Hart to Hart: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Hart to Hart Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Harts and Flowers
Oct 6, 1981
Max creates a rose hybrid he calls the Jennifer Hart Rose and enters it in a prestigious rose contest under Jennifer name. She becomes the target for murder when she is stalked by
A Couple of Harts
Oct 13, 1981
While vacationing in Acapulco, the Harts borrowed car breaks down. They ask for help at the nearby estate and find themselves posing as domestics, attempting to prevent a political
Hartland Express
Nov 3, 1981
An Air Traffic Controllers' strike forces Jennifer and Jonathan to take a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. When Jennifer discovers a body in their compartment, the Harts become i
What Becomes a Murder Most?
Nov 10, 1981
An ad campaign for a costly fake fur using high society ladies as models, including Jennifer, turns deadly when one of the women is murdered. Jonathan wants the ads pulled when a s
Murder Up Their Sleeve
Nov 17, 1981
A Jonathan Hart look-alike, with the help of his magician brother, plots Jonathan's murder intending to take over the Hart empire.
Harts Under Glass
Nov 24, 1981
A diamond ring given to Jennifer by Jonathan for their fifth anniversary enables their escape from a glass-walled room where they are being held captive.
Rhinestone Harts
Dec 1, 1981
The Harts new musical investment (singer Lorene)is beginning an International tour. The singer's husband Jesse, a jewel thief, has a costume made for her that sparkles with diamond
Hart of Darkness
Dec 8, 1981
A psychotic man pours a blinding chemical into the Harts pool. Seconds after Jonathan dives in for his morning swim, he surfaces, screaming in pain.
Hartbreak Kid
Dec 15, 1981
JJHart, the Hart's filly looks like a winner. However, two men with a great deal riding on the upcoming horserace can't afford to have their horse beat.
From the Depths of My Hart
Jan 5, 1982
Combining business with pleasure, the Harts scuba dive off the coast of Largos, testing an innovative underwater camera for the Navy. Early afternoon, as the Harts stroll along the
Hartless Hobby
Jan 12, 1982
The Harts visit the gallery of a well-known stamp collector to see the Vermillion, the most valuable stamp in the world. The Harts inadvertantly gain possession of the stamp and t
My Hart Belongs to Daddy
Jan 19, 1982
Jennifer's reunion with her father is laced with danger and surprise when she learns he is a retired government agent and the target of an assassination.
Hart of Diamonds
Feb 2, 1982
Jennifer has become a jewel thief. The owner of the salon she's visiting has hynotized her into stealing valuable baubles from her friends as well as the jewelery store.
Harts and Palms
Feb 9, 1982
On a restful trip to Maui, the Harts become involved in a murder when Jennifer hears the wife of Jonathan's business associate plotting to murder her husband.
The Hart of the Matter
Feb 16, 1982
A remote Island, an exotic European chateau, and a mysterious disappearance of an associate are not what the Harts anticipated when planning their romantic getaway.
Blue and Broken-Harted
Feb 23, 1982
Jonathan and Jennifer enact a troubled marriage in very public places in an attempt to flush out the culprit who is trying to cause a rift between them.
Harts on Their Toes
Mar 2, 1982
The Harts become involved in international intrigue when they infiltrate a ballet company to clear a world-renown Soviet danseur of murder charges.
Deep in the Hart of Dixieland
Mar 9, 1982
While attempting to clear a friend of murder charges, the Harts become entangled in a disturbed woman's fantasies.
Vintage Harts
Mar 23, 1982
Jonathan's vineyard partner discovers that Hart-Cabri is being sold as the more expensive Chateau St. Claire. When Cabri is murdered, the Harts investigate the fraud and murder.
Hart, Line and Sinker
Mar 30, 1982
The Harts want the solitude of their mountain cabin for a weekend. Instead they end up trying to rescue their caretaker from a murder frame by the local sheriff.
Hart and Sole
Apr 6, 1982
Jonathan's new suit has been switched with another. To save time he decides to make the exchange himself rather than through the taylor. At the other man's hotel room, Jonathan and
The Harts Strike Out
May 4, 1982
A friend of Jonathan's dies leaving his widow and son with a valuable assortment of baseball cards. Before the Harts can sell the collection for the family, it is stolen.
To Coin a Hart
May 11, 1982
Jennifer purchase of a flower from a blind woman leads to an attempted kidnapping when the change she receives is not a quarter but a very rare coin.
Harts and Fraud
May 18, 1982
The Harts face a $2 million wrongful death suit when a fender bender results in a driver's death. The Harts suspect insurance fraud.