6.6/1017 votes#1 - Della Moves In
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1976
Ed gets a new neigbor, but to his dismay it is a loud mouth liberal woman who now owns his garage and threatens eviction.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1014 votes
#2 - Second Coming of Della
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1976
When Ed lays off the fighting with his new landlady, Della decides to renew Ed's lease.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1020 votes
#3 - Chico Packs His Bags
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1976
Chico decides that he would rather move out on his own, away from Ed than give into Ed's rules.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1016 votes
#4 - Chico's Problem
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/1976
Chico's girlfriend decides on calling it quits to being a nurse. She then changes her mind after saving Ed's life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1014 votes
#5 - In Your Hat
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1976
Ed's lucky hat is stolen and while he needs to have an operation, he won't go under the knife until he gets his lucky hat back.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1016 votes
#6 - Ed's Recuperation
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1976
After finding out that the nurse that Ed hired wants to get married to him, Chico and Della try to talk her out of it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1013 votes
#7 - Ed Brown vs. the IRS
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1976
Chico and Louie decide that the only way to get Ed's taxes in is to forge his name to the document. This happens after Ed refuses to pay them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1013 votes
#8 - Morgan and the Man
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired Unknown
Chico is reunited with his old high school girlfriend. Thinking the magic is still there, he proposes to her, but she ends up not wanting to marry him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1013 votes
#9 - Mucho Macho Ed
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1976
A woman visits the garage claiming that Ed is the father to her unborn kid. When he hears of this, he wonders how. He then decides to ask for her hand in marriage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1013 votes
#10 - Old is Old
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1976
Ed gets the idea of hiring a senior citizen for the garage when Della persuades him through a debate that seniors don't have the same rights that younger people have.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1013 votes
#11 - Ready When You Are, CB
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/24/1976
Everyone has plans to attend to and people to see except Ed for New years. He then uses a CB radio that is in the garage. He comes across a woman who also doesn't have anyone to spend New Years with and she is on the road. Ed invites her to the garage and she shows up. Later, Della, Chico, and the rest of Ed's friends decide to surprise Ed by joining him for New years. When the element of surprise hits, that is when the gang meets Ed's new friend ""Kissy Face"".
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1011 votes
#12 - The Dress
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1977
Ed donates his deceased wife's dress to raise money for a charity auction. He regrets doing the good deed when he finds out that a cross-dresser decides to buy the dress. Ed feels that he should not sell it to a man who will soil his wife's good name, so he fights to try to persuade the man into changing his mind.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1014 votes
#13 - Minority of One
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1977
Ed is elected President of a Mexican Better Business bureau.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1012 votes
#14 - Champs Ain't Chumps
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/1977
Ed displays worry about Chico when Chico decides to want to fight as a professional.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1021 votes
#15 - Chico's Padre
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/1977
Gilberto, Chico's father who he hasn't seen in many years, returns to Chico to try and give him a chance to better his life by living with him. Chico's father is rich.
Director: N/A
Writer: George Arthur Bloom
- 6.6/1014 votes
#16 - Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1977
Della plays matchmaker at trying to set Ed up with a woman. However when Ed gets word that Della did the matchmaking, he immediately wants to call the whole thing off.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.3/1014 votes
#17 - Black Tie Blues
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/1977
Della wants to attend a formal dance and needs a host to go with her. Nobody wants to go, (Chico, Louie, and Ed) so they all try and find ways to get out of it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1029 votes
#18 - Ed Talks to God
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/1977
Ed does not feel like appearing at his own birthday party. Chico however tries to find a way for Ed to go, so he gets ahold of a good old friend of Ed's and has him impersonate the voice of God by hooking sound equipment and a microphone all over the garage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.1/1015 votes
#19 - Gregory Peck Is a Rooster
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/1977
Ed sells a rooster that belongs to him, but when he finds out that the rooster's purpose is to cockfight, he tries to get the bird back.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1014 votes
#20 - Louie's Can-Can
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/1/1977
Louie hires Ed to be a garbage truck driver, after he is forced to retire his job and decides to open his own garbage collecting business.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1015 votes
#21 - Uncle Sunny
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1977
While Ed is away, his daring uncle comes to visit and throws an all-night girl party.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Chico and the Man Season 3
Every episode of Chico and the Man Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Chico and the Man Season 3!
Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Della Moves In" is the best rated episode of "Chico and the Man" season 3. It scored 6.6/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1976. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Second Coming of Della".