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My Three Sons

  • TV-PG
  • 1960–1972
  • 12 seasons
  • Comedy, Family
  • 6.6

A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.

Episodes

32 episodes
  1. 1Stag at Bay

    30 minSep 15, 1966

    The usually all-male Douglas household becomes a refuge for an attractive girl dancer who has been evicted from her apartment, when Steve attends an office stag dinner. He takes her home where he lends her some of Robbie's clothes.

  2. 2Fly Away Home

    30 minSep 22, 1966

    Steve Douglas takes his family to his birthplace of Bedford Springs. He tries to locate his 1940 fiancee Ellen, married and still living in town, but he is disenchanted by the changes in her. Still pretty, she lives with her obnoxious husband and ill-mannered children.

  3. 3Forget Me Not

    30 minSep 29, 1966

    Steve Douglas receives a perfumed letter from an old girlfriend announcing she will stop by and see him. She terrifies Steve by acting as though she plans to accept a proposal of marriage he hasn't made. Steve does his best to convince her that his old college chum is the man for her.

  4. 4Good Guys Finish Last

    30 minOct 6, 1966

    Three fathers face their sons in a quiz game at a school entertainment night, and when the boys easily beat the dads so much interest is aroused in town that a re-match is scheduled on the local television station.

  5. 5Arrivederci, Robbie

    25 minOct 13, 1966

    Because Robbie's friend wants him to understand Italians better, he invites Robbie to his home. Robbie runs afoul of an old custom when he takes a girl walking in the park and learns that he is expected to marry her.

  6. 6If At First . . .

    30 minOct 20, 1966

    Steve Douglas gets a parking ticket from Robbie's girlfriend, a pretty meter maid, and another citation for not having his driver's license renewed -- and then flunks his driving test. Soon Robbie realizes that he's given his father last year's manual to study and that some laws have been changed.

  7. 7Robbie's Underground Movie

    30 minNov 3, 1966

    Robbie films a 'way out' movie for his Cinema class with the aid of a non-talented, 'way out' co-ed who earnestly tries to make an 'honest' motion picture. They begin a long week of filming uncinematic gems spotlighting the Douglases dull, drab meaningless family routine.

  8. 8Fiddler Under the Roof

    30 minNov 10, 1966

    Ernie feels left out when the Douglas family orchestra begins to practise. Uncle Charley tries to teach Ernie the violin but runs into a major obstacle -- the boy's lack of obvious talent.

  9. 9Happy Birthday, World

    25 minNov 17, 1966

    When Robbie's girlfriend's father calls from out of town and asks him to deliver a birthday cake to her, he thinks there might be a fortune in performing this birthday service and immediately goes into the cake business.

  10. 10The Awkward Age

    30 minDec 1, 1966

    Robbie is immediately infatuated when he hires a pretty chemistry instructor as a tutor, and their friendship seems to be blossoming. But when he finds out that his father has been dating her, the shock affects his ability to concentrate on his studies.

  11. 11A Real Nice Time

    30 minDec 8, 1966

    When Ernie sends for a picture of Chip's favourite movie star, planning to give it to him as a birthday gift, Chip gets an actual date with the movie starlet for a publicity stunt and is astounded by all the resulting hoopla.

  12. 12Falling Star

    30 minDec 15, 1966

    Steve Douglas meets a celebrated popular vocalist of 20 years ago whose career seems over. Although her famous voice is still there, the public demands music in the current style. Steve helps her update her style when he arranges for her to sing with Robbie's combo, the Greefs.

  13. 13Tramp or Ernie

    30 minDec 22, 1966

    Ernie sneezes as he brushes past the family dog, Tramp, and when a doctor verifies the boy's allergy to dog hair and says the dog must go, Ernie packs his bags as he feels Tramp has seniority over him in the family.

  14. 14Grandma's Girl

    30 minDec 29, 1966

    Chip's romance with a classmate flourishes when he rents a horse and buggy so as to impress the girl's strict, old fashioned grandmother. She is impressed, but still insists that the kids stay at home to have a taffy-pulling marathon.

  15. 15You Saw a What?

    30 minJan 5, 1967

    Ernie's excited reports of seeing a flying saucer are received with skepticism, but the next day he not only sees the weird vehicle again, but he snaps some pictures and is later told by the Air Force to keep quiet about it.

  16. 16Both Your Houses

    30 minJan 12, 1967

    Robbie is delighted when college classmate Peggy moves in next door, and the pair immediately go to work on a joint assignment for their Shakespeare class. He plays Romeo to her Juliet when a feud between the two families seems imminent.

  17. 17My Pal Dad

    30 minJan 19, 1967

    Steve Douglas passes up his company's offer of a weekend in Rio because Saturday is the start of trout season. The boys do their best to get Steve to make Ernie his fishing buddy so Robbie and Chip can get out of the annual trip.

  18. 18TV or Not TV

    30 minJan 26, 1967

    Television viewing at the Douglas household has dropped to zero because Uncle Charley, annoyed with the boys' quarreling about choice of channels, has withdrawn all TV privileges for a week. Robbie, a member of a new program committee, eagerly joins his co-ed girlfriend in her plan to bring true drama to the people. However, after viewing the show, the family isn't sure their attempt at 'realism' is really real.

  19. 19My Dad, the Athlete

    25 minFeb 2, 1967

    Ernie's friends all boast of their dads' college athletic trophies, which forces Steve into a grueling two mile cross-country race with the other fathers. Two of the men, once athletes are eager for the contest, but Steve thinks it is silly.

  20. 20The Good Earth

    30 minFeb 9, 1967

    Uncle Charley puts down a deposit on a vacation lot at beautiful Whispering Pines, only to learn he's been hoodwinked in a high pressure real-estate operation. The family discover that it is located at the bottom of a steep canyon. It is next to a tumbledown shack, occupied by a slovenly family who prove themselves completely undesirable as prospective neighbours.

  21. 21My Son, the Bullfighter

    30 minFeb 16, 1967

    Robbie Douglas tries to impress his girlfriend by competing with a handsome bullfighter against a killer bull, but has to flee for his life when the bull charges him.

  22. 22The Best Man

    30 minFeb 23, 1967

    Robbie is crushed when he learns that Denise DuBois, a French exchange student that Robbie had hoped to marry, has accepted his friend Tom's proposal of marriage the night before.

  23. 23Now in My Day

    30 minMar 2, 1967

    Chip Douglas's junior high school is having an Olden Days dance and the boys are to bring their mothers, and the girls their fathers. Chip finds trouble going steady with two girls at the same time and arranges for Steve to escort his classmate's widowed mother.

  24. 24Melinda

    30 minMar 9, 1967

    To help out his Dad, Steve, Chip pretends to like the aggressive as she is pretty, daughter of a new executive woman that his dad is dating. Chip has the romantic notion that his close relationship with the daughter might help the social plans of his father.

  25. 25Charley O' The Seven Seas

    30 minMar 16, 1967

    Uncle Charley's romantic tales of adventure captivates Ernie's teacher. The pretty, middle-aged lady is fascinated by the old boy's partially-true tales of his exciting life on the high seas. Soon the ex-seacook is aghast to learn she has given up her teaching job and he is further torn when she explains her savings will buy them both a one-way ticket to Pango-Pango and asks him to marry her before they leave.

  26. 26Help the Gypsies are Coming!

    30 minMar 23, 1967

    Ernie Douglas's new school friend is little Laszlo, whose gypsy family is camped outside of town. Soon the gypsies are camped on the front lawn of the Douglas home. To Steve's amazement and Uncle Charley's disgust they stage several hours of singing and dancing.

  27. 27Ernie's Folly

    30 minMar 30, 1967

    Other fathers help their sons in a school science fair, but Steve tells Ernie he's on his own. Soon his project turns to disaster when his very crudely built electric clock absolutely refuses to run. After vainly pleading that most of his classmates are getting parental help, on the day of the fair, Ernie must be forced to go to school.

  28. 28Ernie's Crowd

    30 minApr 6, 1967

    The older members of the Douglas family find their social lives complicated when little Ernie decides to accompany them on all of their dates. Uncle Charley decides he must be the one to put his foot down and set the boy straight.

  29. 29Ernie and the O'Grady

    30 minApr 13, 1967

    A genial bum Ernie brings home for dinner outrages Uncle Charley by eating everything in sight and then decides to stay the night even though he wasn't invited. Steve feels that they should let Ernie work things out for himself.

  30. 30The Sky is Falling

    30 minApr 20, 1967

    Robbie leaves school after contemplating a very important offer from a former school drop out who now heads his own Real Estate company. When giving some new home buyers a tour of one of the company's display homes, he discovers that the houses are not what they seem.

  31. 31So Long, Charley, Hello

    30 minApr 27, 1967

    Uncle Charley's old seafaring buddy arrives with a wonderful proposition: He wants Charley to join him as first mate for a six month fishing cruise in the Carribean. The family then conspires to demonstrate to Charley that he is not needed, but they really don't want him to leave.

  32. 32Weekend in Paradise

    30 minMay 11, 1967

    On a visit to Hawaii, Robbie falls in love, Ernie almost gets arrested and Uncle Charley is pursued by an old girl friend from 1945, who weighs 200 pounds now. Charley thus finds it necessary to stay in hiding until the plane leaves for home.

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Series cast

Fred MacMurraySteve Douglas380 episodes
Don GradyRobbie Douglas380 episodes
Stanley LivingstonChip Douglas380 episodes
William DemarestCharley O'Casey232 episodes
Barry LivingstonErnie Thompson197 episodes
Tim ConsidineMike Douglas185 episodes
William FrawleyBub O'Casey184 episodes
Tina ColeKatie133 episodes
Beverly GarlandBarbara74 episodes
Dawn LynDodie Harper Douglas74 episodes
Ann MarshallRuth8 episodes
Mike MinorClark Sullivan8 episodes
Betty LynnJanet Dawson7 episodes
Natalie MastersMrs. Showfield7 episodes
Naomi StevensMama Rossini7 episodes
Jodie FosterPriscilla6 episodes
Norman Alden6 episodes
Doris Singleton6 episodes

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