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The Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 4

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

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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 4 Episode 1 - Almost the Sound of Music
    7.1/10(63 votes)

    #1 - Almost the Sound of Music

    S4:E1

    To capture the affections of a pretty blond, Robbie turns pop composer and produces a novelty song. The family agrees to do the vocal background, but when they are selected to sing the song on television, Steve gets a bad case of stagefright.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writers:Ed James, Seaman Jacobs

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  2. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 2 - Scotch Broth
    7.0/10(74 votes)

    #2 - Scotch Broth

    S4:E2

    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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  3. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 3 - Didya Ever Have One of Those Days?
    7.1/10(58 votes)

    #3 - Didya Ever Have One of Those Days?

    S4:E3

    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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  4. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 4 - Dear Robbie
    7.1/10(59 votes)

    #4 - Dear Robbie

    S4:E4

    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:Unknown

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  5. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 5 - A Car of His Own
    7.0/10(60 votes)

    #5 - A Car of His Own

    S4:E5

    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:Unknown

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  6. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 6 - How Do You Know?
    7.7/10(67 votes)

    #6 - How Do You Know?

    S4:E6

    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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  7. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 7 - My Friend Ernie
    7.7/10(68 votes)

    #7 - My Friend Ernie

    S4:E7

    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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  8. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 8 - The End of The You-Know-What
    6.8/10(54 votes)

    #8 - The End of The You-Know-What

    S4:E8

    Chip and Ernie, having heard two scientists calculate that the world will be destroyed in one week are faced with the classic problem of what to do in the time they have left.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Tom Adair

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  9. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 9 - The Toupee
    6.9/10(63 votes)

    #9 - The Toupee

    S4:E9

    The pungent smell around the Douglas home proves to emeante from Bub's head for his baldness is anointed with yet another hair restorer as he's in a panic to cover his bald spot when the sister of an old buddy comes to visit.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 10 - The Ever-Popular Robbie Douglas
    6.5/10(49 votes)

    #10 - The Ever-Popular Robbie Douglas

    S4:E10

    Robbie is faced with a real political dilemma when he and a rival for a girl's affections, are campaigning for Student Council Representative.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 11 - The Proposals
    7.1/10(60 votes)

    #11 - The Proposals

    S4:E11

    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:Unknown

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  12. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 12 - Steve and the Viking
    7.3/10(59 votes)

    #12 - Steve and the Viking

    S4:E12

    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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  13. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 13 - Par for the Course
    7.3/10(52 votes)

    #13 - Par for the Course

    S4:E13

    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:Unknown

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  14. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 14 - Windfall
    7.0/10(53 votes)

    #14 - Windfall

    S4:E14

    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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  15. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 15 - Top Secret
    7.5/10(57 votes)

    #15 - Top Secret

    S4:E15

    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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  16. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 16 - Will Success Spoil Chip Douglas?
    6.9/10(60 votes)

    #16 - Will Success Spoil Chip Douglas?

    S4:E16

    Ex-thespian Bub laments that there hasn't been a member of the Douglas family in show business for over thirty years, so he is delighted when Chip is selected to portray an American Indian in a school play about Christopher Columbus.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Robert Specht

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  17. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 17 - Second Chorus
    7.5/10(58 votes)

    #17 - Second Chorus

    S4:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 18 - Never Look Back
    7.3/10(54 votes)

    #18 - Never Look Back

    S4:E18

    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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  19. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 19 - Marriage by Proxy
    7.1/10(57 votes)

    #19 - Marriage by Proxy

    S4:E19

    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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  20. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 20 - The Chaperone
    6.7/10(54 votes)

    #20 - The Chaperone

    S4:E20

    Bub is appointed chaperone to Robbie and his friends when they decide to have a costume party. Robbie feels it will dampen the party as Bub doesn't see eye to eye with them on the little matter of correct behaviour.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 21 - My Fair Chinese Lady
    7.1/10(61 votes)

    #21 - My Fair Chinese Lady

    S4:E21

    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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  22. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 22 - House for Sale
    7.9/10(64 votes)

    #22 - House for Sale

    S4:E22

    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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  23. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 23 - Stone Frog
    6.7/10(58 votes)

    #23 - Stone Frog

    S4:E23

    Chip believes in a magical stone frog, given to him by a lady from India and as coincidences stack up, the magic is hard to deny. The boy's belief causes some very interesting circumstances.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Ed Jurist

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  24. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 24 - Stage Door Bub
    6.2/10(57 votes)

    #24 - Stage Door Bub

    S4:E24

    Bub wants to get back to the greasepaint, so he swaps jobs with an actress friend at the Playhouse theater who longs for a normal home life. Each is so envious of the other's life that they agree to switch roles for the remainder of the company's season.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  25. My Three Sons Season 4 Episode 25 - Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly
    6.7/10(55 votes)

    #25 - Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly

    S4:E25

    Mike feels that Sally should learn how to fish, since she's joining a family of avid fishermen - Except that Sally really hates the pastime. How coincidental then that Mike hates bird watching as well.

    Director:Gene Reynolds
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Almost the Sound of Music" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 4. It scored 7.1/10 based on 63 votes. Directed by Gene Reynolds and written by Ed James, Seaman Jacobs, it aired on 9/19/1963. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Scotch Broth".