User Reviews

I remember this episode when it premiered, and it was a big thing back in the day. Steve is transferred to Los Angeles, so the gang has to pull up stakes and move west to California. It's also a bit sentimental with some old black and white clips of the kids when they were young, and scenes from the old house.

They get across country FAST! Only debit is they should have made some pit stops across the USA. That would have been fun.

I do agree with the last reviewer; the writers made the local people look kind of cold, and Steve's first day in Los Angeles ain't good. That's a head scratcher, because Uncle Charlie has a short fuse himself! Stone face Kathleen Freeman is perfect as the harried checkout lady at the local supermarket, adding to the confusion. Charlie meets his match.

The BEST of it all is when Robbie chances to meet Katie (Tina Cole) at college... and you know there's more to come. In fact, the writers got ahead of themselves; Katie is fitted with a wedding gown in a dream sequence???

To note, if you have a keen movie eye. The "new" Douglas home could be seen in many tv shows and movies from years way back. It was actually added on to in later years, fittingly making a larger house for MY THREE SONS and the next generation.

Interestingly, the show was filmed at the old Revue Studios (now CBS) at Studio City, so you get to see some vintage shots of 60s LA, neighborhoods in the Valley, such as North Hollywood. Nothing seems to change, cars everywhere!

SEASON 8 EPISODE 1 remastered dvd box set.

This is an odd episode and not one of my favorites. The Douglass family moves to California and tries to be friendly, but for some reason everybody hates their guts. This angers the kids who vow to never be friendly to anybody in California. I moved to California and it was never that bad. Sure, I had some bad experiences with psychos and murderers trying to kill me, but you just chalk it up to experience and move on. I don't hate California at all. I don't live there anymore, but I don't hate it.

All this is meant to create drama, but it's a weak idea in my opinion, much too cliche to be interesting. The best part of the episode is Katie, the "California girl". She's hot as a firecracker. Hot, hot, hot. So that's one good reason to watch it.

This is a head-scratcher of an episode since it discombobulates a big chunk of the MTS universe. One episode after a hasty trip to Hawaii, the Douglas family flies back to Michigan so Papa can make another hasty decision to relocate to southern California. College student Robbie (Don Grady) is demoted back to high school so he can meet his future wife Katie (Tina Cole), who has a locker next to his, as well as her house. Or are we meant to believe college students have hall lockers? Papa Steve Douglas flashbacks to black-and-white clips to remind his tearful progeny how important family is, except for oldest son Mike (Tim Considine) who doesn't exist anymore (perhaps he slipped into the Upside Down with Bub?). Everything about this episode seems hastily cobbled together. I realize the purpose of My Three Sons was to counter-program Fred MacMurray's brilliant film career in the '40s, where he specialized in playing heavies and adulterers. It's disappointing that he devoted the end of his cinematic career in the '60s by making those awful "family friendly" Walt Disney movies about talking dogs and flying cars, only to be replaced by the now-forgotten Dean Jones. The moral is when story continuity is sacrificed for convenience, everyone suffers.