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The Best Episodes of Touched by an Angel Season 3

Every episode of Touched by an Angel Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Touched by an Angel Season 3!

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaFamily
Network:CBS

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Promised Land" is the best rated episode of "Touched by an Angel" season 3. It scored 8.4/10 based on 76 votes. Directed by Michael Schultz and written by N/A, it aired on 9/15/1996. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "A Joyful Noise".

  • Promised Land
    8.4/1076 votes

    #1 - Promised Land

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1996

    Monica is downcast because she failed one of her assignments, but Tess tells her to buck up because the cavalry's on the way. After being laid off from his factory job in North Carolina, Russell Greene packed up his wife, two children and mother to head to her home town, Chicory Creek, Kentucky where an old friend, Doc Rogers has promised to give Russell a job.

    Director: Michael Schultz

    Writer: N/A

  • A Joyful Noise
    8.3/1087 votes

    #2 - A Joyful Noise

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1996

    Monica begins working with child psychiatrist Adam Litowski. He is treating a young girl who claims to hear the voices of angels.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Random Acts
    8.0/1069 votes

    #3 - Random Acts

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1996

    Fed up with the attitude of his students, Mike O'Connor questioned the significance of his twenty-year teaching career.

    Director: Tim Van Patten

    Writer: Bob Colleary

  • Sins of the Father
    7.8/1067 votes

    #4 - Sins of the Father

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1996

    Monica poses as a journalist to interview Luther Dixon, a teenager on death row. Meanwhile, Tess and Andrew try to help Valerie Dixon prevent Luther's younger brother Samuel from following in his footsteps.

    Director: Tim Van Patten

    Writer: Danna Doyle

  • Written In Dust
    8.2/1079 votes

    #5 - Written In Dust

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1996

    Henry Moskowitz, an archaeologist on a dig at a Navajo excavation site, receives a surprise visit from his grandfather. Still angry that his late parents disapproved of his marriage to a Catholic woman, Henry resists his grandfather's reconciliation efforts.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Secret Service
    7.9/1055 votes

    #6 - Secret Service

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1996

    Marty Dillard, an overachieving Secret Service agent, is at odds with Monica, assigned as an agent to protect a Presidential candidate. While off duty, Marty befriends Ulysses Dodd, an older gentlemen who teaches her to enjoy fishing for its own sake rather for sheer competitiveness. Baffled by a series of death threats to Senator Hammond, Marty begrudgingly accepts help from Monica and Andrew, who's posing as a forensics specialist.

    Director: Bethany Rooney

    Writer: N/A

  • Groundrush
    7.8/1061 votes

    #7 - Groundrush

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1996

    Scott Walden, the charitable owner of a small aviation company, is arrested by the FBI and charged with an eighteen-year-old murder.

    Director: Peter H. Hunt

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sky Is Falling
    8.2/1072 votes

    #8 - The Sky Is Falling

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1996

    On Halloween, renowned author Leonard Pound is grief stricken regarding his wife's recent death. His son Allan has hired Monica to attend to the widower, who has lost the will to live. To help him, the angel prompts Leonard to revisit a pivotal event in his life: October 30, 1938, the night of Orson Welles radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: N/A

  • Something Blue
    7.5/1074 votes

    #9 - Something Blue

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1996

    Tess, Monica, and Andrew are coordinating the wedding of a young couple. The arrival of the bride's estranged father causes her to have second thoughts about the nuptials.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: N/A

  • Into the Light
    8.4/1073 votes

    #10 - Into the Light

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1996

    After a near-death experience du to a heart attack, criminal James Block realizes he must change his ways and initiates a campaign of goods works. Neither Tess nor Monica are impressed, however, with his apparent change of heart, especially when they realize he records his good deeds. James finds a kindred spirit in Amy Ann McCoy, a teenage Elvis Presley fan with cystic fibrosis.

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: Bob Colleary

  • Homecoming (I)
    8.5/1071 votes

    #11 - Homecoming (I)

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1996

    Monica, Tess, and Andrew help a down-on-her-luck prostitute who stays drunk more than anything else. While getting cleaned up, she must confront her past which caused her to become a prostitute to begin with. The crossover continues on Promised Land S01E09 Homecoming (II).

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Journalist
    8.4/1070 votes

    #12 - The Journalist

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1996

    Monica and Andrew must help an investigative reporter and the elderly couple with four foster children whose lives were affected by her expose on them alleging child abuse.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Violin Lesson
    8.3/1094 votes

    #13 - The Violin Lesson

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1996

    Monica must help violin maker Jordan Du Bois finish a violin he started thirty years earlier on the day his son was born. Jordan doesn't realize his son Tony has come home for the holidays with a devastating secret.

    Director: Tim Van Patten, Peter H. Hunt

    Writer: Ken LaZebnik

  • Forget Me Not
    7.7/1061 votes

    #14 - Forget Me Not

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1997

    Sara Perkins rebels against her over protective mother by hiring Monica as her new photography assistant. Though the angel understands that the woman has covertly taken a freelance assignment to Bosnia, Tess, a volunteer helping Charlotte at the public library, thinks Sara's actions are inconsiderate.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Smokescreen
    7.6/1064 votes

    #15 - Smokescreen

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1997

    Tess represents a group of former employees in a class-action suit against family-owned Fairchild Tobacco. Her opposing counsel is Marc Hamilton, who has accepted this assignment to the dismay of his mother, Esther. When he was growing up, both she and his late father worked for Fairchild as a maid and a chauffer.

    Director: Michael Schultz

    Writer: N/A

  • Crisis of Faith
    8.4/1066 votes

    #16 - Crisis of Faith

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1997

    After a near-fatal car collision, Reverend Daniel learns that the accident caused his son's death. Wrapped in a cocoon of guilt, the Reverend shuts himself off from all loved ones, unable to attend the funeral. Monica must convince Daniel to forgive himself and rededicated himself to helping others.

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: N/A

  • Angel of Death
    8.0/1061 votes

    #17 - Angel of Death

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1997

    Tess instructs Celeste, a new angel, on her first assignment, Eric, an illusionist. Eric decides to attempt the most dangerous escape of his career. With the help of Monica, Celeste must convince Eric to stop playing hide-and-seek with his life.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Clipped WIngs
    8.1/1069 votes

    #18 - Clipped WIngs

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/1997

    Monica is due for her angel evaluation. She runs into Kathleen, a fallen angel who tricks Monica into another meeting room. Andrew and Tess wait for Monica in the right place. The angels recall previous assignments.

    Director: Tim Van Patten

    Writer: Bob Colleary, Rob Loos

  • Amazing Grace (I)
    8.4/1083 votes

    #19 - Amazing Grace (I)

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1997

    Tess revisits the Greenes. She tells them God says Josh needs to go with Tess. Josh has to help Monica see, since she is temporarily blinded. They travel to a city filled with tension. The crossover continues on Promised Land S01E17 Amazing Grace (II).

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: N/A

  • Labor of Love
    8.0/1074 votes

    #20 - Labor of Love

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/9/1997

    Meg Salter, a New York pediatrician, decides to surprise her husband by boarding his flight to Paris. On the plane she discovers her husband Brian is accompanied by his eight-months-pregnant mistress Olivia. As the plane heads into a storm, an already tense situation gets worse when Olivia goes into labor.

    Director: Victor Lobl

    Writer: N/A

  • Have You Seen Me?
    8.3/1066 votes

    #21 - Have You Seen Me?

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/16/1997

    Hank sees a picture of a missing child on a milk carton and realizes it is his younger brother. Monica helps him find out he was adopted. Tess and Andrew must help the real father and the lawyer who helped place the kidnapped boy.

    Director: Jim Johnston, Stuart Margolin

    Writer: N/A

  • Last Call
    8.1/1059 votes

    #22 - Last Call

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/1997

    A small Chicago bar is just the place for big dreams as God gives Monica the task of granting one pub patron a miracle. Monica is surprised to learn that nobody wants this once in a lifetime gift. Greed and envy creates further confusion and rage. A mistaken miracle leads each attendee to reassess their lives and toast to lessons learned.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Missing In Action
    8.5/1064 votes

    #23 - Missing In Action

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/13/1997

    George is an old army veteran from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, who thinks he has nothing left to live for. He has also been removed from six separate retirement homes. Monica is assigned, as an old woman, to show him the joy of living again.

    Director: Gene Reynolds

    Writer: Ken LaZebnik

  • At Risk
    8.1/1062 votes

    #24 - At Risk

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 4/27/1997

    The angels try to help troubled teens that commit crimes by matching them up to disabled children.

    Director: Tim Van Patten

    Writer: N/A

  • Full Moon
    7.5/1062 votes

    #25 - Full Moon

    Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/4/1997

    A convicted rapist is released from prison on parole and decides to seek his victim's forgiveness.

    Director: Victor Lobl, Tim Van Patten

    Writer: N/A