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36 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
Thu, Sep 28, 196130 mins
Steve realizes it is time to talk to Chip about the birds and the bees when Tramp is father to puppies.

Episode 2
Thu, Oct 5, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 3
Thu, Oct 19, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 4
Thu, Oct 26, 196130 mins
Chip's new friend brags about his dog, a German shepherd 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.

Episode 5
Thu, Nov 2, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 6
Thu, Nov 9, 196130 mins
Bub and Mike are excited for their lodge and fraternity initiations.

Episode 7
Thu, Nov 16, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 8
Thu, Nov 23, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 9
Thu, Nov 30, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 10
Thu, Dec 7, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 11
Thu, Dec 14, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 12
Thu, Dec 21, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 13
Thu, Dec 28, 196130 mins
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.

Episode 14
Thu, Jan 4, 196230 mins
Chip runs away from home after feeling neglected, but when he gets downtown, he realizes home is safer.

Episode 15
Thu, Jan 11, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 16
Thu, Jan 18, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 17
Thu, Jan 25, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 18
Thu, Feb 1, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 19
Thu, Feb 8, 196230 mins
Bub wants to do something different than dishes and dusting. He goes on interviews for different jobs.

Episode 20
Thu, Feb 15, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 21
Thu, Feb 22, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 22
Thu, Mar 1, 196230 mins
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?

Episode 23
Thu, Mar 8, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 24
Thu, Mar 15, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 25
Thu, Mar 22, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 26
Thu, Mar 29, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 27
Thu, Apr 5, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 28
Thu, Apr 12, 196230 mins
Mike and Robbie plan to spend their summer vacation working in a different town to earn money.

Episode 29
Thu, Apr 19, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 30
Thu, Apr 26, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 31
Thu, May 3, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 32
Thu, May 10, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 33
Thu, May 17, 196230 mins
In an episode aired very out of place in the season's timeline, Robbie is entering High School and Mike is about to start college. (This show aired near the end of the season, and both had been in those schools for the entire season). Robbie is befriended by a star High School athlete, but upon learning about this Mike isn't impressed, as he doesn't have such a high opinion of "Chug". The difference of opinion causes some friction between the two brothers when Mike warns that Chug is only befriending Robbie to get something of him. Mike turns out to be right when Chug asks Robbie to rig an election.

Episode 34
Thu, May 24, 196230 mins
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.

Episode 35
Thu, May 31, 196230 mins
Mike (Tim Considine) and his friends pull a prank at college and get called before the dean for punishment.

Episode 36
Thu, Jun 7, 196230 mins
Steve and the boys get an earful of confusing advice from Bub and his friends.
