Joe Ansolabehere
Director
Recess (1997)
Season 3
Join a group of six fourth-grade best friends at Third Street Elementary School on their fun-filled adventures in their school playground. Through the ups-and-downs of adolescence, they must wrestle with authority, avoid the school snitch, and try their best to win at kick-ball.
Released Sept. 13, 1997
Episode 11 min
7+
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Watch Providers: Disney Plus
Production Companies: Walt Disney Television, Paul & Joe Productions, Disney Television Animation
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
7.0
S3E1 - One Stayed Clean
On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
Sept. 11, 1999, midnight
7.0
S3E2 - A Genius Among Us
Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
Sept. 11, 1999, midnight
S3E3 - Dodgeball City
The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.
Sept. 18, 1999, midnight
S3E7 - Space Cadet
T.J. takes charge when Gretchen seems to achieve a dream that T.J.'s always had, to be an astronaut on the space shuttle.
Oct. 2, 1999, midnight
7.0
S3E5 - Kindergarten Derby
Every year the older kids pick kindergarteners to race in the Kindergarten Derby. This year an eager Tubby gets an unwilling Mikey to sponsor him in the race.
Sept. 25, 1999, midnight
7.0
S3E4 - A Career to Remember
A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.
Sept. 18, 1999, midnight
7.0
S3E6 - The Bet
Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.
Sept. 25, 1999, midnight
8.0
S3E8 - Stand Up Randall
Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
Oct. 2, 1999, midnight
S3E9 - The Shiner
T.J. shows up in school with a black eye. Everyone makes up wild stories about the heroic acts T.J. must have done to get the shiner.
Nov. 6, 1999, midnight
S3E10 - Lord of the Nerds
T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.
Nov. 6, 1999, midnight
S3E11 - That Stinking Feeling
Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.
Nov. 13, 1999, midnight
S3E13 - The Barnaby Boys
T.J. and Vince are so into the "Barnaby Boys" books that they dress up like the Barnaby Boys and try to solve the mystery of the suspicious substitute janitor, Earl Raymond.
Jan. 15, 2000, midnight
8.0
S3E14 - Buried Treasure
TJ receives an old history textbook with a treasure map that leads the gang, Randall, and the Ashleys out to get the treasure. But as they get closer, greed arises and the 4th graders fight for the treasure.
Jan. 15, 2000, midnight
S3E15 - The Library Kid
When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.
Jan. 22, 2000, midnight
S3E12 - My Funny Valentines
In his hatred of Valentine's Day, T.J. sends a ""funny"" valentine to every single girl on the playground to show them how stupid Valentine's Day is, but his plan soon backfires when the girls mistake them for ""real"" valentine cards.
Nov. 13, 1999, midnight
7.0
S3E16 - The Ratings Game
Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.
Jan. 22, 2000, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 11 min.
Season Runtime: 1430 min.
Released: Sept. 13, 1997
Last Air Date: Nov. 4, 2001, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-Y7
Common sense age: 7+
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