Editing My Three Sons (section)

==Distribution==
Although [[Don Fedderson]] gets the credit, ''My Three Sons'' was created by [[George Tibbles]] and produced by Don Fedderson Productions throughout the show's run, with [[MCA Television]] co-distributing the series during its 1960–65 ABC airing. When the series moved to CBS in 1965, the latter network assumed full production responsibilities (in association with Fedderson Productions) until the end of the series in 1972. CBS now holds the series' copyright. [[CBS Media Ventures]] currently owns distribution rights to the entire series (including the more widely seen and aforementioned 1965–72 CBS episodes). The show did not get syndicated until September 1976, when [[Viacom (1952–2006)|Viacom Enterprises]] assumed off-network distribution (although CBS did air reruns of the show in its daytime lineup from December 1971 until the fall of 1972), and even then, only the CBS color episodes aired, while the black and white ABC episodes did not air on broadcast TV at all. At the time, the first half of season 11 was in the same syndication package as seasons 6-10, while season 12 and the second half of season 11 were distributed with seasons 1–5.

[[Nick at Nite]] aired ''My Three Sons'' from November 3, 1985, to October 28, 1991, with episodes from Seasons 1–5, the second half of season 11, and season 12. [[Freeform (TV network)|The Family Channel]] also aired only the black and white episodes from September 7, 1992, to July 30, 1993. The Seasons 1–3 episodes had the original Chevrolet closing credits. The Seasons 6–10 (and the first half of season 11) episodes were later aired on [[TV Land]] in the late 1990s. [[Hallmark Channel|Odyssey]] ran all of the color episodes in the early 2000s. They also briefly aired the black and white episodes. In 2000, TV Land briefly aired the black & white episodes again, using the same syndication episode rights that were on Nick at Nite during the 1980s. In 2006 the [[Retro Television Network]] broadcast the show. Only seasons 6-10 and the first half of season 11 were aired.

In 2009, [[FamilyNet]] began airing the program as a lead-in for its ''[[Happy Days]]'' and ''[[Family Ties]]'' program block, which ended in February 2010. From 2012 to 2014, and also from October 2015 to February 2016, [[MeTV]] aired the Season 6-10 episodes in heavy rotation, and most closing credits included the original sponsor tags, such as those for [[Kellogg's]]. In 2016, [[Decades (TV network)|Decades]] began airing the CBS (color) episodes in its "binge" blocks on some weekends.

[[MeTV]] began airing the black and white episodes on May 29, 2017,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metv.com/stories/alf-my-three-sons-battlestar-galatica-and-more-join-the-metv-summer-of-me-2017-schedule|title='ALF,' 'My Three Sons', 'Battlestar Galactica', and more join the MeTV Summer of Me 2017 Schedule|website=Metv.com|date=2017-05-06|access-date=2017-05-18}}</ref> the first time the black and white episodes had aired on broadcast television since their original ABC airings. MeTV aired all episodes in order until August 3, 2018, when the series's last episode aired.  This marked the first time a U.S. television station aired the entire series in full. MeTV started reairing the entire series again on August 6, 2018 and had continued to do so until May 27, 2024, when ''[[The Flintstones]]'' (later ''[[Adam-12]]'') replaced it. Additionally, [[Catchy Comedy]] (previously Decades) aired a "Catchy Binge" of the series on the weekends of September 9-10, 2023 and August 10-11, 2024. Catchy would later add the show to its weekday lineup on October 28, 2024, and also joined its new Saturday lineup on January 4, 2025, as part of their "Catchy Families" block.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.catchycomedy.com/shows/my-three-sons | title=Watch My Three Sons on Catchy Comedy }}</ref> It also currently airs on [[FETV]] as of February 3, 2025.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://fetv.tv/shows/my-three-sons/ | title=My Three Sons &#124; FETV }}</ref>