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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 4 - Countdown to Marriage
    8.4/10(72 votes)

    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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  2. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 5 - Wedding Bells
    8.4/10(71 votes)

    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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  3. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 1 - Moving Day
    8.3/10(78 votes)

    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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  4. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 15 - You're Driving Me Crazy
    8.2/10(81 votes)

    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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  5. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 16 - Liverpool Saga
    8.1/10(88 votes)

    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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  6. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 6 - The Homecoming
    7.9/10(66 votes)

    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 14 - Leaving the Nest
    7.8/10(49 votes)

    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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  8. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 25 - The Standing-Still Tour
    7.7/10(52 votes)

    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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  9. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 3 - Inspection of the Groom
    7.6/10(63 votes)

    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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  10. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 7 - My Wife, the Waitress
    7.6/10(68 votes)

    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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  11. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 17 - The Chaperones
    7.6/10(56 votes)

    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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  12. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 28 - Gossip, Incorporated
    7.5/10(57 votes)

    S8:E28

    Steve Douglas is promoted to head up the Airflight Helicopter Division and the unmarried female employees quickly check and discover that he's a widower. Robbie's wife Katie takes a tour and Uncle Charley passes his girlfriend off as Steve's wife. When two Mrs. Douglases visit Steve at his new job, his employees suspect that he's a bigamist.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 30 - The Tire Thief
    7.4/10(55 votes)

    S8:E30

    Ernie and his friends sell two used tires they found in the family storage room so they can buy a water rifle, but they cease to enjoy their 'cops and robbers' games when the real cops turn up after Uncle Charley calls them.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 12 - The Computer Picnic
    7.3/10(57 votes)

    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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  15. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 18 - Green-Eyed Robbie
    7.3/10(56 votes)

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

    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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  17. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 11 - The Heartbeat
    7.2/10(63 votes)

    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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  18. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 13 - The Aunt Who Came to Dinner
    7.2/10(47 votes)

    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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  19. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 20 - Ernie, the Jinx
    7.2/10(55 votes)

    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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  20. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 26 - Honorable Guest
    7.2/10(54 votes)

    S8:E26

    The Douglas family cancels a camping trip to play host to unexpected Chinese friends from Bryant Park who are en route to Hong Kong and this ultimately upsets their Chinese relatives when they are asked to stay overnight.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 9 - Designing Woman
    7.1/10(67 votes)

    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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  22. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 10 - Ernie, the Bluebeard
    7.1/10(62 votes)

    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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  23. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 19 - Charley's Tea
    7.1/10(55 votes)

    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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  24. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 23 - Dear Enemy
    7.1/10(57 votes)

    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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  25. My Three Sons Season 8 Episode 27 - The Perfect Separation
    7.1/10(61 votes)

    S8:E27

    The first time Robbie and Katie entertain at home they imperil the marriage of two close friends, Denise and Larry. Denise insists on playing a game in which each player tells what he dislikes about the other. After various uncomfortable truths are revealed, Denise angrily storms out insisting on a marital separation.

    Director:Frederick de Cordova
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"Countdown to Marriage" is the best rated episode of "My Three Sons" season 8. It scored 8.4/10 based on 72 votes. Directed by Frederick de Cordova and written by George Tibbles, it aired on 9/30/1967. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Wedding Bells".