Episode
My Three Sons: A Ring for Barbara
Overview
Everyone (Except Barbara) knows Steve is going to propose to Barbara
Details
- Series
- My Three Sons
- Season
- Season 10
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1969-10-25
Episode context
A Ring for Barbara is Episode 4 in Season 10 of My Three Sons. It aired on 1969-10-25.
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Episode 3: Is it Love?
The whole Douglas clan conspires to encourage Steve's romance with the lady in question, Barbara Harper. After dinner, Steve and Barbara go back to her house where Steve is predictably nervous around her. They are both serious about their relationship, but neither of them realizes it.
Episode 5: The Littlest Rebel
With the ring finally on her finger, Steve and Barbara's engagement is exciting for everyone except Barbara's five year old daughter who isn't sure she wants to share her mother. Meanwhile, Barbara employs her considerable store of diplomacy in an effort to gain acceptance by Steve's family.
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: Instant Co-Worker
Robbie needs to talk to his dad-who seems unreachable
Episode 6: Two Weeks to Go
Steve and Barbara have different ideas on how their wedding should go.
Episode 1: The First Meeting
Robbie and Katie move into an apartment on the next block and widower Steve Douglas becomes the target of Katie's relentless matchmaking. However, Steve meets a remarkable woman in a high school corridor and the two are quickly attracted to each other.
Episode 7: One Week to Go
After a series of events at which the Bride and Groom wonder if they are doing the right thing, Steve and Barbara have an argument serious enough for them to consider cancelling their wedding.
Episode 8: Came the Day
On Steve's wedding day the groom is predictably nervous. Recalling certain mishaps from his own big day, super efficient Robbie determines that his own father's wedding will be perfect and after a few hours of hectic, last-minute preparations, Steve and Barbara are married in a simple church ceremony.
Episode 9: Mexican Honeymoon
Steve and Barbara's Honeymoon in a remote fishing village is bustling with hordes of other, younger honeymooners. They end up counselling several couples who are not adjusting to married life. When a bottle of champagne arrives from the family back in Los Angeles, the other honeymooners realise that Steve and Barbara are indeed honeymooners as well.
Episode 10: After You, Alphonse
With Steve and Barbara due back from their honeymoon in Mexico, Katie forces Robbie to lecture Uncle Charley on politeness, and the result of his very puzzling behaviour nearly drives Barbara out of her mind.
Episode 11: Rough on Dodie
Little Dodie feels out of place among her three stepbrothers and her often grumpy uncle, and discovers that being a member of the Douglas family can be a rough and tumble proposition.
Episode 12: Silver Threads
When Katie panics as she detects a few gray hairs in her youthful head, a family crisis is not far away. She further worries Robbie by suggesting they discuss preparation of life insurance and superannuation.
Episode 13: It's a Woman's World
When her brothers have more pressing commitments, Steve gets cast in Dodie's school play as a tree, more or less proving Robbie's point that females are instinctive manipulators.