6.7/1052 votes#1 - Almost the Sound of Music
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1963
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
Writer: Seaman Jacobs, Ed James
- 7.0/1065 votes
#2 - 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
- 7.0/1050 votes
#3 - 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
- 6.9/1051 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.0/1054 votes
#5 - 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
- 7.5/1058 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.4/1058 votes
#7 - 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
- 6.5/1046 votes
#8 - The End of The You-Know-What
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1963
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
- 6.7/1054 votes
#9 - The Toupee
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1963
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: N/A
- 6.3/1041 votes
#10 - The Ever-Popular Robbie Douglas
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1963
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: N/A
- 6.9/1053 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.1/1050 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.1/1045 votes
#13 - 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
- 6.9/1045 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.3/1050 votes
#15 - 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
- 6.6/1051 votes
#16 - Will Success Spoil Chip Douglas?
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/1964
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
- 7.4/1051 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.1/1047 votes
#18 - 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
- 6.9/1047 votes
#19 - 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
- 6.7/1049 votes
#20 - The Chaperone
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1964
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: N/A
- 6.9/1053 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.7/1055 votes
#22 - 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
- 6.6/1050 votes
#23 - Stone Frog
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/20/1964
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
- 6.0/1051 votes
#24 - Stage Door Bub
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 2/27/1964
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
- 6.5/1048 votes
#25 - Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1964
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: N/A
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!
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 4 Ratings Summary
"Almost the Sound of Music" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 4. It scored 6.7/10 based on 52 votes. Directed by Gene Reynolds and written by Seaman Jacobs, Ed James, it aired on 9/19/1963. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Scotch Broth".