Father Knows Best

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Father Knows Best
Robert Young and Jane Wyatt as Jim and Margaret Anderson
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Ed James
Directed by	Peter Tewksbury
Starring	Robert Young Jane Wyatt Elinor Donahue Billy Gray Lauren Chapin June Whitley Jean Vander Pyl Eleanor Audley Rhoda Williams Ted Donaldson Norma Jean Nilsson
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	203
Production
Producers	Murray Bolen Ken Burton Fran Van Hartesfeldt
Running time	26 minutes
Production companies	Rodney-Young Productions Screen Gems
Original release
Network	CBS (1954–1955, 1958–1960) NBC (1955–1958)
Release	October 3, 1954 (1954-10-03) – May 23, 1960 (1960-05-23)
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Father Knows Best is an American sitcom starring Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin. The series, which began on radio in 1949, aired as a television show for six seasons and 203 episodes. Created by Ed James, Father Knows Best follows the lives of the Andersons, a middle-class family living in the town of Springfield. The state in which Springfield is located is never specified, but it is generally accepted to be located in the Midwestern United States.^[1]

The television series debuted on CBS in October 1954. It ran for one season and was canceled by CBS but picked up by NBC, where it remained for three seasons. After cancellation by NBC in 1958, the series returned to CBS, where it aired until May 1960.