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Friday the 13th: The Series: Season 3

20 episodes Premiered Oct 7, 1989 Updated Oct 7, 2026
Previously on Friday the 13th: The Series

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Friday the 13th: The Series Season 2.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (6): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (14): Character development & subplots
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S3·E1 Mytharc

The Prophecies (1)

Oct 7, 1989 · 45 min

Part one of this two-parter features Jack travelling to Marie-Mere in France on the trail of a cursed tome, Lucifer's Bible. The town is a holy site, with a fountain that cures the

S3·E2 Core

The Prophecies (2)

Oct 7, 1989 · 45 min

Micki and Ryan get word of Jack's injury at the end of the preceding episode. They travel to Marie-Mere with Johnny Ventura to investigate and try to recover Lucifer's Bible. Aster

S3·E3 Core

Demon Hunter

Oct 14, 1989 · 45 min

A close-knit family, the Cassidys, had a daughter who was kidnapped by a cult of demon worshippers. They used her to summon a demon. The daughter escaped, and now the family huts t

S3·E4 Core

Crippled Inside

Oct 21, 1989 · 45 min

Fleeing fraternity boys who plan to gang-rape her, a figure skater is hit by a car and crippled. However, a mysterious old man sells her an antique wheelchair at a garage sale. The

S3·E5 Mytharc

Stick It In Your Ear

Oct 28, 1989 · 45 min

Adam Cole and his partner run a vaudeville-style mental act using secret passwords. However, the act threatens to fall apart since Cole is losing his hearing. While being treated b

S3·E6 Core

Bad Penny

Nov 11, 1989 · 45 min

While mourning the death of his father (in last season's The Prisoner), Johnny catches wind of a series of murders with the victims bearing the mark of a ram's head on their forehe

S3·E7 Mytharc

Hate On Your Dial

Nov 18, 1989 · 45 min

Johnny inadvertently screws up when he sells a box of junk to a retarded neighbor without checking the Manifest. A cursed antique car radio is among the items sold. The retarded ma

S3·E8 Core

Night Prey

Nov 25, 1989 · 45 min

20 years ago, a man's fiancee is stolen by vampires and transformed into one. Obsessed, he hunts vampires until the modern day, when he stumbles upon a cursed antique cross that le

S3·E9 Core

Femme Fatale

Dec 2, 1989 · 45 min

Desmond Williams, a director, is obsessed with the role that his now-aged actress-wife played 50 years ago: that of femme fatale Lili Lita in a film-noir crime film. He finds a cur

S3·E10 Core

Mightier Than the Sword

Jan 20, 1990 · 45 min

A famous author of real-life biographies of serial killers, famed for his insights, owes his success to an antique pen. He writes out his story of a serial killer's murders, then u

S3·E11 Core

Year of the Monkey

Jan 27, 1990 · 45 min

The trio track a cursed tea set to a samurai, Musashi: an honorable man, but one who refuses to give them the antique unless they aid him in recovering a mystical set of oriental m

S3·E12 Core

Epitaph For a Lonely Soul

Feb 3, 1990 · 45 min

A lonely, somewhat twisted mortician stumbles upon the cursed properties of an antique embalmers' aspirator. He can use it to kill one person, to resurrect another without memory.

S3·E13 Core

Midnight Riders

Feb 10, 1990 · 45 min

Micki, Johnny, and Jack are taking a break, and star-gazing in Jack's old hometown. However, a ghostly biker gang, the Midnight Riders, rolls into town. At the same time, Jack's fa

S3·E14 Core

Repetition

Feb 17, 1990 · 45 min

In this unusual episode, none of the main characters appear except Micki very briefly at the beginning and end. A newspaper columnist accidentally hits a young girl who was wearing

S3·E15 Core

The Long Road Home

Feb 24, 1990 · 45 min

In the first few minutes, Micki and Johnny recover a yin-yang amulet that lets the user switch bodies after killing someone. They steal it from a wife and her lover trying to kill

S3·E16 Core

My Wife as a Dog

Mar 3, 1990 · 45 min

A lonely fireman is obsessed with his dog, loving it more than his shrewish wife. He is able to fulfill his fondest wish when he finds a cursed aboriginal dogleash that lets him sl

S3·E17 Core

Jack-in-the-Box

May 5, 1990 · 45 min

A friend of Micki's, who works at a pool club, is drowned by two intruders. The widow inadvertently gives her daughter a jack-in-the-box from a sailor's museum, and the girl discov

S3·E18 Mytharc

Spirit of Television

May 12, 1990 · 45 min

A psychic medium is dying of a rare degenerative disease. She stumbles upon a cursed television set, which allows her to put her customers in contact with the spirits of their dear

S3·E19 Mytharc

The Tree of Life

May 19, 1990 · 45 min

An exclusive fertility clinic is much mroe than it seems. It is run by a cult of female Druids who use a cursed fertility statue to expand their numbers. When infertile couples com

S3·E20 Mytharc

The Charnel Pit

May 26, 1990 · 45 min

Micki is sent through a two-way time portal contained within a painting and finds herself at the mercy of the Marquis de Sade.

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