The Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 7

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(75 votes)

   #1 - Stag at Bay

   S7:E19/15/1966

   The usually all-male Douglas household becomes a refuge for an attractive girl dancer who has been evicted from her apartment, when Steve attends an office stag dinner. He takes her home where he lends her some of Robbie's clothes.

   Director:James V. Kern

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   8.1/10(64 votes)

   #2 - Fly Away Home

   S7:E29/22/1966

   Steve Douglas takes his family to his birthplace of Bedford Springs. He tries to locate his 1940 fiancee Ellen, married and still living in town, but he is disenchanted by the changes in her. Still pretty, she lives with her obnoxious husband and ill-mannered children.

   Director:James V. Kern

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   7.2/10(51 votes)

   #3 - Forget Me Not

   S7:E39/29/1966

   Steve Douglas receives a perfumed letter from an old girlfriend announcing she will stop by and see him. She terrifies Steve by acting as though she plans to accept a proposal of marriage he hasn't made. Steve does his best to convince her that his old college chum is the man for her.

   Director:James V. Kern

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   7.7/10(59 votes)

   #4 - Good Guys Finish Last

   S7:E410/6/1966

   Three fathers face their sons in a quiz game at a school entertainment night, and when the boys easily beat the dads so much interest is aroused in town that a re-match is scheduled on the local television station.

   Director:James V. Kern

   Writer:Unknown

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   6.7/10(53 votes)

   #5 - Arrivederci, Robbie

   S7:E510/13/1966

   Because Robbie's friend wants him to understand Italians better, he invites Robbie to his home. Robbie runs afoul of an old custom when he takes a girl walking in the park and learns that he is expected to marry her.

   Director:James V. Kern

   Writer:John McGreevey

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   Director:James V. Kern

   Writer:John McGreevey
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   7.9/10(65 votes)

   #6 - If At First . . .

   S7:E610/20/1966

   Steve Douglas gets a parking ticket from Robbie's girlfriend, a pretty meter maid, and another citation for not having his driver's license renewed -- and then flunks his driving test. Soon Robbie realizes that he's given his father last year's manual to study and that some laws have been changed.

   Director:James V. Kern

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.1/10(56 votes)

   #7 - Robbie's Underground Movie

   S7:E711/3/1966

   Robbie films a 'way out' movie for his Cinema class with the aid of a non-talented, 'way out' co-ed who earnestly tries to make an 'honest' motion picture. They begin a long week of filming uncinematic gems spotlighting the Douglases dull, drab meaningless family routine.

   Director:James V. Kern

   Writer:John McGreevey

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   Writer:John McGreevey
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   6.8/10(48 votes)

   #8 - Fiddler Under the Roof

   S7:E811/10/1966

   Ernie feels left out when the Douglas family orchestra begins to practise. Uncle Charley tries to teach Ernie the violin but runs into a major obstacle -- the boy's lack of obvious talent.

   Director:James V. Kern

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.2/10(57 votes)

   #9 - Happy Birthday, World

   S7:E911/17/1966

   When Robbie's girlfriend's father calls from out of town and asks him to deliver a birthday cake to her, he thinks there might be a fortune in performing this birthday service and immediately goes into the cake business.

   Director:James V. Kern

   Writer:John McGreevey

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10. 

    7.7/10(57 votes)

    #10 - The Awkward Age

    S7:E1012/1/1966

    Robbie is immediately infatuated when he hires a pretty chemistry instructor as a tutor, and their friendship seems to be blossoming. But when he finds out that his father has been dating her, the shock affects his ability to concentrate on his studies.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.0/10(54 votes)

    #11 - A Real Nice Time

    S7:E1112/8/1966

    When Ernie sends for a picture of Chip's favourite movie star, planning to give it to him as a birthday gift, Chip gets an actual date with the movie starlet for a publicity stunt and is astounded by all the resulting hoopla.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.5/10(64 votes)

    #12 - Falling Star

    S7:E1212/15/1966

    Steve Douglas meets a celebrated popular vocalist of 20 years ago whose career seems over. Although her famous voice is still there, the public demands music in the current style. Steve helps her update her style when he arranges for her to sing with Robbie's combo, the Greefs.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Unknown

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13. 

    6.9/10(50 votes)

    #13 - Tramp or Ernie

    S7:E1312/22/1966

    Ernie sneezes as he brushes past the family dog, Tramp, and when a doctor verifies the boy's allergy to dog hair and says the dog must go, Ernie packs his bags as he feels Tramp has seniority over him in the family.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Unknown

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14. 

    7.2/10(50 votes)

    #14 - Grandma's Girl

    S7:E1412/29/1966

    Chip's romance with a classmate flourishes when he rents a horse and buggy so as to impress the girl's strict, old fashioned grandmother. She is impressed, but still insists that the kids stay at home to have a taffy-pulling marathon.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Unknown

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15. 

    7.5/10(57 votes)

    #15 - You Saw a What?

    S7:E151/5/1967

    Ernie's excited reports of seeing a flying saucer are received with skepticism, but the next day he not only sees the weird vehicle again, but he snaps some pictures and is later told by the Air Force to keep quiet about it.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Unknown

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16. 

    7.4/10(65 votes)

    #16 - Both Your Houses

    S7:E161/12/1967

    Robbie is delighted when college classmate Peggy moves in next door, and the pair immediately go to work on a joint assignment for their Shakespeare class. He plays Romeo to her Juliet when a feud between the two families seems imminent.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:John McGreevey

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17. 

    7.3/10(51 votes)

    #17 - My Pal Dad

    S7:E171/19/1967

    Steve Douglas passes up his company's offer of a weekend in Rio because Saturday is the start of trout season. The boys do their best to get Steve to make Ernie his fishing buddy so Robbie and Chip can get out of the annual trip.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Phil Leslie

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    Writer:Phil Leslie
18. 

    7.0/10(52 votes)

    #18 - TV or Not TV

    S7:E181/26/1967

    Television viewing at the Douglas household has dropped to zero because Uncle Charley, annoyed with the boys' quarreling about choice of channels, has withdrawn all TV privileges for a week. Robbie, a member of a new program committee, eagerly joins his co-ed girlfriend in her plan to bring true drama to the people. However, after viewing the show, the family isn't sure their attempt at 'realism' is really real.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:John McGreevey

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19. 

    7.3/10(53 votes)

    #19 - My Dad, the Athlete

    S7:E192/2/1967

    Ernie's friends all boast of their dads' college athletic trophies, which forces Steve into a grueling two mile cross-country race with the other fathers. Two of the men, once athletes are eager for the contest, but Steve thinks it is silly.

    Director:James V. Kern

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    6.9/10(54 votes)

    #20 - The Good Earth

    S7:E202/9/1967

    Uncle Charley puts down a deposit on a vacation lot at beautiful Whispering Pines, only to learn he's been hoodwinked in a high pressure real-estate operation. The family discover that it is located at the bottom of a steep canyon. It is next to a tumbledown shack, occupied by a slovenly family who prove themselves completely undesirable as prospective neighbours.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:Tom Adair

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    Writer:Tom Adair
21. 

    5.7/10(61 votes)

    #21 - My Son, the Bullfighter

    S7:E212/16/1967

    Robbie Douglas tries to impress his girlfriend by competing with a handsome bullfighter against a killer bull, but has to flee for his life when the bull charges him.

    Director:James V. Kern

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    7.5/10(55 votes)

    #22 - The Best Man

    S7:E222/23/1967

    Robbie is crushed when he learns that Denise DuBois, a French exchange student that Robbie had hoped to marry, has accepted his friend Tom's proposal of marriage the night before.

    Directors:James V. Kern, James Sheldon

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(52 votes)

    #23 - Now in My Day

    S7:E233/2/1967

    Chip Douglas's junior high school is having an Olden Days dance and the boys are to bring their mothers, and the girls their fathers. Chip finds trouble going steady with two girls at the same time and arranges for Steve to escort his classmate's widowed mother.

    Directors:James V. Kern, James Sheldon

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.0/10(58 votes)

    #24 - Melinda

    S7:E243/9/1967

    To help out his Dad, Steve, Chip pretends to like the aggressive as she is pretty, daughter of a new executive woman that his dad is dating. Chip has the romantic notion that his close relationship with the daughter might help the social plans of his father.

    Directors:James V. Kern, James Sheldon

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.7/10(56 votes)

    #25 - Charley O' The Seven Seas

    S7:E253/16/1967

    Uncle Charley's romantic tales of adventure captivates Ernie's teacher. The pretty, middle-aged lady is fascinated by the old boy's partially-true tales of his exciting life on the high seas. Soon the ex-seacook is aghast to learn she has given up her teaching job and he is further torn when she explains her savings will buy them both a one-way ticket to Pango-Pango and asks him to marry her before they leave.

    Directors:James V. Kern, James Sheldon

    Writer:Unknown

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