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SummaryTess (Della Reese, The Royal Family) and Monica (Roma Downey, A Woman Named Jackie) are two angels sent to earth to help people with their problems. Helping them are Andrew and the new angel, Gloria.

Created By:John Masius

❮ Touched by an Angel

Season 3

9 Seasons

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Sep 15, 1996

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Episode 1 • Sep 15, 1996 • 46 m

Promised Land

A family is down to its last dollar, traveling by trailer to a new town, hoping for a job and home. The angels try to restore the father's faith and inspire him to help others who are down on their luck just like he has been.

Episode 2 • Sep 21, 1996 • 46 m

A Joyful Noise

Melissa is a sweet young girl who hears the voices of angels. Her mother takes her to see a psychologist called Adam, who is struggling with his demons. Monica and Tess must help him come to terms with his past before he can help Melissa.

Episode 3 • Sep 22, 1996

Random Acts

Monica becomes an assistant teacher to help Mike, a teacher of 20 years who is questioning his career. Two hoodlums, one a former student, kidnap the teacher so they can steal his boat.

Episode 4 • Sep 29, 1996

Sins of the Father

A teenager is in prison on death row, and does not realize his father is also in prison. The family is torn apart, and the younger child at home is about to start a life of crime. The angels must help heal the family.

Episode 5 • Oct 6, 1996

Written in Dust

Monica must help an archaeologist connect with his grandfather who is failing in health. The grandfather has been trying to help the archaeologist return to his faith.

Episode 6 • Oct 13, 1996

Secret Service

A secret service agent does well at her job, but does not know how to relax and enjoy her personal life. Monica becomes part of her team to protect a presidential candidate.

Episode 7 • Oct 27, 1996 • 60 m

Groundrush

A pilot of a small airplane does good deeds by flying people to hospitals, ceremonies, and more. The man is accused of murder and Monica helps him escape prison in order to prove his innocence.

Episode 8 • Nov 3, 1996

The Sky Is Falling

Monica is assigned to help Leonard, who has fears of Halloween. Monica first worked with Leonard in 1938, the day that Orson Welles broadcast his War of the Worlds radio story. Both Monica and Leonard carry dread from that day.

Episode 9 • Nov 10, 1996 • 46 m

Something Blue

As a woman prepares for her marriage, she has doubts about it lasting. Her father shows up for the wedding, but she has not seen him for a number of years. The angels are wedding coordinators who are to help with more than just the wedding.

Episode 10 • Nov 17, 1996 • 45 m

Into the Light

A man is arrested in a sting operation for bribery, but since he has a heart condition he is sentenced to community service at a hospital. Tess and Monica pose as nurses. The man sees Andrew and knows who he is, but not how to react.

Episode 11 • Nov 24, 1996

The Homecoming: Part 1

Episode 12 • Dec 1, 1996

The Journalist

Monica and Andrew must help an investigative reporter and the retired couple whose lives were affected by her reporting.

Episode 13 • Dec 22, 1996

The Violin Lesson

Monica must help a violin-maker finish a violin he started thirty years ago when his son was born. His son has come home to die due to AIDS, and the father must finish the violin as a tribute to his son's life.

Episode 14 • Jan 12, 1997 • 46 m

Forget Me Not

A librarian's daughter feels smothered by her mother. The mother tries to do everything for her daughter, not allowing her daughter to make her own decisions and live her own life. Monica must help the mother and daughter.

Episode 15 • Jan 19, 1997

Smokescreen

Marc is a distinguished lawyer who returns to his old neighborhood. He represents a tobacco company in a class action suit. What Mark does not know is that his mother who worked for the tobacco company has lung cancer.

Episode 16 • Feb 2, 1997

Crisis of Faith

Episode 17 • Feb 9, 1997

Angel of Death

Tess works with new angel Celeste. A magician promotes himself as the angel of death but has a terrible secret from his past that haunts him. Celeste works as the magician's assistant.

Episode 18 • Feb 16, 1997

Clipped Wings

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.

Episode 19 • Feb 23, 1997

Amazing Grace: Part 1

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. Part 2 is finished on The Promised Land.

Episode 20 • Mar 9, 1997 • 44 m

Labor of Love

A woman hopes to surprise her husband by flying to Paris with him, but has her own surprise when he is with another woman who is pregnant with his child. The other woman goes into labor during flight.

Episode 21 • Mar 16, 1997

Have You Seen Me?

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.

Episode 22 • Mar 30, 1997

Last Call

Monica is told she can use one miracle to help someone at a bar, but as all the patrons seem to need help, she does not know how to decide which person to give it to.

Episode 23 • Apr 13, 1997

Missing in Action

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.

Episode 24 • Apr 27, 1997

At Risk

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

Episode 25 • May 4, 1997

Full Moon

A rapist who was convicted and now paroled goes to the town of the victim. She is terrified of him. The rapist visits her, asking for forgiveness. She refuses. The angels must help them and her family with the healing.

Episode 26 • May 10, 1997

An Angel by Any Other Name

The angels are in a small town, where a group home opens their doors to children with Down's Syndrome. The neighbor across the street finds these children disturbing.

Episode 27 • May 11, 1997

Inherit the Wind

A father is disappointed in his son, Kevin, who parties and squanders money as a way of life. When the father dies, Kevin finds out he is cut out of the will and his inheritance. Kevin must learn to get a job and earn his own money.

Episode 28 • May 18, 1997

A Delicate Balance

A mother spends all her time focusing on her daughter's gymnastics career and does not notice her son feels neglected.

Roma DowneyMonica, Monique

Della ReeseTess

John DyeAndrew

Valerie BertinelliGloria, The New Angel

Gavin SheehanNurse, Waiter, Cameraman

Alexis CruzRafael

Charles RocketAdam

Paul WinfieldSam

Deborah Lee DouglasAli, Allie, Fan

Nina GirvetzAngel Wannabe, Carol, Catherine Wentworth

Randy TravisWayne, Jed Winslow, Wayne Machulis

Scott WilkinsonBusinessman #1, Coach Hall, D.A. John Tipton, Detective, Mayor Bryan Hunley, Principal Artmeir, Surgeon

Ossie DavisErasmus Jones, Gabe, Gabriel

Michael FlynnBen Feldman, Billy Coates, Howard, Judge Fleming, Lyle, Warden Butler

Dennis SaylorBarker, Man, Manny, Miner, Murph, Thin Man

Gerald McRaneyRussell Greene, Dr. Joe Patcherik

Wendy PhillipsClaire Greene, Ruth Ann Russell

Paul WittenburgJoey, Joey Machulis

Keb' Mo'J.D. Winslow, The Angel of Music, Isaac

Charles MettenDeacon Jamison, Harry, Judge Don Van Beek, Man

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To its credit, Touched conveys the idea that leading a truly spiritual life is one tough goal. But given the stilted dialogue and the fact that, by definition, the lead characters must always be goody-goody, the quality of the acting is irrelevant.

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