At age eight, Richards appeared in Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas. The long-awaited made-for-TV holiday movie about the Anderson family from the beloved 1950s series aired on December 18, 1977, on NBC. Richards played Ellen, the granddaughter of Jim and Margaret Anderson (Robert Young, Jane Wyatt) and daughter of Betty (Elinor Donahue). The storyline followed empty nesters Jim and Margaret as they prepared to sell their family home. Original series stars Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin (Bud and Kathy Anderson) also returned for the reunion movie.
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In an interview with First for Women, Donahue, who played Richards’ character’s mother in the films, explained why she was missing from so many scenes in the Christmas movie. “The second reunion show I was barely in, because NBC wanted me for a series called Mulligan’s Stew," she said. "They wouldn’t release me to shoot Father Knows Best, even though it was on the same network. So they had to keep shooting around me and shooting around me and cutting the part down.”
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