William Bickley
Director
Family Matters (1989)
Season 3
A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
Released Sept. 22, 1989
Episode 26 min
8+
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
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Production Companies: Bickley-Warren Productions, Lorimar Television, Miller/Boyett Productions, Warner Bros. Television
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
10.0
S3E1 - Boom!
Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.
Sept. 20, 1991, midnight
5.2
S3E2 - Brain over Brawn
Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.
Sept. 27, 1991, midnight
6.5
S3E3 - The Show Must Go On
In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.
Oct. 4, 1991, midnight
10.0
S3E4 - Words Hurt
Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.
Oct. 11, 1991, midnight
10.0
S3E5 - Daddy's Little Girl
Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.
Oct. 18, 1991, midnight
10.0
S3E6 - Citizen's Court
Urkel is so bugged when Carl squashes his pet beetle that he takes him to court - TV's Citizen's Court - to settle the matter.
Oct. 25, 1991, midnight
10.0
S3E7 - Robo-Nerd
Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.
Nov. 1, 1991, midnight
S3E8 - Making the Team
When Laura gets snubbed by fellow cheerleaders, she seeks advice from Urkel, who tries out for the basketball team and ends up as equipment manager.
Nov. 8, 1991, midnight
S3E9 - Born to be Mild
A street gang causes trouble for the Winslows, and things become personal when they vandalize Rachel's Place and attack Eddie. Carl wants to take matters into his own hands, but Urkel decides to infiltrate the gang and tricking them into confessing.
Nov. 15, 1991, midnight
S3E10 - The Love God
Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.
Nov. 22, 1991, midnight
S3E11 - Old and Alone
Laura may be sorry for banishing Urkel from her life: in her dreams, she's a 90-year-old spinster whose only visitor is a now-married Urkel.
Nov. 29, 1991, midnight
S3E12 - A Pair of Ladies
Rachel reluctantly hires a loudmouthed, pushy Harriette to help at the restaurant; and Urkel bets the ranch on Carl's cutthroat poker game at home with the guys.
Dec. 6, 1991, midnight
S3E13 - Choir Trouble
Steve joins the Winslows at church with faith that he'll get into the choir, but he's kicked out by new choir director Rachel, whose position has gone to her head.
Dec. 20, 1991, midnight
S3E14 - A Test of Friendship
The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.
Jan. 10, 1992, midnight
S3E15 - Jailhouse Blues
Visiting cousin Clarence is a slick dude ready for some action in the Winslow 'hood and a bad influence on a vulnerable Eddie, who winds up being arrested together with Steve.
Jan. 17, 1992, midnight
S3E16 - Brown Bombshell
Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
Jan. 31, 1992, midnight
S3E17 - Food, Lies and Videotape
Urkel enrolls in a home economics class with Laura, thinking it'll be a piece of cake, but he soon learns he less than an A-student.
Feb. 7, 1992, midnight
S3E18 - My Broken-Hearted Valentine
Urkel again tries to intervene in Laura's budding romance with Daniel Wallace, whom Steve has learned is nothing but trouble. Laura believes Urkel is meddling in her love life and tells him to go away.
Feb. 14, 1992, midnight
S3E19 - Woman of the People
When squeaky-clean Laura enters the race for student-council president, snooty rival Cassie Lynn vows to gather dirt on her. Meanwhile, neighbors elect Harriet Neighborhood Watch leader and Carl is down in the dumps about it.
Feb. 21, 1992, midnight
S3E20 - Love and Kisses
Hoping to win Laura, Urkel strikes a deal with R&B singer Johnny Gill: his treasured baseball card in exchange for serenading her; Carl and Harriette discover that their honeymoon love nest is of the outdoor type.
Feb. 28, 1992, midnight
S3E21 - Stop, in the Name of Love
Laura's encouraging words cast a love spell on Waldo; Carl and Lt. Murtagh trade insults in a food fight over Mother Winslow's bad driving.
March 13, 1992, midnight
S3E22 - The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
Urkel's stay at the Winslows brings chaos when he swallows a fish that Carl was "fish-sitting," urges Richie to fight a preschool bully and drives away Laura's study mate.
April 3, 1992, midnight
S3E23 - Robo-Nerd II
It's hasta la vista to the criminal element and hello Urkelbot after Urkel revives his robot for law-enforcement use in solving a rash of convenience store robberies on Carl's beat; meanwhile new shampoo changes the women.
April 24, 1992, midnight
S3E24 - Dudes
Laura sees red when Urkel, Eddie and Waldo appear on Dudes, a TV dating show that Laura claims is sexist; Carl's birthday gets little attention from his family.
May 1, 1992, midnight
S3E25 - Farewell, My Laura
Urkel plays bumbling, hard-boiled gumshoe Johnny Danger in a 1940s film noir spoof with Laura as a sultry client who needs protection for her aunt Rachel singer and supper-club owner marked for murder.
May 8, 1992, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 26 min.
Season Runtime: 5634 min.
Released: Sept. 22, 1989
Last Air Date: July 17, 1998, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G
Common sense age: 8+
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