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The Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 8

Every episode of My Three Sons Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 8!

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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 8 Episode 1 - Moving Day
    8.3/10(76 votes)

    #1 - Moving Day

    S8:E1

    The Douglases move to California, where at first they are depressed to find the residents as chilly as the weather is warm. Robbie enrols in the University and is totally captivated by a blonde girl, and Uncle Charley is initiated into the rapid-fire procedure of shopping in supermarkets. The family begins to feel that their next door neighbors represent the characteristic stand-offishness of all Californians until they discover that they moved into the neighborhood the day before they did.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  2. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 2 - Robbie Loves Katie
    7.2/10(68 votes)

    #2 - Robbie Loves Katie

    S8:E2

    After advice from his father who tells him it isn't right to tie himself down to one girl, Robbie Douglas, intending to break off his romance with Katie Miller, ends up proposing to her. Soon his heart over rules his head and he buys an engagement ring and sets a wedding date.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  3. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 3 - Inspection of the Groom
    7.7/10(62 votes)

    #3 - Inspection of the Groom

    S8:E3

    Robbie and Katie pick a wedding date two weeks off. Katie's sorority sisters decide to do some private investigating on their own. Prospective groom Robbie then undergoes the complete once-over by his fiancee's family and runs the gamut of numerous cousins, aunts and a crotchety grandmother.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  4. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 4 - Countdown to Marriage
    8.4/10(70 votes)

    #4 - Countdown to Marriage

    S8:E4

    The day before her wedding Katie Miller feels she faces complete disaster. When Robbie tries to console her, she flares up at him and after a short argument, the pair declare the wedding is off. Of course, Grandma Collins thinks otherwise.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  5. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 5 - Wedding Bells
    8.4/10(70 votes)

    #5 - Wedding Bells

    S8:E5

    Early on his wedding day, Robbie Douglas and his family are peacefully oversleeping. They awaken just in time and scramble madly to get ready as Robbie and Katie are soon married amid traditional confusion and tears. The lost family dog, Tramp, returns in time to join the family in the front pew.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  6. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 6 - The Homecoming
    7.8/10(64 votes)

    #6 - The Homecoming

    S8:E6

    Robbie and Katie come home from their honeymoon to face the problems of newlyweds in a previously all-male household. Katie finds her role difficult, for Charley insists on continuing as the family cook and attending to all the laundry. Robbie becomes worried about her frequent weeping spells.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 7 - My Wife, the Waitress
    7.7/10(67 votes)

    #7 - My Wife, the Waitress

    S8:E7

    For their fourth week wedding anniversary, Katie decides to earn some money for an expensive gift for Robbie by taking a one week job as a tea-room waitress. Robbie lunches at the tea-room and finds Katie, who has taken over as a last-minute replacement for the cigarette girl, in an abbreviated costume.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 8 - The Chameleon
    6.9/10(61 votes)

    #8 - The Chameleon

    S8:E8

    At school, Ernie meets Mike, who offers to play with him, but the family is exasperated to know Mike likes tomboyish pranks. Then there's a problem persuading Ernie to accept his new friend when he learns that she's really a girl.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 9 - Designing Woman
    7.1/10(66 votes)

    #9 - Designing Woman

    S8:E9

    Attractive lady engineer Eileen Talbot is assigned to help Steve Douglas on a rush project in his office, and she applies her many talents to assure romantic, as well as technical success. Only level headed Katie recognizes her as a manipulating female long before the gullible male Douglases do.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 10 - Ernie, the Bluebeard
    7.1/10(61 votes)

    #10 - Ernie, the Bluebeard

    S8:E10

    Chip learns the meaning of empathy when he helps Ernie out of a predicament when he somehow winds up with two dates with two different girls for the same dance, when he doesn't even like girls to start with.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 11 - The Heartbeat
    7.3/10(62 votes)

    #11 - The Heartbeat

    S8:E11

    One stormy night while Steve is in San Francisco, Katie is alone in the Douglas house while the rest of the family is attending a ballgame. Her tenseness builds as late in the night she hears a scary rythmic noise, and hysterically calls Steve to report that the family has not yet returned and that she hears a loud thumping sound.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 12 - The Computer Picnic
    7.3/10(55 votes)

    #12 - The Computer Picnic

    S8:E12

    Chip manages to outwit the machine age when a computer is used to select partners for picnic dates for the boys in his class and girls from another school. He is soon startled to find that his date, although sweet and likeable, is six feet tall.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 13 - The Aunt Who Came to Dinner
    7.2/10(46 votes)

    #13 - The Aunt Who Came to Dinner

    S8:E13

    Katie is worried when Steve invites her visiting Aunt to spend a week at the house while he is out of town. Before long, she is molding the entire household into her image of a cultured family. When she slips some money under Katie's pillow, the girl angrily announces that this behaviour cannot continue.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Myles Wilder

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  14. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 14 - Leaving the Nest
    7.8/10(48 votes)

    #14 - Leaving the Nest

    S8:E14

    When minor irritations arise in the Douglas household, Robbie and Katie move temporarily into a borrowed apartment while their friends are away. Their life is complicated by the absence of a coffee pot, a pull-down bed that won't go up and the lack of a television set.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Peggy Elliott

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  15. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 15 - You're Driving Me Crazy
    8.2/10(80 votes)

    #15 - You're Driving Me Crazy

    S8:E15

    Chip Douglas is so nervous about taking his driving test that his new sister in law Katie decides to help by taking the test with him. Soon after they both get their driving licenses the family car collects a big scratch, but neither will plead guilty.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  16. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 16 - Liverpool Saga
    8.0/10(86 votes)

    #16 - Liverpool Saga

    S8:E16

    Chip invites his neighbour's long-haired, guitar playing boy from Liverpool as a key addition to his off-key rock and roll band. The English lad's soft, folksong guitar is a disappointment and obviously won't work with the raucous amplified trio, but he helps them to win a trophy in an amateur talent contest.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 17 - The Chaperones
    7.6/10(55 votes)

    #17 - The Chaperones

    S8:E17

    With his father Steve busy over the weekend, Chip suggests that newlyweds Robbie and Katie act as chaperones to him and his friends at a mountain cabin. At Katie's insistence, Robbie keeps strict checks on the three teenage couples.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 18 - Green-Eyed Robbie
    7.3/10(54 votes)

    #18 - Green-Eyed Robbie

    S8:E18

    Robbie Douglas displays a bit of jealousy when his bride innocently agrees to tutor a handsome student. Later, Katie confides to Uncle Charley that he was once her steady boyfriend, and Charley off-handedly warns Katie to be careful because Robbie has a jealous nature.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 19 - Charley's Tea
    7.1/10(54 votes)

    #19 - Charley's Tea

    S8:E19

    Katie tearfully complains when Uncle Charley makes her feel unnecessary in the Douglas household. Steve speaks to Charley who is flabbergasted at the accusation, but immediately makes amends. Meanwhile, Chip is on a five-man school committee; four of the 'men' are girls and they won't let him open his mouth.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 20 - Ernie, the Jinx
    7.2/10(54 votes)

    #20 - Ernie, the Jinx

    S8:E20

    A series of strange coincidences make young Ernie feel he's a jinx to anyone he contacts, but his father assures him that he has a loyal family who loves him in spite all of his trouble, and that they will stick by him no matter what.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 21 - Ernie and Zsa Zsa
    6.8/10(63 votes)

    #21 - Ernie and Zsa Zsa

    S8:E21

    Bored because he has been left at home alone on a day off from school, Ernie goes on a search for movie stars. The boy loses his footing on a steep path and falls into Zsa Zsa Gabor's swimming pool in Beverly Hills. The glamorous lady invites him in until his clothes dry and later takes him to a real movie studio. Now the whole family as well as the police are searching for Ernie.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 22 - A Horse for Uncle Charley
    6.2/10(50 votes)

    #22 - A Horse for Uncle Charley

    S8:E22

    Uncle Charley is talked into buying an 11 year old trotting horse in the hopes of capturing old racing glories. The family is delighted when they hear that the horse, driven by Uncle Charley, has qualified for a race after winning a trial competition.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 23 - Dear Enemy
    7.1/10(55 votes)

    #23 - Dear Enemy

    S8:E23

    Robbie goes to Camp Roberts for two weeks military reserve training. At home, Steve becomes alarmed when he sees Charley's card telling him that he and the boys who are camping at Yosemite, plan to look Robbie up at camp. But he arrives too late to divert them and one-by-one each member of the family is inadvertently caught as a military prisoner.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  24. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 24 - Uncle Charley's Aunt
    6.1/10(46 votes)

    #24 - Uncle Charley's Aunt

    S8:E24

    Dressed as a chorine named Apple Annie at his Lodge 'Frolics' night, a weary Uncle Charley awakens from a nap after a matinee performance and is forced to walk home and is arrested by the police for hitting a flirtatious man.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  25. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 25 - The Standing-Still Tour
    7.7/10(50 votes)

    #25 - The Standing-Still Tour

    S8:E25

    Ernie remains at home with Uncle Charley while the rest of the family travel to various locations. Charley invites an old friend to dinner, believing him to be down and out. However, Ernie immediately identifies their guest as a famous television sherriff and he invites the two to the studio.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:George Tibbles

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Moving Day" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 8. It scored 8.3/10 based on 76 votes. Directed by Frederick de Cordova and written by George Tibbles, it aired on 9/9/1967. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "Robbie Loves Katie".