From "Father Knows Best" to "Married . . . With Children," we've got some fun (and funky) DVD recommendations for Sunday's Father's Day yearly salute. Either of the wildly unrelated comedies above provides amusing viewing, along with a few other sets we've seen and recommend.

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Father Knows Best (Shout, $35) -- No, he doesn't, really, in this Season 1 set at least. Robert Young's average family man Jim Anderson is actually at a loss much of the time in this classic single-camera sitcom's lively first TV season (1954-55, after five years on radio). When it comes to dealing with teen daughter Elinor Donahue (Betty, aka Princess), middle schooler Billy Gray (Bud, aka Bud, but officially James Jr.) or primed-to-pout little Lauren Chapin (Kathy, aka Kitten), it's wife/mom Jane Wyatt who's often the steadier hand, regardless of the show's title. This initial TV season includes a memorably sentimental Christmas episode-- stuck in the snowy woods with a wise old cabin squatter -- plus extra features including warm new cast interviews, home movies and a jaw-dropping time trip: a never-broadcast Cold War episode, made for the government, in which the Andersons spend a day living under Communism. And aren't they sorry!

Married . . . . With Children (Sony, $40 each) -- Ed O'Neill's sad sack Al Bundy is one of the tube's essential characters, a father-never-knows-best shoe salesman beset with a lazy consumerist wife (Katey Sagal), slutty daughter (Christina Applegate) and sleazy son (David Faustino). All he wants is to be left alone watching TV with his hand down his pants. This anti-Cosby Show created '80s controversy for its no-holds-barred irreverence, but has endured because it's a superbly delivered farce, secondarily disemboweling that vaunted all-American "ideal family." So far, eight seasons are out on DVD. The (somewhat) less crass early ones are better. Season 2 includes the LOL holiday takedown where Santa plummets from a helicopter into the Bundy backyard with a bottle of Muscatel in each hand. (And the coroner steals his jewelry.)

Make Room for Daddy (S'more, $40) -- This boutique distributor (which also released a must-have Mister Peepers collection) is responsible for the recent Season 6 set, where son Rusty Hamer has grown old enough to really give dad Danny Thomas what-for as the tube's prototypal talk-back kid. This '50s hit about a nightclub entertainer's Manhattan clan isn't widely seen anymore, so the Thomas-Hamer repartee becomes a nice surprise. So does the collection of cool cameos: Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Tony Bennett, Annette Funicello, Dinah Shore, and more.

Roseanne (Anchor Bay, $30-40 each) -- What would Roseanne Barr have been without John Goodman's balancing act? On second look, his Dan Conner actually provides more bite to Roseanne's bark than you might remember. This serious sitcom also offers a keener perspective on a husband-wife relationship in the eye of the parenting storm. All nine seasons are available. (Season 3 starts the series' mid-run strongest years.)

The Dick Van Dyke Show (Image, $40 each, complete series $250) -- Here's an earlier generation of realistic relationships, both husband-wife and parent-child, with Dick Van Dyke as a youthful dad juggling demanding work as a TV writer with raising Ritchie right. His scenes over five seasons with young Larry Matthews still feel fresh, and spot-on, and hilarious, nearly 50 years later.

The Addams Family (MGM, $30 each for 3 volumes; complete series $70) -- John Astin's Gomez Addams let his kids do pretty much whatever the hell they wanted -- crossbows, explosive chemistry -- so his '60s zillionaire eccentric now seems an early precursor of our recent laissez faire parenting style. But hey, who wouldn't have wanted to call this fun free spirit Dad?

The Rifleman (MPI, $50 each for 5 box sets of 20 episodes each, but out of print) -- Way out (old) west, Chuck Connors' Lucas McCain still shines as a role model to young Johnny Crawford, who learns about life and ethics from his trigger-averse (but -talented) single dad. These '50s half-hours somehow still play gracefully despite being a bit heavy-handed emotionally. They're certainly helped by brevity. Maybe network TV should try half-hour dramas again.

Everybody Loves Raymond (HBO, $45 each, complete series $280) -- No, not Ray Romano. We love Peter Boyle -- Ray's dad, the perpetually self-absorbed out-of-touch grouch who bitches endlessly about his wife but would die if he didn't have her to kick around all day. (And vice versa.) Only getting ornerier over the course of nine seasons, he's the tube's most classic parent of an adult parent. Unless you count . . .

Titus (Anchor Bay, $30 each for 2 volumes) -- Stacy Keach's over-the-top Ken Titus -- based on the real-life hard-drinking, womanizing, let-them-eat-poison dad of stand-up comic Christopher Titus -- certainly is another memorable adult-parent nightmare. Except, as son Titus' sitcom astutely points out, despite dad's wild ways and tough-love lesson-teaching, he was always there for his kids and perversely raised 'em right. (Even if they weren't his, since the doofus "brother" played by Zack Ward was actually the kid left behind by one of daddy Titus' ex-wives.) Smart, touching, often hysterical, all-too-underrated family comedy for adults.

And yes, I know -- I left out Homer Simpson, Ozzie Nelson, Archie Bunker, Mike Brady, Ward Cleaver, Andy Taylor, Tim Taylor, Jed Clampett, Ricky Ricardo, Cliff Huxtable, Danny Tanner, Tony Soprano and about a thousand other TV dads. (And My Three Sons and The Courtship of Eddie's Father haven't come out on DVD yet.)

Commemorate your favorite by clicking the Comments link and lionizing. Can't think of one? Visit Jim O'Kane's venerable site TVDads.com to have your pick of hundreds.

And happy father's day!