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Season 2

Season 2

Season 2

Season 2

Season 2

  • Air date:1961-09-28
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  • Number of episodes:36

List of Episodes

Birds And Bees
S2E1
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Air date: 1961-09-28

Runtime: min

When Chip announces Tramp is the father of six puppies, Steve is concerned because he has never explained the cycle of life to his son. But before long a confused Chip thinks that his teacher is going to marry his father.

Instant Hate
S2E2
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Air date: 1961-10-05

Runtime: min

The good neighbour policy gets a real workout when the boys, and later Bub, tangle individually with members of the new family across the street. Steve lectures them but on his way to work as he's backing out the driveway, he is delayed by a fender-denting idiot who turns out to be none other than Mr. Kaylor - the neighbor across the street.

The Crush
S2E3
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Air date: 1961-10-12

Runtime: min

Mike has found a girl at college, Mary Beth. But when he brings her home to meet the family, she makes a beeline straight for Steve, who is trapped into tutoring her in trigonometry. This gives Mike a few jealous moments until all is resolved.

Tramp The Hero
S2E4
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Air date: 1961-10-26

Runtime: min

When a boiling pot explodes Tramp's barking wakes the family saving them.

A Perfect Memory
S2E5
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Air date: 1961-11-02

Runtime: min

An old high school sweetheart calls for Steve while he is out. Feeling nostalgic, Steve tries to locate her in town, but never seems to be able to catch up with her as he reminisces about their past relationship. As he arrives home the door bell rings and he gets a disappointment then a surprise.

Bub's Lodge
S2E6
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Air date: 1961-11-09

Runtime: min

Bub and Mike are at odds with each other because both are trying to get into different, exclusive clubs. Bub is to be installed as the D'Artagnon of the East Door, while Mike is subjected to his initiation which involves pretend fishing in front of the local drug-store.

A Lesson in Any Language
S2E7
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Air date: 1961-11-16

Runtime: min

Mike wants to go skiing on the weekend with his friends but must also keep up his Spanish studies. So he adopts the learn while you sleep method via use of a pre-programmed record player. Steve's room has just been painted so he decides to sleep in Mike's bed. Mysteriously, he wakes up speaking Spanish, and the next night Bub does the same. Before long they are both uttering phrases they couldn't possibly know.

The Ugly Duckling
S2E8
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Air date: 1961-11-23

Runtime: min

Robbie is heading for an ‘F' in world literature until the teacher assigns a beautiful blonde newcomer as his study partner. He is attracted to her right away but soon discovers that her looks don't even compensate for her loss of mind.

Chip's Composition
S2E9
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Air date: 1961-11-30

Runtime: min

A composition titled ‘What My Mother Means to Me' has Chip baffled. After interviewing other mothers in the neighborhood, he makes a courageous effort to improvise by writing about his own Grandfather, whom he feels is the most maternal person he knows.

Mike in Charge
S2E10
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Air date: 1961-12-07

Runtime: min

Steve and Bub are both called out of town and Mike urges them to leave him in charge, only to find the role of mother hen harder than it looks. His worth is really put to the test when he learns that Robbie and Hank have been taken to hospital after an accident at school.

Bub Goes to School
S2E11
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Air date: 1961-12-14

Runtime: min

Bub decides to go to night school when he finds that his grandsons keep asking endless questions that he simply cannot answer. He meets a fellow student and passes himself off as a former show business producer, while she makes out she's a high society dame, when in fact she's really a maid.

Robbie's Band
S2E12
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Air date: 1961-12-21

Runtime: min

Robbie's band rehearsals upsets the household. Mike's fraternity is looking for a band and Robbie tries to get the job.

Damon and Pythias
S2E13
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Air date: 1961-12-28

Runtime: min

When Robbie and his friend Hank decide they want to join a club at school, Robbie insists he does not want to join Mike's old club. When he gets an offer to join the Chieftains, the one school Club his brother never belonged to, he jumps at the chance.

Chip Leaves Home
S2E14
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Air date: 1962-01-04

Runtime: min

Chip feels ignored by his family and decides to do them all a favour by running away from home. His solution is to strike away for far-east India very early the next morning. He takes fright while downtown and secretly returns home and hides in the attic, forgetting the farewell note he's pinned to Tramp's collar.

The Romance of Silver Pines
S2E15
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Air date: 1962-01-11

Runtime: min

Steve takes a week's vacation from the family where he soon finds that he can fall in love with someone as easily as fall out of love with them. Sure that an older couple he's met are trying to play matchmaker, Fran is unsociable towards Steve at first until he points out that he only came along on the trip to appease his fellow campers.

Blind Date
S2E16
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Air date: 1962-01-18

Runtime: min

Two dates, confused phone calls and name mix-ups create a tangled evening for brothers Mike and Robbie, when each get's the other's date. Mike gets a shock when he picks up a fourteen year old, while Robbie nearly croaks at the sight of his 'older woman'.

Second Time Around
S2E17
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Air date: 1962-01-25

Runtime: min

Attractive Pamela MacLish whom Steve took to Chip's grade school dance a year ago, is still trying to melt his bachelor heart. She arrives at the house on the pre-text of soliciting Bub's help to join an Irish Society called the 'Daughters of the Emerald Isle'. Soon Bub thinks that Pamela is after him.

The Girls Next Door
S2E18
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Air date: 1962-02-01

Runtime: min

Four beautiful airline stewardesses move into the vacant house next door and Mike and Robbie immediately are attracted to the glamorous career women. Meanwhile Steve is at the drawing board trying to meet a work deadline that requires his total concentration.

Bub Gets a Job
S2E19
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Air date: 1962-02-08

Runtime: min

Bub reads an article in a magazine which is directed at bored homemakers and he begins to think that he fits the description. Steve warns him that he should control his Irish temper as it could lead to the demise of his position should he find one.

Le Petit Stowaway
S2E20
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Air date: 1962-02-15

Runtime: min

Steve is going to Chicago on business and he's promised to take Chip with him. A change of plans sees Steve boarding a military plane bound for Paris. Chip takes action when he finds out that he can't go on a trip to Paris with his father, by sneaking onto the plane. He gets lost in the city and is befriended by a little girl named Marie.

Robbie Valentino
S2E21
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Air date: 1962-02-22

Runtime: min

Bub fires Robbie's show business ambitions when he tells him to make the most of an opportunity when Robbie's 9th grade physics class is the subject of an educational film. He is excited when he and a fellow student are told they will be part of a close-up scene.

The Masterpiece
S2E22
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Air date: 1962-03-01

Runtime: min

Chip tries to snow his teachers so he can win an art contest and almost succeeds with some help from Bub, who actually painted the artwork. Chip's teacher offers his painting to the Principal to show the school board. When Chip learns of this development, he plots with Sudsy to steal it back.

A Holiday for Tramp
S2E23
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Air date: 1962-03-08

Runtime: min

The Douglas family goes to the train station to meet Steve but when they prepare to leave, they can't find Tramp anywhere. Tramp has wandered into the cabin of a famous actress named Marissa Montaigne who takes a liking to him.

The Big Game
S2E24
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Air date: 1962-03-15

Runtime: min

Robbie finds out that he won't be able to play in the big game unless he passes a math exam. Steve assures him that if he fails he will not be playing against his team's arch rival. When Chip comes down with the measles, it dampens Robbie's attempt to play even more than before.

Chip's Party
S2E25
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Air date: 1962-03-22

Runtime: min

Chip's schoolmates want to help him celebrate his tenth birthday with a party but he doesn't want to share the occasion with certain young ladies. However, Steve falls foul of the German measles and when Bub speaks to Sudsy's mother about it, suddenly the gossip mongers decide that they will not send their children to the house for fear of catching the disease.

Casanova Trouble
S2E26
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Air date: 1962-03-29

Runtime: min

Steve's friend asks him to come up with a solution when she thinks her daughter is dating an older man. Steve is shocked when he sees that the initials of the fraternity pin the man gave her identifies his oldest son Mike. However it is really Robbie who took the use of Mike's pin to fix his button-less shirt.

The Pencil Pusher
S2E27
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Air date: 1962-04-05

Runtime: min

Chip puts his father into the uncomfortable position of defending the importance of his profession. Chip is unenlightened by the tour of the Air Force base until a full-scale emergency arises and Steve is asked to help a desperate pilot down from the air.

Innocents Abroad
S2E28
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Air date: 1962-04-12

Runtime: min

When Steve and an old boyhood pal discuss the time they ran away to another town, Mike and Robbie, who are continually in need of cash, decide that during school vacation they will go North to the next big town and try and get jobs.

Robbie the Caddy
S2E29
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Air date: 1962-04-19

Runtime: min

At the suggestion of his best pal Hank, Robbie plans to earn some extra pocket-money by caddying at the local Golfing Tournament. He's assigned to the most temperemental golfer on the course. At the 18th hole Robbie accidentally kick's the ball out of the rough, immediately disqualifying his golfer from the competition.

Coincidence
S2E30
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Air date: 1962-04-26

Runtime: min

Steve's wish for a calm life sends him on a chaotic journey into a parallel universe when on a typically rambunctious morning, the Douglas household noise is ruining Steve's day off from work. So he gets in his car to get away from it all, wishing that he'd had girls instead of boys.

Air Derby
S2E31
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Air date: 1962-05-03

Runtime: min

Robbie's only real competition for winning a school scholarship in a model airplane contest is a young boy named Roly Bates, a studious lad who has his heart set on first prize as its his only chance to get a college education.

Too Much In Common
S2E32
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Air date: 1962-05-10

Runtime: min

Mike has problems with his girlfriend's father when Mike tries to see another girl.

Chug and Robbie
S2E33
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Air date: 1962-05-17

Runtime: min

On his first day in High School, Robbie has some memorable highlights -- such as being assigned a locker with Chug Williams, the school's star senior athlete. When it is evident that Chug is using Robbie, Mike tries to warn him that he has become the victim of a dangerous case of hero-worship.

Good Influence
S2E34
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Air date: 1962-05-24

Runtime: min

Steve pushes Chip to go on a week-long vacation with a boy he really doesn't like. The boy is very shy and timid, and when Chip calls him a chicken-clunk, he cops an unexpected black eye for his trouble. Meanwhile Bub tries his hand at painting.

The Hippopotamus Foot
S2E35
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Air date: 1962-05-31

Runtime: min

Mike faces disciplinary action at the hands of the Board of Regents and the Dean of the College for a wayward fraternity prank in which several of the students have created a foot-print mould which bears a remarkable resemblance to the hippopotamus.

The Kibitzers
S2E36
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Air date: 1962-06-07

Runtime: min

Two of Bub's cronies who are visiting for their usual game of pinochle, accidentally get an earful of the family's woes. Their mysterious interjection to try and solve the problems, leaves Steve and the boys quite baffled.

Top Cast

Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

Steve Douglas

Tim Considine

Tim Considine

Mike Douglas

Don Grady

Don Grady

Robbie Douglas

Stanley Livingston

Stanley Livingston

Chip Douglas

William Frawley

William Frawley

Bub O'Casey

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