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The Best Episodes of NYPD Blue Season 3

Every episode of NYPD Blue Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of NYPD Blue Season 3!

Police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwined several...
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"E.R." is the best rated episode of "NYPD Blue" season 3. It scored 8.1/10 based on 199 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/24/1995. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Torah! Torah! Torah!".

  • E.R.
    8.1/10199 votes

    #1 - E.R.

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/24/1995

    Martinez is shot when he and Medavoy walk in on a bar robbery. One of the robbers gets protection from the DA for information, which upsets James' colleagues. Sylvia breaks some news to Sipowicz, while Simone and Russell try for a reconcilliation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Torah! Torah! Torah!
    7.5/10188 votes

    #2 - Torah! Torah! Torah!

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/1995

    An ill man is accused of killing his sister, but Simone suspects otherwise. Meanwhile, Medavoy and Sipowicz go under cover to recover a stolen Jewish icon. Sipowicz struggles to keep a secret.

    Director: Donna Deitch

    Writer: N/A

  • One Big Happy Family
    7.6/10170 votes

    #3 - One Big Happy Family

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/1995

    Simone and Sipowicz get a break in a rape case when a man fitting the assailants description is seen in the station. Russell has to resolve her families domestic problems. Meanwhile, Martinez, on his first day back, gets some disappointing news from Lesniak.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Heavin' Can Wait
    7.7/10175 votes

    #4 - Heavin' Can Wait

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/1995

    A baby and a small child are shot and killed in a robbery. Sipowicz's bad mood hinders the investigation and causes a rift with Simone.

    Director: Elodie Keene

    Writer: N/A

  • Dirty Laundry
    7.7/10182 votes

    #5 - Dirty Laundry

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/1995

    Ronnie Drucker, a detective under investigation, is reassigned to the 15th squad and compromises Simone. A young girl, confused by drugs, is the only witness to a shooting in a laundromat.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curt Russell
    7.6/10171 votes

    #6 - Curt Russell

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/28/1995

    Simone and Sipowicz investigate the murder of an Indian woman, found strangled in her locked car. Medavoy and Martinez arrest a man acting strangely and find he's involved in a credit card scam. Lesniak and Russell team up to trap a gun dealer. Simone gets over-protective and makes Russell angry.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Aging Bull
    7.9/10168 votes

    #7 - Aging Bull

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/12/1995

    An ex-boxer, an old friend of Simone's, refuses to admit he's getting forgetful. The FBI take over a kidnap case, but Simone and Sipowicz find an informant and work the case on their own.

    Director: Davis Guggenheim

    Writer: N/A

  • Cold Heaters
    7.8/10176 votes

    #8 - Cold Heaters

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/19/1995

    Simone's old pal Ray turns informant, from jail, in order to get a reduced sentence, but things don't go to plan. A father takes deadly revenge to protect his bullied son. Medavoy has to placate 2 actors who come to blows on stage.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sorry, Wong Suspect
    7.6/10167 votes

    #9 - Sorry, Wong Suspect

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/1996

    A young girl is found stabbed, in Chinatown. Suspicion falls on the ex-boyfriend. Simone & Sipowicz Investigate. Martinez & Lezniak have to investigate a robbery, together, despite the bad feeling between them. Medavoy moves into the bunk-room.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Backboard Jungle
    8.1/10170 votes

    #10 - The Backboard Jungle

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/1996

    A basketball game, held in the memory of a young boy, erupts into violence. 2 dead, 7 wounded. Andy has a race relation's problem with the organizer of the event that was witnessed by a reporter. Fancy and Sipowicz's relationship is on shaky ground as details of this event come to light and Andy is removed from the case.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Burnin' Love
    7.4/10164 votes

    #11 - Burnin' Love

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/30/1996

    A girl's body is found, burned, in an abandoned basement. Information from the husband of the girl's best friend points to a Russian, who had tried to date her, but had been refused. Simone puts together a scenario, involving the husband and 2 of his associates. Medavoy gets some overtime, on bodyguard duty and gets lucky in the card school.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • These Old Bones
    7.8/10162 votes

    #12 - These Old Bones

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/6/1996

    A bruised and battered wife tells Sipowicz that her husband claimed to have killed somebody 8 years previously. Sipowicz follows a trail, leading back to 2 previous relationships. Russell is told that her father has been shot and killed. Her brother claims to have done it, but Simone thinks he's not telling the whole truth.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Tushful of Dollars
    7.5/10157 votes

    #13 - A Tushful of Dollars

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/13/1996

    Russell gets a lawyer for her mother. Simone and Sipowicz investigate the shooting of a known mobster's son. Suspicion falls on his younger brother, but the father interferes with the search. Medavoy and Russell get a call to where a woman has been shot, while in bed. Her son tells Russell that he got a message, from his step-father, confessing to the shooting. His rich step-father's lawyer makes difficulties.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Nutty Confessor
    7.6/10166 votes

    #14 - The Nutty Confessor

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/20/1996

    Martinez and Lezniak's relationship takes a step forward. Simone and Sipowicz are called to a bloody murder scene with satanistic overtones. A doctor is mugged and shot on a visit to his secretary's apartment. Russell and Medavoy feel the wrath of his wife's anger.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Head Case
    8.3/10170 votes

    #15 - Head Case

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/1996

    A University Professor is found decapitated. His mother gives Simone and Sipowicz a hard time. Lezniak gets jealous when Martinez meets a porn star. Andy's son turns up, out of the blue.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Girl Talk
    7.7/10175 votes

    #16 - Girl Talk

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 3/19/1996

    After a young girl is strangled and thrown from a roof, Simone and Sipowicz find a similar case in another district. The investigating officer comes to the 15th, to share information and immediately gets in Andy's bad books. Russell and Martinez disagree over the claims of rape made by a woman, against a married schoolteacher. Sipowicz and Andy Junior go 'on the street'.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hollie and the Blowfish
    8.2/10189 votes

    #17 - Hollie and the Blowfish

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/26/1996

    Medavoy and Martinez investigate the murder of a voodoo priest. Russell gets assigned to help a drug enforcement team, working in the Precinct. Simone spots an old acquaintance, Hollie, who used to give him good information.

    Director: Davis Guggenheim

    Writer: N/A

  • We Was Robbed
    7.9/10174 votes

    #18 - We Was Robbed

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/2/1996

    A dead man is found, dumped in an alley. His name has possible mob connections. Donna gives Russell information about a possible hi-jack. A surveillance op goes wrong, when Simone and Sipowicz assist the FBI.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Auntie Maimed
    8.1/10169 votes

    #19 - Auntie Maimed

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/1996

    A woman is found, murdered, in her apartment. Neighbours fingers point at the junkie nephew. Simone and Sipowicz investigate. Medavoy and Martinez search for a biker, seen in a bar, where the bouncer is beaten to death. Sylvia nears the end of her pregnancy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Death in the Family
    9.4/10292 votes

    #20 - A Death in the Family

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/7/1996

    After a shooting at a bar, Simone and Sipowicz are sent to the hospital and find that they know one of the victims. The whole squad is involved in the hunt for the killers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Closing Time
    8.7/10196 votes

    #21 - Closing Time

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/14/1996

    The hunt for AJ's killers continues.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • He's Not Guilty, He's My Brother
    7.9/10184 votes

    #22 - He's Not Guilty, He's My Brother

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/1996

    Simone and Sipowicz go to a shooting at a paint shop. A suspect is located in hospital, with a bullet wound. The other detectives go to a shooting in an alley, where the victim has bullet holes, but no sign og blood.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A