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The Best Episodes of My Three Sons Season 5

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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 5 Episode 10 - The Coffee House Set
    7.8/10(75 votes)

    S5:E10

    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

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  2. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 12 - First, You're a Tadpole
    7.7/10(65 votes)

    S5:E12

    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:Unknown

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  3. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 21 - Be My Guest
    7.7/10(62 votes)

    S5:E21

    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:Unknown

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  4. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 18 - Here Comes Charley
    7.6/10(72 votes)

    S5:E18

    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

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  5. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 27 - It's a Dog's Life
    7.6/10(56 votes)

    S5:E27

    Steve is to show important engineering plans to a British scientist on a rush visit to the United States. But soon disappearing blueprints and home-baked cookies can't both be blamed on Steve's absent-mindedness - they become a plaything for Tramp and his friends.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 3 - The Practical Shower
    7.5/10(67 votes)

    S5:E3

    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:Unknown

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  7. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 23 - Hawaiian Cruise
    7.5/10(67 votes)

    S5:E23

    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

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  8. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 33 - The Glass Sneaker
    7.5/10(70 votes)

    S5:E33

    Chip meets a group of Vaudevillians at a black tie affair with Uncle Charley and loses his sneaker in a Cinderella-like adventure when he falls for little Alice Vail.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 2 - A Serious Girl
    7.4/10(61 votes)

    S5:E2

    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

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  10. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 9 - Goodbye Again
    7.3/10(79 votes)

    S5:E9

    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:Unknown

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  11. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 11 - The Lotus Blossom
    7.3/10(63 votes)

    S5:E11

    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

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  12. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 24 - The Teenagers
    7.3/10(62 votes)

    S5:E24

    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:Unknown

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  13. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 14 - The In-Law Whammy
    7.2/10(68 votes)

    S5:E14

    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

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  14. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 16 - Divorce, Bryant Park Style
    7.2/10(59 votes)

    S5:E16

    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:Unknown

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  15. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 22 - Lady in the Air
    7.2/10(66 votes)

    S5:E22

    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:Unknown

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  16. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 26 - The Fountain of Youth
    7.2/10(74 votes)

    S5:E26

    Charley accompanies Robbie and his date to a reading by an old pal of his, Maggie McSterling. She is a veteran actress and she and Charley recall their friendship during their vaudeville days. Maggie looks much younger than her age, and decides that Charley needs a vigorous course of rejuvenation.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 4 - Dublin's Fair City (1)
    7.1/10(73 votes)

    S5:E4

    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

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  18. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 8 - A Touch of Larceny
    7.1/10(62 votes)

    S5:E8

    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

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  19. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 20 - He Wanted Wings
    7.1/10(64 votes)

    S5:E20

    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

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  20. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 25 - Mexico Olé
    7.1/10(61 votes)

    S5:E25

    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:Unknown

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  21. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 7 - Lady President
    7.0/10(65 votes)

    S5:E7

    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

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  22. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 15 - Robbie and the Nurse
    7.0/10(67 votes)

    S5:E15

    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:Unknown

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  23. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 28 - The Sure Thing
    7.0/10(59 votes)

    S5:E28

    Robbie's friend has a grandfather that trains horses, but on the day of the big race when the thoroughbred racehorse loses her mascot, a rabbit, she loses her speed. But once she hears Robbie serenade on the guitar, the mascot problem is solved.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Tom Adair

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  24. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 30 - Steve and the Computer
    7.0/10(59 votes)

    S5:E30

    Steve is having nightmares and his vision of the future has a computer named Betsy join the family. It interferes with wedding plans when it selects different mates for Mike and Sally. Hoping to prove the computer wrong, Mike decides he will have Steve fill out a questionaire for his dad and his mother. His reasoning is that they will submit the two forms and the computer will pick someone else for their perfect match, thereby proving to Sally how wrong the computer can be. But lo and behold the computer mates Steve and Mike's mom.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Tom Adair

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  25. My Three Sons Season 5 Episode 34 - All the Weddings
    7.0/10(56 votes)

    S5:E34

    Preparations for Mike and Sally's coming nuptials get confusing when Sally's mother arrives two months early and takes over organising for their wedding. The daunting list of chores she hands Mike sends him off into a dream world as he and Sally imagine how other cultures decide who can wed.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:John McGreevey

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"The Coffee House Set" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 5. It scored 7.8/10 based on 75 votes. Directed by James V. Kern and written by John McGreevey, it aired on 11/19/1964. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "First, You're a Tadpole".