Father Knows Best The Old Days (Season 3, Episode 9)
TV-G
TV Episode | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Father Knows Best

The Old Days (Season 3, Episode 9)

TV-G

TV Episode | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Jim & Margaret plan to go to the PTA costume party. When they argue with the children to dress better, they decide to wear the clothes kids wear now-days, and their children wear the clothes of Jim & Margaret's youth stored in the attic.

Director

Peter Tewksbury

Writers

Dorothy Cooper (story and teleplay) | Ed James (characters)

Producer

Eugene B. Rodney

Cinematographer

Frank G. Carson (as Kit Carson)

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Edit Released

Updated Nov 7, 1956

Release date

Nov 7, 1956 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

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

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13 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)
Yvonne Lime Dotty Dotty See fewer	I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Dawn Richard Margie Margie See fewer	I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Oliver Cross Emmett Snow (uncredited) Emmett Snow (uncredited) See fewer	The Foolish Virgin (1924)
Franklyn Farnum Dance Guest (uncredited) Dance Guest (uncredited) See fewer	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Bess Flowers Dance Guest (uncredited) Dance Guest (uncredited) See fewer	We Faw Down (1928)
Marion Gray Dance Guest (uncredited) Dance Guest (uncredited) See fewer	Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
Harry Hickox Announcer at dance (uncredited) Announcer at dance (uncredited) See fewer	The Music Man (1962)
Leoda Richards Dance Guest (uncredited) Dance Guest (uncredited) See fewer	Quincy, M.E. (1976)