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mark smith "My Three Sons" was about an unconventional family, Mom was missing. Dad, Steve Douglas, was missing most of the time since he was busy as an engineer in the aerospace industry, a dream job for those times when the space-race was a hot topic – the show began 9-years before America put a man on the moon in 1969.Bub, then later, Uncle Charlie kept the house and was there when the boys, Mike, Robbie, and Chip, and later Ernie (Chip's little brother in real life) came home from school. This was a quirky bachelor pad. The show's theme music fit; it was a little kookie, just like the family. And, that was all the music that counted. There was some old music played, like the music my mom and dad – 39 and 48-years older than me – listened to, which was how it was back then. Kids went to another room or outside with the transistor radio to hear their own music where it wouldn't bother the folks. By the later 60s we had an FM antenna on the roof to stay up and listen to jazz and the more psychedelic sounds and lyrics.Every week, one of the kids would have some problem and would have it solved by the end of the show without anyone having gone on a shooting rampage. The military- industrial complex hadn't yet changed the definition of gun to denote a problem-solver that goes bang bang and makes America great.TV in those days was not about reality, which we turned on the set to escape, but entertainment. The shows were not meant to literally reflect real families, but depicted families that were somewhere near to the screenwriter's ideal of what a family should be, showing how people are there for each other no matter what. And, the what was nowhere near as bizarre as the reality of today. Things that were funny, as an exception to the rule or the norm, are no longer funny since they've become a bad joke that is the rule or the norm.And, what does that say about us as a society? I liked "All in the Family" when it began in the early 70s, but was and am dumbfounded by those who see Archie Bunker as the lifestyle guru who is here to save America instead of the "Meathead-of the household" that he portrayed. I still don't care for reality TV, even with the years of exposure to it. I'd rather read a book of my liking or watch a rerun of some seemingly absurd show like "My Three Sons." It was good entertainment, which is what TV is meant to provide for one thing.If you want reality, watch the news or, better still for reality, some very old reruns of the news. But, I give "My Three Sons" a 10.

Dalbert Pringle With my curiosity piqued in regards to this TV show's vast popularity, I have now watched every single episode from both Season 1 and Season 2 of My Three Sons.And, now, with that done, I have to say that I honestly can't imagine how this dreary, unfunny and unimaginative Sit-Com actually endured running for 12 seasons (1960-1972).I am absolutely puzzled by this show's wide appeal.Among my other valid complaints about this completely contrived TV series is that the 2 teen-aged boys in the show had no real interest, whatsoever, in rock-n-roll music (which was in full swing when this show was first aired) and I think that that one point, alone, renders My Three Sons as an absolutely unrealistic depiction of a "typical", middle-class, All-American family during the 1960s.Whoever scripted this show was a moron. They turned every reasonably acceptable situation into an absurd, unfunny dud where all I could do was roll my eyes to the ceiling and groan in agony at the stupidity of it all.I'm trying to be fair-minded here, but I thought that the entire Douglas family were all a bunch of jerks who were so easy to dislike.This was one of those rare TV shows where the family dog, Tramp, was just as stupid and clueless as its owners.As well, I found the Steve Douglas character (played by actor Fred MacMurray), the father figure of the household, to be a lousy role model. This character, far too often, seemed unbelievably apathetic and in no way helpful when it came to the concerns of his 3 growing sons.Nope. It's as I said earlier - I can't see how this show survived running for 12 successful seasons. I really can't.

rekrab06 Because of its many changes over the years, My Three Sons seemed almost like two different shows. Both were very good, but I prefer the earlier episodes, the black & white ones. They had a certain charm to them that was missing in later years. Robby somehow never seemed to fit the eldest brother role the way Mike did. That, and the move from Bryant Park, Michigan out to Los Angeles took away the small town feel that the earlier episodes had. Then came the arrival of women into the family, and that changed everything. For the first five seasons, 1960-61 to 1964-65, the show was aired on ABC and filmed in black & white. For the last seven seasons, 1965-66 to 1971-72, it was aired on CBS and filmed in color. For the first 4.5 seasons, the boys "nanny" was their grandfather Bub, for the last 7.5 seasons it was their great uncle Charlie. For the first 5 seasons, the sons were Mike, Robby, and Chip, for the last 7 seasons the sons were Robby, Chip, and Ernie. William Frawley left the show halfway through the 1964-65 due to ill health (he died in 1966). In the story line, Bub went over to Ireland to visit relatives and decided to stay there. Shortly after his departure, his brother Charlie arrived for a visit, and ended-up staying for the rest of the shows run. After the end of that season, Bub was never referred to again. In the first episode of the 1965-66 season, Mike married his girlfriend Sally and moved to another town to take a job. This marked Tim Considine's departure from the series. To re-establish the "three sons" storyline, Steve Douglas adopted Chip's friend Ernie, who had recently become an orphan. Mike was never seen again (not even when Steve married Barbara) and was only sporadically referred to thereafter.More bits of trivia:Before being cast as Katie, Tina Cole had appeared several years earlier(in the black & white days) as Ina, one of Robbys friends. Stanley Livingston and Barry Livingston are brothers.Before being adopted by the Douglases, Ernies last name was Thompson. Years later, Chip married Polly Thompson, no relation to Ernie. When Robby and Katie had kids, it was triplets. They were all boys, thus keeping with the "three sons" theme.Originally, the show was going to be called "The Fred MacMurray Show", but MacMurray objected to that, so the title was changed.In its early years, My Three Sons was sponsored by Chevrolet, thus Chevy cars were seen behind the closing credits.There are two syndication packages for My Three Sons. One package consists of the first five seasons (the black & white ones) and the final season. The other package contains the other six seasons. Why it is done this way I don't know, it doesn't make sense to me. I would think they would just have the B&W episodes as one package and the color episodes as the other.

jperin I one BIG FAN of Cynthia Pepper who played Jean Pearson, the girl next door in the first year of the series - 1960-61. She was Mike's girlfriend. Not long before Mike got married several seasons later, she returned, but found that Mike had someone else and was planning on marrying her. It was kind of sad, but very true to life. I wish Miss Pepper could have been on more. She was a talented young lady who stopped acting way too soon.