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Touched by an Angel Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
28 Episodes 1996 - 1997
Episode 1
Promised Land
Sun, Sep 15, 199646 mins
A family is down to its last dollar, traveling by trailer to a new town, hoping for a job and home. The angels try to restore the father's faith and inspire him to help others who are down on their luck just like he has been.
Episode 2
A Joyful Noise
Sat, Sep 21, 199646 mins
Melissa is a sweet young girl who hears the voices of angels. Her mother takes her to see a psychologist called Adam, who is struggling with his demons. Monica and Tess must help him come to terms with his past before he can help Melissa.
Episode 3
Random Acts
Sun, Sep 22, 1996
Monica becomes an assistant teacher to help Mike, a teacher of 20 years who is questioning his career. Two hoodlums, one a former student, kidnap the teacher so they can steal his boat.
Episode 4
Sins of the Father
Sun, Sep 29, 1996
A teenager is in prison on death row, and does not realize his father is also in prison. The family is torn apart, and the younger child at home is about to start a life of crime. The angels must help heal the family.
Episode 5
Written in Dust
Sun, Oct 6, 1996
Monica must help an archaeologist connect with his grandfather who is failing in health. The grandfather has been trying to help the archaeologist return to his faith.
Episode 6
Secret Service
Sun, Oct 13, 1996
A secret service agent does well at her job, but does not know how to relax and enjoy her personal life. Monica becomes part of her team to protect a presidential candidate.
Episode 7
Groundrush
Sun, Oct 27, 199660 mins
A pilot of a small airplane does good deeds by flying people to hospitals, ceremonies, and more. The man is accused of murder and Monica helps him escape prison in order to prove his innocence.
Episode 8
The Sky Is Falling
Sun, Nov 3, 1996
Monica is assigned to help Leonard, who has fears of Halloween. Monica first worked with Leonard in 1938, the day that Orson Welles broadcast his War of the Worlds radio story. Both Monica and Leonard carry dread from that day.
Episode 9
Something Blue
Sun, Nov 10, 199646 mins
As a woman prepares for her marriage, she has doubts about it lasting. Her father shows up for the wedding, but she has not seen him for a number of years. The angels are wedding coordinators who are to help with more than just the wedding.
Episode 10
Into the Light
Sun, Nov 17, 199645 mins
A man is arrested in a sting operation for bribery, but since he has a heart condition he is sentenced to community service at a hospital. Tess and Monica pose as nurses. The man sees Andrew and knows who he is, but not how to react.
Episode 11
The Homecoming: Part 1
Sun, Nov 24, 1996
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. Part 2 is finished on The Promised Land.
Episode 12
The Journalist
Sun, Dec 1, 1996
Monica and Andrew must help an investigative reporter and the retired couple whose lives were affected by her reporting.
Episode 13
The Violin Lesson
Sun, Dec 22, 1996
Monica must help a violin-maker finish a violin he started thirty years ago when his son was born. His son has come home to die due to AIDS, and the father must finish the violin as a tribute to his son's life.
Episode 14
Forget Me Not
Sun, Jan 12, 199746 mins
A librarian's daughter feels smothered by her mother. The mother tries to do everything for her daughter, not allowing her daughter to make her own decisions and live her own life. Monica must help the mother and daughter.
Episode 15
Smokescreen
Sun, Jan 19, 1997
Marc is a distinguished lawyer who returns to his old neighborhood. He represents a tobacco company in a class action suit. What Mark does not know is that his mother who worked for the tobacco company has lung cancer.
Episode 16
Crisis of Faith
Sun, Feb 2, 1997
A minister is involved in a car accident and his son dies in the other car. Now he is beginning to doubt God just when the son's surviving friend, whom he convinced not to steal the church's teen-center money to run away from her overbearing father, has even more need to talk to him.
Episode 17
Angel of Death
Sun, Feb 9, 1997
Tess works with new angel Celeste. A magician promotes himself as the angel of death but has a terrible secret from his past that haunts him. Celeste works as the magician's assistant.
Episode 18
Clipped Wings
Sun, Feb 16, 1997
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.
Episode 19
Amazing Grace: Part 1
Sun, Feb 23, 1997
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. Part 2 is finished on The Promised Land.
Episode 20
Labor of Love
Sun, Mar 9, 199744 mins
Dr. Meg Saulter plans to catch a same flight as her husband's to Paris, in hopes of surprising him on their wedding anniversary. Monica attempts to prevent her from going to spare her heartache; her husband is actually on the plane with a female student he has been seeing, who is pregnant with his child. However, Dr. Saulter goes on the plane anyhow. As a result, Monica, joined by Tess, Andrew, Celeste, and Samk all band together to help all three pull through this love triangle.
Episode 21
Have You Seen Me?
Sun, Mar 16, 1997
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.
Episode 22
Last Call
Sun, Mar 30, 1997
Monica is told she can use one miracle to help someone at a bar, but as all the patrons seem to need help, she does not know how to decide which person to give it to.
Episode 23
Missing in Action
Sun, Apr 13, 1997
George Zarok is a gruff army veteran from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, who lives in a retirement home, one of six he has been in. George is cynical about life and is not well-liked by the retirement home staff. To help him appreciate the joys of life, Monica transforms into elderly form and befriends George in the nursing home. However, Monica is oblivious to the fact that George has developed strong feelings for her.
Episode 24
At Risk
Sun, Apr 27, 1997
The angels try to help troubled teens that commit crimes by matching them up to disabled children.
Episode 25
Full Moon
Sun, May 4, 1997
A man who sexually assaulted a woman, whose husband was sleeping at the time, is released from prison claiming to have found God. He goes to where the woman and her husband live, and she still has nightmares of the man and her husband hasn't forgiven himself. Monica and Tess try to help them move on with their lives.
Episode 26
An Angel by Any Other Name
Sat, May 10, 1997
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.
Episode 27
Inherit the Wind
Sun, May 11, 1997
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.
Episode 28
A Delicate Balance
Sun, May 18, 1997
A mother spends all her time focusing on her daughter's gymnastics career and does not notice her son feels neglected.