List of My Three Sons episodes

This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom, My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	36	September 29, 1960	June 8, 1961	ABC
	2	36	September 28, 1961	June 7, 1962
	3	39	September 20, 1962	June 20, 1963
	4	37	September 19, 1963	May 28, 1964
	5	36	September 17, 1964	May 20, 1965
	6	32	September 16, 1965	April 28, 1966	CBS
	7	32	September 15, 1966	May 11, 1967
	8	30	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968
	9	28	September 28, 1968	April 19, 1969
	10	26	October 4, 1969	April 4, 1970
	11	24	September 19, 1970	March 20, 1971
	12	24	September 13, 1971	April 13, 1972

DVD releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.^[1]

	Episodes	Release date
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One	18	September 30, 2008
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two	18	January 20, 2009
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One	18	February 23, 2010
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume Two	18	June 15, 2010

Episode list

Season 1 (1960–61)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Chip Off the Old Block"	Peter Tewksbury	George Tibbles	September 29, 1960	101
Steve Douglas and his youngest son Chip are caught in the snares of designing women.
2	2	"The Little Ragpicker"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 6, 1960	102
The annual school rag drive starts Chip off on a scavenger hunt of the neighbourhood. Every time Miss Pitts looks out the window she sees strange happenings at the Douglas household. She sees Bub outdoors waving a bottle that looks like whiskey, and later, Robbie carrying in a dummy that she thinks is Bub smashed to the nines. Later she goes over to talk to Steve about her concerns, and sees Chip in his bedroom hitting the dummy and when it accidentally falls out of the upstairs window, she faints on the sidewalk.
3	3	"Bub in the Ointment"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury, George Tibbles	October 13, 1960	103
When Bub steps on the toes of each grandson in turn, Steve is about to rebuke him when the household returns to normal once again. Being chief cook, dishwasher and housekeeper to three boys is not fun for a grandfather as Bub soon finds out.
4	4	"Countdown"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 20, 1960	104
A missile launch, sleeping in and Daylight Savings Time make for an interesting Monday morning. The Douglas household is a chaotic affair of lost Indian arrowheads for Chip's turn in show and tell at school, Robbie's missing trumpet and some important lost plans of Steve's that Mike has nearly burned in the incinerator. Note: The official DVD of this episode uses the credits from the previous episode in error. David Duncan is the correct writer.
5	5	"Brotherly Love"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	October 27, 1960	105
When Mike and Robbie cross swords over a blonde schoolgirl, the issue widens until the whole family is involved in the argument. But it is difficult for Steve to teach his sons that violence solves nothing with a pugnacious father-in-law around.
6	6	"Adjust or Bust"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	November 3, 1960	106
Steve's theory that 'life is just a small series of adjustments' is put to the test in just one day's discovered doings. Steve must meet with a top Air Force General to discuss plans for a rocket design, and in the process, he must borrow Mike's car, but gets a flat tire and must take the bus home.
7	7	"Lady Engineer"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper	November 10, 1960	107
Steve is enamored of his new business associate, an attractive woman who is strictly business. He is tempted to mix business with pleasure but finds that she thinks only about the job at hand and doesn't have any plans to expand her love life, despite this romantic interlude.
8	8	"Chip's Harvest"	Peter Tewksbury	Peggy Phillips	November 17, 1960	108
Thanksgiving Day's turkey dinner is threatened when the electricity is short-circuited throughout the neighborhood. Chip decides to bring along his Indian friend as his sole guest much to the annoyance of his brothers who say he is a bum who lives near the railway tracks in a rundown old shack.
9	9	"Raft on the River"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	November 24, 1960	109
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
10	10	"Lonesome George"	Peter Tewksbury	James Allardice	December 1, 1960	110
TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.
11	11	"Spring Will Be a Little Late"	Peter Tewksbury	Jack Laird	December 8, 1960	111
Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.
12	12	"My Three Strikers"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	December 15, 1960	112
The Douglas boys call a family meeting at which they demand a raise in their allowances but Steve emphatically says 'No' because the family bills are mounting and they are leaving all of their chores to be done by Bub. A night of sharp words is followed by some bad dreams and an even brighter morning.
13	13	"The Elopement"	Peter Tewksbury	Phil Leslie, John McGreevey	December 22, 1960	113
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher
14	14	"Mike's Brother"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	December 29, 1960	114
Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.
15	15	"Domestic Trouble"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	January 5, 1961	115
When Bub is suddenly called out of town, Steve seeks an agency to get temporary help unaware that he may be recruiting a wife. With his older brothers passing the buck, Chip accidentally rings Domestic Bliss, Inc. - a marriage seeking department who send out a woman inspector right away.
16	16	"Bub Leaves Home"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Dales, John McGreevey	January 12, 1961	116
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind. Note: Arthur Dales was a pseudonym of writer Howard Dimsdale.
17	17	"Mike in a Rush"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	January 19, 1961	117
Mike prepares for the transition from high school to college and the question of joining a fraternity is one that complicates his life considerably. When Mike and Jean attend a party as prospective applicants, he later finds out that they have been dropped from the waiting list and suddenly the cold war turns pretty hot.
18	18	"The Bully"	Peter Tewksbury	Robert Bassing	January 26, 1961	118
Chip falls foul of the school bully who isn't interested in fighting with him. Steve soon realises that Chip is deliberately provoking the boy each day in the school yard to prove a point, and feels the boy must solve his own problems even though it costs him detention in the principal's office.
19	19	"Organization Woman"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	February 2, 1961	119
Steve's ever efficient sister arrives for a visit, and immediately changes and complicates the entire Douglas household. The challenging aspect to the whole deal is a decision that Harriet soon regrets, especially once Steve returns home from his business trip.
20	20	"Other People's Houses"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	February 9, 1961	120
When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.
21	21	"The Delinquent"	Peter Tewksbury	Diane Honodel, James Menzies	February 16, 1961	121
Mike Douglas and the family mongrel Tramp keep disappearing at night, and Jean becomes increasingly suspicious, unaware that Mike and his friend Tim are building her a hi-fi set for her upcoming Birthday.
22	22	"Man in a Trenchcoat"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	February 23, 1961	122
Robbie's girlfriend thinks that there's something going on between Robbie and Judy.
23	23	"Deadline"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 2, 1961	123
Mike Douglas is highly vocal in his criticism for the Sports page of the high school newspaper and to prove his point he is given one shot at revamping it, and he tackles the job with gusto.
24	24	"The Lostling"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 9, 1961	124
Chip begins to think it would be great to be an older brother, so he wishes for a little sister. After the new Hawkins family move into the vacant house across the street, a wild sequence of events results from an improbable case of mistaken identity -- an infant is somehow confused with a leg of lamb left in the boot of Steve's station wagon.
25	25	"Off Key"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 16, 1961	125
Chip brags to his new playmate that his genius brother Robbie can fix almost anything. Soon Robbie is repairing a Grand Piano and has five minutes to have it fixed before the boy's mother comes in and wants to practise a new tune on it.
26	26	"Small Adventure"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 23, 1961	126
With Steve away in Seattle on a business trip, the Douglas household's version of man's best friend has been known to drag home anything he can get his jaws into. This time Tramp slinks in with a large stick of dynamite that has somewhere and somehow survived since the end of the Second World War. Note: From this point onwards writer Dorothy Cooper will now go by her married surname of Cooper-Foote.
27	27	"Soap Box Derby"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	March 30, 1961	127
Unaware of each others problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.
28	28	"Unite or Sink"	Peter Tewksbury	Art Friedman	April 6, 1961	128
Robbie and Mike want some extra pocket money but Steve tells them that they will have to earn it by themselves. The boys ask their neighbours if they could paint their front fence and before long several neighbors pitch in together to help restore the yard to its former glory.
29	29	"The Wiley Method"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	April 13, 1961	129
Robbie can't seem to arouse the interest of the affairs of the heart with his classmate Maribel Quinby. So with the help of his best friend Hank Ferguson, he proceeds to try and get her attention by noting the theatrical method of approach that his history teacher employs to make a dull subject interesting.
30	30	"The National Pastime"	Peter Tewksbury	Mathilda Ferro, Theodore Ferro	April 27, 1961	130
Chip is so discouraged by his batting slump that he quits the baseball team. After his brothers encourage him to return, one of the parents, a volunteer umpire, calls in sick and Steve is asked to substitute. Chip thinks this will be the perfect opportunity to become the team hero.
31	31	"The Croaker"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	May 4, 1961	131
Malcolm, a frog that Chip has captured for a school project is the focus of all eyes in the Douglas home. Bub discerns a marked resemblance to his Uncle Clancey in Malcolm's face. Further evaluation of its character becomes quite difficult when he leaps out of sight.
32	32	"The Musician"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	May 11, 1961	132
Robbie's new girlfriend, lives in refined and elegant style, causing Robbie to turn a critical eye on his own home life. To impress her he tells her he really digs the classics, but in fact he doesn't know the difference between Puccini and Presley.
33	33	"The Horseless Saddle"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Kober, James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	May 18, 1961	133
Bub has no plans to join the horse race set, but a mysterious someone sends him a saddle. Chip takes his girlfriend for a pony ride along with the old saddle that the Douglases just can't seem to be rid of.
34	34	"Trial by Separation"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	May 25, 1961	134
Its final exam time and Mike and his girlfriend Jean have thought up a test of their own - to try the strength of their affection by not seeing each other the week before school has its graduation ceremonies.
35	35	"The Sunday Drive"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	June 1, 1961	135
Mr. Pearson's idea of a quiet drive in the country with his wife is altered by a station-wagon load of Douglases. Meanwhile Robbie is trying to avoid the clutches of a girl named Mary Lou.
36	36	"Fire Watch"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	June 8, 1961	136
Mike Douglas gets a summer job with the Forestry Service and he thinks its going to be a barrel of fun until he learns that he's expected to do a real man's job. When his boss is stranded down at the creek and a wild storm brews up, Mike spends a harrowing time trying to stay calm.

Season 2 (1961–62)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"Birds and Bees"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	September 28, 1961	201
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
38	2	"Instant Hate"	Richard Whorf	William Raynor, Myles Wilder	October 5, 1961	202
The good neighbor policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
39	3	"The Crush"	Richard Whorf	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	October 12, 1961	203
Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.
40	4	"Tramp the Hero"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	October 26, 1961	204
Chip's friend has a new, well-trained German shepherd, which emphasizes to Chip just how stupid Tramp is. At three in the morning a neglected slow boiling pot of fat on the stove explodes. Tramp's barking wakes the family. Chip and Sudsy now find they have something in common to talk about.
41	5	"A Perfect Memory"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	November 2, 1961	205
An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise. Note: This episode was actually filmed the previous season and held over for telecast.
42	6	"Bub's Lodge"	Richard Whorf	Shirl Gordon	November 9, 1961	206
Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.
43	7	"A Lesson in Any Language"	Richard Whorf	Danny Simon	November 16, 1961	207
Mike thinks that he can skate through school by playing a Spanish language record while he sleeps to attempt to learn Spanish via osmosis.
44	8	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard Whorf	Edward J. Lakso	November 23, 1961	208
Robbie is heading for an "F" in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.
45	9	"Chip's Composition"	Richard Whorf	Elroy Schwartz, Glenn Wheaton	November 30, 1961	209
A composition titled "What My Mother Means to Me" has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
46	10	"Mike in Charge"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	December 7, 1961	210
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
47	11	"Bub Goes to School"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	December 14, 1961	211
Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.
48	12	"Robbie's Band"	Richard Whorf	Robert O'Brien	December 21, 1961	212
The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.
49	13	"Damon and Pythias"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	December 28, 1961	213
Robbie and Hank decide to join a club together to be like Damon and Pythias. However, Robbie, fed up with being compared to his brother, opts to join a club and not invite Hank to join with him.
50	14	"Chip Leaves Home"	Richard Whorf	Joanna Lee	January 4, 1962	214
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to run away from home.
51	15	"The Romance of Silver Pines"	Richard Whorf	Jack Laird	January 11, 1962	215
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
52	16	"Blind Date"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	January 18, 1962	216
Mike and Robbie accidentally end up with each other's blind date.
53	17	"Second Time Around"	Richard Whorf	Kitty Buhler	January 25, 1962	217
Bub misinterprets the interest of Steve's old flame.
54	18	"The Girls Next Door"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	February 1, 1962	218
Four airline stewardesses move in next door and spark Mike's and Robbie's interest.
55	19	"Bub Gets A Job"	Richard Whorf	Judith Adkins Specht, Robert Specht, George Tibbles	February 8, 1962	219
A magazine article on bored homemakers spurs Bub to consider a new career.
56	20	"Le Petit Stowaway"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	February 15, 1962	220
Chip stows away on a plane bound for Paris, then gets lost in the city.
57	21	"Robbie Valentino"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	February 22, 1962	221
Robbie gets excited upon learning his physics class will be featured in an educational film.
58	22	"The Masterpiece"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 1, 1962	222
Chip enlists Bub's help in trying to win a school art contest.
59	23	"A Holiday for Tramp"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 8, 1962	223
Tramp is lost at the train station and winds up in the care of a famous actress (Eve Arden).
60	24	"The Big Game"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 15, 1962	224
Robbie must pass a math exam to play in the big game; Chip gets the measles.
61	25	"Chip's Party"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	March 22, 1962	225
Chip's 10th birthday party is in jeopardy when Steve comes down with German measles.
62	26	"Casanova Trouble"	Richard Whorf	Muriel Roy Bolton	March 29, 1962	226
Steve's friend thinks her daughter is dating an older man.
63	27	"The Pencil Pusher"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	April 5, 1962	227
Chip is unimpressed by Steve's job until an emergency occurs at the Air Force base.
64	28	"Innocents Abroad"	Richard Whorf	Dick Conway, Roland MacLane	April 12, 1962	228
Mike and Robbie get ideas when a boyhood friend of Steve's visits the family.
65	29	"Robbie the Caddy"	Richard Whorf	Mannie Manheim, Arthur Marx	April 19, 1962	229
Robbie decides to earn some extra money by being a caddy at a local golf tournament.
66	30	"Coincidence"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	April 26, 1962	230
Steve's yearning for some quiet time leads him to an all-female house that mimics the Douglas household.
67	31	"Air Derby"	Richard Whorf	Lou Breslow, Joseph Hoffman	May 3, 1962	231
Steve roots for Robbie's opponent in a model airplane contest.
68	32	"Too Much in Common"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 10, 1962	232
Mike is dissatisfied with his current girlfriend.
69	33	"Chug and Robbie"	Richard Whorf	William Kelsay	May 17, 1962	233
Robbie becomes the victim of hero worship when he shares a locker with the school's star athlete.
70	34	"Good Influence"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 24, 1962	234
Chip resists taking a trip with a boy he dislikes; Bub dabbles in painting.
71	35	"The Hippopotamus Foot"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles, Richard Whorf	May 31, 1962	235
Mike faces disciplinary action for a college fraternity prank.
72	36	"The Kibitzers"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey, George Tibbles	June 7, 1962	236
Bub's card-playing buddies causes problems for the Douglases.

Season 3 (1962–63)

This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom, My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	36	September 29, 1960	June 8, 1961	ABC
	2	36	September 28, 1961	June 7, 1962
	3	39	September 20, 1962	June 20, 1963
	4	37	September 19, 1963	May 28, 1964
	5	36	September 17, 1964	May 20, 1965
	6	32	September 16, 1965	April 28, 1966	CBS
	7	32	September 15, 1966	May 11, 1967
	8	30	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968
	9	28	September 28, 1968	April 19, 1969
	10	26	October 4, 1969	April 4, 1970
	11	24	September 19, 1970	March 20, 1971
	12	24	September 13, 1971	April 13, 1972

DVD releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.^[2]

	Episodes	Release date
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One	18	September 30, 2008
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two	18	January 20, 2009
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One	18	February 23, 2010
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume Two	18	June 15, 2010

Episode list

Season 1 (1960–61)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Chip Off the Old Block"	Peter Tewksbury	George Tibbles	September 29, 1960	101
Steve Douglas and his youngest son Chip are caught in the snares of designing women.
2	2	"The Little Ragpicker"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 6, 1960	102
The annual school rag drive starts Chip off on a scavenger hunt of the neighbourhood. Every time Miss Pitts looks out the window she sees strange happenings at the Douglas household. She sees Bub outdoors waving a bottle that looks like whiskey, and later, Robbie carrying in a dummy that she thinks is Bub smashed to the nines. Later she goes over to talk to Steve about her concerns, and sees Chip in his bedroom hitting the dummy and when it accidentally falls out of the upstairs window, she faints on the sidewalk.
3	3	"Bub in the Ointment"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury, George Tibbles	October 13, 1960	103
When Bub steps on the toes of each grandson in turn, Steve is about to rebuke him when the household returns to normal once again. Being chief cook, dishwasher and housekeeper to three boys is not fun for a grandfather as Bub soon finds out.
4	4	"Countdown"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 20, 1960	104
A missile launch, sleeping in and Daylight Savings Time make for an interesting Monday morning. The Douglas household is a chaotic affair of lost Indian arrowheads for Chip's turn in show and tell at school, Robbie's missing trumpet and some important lost plans of Steve's that Mike has nearly burned in the incinerator. Note: The official DVD of this episode uses the credits from the previous episode in error. David Duncan is the correct writer.
5	5	"Brotherly Love"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	October 27, 1960	105
When Mike and Robbie cross swords over a blonde schoolgirl, the issue widens until the whole family is involved in the argument. But it is difficult for Steve to teach his sons that violence solves nothing with a pugnacious father-in-law around.
6	6	"Adjust or Bust"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	November 3, 1960	106
Steve's theory that 'life is just a small series of adjustments' is put to the test in just one day's discovered doings. Steve must meet with a top Air Force General to discuss plans for a rocket design, and in the process, he must borrow Mike's car, but gets a flat tire and must take the bus home.
7	7	"Lady Engineer"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper	November 10, 1960	107
Steve is enamored of his new business associate, an attractive woman who is strictly business. He is tempted to mix business with pleasure but finds that she thinks only about the job at hand and doesn't have any plans to expand her love life, despite this romantic interlude.
8	8	"Chip's Harvest"	Peter Tewksbury	Peggy Phillips	November 17, 1960	108
Thanksgiving Day's turkey dinner is threatened when the electricity is short-circuited throughout the neighborhood. Chip decides to bring along his Indian friend as his sole guest much to the annoyance of his brothers who say he is a bum who lives near the railway tracks in a rundown old shack.
9	9	"Raft on the River"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	November 24, 1960	109
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
10	10	"Lonesome George"	Peter Tewksbury	James Allardice	December 1, 1960	110
TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.
11	11	"Spring Will Be a Little Late"	Peter Tewksbury	Jack Laird	December 8, 1960	111
Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.
12	12	"My Three Strikers"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	December 15, 1960	112
The Douglas boys call a family meeting at which they demand a raise in their allowances but Steve emphatically says 'No' because the family bills are mounting and they are leaving all of their chores to be done by Bub. A night of sharp words is followed by some bad dreams and an even brighter morning.
13	13	"The Elopement"	Peter Tewksbury	Phil Leslie, John McGreevey	December 22, 1960	113
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher
14	14	"Mike's Brother"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	December 29, 1960	114
Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.
15	15	"Domestic Trouble"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	January 5, 1961	115
When Bub is suddenly called out of town, Steve seeks an agency to get temporary help unaware that he may be recruiting a wife. With his older brothers passing the buck, Chip accidentally rings Domestic Bliss, Inc. - a marriage seeking department who send out a woman inspector right away.
16	16	"Bub Leaves Home"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Dales, John McGreevey	January 12, 1961	116
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind. Note: Arthur Dales was a pseudonym of writer Howard Dimsdale.
17	17	"Mike in a Rush"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	January 19, 1961	117
Mike prepares for the transition from high school to college and the question of joining a fraternity is one that complicates his life considerably. When Mike and Jean attend a party as prospective applicants, he later finds out that they have been dropped from the waiting list and suddenly the cold war turns pretty hot.
18	18	"The Bully"	Peter Tewksbury	Robert Bassing	January 26, 1961	118
Chip falls foul of the school bully who isn't interested in fighting with him. Steve soon realises that Chip is deliberately provoking the boy each day in the school yard to prove a point, and feels the boy must solve his own problems even though it costs him detention in the principal's office.
19	19	"Organization Woman"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	February 2, 1961	119
Steve's ever efficient sister arrives for a visit, and immediately changes and complicates the entire Douglas household. The challenging aspect to the whole deal is a decision that Harriet soon regrets, especially once Steve returns home from his business trip.
20	20	"Other People's Houses"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	February 9, 1961	120
When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.
21	21	"The Delinquent"	Peter Tewksbury	Diane Honodel, James Menzies	February 16, 1961	121
Mike Douglas and the family mongrel Tramp keep disappearing at night, and Jean becomes increasingly suspicious, unaware that Mike and his friend Tim are building her a hi-fi set for her upcoming Birthday.
22	22	"Man in a Trenchcoat"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	February 23, 1961	122
Robbie's girlfriend thinks that there's something going on between Robbie and Judy.
23	23	"Deadline"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 2, 1961	123
Mike Douglas is highly vocal in his criticism for the Sports page of the high school newspaper and to prove his point he is given one shot at revamping it, and he tackles the job with gusto.
24	24	"The Lostling"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 9, 1961	124
Chip begins to think it would be great to be an older brother, so he wishes for a little sister. After the new Hawkins family move into the vacant house across the street, a wild sequence of events results from an improbable case of mistaken identity -- an infant is somehow confused with a leg of lamb left in the boot of Steve's station wagon.
25	25	"Off Key"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 16, 1961	125
Chip brags to his new playmate that his genius brother Robbie can fix almost anything. Soon Robbie is repairing a Grand Piano and has five minutes to have it fixed before the boy's mother comes in and wants to practise a new tune on it.
26	26	"Small Adventure"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 23, 1961	126
With Steve away in Seattle on a business trip, the Douglas household's version of man's best friend has been known to drag home anything he can get his jaws into. This time Tramp slinks in with a large stick of dynamite that has somewhere and somehow survived since the end of the Second World War. Note: From this point onwards writer Dorothy Cooper will now go by her married surname of Cooper-Foote.
27	27	"Soap Box Derby"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	March 30, 1961	127
Unaware of each others problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.
28	28	"Unite or Sink"	Peter Tewksbury	Art Friedman	April 6, 1961	128
Robbie and Mike want some extra pocket money but Steve tells them that they will have to earn it by themselves. The boys ask their neighbours if they could paint their front fence and before long several neighbors pitch in together to help restore the yard to its former glory.
29	29	"The Wiley Method"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	April 13, 1961	129
Robbie can't seem to arouse the interest of the affairs of the heart with his classmate Maribel Quinby. So with the help of his best friend Hank Ferguson, he proceeds to try and get her attention by noting the theatrical method of approach that his history teacher employs to make a dull subject interesting.
30	30	"The National Pastime"	Peter Tewksbury	Mathilda Ferro, Theodore Ferro	April 27, 1961	130
Chip is so discouraged by his batting slump that he quits the baseball team. After his brothers encourage him to return, one of the parents, a volunteer umpire, calls in sick and Steve is asked to substitute. Chip thinks this will be the perfect opportunity to become the team hero.
31	31	"The Croaker"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	May 4, 1961	131
Malcolm, a frog that Chip has captured for a school project is the focus of all eyes in the Douglas home. Bub discerns a marked resemblance to his Uncle Clancey in Malcolm's face. Further evaluation of its character becomes quite difficult when he leaps out of sight.
32	32	"The Musician"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	May 11, 1961	132
Robbie's new girlfriend, lives in refined and elegant style, causing Robbie to turn a critical eye on his own home life. To impress her he tells her he really digs the classics, but in fact he doesn't know the difference between Puccini and Presley.
33	33	"The Horseless Saddle"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Kober, James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	May 18, 1961	133
Bub has no plans to join the horse race set, but a mysterious someone sends him a saddle. Chip takes his girlfriend for a pony ride along with the old saddle that the Douglases just can't seem to be rid of.
34	34	"Trial by Separation"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	May 25, 1961	134
Its final exam time and Mike and his girlfriend Jean have thought up a test of their own - to try the strength of their affection by not seeing each other the week before school has its graduation ceremonies.
35	35	"The Sunday Drive"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	June 1, 1961	135
Mr. Pearson's idea of a quiet drive in the country with his wife is altered by a station-wagon load of Douglases. Meanwhile Robbie is trying to avoid the clutches of a girl named Mary Lou.
36	36	"Fire Watch"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	June 8, 1961	136
Mike Douglas gets a summer job with the Forestry Service and he thinks its going to be a barrel of fun until he learns that he's expected to do a real man's job. When his boss is stranded down at the creek and a wild storm brews up, Mike spends a harrowing time trying to stay calm.

Season 2 (1961–62)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"Birds and Bees"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	September 28, 1961	201
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
38	2	"Instant Hate"	Richard Whorf	William Raynor, Myles Wilder	October 5, 1961	202
The good neighbor policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
39	3	"The Crush"	Richard Whorf	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	October 12, 1961	203
Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.
40	4	"Tramp the Hero"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	October 26, 1961	204
Chip's friend has a new, well-trained German shepherd, which emphasizes to Chip just how stupid Tramp is. At three in the morning a neglected slow boiling pot of fat on the stove explodes. Tramp's barking wakes the family. Chip and Sudsy now find they have something in common to talk about.
41	5	"A Perfect Memory"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	November 2, 1961	205
An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise. Note: This episode was actually filmed the previous season and held over for telecast.
42	6	"Bub's Lodge"	Richard Whorf	Shirl Gordon	November 9, 1961	206
Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.
43	7	"A Lesson in Any Language"	Richard Whorf	Danny Simon	November 16, 1961	207
Mike thinks that he can skate through school by playing a Spanish language record while he sleeps to attempt to learn Spanish via osmosis.
44	8	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard Whorf	Edward J. Lakso	November 23, 1961	208
Robbie is heading for an "F" in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.
45	9	"Chip's Composition"	Richard Whorf	Elroy Schwartz, Glenn Wheaton	November 30, 1961	209
A composition titled "What My Mother Means to Me" has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
46	10	"Mike in Charge"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	December 7, 1961	210
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
47	11	"Bub Goes to School"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	December 14, 1961	211
Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.
48	12	"Robbie's Band"	Richard Whorf	Robert O'Brien	December 21, 1961	212
The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.
49	13	"Damon and Pythias"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	December 28, 1961	213
Robbie and Hank decide to join a club together to be like Damon and Pythias. However, Robbie, fed up with being compared to his brother, opts to join a club and not invite Hank to join with him.
50	14	"Chip Leaves Home"	Richard Whorf	Joanna Lee	January 4, 1962	214
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to run away from home.
51	15	"The Romance of Silver Pines"	Richard Whorf	Jack Laird	January 11, 1962	215
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
52	16	"Blind Date"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	January 18, 1962	216
Mike and Robbie accidentally end up with each other's blind date.
53	17	"Second Time Around"	Richard Whorf	Kitty Buhler	January 25, 1962	217
Bub misinterprets the interest of Steve's old flame.
54	18	"The Girls Next Door"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	February 1, 1962	218
Four airline stewardesses move in next door and spark Mike's and Robbie's interest.
55	19	"Bub Gets A Job"	Richard Whorf	Judith Adkins Specht, Robert Specht, George Tibbles	February 8, 1962	219
A magazine article on bored homemakers spurs Bub to consider a new career.
56	20	"Le Petit Stowaway"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	February 15, 1962	220
Chip stows away on a plane bound for Paris, then gets lost in the city.
57	21	"Robbie Valentino"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	February 22, 1962	221
Robbie gets excited upon learning his physics class will be featured in an educational film.
58	22	"The Masterpiece"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 1, 1962	222
Chip enlists Bub's help in trying to win a school art contest.
59	23	"A Holiday for Tramp"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 8, 1962	223
Tramp is lost at the train station and winds up in the care of a famous actress (Eve Arden).
60	24	"The Big Game"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 15, 1962	224
Robbie must pass a math exam to play in the big game; Chip gets the measles.
61	25	"Chip's Party"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	March 22, 1962	225
Chip's 10th birthday party is in jeopardy when Steve comes down with German measles.
62	26	"Casanova Trouble"	Richard Whorf	Muriel Roy Bolton	March 29, 1962	226
Steve's friend thinks her daughter is dating an older man.
63	27	"The Pencil Pusher"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	April 5, 1962	227
Chip is unimpressed by Steve's job until an emergency occurs at the Air Force base.
64	28	"Innocents Abroad"	Richard Whorf	Dick Conway, Roland MacLane	April 12, 1962	228
Mike and Robbie get ideas when a boyhood friend of Steve's visits the family.
65	29	"Robbie the Caddy"	Richard Whorf	Mannie Manheim, Arthur Marx	April 19, 1962	229
Robbie decides to earn some extra money by being a caddy at a local golf tournament.
66	30	"Coincidence"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	April 26, 1962	230
Steve's yearning for some quiet time leads him to an all-female house that mimics the Douglas household.
67	31	"Air Derby"	Richard Whorf	Lou Breslow, Joseph Hoffman	May 3, 1962	231
Steve roots for Robbie's opponent in a model airplane contest.
68	32	"Too Much in Common"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 10, 1962	232
Mike is dissatisfied with his current girlfriend.
69	33	"Chug and Robbie"	Richard Whorf	William Kelsay	May 17, 1962	233
Robbie becomes the victim of hero worship when he shares a locker with the school's star athlete.
70	34	"Good Influence"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 24, 1962	234
Chip resists taking a trip with a boy he dislikes; Bub dabbles in painting.
71	35	"The Hippopotamus Foot"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles, Richard Whorf	May 31, 1962	235
Mike faces disciplinary action for a college fraternity prank.
72	36	"The Kibitzers"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey, George Tibbles	June 7, 1962	236
Bub's card-playing buddies causes problems for the Douglases.

Special

Title	Original airdate
"A Thanksgiving Reunion with My Three Sons and The Partridge Family"	November 25, 1977

References

^ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com
^ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com

Season 4 (1963–64)

This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom, My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	36	September 29, 1960	June 8, 1961	ABC
	2	36	September 28, 1961	June 7, 1962
	3	39	September 20, 1962	June 20, 1963
	4	37	September 19, 1963	May 28, 1964
	5	36	September 17, 1964	May 20, 1965
	6	32	September 16, 1965	April 28, 1966	CBS
	7	32	September 15, 1966	May 11, 1967
	8	30	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968
	9	28	September 28, 1968	April 19, 1969
	10	26	October 4, 1969	April 4, 1970
	11	24	September 19, 1970	March 20, 1971
	12	24	September 13, 1971	April 13, 1972

DVD releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.^[1]

	Episodes	Release date
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One	18	September 30, 2008
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two	18	January 20, 2009
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One	18	February 23, 2010
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume Two	18	June 15, 2010

Episode list

Season 1 (1960–61)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Chip Off the Old Block"	Peter Tewksbury	George Tibbles	September 29, 1960	101
Steve Douglas and his youngest son Chip are caught in the snares of designing women.
2	2	"The Little Ragpicker"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 6, 1960	102
The annual school rag drive starts Chip off on a scavenger hunt of the neighbourhood. Every time Miss Pitts looks out the window she sees strange happenings at the Douglas household. She sees Bub outdoors waving a bottle that looks like whiskey, and later, Robbie carrying in a dummy that she thinks is Bub smashed to the nines. Later she goes over to talk to Steve about her concerns, and sees Chip in his bedroom hitting the dummy and when it accidentally falls out of the upstairs window, she faints on the sidewalk.
3	3	"Bub in the Ointment"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury, George Tibbles	October 13, 1960	103
When Bub steps on the toes of each grandson in turn, Steve is about to rebuke him when the household returns to normal once again. Being chief cook, dishwasher and housekeeper to three boys is not fun for a grandfather as Bub soon finds out.
4	4	"Countdown"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 20, 1960	104
A missile launch, sleeping in and Daylight Savings Time make for an interesting Monday morning. The Douglas household is a chaotic affair of lost Indian arrowheads for Chip's turn in show and tell at school, Robbie's missing trumpet and some important lost plans of Steve's that Mike has nearly burned in the incinerator. Note: The official DVD of this episode uses the credits from the previous episode in error. David Duncan is the correct writer.
5	5	"Brotherly Love"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	October 27, 1960	105
When Mike and Robbie cross swords over a blonde schoolgirl, the issue widens until the whole family is involved in the argument. But it is difficult for Steve to teach his sons that violence solves nothing with a pugnacious father-in-law around.
6	6	"Adjust or Bust"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	November 3, 1960	106
Steve's theory that 'life is just a small series of adjustments' is put to the test in just one day's discovered doings. Steve must meet with a top Air Force General to discuss plans for a rocket design, and in the process, he must borrow Mike's car, but gets a flat tire and must take the bus home.
7	7	"Lady Engineer"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper	November 10, 1960	107
Steve is enamored of his new business associate, an attractive woman who is strictly business. He is tempted to mix business with pleasure but finds that she thinks only about the job at hand and doesn't have any plans to expand her love life, despite this romantic interlude.
8	8	"Chip's Harvest"	Peter Tewksbury	Peggy Phillips	November 17, 1960	108
Thanksgiving Day's turkey dinner is threatened when the electricity is short-circuited throughout the neighborhood. Chip decides to bring along his Indian friend as his sole guest much to the annoyance of his brothers who say he is a bum who lives near the railway tracks in a rundown old shack.
9	9	"Raft on the River"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	November 24, 1960	109
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
10	10	"Lonesome George"	Peter Tewksbury	James Allardice	December 1, 1960	110
TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.
11	11	"Spring Will Be a Little Late"	Peter Tewksbury	Jack Laird	December 8, 1960	111
Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.
12	12	"My Three Strikers"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	December 15, 1960	112
The Douglas boys call a family meeting at which they demand a raise in their allowances but Steve emphatically says 'No' because the family bills are mounting and they are leaving all of their chores to be done by Bub. A night of sharp words is followed by some bad dreams and an even brighter morning.
13	13	"The Elopement"	Peter Tewksbury	Phil Leslie, John McGreevey	December 22, 1960	113
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher
14	14	"Mike's Brother"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	December 29, 1960	114
Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.
15	15	"Domestic Trouble"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	January 5, 1961	115
When Bub is suddenly called out of town, Steve seeks an agency to get temporary help unaware that he may be recruiting a wife. With his older brothers passing the buck, Chip accidentally rings Domestic Bliss, Inc. - a marriage seeking department who send out a woman inspector right away.
16	16	"Bub Leaves Home"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Dales, John McGreevey	January 12, 1961	116
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind. Note: Arthur Dales was a pseudonym of writer Howard Dimsdale.
17	17	"Mike in a Rush"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	January 19, 1961	117
Mike prepares for the transition from high school to college and the question of joining a fraternity is one that complicates his life considerably. When Mike and Jean attend a party as prospective applicants, he later finds out that they have been dropped from the waiting list and suddenly the cold war turns pretty hot.
18	18	"The Bully"	Peter Tewksbury	Robert Bassing	January 26, 1961	118
Chip falls foul of the school bully who isn't interested in fighting with him. Steve soon realises that Chip is deliberately provoking the boy each day in the school yard to prove a point, and feels the boy must solve his own problems even though it costs him detention in the principal's office.
19	19	"Organization Woman"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	February 2, 1961	119
Steve's ever efficient sister arrives for a visit, and immediately changes and complicates the entire Douglas household. The challenging aspect to the whole deal is a decision that Harriet soon regrets, especially once Steve returns home from his business trip.
20	20	"Other People's Houses"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	February 9, 1961	120
When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.
21	21	"The Delinquent"	Peter Tewksbury	Diane Honodel, James Menzies	February 16, 1961	121
Mike Douglas and the family mongrel Tramp keep disappearing at night, and Jean becomes increasingly suspicious, unaware that Mike and his friend Tim are building her a hi-fi set for her upcoming Birthday.
22	22	"Man in a Trenchcoat"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	February 23, 1961	122
Robbie's girlfriend thinks that there's something going on between Robbie and Judy.
23	23	"Deadline"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 2, 1961	123
Mike Douglas is highly vocal in his criticism for the Sports page of the high school newspaper and to prove his point he is given one shot at revamping it, and he tackles the job with gusto.
24	24	"The Lostling"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 9, 1961	124
Chip begins to think it would be great to be an older brother, so he wishes for a little sister. After the new Hawkins family move into the vacant house across the street, a wild sequence of events results from an improbable case of mistaken identity -- an infant is somehow confused with a leg of lamb left in the boot of Steve's station wagon.
25	25	"Off Key"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 16, 1961	125
Chip brags to his new playmate that his genius brother Robbie can fix almost anything. Soon Robbie is repairing a Grand Piano and has five minutes to have it fixed before the boy's mother comes in and wants to practise a new tune on it.
26	26	"Small Adventure"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 23, 1961	126
With Steve away in Seattle on a business trip, the Douglas household's version of man's best friend has been known to drag home anything he can get his jaws into. This time Tramp slinks in with a large stick of dynamite that has somewhere and somehow survived since the end of the Second World War. Note: From this point onwards writer Dorothy Cooper will now go by her married surname of Cooper-Foote.
27	27	"Soap Box Derby"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	March 30, 1961	127
Unaware of each others problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.
28	28	"Unite or Sink"	Peter Tewksbury	Art Friedman	April 6, 1961	128
Robbie and Mike want some extra pocket money but Steve tells them that they will have to earn it by themselves. The boys ask their neighbours if they could paint their front fence and before long several neighbors pitch in together to help restore the yard to its former glory.
29	29	"The Wiley Method"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	April 13, 1961	129
Robbie can't seem to arouse the interest of the affairs of the heart with his classmate Maribel Quinby. So with the help of his best friend Hank Ferguson, he proceeds to try and get her attention by noting the theatrical method of approach that his history teacher employs to make a dull subject interesting.
30	30	"The National Pastime"	Peter Tewksbury	Mathilda Ferro, Theodore Ferro	April 27, 1961	130
Chip is so discouraged by his batting slump that he quits the baseball team. After his brothers encourage him to return, one of the parents, a volunteer umpire, calls in sick and Steve is asked to substitute. Chip thinks this will be the perfect opportunity to become the team hero.
31	31	"The Croaker"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	May 4, 1961	131
Malcolm, a frog that Chip has captured for a school project is the focus of all eyes in the Douglas home. Bub discerns a marked resemblance to his Uncle Clancey in Malcolm's face. Further evaluation of its character becomes quite difficult when he leaps out of sight.
32	32	"The Musician"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	May 11, 1961	132
Robbie's new girlfriend, lives in refined and elegant style, causing Robbie to turn a critical eye on his own home life. To impress her he tells her he really digs the classics, but in fact he doesn't know the difference between Puccini and Presley.
33	33	"The Horseless Saddle"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Kober, James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	May 18, 1961	133
Bub has no plans to join the horse race set, but a mysterious someone sends him a saddle. Chip takes his girlfriend for a pony ride along with the old saddle that the Douglases just can't seem to be rid of.
34	34	"Trial by Separation"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	May 25, 1961	134
Its final exam time and Mike and his girlfriend Jean have thought up a test of their own - to try the strength of their affection by not seeing each other the week before school has its graduation ceremonies.
35	35	"The Sunday Drive"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	June 1, 1961	135
Mr. Pearson's idea of a quiet drive in the country with his wife is altered by a station-wagon load of Douglases. Meanwhile Robbie is trying to avoid the clutches of a girl named Mary Lou.
36	36	"Fire Watch"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	June 8, 1961	136
Mike Douglas gets a summer job with the Forestry Service and he thinks its going to be a barrel of fun until he learns that he's expected to do a real man's job. When his boss is stranded down at the creek and a wild storm brews up, Mike spends a harrowing time trying to stay calm.

Season 2 (1961–62)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"Birds and Bees"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	September 28, 1961	201
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
38	2	"Instant Hate"	Richard Whorf	William Raynor, Myles Wilder	October 5, 1961	202
The good neighbor policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
39	3	"The Crush"	Richard Whorf	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	October 12, 1961	203
Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.
40	4	"Tramp the Hero"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	October 26, 1961	204
Chip's friend has a new, well-trained German shepherd, which emphasizes to Chip just how stupid Tramp is. At three in the morning a neglected slow boiling pot of fat on the stove explodes. Tramp's barking wakes the family. Chip and Sudsy now find they have something in common to talk about.
41	5	"A Perfect Memory"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	November 2, 1961	205
An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise. Note: This episode was actually filmed the previous season and held over for telecast.
42	6	"Bub's Lodge"	Richard Whorf	Shirl Gordon	November 9, 1961	206
Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.
43	7	"A Lesson in Any Language"	Richard Whorf	Danny Simon	November 16, 1961	207
Mike thinks that he can skate through school by playing a Spanish language record while he sleeps to attempt to learn Spanish via osmosis.
44	8	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard Whorf	Edward J. Lakso	November 23, 1961	208
Robbie is heading for an "F" in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.
45	9	"Chip's Composition"	Richard Whorf	Elroy Schwartz, Glenn Wheaton	November 30, 1961	209
A composition titled "What My Mother Means to Me" has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
46	10	"Mike in Charge"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	December 7, 1961	210
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
47	11	"Bub Goes to School"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	December 14, 1961	211
Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.
48	12	"Robbie's Band"	Richard Whorf	Robert O'Brien	December 21, 1961	212
The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.
49	13	"Damon and Pythias"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	December 28, 1961	213
Robbie and Hank decide to join a club together to be like Damon and Pythias. However, Robbie, fed up with being compared to his brother, opts to join a club and not invite Hank to join with him.
50	14	"Chip Leaves Home"	Richard Whorf	Joanna Lee	January 4, 1962	214
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to run away from home.
51	15	"The Romance of Silver Pines"	Richard Whorf	Jack Laird	January 11, 1962	215
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
52	16	"Blind Date"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	January 18, 1962	216
Mike and Robbie accidentally end up with each other's blind date.
53	17	"Second Time Around"	Richard Whorf	Kitty Buhler	January 25, 1962	217
Bub misinterprets the interest of Steve's old flame.
54	18	"The Girls Next Door"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	February 1, 1962	218
Four airline stewardesses move in next door and spark Mike's and Robbie's interest.
55	19	"Bub Gets A Job"	Richard Whorf	Judith Adkins Specht, Robert Specht, George Tibbles	February 8, 1962	219
A magazine article on bored homemakers spurs Bub to consider a new career.
56	20	"Le Petit Stowaway"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	February 15, 1962	220
Chip stows away on a plane bound for Paris, then gets lost in the city.
57	21	"Robbie Valentino"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	February 22, 1962	221
Robbie gets excited upon learning his physics class will be featured in an educational film.
58	22	"The Masterpiece"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 1, 1962	222
Chip enlists Bub's help in trying to win a school art contest.
59	23	"A Holiday for Tramp"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 8, 1962	223
Tramp is lost at the train station and winds up in the care of a famous actress (Eve Arden).
60	24	"The Big Game"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 15, 1962	224
Robbie must pass a math exam to play in the big game; Chip gets the measles.
61	25	"Chip's Party"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	March 22, 1962	225
Chip's 10th birthday party is in jeopardy when Steve comes down with German measles.
62	26	"Casanova Trouble"	Richard Whorf	Muriel Roy Bolton	March 29, 1962	226
Steve's friend thinks her daughter is dating an older man.
63	27	"The Pencil Pusher"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	April 5, 1962	227
Chip is unimpressed by Steve's job until an emergency occurs at the Air Force base.
64	28	"Innocents Abroad"	Richard Whorf	Dick Conway, Roland MacLane	April 12, 1962	228
Mike and Robbie get ideas when a boyhood friend of Steve's visits the family.
65	29	"Robbie the Caddy"	Richard Whorf	Mannie Manheim, Arthur Marx	April 19, 1962	229
Robbie decides to earn some extra money by being a caddy at a local golf tournament.
66	30	"Coincidence"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	April 26, 1962	230
Steve's yearning for some quiet time leads him to an all-female house that mimics the Douglas household.
67	31	"Air Derby"	Richard Whorf	Lou Breslow, Joseph Hoffman	May 3, 1962	231
Steve roots for Robbie's opponent in a model airplane contest.
68	32	"Too Much in Common"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 10, 1962	232
Mike is dissatisfied with his current girlfriend.
69	33	"Chug and Robbie"	Richard Whorf	William Kelsay	May 17, 1962	233
Robbie becomes the victim of hero worship when he shares a locker with the school's star athlete.
70	34	"Good Influence"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 24, 1962	234
Chip resists taking a trip with a boy he dislikes; Bub dabbles in painting.
71	35	"The Hippopotamus Foot"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles, Richard Whorf	May 31, 1962	235
Mike faces disciplinary action for a college fraternity prank.
72	36	"The Kibitzers"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey, George Tibbles	June 7, 1962	236
Bub's card-playing buddies causes problems for the Douglases.

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Special

Title	Original airdate
"A Thanksgiving Reunion with My Three Sons and The Partridge Family"	November 25, 1977

References

^ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com

Season 5 (1964–65)

This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom, My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	36	September 29, 1960	June 8, 1961	ABC
	2	36	September 28, 1961	June 7, 1962
	3	39	September 20, 1962	June 20, 1963
	4	37	September 19, 1963	May 28, 1964
	5	36	September 17, 1964	May 20, 1965
	6	32	September 16, 1965	April 28, 1966	CBS
	7	32	September 15, 1966	May 11, 1967
	8	30	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968
	9	28	September 28, 1968	April 19, 1969
	10	26	October 4, 1969	April 4, 1970
	11	24	September 19, 1970	March 20, 1971
	12	24	September 13, 1971	April 13, 1972

DVD releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.^[1]

	Episodes	Release date
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One	18	September 30, 2008
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two	18	January 20, 2009
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One	18	February 23, 2010
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume Two	18	June 15, 2010

Episode list

Season 1 (1960–61)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Chip Off the Old Block"	Peter Tewksbury	George Tibbles	September 29, 1960	101
Steve Douglas and his youngest son Chip are caught in the snares of designing women.
2	2	"The Little Ragpicker"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 6, 1960	102
The annual school rag drive starts Chip off on a scavenger hunt of the neighbourhood. Every time Miss Pitts looks out the window she sees strange happenings at the Douglas household. She sees Bub outdoors waving a bottle that looks like whiskey, and later, Robbie carrying in a dummy that she thinks is Bub smashed to the nines. Later she goes over to talk to Steve about her concerns, and sees Chip in his bedroom hitting the dummy and when it accidentally falls out of the upstairs window, she faints on the sidewalk.
3	3	"Bub in the Ointment"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury, George Tibbles	October 13, 1960	103
When Bub steps on the toes of each grandson in turn, Steve is about to rebuke him when the household returns to normal once again. Being chief cook, dishwasher and housekeeper to three boys is not fun for a grandfather as Bub soon finds out.
4	4	"Countdown"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 20, 1960	104
A missile launch, sleeping in and Daylight Savings Time make for an interesting Monday morning. The Douglas household is a chaotic affair of lost Indian arrowheads for Chip's turn in show and tell at school, Robbie's missing trumpet and some important lost plans of Steve's that Mike has nearly burned in the incinerator. Note: The official DVD of this episode uses the credits from the previous episode in error. David Duncan is the correct writer.
5	5	"Brotherly Love"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	October 27, 1960	105
When Mike and Robbie cross swords over a blonde schoolgirl, the issue widens until the whole family is involved in the argument. But it is difficult for Steve to teach his sons that violence solves nothing with a pugnacious father-in-law around.
6	6	"Adjust or Bust"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	November 3, 1960	106
Steve's theory that 'life is just a small series of adjustments' is put to the test in just one day's discovered doings. Steve must meet with a top Air Force General to discuss plans for a rocket design, and in the process, he must borrow Mike's car, but gets a flat tire and must take the bus home.
7	7	"Lady Engineer"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper	November 10, 1960	107
Steve is enamored of his new business associate, an attractive woman who is strictly business. He is tempted to mix business with pleasure but finds that she thinks only about the job at hand and doesn't have any plans to expand her love life, despite this romantic interlude.
8	8	"Chip's Harvest"	Peter Tewksbury	Peggy Phillips	November 17, 1960	108
Thanksgiving Day's turkey dinner is threatened when the electricity is short-circuited throughout the neighborhood. Chip decides to bring along his Indian friend as his sole guest much to the annoyance of his brothers who say he is a bum who lives near the railway tracks in a rundown old shack.
9	9	"Raft on the River"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	November 24, 1960	109
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
10	10	"Lonesome George"	Peter Tewksbury	James Allardice	December 1, 1960	110
TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.
11	11	"Spring Will Be a Little Late"	Peter Tewksbury	Jack Laird	December 8, 1960	111
Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.
12	12	"My Three Strikers"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	December 15, 1960	112
The Douglas boys call a family meeting at which they demand a raise in their allowances but Steve emphatically says 'No' because the family bills are mounting and they are leaving all of their chores to be done by Bub. A night of sharp words is followed by some bad dreams and an even brighter morning.
13	13	"The Elopement"	Peter Tewksbury	Phil Leslie, John McGreevey	December 22, 1960	113
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher
14	14	"Mike's Brother"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	December 29, 1960	114
Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.
15	15	"Domestic Trouble"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	January 5, 1961	115
When Bub is suddenly called out of town, Steve seeks an agency to get temporary help unaware that he may be recruiting a wife. With his older brothers passing the buck, Chip accidentally rings Domestic Bliss, Inc. - a marriage seeking department who send out a woman inspector right away.
16	16	"Bub Leaves Home"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Dales, John McGreevey	January 12, 1961	116
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind. Note: Arthur Dales was a pseudonym of writer Howard Dimsdale.
17	17	"Mike in a Rush"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	January 19, 1961	117
Mike prepares for the transition from high school to college and the question of joining a fraternity is one that complicates his life considerably. When Mike and Jean attend a party as prospective applicants, he later finds out that they have been dropped from the waiting list and suddenly the cold war turns pretty hot.
18	18	"The Bully"	Peter Tewksbury	Robert Bassing	January 26, 1961	118
Chip falls foul of the school bully who isn't interested in fighting with him. Steve soon realises that Chip is deliberately provoking the boy each day in the school yard to prove a point, and feels the boy must solve his own problems even though it costs him detention in the principal's office.
19	19	"Organization Woman"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	February 2, 1961	119
Steve's ever efficient sister arrives for a visit, and immediately changes and complicates the entire Douglas household. The challenging aspect to the whole deal is a decision that Harriet soon regrets, especially once Steve returns home from his business trip.
20	20	"Other People's Houses"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	February 9, 1961	120
When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.
21	21	"The Delinquent"	Peter Tewksbury	Diane Honodel, James Menzies	February 16, 1961	121
Mike Douglas and the family mongrel Tramp keep disappearing at night, and Jean becomes increasingly suspicious, unaware that Mike and his friend Tim are building her a hi-fi set for her upcoming Birthday.
22	22	"Man in a Trenchcoat"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	February 23, 1961	122
Robbie's girlfriend thinks that there's something going on between Robbie and Judy.
23	23	"Deadline"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 2, 1961	123
Mike Douglas is highly vocal in his criticism for the Sports page of the high school newspaper and to prove his point he is given one shot at revamping it, and he tackles the job with gusto.
24	24	"The Lostling"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 9, 1961	124
Chip begins to think it would be great to be an older brother, so he wishes for a little sister. After the new Hawkins family move into the vacant house across the street, a wild sequence of events results from an improbable case of mistaken identity -- an infant is somehow confused with a leg of lamb left in the boot of Steve's station wagon.
25	25	"Off Key"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 16, 1961	125
Chip brags to his new playmate that his genius brother Robbie can fix almost anything. Soon Robbie is repairing a Grand Piano and has five minutes to have it fixed before the boy's mother comes in and wants to practise a new tune on it.
26	26	"Small Adventure"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 23, 1961	126
With Steve away in Seattle on a business trip, the Douglas household's version of man's best friend has been known to drag home anything he can get his jaws into. This time Tramp slinks in with a large stick of dynamite that has somewhere and somehow survived since the end of the Second World War. Note: From this point onwards writer Dorothy Cooper will now go by her married surname of Cooper-Foote.
27	27	"Soap Box Derby"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	March 30, 1961	127
Unaware of each others problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.
28	28	"Unite or Sink"	Peter Tewksbury	Art Friedman	April 6, 1961	128
Robbie and Mike want some extra pocket money but Steve tells them that they will have to earn it by themselves. The boys ask their neighbours if they could paint their front fence and before long several neighbors pitch in together to help restore the yard to its former glory.
29	29	"The Wiley Method"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	April 13, 1961	129
Robbie can't seem to arouse the interest of the affairs of the heart with his classmate Maribel Quinby. So with the help of his best friend Hank Ferguson, he proceeds to try and get her attention by noting the theatrical method of approach that his history teacher employs to make a dull subject interesting.
30	30	"The National Pastime"	Peter Tewksbury	Mathilda Ferro, Theodore Ferro	April 27, 1961	130
Chip is so discouraged by his batting slump that he quits the baseball team. After his brothers encourage him to return, one of the parents, a volunteer umpire, calls in sick and Steve is asked to substitute. Chip thinks this will be the perfect opportunity to become the team hero.
31	31	"The Croaker"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	May 4, 1961	131
Malcolm, a frog that Chip has captured for a school project is the focus of all eyes in the Douglas home. Bub discerns a marked resemblance to his Uncle Clancey in Malcolm's face. Further evaluation of its character becomes quite difficult when he leaps out of sight.
32	32	"The Musician"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	May 11, 1961	132
Robbie's new girlfriend, lives in refined and elegant style, causing Robbie to turn a critical eye on his own home life. To impress her he tells her he really digs the classics, but in fact he doesn't know the difference between Puccini and Presley.
33	33	"The Horseless Saddle"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Kober, James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	May 18, 1961	133
Bub has no plans to join the horse race set, but a mysterious someone sends him a saddle. Chip takes his girlfriend for a pony ride along with the old saddle that the Douglases just can't seem to be rid of.
34	34	"Trial by Separation"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	May 25, 1961	134
Its final exam time and Mike and his girlfriend Jean have thought up a test of their own - to try the strength of their affection by not seeing each other the week before school has its graduation ceremonies.
35	35	"The Sunday Drive"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	June 1, 1961	135
Mr. Pearson's idea of a quiet drive in the country with his wife is altered by a station-wagon load of Douglases. Meanwhile Robbie is trying to avoid the clutches of a girl named Mary Lou.
36	36	"Fire Watch"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	June 8, 1961	136
Mike Douglas gets a summer job with the Forestry Service and he thinks its going to be a barrel of fun until he learns that he's expected to do a real man's job. When his boss is stranded down at the creek and a wild storm brews up, Mike spends a harrowing time trying to stay calm.

Season 2 (1961–62)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"Birds and Bees"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	September 28, 1961	201
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
38	2	"Instant Hate"	Richard Whorf	William Raynor, Myles Wilder	October 5, 1961	202
The good neighbor policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
39	3	"The Crush"	Richard Whorf	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	October 12, 1961	203
Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.
40	4	"Tramp the Hero"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	October 26, 1961	204
Chip's friend has a new, well-trained German shepherd, which emphasizes to Chip just how stupid Tramp is. At three in the morning a neglected slow boiling pot of fat on the stove explodes. Tramp's barking wakes the family. Chip and Sudsy now find they have something in common to talk about.
41	5	"A Perfect Memory"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	November 2, 1961	205
An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise. Note: This episode was actually filmed the previous season and held over for telecast.
42	6	"Bub's Lodge"	Richard Whorf	Shirl Gordon	November 9, 1961	206
Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.
43	7	"A Lesson in Any Language"	Richard Whorf	Danny Simon	November 16, 1961	207
Mike thinks that he can skate through school by playing a Spanish language record while he sleeps to attempt to learn Spanish via osmosis.
44	8	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard Whorf	Edward J. Lakso	November 23, 1961	208
Robbie is heading for an "F" in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.
45	9	"Chip's Composition"	Richard Whorf	Elroy Schwartz, Glenn Wheaton	November 30, 1961	209
A composition titled "What My Mother Means to Me" has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
46	10	"Mike in Charge"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	December 7, 1961	210
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
47	11	"Bub Goes to School"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	December 14, 1961	211
Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.
48	12	"Robbie's Band"	Richard Whorf	Robert O'Brien	December 21, 1961	212
The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.
49	13	"Damon and Pythias"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	December 28, 1961	213
Robbie and Hank decide to join a club together to be like Damon and Pythias. However, Robbie, fed up with being compared to his brother, opts to join a club and not invite Hank to join with him.
50	14	"Chip Leaves Home"	Richard Whorf	Joanna Lee	January 4, 1962	214
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to run away from home.
51	15	"The Romance of Silver Pines"	Richard Whorf	Jack Laird	January 11, 1962	215
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
52	16	"Blind Date"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	January 18, 1962	216
Mike and Robbie accidentally end up with each other's blind date.
53	17	"Second Time Around"	Richard Whorf	Kitty Buhler	January 25, 1962	217
Bub misinterprets the interest of Steve's old flame.
54	18	"The Girls Next Door"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	February 1, 1962	218
Four airline stewardesses move in next door and spark Mike's and Robbie's interest.
55	19	"Bub Gets A Job"	Richard Whorf	Judith Adkins Specht, Robert Specht, George Tibbles	February 8, 1962	219
A magazine article on bored homemakers spurs Bub to consider a new career.
56	20	"Le Petit Stowaway"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	February 15, 1962	220
Chip stows away on a plane bound for Paris, then gets lost in the city.
57	21	"Robbie Valentino"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	February 22, 1962	221
Robbie gets excited upon learning his physics class will be featured in an educational film.
58	22	"The Masterpiece"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 1, 1962	222
Chip enlists Bub's help in trying to win a school art contest.
59	23	"A Holiday for Tramp"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 8, 1962	223
Tramp is lost at the train station and winds up in the care of a famous actress (Eve Arden).
60	24	"The Big Game"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 15, 1962	224
Robbie must pass a math exam to play in the big game; Chip gets the measles.
61	25	"Chip's Party"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	March 22, 1962	225
Chip's 10th birthday party is in jeopardy when Steve comes down with German measles.
62	26	"Casanova Trouble"	Richard Whorf	Muriel Roy Bolton	March 29, 1962	226
Steve's friend thinks her daughter is dating an older man.
63	27	"The Pencil Pusher"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	April 5, 1962	227
Chip is unimpressed by Steve's job until an emergency occurs at the Air Force base.
64	28	"Innocents Abroad"	Richard Whorf	Dick Conway, Roland MacLane	April 12, 1962	228
Mike and Robbie get ideas when a boyhood friend of Steve's visits the family.
65	29	"Robbie the Caddy"	Richard Whorf	Mannie Manheim, Arthur Marx	April 19, 1962	229
Robbie decides to earn some extra money by being a caddy at a local golf tournament.
66	30	"Coincidence"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	April 26, 1962	230
Steve's yearning for some quiet time leads him to an all-female house that mimics the Douglas household.
67	31	"Air Derby"	Richard Whorf	Lou Breslow, Joseph Hoffman	May 3, 1962	231
Steve roots for Robbie's opponent in a model airplane contest.
68	32	"Too Much in Common"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 10, 1962	232
Mike is dissatisfied with his current girlfriend.
69	33	"Chug and Robbie"	Richard Whorf	William Kelsay	May 17, 1962	233
Robbie becomes the victim of hero worship when he shares a locker with the school's star athlete.
70	34	"Good Influence"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 24, 1962	234
Chip resists taking a trip with a boy he dislikes; Bub dabbles in painting.
71	35	"The Hippopotamus Foot"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles, Richard Whorf	May 31, 1962	235
Mike faces disciplinary action for a college fraternity prank.
72	36	"The Kibitzers"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey, George Tibbles	June 7, 1962	236
Bub's card-playing buddies causes problems for the Douglases.

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Special

Title	Original airdate
"A Thanksgiving Reunion with My Three Sons and The Partridge Family"	November 25, 1977

References

^ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com

Season 6 (1965–66)

This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom, My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	36	September 29, 1960	June 8, 1961	ABC
	2	36	September 28, 1961	June 7, 1962
	3	39	September 20, 1962	June 20, 1963
	4	37	September 19, 1963	May 28, 1964
	5	36	September 17, 1964	May 20, 1965
	6	32	September 16, 1965	April 28, 1966	CBS
	7	32	September 15, 1966	May 11, 1967
	8	30	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968
	9	28	September 28, 1968	April 19, 1969
	10	26	October 4, 1969	April 4, 1970
	11	24	September 19, 1970	March 20, 1971
	12	24	September 13, 1971	April 13, 1972

DVD releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.^[1]

	Episodes	Release date
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One	18	September 30, 2008
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two	18	January 20, 2009
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One	18	February 23, 2010
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume Two	18	June 15, 2010

Episode list

Season 1 (1960–61)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Chip Off the Old Block"	Peter Tewksbury	George Tibbles	September 29, 1960	101
Steve Douglas and his youngest son Chip are caught in the snares of designing women.
2	2	"The Little Ragpicker"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 6, 1960	102
The annual school rag drive starts Chip off on a scavenger hunt of the neighbourhood. Every time Miss Pitts looks out the window she sees strange happenings at the Douglas household. She sees Bub outdoors waving a bottle that looks like whiskey, and later, Robbie carrying in a dummy that she thinks is Bub smashed to the nines. Later she goes over to talk to Steve about her concerns, and sees Chip in his bedroom hitting the dummy and when it accidentally falls out of the upstairs window, she faints on the sidewalk.
3	3	"Bub in the Ointment"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury, George Tibbles	October 13, 1960	103
When Bub steps on the toes of each grandson in turn, Steve is about to rebuke him when the household returns to normal once again. Being chief cook, dishwasher and housekeeper to three boys is not fun for a grandfather as Bub soon finds out.
4	4	"Countdown"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 20, 1960	104
A missile launch, sleeping in and Daylight Savings Time make for an interesting Monday morning. The Douglas household is a chaotic affair of lost Indian arrowheads for Chip's turn in show and tell at school, Robbie's missing trumpet and some important lost plans of Steve's that Mike has nearly burned in the incinerator. Note: The official DVD of this episode uses the credits from the previous episode in error. David Duncan is the correct writer.
5	5	"Brotherly Love"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	October 27, 1960	105
When Mike and Robbie cross swords over a blonde schoolgirl, the issue widens until the whole family is involved in the argument. But it is difficult for Steve to teach his sons that violence solves nothing with a pugnacious father-in-law around.
6	6	"Adjust or Bust"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	November 3, 1960	106
Steve's theory that 'life is just a small series of adjustments' is put to the test in just one day's discovered doings. Steve must meet with a top Air Force General to discuss plans for a rocket design, and in the process, he must borrow Mike's car, but gets a flat tire and must take the bus home.
7	7	"Lady Engineer"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper	November 10, 1960	107
Steve is enamored of his new business associate, an attractive woman who is strictly business. He is tempted to mix business with pleasure but finds that she thinks only about the job at hand and doesn't have any plans to expand her love life, despite this romantic interlude.
8	8	"Chip's Harvest"	Peter Tewksbury	Peggy Phillips	November 17, 1960	108
Thanksgiving Day's turkey dinner is threatened when the electricity is short-circuited throughout the neighborhood. Chip decides to bring along his Indian friend as his sole guest much to the annoyance of his brothers who say he is a bum who lives near the railway tracks in a rundown old shack.
9	9	"Raft on the River"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	November 24, 1960	109
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
10	10	"Lonesome George"	Peter Tewksbury	James Allardice	December 1, 1960	110
TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.
11	11	"Spring Will Be a Little Late"	Peter Tewksbury	Jack Laird	December 8, 1960	111
Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.
12	12	"My Three Strikers"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	December 15, 1960	112
The Douglas boys call a family meeting at which they demand a raise in their allowances but Steve emphatically says 'No' because the family bills are mounting and they are leaving all of their chores to be done by Bub. A night of sharp words is followed by some bad dreams and an even brighter morning.
13	13	"The Elopement"	Peter Tewksbury	Phil Leslie, John McGreevey	December 22, 1960	113
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher
14	14	"Mike's Brother"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	December 29, 1960	114
Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.
15	15	"Domestic Trouble"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	January 5, 1961	115
When Bub is suddenly called out of town, Steve seeks an agency to get temporary help unaware that he may be recruiting a wife. With his older brothers passing the buck, Chip accidentally rings Domestic Bliss, Inc. - a marriage seeking department who send out a woman inspector right away.
16	16	"Bub Leaves Home"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Dales, John McGreevey	January 12, 1961	116
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind. Note: Arthur Dales was a pseudonym of writer Howard Dimsdale.
17	17	"Mike in a Rush"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	January 19, 1961	117
Mike prepares for the transition from high school to college and the question of joining a fraternity is one that complicates his life considerably. When Mike and Jean attend a party as prospective applicants, he later finds out that they have been dropped from the waiting list and suddenly the cold war turns pretty hot.
18	18	"The Bully"	Peter Tewksbury	Robert Bassing	January 26, 1961	118
Chip falls foul of the school bully who isn't interested in fighting with him. Steve soon realises that Chip is deliberately provoking the boy each day in the school yard to prove a point, and feels the boy must solve his own problems even though it costs him detention in the principal's office.
19	19	"Organization Woman"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	February 2, 1961	119
Steve's ever efficient sister arrives for a visit, and immediately changes and complicates the entire Douglas household. The challenging aspect to the whole deal is a decision that Harriet soon regrets, especially once Steve returns home from his business trip.
20	20	"Other People's Houses"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	February 9, 1961	120
When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.
21	21	"The Delinquent"	Peter Tewksbury	Diane Honodel, James Menzies	February 16, 1961	121
Mike Douglas and the family mongrel Tramp keep disappearing at night, and Jean becomes increasingly suspicious, unaware that Mike and his friend Tim are building her a hi-fi set for her upcoming Birthday.
22	22	"Man in a Trenchcoat"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	February 23, 1961	122
Robbie's girlfriend thinks that there's something going on between Robbie and Judy.
23	23	"Deadline"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 2, 1961	123
Mike Douglas is highly vocal in his criticism for the Sports page of the high school newspaper and to prove his point he is given one shot at revamping it, and he tackles the job with gusto.
24	24	"The Lostling"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 9, 1961	124
Chip begins to think it would be great to be an older brother, so he wishes for a little sister. After the new Hawkins family move into the vacant house across the street, a wild sequence of events results from an improbable case of mistaken identity -- an infant is somehow confused with a leg of lamb left in the boot of Steve's station wagon.
25	25	"Off Key"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 16, 1961	125
Chip brags to his new playmate that his genius brother Robbie can fix almost anything. Soon Robbie is repairing a Grand Piano and has five minutes to have it fixed before the boy's mother comes in and wants to practise a new tune on it.
26	26	"Small Adventure"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 23, 1961	126
With Steve away in Seattle on a business trip, the Douglas household's version of man's best friend has been known to drag home anything he can get his jaws into. This time Tramp slinks in with a large stick of dynamite that has somewhere and somehow survived since the end of the Second World War. Note: From this point onwards writer Dorothy Cooper will now go by her married surname of Cooper-Foote.
27	27	"Soap Box Derby"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	March 30, 1961	127
Unaware of each others problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.
28	28	"Unite or Sink"	Peter Tewksbury	Art Friedman	April 6, 1961	128
Robbie and Mike want some extra pocket money but Steve tells them that they will have to earn it by themselves. The boys ask their neighbours if they could paint their front fence and before long several neighbors pitch in together to help restore the yard to its former glory.
29	29	"The Wiley Method"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	April 13, 1961	129
Robbie can't seem to arouse the interest of the affairs of the heart with his classmate Maribel Quinby. So with the help of his best friend Hank Ferguson, he proceeds to try and get her attention by noting the theatrical method of approach that his history teacher employs to make a dull subject interesting.
30	30	"The National Pastime"	Peter Tewksbury	Mathilda Ferro, Theodore Ferro	April 27, 1961	130
Chip is so discouraged by his batting slump that he quits the baseball team. After his brothers encourage him to return, one of the parents, a volunteer umpire, calls in sick and Steve is asked to substitute. Chip thinks this will be the perfect opportunity to become the team hero.
31	31	"The Croaker"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	May 4, 1961	131
Malcolm, a frog that Chip has captured for a school project is the focus of all eyes in the Douglas home. Bub discerns a marked resemblance to his Uncle Clancey in Malcolm's face. Further evaluation of its character becomes quite difficult when he leaps out of sight.
32	32	"The Musician"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	May 11, 1961	132
Robbie's new girlfriend, lives in refined and elegant style, causing Robbie to turn a critical eye on his own home life. To impress her he tells her he really digs the classics, but in fact he doesn't know the difference between Puccini and Presley.
33	33	"The Horseless Saddle"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Kober, James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	May 18, 1961	133
Bub has no plans to join the horse race set, but a mysterious someone sends him a saddle. Chip takes his girlfriend for a pony ride along with the old saddle that the Douglases just can't seem to be rid of.
34	34	"Trial by Separation"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	May 25, 1961	134
Its final exam time and Mike and his girlfriend Jean have thought up a test of their own - to try the strength of their affection by not seeing each other the week before school has its graduation ceremonies.
35	35	"The Sunday Drive"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	June 1, 1961	135
Mr. Pearson's idea of a quiet drive in the country with his wife is altered by a station-wagon load of Douglases. Meanwhile Robbie is trying to avoid the clutches of a girl named Mary Lou.
36	36	"Fire Watch"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	June 8, 1961	136
Mike Douglas gets a summer job with the Forestry Service and he thinks its going to be a barrel of fun until he learns that he's expected to do a real man's job. When his boss is stranded down at the creek and a wild storm brews up, Mike spends a harrowing time trying to stay calm.

Season 2 (1961–62)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"Birds and Bees"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	September 28, 1961	201
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
38	2	"Instant Hate"	Richard Whorf	William Raynor, Myles Wilder	October 5, 1961	202
The good neighbor policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
39	3	"The Crush"	Richard Whorf	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	October 12, 1961	203
Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.
40	4	"Tramp the Hero"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	October 26, 1961	204
Chip's friend has a new, well-trained German shepherd, which emphasizes to Chip just how stupid Tramp is. At three in the morning a neglected slow boiling pot of fat on the stove explodes. Tramp's barking wakes the family. Chip and Sudsy now find they have something in common to talk about.
41	5	"A Perfect Memory"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	November 2, 1961	205
An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise. Note: This episode was actually filmed the previous season and held over for telecast.
42	6	"Bub's Lodge"	Richard Whorf	Shirl Gordon	November 9, 1961	206
Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.
43	7	"A Lesson in Any Language"	Richard Whorf	Danny Simon	November 16, 1961	207
Mike thinks that he can skate through school by playing a Spanish language record while he sleeps to attempt to learn Spanish via osmosis.
44	8	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard Whorf	Edward J. Lakso	November 23, 1961	208
Robbie is heading for an "F" in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.
45	9	"Chip's Composition"	Richard Whorf	Elroy Schwartz, Glenn Wheaton	November 30, 1961	209
A composition titled "What My Mother Means to Me" has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
46	10	"Mike in Charge"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	December 7, 1961	210
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
47	11	"Bub Goes to School"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	December 14, 1961	211
Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.
48	12	"Robbie's Band"	Richard Whorf	Robert O'Brien	December 21, 1961	212
The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.
49	13	"Damon and Pythias"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	December 28, 1961	213
Robbie and Hank decide to join a club together to be like Damon and Pythias. However, Robbie, fed up with being compared to his brother, opts to join a club and not invite Hank to join with him.
50	14	"Chip Leaves Home"	Richard Whorf	Joanna Lee	January 4, 1962	214
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to run away from home.
51	15	"The Romance of Silver Pines"	Richard Whorf	Jack Laird	January 11, 1962	215
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
52	16	"Blind Date"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	January 18, 1962	216
Mike and Robbie accidentally end up with each other's blind date.
53	17	"Second Time Around"	Richard Whorf	Kitty Buhler	January 25, 1962	217
Bub misinterprets the interest of Steve's old flame.
54	18	"The Girls Next Door"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	February 1, 1962	218
Four airline stewardesses move in next door and spark Mike's and Robbie's interest.
55	19	"Bub Gets A Job"	Richard Whorf	Judith Adkins Specht, Robert Specht, George Tibbles	February 8, 1962	219
A magazine article on bored homemakers spurs Bub to consider a new career.
56	20	"Le Petit Stowaway"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	February 15, 1962	220
Chip stows away on a plane bound for Paris, then gets lost in the city.
57	21	"Robbie Valentino"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	February 22, 1962	221
Robbie gets excited upon learning his physics class will be featured in an educational film.
58	22	"The Masterpiece"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 1, 1962	222
Chip enlists Bub's help in trying to win a school art contest.
59	23	"A Holiday for Tramp"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 8, 1962	223
Tramp is lost at the train station and winds up in the care of a famous actress (Eve Arden).
60	24	"The Big Game"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 15, 1962	224
Robbie must pass a math exam to play in the big game; Chip gets the measles.
61	25	"Chip's Party"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	March 22, 1962	225
Chip's 10th birthday party is in jeopardy when Steve comes down with German measles.
62	26	"Casanova Trouble"	Richard Whorf	Muriel Roy Bolton	March 29, 1962	226
Steve's friend thinks her daughter is dating an older man.
63	27	"The Pencil Pusher"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	April 5, 1962	227
Chip is unimpressed by Steve's job until an emergency occurs at the Air Force base.
64	28	"Innocents Abroad"	Richard Whorf	Dick Conway, Roland MacLane	April 12, 1962	228
Mike and Robbie get ideas when a boyhood friend of Steve's visits the family.
65	29	"Robbie the Caddy"	Richard Whorf	Mannie Manheim, Arthur Marx	April 19, 1962	229
Robbie decides to earn some extra money by being a caddy at a local golf tournament.
66	30	"Coincidence"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	April 26, 1962	230
Steve's yearning for some quiet time leads him to an all-female house that mimics the Douglas household.
67	31	"Air Derby"	Richard Whorf	Lou Breslow, Joseph Hoffman	May 3, 1962	231
Steve roots for Robbie's opponent in a model airplane contest.
68	32	"Too Much in Common"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 10, 1962	232
Mike is dissatisfied with his current girlfriend.
69	33	"Chug and Robbie"	Richard Whorf	William Kelsay	May 17, 1962	233
Robbie becomes the victim of hero worship when he shares a locker with the school's star athlete.
70	34	"Good Influence"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 24, 1962	234
Chip resists taking a trip with a boy he dislikes; Bub dabbles in painting.
71	35	"The Hippopotamus Foot"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles, Richard Whorf	May 31, 1962	235
Mike faces disciplinary action for a college fraternity prank.
72	36	"The Kibitzers"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey, George Tibbles	June 7, 1962	236
Bub's card-playing buddies causes problems for the Douglases.

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Special

Title	Original airdate
"A Thanksgiving Reunion with My Three Sons and The Partridge Family"	November 25, 1977

References

^ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com

Season 7 (1966–67)

This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom, My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	36	September 29, 1960	June 8, 1961	ABC
	2	36	September 28, 1961	June 7, 1962
	3	39	September 20, 1962	June 20, 1963
	4	37	September 19, 1963	May 28, 1964
	5	36	September 17, 1964	May 20, 1965
	6	32	September 16, 1965	April 28, 1966	CBS
	7	32	September 15, 1966	May 11, 1967
	8	30	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968
	9	28	September 28, 1968	April 19, 1969
	10	26	October 4, 1969	April 4, 1970
	11	24	September 19, 1970	March 20, 1971
	12	24	September 13, 1971	April 13, 1972

DVD releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.^[1]

	Episodes	Release date
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One	18	September 30, 2008
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two	18	January 20, 2009
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One	18	February 23, 2010
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume Two	18	June 15, 2010

Episode list

Season 1 (1960–61)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Chip Off the Old Block"	Peter Tewksbury	George Tibbles	September 29, 1960	101
Steve Douglas and his youngest son Chip are caught in the snares of designing women.
2	2	"The Little Ragpicker"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 6, 1960	102
The annual school rag drive starts Chip off on a scavenger hunt of the neighbourhood. Every time Miss Pitts looks out the window she sees strange happenings at the Douglas household. She sees Bub outdoors waving a bottle that looks like whiskey, and later, Robbie carrying in a dummy that she thinks is Bub smashed to the nines. Later she goes over to talk to Steve about her concerns, and sees Chip in his bedroom hitting the dummy and when it accidentally falls out of the upstairs window, she faints on the sidewalk.
3	3	"Bub in the Ointment"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury, George Tibbles	October 13, 1960	103
When Bub steps on the toes of each grandson in turn, Steve is about to rebuke him when the household returns to normal once again. Being chief cook, dishwasher and housekeeper to three boys is not fun for a grandfather as Bub soon finds out.
4	4	"Countdown"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 20, 1960	104
A missile launch, sleeping in and Daylight Savings Time make for an interesting Monday morning. The Douglas household is a chaotic affair of lost Indian arrowheads for Chip's turn in show and tell at school, Robbie's missing trumpet and some important lost plans of Steve's that Mike has nearly burned in the incinerator. Note: The official DVD of this episode uses the credits from the previous episode in error. David Duncan is the correct writer.
5	5	"Brotherly Love"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	October 27, 1960	105
When Mike and Robbie cross swords over a blonde schoolgirl, the issue widens until the whole family is involved in the argument. But it is difficult for Steve to teach his sons that violence solves nothing with a pugnacious father-in-law around.
6	6	"Adjust or Bust"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	November 3, 1960	106
Steve's theory that 'life is just a small series of adjustments' is put to the test in just one day's discovered doings. Steve must meet with a top Air Force General to discuss plans for a rocket design, and in the process, he must borrow Mike's car, but gets a flat tire and must take the bus home.
7	7	"Lady Engineer"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper	November 10, 1960	107
Steve is enamored of his new business associate, an attractive woman who is strictly business. He is tempted to mix business with pleasure but finds that she thinks only about the job at hand and doesn't have any plans to expand her love life, despite this romantic interlude.
8	8	"Chip's Harvest"	Peter Tewksbury	Peggy Phillips	November 17, 1960	108
Thanksgiving Day's turkey dinner is threatened when the electricity is short-circuited throughout the neighborhood. Chip decides to bring along his Indian friend as his sole guest much to the annoyance of his brothers who say he is a bum who lives near the railway tracks in a rundown old shack.
9	9	"Raft on the River"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	November 24, 1960	109
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
10	10	"Lonesome George"	Peter Tewksbury	James Allardice	December 1, 1960	110
TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.
11	11	"Spring Will Be a Little Late"	Peter Tewksbury	Jack Laird	December 8, 1960	111
Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.
12	12	"My Three Strikers"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	December 15, 1960	112
The Douglas boys call a family meeting at which they demand a raise in their allowances but Steve emphatically says 'No' because the family bills are mounting and they are leaving all of their chores to be done by Bub. A night of sharp words is followed by some bad dreams and an even brighter morning.
13	13	"The Elopement"	Peter Tewksbury	Phil Leslie, John McGreevey	December 22, 1960	113
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher
14	14	"Mike's Brother"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	December 29, 1960	114
Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.
15	15	"Domestic Trouble"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	January 5, 1961	115
When Bub is suddenly called out of town, Steve seeks an agency to get temporary help unaware that he may be recruiting a wife. With his older brothers passing the buck, Chip accidentally rings Domestic Bliss, Inc. - a marriage seeking department who send out a woman inspector right away.
16	16	"Bub Leaves Home"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Dales, John McGreevey	January 12, 1961	116
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind. Note: Arthur Dales was a pseudonym of writer Howard Dimsdale.
17	17	"Mike in a Rush"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	January 19, 1961	117
Mike prepares for the transition from high school to college and the question of joining a fraternity is one that complicates his life considerably. When Mike and Jean attend a party as prospective applicants, he later finds out that they have been dropped from the waiting list and suddenly the cold war turns pretty hot.
18	18	"The Bully"	Peter Tewksbury	Robert Bassing	January 26, 1961	118
Chip falls foul of the school bully who isn't interested in fighting with him. Steve soon realises that Chip is deliberately provoking the boy each day in the school yard to prove a point, and feels the boy must solve his own problems even though it costs him detention in the principal's office.
19	19	"Organization Woman"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	February 2, 1961	119
Steve's ever efficient sister arrives for a visit, and immediately changes and complicates the entire Douglas household. The challenging aspect to the whole deal is a decision that Harriet soon regrets, especially once Steve returns home from his business trip.
20	20	"Other People's Houses"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	February 9, 1961	120
When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.
21	21	"The Delinquent"	Peter Tewksbury	Diane Honodel, James Menzies	February 16, 1961	121
Mike Douglas and the family mongrel Tramp keep disappearing at night, and Jean becomes increasingly suspicious, unaware that Mike and his friend Tim are building her a hi-fi set for her upcoming Birthday.
22	22	"Man in a Trenchcoat"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	February 23, 1961	122
Robbie's girlfriend thinks that there's something going on between Robbie and Judy.
23	23	"Deadline"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 2, 1961	123
Mike Douglas is highly vocal in his criticism for the Sports page of the high school newspaper and to prove his point he is given one shot at revamping it, and he tackles the job with gusto.
24	24	"The Lostling"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 9, 1961	124
Chip begins to think it would be great to be an older brother, so he wishes for a little sister. After the new Hawkins family move into the vacant house across the street, a wild sequence of events results from an improbable case of mistaken identity -- an infant is somehow confused with a leg of lamb left in the boot of Steve's station wagon.
25	25	"Off Key"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 16, 1961	125
Chip brags to his new playmate that his genius brother Robbie can fix almost anything. Soon Robbie is repairing a Grand Piano and has five minutes to have it fixed before the boy's mother comes in and wants to practise a new tune on it.
26	26	"Small Adventure"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 23, 1961	126
With Steve away in Seattle on a business trip, the Douglas household's version of man's best friend has been known to drag home anything he can get his jaws into. This time Tramp slinks in with a large stick of dynamite that has somewhere and somehow survived since the end of the Second World War. Note: From this point onwards writer Dorothy Cooper will now go by her married surname of Cooper-Foote.
27	27	"Soap Box Derby"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	March 30, 1961	127
Unaware of each others problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.
28	28	"Unite or Sink"	Peter Tewksbury	Art Friedman	April 6, 1961	128
Robbie and Mike want some extra pocket money but Steve tells them that they will have to earn it by themselves. The boys ask their neighbours if they could paint their front fence and before long several neighbors pitch in together to help restore the yard to its former glory.
29	29	"The Wiley Method"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	April 13, 1961	129
Robbie can't seem to arouse the interest of the affairs of the heart with his classmate Maribel Quinby. So with the help of his best friend Hank Ferguson, he proceeds to try and get her attention by noting the theatrical method of approach that his history teacher employs to make a dull subject interesting.
30	30	"The National Pastime"	Peter Tewksbury	Mathilda Ferro, Theodore Ferro	April 27, 1961	130
Chip is so discouraged by his batting slump that he quits the baseball team. After his brothers encourage him to return, one of the parents, a volunteer umpire, calls in sick and Steve is asked to substitute. Chip thinks this will be the perfect opportunity to become the team hero.
31	31	"The Croaker"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	May 4, 1961	131
Malcolm, a frog that Chip has captured for a school project is the focus of all eyes in the Douglas home. Bub discerns a marked resemblance to his Uncle Clancey in Malcolm's face. Further evaluation of its character becomes quite difficult when he leaps out of sight.
32	32	"The Musician"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	May 11, 1961	132
Robbie's new girlfriend, lives in refined and elegant style, causing Robbie to turn a critical eye on his own home life. To impress her he tells her he really digs the classics, but in fact he doesn't know the difference between Puccini and Presley.
33	33	"The Horseless Saddle"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Kober, James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	May 18, 1961	133
Bub has no plans to join the horse race set, but a mysterious someone sends him a saddle. Chip takes his girlfriend for a pony ride along with the old saddle that the Douglases just can't seem to be rid of.
34	34	"Trial by Separation"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	May 25, 1961	134
Its final exam time and Mike and his girlfriend Jean have thought up a test of their own - to try the strength of their affection by not seeing each other the week before school has its graduation ceremonies.
35	35	"The Sunday Drive"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	June 1, 1961	135
Mr. Pearson's idea of a quiet drive in the country with his wife is altered by a station-wagon load of Douglases. Meanwhile Robbie is trying to avoid the clutches of a girl named Mary Lou.
36	36	"Fire Watch"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	June 8, 1961	136
Mike Douglas gets a summer job with the Forestry Service and he thinks its going to be a barrel of fun until he learns that he's expected to do a real man's job. When his boss is stranded down at the creek and a wild storm brews up, Mike spends a harrowing time trying to stay calm.

Season 2 (1961–62)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"Birds and Bees"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	September 28, 1961	201
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
38	2	"Instant Hate"	Richard Whorf	William Raynor, Myles Wilder	October 5, 1961	202
The good neighbor policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
39	3	"The Crush"	Richard Whorf	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	October 12, 1961	203
Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.
40	4	"Tramp the Hero"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	October 26, 1961	204
Chip's friend has a new, well-trained German shepherd, which emphasizes to Chip just how stupid Tramp is. At three in the morning a neglected slow boiling pot of fat on the stove explodes. Tramp's barking wakes the family. Chip and Sudsy now find they have something in common to talk about.
41	5	"A Perfect Memory"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	November 2, 1961	205
An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise. Note: This episode was actually filmed the previous season and held over for telecast.
42	6	"Bub's Lodge"	Richard Whorf	Shirl Gordon	November 9, 1961	206
Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.
43	7	"A Lesson in Any Language"	Richard Whorf	Danny Simon	November 16, 1961	207
Mike thinks that he can skate through school by playing a Spanish language record while he sleeps to attempt to learn Spanish via osmosis.
44	8	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard Whorf	Edward J. Lakso	November 23, 1961	208
Robbie is heading for an "F" in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.
45	9	"Chip's Composition"	Richard Whorf	Elroy Schwartz, Glenn Wheaton	November 30, 1961	209
A composition titled "What My Mother Means to Me" has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
46	10	"Mike in Charge"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	December 7, 1961	210
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
47	11	"Bub Goes to School"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	December 14, 1961	211
Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.
48	12	"Robbie's Band"	Richard Whorf	Robert O'Brien	December 21, 1961	212
The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.
49	13	"Damon and Pythias"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	December 28, 1961	213
Robbie and Hank decide to join a club together to be like Damon and Pythias. However, Robbie, fed up with being compared to his brother, opts to join a club and not invite Hank to join with him.
50	14	"Chip Leaves Home"	Richard Whorf	Joanna Lee	January 4, 1962	214
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to run away from home.
51	15	"The Romance of Silver Pines"	Richard Whorf	Jack Laird	January 11, 1962	215
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
52	16	"Blind Date"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	January 18, 1962	216
Mike and Robbie accidentally end up with each other's blind date.
53	17	"Second Time Around"	Richard Whorf	Kitty Buhler	January 25, 1962	217
Bub misinterprets the interest of Steve's old flame.
54	18	"The Girls Next Door"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	February 1, 1962	218
Four airline stewardesses move in next door and spark Mike's and Robbie's interest.
55	19	"Bub Gets A Job"	Richard Whorf	Judith Adkins Specht, Robert Specht, George Tibbles	February 8, 1962	219
A magazine article on bored homemakers spurs Bub to consider a new career.
56	20	"Le Petit Stowaway"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	February 15, 1962	220
Chip stows away on a plane bound for Paris, then gets lost in the city.
57	21	"Robbie Valentino"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	February 22, 1962	221
Robbie gets excited upon learning his physics class will be featured in an educational film.
58	22	"The Masterpiece"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 1, 1962	222
Chip enlists Bub's help in trying to win a school art contest.
59	23	"A Holiday for Tramp"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 8, 1962	223
Tramp is lost at the train station and winds up in the care of a famous actress (Eve Arden).
60	24	"The Big Game"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 15, 1962	224
Robbie must pass a math exam to play in the big game; Chip gets the measles.
61	25	"Chip's Party"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	March 22, 1962	225
Chip's 10th birthday party is in jeopardy when Steve comes down with German measles.
62	26	"Casanova Trouble"	Richard Whorf	Muriel Roy Bolton	March 29, 1962	226
Steve's friend thinks her daughter is dating an older man.
63	27	"The Pencil Pusher"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	April 5, 1962	227
Chip is unimpressed by Steve's job until an emergency occurs at the Air Force base.
64	28	"Innocents Abroad"	Richard Whorf	Dick Conway, Roland MacLane	April 12, 1962	228
Mike and Robbie get ideas when a boyhood friend of Steve's visits the family.
65	29	"Robbie the Caddy"	Richard Whorf	Mannie Manheim, Arthur Marx	April 19, 1962	229
Robbie decides to earn some extra money by being a caddy at a local golf tournament.
66	30	"Coincidence"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	April 26, 1962	230
Steve's yearning for some quiet time leads him to an all-female house that mimics the Douglas household.
67	31	"Air Derby"	Richard Whorf	Lou Breslow, Joseph Hoffman	May 3, 1962	231
Steve roots for Robbie's opponent in a model airplane contest.
68	32	"Too Much in Common"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 10, 1962	232
Mike is dissatisfied with his current girlfriend.
69	33	"Chug and Robbie"	Richard Whorf	William Kelsay	May 17, 1962	233
Robbie becomes the victim of hero worship when he shares a locker with the school's star athlete.
70	34	"Good Influence"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 24, 1962	234
Chip resists taking a trip with a boy he dislikes; Bub dabbles in painting.
71	35	"The Hippopotamus Foot"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles, Richard Whorf	May 31, 1962	235
Mike faces disciplinary action for a college fraternity prank.
72	36	"The Kibitzers"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey, George Tibbles	June 7, 1962	236
Bub's card-playing buddies causes problems for the Douglases.

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Special

Title	Original airdate
"A Thanksgiving Reunion with My Three Sons and The Partridge Family"	November 25, 1977

References

^ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com

Season 8 (1967–68)

This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom, My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	36	September 29, 1960	June 8, 1961	ABC
	2	36	September 28, 1961	June 7, 1962
	3	39	September 20, 1962	June 20, 1963
	4	37	September 19, 1963	May 28, 1964
	5	36	September 17, 1964	May 20, 1965
	6	32	September 16, 1965	April 28, 1966	CBS
	7	32	September 15, 1966	May 11, 1967
	8	30	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968
	9	28	September 28, 1968	April 19, 1969
	10	26	October 4, 1969	April 4, 1970
	11	24	September 19, 1970	March 20, 1971
	12	24	September 13, 1971	April 13, 1972

DVD releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.^[1]

	Episodes	Release date
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One	18	September 30, 2008
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two	18	January 20, 2009
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One	18	February 23, 2010
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume Two	18	June 15, 2010

Episode list

Season 1 (1960–61)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Chip Off the Old Block"	Peter Tewksbury	George Tibbles	September 29, 1960	101
Steve Douglas and his youngest son Chip are caught in the snares of designing women.
2	2	"The Little Ragpicker"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 6, 1960	102
The annual school rag drive starts Chip off on a scavenger hunt of the neighbourhood. Every time Miss Pitts looks out the window she sees strange happenings at the Douglas household. She sees Bub outdoors waving a bottle that looks like whiskey, and later, Robbie carrying in a dummy that she thinks is Bub smashed to the nines. Later she goes over to talk to Steve about her concerns, and sees Chip in his bedroom hitting the dummy and when it accidentally falls out of the upstairs window, she faints on the sidewalk.
3	3	"Bub in the Ointment"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury, George Tibbles	October 13, 1960	103
When Bub steps on the toes of each grandson in turn, Steve is about to rebuke him when the household returns to normal once again. Being chief cook, dishwasher and housekeeper to three boys is not fun for a grandfather as Bub soon finds out.
4	4	"Countdown"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 20, 1960	104
A missile launch, sleeping in and Daylight Savings Time make for an interesting Monday morning. The Douglas household is a chaotic affair of lost Indian arrowheads for Chip's turn in show and tell at school, Robbie's missing trumpet and some important lost plans of Steve's that Mike has nearly burned in the incinerator. Note: The official DVD of this episode uses the credits from the previous episode in error. David Duncan is the correct writer.
5	5	"Brotherly Love"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	October 27, 1960	105
When Mike and Robbie cross swords over a blonde schoolgirl, the issue widens until the whole family is involved in the argument. But it is difficult for Steve to teach his sons that violence solves nothing with a pugnacious father-in-law around.
6	6	"Adjust or Bust"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	November 3, 1960	106
Steve's theory that 'life is just a small series of adjustments' is put to the test in just one day's discovered doings. Steve must meet with a top Air Force General to discuss plans for a rocket design, and in the process, he must borrow Mike's car, but gets a flat tire and must take the bus home.
7	7	"Lady Engineer"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper	November 10, 1960	107
Steve is enamored of his new business associate, an attractive woman who is strictly business. He is tempted to mix business with pleasure but finds that she thinks only about the job at hand and doesn't have any plans to expand her love life, despite this romantic interlude.
8	8	"Chip's Harvest"	Peter Tewksbury	Peggy Phillips	November 17, 1960	108
Thanksgiving Day's turkey dinner is threatened when the electricity is short-circuited throughout the neighborhood. Chip decides to bring along his Indian friend as his sole guest much to the annoyance of his brothers who say he is a bum who lives near the railway tracks in a rundown old shack.
9	9	"Raft on the River"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	November 24, 1960	109
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
10	10	"Lonesome George"	Peter Tewksbury	James Allardice	December 1, 1960	110
TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.
11	11	"Spring Will Be a Little Late"	Peter Tewksbury	Jack Laird	December 8, 1960	111
Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.
12	12	"My Three Strikers"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	December 15, 1960	112
The Douglas boys call a family meeting at which they demand a raise in their allowances but Steve emphatically says 'No' because the family bills are mounting and they are leaving all of their chores to be done by Bub. A night of sharp words is followed by some bad dreams and an even brighter morning.
13	13	"The Elopement"	Peter Tewksbury	Phil Leslie, John McGreevey	December 22, 1960	113
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher
14	14	"Mike's Brother"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	December 29, 1960	114
Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.
15	15	"Domestic Trouble"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	January 5, 1961	115
When Bub is suddenly called out of town, Steve seeks an agency to get temporary help unaware that he may be recruiting a wife. With his older brothers passing the buck, Chip accidentally rings Domestic Bliss, Inc. - a marriage seeking department who send out a woman inspector right away.
16	16	"Bub Leaves Home"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Dales, John McGreevey	January 12, 1961	116
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind. Note: Arthur Dales was a pseudonym of writer Howard Dimsdale.
17	17	"Mike in a Rush"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	January 19, 1961	117
Mike prepares for the transition from high school to college and the question of joining a fraternity is one that complicates his life considerably. When Mike and Jean attend a party as prospective applicants, he later finds out that they have been dropped from the waiting list and suddenly the cold war turns pretty hot.
18	18	"The Bully"	Peter Tewksbury	Robert Bassing	January 26, 1961	118
Chip falls foul of the school bully who isn't interested in fighting with him. Steve soon realises that Chip is deliberately provoking the boy each day in the school yard to prove a point, and feels the boy must solve his own problems even though it costs him detention in the principal's office.
19	19	"Organization Woman"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	February 2, 1961	119
Steve's ever efficient sister arrives for a visit, and immediately changes and complicates the entire Douglas household. The challenging aspect to the whole deal is a decision that Harriet soon regrets, especially once Steve returns home from his business trip.
20	20	"Other People's Houses"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	February 9, 1961	120
When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.
21	21	"The Delinquent"	Peter Tewksbury	Diane Honodel, James Menzies	February 16, 1961	121
Mike Douglas and the family mongrel Tramp keep disappearing at night, and Jean becomes increasingly suspicious, unaware that Mike and his friend Tim are building her a hi-fi set for her upcoming Birthday.
22	22	"Man in a Trenchcoat"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	February 23, 1961	122
Robbie's girlfriend thinks that there's something going on between Robbie and Judy.
23	23	"Deadline"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 2, 1961	123
Mike Douglas is highly vocal in his criticism for the Sports page of the high school newspaper and to prove his point he is given one shot at revamping it, and he tackles the job with gusto.
24	24	"The Lostling"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 9, 1961	124
Chip begins to think it would be great to be an older brother, so he wishes for a little sister. After the new Hawkins family move into the vacant house across the street, a wild sequence of events results from an improbable case of mistaken identity -- an infant is somehow confused with a leg of lamb left in the boot of Steve's station wagon.
25	25	"Off Key"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 16, 1961	125
Chip brags to his new playmate that his genius brother Robbie can fix almost anything. Soon Robbie is repairing a Grand Piano and has five minutes to have it fixed before the boy's mother comes in and wants to practise a new tune on it.
26	26	"Small Adventure"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 23, 1961	126
With Steve away in Seattle on a business trip, the Douglas household's version of man's best friend has been known to drag home anything he can get his jaws into. This time Tramp slinks in with a large stick of dynamite that has somewhere and somehow survived since the end of the Second World War. Note: From this point onwards writer Dorothy Cooper will now go by her married surname of Cooper-Foote.
27	27	"Soap Box Derby"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	March 30, 1961	127
Unaware of each others problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.
28	28	"Unite or Sink"	Peter Tewksbury	Art Friedman	April 6, 1961	128
Robbie and Mike want some extra pocket money but Steve tells them that they will have to earn it by themselves. The boys ask their neighbours if they could paint their front fence and before long several neighbors pitch in together to help restore the yard to its former glory.
29	29	"The Wiley Method"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	April 13, 1961	129
Robbie can't seem to arouse the interest of the affairs of the heart with his classmate Maribel Quinby. So with the help of his best friend Hank Ferguson, he proceeds to try and get her attention by noting the theatrical method of approach that his history teacher employs to make a dull subject interesting.
30	30	"The National Pastime"	Peter Tewksbury	Mathilda Ferro, Theodore Ferro	April 27, 1961	130
Chip is so discouraged by his batting slump that he quits the baseball team. After his brothers encourage him to return, one of the parents, a volunteer umpire, calls in sick and Steve is asked to substitute. Chip thinks this will be the perfect opportunity to become the team hero.
31	31	"The Croaker"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	May 4, 1961	131
Malcolm, a frog that Chip has captured for a school project is the focus of all eyes in the Douglas home. Bub discerns a marked resemblance to his Uncle Clancey in Malcolm's face. Further evaluation of its character becomes quite difficult when he leaps out of sight.
32	32	"The Musician"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	May 11, 1961	132
Robbie's new girlfriend, lives in refined and elegant style, causing Robbie to turn a critical eye on his own home life. To impress her he tells her he really digs the classics, but in fact he doesn't know the difference between Puccini and Presley.
33	33	"The Horseless Saddle"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Kober, James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	May 18, 1961	133
Bub has no plans to join the horse race set, but a mysterious someone sends him a saddle. Chip takes his girlfriend for a pony ride along with the old saddle that the Douglases just can't seem to be rid of.
34	34	"Trial by Separation"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	May 25, 1961	134
Its final exam time and Mike and his girlfriend Jean have thought up a test of their own - to try the strength of their affection by not seeing each other the week before school has its graduation ceremonies.
35	35	"The Sunday Drive"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	June 1, 1961	135
Mr. Pearson's idea of a quiet drive in the country with his wife is altered by a station-wagon load of Douglases. Meanwhile Robbie is trying to avoid the clutches of a girl named Mary Lou.
36	36	"Fire Watch"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	June 8, 1961	136
Mike Douglas gets a summer job with the Forestry Service and he thinks its going to be a barrel of fun until he learns that he's expected to do a real man's job. When his boss is stranded down at the creek and a wild storm brews up, Mike spends a harrowing time trying to stay calm.

Season 2 (1961–62)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"Birds and Bees"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	September 28, 1961	201
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
38	2	"Instant Hate"	Richard Whorf	William Raynor, Myles Wilder	October 5, 1961	202
The good neighbor policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
39	3	"The Crush"	Richard Whorf	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	October 12, 1961	203
Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.
40	4	"Tramp the Hero"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	October 26, 1961	204
Chip's friend has a new, well-trained German shepherd, which emphasizes to Chip just how stupid Tramp is. At three in the morning a neglected slow boiling pot of fat on the stove explodes. Tramp's barking wakes the family. Chip and Sudsy now find they have something in common to talk about.
41	5	"A Perfect Memory"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	November 2, 1961	205
An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise. Note: This episode was actually filmed the previous season and held over for telecast.
42	6	"Bub's Lodge"	Richard Whorf	Shirl Gordon	November 9, 1961	206
Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.
43	7	"A Lesson in Any Language"	Richard Whorf	Danny Simon	November 16, 1961	207
Mike thinks that he can skate through school by playing a Spanish language record while he sleeps to attempt to learn Spanish via osmosis.
44	8	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard Whorf	Edward J. Lakso	November 23, 1961	208
Robbie is heading for an "F" in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.
45	9	"Chip's Composition"	Richard Whorf	Elroy Schwartz, Glenn Wheaton	November 30, 1961	209
A composition titled "What My Mother Means to Me" has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
46	10	"Mike in Charge"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	December 7, 1961	210
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
47	11	"Bub Goes to School"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	December 14, 1961	211
Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.
48	12	"Robbie's Band"	Richard Whorf	Robert O'Brien	December 21, 1961	212
The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.
49	13	"Damon and Pythias"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	December 28, 1961	213
Robbie and Hank decide to join a club together to be like Damon and Pythias. However, Robbie, fed up with being compared to his brother, opts to join a club and not invite Hank to join with him.
50	14	"Chip Leaves Home"	Richard Whorf	Joanna Lee	January 4, 1962	214
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to run away from home.
51	15	"The Romance of Silver Pines"	Richard Whorf	Jack Laird	January 11, 1962	215
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
52	16	"Blind Date"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	January 18, 1962	216
Mike and Robbie accidentally end up with each other's blind date.
53	17	"Second Time Around"	Richard Whorf	Kitty Buhler	January 25, 1962	217
Bub misinterprets the interest of Steve's old flame.
54	18	"The Girls Next Door"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	February 1, 1962	218
Four airline stewardesses move in next door and spark Mike's and Robbie's interest.
55	19	"Bub Gets A Job"	Richard Whorf	Judith Adkins Specht, Robert Specht, George Tibbles	February 8, 1962	219
A magazine article on bored homemakers spurs Bub to consider a new career.
56	20	"Le Petit Stowaway"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	February 15, 1962	220
Chip stows away on a plane bound for Paris, then gets lost in the city.
57	21	"Robbie Valentino"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	February 22, 1962	221
Robbie gets excited upon learning his physics class will be featured in an educational film.
58	22	"The Masterpiece"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 1, 1962	222
Chip enlists Bub's help in trying to win a school art contest.
59	23	"A Holiday for Tramp"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 8, 1962	223
Tramp is lost at the train station and winds up in the care of a famous actress (Eve Arden).
60	24	"The Big Game"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 15, 1962	224
Robbie must pass a math exam to play in the big game; Chip gets the measles.
61	25	"Chip's Party"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	March 22, 1962	225
Chip's 10th birthday party is in jeopardy when Steve comes down with German measles.
62	26	"Casanova Trouble"	Richard Whorf	Muriel Roy Bolton	March 29, 1962	226
Steve's friend thinks her daughter is dating an older man.
63	27	"The Pencil Pusher"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	April 5, 1962	227
Chip is unimpressed by Steve's job until an emergency occurs at the Air Force base.
64	28	"Innocents Abroad"	Richard Whorf	Dick Conway, Roland MacLane	April 12, 1962	228
Mike and Robbie get ideas when a boyhood friend of Steve's visits the family.
65	29	"Robbie the Caddy"	Richard Whorf	Mannie Manheim, Arthur Marx	April 19, 1962	229
Robbie decides to earn some extra money by being a caddy at a local golf tournament.
66	30	"Coincidence"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	April 26, 1962	230
Steve's yearning for some quiet time leads him to an all-female house that mimics the Douglas household.
67	31	"Air Derby"	Richard Whorf	Lou Breslow, Joseph Hoffman	May 3, 1962	231
Steve roots for Robbie's opponent in a model airplane contest.
68	32	"Too Much in Common"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 10, 1962	232
Mike is dissatisfied with his current girlfriend.
69	33	"Chug and Robbie"	Richard Whorf	William Kelsay	May 17, 1962	233
Robbie becomes the victim of hero worship when he shares a locker with the school's star athlete.
70	34	"Good Influence"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 24, 1962	234
Chip resists taking a trip with a boy he dislikes; Bub dabbles in painting.
71	35	"The Hippopotamus Foot"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles, Richard Whorf	May 31, 1962	235
Mike faces disciplinary action for a college fraternity prank.
72	36	"The Kibitzers"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey, George Tibbles	June 7, 1962	236
Bub's card-playing buddies causes problems for the Douglases.

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Special

Title	Original airdate
"A Thanksgiving Reunion with My Three Sons and The Partridge Family"	November 25, 1977

References

^ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com

Season 9 (1968–69)

This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom, My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	36	September 29, 1960	June 8, 1961	ABC
	2	36	September 28, 1961	June 7, 1962
	3	39	September 20, 1962	June 20, 1963
	4	37	September 19, 1963	May 28, 1964
	5	36	September 17, 1964	May 20, 1965
	6	32	September 16, 1965	April 28, 1966	CBS
	7	32	September 15, 1966	May 11, 1967
	8	30	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968
	9	28	September 28, 1968	April 19, 1969
	10	26	October 4, 1969	April 4, 1970
	11	24	September 19, 1970	March 20, 1971
	12	24	September 13, 1971	April 13, 1972

DVD releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.^[1]

	Episodes	Release date
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One	18	September 30, 2008
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two	18	January 20, 2009
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One	18	February 23, 2010
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume Two	18	June 15, 2010

Episode list

Season 1 (1960–61)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Chip Off the Old Block"	Peter Tewksbury	George Tibbles	September 29, 1960	101
Steve Douglas and his youngest son Chip are caught in the snares of designing women.
2	2	"The Little Ragpicker"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 6, 1960	102
The annual school rag drive starts Chip off on a scavenger hunt of the neighbourhood. Every time Miss Pitts looks out the window she sees strange happenings at the Douglas household. She sees Bub outdoors waving a bottle that looks like whiskey, and later, Robbie carrying in a dummy that she thinks is Bub smashed to the nines. Later she goes over to talk to Steve about her concerns, and sees Chip in his bedroom hitting the dummy and when it accidentally falls out of the upstairs window, she faints on the sidewalk.
3	3	"Bub in the Ointment"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury, George Tibbles	October 13, 1960	103
When Bub steps on the toes of each grandson in turn, Steve is about to rebuke him when the household returns to normal once again. Being chief cook, dishwasher and housekeeper to three boys is not fun for a grandfather as Bub soon finds out.
4	4	"Countdown"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 20, 1960	104
A missile launch, sleeping in and Daylight Savings Time make for an interesting Monday morning. The Douglas household is a chaotic affair of lost Indian arrowheads for Chip's turn in show and tell at school, Robbie's missing trumpet and some important lost plans of Steve's that Mike has nearly burned in the incinerator. Note: The official DVD of this episode uses the credits from the previous episode in error. David Duncan is the correct writer.
5	5	"Brotherly Love"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	October 27, 1960	105
When Mike and Robbie cross swords over a blonde schoolgirl, the issue widens until the whole family is involved in the argument. But it is difficult for Steve to teach his sons that violence solves nothing with a pugnacious father-in-law around.
6	6	"Adjust or Bust"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	November 3, 1960	106
Steve's theory that 'life is just a small series of adjustments' is put to the test in just one day's discovered doings. Steve must meet with a top Air Force General to discuss plans for a rocket design, and in the process, he must borrow Mike's car, but gets a flat tire and must take the bus home.
7	7	"Lady Engineer"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper	November 10, 1960	107
Steve is enamored of his new business associate, an attractive woman who is strictly business. He is tempted to mix business with pleasure but finds that she thinks only about the job at hand and doesn't have any plans to expand her love life, despite this romantic interlude.
8	8	"Chip's Harvest"	Peter Tewksbury	Peggy Phillips	November 17, 1960	108
Thanksgiving Day's turkey dinner is threatened when the electricity is short-circuited throughout the neighborhood. Chip decides to bring along his Indian friend as his sole guest much to the annoyance of his brothers who say he is a bum who lives near the railway tracks in a rundown old shack.
9	9	"Raft on the River"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	November 24, 1960	109
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
10	10	"Lonesome George"	Peter Tewksbury	James Allardice	December 1, 1960	110
TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.
11	11	"Spring Will Be a Little Late"	Peter Tewksbury	Jack Laird	December 8, 1960	111
Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.
12	12	"My Three Strikers"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	December 15, 1960	112
The Douglas boys call a family meeting at which they demand a raise in their allowances but Steve emphatically says 'No' because the family bills are mounting and they are leaving all of their chores to be done by Bub. A night of sharp words is followed by some bad dreams and an even brighter morning.
13	13	"The Elopement"	Peter Tewksbury	Phil Leslie, John McGreevey	December 22, 1960	113
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher
14	14	"Mike's Brother"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	December 29, 1960	114
Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.
15	15	"Domestic Trouble"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	January 5, 1961	115
When Bub is suddenly called out of town, Steve seeks an agency to get temporary help unaware that he may be recruiting a wife. With his older brothers passing the buck, Chip accidentally rings Domestic Bliss, Inc. - a marriage seeking department who send out a woman inspector right away.
16	16	"Bub Leaves Home"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Dales, John McGreevey	January 12, 1961	116
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind. Note: Arthur Dales was a pseudonym of writer Howard Dimsdale.
17	17	"Mike in a Rush"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	January 19, 1961	117
Mike prepares for the transition from high school to college and the question of joining a fraternity is one that complicates his life considerably. When Mike and Jean attend a party as prospective applicants, he later finds out that they have been dropped from the waiting list and suddenly the cold war turns pretty hot.
18	18	"The Bully"	Peter Tewksbury	Robert Bassing	January 26, 1961	118
Chip falls foul of the school bully who isn't interested in fighting with him. Steve soon realises that Chip is deliberately provoking the boy each day in the school yard to prove a point, and feels the boy must solve his own problems even though it costs him detention in the principal's office.
19	19	"Organization Woman"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	February 2, 1961	119
Steve's ever efficient sister arrives for a visit, and immediately changes and complicates the entire Douglas household. The challenging aspect to the whole deal is a decision that Harriet soon regrets, especially once Steve returns home from his business trip.
20	20	"Other People's Houses"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	February 9, 1961	120
When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.
21	21	"The Delinquent"	Peter Tewksbury	Diane Honodel, James Menzies	February 16, 1961	121
Mike Douglas and the family mongrel Tramp keep disappearing at night, and Jean becomes increasingly suspicious, unaware that Mike and his friend Tim are building her a hi-fi set for her upcoming Birthday.
22	22	"Man in a Trenchcoat"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	February 23, 1961	122
Robbie's girlfriend thinks that there's something going on between Robbie and Judy.
23	23	"Deadline"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 2, 1961	123
Mike Douglas is highly vocal in his criticism for the Sports page of the high school newspaper and to prove his point he is given one shot at revamping it, and he tackles the job with gusto.
24	24	"The Lostling"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 9, 1961	124
Chip begins to think it would be great to be an older brother, so he wishes for a little sister. After the new Hawkins family move into the vacant house across the street, a wild sequence of events results from an improbable case of mistaken identity -- an infant is somehow confused with a leg of lamb left in the boot of Steve's station wagon.
25	25	"Off Key"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 16, 1961	125
Chip brags to his new playmate that his genius brother Robbie can fix almost anything. Soon Robbie is repairing a Grand Piano and has five minutes to have it fixed before the boy's mother comes in and wants to practise a new tune on it.
26	26	"Small Adventure"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 23, 1961	126
With Steve away in Seattle on a business trip, the Douglas household's version of man's best friend has been known to drag home anything he can get his jaws into. This time Tramp slinks in with a large stick of dynamite that has somewhere and somehow survived since the end of the Second World War. Note: From this point onwards writer Dorothy Cooper will now go by her married surname of Cooper-Foote.
27	27	"Soap Box Derby"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	March 30, 1961	127
Unaware of each others problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.
28	28	"Unite or Sink"	Peter Tewksbury	Art Friedman	April 6, 1961	128
Robbie and Mike want some extra pocket money but Steve tells them that they will have to earn it by themselves. The boys ask their neighbours if they could paint their front fence and before long several neighbors pitch in together to help restore the yard to its former glory.
29	29	"The Wiley Method"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	April 13, 1961	129
Robbie can't seem to arouse the interest of the affairs of the heart with his classmate Maribel Quinby. So with the help of his best friend Hank Ferguson, he proceeds to try and get her attention by noting the theatrical method of approach that his history teacher employs to make a dull subject interesting.
30	30	"The National Pastime"	Peter Tewksbury	Mathilda Ferro, Theodore Ferro	April 27, 1961	130
Chip is so discouraged by his batting slump that he quits the baseball team. After his brothers encourage him to return, one of the parents, a volunteer umpire, calls in sick and Steve is asked to substitute. Chip thinks this will be the perfect opportunity to become the team hero.
31	31	"The Croaker"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	May 4, 1961	131
Malcolm, a frog that Chip has captured for a school project is the focus of all eyes in the Douglas home. Bub discerns a marked resemblance to his Uncle Clancey in Malcolm's face. Further evaluation of its character becomes quite difficult when he leaps out of sight.
32	32	"The Musician"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	May 11, 1961	132
Robbie's new girlfriend, lives in refined and elegant style, causing Robbie to turn a critical eye on his own home life. To impress her he tells her he really digs the classics, but in fact he doesn't know the difference between Puccini and Presley.
33	33	"The Horseless Saddle"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Kober, James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	May 18, 1961	133
Bub has no plans to join the horse race set, but a mysterious someone sends him a saddle. Chip takes his girlfriend for a pony ride along with the old saddle that the Douglases just can't seem to be rid of.
34	34	"Trial by Separation"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	May 25, 1961	134
Its final exam time and Mike and his girlfriend Jean have thought up a test of their own - to try the strength of their affection by not seeing each other the week before school has its graduation ceremonies.
35	35	"The Sunday Drive"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	June 1, 1961	135
Mr. Pearson's idea of a quiet drive in the country with his wife is altered by a station-wagon load of Douglases. Meanwhile Robbie is trying to avoid the clutches of a girl named Mary Lou.
36	36	"Fire Watch"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	June 8, 1961	136
Mike Douglas gets a summer job with the Forestry Service and he thinks its going to be a barrel of fun until he learns that he's expected to do a real man's job. When his boss is stranded down at the creek and a wild storm brews up, Mike spends a harrowing time trying to stay calm.

Season 2 (1961–62)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"Birds and Bees"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	September 28, 1961	201
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
38	2	"Instant Hate"	Richard Whorf	William Raynor, Myles Wilder	October 5, 1961	202
The good neighbor policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
39	3	"The Crush"	Richard Whorf	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	October 12, 1961	203
Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.
40	4	"Tramp the Hero"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	October 26, 1961	204
Chip's friend has a new, well-trained German shepherd, which emphasizes to Chip just how stupid Tramp is. At three in the morning a neglected slow boiling pot of fat on the stove explodes. Tramp's barking wakes the family. Chip and Sudsy now find they have something in common to talk about.
41	5	"A Perfect Memory"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	November 2, 1961	205
An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise. Note: This episode was actually filmed the previous season and held over for telecast.
42	6	"Bub's Lodge"	Richard Whorf	Shirl Gordon	November 9, 1961	206
Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.
43	7	"A Lesson in Any Language"	Richard Whorf	Danny Simon	November 16, 1961	207
Mike thinks that he can skate through school by playing a Spanish language record while he sleeps to attempt to learn Spanish via osmosis.
44	8	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard Whorf	Edward J. Lakso	November 23, 1961	208
Robbie is heading for an "F" in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.
45	9	"Chip's Composition"	Richard Whorf	Elroy Schwartz, Glenn Wheaton	November 30, 1961	209
A composition titled "What My Mother Means to Me" has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
46	10	"Mike in Charge"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	December 7, 1961	210
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
47	11	"Bub Goes to School"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	December 14, 1961	211
Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.
48	12	"Robbie's Band"	Richard Whorf	Robert O'Brien	December 21, 1961	212
The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.
49	13	"Damon and Pythias"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	December 28, 1961	213
Robbie and Hank decide to join a club together to be like Damon and Pythias. However, Robbie, fed up with being compared to his brother, opts to join a club and not invite Hank to join with him.
50	14	"Chip Leaves Home"	Richard Whorf	Joanna Lee	January 4, 1962	214
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to run away from home.
51	15	"The Romance of Silver Pines"	Richard Whorf	Jack Laird	January 11, 1962	215
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
52	16	"Blind Date"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	January 18, 1962	216
Mike and Robbie accidentally end up with each other's blind date.
53	17	"Second Time Around"	Richard Whorf	Kitty Buhler	January 25, 1962	217
Bub misinterprets the interest of Steve's old flame.
54	18	"The Girls Next Door"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	February 1, 1962	218
Four airline stewardesses move in next door and spark Mike's and Robbie's interest.
55	19	"Bub Gets A Job"	Richard Whorf	Judith Adkins Specht, Robert Specht, George Tibbles	February 8, 1962	219
A magazine article on bored homemakers spurs Bub to consider a new career.
56	20	"Le Petit Stowaway"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	February 15, 1962	220
Chip stows away on a plane bound for Paris, then gets lost in the city.
57	21	"Robbie Valentino"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	February 22, 1962	221
Robbie gets excited upon learning his physics class will be featured in an educational film.
58	22	"The Masterpiece"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 1, 1962	222
Chip enlists Bub's help in trying to win a school art contest.
59	23	"A Holiday for Tramp"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 8, 1962	223
Tramp is lost at the train station and winds up in the care of a famous actress (Eve Arden).
60	24	"The Big Game"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 15, 1962	224
Robbie must pass a math exam to play in the big game; Chip gets the measles.
61	25	"Chip's Party"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	March 22, 1962	225
Chip's 10th birthday party is in jeopardy when Steve comes down with German measles.
62	26	"Casanova Trouble"	Richard Whorf	Muriel Roy Bolton	March 29, 1962	226
Steve's friend thinks her daughter is dating an older man.
63	27	"The Pencil Pusher"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	April 5, 1962	227
Chip is unimpressed by Steve's job until an emergency occurs at the Air Force base.
64	28	"Innocents Abroad"	Richard Whorf	Dick Conway, Roland MacLane	April 12, 1962	228
Mike and Robbie get ideas when a boyhood friend of Steve's visits the family.
65	29	"Robbie the Caddy"	Richard Whorf	Mannie Manheim, Arthur Marx	April 19, 1962	229
Robbie decides to earn some extra money by being a caddy at a local golf tournament.
66	30	"Coincidence"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	April 26, 1962	230
Steve's yearning for some quiet time leads him to an all-female house that mimics the Douglas household.
67	31	"Air Derby"	Richard Whorf	Lou Breslow, Joseph Hoffman	May 3, 1962	231
Steve roots for Robbie's opponent in a model airplane contest.
68	32	"Too Much in Common"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 10, 1962	232
Mike is dissatisfied with his current girlfriend.
69	33	"Chug and Robbie"	Richard Whorf	William Kelsay	May 17, 1962	233
Robbie becomes the victim of hero worship when he shares a locker with the school's star athlete.
70	34	"Good Influence"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 24, 1962	234
Chip resists taking a trip with a boy he dislikes; Bub dabbles in painting.
71	35	"The Hippopotamus Foot"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles, Richard Whorf	May 31, 1962	235
Mike faces disciplinary action for a college fraternity prank.
72	36	"The Kibitzers"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey, George Tibbles	June 7, 1962	236
Bub's card-playing buddies causes problems for the Douglases.

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Special

Title	Original airdate
"A Thanksgiving Reunion with My Three Sons and The Partridge Family"	November 25, 1977

References

^ DVD release info at TVShowsOnDVD.com

Season 10 (1969–70)

This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom, My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Network
	1	36	September 29, 1960	June 8, 1961	ABC
	2	36	September 28, 1961	June 7, 1962
	3	39	September 20, 1962	June 20, 1963
	4	37	September 19, 1963	May 28, 1964
	5	36	September 17, 1964	May 20, 1965
	6	32	September 16, 1965	April 28, 1966	CBS
	7	32	September 15, 1966	May 11, 1967
	8	30	September 9, 1967	March 30, 1968
	9	28	September 28, 1968	April 19, 1969
	10	26	October 4, 1969	April 4, 1970
	11	24	September 19, 1970	March 20, 1971
	12	24	September 13, 1971	April 13, 1972

DVD releases

At present, the following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video.^[1]

	Episodes	Release date
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume One	18	September 30, 2008
My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two	18	January 20, 2009
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One	18	February 23, 2010
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume Two	18	June 15, 2010

Episode list

Season 1 (1960–61)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Chip Off the Old Block"	Peter Tewksbury	George Tibbles	September 29, 1960	101
Steve Douglas and his youngest son Chip are caught in the snares of designing women.
2	2	"The Little Ragpicker"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 6, 1960	102
The annual school rag drive starts Chip off on a scavenger hunt of the neighbourhood. Every time Miss Pitts looks out the window she sees strange happenings at the Douglas household. She sees Bub outdoors waving a bottle that looks like whiskey, and later, Robbie carrying in a dummy that she thinks is Bub smashed to the nines. Later she goes over to talk to Steve about her concerns, and sees Chip in his bedroom hitting the dummy and when it accidentally falls out of the upstairs window, she faints on the sidewalk.
3	3	"Bub in the Ointment"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury, George Tibbles	October 13, 1960	103
When Bub steps on the toes of each grandson in turn, Steve is about to rebuke him when the household returns to normal once again. Being chief cook, dishwasher and housekeeper to three boys is not fun for a grandfather as Bub soon finds out.
4	4	"Countdown"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	October 20, 1960	104
A missile launch, sleeping in and Daylight Savings Time make for an interesting Monday morning. The Douglas household is a chaotic affair of lost Indian arrowheads for Chip's turn in show and tell at school, Robbie's missing trumpet and some important lost plans of Steve's that Mike has nearly burned in the incinerator. Note: The official DVD of this episode uses the credits from the previous episode in error. David Duncan is the correct writer.
5	5	"Brotherly Love"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	October 27, 1960	105
When Mike and Robbie cross swords over a blonde schoolgirl, the issue widens until the whole family is involved in the argument. But it is difficult for Steve to teach his sons that violence solves nothing with a pugnacious father-in-law around.
6	6	"Adjust or Bust"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	November 3, 1960	106
Steve's theory that 'life is just a small series of adjustments' is put to the test in just one day's discovered doings. Steve must meet with a top Air Force General to discuss plans for a rocket design, and in the process, he must borrow Mike's car, but gets a flat tire and must take the bus home.
7	7	"Lady Engineer"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper	November 10, 1960	107
Steve is enamored of his new business associate, an attractive woman who is strictly business. He is tempted to mix business with pleasure but finds that she thinks only about the job at hand and doesn't have any plans to expand her love life, despite this romantic interlude.
8	8	"Chip's Harvest"	Peter Tewksbury	Peggy Phillips	November 17, 1960	108
Thanksgiving Day's turkey dinner is threatened when the electricity is short-circuited throughout the neighborhood. Chip decides to bring along his Indian friend as his sole guest much to the annoyance of his brothers who say he is a bum who lives near the railway tracks in a rundown old shack.
9	9	"Raft on the River"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	November 24, 1960	109
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
10	10	"Lonesome George"	Peter Tewksbury	James Allardice	December 1, 1960	110
TV Star George Gobel is invited to dinner by Bub, who forgets to tell his son-in-law Steve who returns from an out of town business trip and arrives home late at night. He tiptoes around the house only to find a strange man occupying his bed.
11	11	"Spring Will Be a Little Late"	Peter Tewksbury	Jack Laird	December 8, 1960	111
Robbie is baffled when his girlfriend rejects the excitement of his new motor in favor of standard feminine frills. He tries to win her over by telling the boys on the football team that no girls are allowed, knowing this will upset her as she is considered one of the guys.
12	12	"My Three Strikers"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	December 15, 1960	112
The Douglas boys call a family meeting at which they demand a raise in their allowances but Steve emphatically says 'No' because the family bills are mounting and they are leaving all of their chores to be done by Bub. A night of sharp words is followed by some bad dreams and an even brighter morning.
13	13	"The Elopement"	Peter Tewksbury	Phil Leslie, John McGreevey	December 22, 1960	113
Mike and the girl next door arouse the suspicions of Steve and Bub when secrets are exchanged and the two are seen leaving with suitcases. Meanwhile, Robbie is on a clock salvaging attempt to find historic clocks after he gets into a spot of bother with his teacher
14	14	"Mike's Brother"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	December 29, 1960	114
Constant comparison to his brother, Mike, leaves Robbie feeling inferior and angry and their father has to face the consequences as Robbie and Mike are about to come to blows when Steve shows up just in the nick of time from work.
15	15	"Domestic Trouble"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	January 5, 1961	115
When Bub is suddenly called out of town, Steve seeks an agency to get temporary help unaware that he may be recruiting a wife. With his older brothers passing the buck, Chip accidentally rings Domestic Bliss, Inc. - a marriage seeking department who send out a woman inspector right away.
16	16	"Bub Leaves Home"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Dales, John McGreevey	January 12, 1961	116
When Steve invites his second cousin Selena to come and visit, Bub gets the strange impression that he is being neglected and isn't really needed. He decides to take up the offer of managing a movie theater in Plainview, and nothing the boys say or do can make him change his mind. Note: Arthur Dales was a pseudonym of writer Howard Dimsdale.
17	17	"Mike in a Rush"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	January 19, 1961	117
Mike prepares for the transition from high school to college and the question of joining a fraternity is one that complicates his life considerably. When Mike and Jean attend a party as prospective applicants, he later finds out that they have been dropped from the waiting list and suddenly the cold war turns pretty hot.
18	18	"The Bully"	Peter Tewksbury	Robert Bassing	January 26, 1961	118
Chip falls foul of the school bully who isn't interested in fighting with him. Steve soon realises that Chip is deliberately provoking the boy each day in the school yard to prove a point, and feels the boy must solve his own problems even though it costs him detention in the principal's office.
19	19	"Organization Woman"	Peter Tewksbury	James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	February 2, 1961	119
Steve's ever efficient sister arrives for a visit, and immediately changes and complicates the entire Douglas household. The challenging aspect to the whole deal is a decision that Harriet soon regrets, especially once Steve returns home from his business trip.
20	20	"Other People's Houses"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	February 9, 1961	120
When Robbie Douglas sees his new friend's home he is envious of what he thinks is really the perfect teenage home and becomes almost as envious as Hank is of the turbulent, happy-go-lucky Douglas household.
21	21	"The Delinquent"	Peter Tewksbury	Diane Honodel, James Menzies	February 16, 1961	121
Mike Douglas and the family mongrel Tramp keep disappearing at night, and Jean becomes increasingly suspicious, unaware that Mike and his friend Tim are building her a hi-fi set for her upcoming Birthday.
22	22	"Man in a Trenchcoat"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	February 23, 1961	122
Robbie's girlfriend thinks that there's something going on between Robbie and Judy.
23	23	"Deadline"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 2, 1961	123
Mike Douglas is highly vocal in his criticism for the Sports page of the high school newspaper and to prove his point he is given one shot at revamping it, and he tackles the job with gusto.
24	24	"The Lostling"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 9, 1961	124
Chip begins to think it would be great to be an older brother, so he wishes for a little sister. After the new Hawkins family move into the vacant house across the street, a wild sequence of events results from an improbable case of mistaken identity -- an infant is somehow confused with a leg of lamb left in the boot of Steve's station wagon.
25	25	"Off Key"	Peter Tewksbury	David Duncan	March 16, 1961	125
Chip brags to his new playmate that his genius brother Robbie can fix almost anything. Soon Robbie is repairing a Grand Piano and has five minutes to have it fixed before the boy's mother comes in and wants to practise a new tune on it.
26	26	"Small Adventure"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 23, 1961	126
With Steve away in Seattle on a business trip, the Douglas household's version of man's best friend has been known to drag home anything he can get his jaws into. This time Tramp slinks in with a large stick of dynamite that has somewhere and somehow survived since the end of the Second World War. Note: From this point onwards writer Dorothy Cooper will now go by her married surname of Cooper-Foote.
27	27	"Soap Box Derby"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	March 30, 1961	127
Unaware of each others problems, Steve and Robbie engage in what seem to be widely varied projects. Robbie is trying to construct a race kart and Steve is in a rush to help a missile manufacturer get his project off the launch pad in a race to beat a rival company.
28	28	"Unite or Sink"	Peter Tewksbury	Art Friedman	April 6, 1961	128
Robbie and Mike want some extra pocket money but Steve tells them that they will have to earn it by themselves. The boys ask their neighbours if they could paint their front fence and before long several neighbors pitch in together to help restore the yard to its former glory.
29	29	"The Wiley Method"	Peter Tewksbury	John McGreevey	April 13, 1961	129
Robbie can't seem to arouse the interest of the affairs of the heart with his classmate Maribel Quinby. So with the help of his best friend Hank Ferguson, he proceeds to try and get her attention by noting the theatrical method of approach that his history teacher employs to make a dull subject interesting.
30	30	"The National Pastime"	Peter Tewksbury	Mathilda Ferro, Theodore Ferro	April 27, 1961	130
Chip is so discouraged by his batting slump that he quits the baseball team. After his brothers encourage him to return, one of the parents, a volunteer umpire, calls in sick and Steve is asked to substitute. Chip thinks this will be the perfect opportunity to become the team hero.
31	31	"The Croaker"	Peter Tewksbury	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	May 4, 1961	131
Malcolm, a frog that Chip has captured for a school project is the focus of all eyes in the Douglas home. Bub discerns a marked resemblance to his Uncle Clancey in Malcolm's face. Further evaluation of its character becomes quite difficult when he leaps out of sight.
32	32	"The Musician"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	May 11, 1961	132
Robbie's new girlfriend, lives in refined and elegant style, causing Robbie to turn a critical eye on his own home life. To impress her he tells her he really digs the classics, but in fact he doesn't know the difference between Puccini and Presley.
33	33	"The Horseless Saddle"	Peter Tewksbury	Arthur Kober, James Leighton, Peter Tewksbury	May 18, 1961	133
Bub has no plans to join the horse race set, but a mysterious someone sends him a saddle. Chip takes his girlfriend for a pony ride along with the old saddle that the Douglases just can't seem to be rid of.
34	34	"Trial by Separation"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	May 25, 1961	134
Its final exam time and Mike and his girlfriend Jean have thought up a test of their own - to try the strength of their affection by not seeing each other the week before school has its graduation ceremonies.
35	35	"The Sunday Drive"	Peter Tewksbury	AJ Carothers	June 1, 1961	135
Mr. Pearson's idea of a quiet drive in the country with his wife is altered by a station-wagon load of Douglases. Meanwhile Robbie is trying to avoid the clutches of a girl named Mary Lou.
36	36	"Fire Watch"	Peter Tewksbury	Paul West	June 8, 1961	136
Mike Douglas gets a summer job with the Forestry Service and he thinks its going to be a barrel of fun until he learns that he's expected to do a real man's job. When his boss is stranded down at the creek and a wild storm brews up, Mike spends a harrowing time trying to stay calm.

Season 2 (1961–62)

Series #	Season #	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"Birds and Bees"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	September 28, 1961	201
When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.
38	2	"Instant Hate"	Richard Whorf	William Raynor, Myles Wilder	October 5, 1961	202
The good neighbor policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.
39	3	"The Crush"	Richard Whorf	Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser	October 12, 1961	203
Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.
40	4	"Tramp the Hero"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	October 26, 1961	204
Chip's friend has a new, well-trained German shepherd, which emphasizes to Chip just how stupid Tramp is. At three in the morning a neglected slow boiling pot of fat on the stove explodes. Tramp's barking wakes the family. Chip and Sudsy now find they have something in common to talk about.
41	5	"A Perfect Memory"	Peter Tewksbury	Dorothy Cooper Foote	November 2, 1961	205
An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise. Note: This episode was actually filmed the previous season and held over for telecast.
42	6	"Bub's Lodge"	Richard Whorf	Shirl Gordon	November 9, 1961	206
Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.
43	7	"A Lesson in Any Language"	Richard Whorf	Danny Simon	November 16, 1961	207
Mike thinks that he can skate through school by playing a Spanish language record while he sleeps to attempt to learn Spanish via osmosis.
44	8	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard Whorf	Edward J. Lakso	November 23, 1961	208
Robbie is heading for an "F" in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.
45	9	"Chip's Composition"	Richard Whorf	Elroy Schwartz, Glenn Wheaton	November 30, 1961	209
A composition titled "What My Mother Means to Me" has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.
46	10	"Mike in Charge"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	December 7, 1961	210
Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.
47	11	"Bub Goes to School"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	December 14, 1961	211
Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.
48	12	"Robbie's Band"	Richard Whorf	Robert O'Brien	December 21, 1961	212
The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.
49	13	"Damon and Pythias"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	December 28, 1961	213
Robbie and Hank decide to join a club together to be like Damon and Pythias. However, Robbie, fed up with being compared to his brother, opts to join a club and not invite Hank to join with him.
50	14	"Chip Leaves Home"	Richard Whorf	Joanna Lee	January 4, 1962	214
Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to run away from home.
51	15	"The Romance of Silver Pines"	Richard Whorf	Jack Laird	January 11, 1962	215
Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.
52	16	"Blind Date"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles	January 18, 1962	216
Mike and Robbie accidentally end up with each other's blind date.
53	17	"Second Time Around"	Richard Whorf	Kitty Buhler	January 25, 1962	217
Bub misinterprets the interest of Steve's old flame.
54	18	"The Girls Next Door"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	February 1, 1962	218
Four airline stewardesses move in next door and spark Mike's and Robbie's interest.
55	19	"Bub Gets A Job"	Richard Whorf	Judith Adkins Specht, Robert Specht, George Tibbles	February 8, 1962	219
A magazine article on bored homemakers spurs Bub to consider a new career.
56	20	"Le Petit Stowaway"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	February 15, 1962	220
Chip stows away on a plane bound for Paris, then gets lost in the city.
57	21	"Robbie Valentino"	Richard Whorf	Paul David	February 22, 1962	221
Robbie gets excited upon learning his physics class will be featured in an educational film.
58	22	"The Masterpiece"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 1, 1962	222
Chip enlists Bub's help in trying to win a school art contest.
59	23	"A Holiday for Tramp"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	March 8, 1962	223
Tramp is lost at the train station and winds up in the care of a famous actress (Eve Arden).
60	24	"The Big Game"	Richard Whorf	Gail Ingram Clement	March 15, 1962	224
Robbie must pass a math exam to play in the big game; Chip gets the measles.
61	25	"Chip's Party"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	March 22, 1962	225
Chip's 10th birthday party is in jeopardy when Steve comes down with German measles.
62	26	"Casanova Trouble"	Richard Whorf	Muriel Roy Bolton	March 29, 1962	226
Steve's friend thinks her daughter is dating an older man.
63	27	"The Pencil Pusher"	Richard Whorf	Howard Leeds	April 5, 1962	227
Chip is unimpressed by Steve's job until an emergency occurs at the Air Force base.
64	28	"Innocents Abroad"	Richard Whorf	Dick Conway, Roland MacLane	April 12, 1962	228
Mike and Robbie get ideas when a boyhood friend of Steve's visits the family.
65	29	"Robbie the Caddy"	Richard Whorf	Mannie Manheim, Arthur Marx	April 19, 1962	229
Robbie decides to earn some extra money by being a caddy at a local golf tournament.
66	30	"Coincidence"	Richard Whorf	Dorothy Cooper Foote	April 26, 1962	230
Steve's yearning for some quiet time leads him to an all-female house that mimics the Douglas household.
67	31	"Air Derby"	Richard Whorf	Lou Breslow, Joseph Hoffman	May 3, 1962	231
Steve roots for Robbie's opponent in a model airplane contest.
68	32	"Too Much in Common"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 10, 1962	232
Mike is dissatisfied with his current girlfriend.
69	33	"Chug and Robbie"	Richard Whorf	William Kelsay	May 17, 1962	233
Robbie becomes the victim of hero worship when he shares a locker with the school's star athlete.
70	34	"Good Influence"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey	May 24, 1962	234
Chip resists taking a trip with a boy he dislikes; Bub dabbles in painting.
71	35	"The Hippopotamus Foot"	Richard Whorf	George Tibbles, Richard Whorf	May 31, 1962	235
Mike faces disciplinary action for a college fraternity prank.
72	36	"The Kibitzers"	Richard Whorf	John McGreevey, George Tibbles	June 7, 1962	236
Bub's card-playing buddies causes problems for the Douglases.