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The Chaperone (Episode #131) aired in the 4th season, I think 1964. A black and white episode.
The plot concerning Robbie is about him wanting to be more grown up. He smokes a pipe, he tries to get a beard or mustache to start growing tofeel less like a boy and more like a man. Then at the end he is invited to
a party which is called a "Bonnet & Booties" party so he dressed up like a little boy. It is to show how at one moment teens want to be adults and the next little kids. Chip was still young had Robbie in a kind of Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. He was dressing up for a party and rather embarrassed about it. I didn't see the whole episode, just him leaving after exchanging words with the family. Bub congratulates himself on not telling him how "goofy" he looks. Chip asks him what he was going to say so he could use it later. Robbie's outfit included a wide-brimmed hat with a streamer down the back. A HBC reader reports, "I remember the My Three Sons episode with Robby (Don Grady) in the Fauntleroy suit. The episode as I remember it was all about Robby want to become an adult. (He would sit in front of some sort of lamp hoping it would make his facial hairs grow and he did all sorts of other silly things.) Then once he had done whatever marked his now being a grownup he is shown in the next scene in this ridiculous Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit attending some sort of party where all the high school students were dressing up as babies. He relates that one of his friends was going to wear diapers under his costume. It made a great juxtaposition to the wanting to be an adult theme of the rest of the episode.
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