The BEST episodes of My Three Sons season 5

Every episode of My Three Sons season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of My Three Sons season 5!

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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#1 - Dublin's Fair City (Part 1)

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1964

Bub decides to use his winning raffle ticket to take the Douglases to Ireland to visit his relatives. While in the village of Farnsea, they stay with his redoubtable 103 year old Aunt Kate and Cousin Mickey.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#2 - Goodbye Again

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1964

Mike's life is complicated by the return of his old girlfriend Jean Pearson. He can't bring himself to tell her that he is engaged to marry Sally. Chip and Ernie keep Mike under surveillance to report to fiancee Sally.

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#3 - The Coffee House Set

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1964

Robbie's new girlfriend offers to get him and his guitar an audition at a club, and introduces him to a strange new world of far out youngsters who comprise the audience. When Robbie becomes a smash his family struggles to bring him back from stardom.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#4 - The Lotus Blossom

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1964

At the Lotus Blossom Cafe, Steve is impressed by the timid and beautiful proprietress. The elegant Chinese widow contemplates returning to Hong Kong, but the Douglas family show her the American way of life, hoping she will stay.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#5 - You're in My Power

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1964

After acting as the subject for a stage hypnotist, Robbie decides that hypnosis could help in his latest romance, which leads to a chain reaction when they try it out on his grandfather Bub who consequently does a weird dance whenever someone whistles.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#6 - Lady President

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1964

Political overtones arise in the Douglas house when Steve becomes escort to a visiting congresswoman. Meanwhile Chip must entertain a small girl who aims to be class president -- even though Chip is campaigning to be.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#7 - A Touch of Larceny

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1964

Chip and Ernie get an interesting lesson in honesty, and dishonesty from the school bully, who volunteers an insight to the underbelly world of swiping school lunches. Chip becomes bewildered by the differing standards of honesty among those he knows and Steve must do his best to sort out the problem.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#8 - First, You're a Tadpole

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1964

Robbie consults Sally about his latest heartthrob—and he's sure he's too young for the girl. Robbie alarms Sally when he appears to be in love with her, and Steve must persuade him to grow up overnight.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#9 - Caribbean Cruise

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1964

Steve sails aboard the S.S. Carolina in order to establish a business contract with a firm but his task is complicated by Robbie who has a vacationing job as a steward onboard the same liner. They both find that business and pleasure do sometimes mix.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#10 - He Wanted Wings

Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1965

Robbie follows the fad and buys an antique aircraft to impress his new girlfriend. Steve lets him go ahead with trying to restore it, convinced it will never fly but as it becomes more airworthy, Steve becomes concerned.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#11 - Divorce, Bryant Park Style

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/31/1964

When their best friends' marriage heads for the rocks, Mike and Sally pause for a second thought about their forthcoming wedding. Mike and Sally try to reconcile them by arranging visits to a marriage counsellor.

Directors: James V. Kern
Writer: Earl Barret
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#12 - Robbie and the Nurse

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1964

Robbie breaks a leg on the football field and becomes the first patient of a dazzling French nurse. Robbie doesn't mind being hospitalized when the nurse in training lavishes attention on him. Her constant attention baffles Steve until he is warned that her interest in him is more than in her patient.

Directors: James V. Kern
Writer: Phil Davis
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#13 - Dublin's Fair City (Part 2)

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1964

The Douglas family continues to revel in the fun in the Irish village of Farnsea, ruled by the formidable Aunt Kate. Steve realises that her wisdom is helpful when Mary Kathleen Connolly becomes infatuated with him.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#14 - The Practical Shower

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1964

Realising the need for economy, Mike and Sally decide that her shower will be productive of useful gifts for the kitchen, but Bub is all for romance but Mike's practical ideas meet resistance when Bub plans a bridal shower for Sally. Chip and Ernie manage to turn the shower into something very impractical indeed.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#15 - The Fountain of Youth

Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/11/1965

Charley accompanies Robbie and his date to a reading by an old pal of his, Maggie McSterling. She is a veteran actress and she and Charley recall their friendship during their vaudeville days. Maggie looks much younger than her age, and decides that Charley needs a vigorous course of rejuvenation.

Directors: James V. Kern
Writer: Ray Brenner
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#16 - Uncle Charley and the Redskins

Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/20/1965

Exit the last of the Black and White era. In this episode: Charley refuses to believe that a polite and quietly dressed man is in fact the last Chief of Owahnanee Tribe and his disbelief is deepened when the Indian asks for permission to visit their Tribal Burial grounds which just happens to be the backyard of the Douglas House.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#17 - The Glass Sneaker

Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/29/1965

Chip meets a group of Vaudevillians at a black tie affair with Uncle Charley and loses his sneaker in a Cinderella-like adventure when he falls for little Alice Vail.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#18 - The Teenagers

Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1965

Chip dates an older woman and Robbie finds his ideas misinterpreted when the Douglas boys face the troubles of growing up. Meanwhile, Robbie tries to come up with a novel idea for the school float, and proceeds to demonstrate that teenage is just a time in life, but his speech, activities and clothes prove that it something much more, a lesson Chip also begins to learn.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#19 - Steve and the Computer

Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/8/1965

Steve is having nightmares and his vision of the future has a computer named Betsy join the family. It interferes with wedding plans when it selects different mates for Mike and Sally. Hoping to prove the computer wrong, Mike decides he will have Steve fill out a questionaire for his dad and his mother. His reasoning is that they will submit the two forms and the computer will pick someone else for their perfect match, thereby proving to Sally how wrong the computer can be. But lo and behold the computer mates Steve and Mike's mom.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#20 - Here Comes Charley

Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1965

With Bub permanently away in Ireland, Steve finally resorts to domestic assistance and the Douglas home is afflicted with a fiery dragon of a housekeeper named Fedocia. When Steve is desperately trying to solve the problem of getting rid of her the situation is saved by the arrival of Bub's younger brother Charley, a recently retired Ship's cook on leave. With Steve away on business and Charley about to leave for San Francisco, Chip is unhappy that he won't have a parent to come to his school's Open Night. The family soon learns that Charley's crusty disposition masks a soft heart.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#21 - Lady in the Air

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1965

A top woman pilot is preparing for her flight around the world and calls on Steve Douglas to modify the design of her plane. Steve takes more than a professional interest in the plane he is preparing for a long solo journey—as well as the lady aviator planning to fly it.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#22 - The Leopard's Spots

Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/13/1965

Sally has her hands full when her glamorous cousin comes to visit after being expelled from three colleges. She attracts so much attention from the boys that Uncle Charley uses his vaudeville make-up box to transform her into an ugly duckling.

Directors: Tim Considine
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#23 - All the Weddings

Season 5 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/6/1965

Preparations for Mike and Sally's coming nuptials get confusing when Sally's mother arrives two months early and takes over organising for their wedding. The daunting list of chores she hands Mike sends him off into a dream world as he and Sally imagine how other cultures decide who can wed.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#24 - Chip O' the Islands

Season 5 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/22/1965

Charley has a visit from an old Australian acquaintance who quickly fires the boys' imagination with tales of a paradise in the South pacific. The adults wonder if he is in fact an expert confidence trickster as he cheats Charley with an unexpected legacy that is responsible for a trip to the tropical island of Cocoa Fuji for Uncle Charley, Robbie and Chip.

Directors: James V. Kern
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#25 - Tramp and the Prince

Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/15/1965

Tramp causes confusion in two households when he runs away from home for fear of a cat. Meanwhile pampered 'Prince', pet in the mansion of a rich socialite, undergoes a complete and mysterious personality change.

Directors: James V. Kern