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  Father Knows Best - Nostalgia Central
Father Knows Best was one of a slew of American middle class family sitcoms in which moms were moms, kids were kids, and fathers knew best.
Although wife Margaret was stuck in the drudgery of domestic servitude, she was nobody's fool, often besting her husband and son, Bud.
Daughter Betty Anderson (known affectionately to her father as Princess) could also take the male Andersons to task, as could the precocious Kathy (aka Kitten), the baby of the family.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/fatherknowsbest.htm   (209 words)

  
 Father Knows Best - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Father Knows Best was an American TV and radio sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s.
A total of 203 episodes were produced, running until September 17, 1962, appearing on all three of the television networks of the time.
The Father Knows Best TV Show (http://www.crazyabouttv.com/fatherknowsbest.html) page at Crazy About TV contains trivia, a plot summary, cast list, and episode titles for the series.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Father_Knows_Best   (126 words)

  
 ESR | June 26, 2006 | Father knows best
They know that their children are watching them and that what they do all too often speaks far louder than any words they might choose to say, and has far more of a long term effect than any temporary disciplinary measure might have.
Those fathers who allow children to grow up and remain dependent on them aren't the loving fathers they think they are, but are rather the overprotective parent that hobbles his children and makes their stumbles inevitable because they've never learned to walk by themselves.
Whatever their own fathers may have taught them, they would have been quick to be outcast or become destitute if they didn't live up to the responsibilities of earning a living and of getting along with others in society.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0606/0606fathersday.htm   (2210 words)

  
 Own Your Brand! » Blog Archive » Father Knows Best
Knowing him wasn’t as easy for me, the oldest of his three sons.
They know if you don’t take care of things on the inside it won’t be long before everyone can see your “rusty” brand.
Mike, the care that you take with your blog posts, the stories that you weave into them and the insight you demonstrate the demands but also the responsibilities of ownership — whether it be a brand or a car, or anything else.
www.ownyourbrand.com /2006/06/18/father-knows-best   (1315 words)

  
 Fathers & Families: Welcome
Fathers & Families is a Massachusetts non-profit organization advocating for the right of every child to have two parents.
Called by some a "fathers' rights organization," Fathers & Families is made up of men and women who believe that fathers are an essential part of a child's life and that divorce or separation should not change this.
Fathers and Families protects the child's right to the love and care of both parents.
www.fathersandfamilies.org /site/index.php   (365 words)

  
 AP Wire | 10/23/2006 | 'Father Knows Best' star Jane Wyatt dies
To the millions watching the 1950s TV show "Father Knows Best," Wyatt was the wholesome stay-at-home mom who, the series' title notwithstanding, could be counted on every week to solve crises on the homefront.
But it was her years as Robert Young's TV wife, Margaret Anderson, on "Father Knows Best" that brought the actress her lasting fame.
She appeared in 207 half-hour episodes from 1954 to 1960 and won three Emmys as best actress in a dramatic series in the years 1958 to 1960.
www.siliconvalley.com /mld/fortwayne/entertainment/gossip/15824324.htm   (776 words)

  
 Father Knows Best
Evolutionary biologists agree that, since the goal of every organism is to promulgate its DNA, the degree to which a father invests time and energy in caring for young should be in direct proportion to their relatedness to him.
The best locations are in the colony center, where predators rarely venture, and larger, dominant males typically man these sites.
The role that odor plays in parental behavior was confirmed by performing an egg swap, in which a third of the eggs from each of 20 nests was removed and replaced with those from nests of unrelated males.
www.hras.org /sw/Sw3-04.html   (968 words)

  
 Father Knows Best
Father Knows Best, a family comedy of the 1950s, is perhaps more important for what it has come to represent than for what it actually was.
In the audio version the title of the show ended with a question mark, suggesting that father's role as family leader and arbiter was dubious.
Although wife Margaret Anderson, played by Jane Wyatt, was stuck in the drudgery of domestic servitude, she was nobody's fool, often besting her husband and son, Bud (played by Billy Gray).
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/F/htmlF/fatherknows/fatherknows.htm   (529 words)

  
 Father Knows Best TV Show - Father Knows Best Television Show - TV.com
Father Knows Best was the classic wholesome family situation comedy.
Father Knows Best began as an NBC radio series in 1948, with Robert Young in the starting role.
Father Knows Best prospered for the next five years.', 'Father Knows Best was the classic wholesome family situation comedy.
www.tv.com /father-knows-best/show/659/summary.html   (717 words)

  
 Father Knows Best
The show was dedicated to helping fathers reconnect with their children— about helping them be the dads they can and need to be.
I tell men that they have to give up trying to be the kind of father they want to be, or the kind of Dad they wished they had when they were kids.
Fathers should be forewarned though— when you start taking your child to breakfast don’t be surprised if your child has little or anything to say.
www.parentguidenews.com /articles/dadfriendly.php   (1043 words)

  
 Father knows best - The Boston Globe
For five Bruins, the tales are best told by the four dads and one brother -- among the 17 family members -- who recently accompanied the team on a five-day road trip.
His father was nervous, because he had seen the other goalies perform, and he knew Tim would be challenged to make the team.
For 17 members of the Bruins, the recent five-day trip from Toronto to Florida to Boston was a family affair: Sixteen fathers and one brother went along for the ride.
www.boston.com /sports/hockey/bruins/articles/2007/03/04/father_knows_best   (1627 words)

  
 Father Knows Best   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Father Knows Best was the way we would have liked life to be during a time when life was closer to that model than any other time in this nations history.
Father Knows Best is just as much a reflection of that time as Seinfeld is unfortunately a reflection of today.
A terrific show...still love it today...even with "Father's" often trite, pedantic moralizing...was and still am in love with Elinor Donahue....what a babe....and the best actor on the program....and she'd lived her own life since in a standup, independent kind of way.
www.jumptheshark.com /f/fatherknowsbest.htm   (3407 words)

  
 Father Knows Best Devotional
I've come to realize that my Father knows not only what my immediate needs are but also what I'll need even later in my earthly life.
I know we all know in our hearts that God holds everything in the palm of His hand and He's in control and has plans for us, but I don't think we live like we believe it.
Knowing that everything fits together in such a precise way should make us want to take each breath of life and live it more focused on God.
www.creativeladiesministry.com /fatherknowsbestdev.html   (817 words)

  
 Father Knows Best OTR MP3 List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The radio version of Father Knows Best stars Robert Young as Jim Anderson, and was the forerunner to the classic TV show of the same name.
Along with Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best was one of the first and best-loved All-American sweet-hearted family situation comedies.
Father Knows Best 531224 183 Stranded By A Snowstorm
www.otrcat.com /fatherknowsbest.htm   (1045 words)

  
 The Columbus Free Press - Norman Solomon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On "Father Knows Best," Robert Young was good-natured and reassuring, week after week and year after year.
But when we watched "Father Knows Best," we were apt to measure ourselves against the mythic characters -- the parents, Margaret and Jim Anderson, and their kids named Betty ("Princess"), Bud and Kathy ("Kitten").
Looking back on "Father Knows Best," 17 years after the shooting stopped, the actor who'd played Bud gave voice to the kind of introspection that was anathema to the program.
www.freepress.org /Backup/UnixBackup/pubhtml/solomon/mythsrip.html   (701 words)

  
 toledoblade.com -- Father knows best: Croce turns to Angelo for help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Stefania Croce isn't the first golfer to be tripped up by an attempt to surge ahead, to err by making drastic changes to her game in order to move to the so-called next level.
That gameplan and a bout with pneumonia proved to be recent roadblocks to a promising career and, in order to set things right, Croce has determined, once again, that father knows best.
Croce said she had worked with Butch Harmon and David Leadbetter, two of the top instructors in the U.S. "I was here, my father was in Italy and I needed some help, so both of those men worked with me," Croce said.
www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20020709&Category=SPORTS05&ArtNo=107090048&Ref=AR   (706 words)

  
 ENTERTAINMENT NEWS | KHOU.com | News for Houston, Texas
Wyatt, the lovely, serene actress who for six years on "Father Knows Best" was one of TV's favorite moms, died Friday, Oct. 20, 2006 in her Bel Air, Calif., home.
It was a tribute to the popularity of the show that after its run ended, it continued in reruns on CBS and ABC for three years in primetime, a TV rarity.
Her father, an investment banker, came from an old-line New York family, as did her mother, who wrote drama reviews.
www.khou.com /sharedcontent/features/printwire/102206cckrcwEntWyattObit.65bb13c1.html   (967 words)

  
 differenceblog: Father knows best?
In 1995, 15% of single-parent families in the U.S. were run by the father (about 4.6% of all families), although only about half of these had the father as the sole adult (the other households had cohabitating partners or other non-parent family members).
The 2004 census estimated that 20% of single-parent families were headed by fathers.
Both mother's advocates and father's advocates claim that the court system is biased against them.
differenceblog.livejournal.com /10584.html   (1083 words)

  
 BlueOregon: Father Knows Best
As long as responsible parents have the right to oversee the health and welfare of their daughters, other adults transporting them across state lines to avoid state laws should be unacceptable.
I don't know a single parent who thinks their child should be able to get an abortion without first discussing it with their parents.
Irrespective of the legality, we all know that a civil lawsuit can be filed for any reason (or no reason), and no professional is likely to keep their liability insurance if they acted with such a cavalier (it's not illegal) attitude.
www.blueoregon.com /2006/07/father_knows_be.html   (5351 words)

  
 IGN: Father Knows Best Review
The end result was that Dexter now knows some major new information: That Joe was indeed his biological father, and that Harry knew Joe was still alive and kept this a secret from him.
Despite the stuff about Dexter's father though, it was hard not to want more to occur this episode, after the revelation about Rudy last week.
It was a fun, amusing scene, and versions of it have been done in other shows and films… but not when two of the participants are serial killers, doing their best to fit in with those around them.
tv.ign.com /articles/747/747753p1.html   (920 words)

  
 Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas - Moviefone
Synopsis: Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas was the second of three TV pilot films for a proposed (and abandoned) revival of the 1950s sitcom classic...
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movies.aol.com /movie/father-knows-best-home-for-christmas/1086115/main   (170 words)

  
 Father Knows Best
A loving father, a man of genuine character, was speaking to his son for whom he cared deeply.
Well, in Prov.1:2 one of the points is to know what people say: when you hear declarations or pronouncements made, when politicians give speeches, when educators issue statements, when your child brings home homework from school that has someone's opinion laced throughout itwhenever you hear something said, you ought to be discerning.
This is a father who has chosen to love his son, and his son will listen because of that relationship, and the specific advice is therefore helpful.
www.pbc.org /library/files/html/4250.html   (3348 words)

  
 Father knows best - Travel Golf Digest - Find Articles
Since we live nearly 2,000 miles apart, we don't see each other all that often, and I figured this would be a great chance to catch up.
The best part of our golf getaways isn't really the golf or the food.
The best part is just having the time to just do nothing together.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HFI/is_2_55/ai_112366866   (973 words)

  
 Father knows best
Knowing that I — like my mother — prefer my eggs poached, he offers to pop one in her egg maker, even though, he informs me, he’s making eggs and onions for himself.
Maybe Mom is in the kitchen — if only in his imagination — whispering where the elusive poacher is in her crammed-tight cabinet, instructing him to be sure to use the cutting board when he slices the onions, to soak the frying pan as soon as he takes it off the stove.
He’s also ready to be cheerleader and best friend on her journey out of the wheelchair and the walker — two pieces of machinery she can’t abide — and back to walking on her own.
www.freenewmexican.com /news/45193.html   (1842 words)

  
 Which Father Knows Best? - Science Ministries
When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Once there was a father and his little child walking along a beach.
In fact, the idea for “Father’s Day” came from a woman who was raised by a single dad.
www.foigm.org /CC/article/0,,PTID4859|CHID5|CIID457750,00.html   (683 words)

  
 Father Knows Best Photos, Cast, Episodes for Father Knows Best | TVGuide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Tim Allen is in talks to develop and star in Paramount's upcoming remake of Father Knows Best...
Father Knows Best - classic TV drama with the family everybody wanted, with Robert Young on FiftiesWeb.com
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 Father Knows Best - Torah.org
The love that the king showed to this child was so great that officers of the king, who devoted their life to the king's service, began to feel jealous of the attention and affection the young boy received from the king.
It had to be that his father was watching out for him, even while he was banished to this exile.
Because Avimi, in his desire to properly honor his father, put himself in a position that could cause pain, he gained the benefit of understating that the pain the nation of Israel experienced through the actions of Our Father in Heaven, had benefit.
www.torah.org /learning/yomtov/3weeks/vol8no4.html   (1342 words)

  
 Father Knows Best, by Max Gordon - Democratic Underground
The fact that most people know only the result of a fascist takeover, but aren't as familiar with the stages that often lead up to one may be why so few are panicking.
We've heard the stories of people somewhere who were visited by the FBI because they were critical of the war or this administration, or how someone overheard an anti-Bush conversation they didn't like and turned their neighbors in.
Bush's style the entire evening amounted to defensiveness, "I know you are, but what I am I?" cut-downs, silent gaps, smirks, snorts, repetitive rejoinders and answers that seemed two questions behind.
www.democraticunderground.com /articles/05/07/02_father.html   (4052 words)

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