My Three Sons (season 8)
The eighth season of the American sitcom My Three Sons.
| My Three Sons (season 8) | |
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| Season 8 | |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 9, 1967 – March 30, 1968 |
| Season chronology | |
The eighth season of My Three Sons premiered on September 9, 1967 and ended on March 30, 1968.
Cast
Main
- Fred MacMurray as Steve Douglas
- William Demarest as Uncle Charley O'Casey
- Don Grady as Robbie Douglas
- Stanley Livingston as Chip Douglas
- Barry Livingston as Ernie Thompson-Douglas
- Tina Cole as Katie Miller-Douglas
Episodes
| No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
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| 249 | 1 | "Moving Day" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | September 9, 1967 | 6701 |
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After Steve gets transferred in his job to California, the Douglas family sells their house in Bryant Park and heads for the West Coast. They soon realize that the people in California, including their neighbors, are as chilly as the weather is warm. Robbie develops feelings for Katie (Tina Cole), a girl at his new college. Note: My Three Sons moved from Thursdays to Saturdays on CBS. | ||||||
| 250 | 2 | "Robbie Loves Katie" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | September 16, 1967 | 6702 |
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After Robbie decides he will tell Katie that he wants to stop exclusively seeing her, he ends up proposing marriage instead. He then enlists Steve's help to let her down easy. | ||||||
| 251 | 3 | "Inspection of the Groom" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | September 23, 1967 | 6703 |
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As Robbie and Katie get ready for their upcoming wedding, Katie's family and friend are skeptical over whether Robbie is the right guy for Katie. Joan Tompkins makes her first of nine appearances as Katie's mother and Kathryn Givney the first of four appearances as Katie's grandmother. | ||||||
| 252 | 4 | "Countdown to Marriage" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | September 30, 1967 | 6704 |
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Robbie and Katie are ready to call off their engagement after having a fight until Katie's grandmother intercedes, asking each if they love each other. Katie doesn't respond, but Robbie says he loves Katie. That's all Katie needs to hear. They reconcile and the wedding is back on. Meanwhile, Robbie's best man falls ill and Chip is recruited to take his place. | ||||||
| 253 | 5 | "Wedding Bells" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | October 7, 1967 | 6705 |
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The Douglas clan oversleeps on Robbie and Katie's wedding day and chaos reigns as they get ready. Tramp is missing but arrives at the church just in time for the ceremony, which goes off without a hitch. Later, a wistful Steve and Charley marvel at how fast Robbie has turned into a man. | ||||||
| 254 | 6 | "The Homecoming" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | October 14, 1967 | 6706 |
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Robbie and Katie return from their honeymoon and everything seems to go wrong for Katie as the Douglas clan adjusts to the fact that their all-male household is no longer all-male. | ||||||
| 255 | 7 | "My Wife, the Waitress" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | October 21, 1967 | 6707 |
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Robbie is distressed to discover that Katie is working as a cigarette girl. | ||||||
| 256 | 8 | "The Chameleon" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | October 28, 1967 | 6708 |
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The Douglas family has a problem persuading Ernie to accept a new friend when he learns she's a girl. | ||||||
| 257 | 9 | "Designing Woman" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | November 4, 1967 | 6709 |
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Katie recognizes Steve's new colleague (Oscar-winner Anne Baxter) as a designing woman long before the men in the family discover it. | ||||||
| 258 | 10 | "Ernie, the Bluebeard" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | November 11, 1967 | 6710 |
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Ernie, who doesn't even like girls, winds up with two dates for the same dance. A pre-Brady Bunch Maureen McCormick appears as one of the girls. | ||||||
| 259 | 11 | "The Heartbeat" | Fred de Cordova | Bernard Rothman | November 18, 1967 | 6711 |
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Katie, alone in the Douglas home, is frightened by what she thinks is the sound of a loud heartbeat. | ||||||
| 260 | 12 | "The Computer Picnic" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | November 25, 1967 | 6712 |
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Chip manages to outwit the machine age when a computer is used to select partners for a school picnic. Ed Begley Jr. makes his first screen appearance in a bit part as Chip's classmate. | ||||||
| 261 | 13 | "The Aunt Who Came to Dinner" | Fred de Cordova | William Raynor & Myles Wilder | December 2, 1967 | 6713 |
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Katie's Aunt Cecile (Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917)) is a guest in the Douglas household and in a few days rearranges their furniture -- and their lives. | ||||||
| 262 | 14 | "Leaving the Nest" | Fred de Cordova | Peggy Elliott | December 9, 1967 | 6714 |
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When minor irritations arise in the Douglas household, Robbie and Katie move temporarily into a borrowed apartment while their friends are away. Their life is complicated by the absence of a coffee pot, a pull-down bed that won't go up and the lack of a television set. | ||||||
| 263 | 15 | "You're Driving Me Crazy" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | December 16, 1967 | 6715 |
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Chip Douglas is so nervous about taking his driving test that his new sister-in-law Katie decides to help by taking the test with him. Soon after they both get their driving licenses the family car collects a big scratch, but neither will plead guilty. | ||||||
| 264 | 16 | "Liverpool Saga" | Fred de Cordova | Freddy Rhea | December 23, 1967 | 6716 |
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Chip invites a long-haired, guitar-playing boy from Liverpool (guest star Jeremy Clyde) to be a key addition to his off-key band. | ||||||
| 265 | 17 | "The Chaperones" | Fred de Cordova | Paul West | December 30, 1967 | 6717 |
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Robbie and Katie serve as chaperones for a group of high school students, including Chip, on a trip. Much to Chip's consternation, Robbie manages to foil every plan they come up with to sneak away, including removing the car's rotor from inside the distributor so it won't start. | ||||||
| 266 | 18 | "Green-Eyed Robbie" | Fred de Cordova | Lois Hire | January 6, 1968 | 6718 |
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Robbie displays a bit of jealousy when his bride innocently agrees to tutor a handsome ex-boyfriend (Charles Knox Robinson billed as Charles Robinson.) | ||||||
| 267 | 19 | "Charley's Tea" | Fred de Cordova | Paul West | January 13, 1968 | 6719 |
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Katie tearfully complains when Uncle Charley makes her feel unnecessary in the Douglas household. Steve speaks to Charley who is flabbergasted at the accusation, but immediately makes amends. Meanwhile, Chip is on a five-man school committee; four of the 'men' are girls and they won't let him open his mouth. | ||||||
| 268 | 20 | "Ernie, the Jinx" | Fred de Cordova | Austin Kalish & Irma Kalish | January 20, 1968 | 6720 |
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Ernie becomes convinced he's a jinx when things inexplicably start to go wrong whenever he's around. | ||||||
| 269 | 21 | "Ernie and Zsa Zsa" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | January 27, 1968 | 6721 |
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Ernie meets Zsa Zsa Gabor after accidentally falling into her swimming pool. She befriends Ernie, but no one at home believes him until Zsa Zsa pays a surprise visit to the Douglas household. | ||||||
| 270 | 22 | "A Horse for Uncle Charley" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | February 3, 1968 | 6722 |
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Uncle Charley is talked into buying an 11-year-old trotting horse in the hopes of capturing old racing glories, and the family is delighted, but can the horse run fast enough to qualify to compete? | ||||||
| 271 | 23 | "Dear Enemy" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | February 10, 1968 | 6723 |
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Robbie goes to Camp Roberts for two weeks military reserve training. Of course, the family must also traipse through the same woods, and by happenstance or misadventure each member of the family is inadvertently caught as a military prisoner. | ||||||
| 272 | 24 | "Uncle Charley's Aunt" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | February 17, 1968 | 6724 |
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Uncle Charley performs in his lodge show and is forced to walk home dressed as the Lady for a Day character Apple Annie after he is locked out of the dressing room. Charley and his friends also perform as Florodora girls in the show, and the Douglas family perform Downtown (Petula Clark song) in their living room. | ||||||
| 273 | 25 | "The Standing Still Tour" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | February 24, 1968 | 6725 |
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Everyone in the Douglas family leaves for some romantic place -- leaving Ernie and Uncle Charley at home. Character actor Douglas Fowley appears as an old pal of Charley's, now acting in a TV western. | ||||||
| 274 | 26 | "Honorable Guest" | Fred de Cordova | Austin Kalish & Irma Kalish | March 2, 1968 | 6726 |
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The Douglases cancel a camping trip to play host to unexpected Chinese friends from Bryant Park. | ||||||
| 275 | 27 | "The Perfect Separation" | Fred de Cordova | James Brooks | March 9, 1968 | 6727 |
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The first time Katie and Robbie entertain at home, a game of truth-telling imperils the marriage of two close friends, played by Lynn Loring and Robert Dunlap. | ||||||
| 276 | 28 | "Gossip, Incorporated" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | March 16, 1968 | 6728 |
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When two Mrs. Douglases visit Steve at his new job, his gossipy employees suspect he's a bigamist. Familiar TV actors Abby Dalton, Shirley Mitchell, Marvin Kaplan, Jane Dulo, Marcia Mae Jones and Gail Fisher appear in this episode. | ||||||
| 277 | 29 | "The Masculine Mystique" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | March 23, 1968 | 6729 |
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A misunderstanding over a girl almost ruins the friendship between Ernie and his closest pal. | ||||||
| 278 | 30 | "The Tire Thief" | Fred de Cordova | Unknown | March 30, 1968 | 6730 |
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Ernie and his friend cease to enjoy their 'cops and robbers' games when the real cops start searching for them. | ||||||
References
| Preceded by Season 7 |
List of My Three Sons episodes | Succeeded by Season 9 |