This "Father Knows Best" will star a thoroughly modern Robert Townsend as the head of a dysfunctional family.
The WB Television Network is planning to use the old TV show name for a sitcom it will broadcast on the network's debut night.Another debut night show is "Muscle," a comedy set in a New York fitness club.
WB is competing with Paramount Pictures to launch TV's fifth network. Both aim for a January debut.