Quality is very very good on all of the following FATHER KNOWS BEST available, 96 episodes on 11 DVDs:

DVD ONE FATHER KNOWS BEST
1 Bud Takes Up The Dance
3 The Motor Scooter
5 Live My Own Life
7 Bud’s Encounter With The Law
8 Thanksgiving Day
9 Second Honeymoon
10 Typical Father

DVD TWO FATHER KNOWS BEST
11 Margaret Goes Dancing
12 The Christmas Story
15 A Friend of Old George’s
16 Bud The Snob
17 The Promised Playhouse
18 Jim The Farmer
19 Father of the Year
20 The Mink Coat

DVD THREE FATHER KNOWS BEST
21 The Matchmaker
22 Bud, the Bridesmaid
23 Proud Father
24 Father Delivers The Papers
30 First Disillusionment

DVD FOUR FATHER KNOWS BEST
31 Woman In The House
32 New Girl At School
33 Kathy Makes Magic (syndicated)
33 Kathy Makes Magic (with original commercials)
34 Advantage to Betty (late start)
35 The Big Test
36 Father Is a Dope
43 Jim, The Tyrant
44 Betty’s Brother
45 Betty Earns a Formal

DVD FIVE FATHER KNOWS BEST
46 The House Painter
47 Bud, The Wallflower
49 Kathy, The Indian Giver
51 The Grass Is Greener
53 Family Reunion
54 Family Dines Out
56 Betty, Girl Engineer
57 The Martins and the Coys
58 Dilemma For Margaret
59 Hero Father

DVD SIX FATHER KNOWS BEST
62 Adopted Daughter
65 Never In Twain
66 Betty Goes to College
67 Man About Town
68 The Homing Pigeon
69 Spaghetti For Margaret
70 Betty’s Birthday
72 The Old Days
73 Whistle Bait
76 Betty Goes Steady

DVD SEVEN FATHER KNOWS BEST
78 The Angel’s Sweater
79 The Promising Young Man
80 Margaret Hires a Gardener
81 Swiss Family Anderson
82 Brief Holiday
86 Betty and the Jet Pilot
87 Trip to Hillsborough
88 An Evening To Remember
89 Bud Buys a Car
90 Safety First

DVD EIGHT FATHER KNOWS BEST
14 Boy’s Week
91 Bud, The Hero (joined in progress)
95 Baby In The House
96 Class Prophecy
115 Calypso Kid
116 Father’s Biography
117 The Rivals (Barbara Eden)
119 Margaret’s Other Family
120 The Trial
121 Revenge Is Sweet

DVD NINE FATHER KNOWS BEST
122 Country Cousin
123 Poor Old Dad
124 Betty’s Crusade
125 Young Love
126 Tell It To Mom
127 A Friend In Need
128 A Medal For Margaret
129 The Weaker Sex
130 Jim, The Answer Man
131 Bud Quits School

DVD TEN FATHER KNOWS BEST
132 A Matter of Pride
133 Betty Finds a Cause
134 Vine Covered Cottage
135 Be Kind To Bud Week
136 Kathy’s Romance
137 Voice From The Past
138 Frank’s Family Trees
139 Always Plan Ahead
141 Bud, The Caretaker
142 Betty, The Pioneer Woman

DVD ELEVEN FATHER KNOWS BEST
143 Fair Exchange
145 Margaret Wins a Car
148 The Basketball Coach
149 Kathy, Girl Executive
150 The Good Samaritan
151 The Ideal Father
152 Big Shot Bud

Hello. I would be interested in knowing the cost for these. Thanks.

Is the Screen Gems TV Tube, and Screen Gems 1955 Torch Lady on them?

Can I buy these? IF so, how much?

Yes, I,too, am wondering the same questions about these. Why hasn't there been any reply from RTususian?????

Keep in mind that these are bootlegs. All the usual caveats in buying them apply.

I'm new to this, so please explain how the Bootleg cds would differ from other types. It is so-o discouraging not to be able to find proper high quality FKB cds while there are lots of other 50's shows available out there.

If Jeff is the same Jeff who sold tapes a few years to some of us who are in the chat room for FKB at TVLAND.com, they were of excellent quality. When I ordered mine, we didn't have a dvd player so I chose the tapes. If only I'd planned ahead knowing we'd eventually get a dvd player!!

...16mm syndicated prints, with the Screen Gems "tube" i.d. ('54-'57) and the Screen Gems/Columbia "Lady With the Torch" i.d. ('57-'60) at the end. "Kathy Makes Magic" is an original NBC network print {July 1956 repeat of a fall 1955 episode} with the original Scott Paper Company sponsor i.d. {you'd see the Anderson house at the beginning with 'Scott Paper Company Presents' over it, and the announcer saying, "Scott Paper Company takes PRIDE in presenting..."} and commercials.

I'd grab it!

I can tell you about the 96 episode set since I bought these from this man (and a 150 episode set as well, from somebody else).

The episodes are definitely of "mixed" quality, to put it nicely. They were originally taped from TV broadcasts and have been duplicated and traded among traders. Who knows who it was that made the original DVD's?

A couple of the episodes are cut off at the beginning or ending. For example, "Margaret Goes Dancing" has the last 6 or 7 minutes cutoff. "Advantage To Betty" has the opening credits and some of the beginning of the episode cut off. I haven't looked at all of them, there may be others.

(Fortunately, on the 150 episode set, these episodes are intact, so I finally get to see how these episodes end! I can copy the DVD's to my computer and between the two sets, I can piece together something with new menus, and pick the better quality of duplicated episodes.)

Go to the website www.ioffer.com, then to DVD's and movies, search for "Father Knows Best" and you will see several individuals, including this one, selling FKB taped off of TV.

Someone else on that website is offering a 150 episode set of FKB. I carefully checked the list of episodes and discovered that there are only about 137 original episodes, about 13 are duplicated in the list.

Some of the DVD's in this set have the episodes recorded as all one long file, not authored into a menu. To get to individual episodes past the first one, you must fast search past the earlier episodes, which can take 5 or 10 minutes easily. There is no sub-menu of episodes where you can go directly to the opening of a particular episode.

There are 5 episodes on the 96 episode set that are not on the 150 episode set. If you got both sets, that would make a total of 142 episodes., with some duplicates.

The quality of these homemade DVD's is very uneven. A couple episodes are too dark, a couple have washed out highlights. One had such a low volume that I had to turn the TV literally all the way up to hear, and then there was a lot of "hiss" in the audio. Some have a greenish tint in the video. Also, a few episodes had broad, lighter colored bands rolling up through the picture. This was some kind of interference from when the original person taped the episodes. Quite a few were taped off of Nick At Nite, and the ending credits had that split-screen thing that NaN uses, and voice overs over the music on the ending credits.

No way would I rate them as a 7 out of 10. In my opinion, most of them are a 4 or 5, maybe some are a 6.

Nevertheless, with all those negative comments, I am still glad I have the discs. My father is 86 years old and lives in a small apt. in an assisted living home. I have taken some of the discs when I visit, and we watch FKB. After we watch a couple of episodes he says "I really enjoyed watching that" and comments about how the show is thousands of times better than the garbage they show as sitcoms today.

It is hardly necessary to say, if FKB was available on DVD, I would have never had to go this route. If there were a channel that was still broadcasting FKB, I know I could make my own DVD copies that would be much better than this. But I, like you, have no other option until the day that FKB is released on DVD. When that day comes, I will happily, happily fling these bootlegs into the nearest trash.