Q 01/05

Three years after Father Knows Best ended, ABC News interrupted a rerun with its first bulletin on which event?

A) The first Moon landing

B) Kennedy's assassination

C) The Cuban Missile Crisis

D) John Glenn's orbit

Answer · why

B) Kennedy's assassination

Kennedy's assassination was first reported on ABC at 1:42 p.m. Eastern, cutting into the third-season episode Man About Town on the stations showing t...

Q 02/05

The Anderson house facade from Father Knows Best was later remodeled as astronaut Tony Nelson's home in which sitcom?

A) My Favorite Martian

B) I Dream of Jeannie

C) The Flying Nun

D) The Addams Family

Answer · why

B) I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie put Major Nelson behind the same front door on Columbia's Burbank ranch. The facade also turns up in Hazel, The Monkees and The Par...

Q 03/05

Billy Gray, Bud of Father Knows Best, lost the part of Plato in which film when shooting delays hit?

A) Rebel Without a Cause

B) Blackboard Jungle

C) Splendor in the Grass

D) East of Eden

Answer · why

A) Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause went ahead with Sal Mineo as Plato, and the part brought him an Oscar nomination. Gray had to step aside when the delay clashed ...

Q 04/05

The actress who played Margaret Anderson on Father Knows Best later appeared in Star Trek as which character's mother?

A) Kirk

B) McCoy

C) Sulu

D) Spock

Answer · why

D) Spock

Spock's human mother, Amanda Grayson, was hers in a 1967 episode and again in a 1986 film. She said the part brought her more fan mail than her famous...

Q 05/05

Jean Vander Pyl, Margaret on radio's Father Knows Best, later became the voice of which Hanna-Barbera character?

A) Jane Jetson

B) Penelope Pitstop

C) Wilma Flintstone

D) Daphne Blake

Answer · why

C) Wilma Flintstone

Wilma Flintstone was hers from the 1960 premiere, and she outlived the rest of the original Flintstones cast. She also voiced Rosie, the robot maid of...