My Three Sons
Raft on the River
Season 1, Episode 9 · Aired 1960-11-24
Synopsis
Feeling left out when Mike and Robbie decide to go camping at Gunman's Gulch, a lonely Chip uses a raft his brothers helped make in the backyard, on which he and Steve spend a night, pretending to float down the Mississippi. They are accidentally locked out when it begins to rain. Steve begins to worry when he wakes up from a nap and thinks it is way past 4am in the morning and thinks that Bub has not yet returned from his pinochle game.
In the series
This episode is part of My Three Sons (1960–1972) on ABC/CBS.
Widower dad, three boys, and Uncle Charley — domestic sitcom built to last.
Key cast
- Fred MacMurray as Steve Douglas
- William Frawley as Bub O'Casey
- William Demarest as Uncle Charley
- Tim Considine as Mike Douglas
- Don Grady as Robbie Douglas