Robert Young

Robert Young’s Jim Anderson sold middle-class calm as destiny on Father Knows Best — polished patriarch sitcom that later satire never stopped targeting. Domestic hierarchy as national brand. TV Flash files him under 1950s family myth, gently framed.

Networks & studios

CBS — via catalog credits
NBC — via catalog credits
ABC — via catalog credits
CBS — production

On the dial

Shows in our catalog

CBS/NBC · 1954–1960

Father Knows Best

The polished patriarch sitcom that sold middle-class calm as destiny.

ABC · 1969–1976

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Robert Young's kindly GP — house-call empathy as ratings medicine.

On the web

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