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The Smurfs: Season 3

55 episodes Premiered Sep 17, 1983
Previously on The Smurfs

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 The Smurfs 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.
Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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S3·E1 Mytharc

Once In A Blue Moon

Sep 17, 1983

A stork delivers a real Baby Smurf into the village on a rare night.

S3·E3 Core

The Smurf Fire Brigade

Sep 17, 1983

A rash of fires inspire the Smurfs to create an effective invention for fighting them.

S3·E4 Core

The Winged Wizard

Sep 17, 1983

Gargamel uses his flying inventions as a way to capture Smurfs.

S3·E5 Core

Every Picture Smurfs A Story

Sep 17, 1983

An evil artist tricks Painter into doing a lifelike portrait of Papa Smurf so that he can come to life and find his eternal inspiration.

S3·E6 Core

The First Telesmurf

Sep 24, 1983

Overgrown smurfmelon vines make for a new means of communication, and a new way for Gargamel to find the Smurfs.

S3·E7 Core

Handy's Kite

Sep 24, 1983

Handy and his high-flying crew are captured by Lord Balthasar.

S3·E8 Core

The Magic Earrings

Sep 24, 1983

Hogatha seduces Gargamel into giving her a pair of earrings that let her hear sounds from all over the world -- including Smurfs.

S3·E9 Core

The Last Smurfberry

Sep 24, 1983

Gargamel creates a smurfberry famine, causing the Smurfs to seek out across the seas to find more of the berries.

S3·E10 Core

A Little Smurf Confidence

Oct 1, 1983

Weakling gains strength from his own willpower when Papa Smurf gives him smurfberry jam to put on his nose and calling it Can Do Cream.

S3·E11 Core

Hogatha's Heart Throb

Oct 1, 1983

Gargamel tricks Hogatha into getting her bird call by disguising himself as the wizard of her dreams.

S3·E12 Core

Born Rotten

Oct 1, 1983

A furry little creature with a foul smell hatches in the village, attracting Gargamel's nose.

S3·E13 Core

The Tear Of A Smurf

Oct 1, 1983

An ugly hag is turned into a beautiful princess when some captured Smurfs shed some tears for her.

S3·E14 Core

The Miracle Smurfer

Oct 1, 1983

An impish charlatan tricks the Smurfs into giving him all their possessions to trade for his miracle tonic.

S3·E15 Filler

The Smurf Who Would Be King

Oct 8, 1983

Dreamy dreams of being stranded in the kingdom of the Pookies, where he is king and must use his secret weapon against the Norf Nags.

S3·E16 Core

How To Smurf A Rainbow

Oct 8, 1983

Gargamel's in search for gold when the Smurfs create an incomplete rainbow.

S3·E18 Core

Peewit Meets Bigmouth

Oct 8, 1983

Peewit accidentally turns a young bratty prince into a chicken. And even worse, Bigmouth feels like having chicken tonight...chicken soup, that is!

S3·E19 Core

Lumbering Smurfs

Oct 8, 1983

Clockwork helps the Smurfs protect King Gerard's forest from a rogue band of loggers.

S3·E20 Core

Handy's Sweetheart

Oct 15, 1983

Handy falls in love with a mermaid seeking help for her ailing father.

S3·E22 Core

A Hovel Is Not A Home

Oct 15, 1983

Gargamel tries to capture Smurfs with the help of his Great Book of Spells in order to buy himself a bigger home.

S3·E23 Core

Forget Me Smurfs

Oct 15, 1983

An early-blooming flower on an early-breaking spring day causes the Smurfs to forget when the village dam is about to burst.

S3·E24 Core

The Grumpy Gremlin

Oct 15, 1983

A gourmet gremlin with a foul-smelling concoction seeks a new home when Peewit accidentally chops down his tree.

S3·E25 Core

Clumsy Luck

Oct 22, 1983

Clumsy proves how lucky he really is when he escapes a meteor that crashed into his house.

S3·E26 Core

Willpower Smurfs

Oct 22, 1983

Jokey tests his fellow Smurfs' ability to resist temptation, and later Gargamel's when Harmony is captured.

S3·E27 Core

Baby Smurf Is Missing

Oct 22, 1983

A couple of poachers kidnap Baby Smurf, thinking that he is a leprechaun.

S3·E28 Core

The Smurfs' Time Capsule

Oct 22, 1983

A druid that escapes captivity from a tree seeks out Papa Smurf when his moonrock amulet is stolen.

S3·E29 Core

Wedding Bells For Gargamel

Oct 29, 1983

Gargamel accepts the courtship of a beautiful princess to get at her hope chest, which contains a map to the Smurf Village.

S3·E30 Core

To Smurf A Thief

Oct 29, 1983

Papa Smurf helps Homnibus clear the name of a young boy accused of stealing.

S3·E31 Core

Greedy And The Porridge Pot

Oct 29, 1983

Greedy borrows a magical porridge pot that buries the village in mush when Brainy gets a hold of it.

S3·E32 Core

Harmony Steals The Show

Oct 29, 1983

Papa Smurf goes to trial to dispute the origin of Harmony's ""ghostwritten"" symphony.

S3·E33 Core

The Golden Smurf Award

Oct 29, 1983

Hogatha transforms herself into a trophy to get some Smurfs for her beauty regimen.

S3·E34 Core

The Moor's Baby

Nov 5, 1983

The Smurfs must solve an algebra problem to free the Tooth Fairy and ease the teething pains of both Baby Smurf and a visiting moor's baby.

S3·E35 Core

Hefty's Heart

Nov 5, 1983

Can Hefty find it in his heart to cure himself of the ""yellow hate disease""?

S3·E36 Core

A Hug For Grouchy

Nov 5, 1983

Grouchy bravely embraces a pixie under Chlorhydris' spell to break the power of the Wand of Ice.

S3·E37 Core

The Magic Rattle

Nov 5, 1983

A magic baby rattle falls into Baby Smurf's hands and an evil fairy wants it.

S3·E38 Core

All Hallows' Eve

Nov 5, 1983

Lazy is accidentally turned red by Mother Nature's autumn wand in preparation for Halloween and Jokey's birthday.

S3·E39 Core

The Littlest Witch

Nov 5, 1983

The Smurfs befriend a young witch, teaching her to do good, while stopping a bad witch by causing her to lose her powers for a year.

S3·E40 Core

April Smurf Day

Nov 12, 1983

Gargamel plays a trick of his own on the Smurfs by disguising himself as a smurfberry bush.

S3·E41 Core

The Magic Stick

Nov 12, 1983

Papa Smurf's magic stick that teleports things or cleans up things gets lost when Bigmouth starts chomping down their smurfberry bushes.

S3·E42 Core

Baby's First Christmas

Nov 12, 1983

A Christmas-time special featuring the Smurfs! Baby Smurf is all set to enjoy the wonder and delight of her very own first Christmas. Then, the evil Chlorhydrus puts a nasty spell

S3·E43 Core

Beauty Is Only Smurf Deep

Nov 12, 1983

Periwinkle, the perfection-minded pixie, finds a kindred spirit in Vanity.

S3·E44 Core

Wolf In Peewit's Clothing

Nov 12, 1983

An evil wizard turns Peewit into a werewolf to capture some Smurfs to get Smurf sweat.

S3·E45 Core

A Bell For Azrael

Nov 12, 1983

Brainy's brilliant idea to put a bell on Azrael is used against the Smurfs when Gargamel puts his spell on the bell.

S3·E46 Core

The Chief Record Smurf

Nov 19, 1983

A lab accident gives Clumsy photographic memory, and Gargamel erases it with his babble bath.

S3·E47 Core

Smurfing In Sign Language

Nov 19, 1983

Laconia the mute wood elf teaches a magically soundless Poet the wonders of signing.

S3·E48 Core

A Chip Off The Old Smurf

Nov 19, 1983

Everybody contemplates Baby Smurf's future while a locust infestation attacks the forest.

S3·E49 Core

A Gift For Papa's Day

Nov 19, 1983

Papa Smurf tries to discreetly dispose a gift hat that he doesn't like wearing.

S3·E50 Core

Good Neighbor Smurf

Nov 26, 1983

Brainy proves himself to be a poor roommate when he has to bunk with someone else.

S3·E51 Core

The Smurfstone Quest

Nov 26, 1983

Handy, Hefty, and Lazy team up to find a crystal with healing powers.

S3·E52 Core

Hats Off To Smurfs

Nov 26, 1983

Vanity finds a new hat that disfigures his face when he splashes water on himself.

S3·E53 Core

The Noble Stag

Nov 26, 1983

Oh, ""deer""...Malcolm the Mean has turned King Gerard into a black stag.

S3·E54 Mytharc

Smurfy Acres

Nov 26, 1983

Gargamel lures the Smurfs into another Smurf Village with the help of his Great Book of Spells.

S3·E55 Mytharc

No Time for Smurfs

Nov 26, 1983

A few Smurfs cause all time to stop when they accidentally break Father Time's hourglass.