The television series centers around the challenges an unready father faces as he adjusts to his daughter's engagement and marriage.

Stanley Banks is a prosperous attorney who resides at 24 Maple Drive in Fairview Manor, Connecticut, with his wife Eleanor, who is known as Ellie, teenaged son Tommy, and daughter Katherine, who is known as Kay.

[1] By March 1962, episodes began increasingly to center around Leon Ames's Stanley Banks character, who "became the dominant figure in the whole show.

Episode directors included Mort Green, Anton Leader, Fletcher Markle, Gene Reynolds, and Richard Whorf, and writers included Ken Cooper, Dale & Katherine Eunson, Mathilda Ferro & Theodore Ferro, Mort Green, and James S. Henerson.David Raksin wrote the theme music.

[1] Father of the Bride premiered on September 29, 1961,[2][3] and 34 episodes were produced, airing on Fridays at 9:30 p.m.[2] The series never gained anything near the popularity of the 1950 and 1951 films on which it was based,[6] and was cancelled after only one season.