The Best Episodes of Charmed Season 3
Every episode of Charmed Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Charmed Season 3!
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.
Season 3 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Charmed" season 3 is "The Honeymoon's Over", rated 8.1/10 from 893 user votes. It was directed by Jim Conway, James L. Conway and written by Brad Kern. "The Honeymoon's Over" aired on 10/5/2000 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Magic Hour".
8.1/10 893 votes#1 - The Honeymoon's Over
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2000
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.
Director: Jim Conway, James L. Conway
Writer: Brad Kern
7.7/10 842 votes#2 - Magic Hour
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/2000
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.
Director: John Behring
Writer: Chris Levinson, Zack Estrin
7.5/10 867 votes#3 - Once Upon a Time
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2000
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.
Director: Joel J. Feigenbaum
Writer: Krista Vernoff
8.3/10 1,015 votes#4 - All Halliwell's Eve
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2000
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.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: Sheryl J. Anderson
8.0/10 873 votes#5 - Sight Unseen
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2000
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.
Director: Perry Lang
Writer: William Schmidt
8.2/10 895 votes#6 - Primrose Empath
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2000
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.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: Daniel Cerone
8.3/10 873 votes#7 - Power Outage
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2000
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.
Director: Craig Zisk
Writer: Alison Schapker, Monica Owusu-Breen
8.5/10 911 votes#8 - Sleuthing with the Enemy
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/2000
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.
Director: Noel Nosseck
Writer: Peter Hume
8.2/10 887 votes#9 - Coyote Piper
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/2001
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.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Krista Vernoff
7.5/10 823 votes#10 - We All Scream for Ice Cream
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/18/2001
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.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Chris Levinson, Zack Estrin
8.0/10 852 votes#11 - Blinded by the Whitelighter
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/25/2001
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.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Nell Scovell
7.0/10 839 votes#12 - Wrestling With Demons
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2001
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.
Director: Joel J. Feigenbaum
Writer: Sheryl J. Anderson
8.1/10 826 votes#13 - Bride and Gloom
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2001
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.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: William Schmidt
8.2/10 925 votes#14 - The Good, the Bad, and the Cursed
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/2001
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.
Director: Shannen Doherty
Writer: Alison Schapker, Monica Owusu-Breen
8.3/10 874 votes#15 - Just Harried
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/2001
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.
Director: Mel Damski
Writer: Daniel Cerone
8.0/10 832 votes#16 - Death Takes a Halliwell
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 3/15/2001
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.
Director: Jon Paré
Writer: Krista Vernoff
8.0/10 835 votes#17 - Pre-Witched
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/2001
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.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Chris Levinson, Zack Estrin
8.3/10 899 votes#18 - Sin Francisco
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/2001
A demon turns people into the embodiment of each of the deadly sins, including the Charmed Ones and Leo.
Director: Joel J. Feigenbaum
Writer: Nell Scovell
7.7/10 765 votes#19 - The Demon Who Came in from the Cold
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/2001
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.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: Sheryl J. Anderson
8.0/10 781 votes#20 - Exit Strategy
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2001
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.
Director: Joel J. Feigenbaum
Writer: Peter Hume
8.2/10 853 votes#21 - Look Who's Barking
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2001
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.
Director: John Behring
Writer: Alison Schapker, Monica Owusu-Breen, Curtis Kheel
9.0/10 1,417 votes#22 - All Hell Breaks Loose
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2001
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.
Director: Shannen Doherty
Writer: Brad Kern