6.5/1057 votes#1 - Caribbean Cruise
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1964
Steve sails aboard the S.S. Carolina in order to establish a business contract with a firm but his task is complicated by Robbie who has a vacationing job as a steward onboard the same liner. They both find that business and pleasure do sometimes mix.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.3/1051 votes
#2 - A Serious Girl
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1964
Robbie and Ernie find that women are full of surprises and not all of them pleasing. Robbie tires of his noisy rock and roll girlfriend and switches to a more dignified girl who has no time for the childish pursuits of her peers, such as football and sock hops. And unfortunately for Robbie Douglas, Lorraine is also serious about getting married and before he knows it, he's engaged! Can even the sagacious Steve Douglas find a graceful way out of this mess?
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: John McGreevey
- 7.2/1054 votes
#3 - The Practical Shower
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1964
Realising the need for economy, Mike and Sally decide that her shower will be productive of useful gifts for the kitchen, but Bub is all for romance but Mike's practical ideas meet resistance when Bub plans a bridal shower for Sally. Chip and Ernie manage to turn the shower into something very impractical indeed.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1065 votes
#4 - Dublin's Fair City (1)
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1964
Bub decides to use his winning raffle ticket to take the Douglases to Ireland to visit his relatives. While in the village of Farnsea, they stay with his redoubtable 103 year old Aunt Kate and Cousin Mickey.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.6/1056 votes
#5 - Dublin's Fair City (2)
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1964
The Douglas family continues to revel in the fun in the Irish village of Farnsea, ruled by the formidable Aunt Kate. Steve realises that her wisdom is helpful when Mary Kathleen Connolly becomes infatuated with him.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.8/1045 votes
#6 - One of Our Moose is Missing
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1964
Steve brings a business associate home for a quiet weekend of work, forgetting a prior commitment to the Cub Scouts where he has promised to lead the Moose patrol. He frees himself to do a rush design job while the hopeless Mr. Summers learns painfully what it means to be a moose.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: Seaman Jacobs, Ed James
- 6.6/1052 votes
#7 - Lady President
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1964
Political overtones arise in the Douglas house when Steve becomes escort to a visiting congresswoman. Meanwhile Chip must entertain a small girl who aims to be class president -- even though Chip is campaigning to be.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: Tom Adair
- 6.9/1051 votes
#8 - A Touch of Larceny
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1964
Chip and Ernie get an interesting lesson in honesty, and dishonesty from the school bully, who volunteers an insight to the underbelly world of swiping school lunches. Chip becomes bewildered by the differing standards of honesty among those he knows and Steve must do his best to sort out the problem.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.1/1066 votes
#9 - Goodbye Again
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1964
Mike's life is complicated by the return of his old girlfriend Jean Pearson. He can't bring himself to tell her that he is engaged to marry Sally. Chip and Ernie keep Mike under surveillance to report to fiancee Sally.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1060 votes
#10 - The Coffee House Set
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1964
Robbie's new girlfriend offers to get him and his guitar an audition at a club, and introduces him to a strange new world of far out youngsters who comprise the audience. When Robbie becomes a smash his family struggles to bring him back from stardom.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: John McGreevey
- 7.0/1053 votes
#11 - The Lotus Blossom
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1964
At the Lotus Blossom Cafe, Steve is impressed by the timid and beautiful proprietress. The elegant Chinese widow contemplates returning to Hong Kong, but the Douglas family show her the American way of life, hoping she will stay.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: John McGreevey
- 7.4/1054 votes
#12 - First, You're a Tadpole
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1964
Robbie consults Sally about his latest heartthrob—and he's sure he's too young for the girl. Robbie alarms Sally when he appears to be in love with her, and Steve must persuade him to grow up overnight.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1055 votes
#13 - You're in My Power
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1964
After acting as the subject for a stage hypnotist, Robbie decides that hypnosis could help in his latest romance, which leads to a chain reaction when they try it out on his grandfather Bub who consequently does a weird dance whenever someone whistles.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: Dean Hargrove
- 7.0/1054 votes
#14 - The In-Law Whammy
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1964
It's a comedy of errors when Mike sets out to make an impression on his future father-in-law when Sally's father returns from an archeological expedition. Mike is unnerved about meeting him but practically kills him with a little too much kindness and enthusiasm.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: Danny Simon
- 6.8/1053 votes
#15 - Robbie and the Nurse
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1964
Robbie breaks a leg on the football field and becomes the first patient of a dazzling French nurse. Robbie doesn't mind being hospitalized when the nurse in training lavishes attention on him. Her constant attention baffles Steve until he is warned that her interest in him is more than in her patient.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1051 votes
#16 - Divorce, Bryant Park Style
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 12/31/1964
When their best friends' marriage heads for the rocks, Mike and Sally pause for a second thought about their forthcoming wedding. Mike and Sally try to reconcile them by arranging visits to a marriage counsellor.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1067 votes
#17 - A Woman's Work
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1965
Bub decides to leave for an Irish holiday to help his formidable Aunt Kate celebrate her 104th Birthday in Dublin. Son-in-law Steve eagerly offers to do the housekeeping, rashly declaring that if all women organised their work efficiently, it could be done in just a fraction of the usual time. A belief which is hardly borne out by his own demonstrations.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.2/1058 votes
#18 - Here Comes Charley
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/14/1965
With Bub permanently away in Ireland, Steve finally resorts to domestic assistance and the Douglas home is afflicted with a fiery dragon of a housekeeper named Fedocia. When Steve is desperately trying to solve the problem of getting rid of her the situation is saved by the arrival of Bub's younger brother Charley, a recently retired Ship's cook on leave. With Steve away on business and Charley about to leave for San Francisco, Chip is unhappy that he won't have a parent to come to his school's Open Night. The family soon learns that Charley's crusty disposition masks a soft heart.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.7/1058 votes
#19 - Charley and the Kid
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 1/21/1965
A young engineer finds his lost half-Korean daughter who is staying temporarily at the Douglas House. But Uncle Charley finds that she exhibits more the cunning of the orphanage where she was found than the wisdom of the orient.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: George Tibbles
- 6.6/1051 votes
#20 - He Wanted Wings
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 1/28/1965
Robbie follows the fad and buys an antique aircraft to impress his new girlfriend. Steve lets him go ahead with trying to restore it, convinced it will never fly but as it becomes more airworthy, Steve becomes concerned.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: Tom Adair
- 7.3/1050 votes
#21 - Be My Guest
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/4/1965
Robbie's glamorous girlfriend invites him to the exotic Brookdale Country Club, and he resolves to put pressure on Steve to join, despite the fact that his father isn't much of a joiner.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1048 votes
#22 - Lady in the Air
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/11/1965
A top woman pilot is preparing for her flight around the world and calls on Steve Douglas to modify the design of her plane. Steve takes more than a professional interest in the plane he is preparing for a long solo journey—as well as the lady aviator planning to fly it.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1052 votes
#23 - Hawaiian Cruise
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 2/18/1965
Steve's plan for an Hawaiian holiday is cancelled when Chip develops a case of bronchitis, so Charley and the boys plan to bring Hawaii to him in the form of a luau in the garden complete with ladies that he would undoubtedly have met on board ship.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.0/1052 votes
#24 - The Teenagers
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1965
Chip dates an older woman and Robbie finds his ideas misinterpreted when the Douglas boys face the troubles of growing up. Meanwhile, Robbie tries to come up with a novel idea for the school float, and proceeds to demonstrate that teenage is just a time in life, but his speech, activities and clothes prove that it something much more, a lesson Chip also begins to learn.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1047 votes
#25 - Mexico Olé
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 3/4/1965
To avoid being absent from the family longer than neccessary, Steve declines an invitation to stay at a luxurious mansion in Mexico. So his host flies down the entire family, giving Robbie the opportunity for a few sharp lessons in the conservatism of old Spanish chaperoning customs.
Director: James V. Kern
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 5
Every episode of My Three Sons Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 5!
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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Network:CBS
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Caribbean Cruise" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 5. It scored 6.5/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by James V. Kern and written by George Tibbles, it aired on 9/17/1964. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "A Serious Girl".