6.8/1057 votes#1 - Birds And Bees
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1961
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
- 7.2/1055 votes
#2 - Instant Hate
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1961
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
- 7.2/1055 votes
#3 - The Crush
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1961
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: N/A
- 6.7/1059 votes
#4 - Tramp The Hero
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1961
When a boiling pot explodes Tramp's barking wakes the family saving them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1074 votes
#5 - A Perfect Memory
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1961
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: N/A
- 6.2/1066 votes
#6 - Bub's Lodge
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1961
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: N/A
- 7.1/1056 votes
#7 - A Lesson in Any Language
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1961
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
- 7.1/1053 votes
#8 - The Ugly Duckling
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1961
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
- 7.2/1072 votes
#9 - Chip's Composition
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1961
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: N/A
- 7.2/1053 votes
#10 - Mike in Charge
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1961
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
- 6.5/1057 votes
#11 - Bub Goes to School
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1961
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: N/A
- 6.7/1058 votes
#12 - Robbie's Band
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1961
Robbie's band rehearsals upsets the household. Mike's fraternity is looking for a band and Robbie tries to get the job.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1051 votes
#13 - Damon and Pythias
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1961
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: N/A
- 7.0/1054 votes
#14 - Chip Leaves Home
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1962
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
- 7.3/1063 votes
#15 - The Romance of Silver Pines
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1962
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
- 7.3/1060 votes
#16 - Blind Date
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1962
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
- 6.1/1061 votes
#17 - Second Time Around
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/25/1962
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: N/A
- 6.9/1062 votes
#18 - The Girls Next Door
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1962
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: N/A
- 6.9/1068 votes
#19 - Bub Gets a Job
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/8/1962
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
Writer: George Tibbles, Robert Specht
- 7.3/1074 votes
#20 - Le Petit Stowaway
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1962
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: N/A
- 7.0/1058 votes
#21 - Robbie Valentino
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1962
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: N/A
- 6.4/1057 votes
#22 - The Masterpiece
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1962
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: N/A
- 6.9/1072 votes
#23 - A Holiday for Tramp
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1962
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: N/A
- 6.2/1056 votes
#24 - The Big Game
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1962
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: N/A
- 6.4/1049 votes
#25 - Chip's Party
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1962
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: N/A
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!
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 2 Ratings Summary
"Birds And Bees" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 2. It scored 6.8/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by Richard Whorf and written by George Tibbles, it aired on 9/28/1961. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Instant Hate".