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The Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 2

Every episode of My Three Sons Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 2!

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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, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 1 - Birds And Bees
    6.8/10(67 votes)

    #1 - Birds And Bees

    S2:E1

    When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  2. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 2 - Instant Hate
    7.4/10(62 votes)

    #2 - Instant Hate

    S2:E2

    The good neighbour policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Myles Wilder

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  3. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 3 - The Crush
    7.3/10(67 votes)

    #3 - The Crush

    S2:E3

    Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 4 - Tramp The Hero
    6.9/10(69 votes)

    #4 - Tramp The Hero

    S2:E4

    When a boiling pot explodes Tramp's barking wakes the family saving them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 5 - A Perfect Memory
    7.5/10(86 votes)

    #5 - A Perfect Memory

    S2:E5

    An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise.

    Director:Peter Tewksbury
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 6 - Bub's Lodge
    6.4/10(78 votes)

    #6 - Bub's Lodge

    S2:E6

    Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 7 - A Lesson in Any Language
    7.4/10(68 votes)

    #7 - A Lesson in Any Language

    S2:E7

    Mike wants to go skiing on the weekend with his friends but must also keep up his Spanish studies. So he adopts the learn while you sleep method via use of a pre-programmed record player. Steve's room has just been painted so he decides to sleep in Mike's bed. Mysteriously, he wakes up speaking Spanish, and the next night Bub does the same. Before long they are both uttering phrases they couldn't possibly know.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Danny Simon

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  8. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 8 - The Ugly Duckling
    7.4/10(66 votes)

    #8 - The Ugly Duckling

    S2:E8

    Robbie is heading for an ‘F' in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  9. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 9 - Chip's Composition
    7.3/10(82 votes)

    #9 - Chip's Composition

    S2:E9

    A composition titled ‘What My Mother Means to Me' has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 10 - Mike in Charge
    7.4/10(61 votes)

    #10 - Mike in Charge

    S2:E10

    Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  11. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 11 - Bub Goes to School
    6.8/10(66 votes)

    #11 - Bub Goes to School

    S2:E11

    Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 12 - Robbie's Band
    6.8/10(67 votes)

    #12 - Robbie's Band

    S2:E12

    Robbie's band rehearsals upsets the household. Mike's fraternity is looking for a band and Robbie tries to get the job.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 13 - Damon and Pythias
    6.7/10(58 votes)

    #13 - Damon and Pythias

    S2:E13

    When Robbie and his friend Hank decide they want to join a club at school, Robbie insists he does not want to join Mike's old club. When he gets an offer to join the Chieftains, the one school Club his brother never belonged to, he jumps at the chance.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 14 - Chip Leaves Home
    7.2/10(63 votes)

    #14 - Chip Leaves Home

    S2:E14

    Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to do them all a favour by running away from home. His solution is to strike away for far-east India very early the next morning. He takes fright while downtown and secretly returns home and hides in the attic, forgetting the farewell note he's pinned to Tramp's collar.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  15. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 15 - The Romance of Silver Pines
    7.4/10(74 votes)

    #15 - The Romance of Silver Pines

    S2:E15

    Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Jack Laird

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  16. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 16 - Blind Date
    7.4/10(69 votes)

    #16 - Blind Date

    S2:E16

    Two dates, confused phone calls and name mix-ups create a tangled evening for brothers Mike and Robbie, when each get's the other's date. Mike gets a shock when he picks up a fourteen year old, while Robbie nearly croaks at the sight of his 'older woman'.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  17. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 17 - Second Time Around
    6.1/10(70 votes)

    #17 - Second Time Around

    S2:E17

    Attractive Pamela MacLish whom Steve took to Chip's grade school dance a year ago, is still trying to melt his bachelor heart. She arrives at the house on the pre-text of soliciting Bub's help to join an Irish Society called the 'Daughters of the Emerald Isle'. Soon Bub thinks that Pamela is after him.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 18 - The Girls Next Door
    7.0/10(72 votes)

    #18 - The Girls Next Door

    S2:E18

    Four beautiful airline stewardesses move into the vacant house next door and Mike and Robbie immediately are attracted to the glamorous career women. Meanwhile Steve is at the drawing board trying to meet a work deadline that requires his total concentration.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 19 - Bub Gets a Job
    7.0/10(76 votes)

    #19 - Bub Gets a Job

    S2:E19

    Bub reads an article in a magazine which is directed at bored homemakers and he begins to think that he fits the description. Steve warns him that he should control his Irish temper as it could lead to the demise of his position should he find one.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writers:Robert Specht, George Tibbles

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  20. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 20 - Le Petit Stowaway
    7.6/10(86 votes)

    #20 - Le Petit Stowaway

    S2:E20

    Steve is going to Chicago on business and he's promised to take Chip with him. A change of plans sees Steve boarding a military plane bound for Paris. Chip takes action when he finds out that he can't go on a trip to Paris with his father, by sneaking onto the plane. He gets lost in the city and is befriended by a little girl named Marie.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 21 - Robbie Valentino
    7.1/10(68 votes)

    #21 - Robbie Valentino

    S2:E21

    Bub fires Robbie's show business ambitions when he tells him to make the most of an opportunity when Robbie's 9th grade physics class is the subject of an educational film. He is excited when he and a fellow student are told they will be part of a close-up scene.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 22 - The Masterpiece
    6.7/10(68 votes)

    #22 - The Masterpiece

    S2:E22

    Chip tries to snow his teachers so he can win an art contest and almost succeeds with some help from Bub, who actually painted the artwork. Chip's teacher offers his painting to the Principal to show the school board. When Chip learns of this development, he plots with Sudsy to steal it back.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 23 - A Holiday for Tramp
    7.2/10(83 votes)

    #23 - A Holiday for Tramp

    S2:E23

    The Douglas family goes to the train station to meet Steve but when they prepare to leave, they can't find Tramp anywhere. Tramp has wandered into the cabin of a famous actress named Marissa Montaigne who takes a liking to him.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 24 - The Big Game
    6.3/10(65 votes)

    #24 - The Big Game

    S2:E24

    Robbie finds out that he won't be able to play in the big game unless he passes a math exam. Steve assures him that if he fails he will not be playing against his team's arch rival. When Chip comes down with the measles, it dampens Robbie's attempt to play even more than before.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. My Three Sons Season 2 Episode 25 - Chip's Party
    6.5/10(57 votes)

    #25 - Chip's Party

    S2:E25

    Chip's schoolmates want to help him celebrate his tenth birthday with a party but he doesn't want to share the occasion with certain young ladies. However, Steve falls foul of the German measles and when Bub speaks to Sudsy's mother about it, suddenly the gossip mongers decide that they will not send their children to the house for fear of catching the disease.

    Director:Richard Whorf
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Birds And Bees" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 2. It scored 6.8/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by Richard Whorf and written by George Tibbles, it aired on 9/28/1961. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Instant Hate".