Burbank, California). The house can also be seen in both its familiar Father Knows Best style and later renovated variations in episodes of Hazel, Bewitched, The Monkees, The Partridge Family and in numerous other television comedies and dramas. 1977 reunion movies The TV cast reunited for a pair of TV movies on NBC: Father Knows Best Reunion on May 15, 1977 and Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas on December 18, 1977. In the 17 years since the series had ended, the characters of Betty and Bud had both married and had families of their own. Betty was the widowed mother of two girls, Jenny (Cari Anne Warder) and Ellen (Kyle Richards), while Bud and his wife Jean (Susan Adams) were the parents of a son, Robert "Robby" (Christopher Gardner). Kathy had become engaged to a doctor, Jason Harper (Hal England). List of episodes Season 1 (1954–55) Season 2 (1955–56) Season 3 (1956–57) Season 4 (1957–58) Season 5 (1958–59) Season 6 (1959–60) Home media Shout! Factory has released all six seasons of Father Knows Best on DVD in Region 1. Season 5 and 6 were released as Shout! Select titles, available exclusively through their online store. Season 5 was re-released on April 11, 2017. Season 6 was re-released on July 18, 2017. In Region 4, Madman Entertainment has released the first two seasons on DVD in Australia. – Shout! Factory Exclusives title, sold exclusively through Shout's online store Homages In a September 2010 episode of the CBS daytime television series The Young and the Restless, newlyweds Billy and Victoria Abbott (portrayed by Billy Miller and Amelia Heinle, respectively) buy a house (exterior located on old Columbia Movie Ranch that was actually used in Father Knows Best and I Dream of Jeannie) that replicates the interior of the Anderson home on a sound stage. They watch Father Knows Best on DVD and often call each other "Jim" and "Margaret." At her wedding, which takes place in the house, Victoria chooses a 1950s-style white dress. Judge Anderson, the minister who marries the couple, was played by Donahue. The town of Springfield in the Simpsons is named after the fictional town in the series https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/04/10/150386471/doh-springfield-in-simpsons-was-in-creators-home-state-all-along#:~:text=AP-,Matt%20Groening%20has%20revealed%20the%20location%20of%20the,life%20home%20of%20The%20Simpsons.&text=Ay%20Caramba!,TV%20show%20Father%20Knows%20Best. Nielsen ratings The series finished in the Nielsen ratings at No. 25 for the 1957–1958 season, No. 14 for 1958–1959 and No. 6 for 1959–1960. Syndication Father Knows Best aired in the 1980s on Superstation WTBS and in