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- While on a business trip, Steve and a co-worker recognize a singer performing in a small lounge and they remember when she was big. Steve invites her to Bryant Park to learn an updated sound. The band invites her onstage at their next gig.
- Uncle Charley buys an 11-year-old trotting horse, thinking of the potential purses that the horse could win. With Charley himself driving the sulky, the horse wins his qualifying race, but he discovers his horse's opponents were run-down nags more qualified for the glue factory than competitive racing. So Charley retires the horse at a friend's stable, where Ernie can ride him whenever he wants.
- Steve (Fred MacMurray) has bought a ring and is ready to propose to Barbara Harper (Beverly Garland). After making sure his family approves, he tries to find the right moment to pop the question to an unsuspecting Barbara, but the evening is filled with interruptions and complications which lead to a proposal that was not quite how Steve had planned it.
- Feeling that he's not contributing enough to the household expenses, Robbie (Don Grady) decides to quit school, get a job, and move his family into their own place. Rob's college counselor (Vince Howard) urges him to think it over before rushing into such a major decision, and asks the administration office to delay his paperwork over the weekend. The stalling tactic gives Rob enough time to discover that despite the added financial burden placed on his father, Steve (Fred MacMurray) enjoys taking care of his grandchildren, and that he has plans to redesign Rob's room to accommodate Rob, Katie (Tina Cole) and the triplets.
- Katie (Tina Cole) feels like she is getting as big as a house, even bigger than her pregnant friend Lisa (Barbara Boles), who is over due. While Robbie (Don Grady) is away on military reserve training (again!), Steve (Fred MacMurray) takes Katie to her OB appointment, where her doctor (Leon Ames) reveals why she is getting so large - Katie is having more than one baby. Katie doesn't want anyone to know before she can tell Robbie, but she's already getting her first labor pains and Robbie cannot be contacted.
- A new family moves in next door to the Douglases - a widowed mother and her three children, plus "Aunt Maude". Robbie (Don Grady) and the daughter Peggy Snell (Jackie DeShannon) get along swimmingly, but the rest of the family members are at odds with their next-door-neighbor counterparts. Robbie is caught in a Romeo & Juliet romance, until he and Peggy set Shakespearean dialog into modern songs and play them for the families.
- When Uncle Charley goes to pick up his date, Sally, he finds that not only has he been stood up, but Sally has run off to Las Vegas to get married. So Charley is in the dumps until a group of women fawn over him when he takes the triplets out to the park, and Charley tells the women that he is the grandfather.
- Katie (Tina Cole) complains that Uncle Charley (William Demarest) is making her feel unnecessary in the Douglas home. Steve (Fred MacMurray) speaks to Charley, who tries to makes amends by planning a rather bizarre "tea party" on Katie's behalf. Meanwhile, Chip (Stanley Livingston) volunteers for the school dance committee, but the otherwise all-female committee frustrate Chip by ignoring his ideas. However, the girls want to help out after Chip tells them what Uncle Charley is planning for the tea party - party balloons and donuts for dunking are out, scones, silverware and napkins are in. Much to Katie's surprise, the tea party turns out to be huge success.
- Chip (Stanley Livingston) has a new girlfriend, Debbie (Angela Cartwright), and their relationship is progressing at a rapid pace. Shortly after convincing Debbie to drop her swimming class for home economics, Chip and Debbie announce that they are engaged. While both families are concerned about the situation, they don't interfere with the kids, until one day Katie (Tina Cole) suddenly faints and Robbie (Don Grady) has to take her to see the doctor, leaving Chip and Debbie alone to take care of the triplets. After several frenzied hours with the babies, the couple decide that they are moving too fast and to just be friends.
- Chip (Stanley Livingston) almost has enough money to buy a hot rod from his school chum Wayne (Kevin Brodie), but Steve (Fred MacMurray) reminds him that he's forgetting about insurance and other costs associated with car ownership. Chip is disheartened, so Steve buys him a car for his birthday - a 30-year-old Tin Lizzie adorned with silver bud vases, which evokes fond memories for Steve, but is typically driven by old ladies. The entire family sees that Chip is disappointed, and Chip is embarrassed to be seen in the car, although he tells the family that he loves it. Shortly thereafter, his friend with the hot rod comes over and sees Chip's car and recognizes it for what it is - a genuine antique in original condition. He offers to trade his hot rod for it, but Chip refuses - he'd rather keep the car that his father gave him.
- Robbie reports to camp for two weeks of military reserve maneuvers, and Katie decides to go along and stay at a nearby motel so that the newlyweds can be near each other. Meanwhile, Uncle Charley and the boys are camping at Yosemite, which also happens to be close to Robbie's camp. During a stroll, Katie wanders into the mock battlefield and gets arrested by Robbie's unit. Later, each of the other family members try to locate Robbie and similarly get detained. Steve heads toward camp to prevent the family from interfering with Rob's duties, but he manages to get captured first by the aggressor team, then by the defender team.
- Ernie is smitten with a classmate, Margaret, who shows no interest while Iris does. He asks his dad what to do. Steve suggests changing his appearance. Ernie comes to school the next day with his hair slicked back but Margaret is unmoved.
- Ernie meets Zsa Zsa Gabor after accidentally falling into her swimming pool. She befriends Ernie, who introduces her to the rest of the Douglas clan.
- Ernie becomes convinced he's a jinx when things inexplicably start to go wrong whenever he's around, but Steve reassures him that his family loves him anyhow.
- The triplets are teething and Katie is exhausted from the constant care they need and from lack of sleep. She and her mother go to Santa Barbara for a few days of doctor prescribed rest while the family takes care of the babies.
- It seems that everybody has something planned for Friday night - except Ernie (Barry Livingston). But since this will be the first time Rob (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole) are away from the triplets, they are reluctant to leave Ernie alone with the babies, so they hire a sitter recommended by the family doctor. However, the sitter (Rose Marie) seems to be more interested in watching television than watching the babies. After repeated calls from worried family members, she takes the phone off the hook, but now the constant busy signal causes more anxiety, so the family members all rush home, only to find that the sitter has matters well in hand.
- Ernie becomes somewhat depressed when he learns his best friend Gordon is moving away. The two decide to spend as much time as possible hanging out together until moving day.
- When Steve (Fred MacMurray) is promoted to head of the helicopter division, the secretaries snoop into his personnel file and are happy to discover that their new boss is an available widower. Uncle Charley (William Demarest) brings his helicopter-loving girlfriend Sally (Shirley Mitchell) for a plant tour, but when denied entrance, he tells his girlfriend Sally to pretend that she's "Mrs. Douglas", in order for her to get in. Meanwhile, Steve has invited Katie (Tina Cole) to visit the plant and tells her to let people know that she's "Mrs. Robbie Douglas". When the nosy secretaries see Steve with two different women claiming to be "Mrs. Douglas", they suspect that their new boss is a bigamist. Unaware that Charley's girlfriend is posing as "Mrs. Douglas", Steve doesn't understand the stares from his co-workers, as he escorts the two women around together.
- Katie (Tina Cole) becomes a tutor to earn some extra money and is surprised to learn that her first student, Craig Benson (Charles Robinson), is not only a male, but a handsome ex-boyfriend of hers. Robbie (Don Grady) doesn't mind at first, until he learns that the pair took a break from studying without his knowledge. A spat breaks out, and Robbie ends up sleeping on the couch, until both of the newlyweds realize they were partly to blame.
- Steve's former Bryant Park co-worker, Ray Wong has transferred to Los Angeles and tells Steve his pregnant daughter's husband is a long-haired hippie. Though intelligent, the son-in-law hasn't any direction in life. Ray seeks Steve's help.
- The Wong family from Bryant Park drops in on the Douglases unexpectedly while on their way to Hong Kong. Since the hour is late, Steve invites the Wongs to stay overnight, forcing him to cancel the family camping trip planned for early the next morning. The Wongs are too polite to tell Steve that they have family in Chinatown who are expecting them, and Steve make his family promise not to tell the Wongs that they ruined the Douglases weekend plans.
- With Katie now living with the Douglases, everyone finds that they are getting in each other's way a lot more often. Newlyweds Rob and Katie take the opportunity to move into a friend's apartment while they are away, but soon find that they miss what they had at home.
- After Katie (Tina Cole) feels her baby moving for the first time, expectant father Robbie (Don Grady) decides it's time for him to mature and take life more seriously. Meanwhile, Ernie's friend's Gordon (Butch Patrick) has a dog that is also pregnant, with Tramp as the father, so Ernie (Barry Livingston) also wants to be more involved with the birth of the puppies.
- After discovering that a neighbor (Dianne Ramey) has a cousin, visiting from Liverpool, who plays guitar, Chip (Stanley Livingston) invites the cousin to join his band, only to discover that he has a much more laid back, folk style than Chip assumed. But the new member (Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy fame) is just what the band needs, in order to win the top award at the local teen club.
- Ernie's friends brag about the athletic abilities of their fathers, and agree to compare sports trophies that their fathers have won. To Ernie's dismay, the only trophy he can find is for debating. The kids then decide that all the fathers will compete in a 2-mile cross country race on Saturday. Steve would rather compete in bridge or playing the saxophone, but agrees to race. It turns out that all the fathers are now out of shape, and Ernie understands when Steve lets another man win the race since his son needs the boost in self esteem more than Ernie.
- Robbie and Steve nearly forget that trout season starts on Saturday which means it's time for their annual fishing trip together. One problem: Robbie hates fishing, but is apprehensive about telling his dad, who loves it. Meanwhile, new family member Ernie is all to eager to go along, but Steve tells him his chance will come some time in the future, after Chip - who also hates fishing - gets his chance. Ernie learns that he is considered a true Douglas family member because he can wait his turn.
- Robbie is on Army maneuvers unaware Katie is expecting triplets. Steve and Uncle Charley must get her to the hospital when her labor pains start. Hospital rules only allow two people in the waiting room per mother. Robbie rushes home.
- Katie learns that Robbie is buying her a gift for their four-week "anniversary" so she gets a waitress job to earn money to buy a gift for Robbie. As luck would have it, Katie has to fill in for the cigarette girl - skimpy outfit and all - the same day that Robbie's friend wins a free lunch at the restaurant. Naturally, Robbie blows his top when he sees how Katie is dressed, but Steve intervenes to patch things up between the newlyweds.
- Uncle Charley (William Demarest) gets reacquainted with an old merchant marine shipmate (James Gregory), who invites Charley along on a sea voyage. Charley wants to go, but realizes the Douglas family needs him. The family sees that Charley wants to go, so they pretend that they are fully capable of taking care of themselves.
- Uncle Charlie bans TV for one week. Robbie and a cynical girl create a college television show.
- Rob and Katie bring the triplets home from the hospital and reveal their names - Robbie Jr, Steve II and Charley - much to the delight of their namesakes. But Rob soon tires of all the attention that the triplets get and the repeated questions that everyone is asking - "How do you tell them apart?" But eventually Rob gets accustomed to the curiosity of his friends and neighbors.
- Katie's (Tina Cole) snooty Aunt Cecile (Marsha Hunt) visits the Douglas home and clearly doesn't fit in - trying to make everyone act more refined and calling them by their given names. Luckily for Steve (Fred MacMurray), he's (surprise) headed out of town on a business trip. The rest of the family isn't so lucky, as now Cecile can stay over in Steve's room for an entire week.
- Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie (Tina Cole) realize that they will need help with the babies immediately after they are born, and seek out to hire a baby nurse. Uncle Charley (William Demarest) wants the job, and is disappointed by not being asked, so he sets out on a series of baby sitting jobs to gain experience. He panics in his first experience with an actual baby and needs to call in Katie for advice, but he quickly becomes the favorite baby sitter in the neighborhood. While Rob and Katie realize he could do the job, they feel it is too much to ask now that Charley has a successful baby sitting career, but Charley overhears the discussion and realizes that he needs to volunteer for the job.
- Ernie's new playmate, Mike, likes to pull childish pranks that upset the Douglas family. Robbie goes to talk to Mike's parents only to learn that Mike doesn't have a mother, and that Mike is actually a girl named Michelle! Unfortunately, Michelle's father treats her like his son rather than his daughter, only talking about sports and other "boy" things, so the Douglases try to bring out her feminine side.
- Chip's (Stanley Livingston) class uses a computer to match kids for dates, with kids from another school, for the upcoming "computer picnic". Chip is excited about his date (Eva Ein) - until he meets her and discovers that she's about a foot taller than he is. Chip is willing to go through with the date, but the girl realizes that Chip is very uncomfortable with the situation, and suggests that they call it off. So Chip and his buddies get together and swap their dates, based on more personal preferences, - pleasing Uncle Charley, who dislikes the newfangled computer dating. Chip ends up trading dates with his much taller friend, Marv (Ed Begley Jr.).
- Rob, Katie and the triplets move to their own place. Katie feels Steve needs a woman in his life so she arranges a blind date with Millicent. Meanwhile, Ernie has a problem in school so Steve has to meet with his teacher, Barbara Harper.
- Steve's friends set him up to meet - in Ernie's words - "some clunky woman." The family tries to give the impression that Steve (Fred MacMurray) isn't really as old as he seems, when the woman (Wanda Hendrix) acts more and more surprised meeting each of Steve's sons, who is older than the previous.
- Steve (Fred MacMurray) meets with a hard-boiled Air Force general (Arthur O'Connell) to sell a company product, but the general - himself a new grandfather - after learning that Steve is about to become a grandfather, becomes an easy sell as he eagerly shares his experiences as a grandfather.
- The family is cleaning house and Katie does heavy lifting and uses ammonia. Overcome, she faints but says she was just resting. Her mother arrives and says her woman's intuition tells her Katie is pregnant, They go to the doctor to verify.
- While Steve is away on a business trip and the guys are out at a sporting event, Katie is awoken by a storm and hears an eerie, heart-beat sound. She phones Steve in a panic. The gang returns and are also spooked but can't figure it out.
- Chip is miffed when a friend steals his girlfriend. Ernie's friend Shorty has a movie date but can't go due to a conflict. The girlfriend asks Ernie to just walk with her there as he was going anyhow. Shorty thinks Ernie is stealing her.
- Chip and Ernie observe their married older brother, Robbie, in the company of a glamorous "other woman."
- Rob and Katie invite a married couple, Larry and Denise, to visit. Denise, a psychology student, insists each person tell the others what they dislike about them. Rob and Katie are uncomfortable with this and things take a surprising turn.
- To Steve's (Fred MacMurray) dismay, Robbie (Don Grady) quits school since he has been making money hand-over-fist by working for a friend's (Steve Franken) real estate company. Robbie gets a real education when a torrential rain storm reveals that the home he is showing has hidden flaws.
- Steve is on a business trip to Amsterdam, Robbie is in the South Pacific for military reserve training and Chip is on a school trip to Mexico so Ernie and Uncle Charley are home alone together. Charley invites an old shipmate for dinner.
- Ernie's friends convince him to sell tires in the storage room to buy a powerful squirt gun. Uncle Charley notices the tires are gone and contacts police. Ernie confesses to the family about his "crime" and Steve has a creative punishment.
- The family doubts Katie's accuracy in identifying the triplets, unaware that she has placed ink dots on the baby's feet to assist her. Steve bathes them unaware he washed off the ink. Katie takes them to the hospital to match footprints.
- Ernie learns that the person with the least experience at his father's company has been laid off - his father explains that it is unfortunate, but that is just how it goes sometimes. When Ernie discovers that he's allergic to Tramp, he decides to leave home and look for a new family to adopt him, because Tramp has been with the family longer than Ernie, so Ernie is low man on the totem pole.
- Uncle Charley is in charge of Frolics Night at his lodge, but has trouble lining up the entertainment, so Charley joins in with his lodge brothers, dressing in drag for a chorus line number. After the show, Charley falls asleep and embarrassingly has to walk home in costume after waking up. While resting on a park bench, an elderly man mistakes Charley for a woman and begins flirting with him, and Charley gets arrested for hitting the man.
- Steve's (Fred MacMurray) company sends him on a business trip to Hawaii and includes the entire family for an all-expenses-paid vacation. Charley (William Demarest) reminisces about his merchant marine days, and the girl he left behind in Honolulu. Charley has forgotten that she has aged quite a bit since he last saw her, and, after they meet, he does all he can to avoid her. Meanwhile, Robbie (Don Grady) runs into a girl (Susan Seaforth Hayes) he knew back home.