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28 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
Sat, Sep 28, 196830 mins
The family is cleaning house together, with Katie (Tina Cole) doing a lot of heavy lifting and using strong chemicals. When Robbie (Don Grady) finds her lying down after having fainted, Katie claims that she was just resting. Her mother (Joan Tompkins) arrives at the Douglas house unexpectedly, announcing that her woman's intuition tells her that Katie is pregnant, which a doctor's visit confirms.
Episode 2
Sat, Oct 5, 196830 mins
When it's time for Katie (Tina Cole) to go see a doctor for her pregnancy, a lot of people recommend their doctor. But her mother (Joan Tompkins) makes an appointment for her to see their family doctor, Roy Osborne (Leon Ames), and Robbie (Don Grady) is not exactly willing to go to him because he's a G.P. When Robbie and Katie go to his office and Robbie sees that he basically works out of his house, Robbie is even more convinced that they should go see a specialist. But Katie likes Dr. Osborne. However, when Robbie suddenly falls ill with a chest infection, and has to see Dr Osborne. Uncle Charley does a home remedy, to make his illness go away. As Robbie recovers from his infection, he begins to like Dr. Osborne.
Episode 3
Sat, Oct 12, 196830 mins
After Katie (Tina Cole) feels her baby moving for the first time, expectant father Robbie (Don Grady) decides it's time for him to mature and take life more seriously. Meanwhile, Ernie's friend's Gordon (Butch Patrick) has a dog that is also pregnant, with Tramp as the father, so Ernie (Barry Livingston) also wants to be more involved with the birth of the puppies.
Episode 4
Sat, Oct 19, 196830 mins
Steve (Fred MacMurray) meets with a hard-boiled Air Force general (Arthur O'Connell) to sell a company product, but the general - himself a new grandfather - after learning that Steve is about to become a grandfather, becomes an easy sell as he eagerly shares his experiences as a grandfather.
Episode 5
Sat, Oct 26, 196830 mins
Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole) realize that they will need help with the babies immediately after they are born, and seek out to hire a baby nurse. Uncle Charley (William Demarest) wants the job, and is disappointed by not being asked, so he sets out on a series of baby sitting jobs to gain experience. He panics in his first experience with an actual baby and needs to call in Katie for advice, but he quickly becomes the favorite baby sitter in the neighborhood. While Rob and Katie realize he could do the job, they feel it is too much to ask now that Charley has a successful baby sitting career, but Charley overhears the discussion and realizes that he needs to volunteer for the job.
Episode 6
Sat, Nov 9, 196830 mins
Katie (Tina Cole) feels like she is getting as big as a house, even bigger than her pregnant friend Lisa (Barbara Boles), who is over due. While Robbie (Don Grady) is away on military reserve training (again!), Steve (Fred MacMurray) takes Katie to her OB appointment, where her doctor (Leon Ames) reveals why she is getting so large - Katie is having more than one baby. Katie doesn't want anyone to know before she can tell Robbie, but she's already getting her first labor pains and Robbie cannot be contacted.
Episode 7
Sat, Nov 16, 196830 mins
With Robbie away on Army maneuver training, and still unaware that his wife is expecting multiple births, it is up to Steve and Uncle Charley to get Katie to the hospital when her labor pains start. At the hospital, rules only allow two people in the waiting room per expectant mother, so in turn Uncle Charley, Chip and Ernie each claim - unsuccessfully - to be the baby's father. Robbie finally arrives just as Katie is giving birth, and to his surprise, he is shown not one, not two, but three newborn sons.
Episode 8
Sat, Nov 23, 196830 mins
Rob and Katie bring the triplets home from the hospital and reveal their names - Robbie Jr, Steve II and Charley - much to the delight of their namesakes. But Rob soon tires of all the attention that the triplets get and the repeated questions that everyone is asking - "How do you tell them apart?" But eventually Rob gets accustomed to the curiosity of his friends and neighbors.
Episode 9
Sat, Nov 30, 196830 mins
Feeling that he's not contributing enough to the household expenses, Robbie (Don Grady) decides to quit school, get a job, and move his family into their own place. Rob's college counselor (Vince Howard) urges him to think it over before rushing into such a major decision, and asks the administration office to delay his paperwork over the weekend. The stalling tactic gives Rob enough time to discover that despite the added financial burden placed on his father, Steve (Fred MacMurray) enjoys taking care of his grandchildren, and that he has plans to redesign Rob's room to accommodate Rob, Katie (Tina Cole) and the triplets.
Episode 10
Sat, Dec 7, 196830 mins
It seems that everybody has something planned for Friday night - except Ernie (Barry Livingston). But since this will be the first time Rob (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole) are away from the triplets, they are reluctant to leave Ernie alone with the babies, so they hire a sitter recommended by the family doctor. However, the sitter (Rose Marie) seems to be more interested in watching television than watching the babies. After repeated calls from worried family members, she takes the phone off the hook, but now the constant busy signal causes more anxiety, so the family members all rush home, only to find that the sitter has matters well in hand.
Episode 11
Sat, Dec 14, 196830 mins
When Uncle Charley goes to pick up his date, Sally, he finds that not only has he been stood up, but Sally has run off to Las Vegas to get married. So Charley is in the dumps until a group of women fawn over him when he takes the triplets out to the park, and Charley tells the women that he is the grandfather.
Episode 12
Sat, Dec 21, 196830 mins
The triplets are teething and Katie is exhausted from the constant care they require and from lack of sleep. She and her mother go to Santa Barbara for a few days of doctor prescribed rest and relaxation while the family takes care of the babies and everyone is cranky. When they return they find the house surprisingly spotless, only to discover that the family had hired three cleaning ladies in Katie's absence. Jon Walmsley (The Waltons) appears in a minor role.
Episode 13
Sat, Dec 28, 196830 mins
Steve (Fred MacMurray) draws up plans to have Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie's (Tina Cole) bedroom enlarged to include a nursery. The contractor, Carl Storffman (Ed Begley), hired to do the work ends up locking horns with everyone except Katie, who manages to charm him. It turns out that he has nine sons, and his grandchildren are all boys; his wife and daughter have passed away. His son David Storffman's (Gary Clarke) wife is expecting another grandchild, and he's blessed with a granddaughter.
Episode 14
Sat, Jan 4, 196930 mins
Steve's friends set him up to meet - in Ernie's words - "some clunky woman." The family tries to give the impression that Steve (Fred MacMurray) isn't really as old as he seems, when the woman (Wanda Hendrix) acts more and more surprised meeting each of Steve's sons, who is older than the previous.
Episode 15
Sat, Jan 11, 196930 mins
The Douglas family doubts Katie's (Tina Cole) accuracy in identifying the triplets by name, unaware that she has placed ink dots on each baby's feet to assist her. Unknowingly, Steve (Fred MacMurray) gives the babies a bath which washes off the dots, so Katie has to take the triplets to the hospital to match them to their footprints. Not knowing about Katie's new ID methodology - having name tags in their clothes - Steve changes the babies, so its back to the hospital, this time to get identification bracelets.
Episode 16
Sat, Jan 18, 196930 mins
Chip (Stanley Livingston) has a new girlfriend, Debbie (Angela Cartwright), and their relationship is progressing at a rapid pace. Shortly after convincing Debbie to drop her swimming class for home economics, Chip and Debbie announce that they are engaged. While both families are concerned about the situation, they don't interfere with the kids, until one day Katie (Tina Cole) suddenly faints and Robbie (Don Grady) has to take her to see the doctor, leaving Chip and Debbie alone to take care of the triplets. After several frenzied hours with the babies, the couple decide that they are moving too fast and to just be friends.
Episode 17
Sat, Jan 25, 196930 mins
Steve (Fred MacMurray) is recruited by the Air Force to act as a double agent willing to sell secret plans to America's enemy, so he's quickly whisked off to New York, after breakfast on a supersonic jet, to meet his contact - an attractive younger woman (Anne Jeffreys) - for lunch. The woman suspects Steve is not genuine, and leads him through a series of encounters, eventually chasing him into a hotel bathroom where her cronies shoot through the opaque shower curtain, just before the good guys arrive to arrest everyone. Spoiler Alert: the shots missed Steve as he crouched down in the tub, so he safely makes it back to California that night, unable to tell his family about his top secret adventure.
Episode 18
Sat, Feb 1, 196930 mins
Chip (Stanley Livingston) almost has enough money to buy a hot rod from his school chum Wayne (Kevin Brodie), but Steve (Fred MacMurray) reminds him that he's forgetting about insurance and other costs associated with car ownership. Chip is disheartened, so Steve buys him a car for his birthday - a 30-year-old Tin Lizzie adorned with silver bud vases, which evokes fond memories for Steve, but is typically driven by old ladies. The entire family sees that Chip is disappointed, and Chip is embarrassed to be seen in the car, although he tells the family that he loves it. Shortly thereafter, his friend with the hot rod comes over and sees Chip's car and recognizes it for what it is - a genuine antique in original condition. He offers to trade his hot rod for it, but Chip refuses - he'd rather keep the car that his father gave him.
Episode 19
Sat, Feb 8, 196930 mins
Steve's former Bryant Park co-worker, Ray Wong (Benson Fong), has transferred to Los Angeles, and tells Steve that his pregnant daughter's husband, Henry Soo (Brian Fong), is a long-haired hippie. Though intelligent, the son-in-law hasn't any direction in life - until he tours Steve's plant and his wife gives birth to twins.
Episode 20
Sat, Feb 15, 196930 mins
Alternate title: I Told You So. Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Ernie (Barry Livingston) spot Robbie (Don Grady) with an attractive young woman (Linda Miller), and tell their father about it, but Steve (Fred MacMurray) says that there is probably a good reason and not to worry about it. Meanwhile, Uncle Charley (William Demarest) gets frazzled when he hears a rumor that the city is going to widen the streets, so he starts up a petition to prevent it from happening despite, as Steve points out, that he doesn't know for sure what the city is planning. Eventually, Charley learns that a councilman was just having crosswalks painted, and the young woman was just a friend who Robbie was helping make plans for a surprise anniversary party for her husband. In the end, Steve takes delight in telling both Uncle Charley and the boys, "I told you so".
Episode 21
Sat, Feb 22, 196930 mins
Ernie is distressed and shocked that his best friend and next-door-neighbor, Gordon, is moving away, yet somehow he doesn't realize that Gordon will be moving away until a "Sold" sign is posted on the "For Sale" sign next door. As moving day approaches, Ernie and Gordon try to spend as much time together as possible, yet Gordon - even as they are packing up the house - doesn't even know where the family will be moving to. After the Douglas's throw Gordon a farewell party, the two friends say their final sad good-byes and trade mementos, and Gordon climbs into the moving van with two moving men - and no other family members are in sight his dad and brothers and sister in law try to cheer him up. At the breakfast table the next morning while Chip, Robbie, and Uncle Charley feed the triplets and burp them too, Ernie reminisces about Gordon, who may be living in New Zealand by now. Suddenly, Gordon walks in with a surprise announcement he's not moving to another state, he's moving to a new house down the next block.
Episode 22
Sat, Mar 1, 196930 mins
Charley starts dating the grandmother of Ernie's friend, Janet. The teens are shocked at the scandal of the old people acting young.
Episode 23
Sat, Mar 8, 196930 mins
Ernie writes to Maria (Silvia Marino), a pen-pal of Spanish nationality. He invites her to dinner at his home.
Episode 24
Sat, Mar 15, 196930 mins
Ernie thinks that he has ESP, when he's the only person in his class to guess the correct color of a card held up by his teacher (Booth Colman).
Episode 25
Sat, Mar 22, 196930 mins
Steve's co-worker and golf buddy Harry (Don DeFore) suggests that Steve (Fred MacMurray), Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Ernie (Barry Livingston) go to the company picnic with himself and his son and daughter. But despite the efforts of the parents, the kids mutually dislike each other.
Episode 26
Sat, Mar 29, 196930 mins
Ernie (Barry Livingston) is smitten with a classmate, Margaret (Julia Benjamin), and asks his father what he should do. Steve (Fred MacMurray) suggests that changing his appearance might give him a chance to break the ice. So Ernie come to school the next day with his hair slicked back like Pat Riley, unfortunately Margaret isn't interested, meanwhile, another classmate, Iris (Jennifer Edwards), is smitten with Ernie, but Ernie doesn't seem to notice.
Episode 27
Sat, Apr 5, 196930 mins
Steve (Fred MacMurray) is cast in the role of marriage counselor by a young couple (Johnny Washbrook and Beverly Lunsford), who turn to him for help.
Episode 28
Sat, Apr 19, 196930 mins
Ernie (Barry Livingston) is in an advanced English class with a strict but efficient teacher (Sylvia Sidney).