8.0/1063 votes#1 - The First Meeting
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1969
Robbie and Katie move into an apartment on the next block and widower Steve Douglas becomes the target of Katie's relentless matchmaking. However, Steve meets a remarkable woman in a high school corridor and the two are quickly attracted to each other.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.9/1065 votes
#2 - Instant Co-Worker
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1969
Robbie needs to talk to his dad-who seems unreachable
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.7/1057 votes
#3 - Is it Love?
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1969
The whole Douglas clan conspires to encourage Steve's romance with the lady in question, Barbara Harper. After dinner, Steve and Barbara go back to her house where Steve is predictably nervous around her. They are both serious about their relationship, but neither of them realizes it.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.9/1058 votes
#4 - A Ring for Barbara
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1969
Everyone (Except Barbara) knows Steve is going to propose to Barbara
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.9/1044 votes
#5 - The Littlest Rebel
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1969
With the ring finally on her finger, Steve and Barbara's engagement is exciting for everyone except Barbara's five year old daughter who isn't sure she wants to share her mother. Meanwhile, Barbara employs her considerable store of diplomacy in an effort to gain acceptance by Steve's family.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.9/1053 votes
#6 - Two Weeks to Go
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1969
Steve and Barbara have different ideas on how their wedding should go.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.7/1053 votes
#7 - One Week to Go
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1969
After a series of events at which the Bride and Groom wonder if they are doing the right thing, Steve and Barbara have an argument serious enough for them to consider cancelling their wedding.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.9/1057 votes
#8 - Came the Day
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1969
On Steve's wedding day the groom is predictably nervous. Recalling certain mishaps from his own big day, super efficient Robbie determines that his own father's wedding will be perfect and after a few hours of hectic, last-minute preparations, Steve and Barbara are married in a simple church ceremony.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.8/1058 votes
#9 - Mexican Honeymoon
Season 10 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1969
Steve and Barbara's Honeymoon in a remote fishing village is bustling with hordes of other, younger honeymooners. They end up counselling several couples who are not adjusting to married life. When a bottle of champagne arrives from the family back in Los Angeles, the other honeymooners realise that Steve and Barbara are indeed honeymooners as well.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.8/1051 votes
#10 - After You, Alphonse
Season 10 Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/1969
With Steve and Barbara due back from their honeymoon in Mexico, Katie forces Robbie to lecture Uncle Charley on politeness, and the result of his very puzzling behaviour nearly drives Barbara out of her mind.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1044 votes
#11 - Rough on Dodie
Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1969
Little Dodie feels out of place among her three stepbrothers and her often grumpy uncle, and discovers that being a member of the Douglas family can be a rough and tumble proposition.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1046 votes
#12 - Silver Threads
Season 10 Episode 12 - Aired 12/27/1969
When Katie panics as she detects a few gray hairs in her youthful head, a family crisis is not far away. She further worries Robbie by suggesting they discuss preparation of life insurance and superannuation.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1047 votes
#13 - It's a Woman's World
Season 10 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1970
When her brothers have more pressing commitments, Steve gets cast in Dodie's school play as a tree, more or less proving Robbie's point that females are instinctive manipulators.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1051 votes
#14 - Table for Eight
Season 10 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1970
Barbara faces a fiasco when she prepares her first dinner party for Steve's business associates and their wives. The event has Barbara worried to death after a few schedule changes ruin most of her plans. Finally it is Barbara's mother who saves the day.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1049 votes
#15 - Double Jealousy
Season 10 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1970
Barbara is jealous when a glamorous special secretary enters the lives of both Steve and his son, Robbie, and causes a double domestic crisis. Barbara ends up consoling a heartbroken young lady who is eventually fired from her position.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1047 votes
#16 - Dodie's Tonsils
Season 10 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1970
Little Dodie goes to the hospital for a tonsillectomy and insists that her new father stay overnight with her. Barbara understands because she knows that Dodie is finally accepting Steve as her real father. Meanwhile, Robbie and Katie go on a trip to Mexico and leave the triplets in care of the Douglases.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1049 votes
#17 - Who is Sylvia?
Season 10 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1970
Hoping to renew her funloving friendship, Steve's old girlfriend from Bryant Park, who is now a rich divorcee, comes to town and gives Barbara a few jealous moments.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.7/1062 votes
#18 - You Can't Go Home
Season 10 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1970
Robbie is asked to be the best man at the wedding of an old friend from Bryant Park. He decides to go back a week early to show Katie around the town where he grew up but ultimately makes a disappointing visit when he realises that time and years do change things.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.8/1055 votes
#19 - Guest in the House
Season 10 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1970
Barbara tells her mother that she feels rejected when the boys never tell her their troubles and go to Steve or Charley instead. While Steve is away on business, she is forced to confront one of Chip's teachers when he and another student are accused of cheating in an exam.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1045 votes
#20 - Charley's Cello
Season 10 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1970
Barbara feels that Uncle Charley is lonely playing his Cello, so she talks to a msuic store proprietress who invites three lady musicians to help join in a string quartet.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1052 votes
#21 - The Honeymoon is Over
Season 10 Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1970
A Special time consuming project keeps Steve and son Robbie so pre-occupied that they are tired when they arrive home. After the project ends, the co-workers throw a celebration party and when Barbara and Katie arrive with supper for their hardworking spouses, and see a party in full swing, they storm out.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.7/1046 votes
#22 - Baubles, Bangles, and Beatrice
Season 10 Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1970
Young Ernie Douglas becomes the unwilling object of the affection of Dodie's six year old friend while Barbara is asked by the Board of Education to take a substitute teacher's job at a local high school. She finds her stepson Chip in the class and he embarrassingly becomes her prized pupil.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1048 votes
#23 - Mister X
Season 10 Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1970
A bearded man of mystery confounds the Douglas family and the authorities alike, while Steve is working on a top priority project at home. Barbara soon identifies him as her former father-in-law.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1052 votes
#24 - Dodie's Dilemma
Season 10 Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/1970
Dodie calls upon her big brothers to help her fight her battles in the school playground when some girls say that Douglas is not her real name. Steve feels he should formally adopt Dodie to make it official but this only solves half of Dodie's problems.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1059 votes
#25 - Love Thy Neighbor
Season 10 Episode 25 - Aired 3/28/1970
Robbie and Katie have an unpleasant personality clash with the young couple who move into the next apartment in their building. Meanwhile, when Uncle Charley assures Dodie that Katie is her sister, she phones and leaves a message with Robbie. When he forgets to pass it on, a family crisis is not far away.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 10
Every episode of My Three Sons Season 10 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 10!
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son,...
Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:CBS
Season 10 Ratings Summary
"The First Meeting" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 10. It scored 8/10 based on 63 votes. Directed by Frederick de Cordova and written by George Tibbles, it aired on 10/4/1969. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Instant Co-Worker".