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My Three Sons: Season 6

32 episodes Premiered Sep 16, 1965 Updated Sep 26, 2026
Previously on My Three Sons

Season 6 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 5.
  • ⚡ 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.
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Season 6 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 6: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S6·E1 Mytharc

The First Marriage

Sep 16, 1965 · 25 min

Mike and Sally finally get married and leave for the East where Mike has a job as an assistant college psychology instructor. Robbie happily moves into Mike's old room. When Uncle

S6·E2 Core

Red Tape Romance

Sep 23, 1965 · 25 min

Steve explores the possibility of adopting 10-year-old Ernie but runs into antagonism from Uncle Charley, who can forsee nothing but more work with a new boy to take care of. The

S6·E3 Core

Brother Ernie

Sep 30, 1965 · 25 min

Ernie's adoption into the all-male Douglas household is threatened by a regulation that there must be a lady of the house. Steve again makes a request to adopt the child, but Miss

S6·E4 Core

Robbie and the Chorus Girl

Oct 14, 1965 · 25 min

Uncle Charley is upset when he learns that Robbie is dating a flashy chorus girl, but Steve refuses to worry because he trusts his son's common sense. Charley predicts Steve will b

S6·E5 Core

There's a What in the Attic?

Oct 21, 1965 · 25 min

An escaped circus lion makes a midnight call at the Douglas house, and Ernie sees it and awakens the understandably skeptical Steve who accompanies his new stepson to investigate.

S6·E7 Core

Mary-Lou

Nov 4, 1965 · 25 min

Chip's secret love is an older girl named Mary Lou. When Steve suggests his love sick son should find out where he stands by asking for a date, Chip calls and identifies himself as

S6·E8 Core

Monsters and Junk Like That

Nov 11, 1965 · 25 min

Ernie writes a play and volunteers Steve's services for his father-and-son night, so he dons a heavy robot costume. The family leaves early, and Steve finds himself alone on the st

S6·E9 Core

Charley and The Dancing Lesson

Nov 18, 1965 · 25 min

A seductive dance instructor named Helen signs Uncle Charley up for a lifetime membership in a dance club. Dreaming of a professional dancer's career, he purchases a top hat and ta

S6·E10 Core

My Son, The Ballerina

Nov 25, 1965 · 25 min

Robbie is so eager to make the track team that, to improve his timing, he agrees to join a ballet class. He proves an unwilling pupil, self-conscious in dancer's tights and ballet

S6·E11 Core

The Ernie Report

Dec 2, 1965 · 25 min

Ernie feels neglected when the other members of the Douglas family are busy with various girlfriends and he is left alone. Close to tears, Ernie is puzzled and saddened by the myst

S6·E12 Core

The Hong Kong Story

Dec 9, 1965 · 25 min

Steve Douglas turns a business trip to Hong Kong into a vacation for the whole family. Uncle Charley, who once lived in China, is reluctant to visit modern Hong Kong, for apparent

S6·E13 Core

Marriage and Stuff

Dec 16, 1965 · 25 min

Steve's unusual behaviour convinces his family that he is about to be secretly married. The boys plan to leave home to provide privacy for the newlyweds, and Charley arranges to s

S6·E14 Core

Douglas-A-Go-Go

Dec 23, 1965 · 25 min

The Douglas family bravely accepts the challenge when 13 year old Chip decides to give a party -- with girls. On the party evening the record player breaks down and Chip contemplat

S6·E15 Core

Charley The Pigeon

Dec 30, 1965 · 25 min

When Steve travels to Washington on business, he leaves $50 with Robbie, to pay for golf club repairs but Uncle Charley limbers up his billiard cue to get revenge after two girl po

S6·E16 Core

What About Harry?

Jan 6, 1966 · 25 min

A huge shaggy stray dog adopts Steve Douglas and disrupts the neighborhood with his howls when Steve tries to leave home. A neighbor and lover of stray animals, is delighted to lea

S6·E17 Core

From Maggie, With Love

Jan 13, 1966 · 25 min

Steve Douglas meets recently divorced Maggie Bellini, reputed to be one of the world's ten richest women. She sets her sights on Steve by showering his family with costly gifts. R

S6·E18 Core

Robbie and the Slave Girl

Jan 20, 1966 · 25 min

When Robbie Douglas yanks pretty co-ed Terri Wong out of the path of a speeding truck, he becomes the unwilling beneficiary of an old Chinese custom when the girl whose life he sav

S6·E19 Core

Steve and The Huntress

Jan 27, 1966 · 25 min

Steve Douglas is attracted to a beautiful female explorer who shows Steve and the family her exciting adventure films. She has to prepare for a safari, and as there is room in the

S6·E20 Core

Robbie The College Man

Feb 3, 1966 · 25 min

Robbie takes on a heavy work load of waiting on tables in his girlfriend's sorority house and working as a chemistry laboratory worker, so that he can rent a room away from home. W

S6·E21 Core

Whatever Happened to Baby Chip?

Feb 10, 1966 · 25 min

When Chip adopts a Beatle-style, shoulder length haircut, the other members of the family feel that Steve should lay down the law to the long-haired one, but he and his associate c

S6·E22 Core

Robbie and The Little Stranger

Feb 17, 1966 · 25 min

Robbie Douglas is practically engaged to his girlfriend Joanne, and when they discover how their friends are both successfully attending university while raising a baby they begin

S6·E23 Core

Call Her Max

Feb 24, 1966 · 25 min

Two tomboys - a pretty lady engineer named Max and a member of the girls Hockey team named Georgie prove tough to handle for both Steve and Chip. Hoping to become a hero to his pe

S6·E24 Core

Kid Brother Blues

Mar 3, 1966 · 25 min

Robbie Douglas learns how much of a pest a younger sibling can be when Chip and a buddy break up his date with a pretty girl by eating appetizers and otherwise making a nuisance of

S6·E25 Core

Robbie's Double Life

Mar 10, 1966 · 25 min

Robbie has a wonderful time going steady with two girls simultaneously -- a highschooler and a college co-ed -- until the two ladies compare notes one day and plot immediate reveng

S6·E26 Core

Our Boy in Washington

Mar 17, 1966 · 25 min

Ernie Douglas sends a letter to the French Embassy to thank France for the Statue of Liberty and receives, in return, an invitation for him and the rest of the family to visit Wash

S6·E27 Core

Ernie and That Woman

Mar 24, 1966 · 25 min

Chip is worried when his younger brother Ernie becomes a close friend of a pretty sixth grader, because the girl is now interested in collecting postage stamps, and Chip is sure sh

S6·E28 Core

The State vs. Chip Douglas

Mar 31, 1966 · 25 min

Chip demands a jury trial after he borrows four cents from a pile of brother Ernie's pennies and Ernie accuses him of taking a valuable penny from his coin collection. Finally Chip

S6·E29 Core

A Hunk of Hardware

Apr 7, 1966 · 25 min

Ernie packs a suitcase, ready to leave home, after he fails to win a cup for the family trophy shelf. He eagerly goes into training, planning to win a school track award, convinced

S6·E30 Core

The Wrong Robbie

Apr 14, 1966 · 25 min

A boy who looks just like Robbie almost ruins his reputation by driving around on-campus and inviting strange girls to kiss him, before the deception is uncovered. Finally, both bo

S6·E31 Mytharc

The Wheels

Apr 21, 1966 · 25 min

Uncle Charley takes away Robbie's driving privileges after the campus beauty queen gets a $16 traffic ticket while driving his car. Robbie then faces the horror and humiliation of

S6·E32 Mytharc

London Memories

Apr 28, 1966 · 25 min

The Douglas family returns from a trip to Britain and as the family watches home movies of their vacation, the amateurish footage reveals the reason for Steve's current moodiness:

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