My Three Sons

- Season 3

(1962)

The whole family goes on a trip to Japan when Steve has to fly there for business. Everyone enjoys seeing the tourist sites, and Mike enjoys his meeting with a young woman named Kimiko.

Robbie and his friend start a business for home repairs and chores in order to make money to go on dates. Chip decides to start his own business for babysitting so he can buy a new bike. Sometimes the clients overlap the two businesses.

The Douglas' are taken to small claims court when a teen accuses Tramp of biting him. Robbie sets out to prove Tramp was provoked into biting, and therefore is not guilty.

Mike (Tim Considine) is in a bind when he realizes he has two dates for his fraternity's dance. He did not think the college beauty (Diana Piper) would accept his date, so he asked another girl (Penney Parker) as well.

Steve invites the 8 year old daughter of a friend to stay with the Douglas' while her mother attends to business in town. Unfortunately, other than Steve, the other family members have plans. Steve has to entertain the girl himself.

While out trick-or-treating, Chip and his friend Sudsy see someone - or something - carrying a candle, in the window of an empty house next to the Douglas'. No one believes them.

Robbie is infatuated with a senior in high school who does not notice him. Mike gives Robbie some advice which backfires.

Chip's school holds a cooking contest with the kids submitting their mother's favorite recipe. Chip is upset because he does not have a mother. He dad comes through by submitting his favorite recipe.

Chip wants to join a neighborhood club, but the members say he is too young. He wants to prove he is big enough, but first he has to have his tonsils taken out at the hospital.

Robbie did not do his term paper so he finds an old paper that Steve used years ago when he was in school. While Steve got an A on his homework, Robbie gets an F.

Steve cannot find some important papers for his work. As he searches high and low, he remembers the family gave papers to the boy scouts for their paper drive fund raiser.

Mike's college holds a beauty pageant and Mike is selected as the judge. During the days before the pageant, all the women approach Mike to show him their talent. Mike has more problems when his girlfriend enters the pageant.

Steve (Fred MacMurray) hurts his back and needs a doctor (Oliver McGowan).

Robbie wants to go steady with Linda, but Linda's mother does not approve of her daughter getting involved at her young age. Linda's mother talks to Steve to try to end the relationship. Steve and Paulette start their own relationship.

Chip and Sudsy want to buy a model auto to work on. When Steve seems like he will allow Chip to buy it, Bub comes up with an argument.

Steve's friend Ray Wong (Benson Fong) is having a birthday party for his honorable grandfather. He tells Steve (Fred MacMurray) that Chip (Stanley Livingston) can come to the party.

Mike (Tim Considine) is smitten with an attractive model (Diana Millay), who's been hired to oversee a college fashion show. When he finds out she loves classical guitar music, Mike fakes his way through a song on Robbie's (Don Grady) scratch-built guitar, that he claims he built himself in an attempt to impress her, while Robbie cues up a phonograph record, outside.

A business trip to Rome does not interest Steve. Since Steve doesn't normally turn down business trips, the boys try to find out why this time is different. Bub tells them that Steve and their mother once vacationed in Italy.

Steve sets Robbie up on a blind date with a girl he met that reminded him of his own youthful dates. When Robbie and the girl (Joyce Bulifant) meet, she thinks he is too sophisticated for her.

One of Steve's coworkers asks Steve to join the company musical group. Steve declines but the coworker keeps asking. That night, Steve dreams he is being chased by a man with a musical instrument.

Chip's boyscout group is losing their den mother and a scout when the family is moving out of state. Chip talks Bub into taking on the position.

When a new kid moves into town, Sudsy befriends him. Soon, Sudsy is spending all his time with his new friend and Chip is odd man out.

Steve becomes the tutor for the members of Robbie's wrestling team so they can improve their school grades. When several boys develop a contagious disease, the house becomes quarantined. Bub cannot leave to go fishing and he is upset.

Robbie convinces his current events club committee to have an old fashioned dunking machine booth at the school carnival after Bub comes up with the idea. Meanwhile, some of the other clubs have booths featuring atom smashing, space capsules and computers.

Robbie wins the highest achievement award in his science class but feels he does not deserve it.

When Robbie and Hank complain about being broke, their farm friend George offers them a pig to raise. After a rough start, the pig thrives but Chip is upset when he learns of Hamlet's future. An entry into the local fair may change things.

Mike has to decide between his work and his personal life. His Air Force Reserve crew needs him to help with engine maintenance, but he has a date at the same time.

Bub enters a contest and wins the top prize. He finds out he won $2,000 and the services of a proper butler for two weeks. Bub finds it hard to be pampered by a butler, and the butler finds it hard to adjust to the activity of the Douglases.

The boys have their hands full when Steve and Bub are not home. The boys deal with two sick children, a runaway woman (Anita Sands), and a wild bird who gets in the house.

Chip is placed on probation by Steve for his losing another item that belongs to someone else. Chips sees a tiger skin rug that Bub plans to donate for a rummage sale

In his psychology course, Mike (Tim Considine) learns about random sampling, questionnaires, and graphing results. He uses these skills to determine who Robbie (Don Grady) should date.

Robbie's economics teacher teaches the value of money and uses the stock exchange as the assignment. Each student gets fictional money to see if they can increase their investment. As Robbie follows the stocks, Steve thinks he has talent.

Bub is envious when he hears a former friend is coming to town and being honored with an award.

Bub thinks the boys are not doing their chores fast enough or well enough. He tells the boys they are lazy compared to the boys of his generation when they were teens.

Chip is told to stay home and wait for one of Steve's coworkers to drop off some important papers. When Chip sees a young child walking unaccompanied outside, he helps the lost toddler.

To earn money, Chip sells tickets to a raffle in which the prize is a date with a star. Bub does not realize he is the star.

Robbie and his friends decide to match his classmates up scientifically so the dates could be successful. They collect information from their classmates and being to make matches.

Robbie tries to get a girl at school to go out with him. She agrees on two conditions: they go to a fighting match and he finds someone to go out with her aunt. Bub has tickets to the sporting match, and he is available for a date.

Chip (Stanley Livingston) seems to have found a way to make money every day and he feels rich. Meanwhile, everyone else is trying to find a missing stamp that is worth a lot of money.