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My Three Sons: Whatever Happened to Ernie? (1972)
It's A Pity
I finally saw this episode (I may have seen it in its original run, but it's been over 50 years and I don't remember) and it is really a pity that this wound up being the unintended farewell episode. Such poor material, I found myself feeling terribly sad for Fred MacMurray, Beverly Garland and Barry Livingston having to work with it. The actors that played the "troubled" teen's parents were just horrible, like it was their first time acting! I know that the quality and subject matter of the scripts have been going downhill for a few seasons, particularly season 12, but this was just hard to watch, almost as though it was sabotaged. The cast and crew deserved better than this, at very least a special holiday episode that would have sort of tied things up, or at least left viewers with a good feeling. I loved this show as a kid, and I still love watching it now, but the original black and white episodes with William Frawley were the best.