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Wizards of Waverly Place: Season 3

28 episodes Premiered Oct 9, 2009 Updated Sep 18, 2026

Wizards of Waverly Place Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 28 episodes.

Previously on Wizards of Waverly Place

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 Wizards of Waverly Place 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.

Season overview

Wizards of Waverly Place Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 28 episodes.

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Season 3 Episodes

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S3·E1 Mytharc

Franken Girl

Oct 9, 2009

Justin becomes fed up with Alex constantly going through his stuff and creates a female monster to guard his room and to think like Alex. However Justin's plan backfires when the m

S3·E2 Core

Halloween

Oct 16, 2009

The Russo family comes together to create the scariest haunted house ever for Halloween.

S3·E3 Core

Monster Hunter

Oct 23, 2009

When Justin completes his ten-thousandth spell, he signs up for a Monster Hunting class.

S3·E4 Core

Three Monsters

Oct 30, 2009

Justin is taking his Monster Hunting Course and finds out that Juliet and her vampire family are the monsters he has been looking for!

S3·E5 Core

Night at the Lazerama

Nov 6, 2009

Justin is summoned to track down a scary mummy as part of his monster hunting duties. He and Juliet set off to the museum to track the monster, but things take a turn for the worse

S3·E6 Core

Doll House

Nov 20, 2009

When Harper learns that her family is moving away, the Russos offer to let Harper live with them. While Alex and Harper clean out the basement to make room for Harper's stuff, Alex

S3·E7 Core

Marathoner Harper

Dec 4, 2009

After Alex uses magic to help Harper win a marathon, she recreates the activities for her friend, so a very upset Harper can win on her own. Meanwhile, Justin decides to enter the

S3·E8 Core

Alex Charms A Boy

Jan 15, 2010

Alex starts to date Mason, a transfer student from England. He is perfect in very way with the exception of his view of art. In order to make him a better artist, Alex takes matter

S3·E9 Core

Wizards vs. Werewolves

Jan 22, 2010

Justin and Max continue to search for Juliet. Meanwhile, Mason and Alex continue dating but Mason keeps running away from Alex before the evening. She becomes suspicious and follow

S3·E10 Core

Positive Alex

Feb 26, 2010

Alex has a crush on a boy who won't talk to her because of her sour attitude. She then uses magic to make herself positive. Justin joins the basketball team and tries to capture a

S3·E11 Core

Detention Election

Mar 19, 2010

Justin’s chances at becoming Student Body President are put in jeopardy after someone wallpapers Principal Laritate’s office with posters from Justin’s campaign and he is accused o

S3·E12 Core

Dude Looks Like Shakira

Apr 16, 2010

Alex, Justin and Max are shocked to discover that international music sensation Shakira is actually their Uncle Kelbo, who has been abusing one of the Main Eleven Wizards Rules.

S3·E13 Core

Eat to the Beat

Apr 30, 2010

After Harper's lunchtime Shakespeare impressions are a total bust, Alex and Stevie ask Justin to hire a rock band to play at lunchtime. Justin agrees, feeling that he owes Stevie s

S3·E14 Core

Third Wheel

Apr 30, 2010

Harper is desperately trying to remember something, but she cannot. Alex offers to help Harper recall her memory, so she casts a spell on her. Harper then remembers: Stevie is a wi

S3·E15 Core

The Good, the Bad, and the Alex

May 7, 2010

Alex discovers her friend Stevie is leading a wizard revolution. To the dismay of Justin and Harper, she decides to help Stevie with her quest to make sure no wizard ever has to gi

S3·E16 Core

Western Show

May 14, 2010

When the school's superintendant fires Mr. Laritate because of Alex, Mr. Laritate gets a job at a western place. When the school hires a strict new principal, Alex transports Mr. L

S3·E17 Core

Alex's Logo

May 21, 2010

Alex sells shirts she makes herself, but Justin makes her give the money to Student Council since she sold them on school grounds without permission. Then when she wins a citizensh

S3·E18 Core

Dad's Buggin' Out

Jun 4, 2010

After Jerry is bitten by a bug from the wizard world he is transformed into a giant bug himself. Meanwhile, Harper joins the Alien Language League Zeke and Justin are in and they h

S3·E19 Core

Max's Secret Girlfriend

Jun 11, 2010

Harper and Alex find out that Max has a girlfriend named Nancy Lueke, but has been keeping it a secret so not to get embarrassed by his family. Later his mother finds out about it

S3·E20 Core

Alex Russo, Matchmaker?

Jul 2, 2010

Alex sets up Harper on a date with Justin's best friend Zeke, but the relationship doesn't go as she planned. Meanwhile, Justin prepares a project for a science fair.

S3·E21 Mytharc

Delinquent Justin

Jul 16, 2010

Alex reveals she has made a clone of Justin and he has been attending college for the past four years. But, when she tries to undo the spell the two Justins to merge into one.

S3·E22 Core

Captain Jim Bob Sherwood

Jul 23, 2010

Justin and Alex are chosen to create an issue of the Captain Jim Bob Sherwood comic book, with Justin writing the story and Alex doing the illustrations. But when they can't agree

S3·E23 Core

Wizards vs. Finkles

Jul 30, 2010

Harper and Alex join Harper's parents in a signing act. But Alex finds out it is a lot of working and wants to go home.

S3·E24 Core

All About You-Niverse

Aug 20, 2010

Alex is punished for buying a vending machine with her parents money. Alex sees a mirror that says "Do Not Go In Alex". After Alex steps through a magical mirror, the universe beco

S3·E25 Core

Uncle Ernesto

Aug 27, 2010

Wilmer Valderrama guest stars on Wizards of Waverly Place in the episode 'Uncle Ernesto'. Uncle Ernesto has no idea that the Russo's have magic abilities, so they promise a magic f

S3·E26 Core

Moving On

Sep 10, 2010

When Alex and Harper witness a forlorn Justin moping around the Sub Station due to his depression over losing Juliet, they devise a plan to help him move on, in which Alex magicall

S3·E27 Mytharc

Wizards Unleashed

Oct 1, 2010

While watching a news broadcast, Alex discovers that Mason (in wolf form) is in the Poconos Mountains trapped by country wizards. The country wizards will only give back Mason if A

S3·E28 Mytharc

Wizards Exposed

Oct 15, 2010

The Russo family's lives might be in jeopardy when a secret government agency suspects that they're wizards.