example for his family.

Jim wants to give up his office job in order to move into the country to lead a quiet, and less stressful, life as a farmer. Margaret doesn't think that he means it seriously, but he crosses more lines to fulfill his dream than he ever has before.

Jim is happy to learn his kids are planning to enter him in a Father of the Year contest. But things, of course, don’t go smoothly.

Even though finances have grown a little tight in the Anderson household, Jim buys Margaret a mink coat that ends up being more trouble than it’s worth.

Margaret tries to get her cousin and her boyfriend married.

Margaret's cousin (from the previous episode) is set to wed in the Anderson household, but things go wrong, due to the nervousness of the prospective bride and groom, and the wedding is called off. Poor Bud is reeled in to do a stand-in for the bride at the rehearsal.

Jim tries to help the children regain their confidence.

Bud injures himself, so Jim delivers the papers on his route to avoid Bud being fired.

Kathy and Betty fight for the attention of the same man.

Margaret worries the entire day over what will become of Bud’s future if he doesn’t develop good character. This is tied in with a baseball game Bud is trying to get to play in.

Jim tries to encourage Bud to take after him in salesmanship.

Jim comes home tired one day and is harangued by the kids. So, he and Margaret set up new rules to give him some time to relax—but it ends up backfiring.

A new highway is getting built, and for that the old community hall is going to 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 organize help.

Bud loses a job to a boy who fakes his resume, which leads him to believe it is alright to do this himself

Margaret is forced to invite a woman who makes her uncomfortable because she is Jim's friend's wife.

Bud learns that the girl he likes is dating his best friend.

Kathy gets a new magic set, from a trade with a friend, and becomes convinced she can truly wield magic.

Betty has recently taken up tennis at school and is chosen for a photo shoot for the paper. This causes friction between her and her doubles partner, Eula, who is the team’s best player.

Bud is accused of cheating because he is suddenly getting high grades in class.

After commenting on a sitcom (“Father Does It Again”) the family watches together one night, Jim speaks about how TV fathers are often portrayed as dumb in comparison with their families. Later, he plans on going hunting and starts believing that Margaret and the kids are secretly trying to get him to stay.

When Jim gets an invitation to a dance for his class reunion—class of ‘33—the kids start behaving as if their parents are ancient. Then, when the kids at their alma mater treat them the same, Jim and Margaret deal with the thought of getting older.

Bud gets irritated by a girl (whom he refers to as “Dumb Dora”) who has a crush on him, hurts her feelings when his irritation leads to cruelty, and must make amends.

Margaret has a premonition of danger for Jim’s upcoming business trip, and tries to get Jim to postpone it. But Jim believes it’s a bunch of superstitious nonsense, and insists on going anyway.

Tate Idsen saves a stagecoach from savage Indians in a flashback sequence.

Bud gets in trouble when his latest friend turns out to be a kleptomaniac.

Betty is indignant when Jim arranges a date for her with an old insurance salesman buddy’s son, Carter.

Jim decides to be stricter with his children. Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Lauren Chapin, Billy Gray.

Bud falters in his attempts to emulate Betty (Elinor Donahue). Robert Young, Jane Wyatt.

Betty gets a job to pay for her new formal. Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin.

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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.

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Bud new friend won't leave the Anderson house because he has no family.

The family tries to think up excuses to keep from going to Margaret's family reunion.

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Betty decides to become an engineer. Doyle: Roger Smith. Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin.

Betty and her boyfriend refuse to see again after Jim and his father fight.

Margaret admits before the PTA that she can't control her children.

Former baseball star Duke Snider appears in this episode. Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, Lauren Chapin. Sandy: Tommy Ivo. Bramer: Kenneth Tobey. Kippy: Paul Wallace.

Jim fights the elements to collect plants for Kathy's nature folder. Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray.

The family member who doesn't tattle for one week will receive ten dollars.

Kathy finds a receipt for $25 from the adoption center and believes she was adopted.

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When Kathy refuses to graduate from high school, the family tells her about Betty's reluctance to graduate from High School, too. This is a recut version of episode 63. It is not part of the syndication package and is considered ""lost"".