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<\/a>The television program \u201cFather Knows Best<\/a>\u201d hit the airwaves in 1954 and was a staple of American viewing through 1960.\u00a0 Robert Young<\/a>, who played \u201cfather,\u201d was in many ways the country\u2019s paternal figure before \u201cUncle Walter\u201d Cronkite<\/a> became \u201cAmerica\u2019s News Anchor\u201d in 1962.<\/p>\n

\u201cFather Knows Best\u201d depicted what much of America saw as the idyllic family on the late 1950s.\u00a0 On numerous occasions when \u201cthe wife\u201d and the children went into the living room, they saw father reading the newspaper.\u00a0 You see, it was dad\u2019s responsibility to keep informed about the world, and if necessary, he might share what he read with satellites of his family.<\/p>\n

The last original episode of \u201cFather Knows Best\u201d was produced twenty years before visionary Ted Turner<\/a> initiated the novel idea of a<\/p>\n

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