When was father knows best on tv

You can watch the U. Treasury Department production on YouTube. The original run of the series lasted six seasons, until The show switched nights, to Wednesdays, the next season, and in jumped networks, as ABC then started airing reruns in primetime, right before The Jetsons. Few, if any shows, have ever survived in primetime after death like this. The show continued to live on in reruns, moving to daytime in You can see the broadcast here.

In its first few seasons, the sitcom did not even crack the Top 30 of the Nielsen Ratings. In seasons four, five and six, Father Knows Best slowly climbed up the chart, jumping from No. No wonder it was kept around in reruns. After its debut season on CBS, the network gave it the axe. NBC picked up the series, airing it for three years. Then, in , the Peacock canceled the series. CBS, perhaps regretting its first decision, picked up the show again, running it through The Odd Couple is another sitcom that suffered a similar fate before growing into a classic.

Originally built on the Columbia Pictures backlot in for the film Blondie , a cinematic adaptation of the popular daily comic strip, the Anderson house was recycled again and again over the years.

It was Mr. Wilson's home in the Dennis the Menace TV series. While most of the world was obsessing over Star Wars , this beloved family was getting back together — not once, but twice in TV movies. Yes, as you can know see, Father Knows Best is the rare property to air on all three major networks. Jane Wyatt on the directors on Father Knows Best. Jane Wyatt on her favorite episodes of Father Knows Best. Jane Wyatt on why Father Knows Best ended.

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