Married... with Children: Season 3

1988 · 21 episodes · ★ 7.1

What Season 3 of Married... with Children

Season 3 of Married... with Children opens with Al Bundy selling women's shoes in Chicago for a paycheck that barely covers the bills. At home, a family looks down on him: Peggy spends hours watching talk shows while burning through whatever he earns, Kelly has a reputation as a flirt, and Bud is focused on sex and his failures with girls. Al is still determined to recapture the glory of his high school days. Over the fence live Steve and Marcy Rhoades, a stuffy banker and an environmentalist feminist. Both get dragged into Al's schemes, from a library book he never returned to a fortune-telling psychic and a first-class trip to New York.

21episodes

Nov 6, 1988Aired

May 21, 1989latest episode

7.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 He Thought He Could
Nov 6, 1988 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
In the third season opener, Al learns that he has had a copy of "The Little Engine That Could" since 1957 and when he goes to return it, he finds the same fat librarian that was there in 1957.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Writing: Ron Leavitt · Starring: Lu Leonard, Edan Gross, Brandon Bluhm, Joseph Dammann
3x02 I'm Going to Sweatland
Nov 20, 1988 · 22 min · ★ 6.9
Peg thinks she might have seen Elvis at the mall and Marcy notices a pit stain shaped like him on Al's shirt. Elvis fans come flocking around just to see it.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Nancy Skelton, Justine Lenore, Michelle Milantoni, Rawley Valverde
3x03 Poke High
Nov 27, 1988 · 22 min · ★ 6.3
A high school football player is threatening to break the record Al set for Polk High.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Beau Dremann, Cynthia Songé, Ria Pavia, Carey Eidel
3x04 The Camping Show
Dec 11, 1988 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
A nice weekend away for the Rhoades' and the Bundys turns into misery when Peg, Kelly and Marcy all have their period at the same time, torturing the men.
Directing: Gerry Cohen
3x05 A Dump of My Own
Jan 8, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
Al plans on building his dream - an executive's type of bathroom in the garage.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Writing: Ron Leavitt
3x06 Her Cups Runneth Over
Jan 15, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.6
Al and Steve head off to a fancy boutique to get Peggy a new bra for her birthday.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: April Jayne, Devin DeVasquez, Bill Smillie, Deron McBee
3x07 The Bald and the Beautiful
Jan 29, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.3
Steve fears he is losing his hair, and convinces Al that the same thing is happening to him.
Writing: Jules Dennis, Richard Mueller · Starring: Graham Jarvis, Henry G. Sanders, Jim Maniaci, Therese Kablan
3x08 The Gypsy Cried
Feb 5, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.1
When a psychic's predictions all come true for Al, Peggy and Steve, Marcy fears that what the psychic told her will come true - her death.
Starring: Carmen Zapata, F. William Parker, Barbara Alyn Woods, Steve Bean
3x09 Requiem for a Dead Barber
Feb 12, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.1
Al grows his hair when his barber dies, and fears he is turning into a "sissy" just because he has to go to salons.
Writing: Ron Leavitt · Starring: Charlie Spradling, Steve Susskind, Garrett Morris, Kenny Sacha
3x10 Eatin' Out
Feb 19, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.7
The Bundys inherit some money from a relative and decides to go to a fancy restaurant, but Al accidentally forgets his wallet. It is up to Bud and Kelly to go back and get the wallet, but they decide to ditch their parents at the restaurant, unable to pay the bill.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Michael Tulin, Clement von Franckenstein, Tom Tully, Mary Jo Kirwan
3x11 My Mom, the Mom
Feb 26, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 6.4
Peg goes to Kelly's school for mother-daughter day and talks about the joy of being a housewife, meanwhile Bud has to learn the value of a dollar after breaking the Rhoades' window.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Teri Ralston, Deborah Levin, Julie Condra, Teri Weigel
3x12 Can't Dance, Don't Ask Me
Mar 19, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
Kelly has to tap dance at a dance recital because of a prank she pulled.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Bunny Summers, Sandy Helberg, Jesse Borrego
3x13 A Three Job, No Income Family
Mar 19, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.6
Al gets a second job in an attempt to make more money than Peg after she starts earning money selling 'Patty Girl' cosmetics.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Teresa Ganzel, Pauly Shore, Christian Jacobs, Dylan Kussman
3x14 The Harder They Fall
Mar 26, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.3
Steve gives a driver "the finger" and fears that the man will beat him up.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Daniel Frishman
3x15 The House That Peg Lost
Apr 9, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.3
Steve and Marcy ask Peggy to look over their house, but when a moving company asks for "Steves Roadhouse", Peggy allows the company to tow away the Rhoades' home, and they have to spend a night at the Bundys - where Kelly is having a slumber party.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Writing: Steve Granat · Starring: Allison Barron, Tracy Justrich, Jonathan Coogan, Kristin Pearcey
3x16 Married... with Prom Queen (1)
Apr 23, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 6.8
Al and Peggy go to their high school reunion. Peggy wants to be prom queen and she spent a lot of money calling old friends and buying new clothes to gain votes. But when she thinks she has the majority of the votes, her rival Connie Bender appears and surprises Peg with the fact that Connie is now in the lead to be prom queen.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Lisa Raggio, Jack Yates, Catherine Carlen, Carol Mansell
3x17 Married... with Prom Queen: The Sequel (2)
Apr 30, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.3
Peggy tries desperately to get more votes but it seems that most of the people are going to vote for Connie. Bud and Kelly ask Marcy and Steve about the sixties and after some history, Bud and Kelly dress up as hippies and visit the prom. Al runs into his old rival Jack, who appears to be Connie's husband, and Al and Jack decides to fight outside. Meanwhile, Peg rigs the election ... will she win?
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: David L. Lander, Jack Yates, Catherine Carlen, Andrea Parker
3x18 The Dateless Amigo
May 7, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
Bud tries to find a girl who will date him when both of his friends have dates.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff, Heather Hopper, Christy Taylor
3x19 The Computer Show
May 14, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
Steve and Marcy convince Peggy to buy a computer for the family, but nobody uses it.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Nick Toth
3x20 Life's a Beach
May 21, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
When the family visit the beach, Al meets an ex-girlfriend and Bud and Kelly both look for dates.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: Morgan Brittany, Candace Hutson, Brice Alan, Peter Steinfeld
3x21 Here's Lookin' at You, Kid Season Finale
May 21, 1989 · 22 min · ★ 7.2
When all the women in the neighborhood gets peeped on except Peggy, she gets really jealous and eventually puts out a ladder, milk, and cookies for the him. Meanwhile Al convinces Bud to stop fooling Kelly and actually help her with her studies.
Directing: Gerry Cohen · Starring: LaRue Stanley, Shirley Prestia, Dolores Albin, Healy Cunningham