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My Three Sons

1960TV-PG12 seasons6.6 / 10

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

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Synopsis

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

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Episode 1

The First Marriage

Mike and Sally finally get married and leave for the East where Mike has a job as an assistant college psychology instructor. Robbie happily moves into Mike's old room. When Uncle Charley notes that they may soon be calling Steve 'Grandpa' he becomes somwehat concerned about growing old and calls up his former girlfriends. Robbie, now a college man, offers to help his father make friends with younger women, and while pretending to be disinterested, tries a few of his suggestions. When it is learned that Ernie must return to an orphanage, because he will not be allowed to accompany his foster parents in their move to the orient, Chip invites Ernie to move in permanently, giving Steve three sons once more.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by George TibblesGuest stars Tim Considine, Vera Miles, Meredith MacRae

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Episode 2

Red Tape Romance

Steve explores the possibility of adopting 10-year-old Ernie but runs into antagonism from Uncle Charley, who can forsee nothing but more work with a new boy to take care of. The family desperately wants to adopt the boy and Robbie decides that Steve must make a play for the lovely Miss Coulter. Her boss comes to inspect the house just as the boys have made a shambles of the place. At eight the next morning, Miss Miller returns. She inspects the house, spic and span now, and ushers in a happy Ernie, who is to stay on a temporary basis.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by George TibblesGuest stars Vera Miles, Virginia Gregg

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Episode 3

Brother Ernie

Ernie's adoption into the all-male Douglas household is threatened by a regulation that there must be a lady of the house. Steve again makes a request to adopt the child, but Misses Coulter and Miller of the adoption agency, say they are powerless to change the regulations. Miss Miller has a brilliant idea, however, and soon the family is appearing before a judge who decides that housekeeper Uncle Charley can legally be designated the 'lady of the house'. Charley approves if this fact is kept secret and Ernie is enthusiastically welcomed into the family.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by George TibblesGuest stars John Gallaudet, Vera Miles, Virginia Gregg

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Episode 4

Robbie and the Chorus Girl

Uncle Charley is upset when he learns that Robbie is dating a flashy chorus girl, but Steve refuses to worry because he trusts his son's common sense. Charley predicts Steve will be invited to pay the girl cash on the line if he wants her to stop dating his son.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Arline Hunter, Pamela Austin, Yale Summers, Laurie Mitchell

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Episode 5

There's a What in the Attic?

An escaped circus lion makes a midnight call at the Douglas house, and Ernie sees it and awakens the understandably skeptical Steve who accompanies his new stepson to investigate. Steve eventually sees the lion and nervously plays a game of tag with it, warning the family to keep their bedroom doors closed.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by Tom Adair

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Episode 6

Office Mother

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by Danny SimonGuest stars Joan Blondell

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Episode 7

Mary-Lou

30m

Chip's secret love is an older girl named Mary Lou. When Steve suggests his love sick son should find out where he stands by asking for a date, Chip calls and identifies himself as 'Douglas'. Mary Lou is delighted -- thinking she is going out with Robbie Douglas, a genuine college freshman.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by John McGreeveyGuest stars Morgan Brittany, Rand Brooks

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Episode 8

Monsters and Junk Like That

Ernie writes a play and volunteers Steve's services for his father-and-son night, so he dons a heavy robot costume. The family leaves early, and Steve finds himself alone on the street, helpless in his non-removable suit.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Joan Vohs, Stephen McEveety, Wayne Heffley

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Episode 9

Charley and The Dancing Lesson

30m

A seductive dance instructor named Helen signs Uncle Charley up for a lifetime membership in a dance club. Dreaming of a professional dancer's career, he purchases a top hat and tails for his appearance at the school's annual ball.

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Directed by James V. Kern

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Episode 10

My Son, The Ballerina

Robbie is so eager to make the track team that, to improve his timing, he agrees to join a ballet class. He proves an unwilling pupil, self-conscious in dancer's tights and ballet shoes, but after days of practising, his hurdling style suddenly improves. Reluctantly, he agrees to become the sole male dancer in the upcoming Ballet Class recital.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by John McGreeveyGuest stars William Boyett, Jeanette Nolan, Sharon Farrell

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Episode 11

The Ernie Report

30m

Ernie feels neglected when the other members of the Douglas family are busy with various girlfriends and he is left alone. Close to tears, Ernie is puzzled and saddened by the mysterious powers of the opposite sex. He's even more puzzled when he meets eleven year old Linda-Lou.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Pauline Drake

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Episode 12

The Hong Kong Story

30m

Steve Douglas turns a business trip to Hong Kong into a vacation for the whole family. Uncle Charley, who once lived in China, is reluctant to visit modern Hong Kong, for apparently he still carries a torch for a beautiful girl he knew in the 1930s.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by George TibblesGuest stars Maurice Dallimore, David Fresco, Tommy Lee, George Takei

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Episode 13

Marriage and Stuff

30m

Steve's unusual behaviour convinces his family that he is about to be secretly married. The boys plan to leave home to provide privacy for the newlyweds, and Charley arranges to ship out on a freighter. Steve brings the pretty blonde girl home to meet the family, only to find the house deserted.

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Directed by James V. Kern

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Episode 14

Douglas-A-Go-Go

30m

The Douglas family bravely accepts the challenge when 13 year old Chip decides to give a party -- with girls. On the party evening the record player breaks down and Chip contemplates the disintegration of his first teenage party. But Steve comes up with a solution.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Jean Engstrom

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Episode 15

Charley The Pigeon

30m

When Steve travels to Washington on business, he leaves $50 with Robbie, to pay for golf club repairs but Uncle Charley limbers up his billiard cue to get revenge after two girl pool sharks take Robbie's $50 when they coyly ask him to show them how to play the game.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Booth Colman, Quinn O'Hara

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Episode 16

What About Harry?

A huge shaggy stray dog adopts Steve Douglas and disrupts the neighborhood with his howls when Steve tries to leave home. A neighbor and lover of stray animals, is delighted to learn that Steve plans to keep the dog until its owner can be found, rather than sending it to a shelter. However, the dog continues to regard Steve as his mother as well as his master.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Linda Watkins, Lee Meriwether, Gil Lamb

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Episode 17

From Maggie, With Love

Steve Douglas meets recently divorced Maggie Bellini, reputed to be one of the world's ten richest women. She sets her sights on Steve by showering his family with costly gifts. Robbie has the use of an experimental sports car, Chip is invited to fly to Austria for a weekend of skiing, and Ernie is provided with the use of a computer for his arithmetic homework.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Dana Wynter, Noel Drayton

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Episode 18

Robbie and the Slave Girl

When Robbie Douglas yanks pretty co-ed Terri Wong out of the path of a speeding truck, he becomes the unwilling beneficiary of an old Chinese custom when the girl whose life he saves insists on being his slave. The game is amusing at first but before long Robbie must ask his father for help.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by John McGreeveyGuest stars Benson Fong, Beulah Quo, Irene Tsu, Sherry Alberoni, Hank Jones

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Episode 19

Steve and The Huntress

Steve Douglas is attracted to a beautiful female explorer who shows Steve and the family her exciting adventure films. She has to prepare for a safari, and as there is room in the party for one more, she begs Steve to come along.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Terry Moore

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Episode 20

Robbie The College Man

30m

Robbie takes on a heavy work load of waiting on tables in his girlfriend's sorority house and working as a chemistry laboratory worker, so that he can rent a room away from home. Worst of all, his romance with his current girlfriend languishes because he is too tired to take her on a date.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Barbara Pepper, Tim Rooney, Suzanne Benoit

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Episode 21

Whatever Happened to Baby Chip?

When Chip adopts a Beatle-style, shoulder length haircut, the other members of the family feel that Steve should lay down the law to the long-haired one, but he and his associate consult a company psychologist for a solution. Steve decides not to be a strict father but to give the boy more attention, without affect.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Harold Peary, Jay North, Jerry Davis, Charles Herbert, Pitt Herbert, Ivan Bonar

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Episode 22

Robbie and The Little Stranger

Robbie Douglas is practically engaged to his girlfriend Joanne, and when they discover how their friends are both successfully attending university while raising a baby they begin to think that perhaps teen-aged marriages are workable.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by Tom AdairGuest stars Tina Cole, Hal Stalmaster

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Episode 23

Call Her Max

Two tomboys - a pretty lady engineer named Max and a member of the girls Hockey team named Georgie prove tough to handle for both Steve and Chip. Hoping to become a hero to his peers, Chip goes out for the girls hockey team when Georgie insists the coach must let her join the boy's track team.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by Tom AdairGuest stars Kipp Hamilton, Kaye Elhardt, Maura McGiveney, Seymour Cassel

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Episode 24

Kid Brother Blues

Robbie Douglas learns how much of a pest a younger sibling can be when Chip and a buddy break up his date with a pretty girl by eating appetizers and otherwise making a nuisance of themselves. The next afternoon, for revenge, Robbie primes his other brother Ernie to haunt Chip and his date.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by John McGreeveyGuest stars Susan Gordon, Elaine Devry

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Episode 25

Robbie's Double Life

Robbie has a wonderful time going steady with two girls simultaneously -- a highschooler and a college co-ed -- until the two ladies compare notes one day and plot immediate revenge. They maneuver Robbie into dating the both of them on the same night.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Lori Martin

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Episode 26

Our Boy in Washington

Ernie Douglas sends a letter to the French Embassy to thank France for the Statue of Liberty and receives, in return, an invitation for him and the rest of the family to visit Washington, the nation's capital. However the other members of the family are not too happy with the idea.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Susan Silo, Tol Avery, Maurice Marsac

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Episode 27

Ernie and That Woman

Chip is worried when his younger brother Ernie becomes a close friend of a pretty sixth grader, because the girl is now interested in collecting postage stamps, and Chip is sure she has her eye on Ernie's precious Liberian triangle.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by John McGreeveyGuest stars Ann Marshall, Vicki Cos, Judy Parker, David Foley, Tamara Asseyev

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Episode 28

The State vs. Chip Douglas

Chip demands a jury trial after he borrows four cents from a pile of brother Ernie's pennies and Ernie accuses him of taking a valuable penny from his coin collection. Finally Chip accepts Ernie's challenge to stand trial in a court composed of their friends.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Flip Mark, Charles Herbert

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Episode 29

A Hunk of Hardware

Ernie packs a suitcase, ready to leave home, after he fails to win a cup for the family trophy shelf. He eagerly goes into training, planning to win a school track award, convinced that he won't really be a member of the family until he too can provide a trophy.

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Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Stephen McEveety

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Episode 30

The Wrong Robbie

30m

A boy who looks just like Robbie almost ruins his reputation by driving around on-campus and inviting strange girls to kiss him, before the deception is uncovered. Finally, both boys and their parents are brought to the dean's office.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by George TibblesGuest stars Fredd Wayne, Cissy Wellman, Melinda Casey, Walter Reed, Eve McVeagh, Mike Minor

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Episode 31

The Wheels

Uncle Charley takes away Robbie's driving privileges after the campus beauty queen gets a $16 traffic ticket while driving his car. Robbie then faces the horror and humiliation of exisiting without a car, but soon to his amazement his girlfriend is enjoying walking home from school with him.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by John McGreeveyGuest stars Sherry Jackson

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Episode 32

London Memories

30mfinale

The Douglas family returns from a trip to Britain and as the family watches home movies of their vacation, the amateurish footage reveals the reason for Steve's current moodiness: He is still carrying a torch for a lovely widow.

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Directed by James V. KernWritten by George TibblesGuest stars Ben Wright, Nora Marlowe, Anna Lee

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Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026

More about My Three Sons

Cast

Fred MacMurraySteve Douglas
Don GradyRobbie Douglas
Tim ConsidineMike Douglas
Stanley LivingstonChip Douglas
Barry LivingstonErnie Thompson
William DemarestCharley O'Casey
Beverly GarlandBarbara
William FrawleyBub O'Casey

Credits

Written by
George Tibbles, John McGreevey, Tom Adair, Danny Simon, Peter Tewksbury, David Duncan, Seaman Jacobs, Joanna Lee, Ed James, Jack Laird, Myles Wilder, Phil Leslie, Robert Specht, Richard Conway, Edward J. Lakso, AJ Carothers, Don Grady, Robert Pirosh, Joseph Hoffman, Dean Hargrove, Larry Markes, Harry Winkler

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
380
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • CBSUnited States
  • MCA TelevisionUnited States
  • Don Fedderson Productions
  • Gregg-Don Inc.

Themes

single fathersitcom