Product Details

• Actors: Fred MacMurray, William Frawley, Tim Considine, Don Grady, Stanley Livingston
• Directors: Peter Tewksbury
• Writers: AJ Carothers, Arnold Peyser, Art Friedman, Arthur Kober, David Duncan
• Format: Full Screen, Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Language: English (Mono)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: January 20, 2009
• Run Time: 420 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001GMH8WE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,120 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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For Baby Boomers who fondly remember My Three Sons as just your typical quaint '60s family sitcom, there are surprises in store in these 18 episodes that conclude its groundbreaking first season. Credit director Peter Tewksbury, who directed every episode of the first season, with subverting sitcom convention. The clever episode, "Man in a Trench Coat," unfolds in the style of film noir, as middle son Robbie (Don Grady), under the influence of pulp-fiction paperbacks, lets his imagination get the better of him as sneaks around with a flirtatious blonde and tries to elude a stranger who's been tailing him. "Small Adventure" is a Hitchcockian exercise in which the family goes about its business unaware of the danger when romping family dog, Tramp, fetches an unexploded stick of dynamite into the house. In "Fire Watch," the season finale, college-bound son Mike (Tim Considine) gets much more than he bargained for when he takes a job with the Forestry Service and must man his watchtower post during a violent storm. In this first season, My Three Sons was the raucous flipside to the comparatively staid suburban domesticity of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver. Fred MacMurray's Steve Douglas was a widower raising his boisterous brood with the help of "dear old Bub," his gruff father-in-law (William Frawley). The home "looks like a disaster area... nothing but bottlenecks and traffic jams." And between games of keepaway in the living room, blaring trumpet practice, and squabbles over the phone and lack of privacy, there are few quiet moments. But as a more misguided and regimented parent (future Bewitched star David White) observes in the episode, "Other People’s Houses," "You enjoy living together, sharing everything." While some of the episodes are corny and silly (In one, Steve and Robbie think they've found an abandoned baby, and in another, Bub searches frantically for youngest son Chip's escaped frog), others grapple with real-life issues such as first love, as when Mike and his girlfriend test their feelings for each other by not seeing each other for a week. My Three Sons’ first year holds up well. And who can resist the irresistible invitation of the classic toe-tapping "Chopstickian" theme song? --Donald Liebenson

Product Description

MY THREE SONS is a delightful slice-of-life comedy about the American family. The series chronicles the life of the Douglas family; a seemingly simple premise that was a huge hit with audiences and a keystone of the TV family lineup in the ‘60s. Fred MacMurray delivers a standout portrayal as Steve Douglas, an aeronautical engineer and widower raising his three sons alone.

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58 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You fooled us once Paramount/CBS, but not again, January 12, 2009

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Leo J. Ames - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2 (DVD)

Come back for our money when you decide not to butcher this classic show with your awful music/sound substitutions. I was fooled once with your volume 1 release, but I've learned my lesson.

I'm only giving this 1 star, sadly 0 stars doesn't appear to be an option.

88 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm NOT BUYING it PARAMOUNT CBS/DVD !!!!! - MUSIC REPLACED AGAIN!! : - (, November 23, 2008

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Chris Damon "Classic TV Guy" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2 (DVD)

Well, let me say first you totally rip us off by not releasing FULL SEASON sets, splitting the shows into usually 2 volumes per season Times are tight man, we just can't afford split seasons anymore at the prices you charge! How come you don't do it to all the shows? It seems Mannix, Hawaii Five- 0, Gomer Pyle get full season sets, yet the Streets of San Francsisco and The Fugitive are split? What's the deal here? Second you rip us off again replacing the original music with, well let's be frank about it - it's JUNK!
My Three Sons had a fairly sophisticated soundtrack for a sitcom, and it played along with the characters, although the music in a sit com is not as imperative as a drama like "The Fugitive" which was horribly butchered musically, for the ridiculous amount we are paying for these things why can't we get the original music? AND ... why is this problem prevalent for the most part only to Paramount/CBS DVD products? Obviously there is a problem with your company's legal department - they are either too lazy to do the research to get the needed clearances for the music OR they are too afraid of SOMETHING... In any event whoever is in charge of the music NEEDS TO BE FIRED!!!! They should have been FIRED after the first part of SEASON 2 of the Fugitive was released! What a PR fiasco that was for you Paramount CBS/DVD! I mean come on a cheesy synthesizer? GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER OVER THERE and release titles with music intact, and full season sets --- then it would be a no brainer for those who are interested in your releases - we would just pre order them without wondering what sort of surprise is in store for us this time??!!! With the economy in such bad shape, nobody is going to take their chances anymore buying your products without knowing what they are getting ahead of time. OH, by the way *****(FIVE STARS for the the show's original content, but I am giving MINUS FIVE stars to the music replacement!)

85 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars CBS/PARAMOUNT - ENEMY OF CLASSIC TV, September 30, 2008

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music lover (earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2 (DVD)

Volume 1 has just been released with all the great original music removed, the sophisticated scores by Jeff Alexander, Pete Rugolo, Arthur Morton, and Frank DeVol all replaced. The new composer must think this is a show for kids who need to be played down to and now we have ridiculous infantile sound effects performed on a digital synthesizer that is so dumbed down and unmusical and out of place for a 60's TV show. Anyone familar with the original show or one who justs expects to hear music will find this unwatchable.

CBS/Paramount ruined The Fugitive the same way and have now ruined another American classic.

If you, CBS, want to change the music, fine, you own it, but be honest and warn your customers and why dont you try using a composer and arranger with some musical skills, who understands something about the show they are composing for.