8.1/10203 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
7.5/10192 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
7.6/10174 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
7.7/10178 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
7.7/10185 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
7.6/10174 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
7.9/10171 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
7.8/10179 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
7.6/10170 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
8.1/10175 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
7.4/10168 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
7.8/10166 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
7.5/10161 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
7.6/10170 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
8.3/10174 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
7.7/10179 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
8.2/10193 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
7.9/10178 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
8.1/10173 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
9.4/10296 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
8.7/10200 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
7.9/10189 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
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 203 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!".