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List of My Three Sons episodes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6590932 ↗
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This is a list of episodes from the American sitcom My Three Sons. The show was broadcast on ABC from 1960 to 1965, and was then switched over to CBS until the end of its run; 380 half-hour episodes were filmed. 184 black-and-white episodes were produced for ABC from 1960 to 1965, for the first five years of its run.

When the show moved to CBS in September 1965, it switched to color, and 196 half-hour color episodes were produced for telecast from September 1965 to the series' end in 1972.

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