My Three Sons
Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and is later aided by the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
Cast:Fred MacMurray , Stanley Livingston , Don Grady , Barry Livingston , William Demarest , Tim Considine , William Frawley , Tina Cole , Beverly Garland , Dawn Lyn , Ricky Allen , Ronne Troup , Meredith MacRae , Peter Brooks , Michael Todd , Daniel Todd , Joseph Todd , John Howard
S1.E1 ∙ Chip Off the Old Block
Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) and his youngest son, Chip (Stanley Livingston), are caught in the snares of designing women (Patricia Barry and Debbie Megowan), respectively.
S1.E2 ∙ The Little Ragpicker
Chip collects items for the school's annual rag drive. One neighbor notices all the strange happenings at the Douglas home. Bub appears drunk, Robbie carries a dummy in the house, and Chip talks to the dummy and drops it out the window.
S1.E3 ∙ Bub in the Ointment
Bub tries to fit into family life, but the boys find things difficult when Bub speaks against a PTA mother, shows up at school with a forgotten lunch, and seems to interfere with girlfriends. Turns out, all the help was needed.
S1.E4 ∙ Countdown
A telecast of a countdown to a 1957 satellite launch provides the backdrop for a Monday morning in the Douglas household. Everyone seems to be unusually tired.
S1.E5 ∙ Brotherly Love
Robbie (Don Grady) finds out that a popular girl in school likes him, except that she (Cheryl Holdridge) confuses Robbie with Mike (Tim Considine). Unaware of this, Robbie ambushes Mike and pounces on him outside their front door after seeing them together, thinking Mike has moved in on her.
S1.E6 ∙ Adjust or Bust
After Steve visits the office of a potential client, a General whose motto is "Adjust or bust," he experiences many transportation inconveniences and missed connections getting home in time for the General's dinner appointment.
S1.E7 ∙ Lady Engineer
Steve (Fred MacMurray) enjoys working with a woman engineer (Dorothy Green), who is beautiful. He asks her out for dinner, but she is only interested in work.
S1.E8 ∙ Chip's Harvest
The Douglas's stove breaks down on Thanksgiving Day. There's no way to get it fixed that same day and every restaurant in town is booked. Meanwhile Chip befriends a Native American and invites him to dinner. He in turn shows how to roast a turkey outdoors without a grill.
S1.E9 ∙ Raft on the River
While Mike and Robbie go camping in the woods, Chip and Steve go "rafting" in the backyard.
S1.E10 ∙ Lonesome George
Lonesome George Gobel is in town for a benefit and escapes to the Douglas household for some "quiet" time.
S1.E11 ∙ Spring Will Be a Little Late
Robbie is overwhelmed when his mechanic friend "Pig" puts on a dress and perfume and becomes the lovely Peggy.
S1.E12 ∙ My Three Strikers
The boys want a raise in their allowance, but Steve tells them that they are spending money recklessly and not doing their chores. Bub has been picking up the slack and doing their work for them. Everyone has bad dreams that night.
S1.E13 ∙ The Elopement
While working on a Social Studies project on teenage marriages for school, Mike (Tim Considine) and his girlfriend Jean (Cynthia Pepper) have everyone convinced that they've eloped.
S1.E14 ∙ Mike's Brother
Robbie is tired of all the teachers at school calling him "Mike's brother" and making comparisons about how each of the boys are different.
S1.E15 ∙ Domestic Trouble
When Bub has to go out of town for a few days, Steve asks Mike to call an agency and hire a maid. Mike asks Robbie to make the call, and Robbie asks Chip to make the call. Chip calls an agency but it is a marriage agency who matches people.
S1.E16 ∙ Bub Leaves Home
Steve's cousin Selena comes to visit and is only too happy to help around the house. When everyone is grateful for her help, Bub thinks he is being replaced and decides to take a job at a movie theater.
S1.E17 ∙ Mike in a Rush
Mike (Tim Considine) receives an invitation to a frat rush at the local college, then is eventually dropped because his college plans are perceived as being unclear.
S1.E18 ∙ The Bully
Chip wants to fight the school bully who has no interest in fighting with Chip.
S1.E19 ∙ Organization Woman
Steve's sister, an efficiency expert, pays a visit and within a few days transforms total chaos into a smooth, efficient household.
S1.E20 ∙ Other People's Houses
Robbie learns "the grass is always greener on the other side" when he is envious of his friend Hank's home, which seems perfect for a teenager. But Hank is envious of Robbie's life in a happy home and great family.
S1.E21 ∙ The Delinquent
Jean (Cynthia Pepper) is upset when it seems Mike (Tim Considine) is never available in the evenings. Mike and Tim (Andrew Colmar) are building her a hi-fi set for her birthday.
S1.E22 ∙ Man in a Trenchcoat
Robbie's girlfriend Vivian (Cindy Carol) suspects something is going on between Robbie (Don Grady) and Judy (Cheryl Holdridge) (the same girl who confused Robbie with Mike) and asks her brother (Paul Engle) to follow them.
S1.E23 ∙ Deadline
Mike has to finish the layout and write a sports article for the school paper by himself in between running in a track meet and going to a dance with Jean.
S1.E24 ∙ The Lostling
Chip is tired of being the youngest brother, and wishes he could be older than someone. He gets his chance when a baby is left in Steve's car.
S1.E25 ∙ Off Key
Sudsy breaks his mother's piano and asks Chip to ask Robbie to fix it. Sudsy's mother is due to be home in just a few minutes and Robbie has to fix it fast.
S1.E26 ∙ Small Adventure
The Douglas' have their own small adventure when Steve is out of town on business. Tramp comes home with a live stick of dynamite and it is somewhere in the house.
S1.E27 ∙ Soap Box Derby
Robbie builds a race car for the soap box derby. Meanwhile, Steve is building a missile in a race against a competitor company.
S1.E28 ∙ Unite or Sink
To earn extra money, Mike and Robbie get a job painting a fence for a neighbor who's fence and yard are in a state of disrepair. The better the fence looks, the more that other neighbors help to restore the yard.
S1.E29 ∙ The Wiley Method
Robbie (Don Grady) tries to get a date with a classmate (Perri Sinclair), who does not seem to be interested. Robbie tries the approach his teacher, Mr. Wiley, uses in history class to get the students interested in what he is saying.
S1.E30 ∙ The National Pastime
Chip quits the baseball team after a few games where he did not play well. When his father is asked to be an umpire for the next game, Chip gets back into baseball thinking his father will call his hits favorably.
S1.E31 ∙ The Croaker
Chip brings his class frog home to take care of it for the weekend. Bub thinks Chips school frog looks like his Uncle Clancey. When the frog disappears, everyone joins the search.
S1.E32 ∙ The Musician
Robbie (Don Grady) pretends to be someone he is not, in order to impress a girl (Sandy Descher). He claims he likes classical music since she enjoys it.
S1.E33 ∙ The Horseless Saddle
Someone leaves a horse saddle at the Douglas' home for Bub.
S1.E34 ∙ Trial by Separation
With graduation only a week away, Mike (Tim Considine) and Jean (Cynthia Pepper) agree not to call or see each other, until then, to see if they really are in love.
S1.E35 ∙ The Sunday Drive
A neighbor, Mr Pearson, wants to take a leisurely drive with his family. Beyond his control, the Douglas' join him and the drive is anything but relaxing.
S1.E36 ∙ Fire Watch
Mike plans an easy summer with a job with the forestry service. He plans on watching the trees and enjoying himself. He finds it is not an easy job when a fire starts and his boss is stranded and not able to help.
S2.E1 ∙ Birds and Bees
Steve realizes it is time to talk to Chip about the birds and the bees when Tramp is father to puppies.
S2.E2 ∙ Instant Hate
New neighbors move in across from the Douglas', but they are not neighborly. Steve tells everyone to try to get along, but he finds it difficult when he is involved in a fender bender with his neighbor as he backs out of his driveway.
S2.E3 ∙ The Crush
Mike's new college girlfriend, Mary Beth (Jena Engstrom), seems more interested in Steve (Fred MacMurray) than Mike (Tim Considine). She wants Steve to help her with her trigonometry class.
S2.E4 ∙ Tramp the Hero
Chip's new friend brags about his dog, a German Shepard who performs tricks and is well behaved. Tramp pales in comparison. But, overnight, a pot left on a burning stove starts a fire; Tramp barks to warn everyone. Tramp becomes the hero.
S2.E5 ∙ A Perfect Memory
While Steve (Fred MacMurray) is out, a former girlfriend Pat McNulty calls the house to ask him out for the evening. When Steve returns home, he tries to reach her, but now she is out. Steve reminisces about their previous relationship and recalls it as perfect.
S2.E6 ∙ Bub's Lodge
Bub and Mike are excited for their lodge and fraternity initiations.
S2.E7 ∙ A Lesson in Any Language
Mike tries to learn Spanish by sleeping with a Spanish tape playing under his pillow. When he goes on a trip, Steve sleeps in Mike's bed since his own room is being painted. The auto timed recorder plays; Steve talks Spanish in the morning.
S2.E8 ∙ The Ugly Duckling
Robbie (Don Grady) is assigned the new glamour girl (Judi Sherven) as his study partner. He finds there's more to a study partner than good looks.
S2.E9 ∙ Chip's Composition
Chip's school assignment is to write a paper about his mother. Since his mother is dead, he decides to write about Bub, the closest thing he has to a mother.
S2.E10 ∙ Mike in Charge
Mike is placed in charge of taking care of the house and his brothers when both Steve and Bub are out of town at the same time. He finds it a challenge, especially when Robbie and his friend go to the hospital after a school accident.
S2.E11 ∙ Bub Goes to School
When the boys continue to ask Bub for help with their homework, he realizes he does not have all the answers. He decides to go to night school for further education. He meets another student, and they both make up stories about their lives.
S2.E12 ∙ Robbie's Band
Robbie starts a musical band, with practice at his house. The other Douglas' cover their ears to drown out the noise. Steve helps them get in tune and even plays saxophone. When Mike's class needs a band for a dance, Robbie wants the job.
S2.E13 ∙ Damon and Pythias
Robbie feels like he is always following his brother's footsteps at school, so when it is time to join a club, he picks one that Mike never joined.
S2.E14 ∙ Chip Leaves Home
Chip runs away from home after feeling neglected, but when he gets downtown, he realizes home is safer.
S2.E15 ∙ The Romance of Silver Pines
While on a camping trip vacation without the other family members, Steve is matched to another camper by an older couple who loves to play matchmakers. Both Steve and Fran are initially reluctant.
S2.E16 ∙ Blind Date
Mike and Robbie each have dates the same night. Due to a mix up in names, Mike picks up Robbie's young date (Trudi Ames), and Robbie picks up an older woman (Carole Costello), meant for Mike.
S2.E17 ∙ Second Time Around
A former girlfriend of Steve's is still interested in seeing Steve. She visits the house, pretending to want to talk to Bub about an Irish Club. While she hopes to run into Steve, Bub starts thinking she is interested in him.
S2.E18 ∙ The Girls Next Door
Four attractive flight attendants move into the Pearson's house, and while Bub and the boys befriend them right away, Steve is annoyed by all the noise from a party for their pilot friends. At first, he won't accept their apology, but soon offers some humble pie of his own.
S2.E19 ∙ Bub Gets a Job
Bub wants to do something different than dishes and dusting. He goes on interviews for different jobs.
S2.E20 ∙ Le Petit Stowaway
Chip is all set to go on a business trip with his father to Chicago. When Steve's plans change, he is headed for Paris. Chip decides to sneak on to the plane to join his father. In Paris, he gets lost.
S2.E21 ∙ Robbie Valentino
Film makers are in town to do a documentary on Robbie's physics class. Bub tell Robbie he should try to get a part in the film. Robbie and another student are chosen for a close up shot, showing what they are doing in physics.
S2.E22 ∙ The Masterpiece
Chip needs a drawing for open house at school and finds the family circle a pretty rough bunch of critics. He decides a sailboat picture of Bub's beats his own efforts, and he borrows it. But how is he going to keep his dad and Bub from going to the open house?
S2.E23 ∙ A Holiday for Tramp
Steve returns from a business trip by train, and the rest of the family go to the station to meet him. As they prepare to go home, they realize Tramp is no longer with them.
S2.E24 ∙ The Big Game
Robbie (Don Grady) might not be able to play in his school's football game unless he can improve his grades in math. Also, Chip (Stanley Livingston) has a cold and later catches the measles.
S2.E25 ∙ Chip's Party
Chip's (Stanley Livingston) having a party for his tenth birthday. When news gets out that Steve (Fred MacMurray) has caught the measles, the parents do not want their children going to the party.
S2.E26 ∙ Casanova Trouble
Steve's friend (Barbara Eiler) asks him to help find out who is dating her daughter (Brenda Scott). She thinks it is an older man. A mix up, caused by a borrowed fraternity pin, causes Steve to think it is Mike who is dating the daughter.
S2.E27 ∙ The Pencil Pusher
Chip gets the chance to visit his father's work place and to see what his father does for a living. Chip thinks the job is boring and of no consequence. However, when Steve is asked to help a pilot land a plane, Chip gets a different view.
S2.E28 ∙ Innocents Abroad
Mike and Robbie plan to spend their summer vacation working in a different town to earn money.
S2.E29 ∙ Robbie the Caddy
Hank tells Robbie he should be a golf caddy during the local Golf Tournament. Robbie is assigned to a fussy golfer. Things get worse when at the 18th hole, Robbie causes the golfer to be disqualified.
S2.E30 ∙ Coincidence
On Steve's day off from work, everything seems to go wrong in the house, and the volume of activity is loud. Steve starts to wish he had all girls instead of boys.
S2.E31 ∙ Air Derby
Robbie competes in a model airplane contest for a school scholarship. He is in the top two position. The other entrant is a straight-A student who hopes to go to college but his parents cannot afford it.
S2.E32 ∙ Too Much in Common
Mike and his girlfriend take a break from each other, and Mike goes out with someone else. His girlfriend's father does not take too kindly to this news.
S2.E33 ∙ Chug and Robbie
Robbie starts high school and is assigned a locker with the star athlete. Robbie is impressed that he gets to be friends with the popular guy on campus until Mike points out that the jock is using him. Robbie learns that Mike is right when Chug asks Robbie to rig an election.
S2.E34 ∙ Good Influence
Chip is forced to spend a week's vacation with a boy he does not like. They have nothing in common. All Chip gets out of it is a black eye.
S2.E35 ∙ The Hippopotamus Foot
Mike (Tim Considine) and his friends pull a prank at college and get called before the dean for punishment.
S2.E36 ∙ The Kibitzers
Steve and the boys get an earful of confusing advice from Bub and his friends.
S3.E1 ∙ Weekend in Tokyo
The whole family goes on a trip to Japan when Steve has to fly there for business. Everyone enjoys seeing the tourist sites, and Mike enjoys his meeting with a young woman named Kimiko.
S3.E2 ∙ Robbie's Employment Service
Robbie and his friend start a business for home repairs and chores in order to make money to go on dates. Chip decides to start his own business for babysitting so he can buy a new bike. Sometimes the clients overlap the two businesses.
S3.E3 ∙ Tramp's First Bite
The Douglas' are taken to small claims court when a teen accuses Tramp of biting him. Robbie sets out to prove Tramp was provoked into biting, and therefore is not guilty.
S3.E4 ∙ Moment of Truth
Mike (Tim Considine) is in a bind when he realizes he has two dates for his fraternity's dance. He did not think the college beauty (Diana Piper) would accept his date, so he asked another girl (Penney Parker) as well.
S3.E5 ∙ Daughter for a Day
Steve invites the 8 year old daughter of a friend to stay with the Douglas' while her mother attends to business in town. Unfortunately, other than Steve, the other family members have plans. Steve has to entertain the girl himself.
S3.E6 ∙ The Ghost Next Door
While out trick-or-treating, Chip and his friend Sudsy see someone - or something - carrying a candle, in the window of an empty house next to the Douglas'. No one believes them.
S3.E7 ∙ Pretty as a Picture
Robbie is infatuated with a senior in high school who does not notice him. Mike gives Robbie some advice which backfires.
S3.E8 ∙ What's Cooking?
Chip's school holds a cooking contest with the kids submitting their mother's favorite recipe. Chip is upset because he does not have a mother. He dad comes through by submitting his favorite recipe.
S3.E9 ∙ Chip's Last Fight
Chip wants to join a neighborhood club, but the members say he is too young. He wants to prove he is big enough, but first he has to have his tonsils taken out at the hospital.
S3.E10 ∙ Steve Gets an A
Robbie did not do his term paper so he finds an old paper that Steve used years ago when he was in school. While Steve got an A on his homework, Robbie gets an F.
S3.E11 ∙ Heat Wave
Steve cannot find some important papers for his work. As he searches high and low, he remembers the family gave papers to the boy scouts for their paper drive fund raiser.
S3.E12 ∙ The Beauty Contest
Mike's college holds a beauty pageant and Mike is selected as the judge. During the days before the pageant, all the women approach Mike to show him their talent. Mike has more problems when his girlfriend enters the pageant.
S3.E13 ∙ Doctor in the House
Steve (Fred MacMurray) hurts his back and needs a doctor (Oliver McGowan).
S3.E14 ∙ Going Steady
Robbie wants to go steady with Linda, but Linda's mother does not approve of her daughter getting involved at her young age. Linda's mother talks to Steve to try to end the relationship. Steve and Paulette start their own relationship.
S3.E15 ∙ Mother Bub
Chip and Sudsy want to buy a model auto to work on. When Steve seems like he will allow Chip to buy it, Bub comes up with an argument.
S3.E16 ∙ Honorable Grandfather
Steve's friend Ray Wong (Benson Fong) is having a birthday party for his honorable grandfather. He tells Steve (Fred MacMurray) that Chip (Stanley Livingston) can come to the party.
S3.E17 ∙ How to Impress a Woman
Mike (Tim Considine) is smitten with an attractive model (Diana Millay), who's been hired to oversee a college fashion show. When he finds out she loves classical guitar music, Mike fakes his way through a song on Robbie's (Don Grady) scratch-built guitar, that he claims he built himself in an attempt to impress her, while Robbie cues up a phonograph record, outside.
S3.E18 ∙ Roman Holiday
A business trip to Rome does not interest Steve. Since Steve doesn't normally turn down business trips, the boys try to find out why this time is different. Bub tells them that Steve and their mother once vacationed in Italy.
S3.E19 ∙ Flashback
Steve sets Robbie up on a blind date with a girl he met that reminded him of his own youthful dates. When Robbie and the girl (Joyce Bulifant) meet, she thinks he is too sophisticated for her.
S3.E20 ∙ The Dream Book
One of Steve's coworkers asks Steve to join the company musical group. Steve declines but the coworker keeps asking. That night, Steve dreams he is being chased by a man with a musical instrument.
S3.E21 ∙ Big Chief Bub
Chip's boyscout group is losing their den mother and a scout when the family is moving out of state. Chip talks Bub into taking on the position.
S3.E22 ∙ The Clunky Kid
When a new kid moves into town, Sudsy befriends him. Soon, Sudsy is spending all his time with his new friend and Chip is odd man out.
S3.E23 ∙ Caged Fury
Steve becomes the tutor for the members of Robbie's wrestling team so they can improve their school grades. When several boys develop a contagious disease, the house becomes quarantined. Bub cannot leave to go fishing and he is upset.
S3.E24 ∙ Make Way for Yesterday
Robbie convinces his current events club committee to have an old fashioned dunking machine booth at the school carnival after Bub comes up with the idea. Meanwhile, some of the other clubs have booths featuring atom smashing, space capsules and computers.
S3.E25 ∙ Robbie Wins His Letter
Robbie wins the highest achievement award in his science class but feels he does not deserve it.
S3.E26 ∙ High on the Hog
When Robbie and Hank complain about being broke, their farm friend George offers them a pig to raise. After a rough start, the pig thrives but Chip is upset when he learns of Hamlet's future. An entry into the local fair may change things.
S3.E27 ∙ First Things First
Mike has to decide between his work and his personal life. His Air Force Reserve crew needs him to help with engine maintenance, but he has a date at the same time.
S3.E28 ∙ Bub's Butler
Bub enters a contest and wins the top prize. He finds out he won $2,000 and the services of a proper butler for two weeks. Bub finds it hard to be pampered by a butler, and the butler finds it hard to adjust to the activity of the Douglases.
S3.E29 ∙ Francesca
The boys have their hands full when Steve and Bub are not home. The boys deal with two sick children, a runaway woman (Anita Sands), and a wild bird who gets in the house.
S3.E30 ∙ The Rug
Chip is placed on probation by Steve for his losing another item that belongs to someone else. Chips sees a tiger skin rug that Bub plans to donate for a rummage sale
S3.E31 ∙ The System
In his psychology course, Mike (Tim Considine) learns about random sampling, questionnaires, and graphing results. He uses these skills to determine who Robbie (Don Grady) should date.
S3.E32 ∙ Let's Take Stock
Robbie's economics teacher teaches the value of money and uses the stock exchange as the assignment. Each student gets fictional money to see if they can increase their investment. As Robbie follows the stocks, Steve thinks he has talent.
S3.E33 ∙ Total Recall
Bub is envious when he hears a former friend is coming to town and being honored with an award.
S3.E34 ∙ When I Was Your Age
Bub thinks the boys are not doing their chores fast enough or well enough. He tells the boys they are lazy compared to the boys of his generation when they were teens.
S3.E35 ∙ Chip's World
Chip is told to stay home and wait for one of Steve's coworkers to drop off some important papers. When Chip sees a young child walking unaccompanied outside, he helps the lost toddler.
S3.E36 ∙ Evening with a Star
To earn money, Chip sells tickets to a raffle in which the prize is a date with a star. Bub does not realize he is the star.
S3.E37 ∙ The Date Bureau
Robbie and his friends decide to match his classmates up scientifically so the dates could be successful. They collect information from their classmates and being to make matches.
S3.E38 ∙ Bub's Sacrifice
Robbie tries to get a girl at school to go out with him. She agrees on two conditions: they go to a fighting match and he finds someone to go out with her aunt. Bub has tickets to the sporting match, and he is available for a date.
S3.E39 ∙ Found Money
Chip (Stanley Livingston) seems to have found a way to make money every day and he feels rich. Meanwhile, everyone else is trying to find a missing stamp that is worth a lot of money.
S4.E1 ∙ Almost the Sound of Music
Robbie (Don Grady) enters a contest to perform a song he wrote to impress a girl (Regina Groves). The whole family is involved when they perform backup singing for Robbie.
S4.E2 ∙ Scotch Broth
Steve is surprised to find he has inherited a castle in Scotland owned by his grandfather. The family travels to Scotland and are welcomed by the clan.
S4.E3 ∙ Didya Ever Have One of Those Days?
Steve's (Fred MacMurray) day starts with his cutting himself when he shaves in the morning. The day goes from bad to worse.
S4.E4 ∙ Dear Robbie
Robbie becomes the secret writer of the school's love advice column. He gets a letter from a girl who is being pulled in different directions as she plans her wedding. Robbie advises an elopement.
S4.E5 ∙ A Car of His Own
Robbie (Don Grady) wants a shiny, fancy car to impress a girl (Brooke Bundy).
S4.E6 ∙ How Do You Know?
Steve (Fred MacMurray) wants Mike (Tim Considine) to help him find a date for Sally (Meredith MacRae), who works with Steve. Mike has no interest in helping because he thinks he has already found true love. When Mike finds himself helping Sally, he realizes he wants to date her himself.
S4.E7 ∙ My Friend Ernie
Stanley Livingston's real-life brother, Barry Livingston, joins the cast as Ernie, a foster child living with a family down the street. The two boys go off on an adventure to find a treasure chest.
S4.E8 ∙ The End of the You-Know-What
Chip and Ernie believe there is only one more week left of the world and try to find the perfect way to spend their remaining time.
S4.E9 ∙ The Toupee
One of Bub's friends has a sister visiting and wants to introduce Bub. Bub tries a hair restoring solution in hopes to hide his bald head.
S4.E10 ∙ The Ever-Popular Robbie Douglas
Robbie is running for a position on the student council. His opponent is another popular boy in school.
S4.E11 ∙ The Proposals
Mike wants to propose to Sally, but can't seem to find the right words or the right time to do so. After several awkward attempts, Mike isn't sure Sally will accept. Meanwhile, Sally tells Steve she knows Mike is trying to propose, but she won't do the asking. Finally, when the two of them are alone together on a park bench, Mike comes right out and pops the question in a traditional, straightforward manner. Sally accepts immediately and admits she should have done so the first two times he asked.
S4.E12 ∙ Steve and the Viking
Steve agrees to entertain a daughter (Sally Kellerman) of Danish parents whose plant works with his firm because he's the only single man there taller than her. Exhausted, Steve declines a costume ball, not knowing it's her 17th birthday.
S4.E13 ∙ Par for the Course
Steve seems annoyed with Robbie for always forgetting to pass on messages and other information. Robbie feels bad and decides to play golf with Steve for some father and son bonding.
S4.E14 ∙ Windfall
Chip and Ernie want to join a club in their neighborhood. When Chip rescues a lost dog, he and Ernie become popular and seem an easy selection for the club.
S4.E15 ∙ Top Secret
Steve is asked to work on a top-secret, high-security project. He decides to work at home but does not tell anyone what he is working on. Bub plays detective to find out about Steve's project.
S4.E16 ∙ Will Success Spoil Chip Douglas?
Chip gets a part in the school play. Bub seems more excited than Chip.
S4.E17 ∙ Second Chorus
Steve (Fred MacMurray) meets a woman (Jaye P. Morgan), while he is out walking Tramp, the dog. She works in a chorus line as a dancer, but the boys think the woman is only interested in finding a husband.
S4.E18 ∙ Never Look Back
Steve attends his twenty fifth class reunion from his college days and enjoys seeing some old friends.
S4.E19 ∙ Marriage by Proxy
Marriage and raising children are not as easy as they seem when Mike and Sally step in to help babysit the children of a friend. They wonder how they will handle it after they are married.
S4.E20 ∙ The Chaperone
Robbie and his friends plan a costume party. Bub decides to chaperon the party so it does not get out of hand.
S4.E21 ∙ My Fair Chinese Lady
After her fiance dies, a Chinese girl (Aki Hara) comes to America to stay with Steve's co-worker. He asks Steve to have Robbie help her adjust to America prior to meeting his Chinese-American friend (George Takei).
S4.E22 ∙ House for Sale
Everyone is excited to go to Hawaii with Steve on his business trip, but when they see a For Sale sign in front of the house, they start to question the trip.
S4.E23 ∙ Stone Frog
In town, Chip meets a woman from India who gives him a stone frog. She tells Chip the frog is magical. When exciting things begin to happen for Chip, he believes in the magic.
S4.E24 ∙ Stage Door Bub
It's the Prince and the Pauper when Bub exchanges jobs with an actress friend. She wants a family live, and he wants the thrill of the stage. As they try out their new roles, the realize things aren't always what they remember.
S4.E25 ∙ Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly
Mike wants Sally to go fishing with him and his family since it is their favorite pastime. Sally talks him into going birdwatching with her, since that is something she enjoys.
S4.E26 ∙ Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park
Mike is surprised to see Kimiko, a woman he met in Tokyo last year. She came to see Mike to see if there are still any romantic feelings between them.
S4.E27 ∙ What's the Princess Really Like?
Steve is surprised when he gets a visit from a princess. She is Princess Joanne who Steve once dated before she went to Europe and married into royalty. She invites the family to a formal dinner.
S4.E28 ∙ The People's House
Steve meets a magazine editor and wants to ask her out on a date. As she is hard to reach, he enters the magazine contest for distinctive homes, hoping she will be the one to visit. Unfortunately, she sends her secretary to view the home.
S4.E30 ∙ The Substitute Teacher
Robbie's History class proceeds to run roughshod over an attractive young substitute teacher when their regular teacher becomes incapacitated. Frustrated and exasperated, the sub pays a visit to the lady she's filling in for and asks for advice. Meanwhile, Robbie gets an earful at home from both Steve and Mike after Mike recognizes her name.
S4.E31 ∙ Mike Wears the Pants
Mike and Sally want to save money for a place of their own after they are married, so he suggests Sally move in with his family. Having a woman in the house with all men proves to be a big adjustment.
S4.E32 ∙ The Guys and the Dolls
Mike goes to South America with a friend in the Air Force Reserves to help in a disaster area. He encounters a young girl who needs an operation, and he is determined to raise the money for her. Chip helps a woman in town with her chores.
S4.E33 ∙ The Ballad of Lissa Stratmeyer
The school's sports team is losing game after game. The girlfriends of the team players decide to stage a boycott against the boys until they win a game.
S4.E34 ∙ Tramp Goes to Hollywood
A Hollywood producer (Phillip Pine) visiting Bryant Park sees Tramp and thinks he would be great for the animal lead in a movie he is making. Bub, Robbie and Chip fly out to Hollywood with Tramp so he can do an audition.
S4.E35 ∙ Adventure in New York
Mike (Tim Considine) and Robbie (Don Grady), aspiring songwriters, go against the odds and travel to New York to present a song they wrote to a big-time record producer (John Howard). A New York cabbie (Sidney Clute) helps them in the big city, and they reach their destination. Although the producer doesn't want the song, he gives the brothers some real-life solid advice, and they go home all the wiser for the adventure.
S4.E36 ∙ Huckleberry Douglas
After reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Chip decides he, Ernie, and their friend Melinda (Jennie Lynn) should reenact some of the adventures.
S4.E37 ∙ Guest in the House
Steve is asked to take in a boy, who is a delinquent. When Steve has to be out of town that week, it is up to Bub and the boys to handle the visit. When someone (Tony Dow) comes to the house, they assume he is the delinquent.
S5.E1 ∙ Caribbean Cruise
Rob gets a summer job on a cruise ship going to the Caribbean. Turns out, Steve takes the same ship for a business trip to establish business with a new company. Both Rob and Steve find a way to have fun while working.
S5.E2 ∙ A Serious Girl
Robbie's new girlfriend (Marta Kristen) is mature for her age: avoiding football games, dances, and other pursuits of most teenagers. She talks Robbie (Don Grady) into proposing marriage to her.
S5.E3 ∙ The Practical Shower
Sally and Mike are getting ready for her bridal shower. They want to receive practical gifts that will fill their kitchen and workspace. Bud thinks the shower show reflect a romantic theme and the gifts should highlight love.
S5.E4 ∙ Dublin's Fair City: Part 1
Bub wins the Irish sweepstakes, and uses his winnings to buy the family a trip to Ireland to see his relatives and enjoy the country.
S5.E5 ∙ Dublin's Fair City: Part 2
Bub and the Douglas family continue to enjoy their time in Ireland.
S5.E6 ∙ One of Our Moose Is Missing
Ernie & Chip have a Cub Scout adventure planned for the weekend, doing a moose patrol, which Steve is supposed to lead. However, Steve forgets, and brings home a business associate so they can work on a project together.
S5.E7 ∙ Lady President
Steve is asked to escort a congresswoman when she is in town. For Chip, he is asked to be friends with a shy girl at school who is campaigning to be the class president. Chip is also campaigning to be the class president.
S5.E8 ∙ A Touch of Larceny
Chip and Ernie face a decision to choose honesty or 50 cents when other kids tell them how to steal school lunches. The ethical dilemma pervades the household, causing issues for everyone.
S5.E9 ∙ Goodbye Again
Jean Pearson returns to Bryant Park and reconnects with Mike. As they reminisce, Mike's feelings for her are rekindled so he can't bring himself to say he's engaged to Sally. Unaware that Jean doesn't know this, Robbie spills the beans.
S5.E10 ∙ The Coffee House Set
Rob (Don Grady) gets an audition at a club and is given a job to play his guitar there some evenings. His girlfriend Sherry (Tina Cole) introduces him to her friends and Rob experiences a new lifestyle.
S5.E11 ∙ The Lotus Blossom
The owner of the Lotus Blossom restaurant is thinking of returning to Hong Kong. Steve enjoys eating at the restaurant so he tries to convince her to stay, telling her all the great things to do in America.
S5.E12 ∙ First, You're a Tadpole
Robbie (Don Grady) is in love with another girl (Charla Doherty). He asks Sally (Meredith MacRae) for advice because he thinks the girl is older than he is.
S5.E13 ∙ You're in My Power
A TV hypnotist picks Robbie from the studio audience as a subject, and the mesmerist's powers extend far beyond the studio. While watching the show at home, Bub succumbs too.
S5.E14 ∙ The In-Law Whammy
Mike meets Sally's father for the first time. The result? Total disaster.
S5.E15 ∙ Robbie and the Nurse
Robbie has to go to the hospital after he is injured on the football field. His nurse (Danielle De Metz) is an attractive woman from France. She seems to be checking on Robbie constantly.
S5.E16 ∙ Divorce, Bryant Park Style
Mike & Sally's good friends are having marital problems. Mike & Sally begin to wonder if they are too young to get married themselves.
S5.E17 ∙ A Woman's Work
When Bub decides to fly to Ireland to visit his 104-year-old aunt, Steve says he can take care of the house while Bub is gone. Steve thinks women make it seem harder than it really is. Soon, Steve has to eat his words.
S5.E18 ∙ Here Comes Charley
With Bub in Ireland and Steve unable to take care of the house and work also, he starts interviewing people for the job. Bub's brother Charley comes for a visit and ends up staying to help the family.
S5.E19 ∙ Charley and the Kid
Charlie helps take care of a young Korean girl (Cherylene Lee), until her widowed father (John Lupton) can arrange for a permanent caretaker. The girl exhibits signs of PTSD after losing her mother during the war.
S5.E20 ∙ He Wanted Wings
Robbie buys an old small airplane which has seen better days. He slowly repairs the plane and thinks he should be able to fly it soon. Steve steps in with some common sense.
S5.E21 ∙ Be My Guest
Robbie's latest girlfriend takes him to the country club. When he gets home, he tells his father he should join the club because it is where the important people gather. Steve tells Robbie you do not have to be in a club to be important.
S5.E22 ∙ Lady in the Air
Steve (Fred MacMurray) is asked to modify a plane for a woman pilot (Dianne Foster), who wants to make a flight around the world.
S5.E23 ∙ Hawaiian Cruise
The Douglas family plans a vacation to Hawaii, but Chip gets sick and the trip is canceled. Charley decides if they cannot go to Hawaii, then Hawaii shall come to the Douglas'. He plans a luau party in the backyard.
S5.E24 ∙ The Teenagers
Robbie is head of the committee for decorating the school float for a parade. He comes up with an idea that seems scandalous. Chip has romance problems with someone (Susan Gordon) who is older than he.
S5.E25 ∙ Mexico Ole
Steve declines a business trip to Mexico because he does not want to be away from his family. This results in his Mexican host inviting the entire family to stay with him at his hacienda.
S5.E26 ∙ The Fountain of Youth
Charley runs into a friend (Gloria Swanson) from his vaudeville days on the stage. Since she looks great for her age, Charley thinks she might have found the fountain of youth. She tells Charley he just needs to enjoy his life.
S5.E27 ∙ It's a Dog's Life
A British scientist comes to the United States to meet with Steve and in the process, important blueprints begin to disappear.
S5.E28 ∙ The Sure Thing
Robbie serenades a race horse with his guitar so as to encourage the horse to do well in a race.
S5.E29 ∙ Chip, the Trapper
Chip decides to set up a trapper business so he can earn money just like his brothers and father.
S5.E30 ∙ Steve and the Computer
Sally talks Mike into submitting their names for a computer love match program. She is upset when the computer does not match them together. Mike asks Steve to submit profiles for his parents who are sure to match each other.
S5.E31 ∙ Tramp and the Prince
There's a new dog in town, and it looks like Tramp. Prince is a pampered pet of a rich neighbor. The dogs get mixed up by the owners, and the families are bewildered by the personality changes of their pets.
S5.E32 ∙ Chip O' the Islands
A friend of Charley's from Australia visits and fills the boy's heads with visions of excitement and travel. But is the friend an honest man or a con artist?
S5.E33 ∙ The Glass Sneaker
Uncle Charley (William Demarest) takes Chip (Stanley Livingston) with him, when he attends a reunion dinner with his vaudevillian friends. Chip meets a girl (Angela Cartwright) there that he likes. When he loses one of his shoes, he feels like Cinderella at the ball.
S5.E34 ∙ All the Weddings
Sally's mother arrives in town two months before the wedding in order to help with the final preparations. When she starts handing out assignments to everyone from a long list of chores, Mike starts to daydream about easier weddings.
S5.E35 ∙ The Leopard's Spots
Sally's (Meredith MacRae) cousin visits. Since Suzanne (Susan Seaforth Hayes) is attractive, she captures men's attention. Not wanting to be bothered, she and Uncle Charley (William Demarest) disguise her looks.
S5.E36 ∙ Uncle Charley and the Redskins
An Indian visits the Douglas family and says he is the last in line for his tribal family. He wants to visit the tribal burial ground which happens to be in the Douglas' backyard.
S6.E1 ∙ The First Marriage
Mike and Sally are married as Tim Considine and Meredith MacRae make their last appearance on the show. Mike thanks Steve (Fred MacMurray) for everything before he and Sally head off to his new job out of state. Back at home, the attention turns to newly-orphaned Ernie (Barry Livingston.
S6.E2 ∙ Red Tape Romance
With Mike & Sally married, the family prepares for Ernie moving on to his new foster family. Chip asks his father if they could take Ernie in rather than a foster family. When the social worker arrives, Steve considers asking her out.
S6.E3 ∙ Brother, Ernie
Steve signs on the dotted line and Ernie is officially adopted into the Douglas family.
S6.E4 ∙ Robbie and the Chorus Girl
Uncle Charley (William Demarest) is upset when Robbie (Don Grady) leaves for a date at 11:30 p.m., but Steve (Fred MacMurray) tells Charley not to worry because Robbie has common sense. When Charley finds out he is dating a chorus girl (Pamela Austin), he is sure Robbie's future is doomed.
S6.E5 ∙ There's a What in the Attic?
Steve takes the children to see the circus and they have a full day of entertainment. When Ernie wakes up overnight saying he sees a lion in the yard, Steve thinks it is just an overactive imagination. Then Steve sees the lion.
S6.E6 ∙ Office Mother
A distant relative of Charley's visits. She misses her family and feels like she has nothing to do. Charley and the children talk Steve into getting her a job where he works.
S6.E7 ∙ Mary-Lou
Chip has eyes for Mary Lou, who is one year ahead of him in school. Mary Lou only has eyes for Robbie, who is one year ahead of her in school. When Chip calls Mary Lou to ask her out on a date, she mistakenly believes it is Robbie and says yes.
S6.E8 ∙ Monsters and Junk Like That
Ernie volunteers Steve for a father & son show, but Steve is supposed to be out of town that day. On the day of the play, Steve changes his plans. Everyone goes to the school ahead of Steve, who is then stuck in costume and cannot drive.
S6.E9 ∙ Charley and the Dancing Lesson
Uncle Charley (William Demarest) provides the correct answer to a radio contest and wins one dance lesson. His instructor is a pretty woman (Joanna Moore), who is also skilled in sales. Charley buys her lines and purchases more lessons.
S6.E10 ∙ My Son, the Ballerina
Robbie's girlfriend suggests a ballet class to improve his chances at making the track team. All goes well, until Robbie is expected to perform at an upcoming ballet recital, against his "masculine" instincts. Will he perform?
S6.E11 ∙ The Ernie Report
Ernie sees all the men in the family follow the requests of women or hopeful girlfriends. Ernie does not understand what it means, but knows he does not want to be affected.
S6.E12 ∙ The Hong Kong Story
When Steve has to fly to Hong Kong on a company plane for business, he decides to take the entire family for a vacation. Everyone is excited except Charley, who is not sure he wants to see the modern city. He knew the city years before.
S6.E13 ∙ Marriage and Stuff
Charley overhears Steve on the phone arranging a marriage; Chip and Ernie learn he is arranging the church; and Robbie sees him at the jewelry store. More coincidences occur, all pointing to Steve getting married.
S6.E14 ∙ Douglas a Go-Go
Robbie tells Chip that teenage parties are the best, so Chip decides he should throw his own party, with girls. Ernie is not invited since he is too young. As the party starts, the record player breaks. Ernie comes up with a solution.
S6.E15 ∙ Charley, the Pigeon
Steve gives Robbie $50 to pick up his golf clubs; finding the store not opened, Robbie goes to the pool hall. Two girls bet him to a game. They are pool sharks and win all of Robbie's money. Charley plays pool shark and wins the money back.
S6.E16 ∙ What About Harry?
A shaggy dog follows Steve home and does not want to leave. The dog loves Steve and sings howling songs to him, disrupting all the neighbors. Steve has a difficult time leaving the house to go to work.
S6.E17 ∙ From Maggie with Love
Maggie Bellini, a wealthy businesswoman, promises to match the money that Bryant Park raises to build an art center. She meets the Douglas family and is interested in Steve. She tries to buy his attentions by giving gifts to the others.
S6.E18 ∙ Robbie and the Slave Girl
Robbie (Don Grady) saves Terri Wong (Irene Tsu) from getting hit by a car. She tells Robbie that according to Chinese custom, she must do everything for him. He enjoys the attention at first, but it becomes awkward when she continues day after day.
S6.E19 ∙ Steve and the Huntress
Robbie (Don Grady) meets a female explorer (Terry Moore) and she stops by his house, where the family meets her and she stays for dinner. Steve (Fred MacMurray) asks her out and they date while she is in town. When she leaves for another safari, she asks Steve to go with her.
S6.E20 ∙ Robbie, the College Man
Now that Robbie (Don Grady) is going to college, he wants to live at a dorm at college, instead of commuting from home. Robbie and his dorm roommate are on different schedules and it makes dorm life difficult.
S6.E21 ∙ Whatever Happened to Baby Chip?
Long hair for boys is now the fad since the Beatles arrived in America. Steve has been away on business and Chip's hair has gotten long and he does not want to cut it.
S6.E22 ∙ Robbie and the Little Stranger
Robbie and Joanne think being married while in college is easy when their friends seem to manage. They find it is not easy when they babysit the friend's child.
S6.E23 ∙ Call Her Max
Steve (Fred MacMurray) and Chip (Stanley Livingston) deal with females in non-traditional male activities. Steve works with Max (Kipp Hamilton), a female engineer who acts like a man and dresses in overalls at work. Georgie (Terry Burnham), a female student, signs up for the boy's track team at school and Chip thinks it is wrong.
S6.E24 ∙ Kid Brother Blues
Robbie is dating Charlene, whose younger brother is a friend of Chips. It seems every time Robbie and Charlene get together, Chip is there with Tim, always underfoot.
S6.E25 ∙ Robbie's Double Life
Uncle Charley tells Steve that Robbie is going steady with two girls. Steve talks to Robbie, but Robbie says he can handle it. One day, the two girls meet and start to compare notes on their very similar boyfriends.
S6.E26 ∙ Our Boy in Washington
After learning about the Statue of Liberty in school, Ernie decides to write a thank you letter to the French Ambassador in Washington DC. The Ambassador is touched, and invites the Douglas family to visit in Washington.
S6.E27 ∙ Ernie and That Woman
Ernie's girlfriend is an older classmate who is more interested in his stamp collection than him. Once she has the stamp she wants, the friendship is over. Meanwhile, Robbie is working on a school project but he has girls do all the work.
S6.E28 ∙ The State vs. Chip Douglas
Ernie notices that a rare coin in his collection is missing and accuses Chip of swiping it. A kangaroo court is held and Chip is acquitted. Ernie then finds the coin and realizes Chip was innocent all along.
S6.E29 ∙ A Hunk of Hardware
Ernie feels left out, when he realizes he has no trophies to add to the Douglas trophy shelf.
S6.E30 ∙ The Wrong Robbie
Robbie has an exact double around campus and it nearly ruins his reputation.
S6.E31 ∙ The Wheels
Robbie has his driving privileges taken away, after his girlfriend (Sherry Jackson) got a speeding ticket, while driving his car.
S6.E32 ∙ London Memories
Steve seems to have changed since returning from London. When the family views home movies they took in London, Robbie realizes Steve's mood is because he misses a woman (Anna Lee) he met in London.
S7.E1 ∙ Stag at Bay
Steve (Fred MacMurray) attends a bachelor party for an older co-worker, expecting just a simple dinner. However, a girl dancer (Leslie Parrish) was hired, and the party is raided by the police. Steve helps the girl slip out the back and things get complicated after that.
S7.E2 ∙ Fly Away Home
When preparing for a business trip, Steve realizes he could drive and take the time to stop at the town where he grew up. He takes the whole family on a vacation with him. He walks down memory lane, and the boys enjoy the trip.
S7.E3 ∙ Forget Me Not
Steve gets a letter from a woman he had dated a long time ago and would like for them to get together. When they meet she remembers everything about Steve, but try as he might, Steve does not remember her at all.
S7.E4 ∙ Good Guys Finish Last
Chip and Ernie's school holds a father and son competition in the school subjects. The sons easily beat the fathers with the subjects they have been learning. A rematch is held on a local television station.
S7.E5 ∙ Arrivederci Robbie
Not quite familiar with the Italian language or customs, Robbie (Don Grady) finds himself engaged, after walking an Italian female (Judy Cannon) through a park.
S7.E6 ∙ If at First
Steve has a series of bad luck connected to driving, and it does not get any better when he has to renew his driver's license. Robbie gives him an old driving manual, and Steve fails the renewal.
S7.E7 ∙ Robbie's Underground Movie
Robbie (Don Grady) and another student (Linda Foster) make a film for their cinema class. They use the Douglas family as their subject, and film all the quirks and oddities that go on in the house.
S7.E8 ∙ Fiddler Under the Roof
For entertainment, the family decides to play music together. Everyone has an instrument to play - except for Ernie. Uncle Charley tries to teach Ernie to play the violin, but finds out Ernie has no talent for music.
S7.E9 ∙ Happy Birthday, World
Robbie tries to earn extra money by starting a birthday cake delivery service at his college, meanwhile the family forgets Steve's own birthday. The home business goes great until it gets overwhelmed with orders, and health authorities get involved. Spoiler alert: The episode ends with a colorful cake and pie tossing fight in the Douglas' kitchen.
S7.E10 ∙ The Awkward Age
Robbie isn't doing well in his chemistry class and hires a tutor recommended by his professor. The tutor turns out to be an attractive older woman (Susan Oliver), and Robbie thinks he's in love, but he's concerned about the age difference. Complications arise when Robbie discovers that his tutor is actually dating his father, Steve, who is concerned about dating a younger woman.
S7.E11 ∙ A Real Nice Time
Chip (Stanley Livingston) goes on a date with a teen movie star (Sherry Alberoni) thanks to Ernie (Barry Livingston), who had requested a photo of her as a birthday present for Chip. The studio's publicity man (Tommy Noonan) arranges to send the actress, in person, to Bryant Park, but Chip becomes disenchanted by all the attention which she is getting.
S7.E12 ∙ A Falling Star
While on a business trip, Steve and a co-worker recognize a singer performing in a small lounge and they remember when she was big. Steve invites her to Bryant Park to learn an updated sound. The band invites her onstage at their next gig.
S7.E13 ∙ Tramp or Ernie
Ernie learns that the person with the least experience at his father's company has been laid off - his father explains that it is unfortunate, but that is just how it goes sometimes. When Ernie discovers that he's allergic to Tramp, he decides to leave home and look for a new family to adopt him, because Tramp has been with the family longer than Ernie, so Ernie is low man on the totem pole.
S7.E14 ∙ Grandma's Girl
Chip (Stanley Livingston) wants to take his girl friend (Terry Burnham), from school, to a party. She lives with her grandma (Jeanette Nolan), who is old-fashioned and doesn't think she should date until she's 16, so Chip gets some advice from Uncle Charley (William Demarest) that eventually works. But Chip finds that once he stirs up old memories in Grandma, it's not going to be easy to get out of the house.
S7.E15 ∙ You Saw a What?
No one believes Ernie when he says that he saw a flying saucer, so he returns to the site with his camera and takes photographs. After Steve gets them developed, he immediately takes the photos to the government where it is explained that Ernie saw a new top secret Air Force project that went awry, but Steve isn't allowed to tell Ernie any of the classified details.
S7.E16 ∙ Both Your Houses
A new family moves in next door to the Douglases - a widowed mother and her three children, plus "Aunt Maude". Robbie (Don Grady) and the daughter Peggy Snell (Jackie DeShannon) get along swimmingly, but the rest of the family members are at odds with their next-door-neighbor counterparts. Robbie is caught in a Romeo & Juliet romance, until he and Peggy set Shakespearean dialog into modern songs and play them for the families.
S7.E17 ∙ My Pal Dad
Robbie and Steve nearly forget that trout season starts on Saturday which means it's time for their annual fishing trip together. One problem: Robbie hates fishing, but is apprehensive about telling his dad, who loves it. Meanwhile, new family member Ernie is all to eager to go along, but Steve tells him his chance will come some time in the future, after Chip - who also hates fishing - gets his chance. Ernie learns that he is considered a true Douglas family member because he can wait his turn.
S7.E18 ∙ TV or Not TV
Uncle Charlie bans TV for one week. Robbie and a cynical girl create a college television show.
S7.E19 ∙ My Dad, the Athlete
Ernie's friends brag about the athletic abilities of their fathers, and agree to compare sports trophies that their fathers have won. To Ernie's dismay, the only trophy he can find is for debating. The kids then decide that all the fathers will compete in a 2-mile cross country race on Saturday. Steve would rather compete in bridge or playing the saxophone, but agrees to race. It turns out that all the fathers are now out of shape, and Ernie understands when Steve lets another man win the race since his son needs the boost in self esteem more than Ernie.
S7.E20 ∙ The Good Earth
Uncle Charley buys a lot in a new real estate development that looks and sounds better on paper than in actuality.
S7.E21 ∙ My Son, the Bullfighter
Robbie has aspirations of becoming a bullfighter. He starts out by confronting a killer bull with no knowledge about the sport whatsoever. Then, after a few lessons, he tries out his skills on a farmer's pet bull, who is tame, completely harmless and disinterested.
S7.E22 ∙ The Best Man
Anticipation is high as Robbie (Don Grady) prepares to ask exchange student Denise (Marianna Hill), who he's fallen in love with, to marry him. Unfortunately, Robbie discovers that his best friend Tom (Craig Shreeve) popped the question the night before, and she accepted.
S7.E23 ∙ Now in My Day
Chip's (Stanley Livingston) class has a school dance with an olden day theme. The students are to ask one of their parents to attend with them. Since Chip does not have a mother to take, he takes his father (Fred MacMurray), who is matched with Chip's date's (Susan Gordon) mother (Mary LaRoche).
S7.E24 ∙ Melinda
Steve (Fred MacMurray) is dating Natalie (Coleen Gray), who has a teenage daughter, Melinda (Morgan Brittany). Chip (Stanley Livingston) does not like Melinda, as she seems pushy. He pretends to get along with her, so that his father has an easier time when dating her mother.
S7.E25 ∙ Charley O' the Seven Seas
Charley (William Demarest) goes to Ernie's class and tells tales of his days of being a seaman. He exaggerates a bit, and the teacher (Jan Clayton) falls in love with the romance of the story. She quits her job and asks Charley to marry her and travel to Pango-Pango.
S7.E26 ∙ Help the Gypsies Are Coming!
Ernie's new schoolmate Lazlo is a gypsy whose family lives in a camp outside town. Ernie invites them to stay with the Douglases so they move their tent to the Douglases' front yard.
S7.E27 ∙ Ernie's Folly
To Ernie's dismay, Steve refuses to help him with his school science project. All the other kids have their parents help them and create better projects, but Ernie is the only one who ends up learning anything.
S7.E28 ∙ Ernie's Crowd
When Ernie tags along on their dates, the Douglas men have trouble telling him that he is not wanted and try to avoid him whenever they go out again.
S7.E29 ∙ Ernie and the O'Grady
When Ernie invites a vagabond that he befriended in the park to the house for dinner, Steve decides to not pass judgment and give Ernie the chance to realize that the guy (Eddie Foy Jr.) is nothing more than a freeloader.
S7.E30 ∙ The Sky Is Falling
To Steve's (Fred MacMurray) dismay, Robbie (Don Grady) quits school since he has been making money hand-over-fist by working for a friend's (Steve Franken) real estate company. Robbie gets a real education when a torrential rain storm reveals that the home he is showing has hidden flaws.
S7.E31 ∙ So Long Charley, Hello
Uncle Charley (William Demarest) gets reacquainted with an old merchant marine shipmate (James Gregory), who invites Charley along on a sea voyage. Charley wants to go, but realizes the Douglas family needs him. The family sees that Charley wants to go, so they pretend that they are fully capable of taking care of themselves.
S7.E32 ∙ Weekend in Paradise
Steve's (Fred MacMurray) company sends him on a business trip to Hawaii and includes the entire family for an all-expenses-paid vacation. Charley (William Demarest) reminisces about his merchant marine days, and the girl he left behind in Honolulu. Charley has forgotten that she has aged quite a bit since he last saw her, and, after they meet, he does all he can to avoid her. Meanwhile, Robbie (Don Grady) runs into a girl (Susan Seaforth Hayes) he knew back home.
S8.E1 ∙ Moving Day
After Steve (Fred MacMurray) 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 (Don Grady) develops feelings for Katie Miller (Tina Cole), a girl at his new college.
S8.E2 ∙ Robbie Loves Katie
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.
S8.E3 ∙ Inspection of the Groom
As Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole) get ready for their upcoming wedding, Katie's family and sorority sisters are skeptical over whether Robbie is the right guy for Katie.
S8.E4 ∙ Countdown to Marriage
It's the night before Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie's (Tina Cole) wedding and, everything that can go wrong, does. First, Tramp runs away and can't be found. Next, the dressmaker sends the wrong gown and bridesmaids dresses to the Douglass house. Topping things off, Robbie and Katie have an argument and decide to call the wedding off. Will Robbie and Katie get over their jitters and make it to the altar? Also, will anything else go wrong before the wedding?
S8.E5 ∙ Wedding Bells
The Douglas clan oversleeps on Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole)'s wedding day and chaos reigns as they get ready. Meanwhile, Robbie's best man falls ill and Chip (Stanley Livingston) is recruited to take his place. Tramp is missing and arrives at the church just in time for the ceremony.
S8.E6 ∙ The Homecoming
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.
S8.E7 ∙ My Wife, the Waitress
Katie learns that Robbie is buying her a gift for their four-week "anniversary" so she gets a waitress job to earn money to buy a gift for Robbie. As luck would have it, Katie has to fill in for the cigarette girl - skimpy outfit and all - the same day that Robbie's friend wins a free lunch at the restaurant. Naturally, Robbie blows his top when he sees how Katie is dressed, but Steve intervenes to patch things up between the newlyweds.
S8.E8 ∙ The Chameleon
Ernie's new playmate, Mike, likes to pull childish pranks that upset the Douglas family. Robbie goes to talk to Mike's parents only to learn that Mike doesn't have a mother, and that Mike is actually a girl named Michelle! Unfortunately, Michelle's father treats her like his son rather than his daughter, only talking about sports and other "boy" things, so the Douglases try to bring out her feminine side.
S8.E9 ∙ Designing Woman
Attractive lady engineer Eileen Talbot (Anne Baxter) is assigned to help Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) on a rush project in his office, and she applies her many talents to assure romantic, as well as technical success. Only level-headed Katie (Tina Cole) recognizes her as a manipulating female, long before the gullible male Douglases do.
S8.E10 ∙ Ernie, the Bluebeard
Ernie (Barry Livingston) has innocently traded trinkets with two girls, and now they both assume that he is her boyfriend and will be taking her to the upcoming "Gym Dandy" school dance. Ernie doesn't want to go to the dance at all, and tries to get out of his dates, but each of the girl's parents insist that Ernie take their daughter to the dance. When both girls show up at the Douglas home the night of the dance, Chip (Stanley Livingston) steps in to escort one girl (Claire Wilcox) (who is thrilled to be with an "older man"), while Ernie escorts the other (Maureen McCormick).
S8.E11 ∙ The Heartbeat
While Steve is away on a business trip and the guys are out at a sporting event, Katie is awoken by a storm and hears an eerie, heart-beat sound. She phones Steve in a panic. The gang returns and are also spooked but can't figure it out.
S8.E12 ∙ The Computer Picnic
Chip's (Stanley Livingston) class uses a computer to match kids for dates, with kids from another school, for the upcoming "computer picnic". Chip is excited about his date (Eva Ein) - until he meets her and discovers that she's about a foot taller than he is. Chip is willing to go through with the date, but the girl realizes that Chip is very uncomfortable with the situation, and suggests that they call it off. So Chip and his buddies get together and swap their dates, based on more personal preferences, - pleasing Uncle Charley, who dislikes the newfangled computer dating. Chip ends up trading dates with his much taller friend, Marv (Ed Begley Jr.).
S8.E13 ∙ The Aunt Who Came to Dinner
Katie's (Tina Cole) snooty Aunt Cecile (Marsha Hunt) visits the Douglas home and clearly doesn't fit in - trying to make everyone act more refined and calling them by their given names. Luckily for Steve (Fred MacMurray), he's (surprise) headed out of town on a business trip. The rest of the family isn't so lucky, as now Cecile can stay over in Steve's room for an entire week.
S8.E14 ∙ Leaving the Nest
With Katie now living with the Douglases, everyone finds that they are getting in each other's way a lot more often. Newlyweds Rob and Katie take the opportunity to move into a friend's apartment while they are away, but soon find that they miss what they had at home.
S8.E15 ∙ You're Driving Me Crazy
Chip is nervous about his upcoming driving test, so Katie asks Rob to teach her to drive so that she and Chip will be learning together. Katie has difficulties learning from Rob, and Chip wants to drive like a maniac while Steve is teaching him to drive like an old lady. Both eventually pass their driving tests and Steve lets each of them borrow his car - which returns with a mysterious huge scratch for which nether driver is willing to take the blame. Luckily, an honest kid comes along with his father to admit that he was responsible for the scratch, but the Douglases cringe at the way the father berates his son for being so careless.
S8.E16 ∙ Liverpool Saga
After discovering that a neighbor (Dianne Ramey) has a cousin, visiting from Liverpool, who plays guitar, Chip (Stanley Livingston) invites the cousin to join his band, only to discover that he has a much more laid back, folk style than Chip assumed. But the new member (Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy fame) is just what the band needs, in order to win the top award at the local teen club.
S8.E17 ∙ The Chaperones
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.
S8.E18 ∙ Green-Eyed Robbie
Katie (Tina Cole) becomes a tutor to earn some extra money and is surprised to learn that her first student, Craig Benson (Charles Robinson), is not only a male, but a handsome ex-boyfriend of hers. Robbie (Don Grady) doesn't mind at first, until he learns that the pair took a break from studying without his knowledge. A spat breaks out, and Robbie ends up sleeping on the couch, until both of the newlyweds realize they were partly to blame.
S8.E19 ∙ Charley's Tea
Katie (Tina Cole) complains that Uncle Charley (William Demarest) is making her feel unnecessary in the Douglas home. Steve (Fred MacMurray) speaks to Charley, who tries to makes amends by planning a rather bizarre "tea party" on Katie's behalf. Meanwhile, Chip (Stanley Livingston) volunteers for the school dance committee, but the otherwise all-female committee frustrate Chip by ignoring his ideas. However, the girls want to help out after Chip tells them what Uncle Charley is planning for the tea party - party balloons and donuts for dunking are out, scones, silverware and napkins are in. Much to Katie's surprise, the tea party turns out to be huge success.
S8.E20 ∙ Ernie, the Jinx
Ernie becomes convinced he's a jinx when things inexplicably start to go wrong whenever he's around, but Steve reassures him that his family loves him anyhow.
S8.E21 ∙ Ernie and Zsa Zsa
Ernie meets Zsa Zsa Gabor after accidentally falling into her swimming pool. She befriends Ernie, who introduces her to the rest of the Douglas clan.
S8.E22 ∙ A Horse for Uncle Charley
Uncle Charley buys an 11-year-old trotting horse, thinking of the potential purses that the horse could win. With Charley himself driving the sulky, the horse wins his qualifying race, but he discovers his horse's opponents were run-down nags more qualified for the glue factory than competitive racing. So Charley retires the horse at a friend's stable, where Ernie can ride him whenever he wants.
S8.E23 ∙ Dear Enemy
Robbie reports to camp for two weeks of military reserve maneuvers, and Katie decides to go along and stay at a nearby motel so that the newlyweds can be near each other. Meanwhile, Uncle Charley and the boys are camping at Yosemite, which also happens to be close to Robbie's camp. During a stroll, Katie wanders into the mock battlefield and gets arrested by Robbie's unit. Later, each of the other family members try to locate Robbie and similarly get detained. Steve heads toward camp to prevent the family from interfering with Rob's duties, but he manages to get captured first by the aggressor team, then by the defender team.
S8.E24 ∙ Uncle Charley's Aunt
Uncle Charley is in charge of Frolics Night at his lodge, but has trouble lining up the entertainment, so Charley joins in with his lodge brothers, dressing in drag for a chorus line number. After the show, Charley falls asleep and embarrassingly has to walk home in costume after waking up. While resting on a park bench, an elderly man mistakes Charley for a woman and begins flirting with him, and Charley gets arrested for hitting the man.
S8.E25 ∙ The Standing Still Tour
Steve is on a business trip to Amsterdam, Robbie is in the South Pacific for military reserve training and Chip is on a school trip to Mexico so Ernie and Uncle Charley are home alone together. Charley invites an old shipmate for dinner.
S8.E26 ∙ Honorable Guest
The Wong family from Bryant Park drops in on the Douglases unexpectedly while on their way to Hong Kong. Since the hour is late, Steve invites the Wongs to stay overnight, forcing him to cancel the family camping trip planned for early the next morning. The Wongs are too polite to tell Steve that they have family in Chinatown who are expecting them, and Steve make his family promise not to tell the Wongs that they ruined the Douglases weekend plans.
S8.E27 ∙ The Perfect Separation
Rob and Katie invite a married couple, Larry and Denise, to visit. Denise, a psychology student, insists each person tell the others what they dislike about them. Rob and Katie are uncomfortable with this and things take a surprising turn.
S8.E28 ∙ Gossip, Incorporated
When Steve (Fred MacMurray) is promoted to head of the helicopter division, the secretaries snoop into his personnel file and are happy to discover that their new boss is an available widower. Uncle Charley (William Demarest) brings his helicopter-loving girlfriend Sally (Shirley Mitchell) for a plant tour, but when denied entrance, he tells his girlfriend Sally to pretend that she's "Mrs. Douglas", in order for her to get in. Meanwhile, Steve has invited Katie (Tina Cole) to visit the plant and tells her to let people know that she's "Mrs. Robbie Douglas". When the nosy secretaries see Steve with two different women claiming to be "Mrs. Douglas", they suspect that their new boss is a bigamist. Unaware that Charley's girlfriend is posing as "Mrs. Douglas", Steve doesn't understand the stares from his co-workers, as he escorts the two women around together.
S8.E29 ∙ The Masculine Mystique
Chip is miffed when a friend steals his girlfriend. Ernie's friend Shorty has a movie date but can't go due to a conflict. The girlfriend asks Ernie to just walk with her there as he was going anyhow. Shorty thinks Ernie is stealing her.
S8.E30 ∙ The Tire Thief
Ernie's friends convince him to sell tires in the storage room to buy a powerful squirt gun. Uncle Charley notices the tires are gone and contacts police. Ernie confesses to the family about his "crime" and Steve has a creative punishment.
S9.E1 ∙ The Great Pregnancy
The family is cleaning house and Katie does heavy lifting and uses ammonia. Overcome, she faints but says she was just resting. Her mother arrives and says her woman's intuition tells her Katie is pregnant, They go to the doctor to verify.
S9.E2 ∙ Dr. Osborne, M.D.
Pregnant Katie needs to choose a doctor and many people recommend their doctor. But her mother makes an appointment for her to see their family physician, Roy Osborne. Robbie balks at choosing a GP, seeing that he works out of his house.
S9.E3 ∙ Life Begins in Katie
After Katie (Tina Cole) feels her baby moving for the first time, expectant father Robbie (Don Grady) decides it's time for him to mature and take life more seriously. Meanwhile, Ernie's friend's Gordon (Butch Patrick) has a dog that is also pregnant, with Tramp as the father, so Ernie (Barry Livingston) also wants to be more involved with the birth of the puppies.
S9.E4 ∙ The Grandfathers
Steve (Fred MacMurray) meets with a hard-boiled Air Force general (Arthur O'Connell) to sell a company product, but the general - himself a new grandfather - after learning that Steve is about to become a grandfather, becomes an easy sell as he eagerly shares his experiences as a grandfather.
S9.E5 ∙ The Baby Nurse
Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole) realize that they will need help with the babies immediately after they are born, and seek out to hire a baby nurse. Uncle Charley (William Demarest) wants the job, and is disappointed by not being asked, so he sets out on a series of baby sitting jobs to gain experience. He panics in his first experience with an actual baby and needs to call in Katie for advice, but he quickly becomes the favorite baby sitter in the neighborhood. While Rob and Katie realize he could do the job, they feel it is too much to ask now that Charley has a successful baby sitting career, but Charley overhears the discussion and realizes that he needs to volunteer for the job.
S9.E6 ∙ Big Ol' Katie
Katie (Tina Cole) feels like she is getting as big as a house, even bigger than her pregnant friend Lisa (Barbara Boles), who is over due. While Robbie (Don Grady) is away on military reserve training (again!), Steve (Fred MacMurray) takes Katie to her OB appointment, where her doctor (Leon Ames) reveals why she is getting so large - Katie is having more than one baby. Katie doesn't want anyone to know before she can tell Robbie, but she's already getting her first labor pains and Robbie cannot be contacted.
S9.E7 ∙ My Three Grandsons
Robbie is on Army maneuvers unaware Katie is expecting triplets. Steve and Uncle Charley must get her to the hospital when her labor pains start. Hospital rules only allow two people in the waiting room per mother. Robbie rushes home.
S9.E8 ∙ Tea for Three
Rob and Katie bring the triplets home from the hospital and reveal their names - Robbie Jr, Steve II and Charley - much to the delight of their namesakes. But Rob soon tires of all the attention that the triplets get and the repeated questions that everyone is asking - "How do you tell them apart?" But eventually Rob gets accustomed to the curiosity of his friends and neighbors.
S9.E9 ∙ Back to Earth
Feeling that he's not contributing enough to the household expenses, Robbie (Don Grady) decides to quit school, get a job, and move his family into their own place. Rob's college counselor (Vince Howard) urges him to think it over before rushing into such a major decision, and asks the administration office to delay his paperwork over the weekend. The stalling tactic gives Rob enough time to discover that despite the added financial burden placed on his father, Steve (Fred MacMurray) enjoys taking care of his grandchildren, and that he has plans to redesign Rob's room to accommodate Rob, Katie (Tina Cole) and the triplets.
S9.E10 ∙ First Night Out
It seems that everybody has something planned for Friday night - except Ernie (Barry Livingston). But since this will be the first time Rob (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole) are away from the triplets, they are reluctant to leave Ernie alone with the babies, so they hire a sitter recommended by the family doctor. However, the sitter (Rose Marie) seems to be more interested in watching television than watching the babies. After repeated calls from worried family members, she takes the phone off the hook, but now the constant busy signal causes more anxiety, so the family members all rush home, only to find that the sitter has matters well in hand.
S9.E11 ∙ Casanova O'Casey
When Uncle Charley goes to pick up his date, Sally, he finds that not only has he been stood up, but Sally has run off to Las Vegas to get married. So Charley is in the dumps until a group of women fawn over him when he takes the triplets out to the park, and Charley tells the women that he is the grandfather.
S9.E12 ∙ Expendable Katie
The triplets are teething and Katie is exhausted from the constant care they need and from lack of sleep. She and her mother go to Santa Barbara for a few days of doctor prescribed rest while the family takes care of the babies.
S9.E13 ∙ The New Room
Steve plans to have a bedroom enlarged to include a nursery. The contractor he hires locks horns with everyone except Katie. It turns out that after having recently lost his wife and daughter, he's blessed with his first granddaughter.
S9.E14 ∙ The Fountain of Youth
Steve's friends set him up to meet - in Ernie's words - "some clunky woman." The family tries to give the impression that Steve (Fred MacMurray) isn't really as old as he seems, when the woman (Wanda Hendrix) acts more and more surprised meeting each of Steve's sons, who is older than the previous.
S9.E15 ∙ Three's a Crowd
The family doubts Katie's accuracy in identifying the triplets, unaware that she has placed ink dots on the baby's feet to assist her. Steve bathes them unaware he washed off the ink. Katie takes them to the hospital to match footprints.
S9.E16 ∙ Chip and Debbie
Chip (Stanley Livingston) has a new girlfriend, Debbie (Angela Cartwright), and their relationship is progressing at a rapid pace. Shortly after convincing Debbie to drop her swimming class for home economics, Chip and Debbie announce that they are engaged. While both families are concerned about the situation, they don't interfere with the kids, until one day Katie (Tina Cole) suddenly faints and Robbie (Don Grady) has to take her to see the doctor, leaving Chip and Debbie alone to take care of the triplets. After several frenzied hours with the babies, the couple decide that they are moving too fast and to just be friends.
S9.E17 ∙ What Did You Do Today, Grandpa?
Steve is recruited to be a double agent willing to sell secrets to America's enemy. He's whisked off to New York to meet his contact, an attractive younger woman. She suspects Steve is not genuine and leads him through a series of tests.
S9.E18 ∙ Chip on Wheels
Chip (Stanley Livingston) almost has enough money to buy a hot rod from his school chum Wayne (Kevin Brodie), but Steve (Fred MacMurray) reminds him that he's forgetting about insurance and other costs associated with car ownership. Chip is disheartened, so Steve buys him a car for his birthday - a 30-year-old Tin Lizzie adorned with silver bud vases, which evokes fond memories for Steve, but is typically driven by old ladies. The entire family sees that Chip is disappointed, and Chip is embarrassed to be seen in the car, although he tells the family that he loves it. Shortly thereafter, his friend with the hot rod comes over and sees Chip's car and recognizes it for what it is - a genuine antique in original condition. He offers to trade his hot rod for it, but Chip refuses - he'd rather keep the car that his father gave him.
S9.E19 ∙ Honorable Expectant Grandfather
Steve's former Bryant Park co-worker, Ray Wong has transferred to Los Angeles and tells Steve his pregnant daughter's husband is a long-haired hippie. Though intelligent, the son-in-law hasn't any direction in life. Ray seeks Steve's help.
S9.E20 ∙ The Other Woman
Alternate title: I Told You So. Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Ernie (Barry Livingston) spot Robbie (Don Grady) with an attractive young woman (Linda Miller), and tell their father about it, but Steve (Fred MacMurray) says that there is probably a good reason and not to worry about it. Meanwhile, Uncle Charley (William Demarest) gets frazzled when he hears a rumor that the city is going to widen the streets, so he starts up a petition to prevent it from happening despite, as Steve points out, that he doesn't know for sure what the city is planning. Eventually, Charley learns that a councilman was just having crosswalks painted, and the young woman was just a friend who Robbie was helping make plans for a surprise anniversary party for her husband. In the end, Steve takes delight in telling both Uncle Charley and the boys, "I told you so".
S9.E21 ∙ Goodbye Forever
Ernie becomes somewhat depressed when he learns his best friend Gordon is moving away. The two decide to spend as much time as possible hanging out together until moving day.
S9.E22 ∙ The O'Casey Scandal
Charley starts dating the grandmother of Ernie's friend, Janet. The teens are shocked at the scandal of the old people acting young.
S9.E23 ∙ Ernie's Pen Pal
Ernie writes to Maria (Silvia Marino), a pen-pal of Spanish nationality. He invites her to dinner at his home.
S9.E24 ∙ Ernie, the Transmitter
Ernie thinks that he has ESP, when he's the only person in his class to guess the correct color of a card held up by his teacher (Booth Colman).
S9.E25 ∙ The Matchmakers
Steve's co-worker and golf buddy Harry (Don DeFore) suggests that Steve (Fred MacMurray), Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Ernie (Barry Livingston) go to the company picnic with himself and his son and daughter. But despite the efforts of the parents, the kids mutually dislike each other.
S9.E26 ∙ Ernie Is Smitten
Ernie is smitten with a classmate, Margaret, who shows no interest while Iris does. He asks his dad what to do. Steve suggests changing his appearance. Ernie comes to school the next day with his hair slicked back but Margaret is unmoved.
S9.E27 ∙ Two O'Clock Feeding
Steve (Fred MacMurray) is cast in the role of marriage counselor by a young couple (Johnny Washbrook and Beverly Lunsford), who turn to him for help.
S9.E28 ∙ Teacher's Pet
Ernie (Barry Livingston) is in an advanced English class with a strict but efficient teacher (Sylvia Sidney).
S10.E1 ∙ The First Meeting
Rob, Katie and the triplets move to their own place. Katie feels Steve needs a woman in his life so she arranges a blind date with Millicent. Meanwhile, Ernie has a problem in school so Steve has to meet with his teacher, Barbara Harper.
S10.E2 ∙ Instant Co-Worker
Steve's romance with Barbara continues and despite his father's efforts not to recommend him (to avoid the appearance of nepotism), Robbie is offered a job as a structural engineer at his father's firm. He tries to talk it over with his father, who is head over heels in a very engrossing friendship and cannot be reached.
S10.E3 ∙ Is It Love?
The family is delighted when the romance between Steve (Fred MacMurray) and Barbara (Beverly Garland) blossoms. Steve and Barbara are both anxious to declare their love to each other.
S10.E4 ∙ A Ring for Barbara
Steve (Fred MacMurray) has bought a ring and is ready to propose to Barbara Harper (Beverly Garland). After making sure his family approves, he tries to find the right moment to pop the question to an unsuspecting Barbara, but the evening is filled with interruptions and complications which lead to a proposal that was not quite how Steve had planned it.
S10.E5 ∙ The Littlest Rebel
Now that Steve (Fred MacMurray) and Barbara (Beverly Garland) are engaged, they just have to learn to adjust to each other's families. Barbara's daughter, Dodie (Dawn Lyn), is not so sure she wants to share her mother.
S10.E6 ∙ Two Weeks to Go
Steve and Barbara plan their wedding to take place in two weeks. She wants a large wedding with a lot of family and friends. Steve is thinking of a simple wedding at the office of a justice of the peace..
S10.E7 ∙ One Week to Go
With the wedding date approaching, tensions arise. Steve and Barbara wonder if they are doing the right thing by rushing into marriage.
S10.E8 ∙ Came the Day
It's Steve and Barbara's wedding day. Not wanting a repeat of what happened before Rob's wedding, the Douglas clan awakes very early and gets dressed, then everyone goes back to sleep. Tramp runs off again and arrives at the wedding as before.
S10.E9 ∙ Mexican Honeymoon
Steve and Barbara arrive in a quaint village in Mexico which Steve had previously visited on a fishing trip. They expect to find the same quiet place Steve remembers and have the place virtually to themselves. They are surprised to find the village has been "put on the map" by a travel magazine and the obscure little hotel, whose name has changed from Moon Hotel to Honeymoon Hotel, is filled to capacity with young newlyweds. The Douglases are continually put upon by the young couples around them for help with everything from homesickness, to settling quarrels to ordering food. Finally, the arrival of a bottle of Champagne from the family back in California, tips off the hotel guests to the fact that Steve and Barbara are themselves newlyweds. They give them the restaurant to themselves that evening and the romantic honeymoon they anticipated finally begins.
S10.E10 ∙ After You, Alphonse
Katie (Tina Cole) tells Charley (William Demarest) that he has to be more respectful and polite with a new woman in the house. When Steve (Fred MacMurray) and Barbara (Beverly Garland) arrive back home from their honeymoon, both are puzzled by the change in Charley's personality.
S10.E11 ∙ Rough on Dodie
The Douglas household adjusts to having a young girl in the house, and Dodie (Dawn Lyn) learns living with 3 big brothers, a sister-in-law and a grumpy uncle can be rough.
S10.E12 ∙ Silver Threads
Katie (Tina Cole) finds a few gray hairs on her head and tells Robbie (Don Grady) they have to plan for their retirement and set up their wills; Dodie (Dawn Lyn) is worried about going from the first grade to the second grade.
S10.E13 ∙ It's a Woman's World
The women in the family seem to have a way of getting the men to do the things they want. When Steve has to take part in a play at Dodie's school, Robbie thinks it shows that women are born with the skill.
S10.E14 ∙ Table for Eight
Barbara plans her first dinner party for Steve and his business associates. Everything seems to go wrong.
S10.E15 ∙ Double Jealousy
A sultry secretary (Brenda Benet) causes jealousy among the Douglas women, and quite a different reaction among the Douglas men.
S10.E16 ∙ Dodie's Tonsils
Dodie has to have her tonsils taken out, and she tells her mother that she wants Steve to stay with her in the hospital overnight. Meanwhile, Robbie and Katie go on a vacation without the triplets.
S10.E17 ∙ Who Is Sylvia?
Sylvia Cannon (Jane Wyman), a former girlfriend of Steve's (Fred MacMurray), comes to visit. Barbara (Beverly Garland) gets jealous.
S10.E18 ∙ You Can't Go Home
Rob gets invited to an old friend's wedding back in Bryant Park and takes Katie with him, hoping to introduce her to other people he knew as well. Much to his surprise, virtually no one else remembers him.
S10.E19 ∙ Guest in the House
Barbara feels like a guest in the house when she realizes the boys still go to their father for everything. She is never included. Then, she has to go to school to see Chip's teacher when he is accused of cheating on a test.
S10.E21 ∙ The Honeymoon Is Over
Both Steve & Robbie have been working long hours at work. Their wives feel sorry for them since they come home tired at the end of each day. One day, Barbara & Katie decide to surprise them at work, but find them partying instead of working
S10.E22 ∙ Baubles, Bangles, and Beatrice
It's school problems for everyone. Barbara becomes a substitute teacher for Chip's class, and he is the smartest student. Ernie is followed by Beatrice (Victoria Paige Meyerink), one of Dodie's friends from school with a case of puppy love.
S10.E23 ∙ Mister X
Barbara's former father-in-law (Lew Ayres) visits the Douglas family, and seems to be a man of mystery.
S10.E24 ∙ Dodie's Dilemma
Steve (Fred MacMurray) formally adopts Dodie (Dawn Lyn), who enlists the aid of Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Ernie (Barry Livingston), after being harassed in school by a mean-spirited girl (Erin Moran).
S10.E25 ∙ Love Thy Neighbor
Rob and Katie don't exactly hit it off right away with their new neighbors, Joe and Eve Lawrie (Jerry Mathers and Lori Martin).
S10.E26 ∙ J.P. Douglas
Chip decides he wants to become a rich man early in life, so he takes on three different jobs. While he is earning money, his expenses are high.
S11.E1 ∙ The First Anniversary
Steve and Barbara plan a celebration for their first wedding anniversary. Dodie tells them she is also planning a party, but she does not tell anyone where it is at, or when it is being held. Chip meets Polly and begins to date her.
S11.E2 ∙ The Once Over
Polly's father is strict, and Polly is unhappy at home. She asks Chip to marry her so she can live with him. Chip talks it over with Steve and Uncle Charley.
S11.E3 ∙ The Return of Albert
Albert Conway (Craig Stevens), an old boyfriend of Barbara (Beverly Garland) contacts her for a visit. She is nervous, when she finds out that Steve (Fred MacMurray) has invited him to dinner.
S11.E4 ∙ The Non-Proposal
When Chip (Stanley Livingston) gives Polly (Ronne Troup) a necklace and locket, he thinks he has agreed to go steady with her. Polly tells her mother (Doris Singleton) it is for a marriage proposal. Her mother knows Polly's father (Norman Alden) will be upset.
S11.E5 ∙ Polly Wants a Douglas
Polly (Ronne Troup) has an argument with her father and decides to leave home. She goes to the Douglas' home and asks Chip (Stanley Livingston) to elope with her.
S11.E6 ∙ The Cat Burglars
Steve (Fred MacMurray) dresses as a cat for his office's Halloween Party. As he drives home, he runs out of gas and has to walk to a gas station. The police pick him up as a suspect in a series of burglaries.
S11.E7 ∙ The Elopement
Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Polly (Ronne Troup) decide to finally elope. Chip tells Steve their plans, and he tells Chip he should give Polly's father a courtesy visit before they go to a minister. Polly's father is not pleased and accuses Chip of wrong doing.
S11.E8 ∙ The Honeymoon
Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Polly (Ronne Troup) are married, and on their way to Mexico for their honeymoon. They encounter car problems and hotel reservation problems, and have to spend their first married night in separate rooms.
S11.E9 ∙ One by One They Go
Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Polly (Ronne Troup) return from their honeymoon and settle in their college dorm. Polly's father (Norman Alden) visits, but he refuses to talk to his daughter.
S11.E10 ∙ My Four Women
Barbara volunteers to organize a fashion show for a woman's club. She convinces Steve to be one of the models for some of the men's clothing. When he finds out the shirt is lacy and ruffled, he wants to back out of the show.
S11.E11 ∙ The Bride Went Home
Chip's (Stanley Livingston) stomach does not agree with Polly's (Ronne Troup) cooking. She learns that she has been using foods that Chip is allergic to. She thinks she should leave Chip.
S11.E12 ∙ The Power of Suggestion
For a psychology class assignment, Ernie tries a few experiments on his family members. He cuts Uncle Charley's cane a little bit at a time, and Charley thinks he is getting taller. However, Steve is not as easy to fool.
S11.E13 ∙ St. Louis Blues
Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole) get a vacation in their own home, when her mother (Joan Tompkins) takes the triplets with her to St. Louis for a few weeks. Robbie and Katie make plans to do the many things they cannot do when the children are with them.
S11.E14 ∙ The Liberty Bell
Robbie gets a visit from an old friend when he comes to town. His friend is full of exciting tales of traveling by motorcycle and seeing the sights. Robbie thinks it'd be good to go on a trip with him but Katie isn't so sure.
S11.E15 ∙ The Love God
Dodie's (Dawn Lyn) school class has a new teacher (Peter Brown), and all the girls think he is a dreamboat. Her mother (Beverly Garland) used to teach him when he was a boy. Dodie's crush fades when he brings his fiancée (Linda Foster) with him to dinner.
S11.E16 ∙ The New Vice-President
Steve is in line for a promotion at work. Uncle Charley has some surprising information in his background.
S11.E17 ∙ Robbie's Honey
Katie (Tina Cole) thinks Robbie (Don Grady) is seeing his secretary Cynthia (Ann Marshall) after work and gets jealous, after seeing Robbie kissing her.
S11.E18 ∙ Ernie Drives
Ernie and Elmore look forward to driving their girlfriends on a date after they pass their driving test and have licenses. However, the boys do not pass the test, and the girls do. Ernie & Elmore end up stranded at the end of the date.
S11.E19 ∙ Dodie Goes Downtown
Steve and Barbara go to San Francisco for a golf tournament, and Uncle Charley goes to a music festival, leaving Ernie in charge. He loses track of Dodie when she goes to town with a friend and has no money to get home.
S11.E20 ∙ The Recital
Dodie (Dawn Lyn) decides to form a musical band with her friends, and practice will be held at the Douglas' home. The adults are not too pleased to have loud, bad music playing at their home.
S11.E21 ∙ Debbie
Ernie (Barry Livingston) is involved in a fender-bender, when teenage girl Debbie (Brooke Bundy) hits his car. She seems to take an interest in Ernie, but might be more interested in not paying for the accident.
S11.E22 ∙ Fit the Crime
Ernie agrees to babysit Dodie while Barbara goes shopping. Dodie asks if she can visit a friend, but when Barbara returns home, Ernie does not remember where Dodie went. Both Ernie and Dodie get put in time-out.
S11.E23 ∙ The Return of Terrible Tom
Charley (William Demarest) looks forward to a visit from his former shipmate Tom (Arthur Hunnicutt), who could be depended upon for rowdy entertainment. However, when his friend arrives, he is now a mild-mannered gentleman.
S11.E24 ∙ After the Honeymoon
When Robbie (Don Grady) is laid off from his job, he and his family move to San Francisco for a new job offer. Their new friends tell him he works too hard, and Katie (Tina Cole) starts to think it is because of her and the boys.
S12.E1 ∙ The Advent of Fergus
Steve's cousin Fergus McBain Douglas (Fred MacMurray in a double role), who looks just like him, arrives from Scotland in search of a wife to take back with him.
S12.E2 ∙ Fergus for Sale
Charley (William Demarest) is tired of having Fergus living in the Douglas house, causing a disruption to everyone's schedule. Since Fergus is looking for a wife, Charley places an ad in the local newspaper, seeking a wife for Fergus.
S12.E3 ∙ Lady Douglas
Steve's cousin Fergus (Fred MacMurray in a double role) and Terri (Anne Francis) go to the bowling alley, where she works as a waitress, and have dinner. Fergus proposes, but Terri declines as she is afraid of the move to Scotland. Steve talks to her and she says yes.
S12.E4 ∙ Goodbye Fergus
Fergus (Fred MacMurray in a double role) marries Terri (Anne Francis), a woman who works at a bowling alley. They fly to Las Vegas for their honeymoon, before going home to Scotland.
S12.E5 ∙ Four for the Road
Everyone has a busy day, and no one has time to take care of the triplets. Steve decides to take care of the boys by taking them to work, and asking his secretary to take the day off to care for them. Steve then forgets where she lives.
S12.E6 ∙ Polly the Pigeon
Chip asks Polly to stop buying useless things as their apartment does not have enough room. When she goes shopping again, a salesman tells her she can have a free set of cookwares - if she hosts a dinner party for eight people that night.
S12.E7 ∙ Happy Birthday, Anyway
Charley goes on vacation to San Francisco. Meanwhile, all the women in the house have a problem with how their spouses respond to their birthdays.
S12.E8 ∙ Proxy Parents
Katie (Tina Cole) flies to Peru to spend some time with Robbie (Don Grady). She leaves the triplets with Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Polly (Ronne Troup), who find it difficult to be instant parents.
S12.E9 ∙ The Enthusiast
Babara (Beverly Garland) is enthusiastic about everything that involves Steve (Fred MacMurray) and his family, almost to an embarrassment with Steve. When Steve asks her to join his partners and their wives at a bowling match, she is afraid of letting him down.
S12.E10 ∙ Katie's Career
Katie (Tina Cole) wants to do more than just stay at home with the triplets, so she gets a job singing in the evenings at a small coffee house. Steve (Fred MacMurray) and Charley (William Demarest) worry about her, but once they meet the owner (Anthony Caruso), they realize Katie is in good hands.
S12.E11 ∙ Polly's Secret Life
Polly wants to learn more and experience more so that she is more interesting to Chip. Since Ernie sees her going out a lot without Chip, he start to think there is something wrong with their marriage.
S12.E12 ∙ The Sound of Music
Charley is asked to be a substitute teacher in a music class, teaching the students cello for an upcoming musical. The students do not appreciate his method of teaching.
S12.E13 ∙ TV Triplets
When Katie (Tina Cole) is out with the triplets, a talent scout notices the boys and wants them to be in a television commercial. While filming, the boys act out since they are afraid. Steve ends up in the commercial so the boys feel more comfortable.
S12.E14 ∙ Three for School
Katie (Tina Cole) gets a temporary job as a secretary, and decides to put the boys in a child care center, so that Charley (William Demarest) is not bothered with three young boys. Soon Charley goes missing every day from home at the same time.
S12.E15 ∙ Alfred
Dodie tries to avoid first grader Alfred, who likes her and follows her everywhere.
S12.E16 ∙ Buttons and Beaux
Katie (Tina Cole) is feeling particularly lonely with the continued absence of Robbie (Don Grady). Steve, Charley and the others each take her out to dinner on different nights to cheer her up.
S12.E17 ∙ Peanuts
Dodie's school has a fund raiser to send to Korean orphans. She tells her teacher that her father will help divide the peanuts in a large sack into smaller bags for the sale. The whole family works all night to complete the task.
S12.E18 ∙ Bad Day for Steve
Ernie's school project is to see how the phases of the moon affect people. He notices that Steve becomes more accident prone.
S12.E19 ∙ Second Banana
Barbara (Beverly Garland) wins a cooking contest and becomes one of the finalist. The cook-off is in Hawaii.
S12.E20 ∙ Bad Day for Barbara
Barbara (Beverly Garland) is not feeling well, but finds out she has to take care of the children and the house by herself. When she cannot take it anymore, she walks out the house without telling anyone.
S12.E21 ∙ The Birth of Arfie
Dodie (Dawn Lyn) is upset when she realizes Tramp disappears every evening. Tramp is getting old, and Dodie is worried he might not find his way home.
S12.E22 ∙ Lonesome Katie
Katie (Tina Cole) and her friends talk about their husbands. Katie misses Robbie and wonders if she should start living her own life without him. Meanwhile, Dodie (Dawn Lyn) has a slumber party with her friends.
S12.E23 ∙ Barbara Lost
Chip's (Stanley Livingston) old friend, John Simpson (Micky Dolenz), who's now a big rock star, pays a visit. Soon, Chip tells the family that he's decided to give up his studies and become a rock star, too. The family is extremely concerned--until John mentions that he makes $2 million a year.
S12.E24 ∙ Whatever Happened to Ernie?
Steve's boss and his wife count on the Douglas family to help them deal with their rebellious teen-aged son, Gordon (one of Ernie's classmates) after they suspect that the boy has fallen into drug use.
