Father Knows Best The Basketball Coach (Season 5, Episode 15)
TV-G
TV Episode | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Father Knows Best

The Basketball Coach (Season 5, Episode 15)

TV-G

TV Episode | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Bud and his friends get a sponsor for their basketball team, and they have a former college basketball player lined up for coach. But the coach's employer transfers him to another town and the boys ask Jim to be the replacement.

Director

Peter Tewksbury

Writers

Ed James (characters) | Roswell Rogers (written by)

Producer

Eugene B. Rodney

Cinematographer

Frank G. Carson (as Kit Carson)

Editor

Robert B. Hoover

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Edit Released

Updated Dec 22, 1958

Release date

Dec 22, 1958 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 6 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 3 wins & 18 nominations

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Robert Young Jim Anderson Jim Anderson See fewer	Crossfire (1947)
Jane Wyatt Margaret Anderson Margaret Anderson See fewer	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Elinor Donahue Betty Anderson Betty Anderson See fewer	Pretty Woman (1990)
Billy Gray Bud Anderson Bud Anderson See fewer	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Lauren Chapin Kathy Anderson Kathy Anderson See fewer	Father Knows Best (1954)
Paul Wallace Kippy Watkins Kippy Watkins See fewer	Gypsy (1962)
Jimmy Bates Claude Messner Claude Messner See fewer	The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
Henry Blair Ray Ray See fewer	Adventures of Superman (1952)
Bart Patton Freddie Freddie See fewer	THX 1138 (1971)