The twelve days of M3S, day four:

Season four:  Favorite episode - "The Proposals".  Being a big fan of both Tim Considine and Meredith MacRae, this one was easy.  A well-written, well-played episode in which Mike, overcoming many obstacles, finally and poignantly gets to yes with Sally (is Mike one lucky guy or what?).

Fun facts:  Where to start?  Season four is a gold mine of famous firsts, mostly good, one not so much.  Right off the blocks, there's the first appearance of Barry Livingston as Chip's new best friend Ernie Thompson in the episode "My Friend Ernie" (replacing Sudsy, I guess.  At this point, they're supposed to be the same age, but by the time Ernie is adopted, there's an age gap).  Then there's the first appearances of not one, not two, but all three of the actresses who will portray the wife of a Douglas son at some point in the series.  First up, Meredith MacRae makes her first appearance as Mike's future wife Sally Morrison in the episode "How Do You Know?".  Then Ronne Troup debuts in "The Ever-Popular Robbie Douglas" as an anonymous, in-the-background classmate of Robbie (she isn't given a name in the episode, and be sure to look fast if you want to spot her during her classroom scenes).  Then it's Tina Cole's turn, guest starring as Robbie's girlfriend Ina in "House For Sale".  Unfortunately, this is also the season that introduces a character in "Scotch Broth" that most M3S fans would like to file down the memory hole, Fergus McBain Douglas, who returns for the grueling first four episodes of the last season (it just had to be the last season with a start like that, and that's without even mentioning the "pot" episode).

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