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.
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.