Touched by an Angel: Season 3

1996 · 28 episodes · ★ 10.0

What Season 3 of Touched by an Angel

Season 3 of Touched by an Angel Has 28 episodes and premiered on September 15, 1996. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

28episodes

Sep 15, 1996premiered

May 18, 1997latest episode

22.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01
3x01 Promised Land
Sep 15, 1996 · 48 min
Monica is downcast because she failed one of her assignments, but Tess tells her to buck up because the cavalry's on the way. After being laid off from his factory job in North Carolina, Russell Greene packed up his wife, two children and mother to head to her home town, Chicory Creek, Kentucky where an old friend, Doc Rogers has promised to give Russell a job.
Directed by: Michael Schultz · Starring: Gerald McRaney, Sarah Schaub, Eddie Karr, Celeste Holm
3x02
3x02 A Joyful Noise
Sep 21, 1996 · 48 min
Monica begins working with child psychiatrist Adam Litowski. He is treating a young girl who claims to hear the voices of angels.
Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Mika Boorem, Dwight Schultz, Jane Sibbett
3x03
3x03 Random Acts
Sep 22, 1996 · 48 min
Fed up with the attitude of his students, Mike O'Connor questioned the significance of his twenty-year teaching career.
Directed by: Tim Van Patten · Written by: Bob Colleary · Starring: Channon Roe, Aimee Graham, John Ritter, Dante Basco
3x04
3x04 Sins of the Father
Sep 29, 1996 · 48 min
Monica poses as a journalist to interview Luther Dixon, a teenager on death row. Meanwhile, Tess and Andrew try to help Valerie Dixon prevent Luther's younger brother Samuel from following in his footsteps.
Directed by: Tim Van Patten · Written by: Danna Doyle · Starring: Carl Lumbly, Richard Gant, De'Aundre Bonds, Robert Ri'chard
3x05
3x05 Written In Dust
Oct 6, 1996 · 48 min
Henry Moskowitz, an archaeologist on a dig at a Navajo excavation site, receives a surprise visit from his grandfather. Still angry that his late parents disapproved of his marriage to a Catholic woman, Henry resists his grandfather's reconciliation efforts.
Starring: Corey Parker, Russell Means, Adam Beach, Holly Fulger
3x06
3x06 Secret Service
Oct 13, 1996 · 48 min
Marty Dillard, an overachieving Secret Service agent, is at odds with Monica, assigned as an agent to protect a Presidential candidate. While off duty, Marty befriends Ulysses Dodd, an older gentlemen who teaches her to enjoy fishing for its own sake rather for sheer competitiveness. Baffled by a series of death threats to Senator Hammond, Marty begrudgingly accepts help from Monica and Andrew, who's posing as a forensics specialist.
Directed by: Bethany Rooney · Starring: Heidi Swedberg, Roy Thinnes, Jack Conley, Ben Vereen
3x07
3x07 Groundrush
Oct 27, 1996 · 48 min
Scott Walden, the charitable owner of a small aviation company, is arrested by the FBI and charged with an eighteen-year-old murder.
Directed by: Peter H. Hunt · Starring: Robert Hays, Ashley Crow, Paul Winfield, Yul Vazquez
3x08
3x08 The Sky Is Falling
Nov 3, 1996 · 48 min
On Halloween, renowned author Leonard Pound is grief stricken regarding his wife's recent death. His son Allan has hired Monica to attend to the widower, who has lost the will to live. To help him, the angel prompts Leonard to revisit a pivotal event in his life: October 30, 1938, the night of Orson Welles radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.
Directed by: Victor Lobl · Starring: Estelle Getty, Ray Buktenica, Brian Keith, Allyce Beasley
3x09
3x09 Something Blue
Nov 10, 1996 · 48 min
Tess, Monica, and Andrew are coordinating the wedding of a young couple. The arrival of the bride's estranged father causes her to have second thoughts about the nuptials.
Directing: Terrence O'Hara · Starring: James Karen, Janet Carroll, Richard Gilliland, Linda Kelsey
3x10
3x10 Into the Light
Nov 17, 1996 · 48 min
After a near-death experience du to a heart attack, criminal James Block realizes he must change his ways and initiates a campaign of goods works. Neither Tess nor Monica are impressed, however, with his apparent change of heart, especially when they realize he records his good deeds. James finds a kindred spirit in Amy Ann McCoy, a teenage Elvis Presley fan with cystic fibrosis.
Directing: Victor Lobl · Writing: Bob Colleary · Starring: David Marciano, Lori Alan, Kirsten Dunst, Jorge Heredia
3x11
3x11 Homecoming (I)
Nov 24, 1996 · 48 min
Monica, Tess, and Andrew help a down-on-her-luck prostitute who stays drunk more than anything else. While getting cleaned up, she must confront her past which caused her to become a prostitute to begin with.The crossover continues on Promised Land S01E09 Homecoming (II).
Starring: Delta Burke, Ossie Davis, Katherine LaNasa, Taylor Negron
3x12
3x12 The Journalist
Dec 1, 1996 · 48 min
Monica and Andrew must help an investigative reporter and the elderly couple with four foster children whose lives were affected by her expose on them alleging child abuse.
Starring: Kay Lenz, Paul Winfield, John Randolph, Peg Phillips
3x13
3x13 The Violin Lesson
Dec 22, 1996 · 48 min
Monica must help violin maker Jordan Du Bois finish a violin he started thirty years earlier on the day his son was born. Jordan doesn't realize his son Tony has come home for the holidays with a devastating secret.
Directed by: Peter H. Hunt, Tim Van Patten · Written by: Ken LaZebnik · Starring: Lawrence Monoson, Peter Michael Goetz, Millie Perkins, Lisa Waltz
3x14
3x14 Forget Me Not
Jan 12, 1997 · 48 min
Sara Perkins rebels against her over protective mother by hiring Monica as her new photography assistant. Though the angel understands that the woman has covertly taken a freelance assignment to Bosnia, Tess, a volunteer helping Charlotte at the public library, thinks Sara's actions are inconsiderate.
Starring: Clyde Kusatsu, Isabella Hofmann, Mark Derwin, Carol Lawrence
3x15
3x15 Smokescreen
Jan 19, 1997 · 48 min
Tess represents a group of former employees in a class-action suit against family-owned Fairchild Tobacco. Her opposing counsel is Marc Hamilton, who has accepted this assignment to the dismay of his mother, Esther. When he was growing up, both she and his late father worked for Fairchild as a maid and a chauffer.
Directed by: Michael Schultz · Starring: Holly Robinson Peete, Ja'net DuBois, Tim DeKay, Kadeem Hardison
3x16
3x16 Crisis of Faith
Feb 2, 1997 · 48 min
After a near-fatal car collision, Reverend Daniel learns that the accident caused his son's death. Wrapped in a cocoon of guilt, the Reverend shuts himself off from all loved ones, unable to attend the funeral. Monica must convince Daniel to forgive himself and rededicated himself to helping others.
Directed by: Victor Lobl · Starring: Ilene Graff, Kimberlee Peterson, Christopher Pettiet, Martha Hackett
3x17
3x17 Angel of Death
Feb 9, 1997 · 48 min
Tess instructs Celeste, a new angel, on her first assignment, Eric, an illusionist. Eric decides to attempt the most dangerous escape of his career. With the help of Monica, Celeste must convince Eric to stop playing hide-and-seek with his life.
Starring: Hudson Leick, Jeanne Cooper, Heather McAdam, David Leisure
3x18
3x18 Clipped Wings
Feb 16, 1997 · 48 min
Monica is due for her angel evaluation. She runs into Kathleen, a fallen angel who tricks Monica into another meeting room. Andrew and Tess wait for Monica in the right place. The angels recall previous assignments.
Directed by: Tim Van Patten · Written by: Bob Colleary, Rob Loos · Starring: Cloris Leachman, Maureen McCormick, Abe Vigoda, Jasmine Guy
3x19
3x19 Amazing Grace (I)
Feb 23, 1997 · 48 min
Tess revisits the Greenes. She tells them God says Josh needs to go with Tess. Josh has to help Monica see, since she is temporarily blinded. They travel to a city filled with tension.The crossover continues on Promised Land S01E17 Amazing Grace (II).
Directed by: Victor Lobl · Starring: Loretta Devine, Esther Rolle, George Newbern, Gerald McRaney
3x20
3x20 Labor of Love
Mar 9, 1997 · 48 min
Meg Salter, a New York pediatrician, decides to surprise her husband by boarding his flight to Paris. On the plane she discovers her husband Brian is accompanied by his eight-months-pregnant mistress Olivia. As the plane heads into a storm, an already tense situation gets worse when Olivia goes into labor.
Directed by: Victor Lobl · Starring: Ben Masters, Priscilla Presley, Alice Ghostley, Paul Winfield
3x21
3x21 Have You Seen Me?
Mar 16, 1997 · 48 min
Hank sees a picture of a missing child on a milk carton and realizes it is his younger brother. Monica helps him find out he was adopted. Tess and Andrew must help the real father and the lawyer who helped place the kidnapped boy.
Directing: Jim Johnston, Stuart Margolin · Starring: Sean O'Bryan, Paul McCrane, Michelle Joyner, Nathaniel Meyst
3x22
3x22 Last Call
Mar 30, 1997 · 48 min
A small Chicago bar is just the place for big dreams as God gives Monica the task of granting one pub patron a miracle. Monica is surprised to learn that nobody wants this once in a lifetime gift. Greed and envy creates further confusion and rage. A mistaken miracle leads each attendee to reassess their lives and toast to lessons learned.
Starring: Clifton Powell, Clive Revill, Tracy Middendorf, Edie McClurg
3x23
3x23 Missing In Action
Apr 13, 1997 · 48 min
George is an old army veteran from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, who thinks he has nothing left to live for. He has also been removed from six separate retirement homes. Monica is assigned, as an old woman, to show him the joy of living again.
Directing: Gene Reynolds · Writing: Ken LaZebnik · Starring: Darren McGavin, Christina Pickles, Gwen Verdon
3x24
3x24 At Risk
Apr 27, 1997 · 48 min
The angels try to help troubled teens that commit crimes by matching them up to disabled children.
Directed by: Tim Van Patten · Starring: Vicellous Shannon, Camryn Manheim, Rhonda Stubbins White, Michael Peña
3x25
3x25 Full Moon
May 4, 1997 · 48 min
A convicted rapist is released from prison on parole and decides to seek his victim's forgiveness.
Directed by: Tim Van Patten, Victor Lobl · Starring: Alex McArthur, Jessica Steen, Kim Gillingham, Cara Rose
3x26
3x26 An Angel by Any Other Name
May 10, 1997 · 48 min
The angels are in a small town, where a group home opens their doors to children with Down’s Syndrome. The neighbor across the street finds these children disturbing.
Starring: Chris Burke, Kathleen Garrett, Andrea F. Friedman, Jason Kingsley
3x27
3x27 Inherit the Wind
May 11, 1997 · 48 min
A father is disappointed in his son, Kevin, who parties and squanders money as a way of life. When the father dies, Kevin finds out he is cut out of the will and his inheritance. Kevin must learn to get a job and earn his own money.
Directed by: Gabrielle Beaumont · Starring: Charlie Schlatter, Cloris Leachman, Keb' Mo', Ian Abercrombie
3x28
3x28 A Delicate Balance Season Finale
May 18, 1997 · 48 min
A gifted gymnast wants her overbearing mother to focused more on her neglected son, who ends up in a serious situation.
Directed by: Tim Van Patten, Michael Schultz · Written by: Bob Colleary · Starring: Anndi McAfee, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Vincent Berry, Bart Conner