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The Best Episodes of The Flying Nun Season 3

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Young Sister Bertrille uses her ability to become airborne to help others, whether they want it or not. Although her aims are always benevolent, her means are often bemoaned by Mother Superior. The other Sisters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 1 - The Big Game
    8.0/10(36 votes)

    #1 - The Big Game

    S3:E1

    The convent baseball team has its first game on the weekend. Generous Carlos outfits the team so that it will at least look like it knows what it's doing; in other words, the convent team is the underdog in the game.

    Director:Jerome Courtland
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 2 - My Sister the Star
    7.6/10(34 votes)

    #2 - My Sister the Star

    S3:E2

    Local celebrity and television show host, Claudio the Clown, thinks that Sister Bertrille would be perfect person to have as a guest on his children's show.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 3 - Speak the Speech, I Pray You
    7.1/10(38 votes)

    #3 - Speak the Speech, I Pray You

    S3:E3

    San Tanco is getting a new parish priest, Father Walter Larson, an old friend of the Reverend Mother's. But Father Larson has spent most of his life as an archivist, and is used to being alone with his books, and is not a very social person.

    Director:Marc Daniels
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 4 - The Paolo Story
    6.9/10(35 votes)

    #4 - The Paolo Story

    S3:E4

    The Reverend Mother hires Paola Guzman as her temporary secretary. Paola, full of Latin flair with a penchant to do the bossa nova, is a bit at odds with the staunch Reverend Mother's style, but Paola is admittedly an efficient secretary with a kind heart.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 5 - Marcello's Idol
    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #5 - Marcello's Idol

    S3:E5

    When Marcello describes the sisters' to others as "guys", they think that he needs a fatherly male influence in his life.

    Director:Jerome Courtland
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 6 - Guess Who's Coming to Picket
    7.2/10(30 votes)

    #6 - Guess Who's Coming to Picket

    S3:E6

    Carlos' wait staff, led by Enrique, is on strike against who they consider their tyrant boss.

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 7 - The Not So Great Impostor
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    #7 - The Not So Great Impostor

    S3:E7

    Struggling writer and ex-newspaperman Joe Barnes/Roy Barnes thinks he's hit the jackpot when he sees Sister Bertrille fly. She will be his exclusive story. All he needs is some photographs of her in flight to accompany his story.

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Lee Erwin

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  8. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 8 - A Convent Full of Miracles
    7.9/10(35 votes)

    #8 - A Convent Full of Miracles

    S3:E8

    On a dark and stormy evening, Alonzo Baldazon's jalopy of a car breaks down outside the convent where he takes refuge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 9 - Hector and the Brass Band
    7.4/10(31 votes)

    #9 - Hector and the Brass Band

    S3:E9

    In trying to get rid of a brass bed, Sisters Bertrille and Sixto trade it for a donkey named Hector.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 10 - The New Habit
    7.2/10(33 votes)

    #10 - The New Habit

    S3:E10

    The Mother General has issued an edict for the sisters to wear a new habit. The sisters are all thrilled by the new, modern habit, that is until one by one they all realize that the new cornette with which will no longer allow Sister Bertrille to fly.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 11 - Bertrille and the Silent Flicks
    7.8/10(36 votes)

    #11 - Bertrille and the Silent Flicks

    S3:E11

    When the Mother General Adelaide of Culebra wants the sisters to hold a fund-raiser, the sisters think the perfect event would be to run the silent film Lure of the West, the thought initiated after they discover that the Mother General is former silent film actress Gloria Davenport, the movie's star.

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 12 - A Ticket For Betrille
    7.7/10(33 votes)

    #12 - A Ticket For Betrille

    S3:E12

    On a day outing with Marcello, Sister Bertrille breaks three different traffic regulations. She forces Officer Juarez to give her a ticket so show Marcello that even nuns have to obey the law or pay the price.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 13 - The New Carlos
    7.3/10(32 votes)

    #13 - The New Carlos

    S3:E13

    After Sister Bertrille is partly the cause for Carlos' latest mishap which places him in the hospital, Carlos and Sister Bertrille individually review their relationship.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Lee Erwin

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  14. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 14 - Dear Aggie
    7.0/10(28 votes)

    #14 - Dear Aggie

    S3:E14

    Rickie Malinas is the sports writer for the San Tanco Tribune. But he's also temporarily Dear Aggie, the paper's advice columnist. He convinces Sister Bertrille to take over Dear Aggie duties until he can find a permanent replacement.

    Director:Joseph Bernard
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 15 - My Sister, the Doctor
    7.5/10(35 votes)

    #15 - My Sister, the Doctor

    S3:E15

    Sister Bertrille's sister, Dr. Jennifer Ethrington, is in San Tanco for some much needed rest and relaxation. She isn't aware that there is a medical convention in town, and as such, she takes the sisters up on their offer to stay at the convent to get away from the shop talk that would happen if she stayed at the hotel.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 16 - Armando and the Pool Table
    6.5/10(35 votes)

    #16 - Armando and the Pool Table

    S3:E16

    Carlos donates a pool table to the convent. Sister Bertrille thinks it would be a good pastime for convent orphan Armando to partake as his current diversions are wild flights of fancy.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 17 - Hello Columbus
    7.0/10(32 votes)

    #17 - Hello Columbus

    S3:E17

    As her lead gets ill, Sister Bertrille is looking for someone to portray Columbus in a reenactment of his landing on Puerto Rico. Carlos suggests his cousin, Luis, who is back in the casino kitchen causing Carlos grief since the dry goods store went bankrupt.

    Director:Ezra Stone
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 18 - The Dumbest Kid in School
    8.1/10(40 votes)

    #18 - The Dumbest Kid in School

    S3:E18

    Mr. Sanders is an ex-student of the convent, now a success in his adult life. He has come back to the convent to adopt a child, namely what he calls the dumbest kid in school.

    Director:Jerome Courtland
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 19 - A Man's Best Friend Isn't
    7.0/10(30 votes)

    #19 - A Man's Best Friend Isn't

    S3:E19

    Felix Ragusa, an independent plumber, gets a major plumbing job at Carlos' casino, the job obtained through an introduction from Sister Bertrille. Because Felix has to run around to get supplies, he has to leave his sidekick, Tiger the dog, with someone.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 20 - The Somnaviatrix
    7.7/10(30 votes)

    #20 - The Somnaviatrix

    S3:E20

    Little does Sister Bertrille know, but she's sleep-flying. On one of her sleeping flights, she comes across Carlos with Sophia Novello, the daughter of a business associate Antonio Novello.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 21 - Papa Carlos
    7.3/10(36 votes)

    #21 - Papa Carlos

    S3:E21

    Kim Ching is Carlos' foster daughter visiting from Korea. Carlos is expecting Kim to be a young girl who still plays with teddy bears, but she ends up being a beautiful young woman who is looking for a husband.

    Director:Jerome Courtland
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 22 - The Candid Commercial
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    #22 - The Candid Commercial

    S3:E22

    After the convent washing machine breaks down, the sisters are forced to go to a laundromat. When Sister Bertrille goes in to do the convent laundry, little does she know that Harry Madison and Eddie, a commercial producer and cameraman, are shooting a candid camera commercial for Delight laundry detergent.

    Director:Harry Falk
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 23 - A Gift for El Charro
    7.5/10(27 votes)

    #23 - A Gift for El Charro

    S3:E23

    Pablo Cortina stops by the convent looking for work, and agrees to do handyman work in exchange for English lessons. To Carlos, Pablo looks a lot like El Charro, a famous bullfighter from Madrid.

    Director:Lou Antonio
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 24 - When Generations Gap
    8.0/10(34 votes)

    #24 - When Generations Gap

    S3:E24

    Sister Bertrille gets into a fender bender, caused by her running a red light. She can't really remember what happened, and is willing to accept responsibility for the accident if it was her fault. The occupants of the other car are hippies, namely Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart of the singing group, The Paper Balloon, who happen to be appearing at Carlos' casino.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Flying Nun Season 3 Episode 25 - Operation Population
    7.8/10(25 votes)

    #25 - Operation Population

    S3:E25

    To save a children's day camp in a park in San Tanco, Sister Bertrille and the nuns must attract more residents to the town.

    Director:Jerome Courtland
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Big Game" is the best rated episode of "The Flying Nun" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 36 votes. Directed by Jerome Courtland and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/17/1969. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "My Sister the Star".