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The Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 4

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Every episode of My Three Sons Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 4!

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,...
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  • The Tree
    7.8/10(56)
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    #1 - The Tree

    Season 4 Episode 29

    Aired 4/2/1964

    The town of Bryant Park takes sides violently when it is proposed to cut down the tree which stands outside of Robbie's girlfriend's home. The Douglas family are soon involved as Bub joins a women's group in the neighborhood to save his favorite tree from being torn down.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

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  • House for Sale
    7.7/10(55)
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    #2 - House for Sale

    Season 4 Episode 22

    Aired 2/13/1964

    The family is excited when Steve might travel to Hawaii on business, but there is dismay on their faces when the 'For Sale' sign goes up outside 837 Mill Street. Going on a trip to Hawaii is one thing, but could the entire family pack up and move there?

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Danny Simon

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  • How Do You Know?
    7.5/10(58)
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    #3 - How Do You Know?

    Season 4 Episode 6

    Aired 10/24/1963

    Steve gives Mike advice on love after he announces his passion for his new girlfriend Darlene, who Mike wants to devote time to, so he hardly welcomes Steve's suggestion that he help find a date for the girl in his office.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Joanna Lee

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  • My Friend Ernie
    7.5/10(59)
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    #4 - My Friend Ernie

    Season 4 Episode 7

    Aired 10/31/1963

    Chip and his new sidekick Ernie find some old treasure maps but get lost in the woods when they go treasure hunting, causing the family's plans to be changed when they have to go looking for them.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: George Tibbles

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  • Second Chorus
    7.5/10(52)
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    #5 - Second Chorus

    Season 4 Episode 17

    Aired 1/9/1964

    While walking the dog through the park one night, Steve meets a lovely cabaret singer and before the evening ends he is out night-clubbing with her. Mike and Robbie feel they must intercede and protect Steve from a supposed matrimonial trap.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

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  • Top Secret
    7.4/10(51)
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    #6 - Top Secret

    Season 4 Episode 15

    Aired 12/26/1963

    Steve has to fly to Washington and is given a top secret military project. Steve tells the Pentagon brass that he would attract the least attention by just doing the work at home. While Bub is just beside himself with curiosity, Chip suddenly becomes the target for security men.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Harry Winkler

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  • The Substitute Teacher
    7.4/10(67)
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    #7 - The Substitute Teacher

    Season 4 Episode 30

    Aired 4/9/1964

    Disciplinarian Mrs. Proctor, Robbie's awful history teacher, breaks a leg and the replacement they receive is even worse. She is a charming, but inexperienced girl who earns her first battle star when she first encounters Robbie's class.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: George Tibbles

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  • Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park
    7.3/10(52)
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    #8 - Cherry Blossoms in Bryant Park

    Season 4 Episode 26

    Aired 3/12/1964

    Kimiko, a Japanese girl Mike met in Tokyo last year comes to town to test her old feelings for Mike before she can be sure she loves another. Although Mike is now engaged to Sally, could he still feel something for her?

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: George Tibbles

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  • Mike Wears the Pants
    7.3/10(51)
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    #9 - Mike Wears the Pants

    Season 4 Episode 31

    Aired 4/16/1964

    Anxious to get married, but unable to afford an apartment, Mike suggests that he and his fiancee Sally move in with him and his family. Bub has to continuously change plans for a shower for Sally and Mike when she and Mike keep changing their future wedding plans.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

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  • Steve and the Viking
    7.2/10(51)
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    #10 - Steve and the Viking

    Season 4 Episode 12

    Aired 12/5/1963

    Steve is chosen to act as nursemaid for the attractive daughter of a visiting Danish dignitary who turns out to be only 17. The girl's energetic idea of fun brings Steve to his knees, as he searches desperately for a substitute escort.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: George Tibbles

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  • Never Look Back
    7.2/10(48)
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    #11 - Never Look Back

    Season 4 Episode 18

    Aired 1/16/1964

    Steve eagerly anticipates his twenty fifth anniversary class reunion at Midwest University. Ignoring Bub's warnings that the old gang won't be as Steve remembers them, his enthusiasm increases when he meets the charming Heather Marlow, only girl in the class.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: John McGreevey

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  • What's the Princess Really Like?
    7.2/10(47)
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    #12 - What's the Princess Really Like?

    Season 4 Episode 27

    Aired 3/19/1964

    Steve's high school sweetheart returns to town as a real-life Princess, complete with entourage and the Douglases are invited to a posh royal reception in her honor. However, Chip puts the wrong reply in his response and must try and retrieve it before the Princess reads it.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Guys and the Dolls
    7.2/10(65)
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    #13 - The Guys and the Dolls

    Season 4 Episode 32

    Aired 4/23/1964

    Mike and Chip take part in good deeds -- Mike goes with his fellow U.S. Air Force Reservists to deliver ten thousand dolls to children in a South American disaster area. Mike meets a mute girl and tries to collect money for an operation she desperately needs. Meanwhile Chip becomes household slave of the demanding Mrs. Sowerby.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: John McGreevey

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  • Par for the Course
    7.1/10(46)
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    #14 - Par for the Course

    Season 4 Episode 13

    Aired 12/12/1963

    Robbie is always forgetting to pass on Steve's telephone messages and to get back in his good graces, decides to take up his father's favourite sport. He figures it will get him out of the doghouse if he joins Steve in a father and son golf tournament.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

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  • The People's House
    7.1/10(48)
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    #15 - The People's House

    Season 4 Episode 28

    Aired 3/26/1964

    In order to get himself a date with an attractive magazine editor, Steve submits his house as an entry in her magazine's distinctive homes contest. He is very perplexed when she sends her business-like secretary instead.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

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  • Scotch Broth
    7.0/10(67)
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    #16 - Scotch Broth

    Season 4 Episode 2

    Aired 9/26/1963

    The Douglas family inherit a castle in Scotland from their Scottish Grandfather and the whole family descends upon Sheehan Bridge to see it. Not only does 'The Castle' turn out to be an entire village pub in the highlands, but other members of the clan give them a freetly welcome.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: George Tibbles

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  • Didya Ever Have One of Those Days?
    7.0/10(51)
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    #17 - Didya Ever Have One of Those Days?

    Season 4 Episode 3

    Aired 10/3/1963

    It's a bad day for Steve when everything seems to be going wrong for him. His run of bad luck starts when he cuts himself shaving, burns his hand on the toaster, and then can't get his car started. Worse yet, he has to clinch a deal with a very important client.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Danny Simon

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  • Dear Robbie
    7.0/10(52)
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    #18 - Dear Robbie

    Season 4 Episode 4

    Aired 10/10/1963

    Robbie is chosen to write an 'advice to the lovelorn' column for the school newspaper, but Steve gets caught in the middle when a baffling love letter arrives. Robbie suggests that the writer should elope with her boyfriend and Steve tries to talk her out of it.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Car of His Own
    7.0/10(54)
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    #19 - A Car of His Own

    Season 4 Episode 5

    Aired 10/17/1963

    Mike offers to give Robbie his old car but his response baffles everyone. Robbie says he needs his own car to impress a new girl and does some fancy wheeling and dealing to get it.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Proposals
    7.0/10(54)
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    #20 - The Proposals

    Season 4 Episode 11

    Aired 11/28/1963

    Mike gets cold feet when he decides to propose marriage to Sally. His bungling attempts further confuse the issue. He tries a combination of methods derived from the attempts made by his father and grandfather when they proposed to their respective spouses.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: N/A

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  • Guest in the House
    7.0/10(60)
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    #21 - Guest in the House

    Season 4 Episode 37

    Aired 5/28/1964

    Steve is roped into boarding a delinquent for just one week so the boys put on their armor and ready themselves for battle. When Steve is notified to fly out of town on business, the boys are left to deal with the delinquent themselves, not knowing they've mistaken him for somebody else.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: John McGreevey

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  • Windfall
    6.9/10(45)
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    #22 - Windfall

    Season 4 Episode 14

    Aired 12/19/1963

    Chip comes to the rescue of a trapped dog and receives a reward, which leads to new found popularity with his fellow members of the club that he and Ernie wish to join.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Danny Simon

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  • Marriage by Proxy
    6.9/10(48)
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    #23 - Marriage by Proxy

    Season 4 Episode 19

    Aired 1/23/1964

    Mike and Sally try to discover the truth about marriage from two of their recently wed friends, and think twice about getting married and having babies when they help another friend's expectant wife whose time has come.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: George Tibbles

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  • My Fair Chinese Lady
    6.9/10(54)
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    #24 - My Fair Chinese Lady

    Season 4 Episode 21

    Aired 2/6/1964

    Robbie is chosen to help Americanize a traditional Chinese girl who is soon to meet her very hip Chinese-American fiancé. However, she is a girl so steeped in the traditions of her homeland that it seems unlikely she'll ever fit into American life.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: John McGreevey

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  • Adventure in New York
    6.9/10(49)
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    #25 - Adventure in New York

    Season 4 Episode 35

    Aired 5/14/1964

    Aspiring song writers Mike and Robbie decide to take a song they wrote to New York City and present it to a publisher. A friendly cab driver helps them in their quest and the publisher gives them both some good advice before they head home.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Seaman Jacobs, Ed James

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"The Tree" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 4. It scored 7.8/10 based on 56 votes. Directed by Gene Reynolds and written by N/A, it aired on 4/2/1964. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "House for Sale".