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While on a business trip, Steve and a co-worker recognize a singer performing in a small lounge and they remember when she was big. Steve invites her to Bryant Park to learn an updated sound. The band invites her onstage at their next gig.

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.

Chip (Stanley Livingston) goes on a date with a teen movie star (Sherry Alberoni) thanks to Ernie (Barry Livingston), who had requested a photo of her as a birthday present for Chip. The studio's publicity man (Tommy Noonan) arranges to send the actress, in person, to Bryant Park, but Chip becomes disenchanted by all the attention which she is getting.

Robbie's new girlfriend (Marta Kristen) is mature for her age: avoiding football games, dances, and other pursuits of most teenagers. She talks Robbie (Don Grady) into proposing marriage to her.

After Steve visits the office of a potential client, a General whose motto is "Adjust or bust," he experiences many transportation inconveniences and missed connections getting home in time for the General's dinner appointment.

When Robbie (Don Grady) is laid off from his job, he and his family move to San Francisco for a new job offer. Their new friends tell him he works too hard, and Katie (Tina Cole) starts to think it is because of her and the 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.

Not quite familiar with the Italian language or customs, Robbie (Don Grady) finds himself engaged, after walking an Italian female (Judy Cannon) through a park.

Feeling that he's not contributing enough to the household expenses, Robbie (Don Grady) decides to quit school, get a job, and move his family into their own place. Rob's college counselor (Vince Howard) urges him to think it over before rushing into such a major decision, and asks the administration office to delay his paperwork over the weekend. The stalling tactic gives Rob enough time to discover that despite the added financial burden placed on his father, Steve (Fred MacMurray) enjoys taking care of his grandchildren, and that he has plans to redesign Rob's room to accommodate Rob, Katie (Tina Cole) and the triplets.

Chip's (Stanley Livingston) old friend, John Simpson (Micky Dolenz), who's now a big rock star, pays a visit. Soon, Chip tells the family that he's decided to give up his studies and become a rock star, too. The family is extremely concerned--until John mentions that he makes $2 million a year.

Robbie's latest girlfriend takes him to the country club. When he gets home, he tells his father he should join the club because it is where the important people gather. Steve tells Robbie you do not have to be in a club to be important.

Katie (Tina Cole) feels like she is getting as big as a house, even bigger than her pregnant friend Lisa (Barbara Boles), who is over due. While Robbie (Don Grady) is away on military reserve training (again!), Steve (Fred MacMurray) takes Katie to her OB appointment, where her doctor (Leon Ames) reveals why she is getting so large - Katie is having more than one baby. Katie doesn't want anyone to know before she can tell Robbie, but she's already getting her first labor pains and Robbie cannot be contacted.

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.

A new family moves in next door to the Douglases - a widowed mother and her three children, plus "Aunt Maude". Robbie (Don Grady) and the daughter Peggy Snell (Jackie DeShannon) get along swimmingly, but the rest of the family members are at odds with their next-door-neighbor counterparts. Robbie is caught in a Romeo & Juliet romance, until he and Peggy set Shakespearean dialog into modern songs and play them for the families.

Steve signs on the dotted line and Ernie is officially adopted into the Douglas family.

Robbie (Don Grady) finds out that a popular girl in school likes him, except that she (Cheryl Holdridge) confuses Robbie with Mike (Tim Considine). Unaware of this, Robbie ambushes Mike and pounces on him outside their front door after seeing them together, thinking Mike has moved in on her.

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

Steve's cousin Selena comes to visit and is only too happy to help around the house. When everyone is grateful for her help, Bub thinks he is being replaced and decides to take a job at a movie theater.

Bub tries to fit into family life, but the boys find things difficult when Bub speaks against a PTA mother, shows up at school with a forgotten lunch, and seems to interfere with girlfriends. Turns out, all the help was needed.

Steve (Fred MacMurray) and Chip (Stanley Livingston) deal with females in non-traditional male activities. Steve works with Max (Kipp Hamilton), a female engineer who acts like a man and dresses in overalls at work. Georgie (Terry Burnham), a female student, signs up for the boy's track team at school and Chip thinks it is wrong.

After a few hectic hours of last-minute preparations, Steve and Barbara (Fred MacMurray, Beverly Garland) are married

Rob gets a summer job on a cruise ship going to the Caribbean. Turns out, Steve takes the same ship for a business trip to establish business with a new company. Both Rob and Steve find a way to have fun while working.

Charley (William Demarest) goes to Ernie's class and tells tales of his days of being a seaman. He exaggerates a bit, and the teacher (Jan Clayton) falls in love with the romance of the story. She quits her job and asks Charley to marry her and travel to Pango-Pango.

Uncle Charley (William Demarest) provides the correct answer to a radio contest and wins one dance lesson. His instructor is a pretty woman (Joanna Moore), who is also skilled in sales. Charley buys her lines and purchases more lessons.

Steve gives Robbie $50 to pick up his golf clubs; finding the store not opened, Robbie goes to the pool hall. Two girls bet him to a game. They are pool sharks and win all of Robbie's money. Charley plays pool shark and wins the money back.

Mike is surprised to see Kimiko, a woman he met in Tokyo last year. She came to see Mike to see if there are still any romantic feelings between them.

Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) and his youngest son, Chip (Stanley Livingston), are caught in the snares of designing women (Patricia Barry and Debbie Megowan), respectively.

Chip (Stanley Livingston) has a new girlfriend, Debbie (Angela Cartwright), and their relationship is progressing at a rapid pace. Shortly after convincing Debbie to drop her swimming class for home economics, Chip and Debbie announce that they are engaged. While both families are concerned about the situation, they don't interfere with the kids, until one day Katie (Tina Cole) suddenly faints and Robbie (Don Grady) has to take her to see the doctor, leaving Chip and Debbie alone to take care of the triplets. After several frenzied hours with the babies, the couple decide that they are moving too fast and to just be friends.

The Douglas's stove breaks down on Thanksgiving Day. There's no way to get it fixed that same day and every restaurant in town is booked. Meanwhile Chip befriends a Native American and invites him to dinner. He in turn shows how to roast a turkey outdoors without a grill.

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.

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.

It's the night before Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie's (Tina Cole) wedding and, everything that can go wrong, does. First, Tramp runs away and can't be found. Next, the dressmaker sends the wrong gown and bridesmaids dresses to the Douglass house. Topping things off, Robbie and Katie have an argument and decide to call the wedding off. Will Robbie and Katie get over their jitters and make it to the altar? Also, will anything else go wrong before the wedding?

Mike has to finish the layout and write a sports article for the school paper by himself in between running in a track meet and going to a dance with Jean.

Robbie reports to camp for two weeks of military reserve maneuvers, and Katie decides to go along and stay at a nearby motel so that the newlyweds can be near each other. Meanwhile, Uncle Charley and the boys are camping at Yosemite, which also happens to be close to Robbie's camp. During a stroll, Katie wanders into the mock battlefield and gets arrested by Robbie's unit. Later, each of the other family members try to locate Robbie and similarly get detained. Steve heads toward camp to prevent the family from interfering with Rob's duties, but he manages to get captured first by the aggressor team, then by the defender team.

Attractive lady engineer Eileen Talbot (Anne Baxter) is assigned to help Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) on a rush project in his office, and she applies her many talents to assure romantic, as well as technical success. Only level-headed Katie (Tina Cole) recognizes her as a manipulating female, long before the gullible male Douglases do.

Steve (Fred MacMurray) formally adopts Dodie (Dawn Lyn), who enlists the aid of Chip (Stanley Livingston) and Ernie (Barry Livingston), after being harassed in school by a mean-spirited girl (Erin Moran).

Dodie has to have her tonsils taken out, and she tells her mother that she wants Steve to stay with her in the hospital overnight. Meanwhile, Robbie and Katie go on a vacation without the triplets.

When Bub has to go out of town for a few days, Steve asks Mike to call an agency and hire a maid. Mike asks Robbie to make the call, and Robbie asks Chip to make the call. Chip calls an agency but it is a marriage agency who matches people.

A sultry secretary (Brenda Benet) causes jealousy among the Douglas women, and quite a different reaction among the Douglas men.

Robbie tells Chip that teenage parties are the best, so Chip decides he should throw his own party, with girls. Ernie is not invited since he is too young. As the party starts, the record player breaks. Ernie comes up with a solution.

Ernie's girlfriend is an older classmate who is more interested in his stamp collection than him. Once she has the stamp she wants, the friendship is over. Meanwhile, Robbie is working on a school project but he has girls do all the work.

Ernie is smitten with a classmate, Margaret, who shows no interest while Iris does. He asks his dad what to do. Steve suggests changing his appearance. Ernie comes to school the next day with his hair slicked back but Margaret is unmoved.

Ernie meets Zsa Zsa Gabor after accidentally falling into her swimming pool. She befriends Ernie, who introduces her to the rest of the Douglas clan.

When Ernie invites a vagabond that he befriended in the park to the house for dinner, Steve decides to not pass judgment and give Ernie the chance to realize that the guy (Eddie Foy Jr.) is nothing more than a freeloader.

To Ernie's dismay, Steve refuses to help him with his school science project. All the other kids have their parents help them and create better projects, but Ernie is the only one who ends up learning anything.

Ernie winds up with two dates for the same dance because he traded items with both in class and each think they're going steady with him. Ernie consults with the family for advice on how to handle the situation but still is not sure what to do. He has dreams about talking to the girls and is very nervous about it. Chip tries to help Ernie and writes a speech for him to give both girls so that he's polite, but Ernie is rude to both girls when he delivers it. The mom of one girl comes to the house and forces him to take her daughter. The other girl's dad calls Steve and lets him know that she's upset and Steve agrees to have Ernie go to the dance with her. In the end, Chip escorts one of the girls to the dance to help Ernie.

Ernie becomes convinced he's a jinx when things inexplicably start to go wrong whenever he's around, but Steve reassures him that his family loves him anyhow.

Charley (William Demarest) is tired of having Fergus living in the Douglas house, causing a disruption to everyone's schedule. Since Fergus is looking for a wife, Charley places an ad in the local newspaper, seeking a wife for Fergus.

For entertainment, the family decides to play music together. Everyone has an instrument to play - except for Ernie. Uncle Charley tries to teach Ernie to play the violin, but finds out Ernie has no talent for music.

Mike plans an easy summer with a job with the forestry service. He plans on watching the trees and enjoying himself. He finds it is not an easy job when a fire starts and his boss is stranded and not able to help.

It seems that everybody has something planned for Friday night - except Ernie (Barry Livingston). But since this will be the first time Rob (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole) are away from the triplets, they are reluctant to leave Ernie alone with the babies, so they hire a sitter recommended by the family doctor. However, the sitter (Rose Marie) seems to be more interested in watching television than watching the babies. After repeated calls from worried family members, she takes the phone off the hook, but now the constant busy signal causes more anxiety, so the family members all rush home, only to find that the sitter has matters well in hand.

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.

Robbie (Don Grady) is in love with another girl (Charla Doherty). He asks Sally (Meredith MacRae) for advice because he thinks the girl is older than he is.

When preparing for a business trip, Steve realizes he could drive and take the time to stop at the town where he grew up. He takes the whole family on a vacation with him. He walks down memory lane, and the boys enjoy the trip.

Steve gets a letter from a woman he had dated a long time ago and would like for them to get together. When they meet she remembers everything about Steve, but try as he might, Steve does not remember her at all.

Charley runs into a friend (Gloria Swanson) from his vaudeville days on the stage. Since she looks great for her age, Charley thinks she might have found the fountain of youth. She tells Charley he just needs to enjoy his life.

Maggie Bellini, a wealthy businesswoman, promises to match the money that Bryant Park raises to build an art center. She meets the Douglas family and is interested in Steve. She tries to buy his attentions by giving gifts to the others.

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.

Jean Pearson returns to Bryant Park and reconnects with Mike. As they reminisce, Mike's feelings for her are rekindled so he can't bring himself to say he's engaged to Sally. Unaware that Jean doesn't know this, Robbie spills the beans.

Fergus (Fred MacMurray in a double role) marries Terri (Anne Francis), a woman who works at a bowling alley. They fly to Las Vegas for their honeymoon, before going home to Scotland.

Ernie becomes somewhat depressed when he learns his best friend Gordon is moving away. The two decide to spend as much time as possible hanging out together until moving day.

When Steve (Fred MacMurray) is promoted to head of the helicopter division, the secretaries snoop into his personnel file and are happy to discover that their new boss is an available widower. Uncle Charley (William Demarest) brings his helicopter-loving girlfriend Sally (Shirley Mitchell) for a plant tour, but when denied entrance, he tells his girlfriend Sally to pretend that she's "Mrs. Douglas", in order for her to get in. Meanwhile, Steve has invited Katie (Tina Cole) to visit the plant and tells her to let people know that she's "Mrs. Robbie Douglas". When the nosy secretaries see Steve with two different women claiming to be "Mrs. Douglas", they suspect that their new boss is a bigamist. Unaware that Charley's girlfriend is posing as "Mrs. Douglas", Steve doesn't understand the stares from his co-workers, as he escorts the two women around together.

Steve is asked to take in a boy, who is a delinquent. When Steve has to be out of town that week, it is up to Bub and the boys to handle the visit. When someone (Tony Dow) comes to the house, they assume he is the delinquent.

Robbie tries to earn extra money by starting a birthday cake delivery service at his college, meanwhile the family forgets Steve's own birthday. The home business goes great until it gets overwhelmed with orders, and health authorities get involved. Spoiler alert: The episode ends with a colorful cake and pie tossing fight in the Douglas' kitchen.

The Douglas family plans a vacation to Hawaii, but Chip gets sick and the trip is canceled. Charley decides if they cannot go to Hawaii, then Hawaii shall come to the Douglas'. He plans a luau party in the backyard.

Ernie's new schoolmate Lazlo is a gypsy whose family lives in a camp outside town. Ernie invites them to stay with the Douglases so they move their tent to the Douglases' front yard.

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.

When Steve has to fly to Hong Kong on a company plane for business, he decides to take the entire family for a vacation. Everyone is excited except Charley, who is not sure he wants to see the modern city. He knew the city years before.

Steve's former Bryant Park co-worker, Ray Wong has transferred to Los Angeles and tells Steve his pregnant daughter's husband is a long-haired hippie. Though intelligent, the son-in-law hasn't any direction in life. Ray seeks Steve's help.

The Wong family from Bryant Park drops in on the Douglases unexpectedly while on their way to Hong Kong. Since the hour is late, Steve invites the Wongs to stay overnight, forcing him to cancel the family camping trip planned for early the next morning. The Wongs are too polite to tell Steve that they have family in Chinatown who are expecting them, and Steve make his family promise not to tell the Wongs that they ruined the Douglases weekend plans.

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.

After reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Chip decides he, Ernie, and their friend Melinda (Jennie Lynn) should reenact some of the adventures.

Steve has a series of bad luck connected to driving, and it does not get any better when he has to renew his driver's license. Robbie gives him an old driving manual, and Steve fails the renewal.

The family is delighted when the romance between Steve (Fred MacMurray) and Barbara (Beverly Garland) blossoms. Steve and Barbara are both anxious to declare their love to each other.

Robbie is dating Charlene, whose younger brother is a friend of Chips. It seems every time Robbie and Charlene get together, Chip is there with Tim, always underfoot.

Steve's cousin Fergus (Fred MacMurray in a double role) and Terri (Anne Francis) go to the bowling alley, where she works as a waitress, and have dinner. Fergus proposes, but Terri declines as she is afraid of the move to Scotland. Steve talks to her and she says yes.

Steve (Fred MacMurray) enjoys working with a woman engineer (Dorothy Green), who is beautiful. He asks her out for dinner, but she is only interested in work.

Steve is asked to escort a congresswoman when she is in town. For Chip, he is asked to be friends with a shy girl at school who is campaigning to be the class president. Chip is also campaigning to be the class president.

After discovering that a neighbor (Dianne Ramey) has a cousin, visiting from Liverpool, who plays guitar, Chip (Stanley Livingston) invites the cousin to join his band, only to discover that he has a much more laid back, folk style than Chip assumed. But the new member (Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy fame) is just what the band needs, in order to win the top award at the local teen club.

Steve seems to have changed since returning from London. When the family views home movies they took in London, Robbie realizes Steve's mood is because he misses a woman (Anna Lee) he met in London.

Lonesome George Gobel is in town for a benefit and escapes to the Douglas household for some "quiet" time.

Katie (Tina Cole) and her friends talk about their husbands. Katie misses Robbie and wonders if she should start living her own life without him. Meanwhile, Dodie (Dawn Lyn) has a slumber party with her friends.

Rob and Katie don't exactly hit it off right away with their new neighbors, Joe and Eve Lawrie (Jerry Mathers and Lori Martin).

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's girlfriend Vivian (Cindy Carol) suspects something is going on between Robbie (Don Grady) and Judy (Cheryl Holdridge) (the same girl who confused Robbie with Mike) and asks her brother (Paul Engle) to follow them.

Charley overhears Steve on the phone arranging a marriage; Chip and Ernie learn he is arranging the church; and Robbie sees him at the jewelry store. More coincidences occur, all pointing to Steve getting married.

Marriage and raising children are not as easy as they seem when Mike and Sally step in to help babysit the children of a friend. They wonder how they will handle it after they are married.

Chip has eyes for Mary Lou, who is one year ahead of him in school. Mary Lou only has eyes for Robbie, who is one year ahead of her in school. When Chip calls Mary Lou to ask her out on a date, she mistakenly believes it is Robbie and says yes.

Pregnant Katie needs to choose a doctor and many people recommend their doctor. But her mother makes an appointment for her to see their family physician, Roy Osborne. Robbie balks at choosing a GP, seeing that he works out of his house.

Steve (Fred MacMurray) is dating Natalie (Coleen Gray), who has a teenage daughter, Melinda (Morgan Brittany). Chip (Stanley Livingston) does not like Melinda, as she seems pushy. He pretends to get along with her, so that his father has an easier time when dating her mother.

Steve declines a business trip to Mexico because he does not want to be away from his family. This results in his Mexican host inviting the entire family to stay with him at his hacienda.

Mike (Tim Considine) receives an invitation to a frat rush at the local college, then is eventually dropped because his college plans are perceived as being unclear.

Robbie is tired of all the teachers at school calling him "Mike's brother" and making comparisons about how each of the boys are different.

Barbara's former father-in-law (Lew Ayres) visits the Douglas family, and seems to be a man of mystery.

Ernie volunteers Steve for a father & son show, but Steve is supposed to be out of town that day. On the day of the play, Steve changes his plans. Everyone goes to the school ahead of Steve, who is then stuck in costume and cannot drive.

Stanley Livingston's real-life brother, Barry Livingston, joins the cast as Ernie, a foster child living with a family down the street. The two boys go off on an adventure to find a treasure chest.

Robbie's girlfriend suggests a ballet class to improve his chances at making the track team. All goes well, until Robbie is expected to perform at an upcoming ballet recital, against his "masculine" instincts. Will he perform?

Robbie has aspirations of becoming a bullfighter. He starts out by confronting a killer bull with no knowledge about the sport whatsoever. Then, after a few lessons, he tries out his skills on a farmer's pet bull, who is tame, completely harmless and disinterested.

Steve attends his twenty fifth class reunion from his college days and enjoys seeing some old friends.

Chip's (Stanley Livingston) class has a school dance with an olden day theme. The students are to ask one of their parents to attend with them. Since Chip does not have a mother to take, he takes his father (Fred MacMurray), who is matched with Chip's date's (Susan Gordon) mother (Mary LaRoche).

A distant relative of Charley's visits. She misses her family and feels like she has nothing to do. Charley and the children talk Steve into getting her a job where he works.

Steve's sister, an efficiency expert, pays a visit and within a few days transforms total chaos into a smooth, efficient household.

Robbie learns "the grass is always greener on the other side" when he is envious of his friend Hank's home, which seems perfect for a teenager. But Hank is envious of Robbie's life in a happy home and great family.

After learning about the Statue of Liberty in school, Ernie decides to write a thank you letter to the French Ambassador in Washington DC. The Ambassador is touched, and invites the Douglas family to visit in Washington.

Steve seems annoyed with Robbie for always forgetting to pass on messages and other information. Robbie feels bad and decides to play golf with Steve for some father and son bonding.

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