My Three Sons

- Season 2

(1961)

Steve realizes it is time to talk to Chip about the birds and the bees when Tramp is father to puppies.

New neighbors move in across from the Douglas', but they are not neighborly. Steve tells everyone to try to get along, but he finds it difficult when he is involved in a fender bender with his neighbor as he backs out of his driveway.

Mike's new college girlfriend, Mary Beth (Jena Engstrom), seems more interested in Steve (Fred MacMurray) than Mike (Tim Considine). She wants Steve to help her with her trigonometry class.

Chip's new friend brags about his dog, a German Shepard who performs tricks and is well behaved. Tramp pales in comparison. But, overnight, a pot left on a burning stove starts a fire; Tramp barks to warn everyone. Tramp becomes the hero.

While Steve (Fred MacMurray) is out, a former girlfriend Pat McNulty calls the house to ask him out for the evening. When Steve returns home, he tries to reach her, but now she is out. Steve reminisces about their previous relationship and recalls it as perfect.

Bub and Mike are excited for their lodge and fraternity initiations.

Mike tries to learn Spanish by sleeping with a Spanish tape playing under his pillow. When he goes on a trip, Steve sleeps in Mike's bed since his own room is being painted. The auto timed recorder plays; Steve talks Spanish in the morning.

Robbie (Don Grady) is assigned the new glamour girl (Judi Sherven) as his study partner. He finds there's more to a study partner than good looks.

Chip's school assignment is to write a paper about his mother. Since his mother is dead, he decides to write about Bub, the closest thing he has to a mother.

Mike is placed in charge of taking care of the house and his brothers when both Steve and Bub are out of town at the same time. He finds it a challenge, especially when Robbie and his friend go to the hospital after a school accident.

When the boys continue to ask Bub for help with their homework, he realizes he does not have all the answers. He decides to go to night school for further education. He meets another student, and they both make up stories about their lives.

Robbie starts a musical band, with practice at his house. The other Douglas' cover their ears to drown out the noise. Steve helps them get in tune and even plays saxophone. When Mike's class needs a band for a dance, Robbie wants the job.

Robbie feels like he is always following his brother's footsteps at school, so when it is time to join a club, he picks one that Mike never joined.

Chip runs away from home after feeling neglected, but when he gets downtown, he realizes home is safer.

While on a camping trip vacation without the other family members, Steve is matched to another camper by an older couple who loves to play matchmakers. Both Steve and Fran are initially reluctant.

Mike and Robbie each have dates the same night. Due to a mix up in names, Mike picks up Robbie's young date (Trudi Ames), and Robbie picks up an older woman (Carole Costello), meant for Mike.

A former girlfriend of Steve's is still interested in seeing Steve. She visits the house, pretending to want to talk to Bub about an Irish Club. While she hopes to run into Steve, Bub starts thinking she is interested in him.

Four attractive flight attendants move into the Pearson's house, and while Bub and the boys befriend them right away, Steve is annoyed by all the noise from a party for their pilot friends. At first, he won't accept their apology, but soon offers some humble pie of his own.

Bub wants to do something different than dishes and dusting. He goes on interviews for different jobs.

Chip is all set to go on a business trip with his father to Chicago. When Steve's plans change, he is headed for Paris. Chip decides to sneak on to the plane to join his father. In Paris, he gets lost.

Film makers are in town to do a documentary on Robbie's physics class. Bub tell Robbie he should try to get a part in the film. Robbie and another student are chosen for a close up shot, showing what they are doing in physics.

Chip needs a drawing for open house at school and finds the family circle a pretty rough bunch of critics. He decides a sailboat picture of Bub's beats his own efforts, and he borrows it. But how is he going to keep his dad and Bub from going to the open house?

Steve returns from a business trip by train, and the rest of the family go to the station to meet him. As they prepare to go home, they realize Tramp is no longer with them.

Robbie (Don Grady) might not be able to play in his school's football game unless he can improve his grades in math. Also, Chip (Stanley Livingston) catches the measles.

Chip's (Stanley Livingston) having a party for his tenth birthday. When news gets out that Steve (Fred MacMurray) has caught the German measles, the parents do not want their children going to the party.

Steve's friend (Barbara Eiler) asks him to help find out who is dating her daughter (Brenda Scott). She thinks it is an older man. A mix up, caused by a borrowed fraternity pin, causes Steve to think it is Mike who is dating the daughter.

Chip gets the chance to visit his father's work place and to see what his father does for a living. Chip thinks the job is boring and of no consequence. However, when Steve is asked to help a pilot land a plane, Chip gets a different view.

Mike and Robbie plan to spend their summer vacation working in a different town to earn money.

Hank tells Robbie he should be a golf caddy during the local Golf Tournament. Robbie is assigned to a fussy golfer. Things get worse when at the 18th hole, Robbie causes the golfer to be disqualified.

On Steve's day off from work, everything seems to go wrong in the house, and the volume of activity is loud. Steve starts to wish he had all girls instead of boys.

Robbie competes in a model airplane contest for a school scholarship. He is in the top two position. The other entrant is a straight-A student who hopes to go to college but his parents cannot afford it.

Mike and his girlfriend take a break from each other, and Mike goes out with someone else. His girlfriend's father does not take too kindly to this news.

Robbie starts high school and is assigned a locker with the star athlete. Robbie is impressed that he gets to be friends with the popular guy on campus until Mike points out that the jock is using him. Robbie learns that Mike is right when Chug asks Robbie to rig an election.

Chip is forced to spend a week's vacation with a boy he does not like. They have nothing in common. All Chip gets out of it is a black eye.

Mike (Tim Considine) and his friends pull a prank at college and get called before the dean for punishment.

Steve and the boys get an earful of confusing advice from Bub and his friends.