One of the longest-running and most popular sitcoms in television history, My Three Sons offered a cultural anodyne to the turbulent events that characterized America during the 1960s, presenting "wholesome" family entertainment. The series revolved around an all-male household facing the trials and tribulations of life in suburbia in the 1960s. The series, which ran from 1960 to 1972, was one of television's first single-parent sitcoms. It starred Fred MacMurray as Steve Douglas, a widowed aeronautical engineer, raising his three boys in a motherless household. When the series began the boys were Mike (18), Robbie (14), and Richard or "Chip" (seven). Also in the home was the kids' gruff but lovable grandfather, Michael Francis "Bub" O'Casey, who moved in to cook and clean for the family. He was played by veteran character actor William Frawley, best known for his portrayal of Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy. In...