Bud tries to learn how to dance from a book for his first school dance.

Jim tells his family to help others which leads to complications.

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...

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...

Kathy writes the best poem in the fourth grade on what Thanksgiving means to her, and Jim builds the poem up in his m...

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...

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 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 b...

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, h...

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

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 ...

Jim is happy to learn his kids are planning to enter him in a Father of the Year contest. But things, of course, don’...

Even though finances have grown a little tight in the Anderson household, Jim buys Margaret a mink coat that ends up ...

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 th...

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 t...