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My Three Sons Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
Weekend in Tokyo
Thu, Sep 20, 196230 mins
The whole family goes on a trip to Japan when Steve has to fly there for business. Everyone enjoys seeing the tourist sites, and Mike enjoys his meeting with a young woman named Kimiko.
Episode 2
Robbie's Employment Service
Thu, Sep 27, 196230 mins
Robbie and his friend start a business for home repairs and chores in order to make money to go on dates. Chip decides to start his own business for babysitting so he can buy a new bike. Sometimes the clients overlap the two businesses.
Episode 3
Tramp's First Bite
Thu, Oct 4, 196230 mins
The Douglas' are taken to small claims court when a teen accuses Tramp of biting him. Robbie sets out to prove Tramp was provoked into biting, and therefore is not guilty.
Episode 4
Moment of Truth
Thu, Oct 11, 196230 mins
Mike (Tim Considine) is in a bind when he realizes he has two dates for his fraternity's dance. He did not think the college beauty (Diana Piper) would accept his date, so he asked another girl (Penney Parker) as well.
Episode 5
Daughter for a Day
Thu, Oct 18, 196230 mins
A female acquaintance of Steve is in town to give a lecture, and is accompanied by her eight-year-old daughter Jeannie (Morgan Brittany). Steve (Fred MacMurray) offers to babysit the cute little girl, anticipating that she will be entertained by his boys. When it turns out that everyone else, including Bub, have made other plans, Steve is put in the rather awkward position of having to amuse an eight-year-old girl, himself. In the end, young Jeannie is able to warmly bond with the entire Douglas male household. This is a new and rewarding experience for her as her parents are divorced and she has been used to living with just one parent at a time.
Episode 6
The Ghost Next Door
Thu, Oct 25, 196230 mins
While out trick-or-treating, Chip and his friend Sudsy see someone - or something - carrying a candle, in the window of an empty house next to the Douglas'. No one believes them.
Episode 7
Pretty as a Picture
Thu, Nov 1, 196230 mins
Robbie is infatuated with a senior in high school who does not notice him. Mike gives Robbie some advice which backfires.
Episode 8
What's Cooking?
Thu, Nov 8, 196230 mins
Chip's school holds a cooking contest with the kids submitting their mother's favorite recipe. Chip is upset because he does not have a mother. He dad comes through by submitting his favorite recipe.
Episode 9
Chip's Last Fight
Thu, Nov 15, 196230 mins
Chip wants to join a neighborhood club, but the members say he is too young. He wants to prove he is big enough, but first he has to have his tonsils taken out at the hospital.
Episode 10
Steve Gets an A
Thu, Nov 22, 196230 mins
Robbie did not do his term paper so he finds an old paper that Steve used years ago when he was in school. While Steve got an A on his homework, Robbie gets an F.
Episode 11
Heat Wave
Thu, Nov 29, 196230 mins
Steve cannot find some important papers for his work. As he searches high and low, he remembers the family gave papers to the boy scouts for their paper drive fund raiser.
Episode 12
The Beauty Contest
Thu, Dec 6, 196230 mins
Mike's college holds a beauty pageant and Mike (Tim Considine) is selected as the judge. During the days before the pageant, all the women approach Mike to show him their talent; Mike has more problems when his girlfriend Laurie (Nancy McCarthy) enters the pageant;
Episode 13
Doctor in the House
Thu, Dec 13, 196230 mins
Steve (Fred MacMurray) hurts his back and needs a doctor (Oliver McGowan).
Episode 14
Going Steady
Thu, Dec 20, 196230 mins
Robbie (Don Grady) wants to go steady with Linda (Marta Kristen), but Linda's mother Paulette (Lola Albright) does not approve of her daughter getting involved at her young age. Paulette talks to Steve (Fred MacMurray) to try to end their relationship, but ends up in a relationship with Steve.
Episode 15
Mother Bub
Thu, Dec 27, 196230 mins
Chip and Sudsy want to buy a model auto to work on. When Steve seems like he will allow Chip to buy it, Bub comes up with an argument.
Episode 16
Honorable Grandfather
Thu, Jan 3, 196330 mins
Steve's friend Ray Wong (Benson Fong) is having a birthday party for his honorable grandfather. He tells Steve (Fred MacMurray) that Chip (Stanley Livingston) can come to the party.
Episode 17
How to Impress a Woman
Thu, Jan 10, 196330 mins
Mike (Tim Considine) is smitten with an attractive model (Diana Millay), who's been hired to oversee a college fashion show. When he finds out she loves classical guitar music, Mike fakes his way through a song on Robbie's (Don Grady) scratch-built guitar, that he claims he built himself in an attempt to impress her, while Robbie cues up a phonograph record, outside.
Episode 18
Roman Holiday
Thu, Jan 17, 196330 mins
A business trip to Rome does not interest Steve. Since Steve doesn't normally turn down business trips, the boys try to find out why this time is different. Bub tells them that Steve and their mother once vacationed in Italy.
Episode 19
Flashback
Thu, Jan 24, 196330 mins
Steve sets Robbie up on a blind date with a girl he met that reminded him of his own youthful dates. When Robbie and the girl (Joyce Bulifant) meet, she thinks he is too sophisticated for her.
Episode 20
The Dream Book
Thu, Jan 31, 196330 mins
One of Steve's coworkers asks Steve to join the company musical group. Steve declines but the coworker keeps asking. That night, Steve dreams he is being chased by a man with a musical instrument.
Episode 21
Big Chief Bub
Thu, Feb 7, 196330 mins
Chip's boyscout group is losing their den mother and a scout when the family is moving out of state. Chip talks Bub into taking on the position.
Episode 22
The Clunky Kid
Thu, Feb 14, 196330 mins
When a new kid moves into town, Sudsy befriends him. Soon, Sudsy is spending all his time with his new friend and Chip is odd man out.
Episode 23
Caged Fury
Thu, Feb 21, 196330 mins
Steve becomes the tutor for the members of Robbie's wrestling team so they can improve their school grades. When several boys develop a contagious disease, the house becomes quarantined. Bub cannot leave to go fishing and he is upset.
Episode 24
Make Way for Yesterday
Thu, Feb 28, 196330 mins
Robbie convinces his current events club committee to have an old fashioned dunking machine booth at the school carnival after Bub comes up with the idea. Meanwhile, some of the other clubs have booths featuring atom smashing, space capsules and computers.
Episode 25
Robbie Wins His Letter
Thu, Mar 7, 196330 mins
Robbie wins the highest achievement award in his science class but feels he does not deserve it.
Episode 26
High on the Hog
Thu, Mar 14, 196330 mins
When Robbie and Hank complain about being broke, their farm friend George offers them a pig to raise. After a rough start, the pig thrives but Chip is upset when he learns of Hamlet's future. An entry into the local fair may change things.
Episode 27
First Things First
Thu, Mar 28, 196330 mins
Mike has to decide between his work and his personal life. His Air Force Reserve crew needs him to help with engine maintenance, but he has a date at the same time.
Episode 28
Bub's Butler
Thu, Apr 4, 196330 mins
Bub enters a contest and wins the top prize. He finds out he won $2,000 and the services of a proper butler for two weeks. Bub finds it hard to be pampered by a butler, and the butler finds it hard to adjust to the activity of the Douglases.
Episode 29
Francesca
Thu, Apr 11, 196330 mins
The boys have their hands full when Steve and Bub are not home. The boys deal with two sick children, a runaway woman (Anita Sands), and a wild bird who gets in the house.
Episode 30
The Rug
Thu, Apr 18, 196330 mins
Chip is placed on probation by Steve for his losing another item that belongs to someone else. Chips sees a tiger skin rug that Bub plans to donate for a rummage sale
Episode 31
The System
Thu, Apr 25, 196330 mins
In his psychology course, Mike (Tim Considine) learns about random sampling, questionnaires, and graphing results. He uses these skills to determine who Robbie (Don Grady) should date.
Episode 32
Let's Take Stock
Thu, May 2, 196330 mins
Robbie's economics teacher teaches the value of money and uses the stock exchange as the assignment. Each student gets fictional money to see if they can increase their investment. As Robbie follows the stocks, Steve thinks he has talent.
Episode 33
Total Recall
Thu, May 9, 196330 mins
Bub is envious when he hears a former friend is coming to town and being honored with an award.
Episode 34
When I Was Your Age
Thu, May 16, 196330 mins
Bub thinks the boys are not doing their chores fast enough or well enough. He tells the boys they are lazy compared to the boys of his generation when they were teens.
Episode 35
Chip's World
Thu, May 23, 196330 mins
Chip is told to stay home and wait for one of Steve's coworkers to drop off some important papers. When Chip sees a young child walking unaccompanied outside, he helps the lost toddler.
Episode 36
Evening with a Star
Thu, May 30, 196330 mins
To earn money, Chip sells tickets to a raffle in which the prize is a date with a star. Bub does not realize he is the star.
Episode 37
The Date Bureau
Thu, Jun 6, 196330 mins
Robbie and his friends decide to match his classmates up scientifically so the dates could be successful. They collect information from their classmates and begin to make matches.
Episode 38
Bub's Sacrifice
Thu, Jun 13, 196330 mins
Robbie (Don Grady) tries to get Claudia (Vicky Albright), a girl at school, to go out with him. She agrees on two conditions: they go to a fighting match and he finds someone to go out with her aunt (Doris Kemper). Bub (William Frawley) has tickets to the sporting match, and he is available for a date.
Episode 39
Found Money
Thu, Jun 20, 196330 mins
Chip (Stanley Livingston) seems to have found a way to make money every day and he feels rich. Meanwhile, everyone else is trying to find a missing stamp that is worth a lot of money.