Episode
My Three Sons: My Friend Ernie
Overview
Chip and his new sidekick Ernie find some old treasure maps but get lost in the woods when they go treasure hunting, causing the family's plans to be changed when they have to go looking for them.
Details
- Series
- My Three Sons
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1963-10-31
Episode context
My Friend Ernie is Episode 7 in Season 4 of My Three Sons. It aired on 1963-10-31.
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Episode 6: How Do You Know?
Steve gives Mike advice on love after he announces his passion for his new girlfriend Darlene, who Mike wants to devote time to, so he hardly welcomes Steve's suggestion that he help find a date for the girl in his office.
Episode 8: The End of The You-Know-What
Chip and Ernie, having heard two scientists calculate that the world will be destroyed in one week are faced with the classic problem of what to do in the time they have left.
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Robbie is chosen to write an 'advice to the lovelorn' column for the school newspaper, but Steve gets caught in the middle when a baffling love letter arrives. Robbie suggests that the writer should elope with her boyfriend and Steve tries to talk her out of it.
Episode 10: The Ever-Popular Robbie Douglas
Robbie is faced with a real political dilemma when he and a rival for a girl's affections, are campaigning for Student Council Representative.
Episode 3: Didya Ever Have One of Those Days?
It's a bad day for Steve when everything seems to be going wrong for him. His run of bad luck starts when he cuts himself shaving, burns his hand on the toaster, and then can't get his car started. Worse yet, he has to clinch a deal with a very important client.
Episode 11: The Proposals
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Episode 13: Par for the Course
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