The BEST episodes of My Three Sons season 3
Every episode of My Three Sons season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of My Three Sons season 3!
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. Disney producer Bill Walsh often mused on whether the concept of the show was inspired by the movie The Shaggy Dog, as in his view they shared “the same dog, the same kids, and Fred [MacMurray].
#1 - Roman Holiday
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1963
Steve's reluctance to make a business trip to Rome with the family puzzles everyone in the Douglas household except Bub. He remembers that Steve and his late wife were once there and that the place may hold too many memories for him.
#2 - What's Cooking?
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1962
A cooking contest at school upsets Chip when he realizes he doesn't have a mother to submit a recipe. But there is much rejoicing when Steve's favourite recipe reaches the finals. The prospect of winning keeps Steve on edge, much to the displeasure of the boys and Bub.
#3 - Robbie's Employment Service
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1962
Robbie and Hank think there is only one thing in the whole world that impresses girls -- money! So they decide to open their own home help unit in the hope of making the big bucks that they are constantly in need of. However, they run into competition from Chip who organises baby-sitting as a means of increasing his allowance to buy a new bicycle.
#4 - Robbie Wins His Letter
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/7/1963
Robbie's science master announces a special achievement award for being a straight 'A' student and to his embarassment, Robbie wins it. This causes more trouble than he could have imagined but Steve does his best to assure Robbie that he did deserve the award.
#5 - First Things First
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/28/1963
With his Air Force Reserve crew depending on him for an engine maintenance exercise, Mike is faced with having to abandon a date, as well as a baseball match, all of which is just part of his same crowded weekend.
#6 - The Beauty Contest
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1962
Mike is dragooned into acting as the sole judge of a campus beauty contest and discovers that the hazards of choosing a winner to be a formidable task. Especially when he realizes his girlfriend is a contestant.
#7 - Doctor in the House
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1962
Steve is in too big a hurry to get home to his family and spread the good news of his upcoming business trip to Bolivia, but hurts his back by throwing out his sacroiliac and is convinced that there is only one doctor who can help him.
#8 - Bub's Butler
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1963
Bub, an inveterate contest buff, finally hits the jackpot, winning a prize worth $1,000 in a TV competition. But when the boys learn that a British butler will be part of the family for two weeks, they succeed in shaking the impeccable and usually unflappable gentleman.
#9 - Chip's Last Fight
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1962
Chip is thrown out of the neighbourhood clubhouse because he cannot convince the older boys that he is all grown up. He makes a bargain -- he will fight one of the older boys for the privelege of becoming club mascot. But he doesn't count on being sent to hospital to have his tonsils removed the very day of the big fight.
#10 - Going Steady
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1962
Robbie wants to date a cute fifteen year old blonde, whose mother campaigns for Steve's co-operation to end the relationship, but this move almost ends in another romance. Robbie starts shaving and Steve realises Robbie is becoming a man.
#11 - Moment of Truth
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1962
College freshman Mike Douglas has invited the reigning campus beauty to his fraternity's Saturday night dance, but he sort of doubts that she'll accept. So to cover all bets, he invites another girl too, which lands him in more trouble than he bargained for.
#12 - Pretty As a Picture
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1962
High School student Robbie Douglas once again has women problems -- he is smitten with a glamorous senior who doesn't even know that he exists. Mike suggests he take her photo but this ultimately lands him in trouble with her two big brothers. Meanwhile, Bub tries the hard word to rid himself of a pesky neighbor.
#13 - The System
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/25/1963
Mike learns the importance of indirect questioning in his psychology course when Robbie is sought after by eight classmates. Mike sets out to determine by voluntary questionnaire and graph who would be the most suitable scientific choice.
#14 - The Rug
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/18/1963
Steve lays down the law to Chip, warning him he'll be grounded for a month the next time he loses or misuses someone else's property. Meanwhile a woman who is rounding up second hand items for a rummage sale visits Bub, who offers an old Tiger skin rug.
#15 - How to Impress a Woman
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1963
Mike has the job of recruiting some campus models for a fashion show and when a gorgeous store representative stops by to give him help, he forgets there are any other girls in the world. With Robbie's help, he tries hard to capture her affections with displays of serenading on the guitar.
#16 - Steve Gets an 'A'
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1962
Robbie's big date is scheduled the same weekend he is supposed to writing a term paper. When Mike finds an old essay of Steve's -- graded 'A' -- Robbie copies it and hands it in. When Steve learns of the 'F' that Robbie gets and that it was his paper, he goes to see the teacher and learns that the contents of the paper were plagiarized word for word from a famous text. Steve eats humble pie and tells Robbie the truth why he got the 'F'.
#17 - The Ghost Next Door
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1962
Chip and his friend Sudsy see a Halloween spook carrying a candle in the neighbor's vacant house next door while out trick or treating, and are frightened out of their minds, but Steve and Bub will not believe them.
#18 - The Clunky Kid
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/14/1963
Chip is overcome with loneliness when Sudsy starts spending all of his time with a new boy in the neighborhood. The entire household rallies together and their efforts to compensate the youngster succeed almost too well.
#19 - Total Recall
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/9/1963
Bub is nettled to hear that an old classmate, a famed baseball manager, is returning to town to receive an award.
#20 - Flashback
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1963
Steve encounters a sweet, old-fashioned 16-year-old at the bus depot, who reminds him of someone from his high school days. After hearing about his family, the girl wants to go on a date with Robbie, who finds she is more wordly than his father had told him.
#21 - High on the Hog
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/14/1963
When Robbie and his friend complain about being broke, another student offers them a pig to fatten in a profit-sharing plan. When the time comes for it to be slaughtered however, nobody is quite sure that they want to do it.
#22 - Tramp's First Bite
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1962
Tramp supposedly takes a nip out of pampered young Alan Edgerton and the court case that follows, gives Robbie the chance to help out the family's lawyer with some special investigating when he realises he can prove that the dog acted in self defense.
#23 - Big Chief Bub
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1963
Chip, Sudsy and the other boy cub scouts are downhearted when it seems imminent that Mrs. Thorndyke their den mother is leaving for Washington state. In need of a new den mother Chip volunteers his Grandfather or else they will have to disband until a substitute can be found.
#24 - Chip's World
Season 3 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/23/1963
When Chip spots a runaway toddler needing help, he disobeys orders to wait at home for one of Steve's colleagues in order to give him some important plan specifications.
#25 - Evening with a Star
Season 3 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/30/1963
Chip reads a news item about someone winning a date with an actress and gets the idea of raffling off a date with a big star - his grandfather Bub.