Charmed: Season 3

2000 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.4

What Season 3 of Charmed

Season three opens with Phoebe in love with District Attorney Cole Turner, not knowing he is a demon sent by The Triad to take down the Charmed Ones. Piper returns to Leo, but the Elders demand that they end their relationship. If they don't, the sisters will get a new White Lighter. As they try to keep normal lives in San Francisco, the Halliwells must protect innocent people from Grimlocks, sprites and other evil creatures. Prue, meanwhile, becomes obsessed with the Evil Triad and with those who threaten her family.

22episodes

Oct 5, 2000aired

May 17, 2001latest episode

15.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 The Honeymoon's Over
Oct 5, 2000 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
While Piper and Leo are away, Prue and Phoebe must face a series of demons known as Guardians, who protect mortal murderers in exchange for the souls of innocents. After saving Darryl from a Guardian, Prue and Phoebe must testify in court, where they stumble upon an evil conspiracy. Meanwhile, Phoebe falls in love with the new district attorney, Cole Turner.
Directed by: James L. Conway · Written by: Brad Kern · Starring: Stoney Jackson, Anthony Montgomery, Harry Danner, Fleming Brooks
3x02 Magic Hour
Oct 12, 2000 · 42 min · ★ 7.1
The sisters must find a way to break a curse which turns a man into an Owl by day and his girlfriend into a Wolf by night. Meanwhile, Prue discovers a way to hold Piper and Leo's wedding without 'The Powers That Be' finding out.
Directing: John Behring · Writing: Chris Levinson, Zack Estrin · Starring: Elisabeth Harnois, Michael Dietz, Rick Overton, Jennifer Rhodes
3x03 Once Upon a Time
Oct 19, 2000 · 42 min · ★ 6.9
With Piper growing more concerned that Leo will never return, Prue and Phoebe try to save a little girl and a fairy princess from evil Trolls. When Prue and Phoebe need Piper's help, her concern with Leo causes a spell to backfire, placing the girl in danger.
Directing: Joel J. Feigenbaum · Writing: Krista Vernoff · Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Nancy Everhard, Michael Bailey Smith, Rachel David
3x04 All Halliwell's Eve
Oct 26, 2000 · 42 min · ★ 6.3
On Halloween, the sisters are pulled back in time to the 1600's to save a witch and her soon-to-be-born child from the hands of an evil witch who wants to raise the child evil. The sisters later discover that this situation may have more personal implications than they first imagined.
Directing: Anson Williams · Writing: Sheryl J. Anderson · Starring: Danielle Weeks, Judy Geeson, Michael Bailey Smith, Sadie Stratton
3x05 Sight Unseen
Nov 2, 2000 · 42 min · ★ 7.3
Prue becomes increasingly paranoid over attacks from the Triad, and the mysterious threat Belthazor poses. After the house is robbed, Prue is convinced the Triad is launching an attack, when the real culprit is more mortal than all three sisters realise.
Directed by: Perry Lang · Written by: William Schmidt · Starring: Eddie Cahill, Rick Hearst, Rick Overton, Michael Bailey Smith
3x06 Primrose Empath
Nov 9, 2000 · 42 min · ★ 7.4
Prue begins experiencing the powers of an empath, thanks to a warlock, but she soons loses control. Meanwhile, Phoebe's relationship with Cole becomes turbulent when he tells her he doesn't want to see her anymore.
Directing: Mel Damski · Writing: Daniel Cerone · Starring: Morgan Weisser, Harry Groener, Marianne Muellerleile, Brittany Ishibashi
3x07 Power Outage
Nov 16, 2000 · 42 min · ★ 7.4
In an attempt to destroy the Charmed Ones, Cole enlists the help of Andras, a demon who magnifies anger into rage. Meanwhile, when the sisters lose their magic after using their powers against each other, they are left defenseless against attacks from the Triad and Belthazor.
Directing: Craig Zisk · Writing: Alison Schapker, Monica Owusu-Breen · Starring: Jason Carter, Rick Overton, Michael Bailey Smith, Pamela Dunlap
3x08 Sleuthing with the Enemy Mid-Season Finale
Dec 14, 2000 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
When the sisters discover that Cole is Belthazor, Phoebe must make one of the toughest decisions of her life: either vanquish her boyfriend or keep one of the most dangerous demons known to exist alive.
Directing: Noel Nosseck · Writing: Peter Hume · Starring: Michael Bailey Smith, Scott MacDonald, Charles Walker, Lynn Tufeld
3x09 Coyote Piper
Jan 11, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.7
Prue & Phoebe have their hands full when Piper is possessed by the spirit of an evil witch, on the day of her high school reunion.
Directing: Chris Long · Writing: Krista Vernoff · Starring: Andrew Bowen, Sabine Singh, Chad Willett, Paige Rowland
3x10 We All Scream for Ice Cream
Jan 18, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
The sisters trace a mysterious Ice Cream Van who abducts children, but the evil may not be who they initially suspect. Meanwhile, the girls' dad Victor comes for a visit.
Directing: Allan Kroeker · Writing: Chris Levinson, Zack Estrin · Starring: Emmalee Thompson, Erica Mer, Bobby Edner, Soren Fulton
3x11 Blinded by the Whitelighter
Jan 25, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.5
The sisters must stop a warlock from executing his plan to steal specific powers from witches in his attempt to kill every whitelighter in the world.
Directing: David Straiton · Writing: Nell Scovell · Starring: Steve Valentine, Camille Langfield, Audrey Wasilewski, Graham Shiels
3x12 Wrestling with Demons
Feb 2, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 6.8
When Prue discovers that her ex-boyfriend is being led down the path to becoming a demon, the sisters must risk their lives in an underworld wrestling ring to save his soul.
Directing: Joel J. Feigenbaum · Writing: Sheryl J. Anderson · Starring: Dennis Dun, Marcus Bagwell, Booker Huffman, Jr., Ron Perlman
3x13 Bride and Gloom
Feb 8, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.9
When a shapeshifting warlock tricks Prue into a shot-gun wedding in order to steal the Book of Shadows, Phoebe and Piper are lured to the dark side and begin to enjoy their new evil powers.
Directing: Chris Long · Writing: William Schmidt · Starring: D. C. Douglas, Chad Willett, Tom O'Brien, Michael Bailey Smith
3x14 The Good, the Bad, and the Cursed
Feb 15, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
When Phoebe feels the pain of an injured American-Indian ghost she sees in a deserted town, Prue travels back in time to the mid-1800s to save the man, and Phoebe, from death at the hands of a local thug.
Directing: Shannen Doherty · Writing: Alison Schapker, Monica Owusu-Breen · Starring: Ed Lauter, Michael Greyeyes, Kimberly Guerrero, Blake Gibbons
3x15 Just Harried
Feb 22, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.7
On the day of Piper's marriage to Leo, Prue's Astrally Projected-self adopts an uninhibited, wild personality that threatens to ruin the wedding and place Prue in jail for Murder.
Directing: Mel Damski · Writing: Daniel Cerone · Starring: Dana Ashbrook, Whip Hubley, Finola Hughes, Michael Bailey Smith
3x16 Death Takes a Halliwell
Mar 15, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.3
Prue, growing weary of her battles to save innocents and in fighting off the Angel of Death, is forced to turn her back on a dying soul, and must come to grips with her feelings towards fate and the death of her mother.
Directing: Jon Paré · Writing: Krista Vernoff · Starring: Michaela Watkins, Wade Williams, Annie Abbott, Simon Templeman
3x17 Pre-Witched
Mar 22, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.1
While the sisters must deal with the possibility of being separated as the newlyweds plan to move out on their own, they recall a time before they knew they were the Charmed Ones, when the girls were coming to grips with the death of Grams and Phoebe's departure to New York.
Directing: David Straiton · Writing: Chris Levinson, Zack Estrin · Starring: W. Earl Brown, Finola Hughes, James Sie, Jennifer Rhodes
3x18 Sin Francisco
Apr 19, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
A demon turns people into the embodiment of each of the deadly sins, including the Charmed Ones and Leo.
Directing: Joel J. Feigenbaum · Writing: Nell Scovell · Starring: Kevin Weisman, Roark Critchlow, Michael Rodrick, Jim Jansen
3x19 The Demon Who Came in from the Cold
Apr 26, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.1
Cole poses as Belthazar to infiltrate an internet organization run by evil, that plans on controlling the world's information flow on the internet. Meanwhile, the sisters must vanquish the warlock posing as the company's manager without exposing Cole's role in the situation.
Directing: Anson Williams · Writing: Sheryl J. Anderson · Starring: Ian Buchanan, Gregory Scott Cummins, Joseph D. Reitman, Jennifer Tung
3x20 Exit Strategy
May 3, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.1
The evil Brotherhood plots to sabotage Cole's relationship with Phoebe in an attempt to turn him back to evil. Meanwhile, Piper's power develops with some explosive results.
Directing: Joel J. Feigenbaum · Writing: Daniel Cerone, Peter Hume · Starring: Rachel Luttrell, Ian Buchanan, Joseph D. Reitman, Michael Bailey Smith
3x21 Look Who's Barking
May 10, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 7.1
Phoebe has a premonition of a murderous banshee while adding on to the Belthazar section of the Book of Shadows, thus causing her to think Cole is responsible. But when the sisters cast a spell it backfires and turns Prue into a dog, and when Prue gets hit by a car, Phoebe's remorse causes the banshee to attack her, turning her into a banshee.
Directed by: John Behring · Written by: Curtis Kheel, Monica Owusu-Breen, Alison Schapker · Starring: Ashley French, Matt Battaglia, Michael Bailey Smith, Dorenda Moore
3x22 All Hell Breaks Loose Season Finale
May 17, 2001 · 42 min · ★ 8.2
When the Halliwell sisters are exposed as witches on nation-wide television, they form a pact with The Source to reverse time and undo the damage. However, in the process, one of the sisters makes the ultimate sacrifice, placing the Power of Three in mortal danger.
Directed by: Shannen Doherty · Written by: Brad Kern · Starring: Laura Silverman, Michael Bailey Smith, Margaret Easley, Joe O'Connor