The BEST episodes of My Three Sons season 2

Every episode of My Three Sons season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of My Three Sons season 2!

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.

Last Updated: 9/16/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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9.17
6 votes

#1 - A Perfect Memory

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1961

An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise.

Directors: Peter Tewksbury
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7.83
6 votes

#2 - The Romance of Silver Pines

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1962

Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.

Directors: Richard Whorf
Writer: Jack Laird
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7.60
5 votes

#3 - Birds And Bees

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1961

When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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7.50
4 votes

#4 - The Ugly Duckling

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1961

Robbie is heading for an “F” in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don’t even compensate for her loss of mind.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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7.50
4 votes

#5 - Chip's Composition

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1961

A composition titled “What My Mother Means to Me” has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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7.50
4 votes

#6 - Bub Gets a Job

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1962

Bub reads an article in a magazine which is directed at bored homemakers and he begins to think that he fits the description. Steve warns him that he should control his Irish temper as it could lead to the demise of his position should he find one.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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7.33
3 votes

#7 - The Girls Next Door

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1962

Four beautiful airline stewardesses move into the vacant house next door and Mike and Robbie immediately are attracted to the glamorous career women. Meanwhile Steve is at the drawing board trying to meet a work deadline that requires his total concentration.

Directors: Richard Whorf
Writer: Howard Leeds
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7.25
4 votes

#8 - Mike in Charge

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1961

Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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7.25
4 votes

#9 - Casanova Trouble

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1962

Steve's friend asks him to come up with a solution when she thinks her daughter is dating an older man. Steve is shocked when he sees that the initials of the fraternity pin the man gave her identifies his oldest son Mike. However it is really Robbie who took the use of Mike's pin to fix his button-less shirt.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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7.20
5 votes

#10 - Chip Leaves Home

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1962

Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to do them all a favour by running away from home. His solution is to strike away for far-east India very early the next morning. He takes fright while downtown and secretly returns home and hides in the attic, forgetting the farewell note he's pinned to Tramp's collar.

Directors: Richard Whorf
Writer: Joanna Lee
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7.00
6 votes

#11 - Instant Hate

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1961

The good neighbour policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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7.00
1 votes

#12 - Good Influence

Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/24/1962

Steve pushes Chip to go on a week-long vacation with a boy he really doesn't like. The boy is very shy and timid, and when Chip calls him a chicken-clunk, he cops an unexpected black eye for his trouble. Meanwhile Bub tries his hand at painting.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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7.00
2 votes

#13 - Air Derby

Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/3/1962

Robbie's only real competition for winning a school scholarship in a model airplane contest is a young boy named Roly Bates, a studious lad who has his heart set on first prize as its his only chance to get a college education.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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7.00
2 votes

#14 - The Pencil Pusher

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/5/1962

Chip puts his father into the uncomfortable position of defending the importance of his profession. Chip is unenlightened by the tour of the Air Force base until a full-scale emergency arises and Steve is asked to help a desperate pilot down from the air.

Directors: Richard Whorf
Writer: Howard Leeds
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7.00
3 votes

#15 - Second Time Around

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1962

Attractive Pamela MacLish whom Steve took to Chip's grade school dance a year ago, is still trying to melt his bachelor heart. She arrives at the house on the pre-text of soliciting Bub's help to join an Irish Society called the 'Daughters of the Emerald Isle'. Soon Bub thinks that Pamela is after him.

Directors: Richard Whorf
Writer: Kitty Buhler
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7.00
6 votes

#16 - A Lesson in Any Language

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1961

Mike wants to go skiing on the weekend with his friends but must also keep up his Spanish studies. So he adopts the learn while you sleep method via use of a pre-programmed record player. Steve's room has just been painted so he decides to sleep in Mike's bed. Mysteriously, he wakes up speaking Spanish, and the next night Bub does the same. Before long they are both uttering phrases they couldn't possibly know.

Directors: Richard Whorf
Writer: Danny Simon
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6.80
5 votes

#17 - Blind Date

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1962

Two dates, confused phone calls and name mix-ups create a tangled evening for brothers Mike and Robbie, when each get's the other's date. Mike gets a shock when he picks up a fourteen year old, while Robbie nearly croaks at the sight of his 'older woman'.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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6.63
8 votes

#18 - The Crush

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1961

Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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6.60
5 votes

#19 - Too Much in Common

Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/10/1962

Mike realizes that he and his girlfriend are in a rut, so he decides to make a move on another girl on campus. This causes problems when his steady girl's father hears all about it.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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6.50
2 votes

#20 - The Masterpiece

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1962

Chip tries to snow his teachers so he can win an art contest and almost succeeds with some help from Bub, who actually painted the artwork. Chip's teacher offers his painting to the Principal to show the school board. When Chip learns of this development, he plots with Sudsy to steal it back.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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6.50
2 votes

#21 - A Holiday for Tramp

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1962

The Douglas family goes to the train station to meet Steve but when they prepare to leave, they can't find Tramp anywhere. Tramp has wandered into the cabin of a famous actress named Marissa Montaigne who takes a liking to him.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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6.50
2 votes

#22 - The Big Game

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1962

Robbie finds out that he won't be able to play in the big game unless he passes a math exam. Steve assures him that if he fails he will not be playing against his team's arch rival. When Chip comes down with the measles, it dampens Robbie's attempt to play even more than before.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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6.50
2 votes

#23 - Chip's Party

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1962

Chip's schoolmates want to help him celebrate his tenth birthday with a party but he doesn't want to share the occasion with certain young ladies. However, Steve falls foul of the German measles and when Bub speaks to Sudsy's mother about it, suddenly the gossip mongers decide that they will not send their children to the house for fear of catching the disease.

Directors: Richard Whorf
Writer: Howard Leeds
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6.50
2 votes

#24 - Coincidence

Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/26/1962

Steve's wish for a calm life sends him on a chaotic journey into a parallel universe when on a typically rambunctious morning, the Douglas household noise is ruining Steve's day off from work. So he gets in his car to get away from it all, wishing that he'd had girls instead of boys.

Directors: Richard Whorf
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6.50
2 votes

#25 - Robbie's Band

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1961

The Douglas household is tormented by the discordant rehearsals of Robbie's band, until Steve steps in to help them. Mike's College fraternity is looking for a band to play their annual dance. With Steve's assistance on lead saxophone Robbie campaigns to his brother for the job.

Directors: Richard Whorf