Father Knows Best
Blind Date
Season 6, Episode 28 · Aired 1960-04-18
Synopsis
Betty is one of three finalists for the senior class Campus Queen. Her snooty friends match her up with what they call a country bumpkin as a blind date and the entire senior class is in on the joke being played on her. Betty begins to get back at them saying "Farewell dear hearts and gentle people" and parades the poor guy around to all the parties and mixers.Quotations: Betty is livid saying "I'll get even with them just you wait!". Quotation: Bud: "Pop went Rudy's little dream and so happily ends another absorbing chapter in the life of Betty Anderson, Girl Avenger".
In the series
This episode is part of Father Knows Best (1954–1960) on CBS/NBC.
The polished patriarch sitcom that sold middle-class calm as destiny.
Key cast
- Robert Young as Jim Anderson
- Jane Wyatt as Margaret Anderson
- Elinor Donahue as Betty Anderson
- Billy Gray as Bud Anderson
- Lauren Chapin as Kathy Anderson