The BEST episodes of My Three Sons season 4
Every episode of My Three Sons season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of My Three Sons season 4!
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 - A Car of His Own
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1963
Mike offers to give Robbie his old car but his response baffles everyone. Robbie says he needs his own car to impress a new girl and does some fancy wheeling and dealing to get it.
#2 - House for Sale
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1964
The family is excited when Steve might travel to Hawaii on business, but there is dismay on their faces when the 'For Sale' sign goes up outside 837 Mill Street. Going on a trip to Hawaii is one thing, but could the entire family pack up and move there?
#3 - How Do You Know?
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1963
Steve gives Mike advice on love after he announces his passion for his new girlfriend Darlene, who Mike wants to devote time to, so he hardly welcomes Steve's suggestion that he help find a date for the girl in his office.
#4 - The Proposals
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1963
Mike gets cold feet when he decides to propose marriage to Sally. His bungling attempts further confuse the issue. He tries a combination of methods derived from the attempts made by his father and grandfather when they proposed to their respective spouses.
#5 - Stone Frog
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/20/1964
Chip believes in a magical stone frog, given to him by a lady from India and as coincidences stack up, the magic is hard to deny. The boy's belief causes some very interesting circumstances.
#6 - Dear Robbie
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1963
Robbie is chosen to write an 'advice to the lovelorn' column for the school newspaper, but Steve gets caught in the middle when a baffling love letter arrives. Robbie suggests that the writer should elope with her boyfriend and Steve tries to talk her out of it.
#7 - Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/12/1964
Kimiko, a Japanese girl Mike met in Tokyo last year comes to town to test her old feelings for Mike before she can be sure she loves another. Although Mike is now engaged to Sally, could he still feel something for her?
#8 - Top Secret
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/1963
Steve has to fly to Washington and is given a top secret military project. Steve tells the Pentagon brass that he would attract the least attention by just doing the work at home. While Bub is just beside himself with curiosity, Chip suddenly becomes the target for security men.
#9 - Mike Wears the Pants
Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/16/1964
Anxious to get married, but unable to afford an apartment, Mike suggests that he and his fiancee Sally move in with him and his family. Bub has to continuously change plans for a shower for Sally and Mike when she and Mike keep changing their future wedding plans.
#10 - Almost the Sound of Music
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1963
To capture the affections of a pretty blond, Robbie turns pop composer and produces a novelty song. The family agrees to do the vocal background, but when they are selected to sing the song on television, Steve gets a bad case of stagefright.
#11 - My Friend Ernie
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1963
Chip and his new sidekick Ernie find some old treasure maps but get lost in the woods when they go treasure hunting, causing the family's plans to be changed when they have to go looking for them.
#12 - Marriage by Proxy
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1964
Mike and Sally try to discover the truth about marriage from two of their recently wed friends, and think twice about getting married and having babies when they help another friend's expectant wife whose time has come.
#13 - Scotch Broth
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1963
The Douglas family inherit a castle in Scotland from their Scottish Grandfather and the whole family descends upon Sheehan Bridge to see it. Not only does 'The Castle' turn out to be an entire village pub in the highlands, but other members of the clan give them a freetly welcome.
#14 - Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1964
Mike feels that Sally should learn how to fish, since she's joining a family of avid fishermen - Except that Sally really hates the pastime. How coincidental then that Mike hates bird watching as well.
#15 - The Substitute Teacher
Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/9/1964
Disciplinarian Mrs. Proctor, Robbie's awful history teacher, breaks a leg and the replacement they receive is even worse. She is a charming, but inexperienced girl who earns her first battle star when she first encounters Robbie's class.
#16 - The Ballad of Lissa Stratemeyer
Season 4 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/30/1964
When Robbie's team gets slaughtered one too many times, their keenest fan Lissa Stratemeyer gets her girlfriends to ignore the boys for the victory rally until they do something about the score and break their losing streak.
#17 - My Fair Chinese Lady
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/1964
Robbie is chosen to help Americanize a traditional Chinese girl who is soon to meet her very hip Chinese-American fiancé. However, she is a girl so steeped in the traditions of her homeland that it seems unlikely she'll ever fit into American life.
#18 - Never Look Back
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1964
Steve eagerly anticipates his twenty fifth anniversary class reunion at Midwest University. Ignoring Bub's warnings that the old gang won't be as Steve remembers them, his enthusiasm increases when he meets the charming Heather Marlow, only girl in the class.
#19 - Windfall
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1963
Chip comes to the rescue of a trapped dog and receives a reward, which leads to new found popularity with his fellow members of the club that he and Ernie wish to join.
#20 - The Ever-Popular Robbie Douglas
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1963
Robbie is faced with a real political dilemma when he and a rival for a girl's affections, are campaigning for Student Council Representative.
#21 - The End of The You-Know-What
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1963
Chip and Ernie, having heard two scientists calculate that the world will be destroyed in one week are faced with the classic problem of what to do in the time they have left.
#22 - Didya Ever Have One of Those Days?
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1963
It's a bad day for Steve when everything seems to be going wrong for him. His run of bad luck starts when he cuts himself shaving, burns his hand on the toaster, and then can't get his car started. Worse yet, he has to clinch a deal with a very important client.
#23 - Second Chorus
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1964
While walking the dog through the park one night, Steve meets a lovely cabaret singer and before the evening ends he is out night-clubbing with her. Mike and Robbie feel they must intercede and protect Steve from a supposed matrimonial trap.
#24 - The Chaperone
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1964
Bub is appointed chaperone to Robbie and his friends when they decide to have a costume party. Robbie feels it will dampen the party as Bub doesn't see eye to eye with them on the little matter of correct behaviour.
#25 - The Tree
Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/2/1964
The town of Bryant Park takes sides violently when it is proposed to cut down the tree which stands outside of Robbie's girlfriend's home. The Douglas family are soon involved as Bub joins a women's group in the neighborhood to save his favorite tree from being torn down.