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My Three Sons: Season 2

36 episodes Premiered Sep 28, 1961
Previously on My Three Sons

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of My Three Sons Season 1.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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S2·E1 Mytharc

Birds And Bees

Sep 28, 1961

When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that

S2·E2 Core

Instant Hate

Oct 5, 1961

The good neighbour policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way

S2·E3 Core

The Crush

Oct 12, 1961

Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometr

S2·E4 Core

Tramp The Hero

Oct 26, 1961

When a boiling pot explodes Tramp's barking wakes the family saving them.

S2·E5 Core

A Perfect Memory

Nov 2, 1961

An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisce

S2·E6 Core

Bub's Lodge

Nov 9, 1961

Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is su

S2·E7 Core

A Lesson in Any Language

Nov 16, 1961

Mike wants to go skiing on the weekend with his friends but must also keep up his Spanish studies. So he adopts the learn while you sleep method via use of a pre-programmed record

S2·E8 Core

The Ugly Duckling

Nov 23, 1961

Robbie is heading for an ‘F' in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers

S2·E9 Core

Chip's Composition

Nov 30, 1961

A composition titled ‘What My Mother Means to Me' has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing abo

S2·E10 Core

Mike in Charge

Dec 7, 1961

Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test

S2·E11 Core

Bub Goes to School

Dec 14, 1961

Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a

S2·E12 Core

Robbie's Band

Dec 21, 1961

Robbie's band rehearsals upsets the household. Mike's fraternity is looking for a band and Robbie tries to get the job.

S2·E13 Core

Damon and Pythias

Dec 28, 1961

When Robbie and his friend Hank decide they want to join a club at school, Robbie insists he does not want to join Mike's old club. When he gets an offer to join the Chieftains, th

S2·E14 Core

Chip Leaves Home

Jan 4, 1962

Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to do them all a favour by running away from home. His solution is to strike away for far-east India very early the next morning. He ta

S2·E15 Core

The Romance of Silver Pines

Jan 11, 1962

Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met

S2·E16 Core

Blind Date

Jan 18, 1962

Two dates, confused phone calls and name mix-ups create a tangled evening for brothers Mike and Robbie, when each get's the other's date. Mike gets a shock when he picks up a fourt

S2·E17 Core

Second Time Around

Jan 25, 1962

Attractive Pamela MacLish whom Steve took to Chip's grade school dance a year ago, is still trying to melt his bachelor heart. She arrives at the house on the pre-text of solicitin

S2·E18 Core

The Girls Next Door

Feb 1, 1962

Four beautiful airline stewardesses move into the vacant house next door and Mike and Robbie immediately are attracted to the glamorous career women. Meanwhile Steve is at the draw

S2·E19 Core

Bub Gets a Job

Feb 8, 1962

Bub reads an article in a magazine which is directed at bored homemakers and he begins to think that he fits the description. Steve warns him that he should control his Irish tempe

S2·E20 Core

Le Petit Stowaway

Feb 15, 1962

Steve is going to Chicago on business and he's promised to take Chip with him. A change of plans sees Steve boarding a military plane bound for Paris. Chip takes action when he fin

S2·E21 Core

Robbie Valentino

Feb 22, 1962

Bub fires Robbie's show business ambitions when he tells him to make the most of an opportunity when Robbie's 9th grade physics class is the subject of an educational film. He is

S2·E22 Core

The Masterpiece

Mar 1, 1962

Chip tries to snow his teachers so he can win an art contest and almost succeeds with some help from Bub, who actually painted the artwork. Chip's teacher offers his painting to t

S2·E23 Core

A Holiday for Tramp

Mar 8, 1962

The Douglas family goes to the train station to meet Steve but when they prepare to leave, they can't find Tramp anywhere. Tramp has wandered into the cabin of a famous actress na

S2·E24 Core

The Big Game

Mar 15, 1962

Robbie finds out that he won't be able to play in the big game unless he passes a math exam. Steve assures him that if he fails he will not be playing against his team's arch riva

S2·E25 Core

Chip's Party

Mar 22, 1962

Chip's schoolmates want to help him celebrate his tenth birthday with a party but he doesn't want to share the occasion with certain young ladies. However, Steve falls foul of the

S2·E26 Core

Casanova Trouble

Mar 29, 1962

Steve's friend asks him to come up with a solution when she thinks her daughter is dating an older man. Steve is shocked when he sees that the initials of the fraternity pin the m

S2·E27 Core

The Pencil Pusher

Apr 5, 1962

Chip puts his father into the uncomfortable position of defending the importance of his profession. Chip is unenlightened by the tour of the Air Force base until a full-scale emerg

S2·E28 Core

Innocents Abroad

Apr 12, 1962

When Steve and an old boyhood pal discuss the time they ran away to another town, Mike and Robbie, who are continually in need of cash, decide that during school vacation they will

S2·E29 Core

Robbie the Caddy

Apr 19, 1962

At the suggestion of his best pal Hank, Robbie plans to earn some extra pocket-money by caddying at the local Golfing Tournament. He's assigned to the most temperemental golfer on

S2·E30 Core

Coincidence

Apr 26, 1962

Steve's wish for a calm life sends him on a chaotic journey into a parallel universe when on a typically rambunctious morning, the Douglas household noise is ruining Steve's day of

S2·E31 Core

Air Derby

May 3, 1962

Robbie's only real competition for winning a school scholarship in a model airplane contest is a young boy named Roly Bates, a studious lad who has his heart set on first prize as

S2·E32 Core

Too Much In Common

May 10, 1962

Mike has problems with his girlfriend's father when Mike tries to see another girl.

S2·E33 Core

Chug and Robbie

May 17, 1962

On his first day in High School, Robbie has some memorable highlights -- such as being assigned a locker with Chug Williams, the school's star senior athlete. When it is evident th

S2·E34 Core

Good Influence

May 24, 1962

Steve pushes Chip to go on a week-long vacation with a boy he really doesn't like. The boy is very shy and timid, and when Chip calls him a chicken-clunk, he cops an unexpected bla

S2·E35 Mytharc

The Hippopotamus Foot

May 31, 1962

Mike faces disciplinary action at the hands of the Board of Regents and the Dean of the College for a wayward fraternity prank in which several of the students have created a foot-

S2·E36 Mytharc

The Kibitzers

Jun 7, 1962

Two of Bub's cronies who are visiting for their usual game of pinochle, accidentally get an earful of the family's woes. Their mysterious interjection to try and solve the problems