My Three Sons
Robbie and the Slave Girl
TV Flash files “Robbie and the Slave Girl” as hour 202 of 380 in the TV Flash guide — My Three Sons (1960–1972) on ABC/CBS, season 6, episode 18, aired 1966-01-20, 25 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E18: listed hour 202 of 380 in the My Three Sons guide, hour 18 of 32 in season 6. It aired 1966-01-20 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “From Maggie, With Love” (S06E17). Next is “Steve and The Huntress” (S06E19).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Robbie Douglas yanks pretty co-ed Terri Wong out of the path of a speeding truck, he becomes the unwilling beneficiary of an old Chinese custom when the girl whose life he saves insists on being his slave. The game is amusing at first but before long Robbie must ask his father for help.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Robbie and the Slave Girl sit in the My Three Sons guide?
S06E18 is listed hour 202 of 380 — hour 18 of 32 in season 6, season 6 episode 18.
When did My Three Sons S06E18 air?
Robbie and the Slave Girl aired 1966-01-20 and is listed at 25 minutes.
Where should I start?
MacMurray's Steve Douglas in an early ABC household hour is the calm contract. If you want the later CBS years, Uncle Charley (William Demarest) is the caretaker shift after Bub.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Widower Steve Douglas raised boys across twelve seasons while the household roster shifted in public. Fred MacMurray's unflappable dad — and the Hollywood legend of his block-shot schedule — made long-haul family sitcom into comfort infrastructure. Single-dad domestic engineering at industrial scale.
The household is the long form. *My Three Sons* (ABC then CBS, 1960–1972) ran twelve seasons of widower Steve Douglas raising boys while the roster shifted in public. Fred MacMurray's unflappable dad is the calm center of multi-cam domestic engineering. Production lore still notes MacMurray's efficient all-his-scenes-in-blocks shooting method — Hollywood efficiency as a shooting grammar, not as a scandal. William Frawley's Bub and later William Demarest's Uncle Charley anchored the house as Chip, Robbie, Mike,…
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