Season 3
Summary:
Season two of 7th Heaven ended with Annie Camden (Catherine Hicks) informing one and all that she was pregnant. Season three begins as Annie learns she is to give birth to twins — who in typical TV-series fashion ultimately arrive amidst much chaos and confusion, just in time for Valentine’s Day. (At first, twins Sam and David Camden were played by real-life quadruplets Nikolas, Lorenzo, Zachary, and Myrinda Brino; after two seasons, only Nikolas and Lorenzo would continue on with the roles.) In other developments, Annie’s widowed father, Charles Jackson (Graham Jarvis), weds his longtime girlfriend, Ginger (Beverly Garland); 18-year-old Matt Camden (Barry Watson) is kept busy with Shauna (Maureen O’Sullivan), an old flame who has come back into his life; and 14-year-old Lucy Camden (Beverley Mitchell) has accumulated two new beaux, Rod (Toran Caudell) and Jordan (Wade Carpenter). The season’s two-part finale finds Matt getting depressed over the wedding of his onetime sweetheart Heather (Andrea Ferrell); younger Camden son Simon (David Gallagher) undergoing his first love pangs, with Deena Stewart (Nicole Cherie Saletta) as the object of his very ardent affections; and there is news of yet another pregnancy in the family. All Movie Guide
7th Heaven Season 3 Episode Guide:
Season 3, Episode 22 – Aired: 5/24/1999
In the third season finale, Eric counsels an engaged couple facing difficulties. Mary, Lucy and Simon learn the repercussions of forbidden love, especially Simon when he is caught in his bedroom alone with Deena kissing near his bed. Julie gets married to Dr. Hastings (Hank) and learns that she’s pregnant. Also, Heather breaks up with her fiance after she learns he was cheating on her with another woman. Matt tries to save his relationship with Shana after he ran off with Heather, and does this through his pleading of forgiveness.
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Season 3, Episode 21 – Aired: 5/17/1999
Eric worries about Matt as Heather’s wedding approaches. Eric learns that his sister Julie is dating Dr. Hastings (the doctor who delivered the twins and almost killed Matt at birth) without telling him or the family. Also, Lucy and Simon are both in their awkward love triangle between all of their two best friends and lovers. Ruthie wants to be a bridesmaid and a bride at Heather’s wedding.
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Season 3, Episode 20 – Aired: 5/10/1999
Two parishioners entreat Eric to take their suffering dog to the vet to be put down. Matt catches Mary in a lip-lock with Michael Towner in a most unlikely place. When caught, Mary gets into a big fight with Matt because he’s always intruding in her life. After a night of cooling off and a talk with Sgt. Michael’s and each other (Matt and Mary), things go back to normal. Simon and Lucy double date together with birthday girl Deena and her older brother who is visiting. The dates are a success.
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Season 3, Episode 19 – Aired: 5/3/1999
Eric defends a custodian named Rudy from Simon’s school who claims to be hearing messages from God and is forced into early retirement through the school board. Annie wants to cut loose for the evening, and does so with other fellow mothers. Ruthie encounters a chimp living in the Camden’s tree in the backyard, but nobody in her family believes her when she tells them about it. Mary stays up babysitting for the twins when the parent’s are out, and is ditched by Lucy.
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Season 3, Episode 18 – Aired: 3/15/1999
Moral outrage explodes in the community over an affair between a college president and a student at Matt’s college. Simon and Ruthie go on a paper route, but some problems occur when Mr. Mallone does not want to pay the paper fee. Mrs. Hinkle tries to help Simon and Ruthie in their situation. Matt gets into a fight with some people at his school due to a disagreement of opinions with the chancellor’s affair. Mary convinces Lucy to go on a date with the guy Mary SUPPOSEDLY smashed her car into.
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Season 3, Episode 17 – Aired: 3/1/1999
Sometimes That’s Just the Way It Is
Eric counsels a troubled couple on the brink of divorce, Ted and Emily. Matt decides to join the Army without consulting his parents about it. Also, Mary and Lucy are desperate to get out of the house and later get into a car accident with Ted who was driving drunk when going out to get some more beer for his new apartment. Matt can’t join the Army because he’s not fully measured for the job. Also, Simon tries to find his red-lightning ring to get out of his bad luck as being the new middle child of the family now. He will even try chain letters to get out of it. Lastly, Ruthie tries her best to get peoples attention when their focuses are on the new babies.
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Season 3, Episode 16 – Aired: 2/22/1999
Eric suspects Lucy’s ex-boyfriend Jimmy Moon is involved with drugs. Eric and Annie and the rest of the Camden family forbid Lucy to neither see nor speak to him anymore. Lucy does not listen to them and she gets a lot more than what she bargained for when trying to help Jimmy. Meanwhile, Ruthie tries to keep Matt and his new girlfriend Shana apart as she avoids telling Matt that Shana has been calling the house. Lastly, Simon tries out for the baseball team and uses Mary as a good reference, even though he stinks.
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Season 3, Episode 15 – Aired: 2/15/1999
Sam and David are home and won’t stop crying. Matt gets a new job at the Dairy Shack as a delivery guy. Mary sneaks to the pool hall to meet Wilson while Lucy covers for her at home. Lucy ends up doing all the cleaning by herself. Mary hangs out with Jordan as Wilson arrives. Wilson is thinking of moving back to Glen Oak, but Mary realizes she doesn’t have feelings for him anymore. Ruthie wants to run away from home because she doesn’t get much attention as she used to. Annie gives Ruthie her baby book. Simon orders food from the Dairy Shack to check out Matt’s new job. Matt is fired from his job and meets an old girlfriend, Shana.
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Season 3, Episode 14 – Aired: 2/8/1999
During a difficult labor, Annie asks Dr. Hastings for help. Lucy decides to break up with Jordan because she doesn’t feel the same love for him as he feels for her. Simon continues to pray for twin boys. Happy is alone in the house causing some mess and trouble. Simon suddenly decides that he would ask his parents if he could get his ear pierced. Matt is reluctant and scared about giving blood and also tries to calm everybody’s tensions with the arrival of the babies. Lastly, Ruthie is the same as usual in this heart, warming episode; bad mouthing the twins until they come.
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Season 3, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/25/1999
Lucy is spending the weekend at camp ‘All By Myself’. It turns out everyone at the camp has to spend the weekend all by themselves without talking to anyone. Ruthie is angry with classmate Bobby Tripp because he keeps making fun of her since he accidentally saw her underwear. Now, Ruthie decides to make him realize what he did was wrong by starting a war: Camdens vs. Tripps. The church’s women group throws a baby shower for Annie. Eric and Matt have lunch with Morgan and John Hamilton. The manager of the restaurant doesn’t serve Morgan and John their meal because he doesn’t serve black people.
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Season 3, Episode 12 – Aired: 1/18/1999
Simon wants to buy the perfect gift for Deena because its their three month anniversary, but it ends up consuming his time which annoys his friend, Nigel, who’s visiting. Rod (Lucy’s ex-boyfriend) is spending time at the Camdens’ home because his mother died and doesn’t want to face his father because he’s angry with him. Heather is back in town, and she tells Matt that she’s engaged. Meanwhile, Dr. Hastings, the doctor who almost killed Matt when he was born, now works at Glen Oak Hospital and Annie is not thrilled, especially with the possibility that he may deliver her twins. Mary tells everyone that she’s back with Wilson, but it’s not true. She made it up to get attention from guys. Lastly, Michael Towner, who hit Mary with his car two years ago, calls her.
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Season 3, Episode 11 – Aired: 1/11/1999
Mary gets her driver’s license, but can’t parallel park. She cried during the test because she couldn’t park, so the teacher passes her anyway. Meanwhile, Simon learns that his girlfriend Deena had Leukemia when she was five years old, but went away. Although, every year she has to go for a check-up to make sure the disease didn’t come back which worries the both of them. Also, Ruthie calls a woman who she thinks is a psychic and asks her if Deena is going to be all right. Lastly, Eric’s sister, Julie, is back in Glen Oak and she has a new job and is starting a life of her own now. Eric and Matt want to help her get settled in Glen Oak, but are trying to help a little too much.
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Season 3, Episode 10 – Aired: 12/14/1998
It’s the Christmas season and Eric has his three oldest children doing charity work for the community. Mary and Lucy aren’t enthusiastic about the charity work that Eric wants them to do. Mary is working in a soup kitchen while Lucy has to organize auditions for the Live Nativity scene at the church. Meanwhile, Eric has given Matt a well-paid job as Santa Claus at the mall. Also, Simon is in the spirit of wearing his very tight candy cane pajamas and wanting to put on lights inside the house since he’s not allowed to do it outside alone. As a family ritual, each family member picks a name out of a hat of who to get for Christmas, while Eric and Annie cheat. Before going on his family vacation, Jordan accidentally gives Lucy a gift that was meant for his uncle’s monkey (shoe shine-kit), but was supposed to give her a basketball signed “I Love You”. Also, Mary meets a homeless person, Carlos, at the soup kitchen, so Mary invites him to stay over at their house. Ruthie loses the spirit of Christmas when discovering Matt was a fake Santa Claus at the mall while Simon tries to bring her spirits up. Lastly, the Camden family convinces Carlos to go back to New York on Christmas Eve to be with his family that he misses.
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Season 3, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/23/1998
Eric and Annie are taking prenatal classes—for the sixth time. Annie helps two teenage girls get through their pregnancies, while Eric helps the two teenage fathers deal with the news and finding a job. Simon is taking babysitting classes and gets his first job, babysitting Ruthie, although it doesn’t go quite the way he expected it to. Meanwhile, Mary is sneaking to a co-ed basketball sleep over. Plus, Lucy is thinking of having sex with Jordan to see if he’s really attracted to her, but it blows up in her face. Lastly, Matt has to do research on sex for his class and is having trouble over finding a topic.
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Season 3, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/16/1998
No Sex, Some Drugs and a Little Rock ‘n’ Roll
Eric’s old Rock & Roll band has come to town for a small concert, although he is suspicious about their possible drug habit. The band is staying at the Camden home—they have parked their trailer on the front lawn. Meanwhile, Simon starts to drink coffee and becomes very addicted. Lucy continues to be on the phone constantly talking to, Jordan, while Ruthie is constantly chewing gum. Also, Mary finds out that one of her friends from the basketball team, Diane, is taking natural pills to boost her energy and that everyone else on the team is taking them. Mary then decides to take a few pills herself when overhearing Matt in a conversation about his bottle of natural pills. Eric then yells at Matt when finding pills in his room. Matt says that he got it from a friend, but he didn’t take any yet. Mary then tells her father that she got the same pills from her friend Diane. When Eric tries to talk to Diane and her father, they do not listen to him. Later that evening, while Eric and Annie are jamming at the band’s concert, Diane has a sudden heart attack when playing basketball with Mary at the playground.
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Season 3, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/9/1998
Violence among children is the main theme in this episode, where Ruthie upsets her parents by taking an inappropriate video game a little too seriously. Lucy wants to take things up a notch with her boyfriend, and Mary is excited about going on a date with Shana’s younger brother – until a dangerous secret about him is revealed. Meanwhile, Eric finds himself in a life-or-death situation as he struggles to protect Simon from a gun-holding classmate.
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Season 3, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/2/1998
Annie’s father, Charles is getting married to his girlfriend Ginger. The wedding reception is supposed to be at the Camdens’ house and Annie is the one in charge of preparing the menu. Annie isn’t enthusiastic about the wedding and the reception. On her way to the grocery store, she meets a homeless veteran and invites him home. He is the one ending up preparing the menu since he was a chef for forty years. Also, Matt and Mary are taking a little road trip, which ends up being very long when they get a flat tire. Simon is spending the day with his new girlfriend Deena. Lucy is spending the day with Jordan, the guy she can now call her boyfriend. Lastly, Ruthie is feeling lonely, so she pretends her imaginary friend Huey is back the whole day.
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Season 3, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/19/1998
Eric is trying to cheer up a woman whose son died three years ago. She wants to meet the people who received her son’s organs after he died. Mary got her Learner’s Permit, but not everyone is enthusiastic to ride with her.
Meanwhile, Lucy and Simon decide to take the bus. A freshman has a crush on Lucy and sits beside her, which makes his girlfriend jealous and angry with Lucy. Simon gets into some trouble with this tough guy who wants help with his homework.
A pregnant girl steals Matt’s car and leaves Matt with her broken car, which happens to be stolen. She is running away from home because her parents won’t forgive her for getting pregnant.
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Season 3, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/12/1998
Simon sees his teacher push a man who was screaming at his son. He then feels guilty when he learns his teacher got fired. Annie takes piano lessons as her “pregnancy project.” Meanwhile, Matt makes a move on one of his college teachers. It turns out he misunderstood her signals. Mary and her friends skip a boring class and get caught. Also, Lucy forgets her lunch in geometry class and finds her teacher eating it — two days in a row. She and her friend Shelby then learn a good geometry lesson. Lastly, Ruthie has trouble finding the perfect instrument for music class.
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Season 3, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/5/1998
Lucy becomes very attached to her new best friend Nicole. Mary has bad vibes about Nicole’s negative influence on Lucy, but the real trouble starts when Mary learns a dangerous secret about the girl. Meanwhile, Matt is stunned when a beautiful young woman at school turns him down, and Ruthie hatches a plan to regain the attention of her very pregnant mother.
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Season 3, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/28/1998
Annie and the girls are fixing up an old car for Matt as his college present for him as he moves into a fraternity house. Simon is having a hard time living around the girls when fixing up the old car and needs to be around some male energy, especially after hearing from his mom that two more girls MAYBE on the way when she predicts the twins’ sex. Meanwhile, a new woman at the church flirts with Eric. Lastly, Matt’s friend almost dies after drinking too much for an initiation at a fraternity party and Matt quickly takes him to the hospital.
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Season 3, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/21/1998
In the third season-opener, Annie is feeling a little depressed since she’s 3 months pregnant. Ruthie is pretending to feel a little pregnant herself. Lucy is following the dating advice from ‘The Rules’ book she has. Matt moves in an apartment with three attractive girls. Eric is looking for the perfect 20th anniversary plan for Annie. Mary gets a lot of attention from guys, which makes Lucy jealous. Although, one of Mary’s ‘guy’ friends asks Lucy out. Matt finally comes back home because of girl problems he was having with his new roommates. Simon’s girlfriend is acting a little weird. Eric and Annie tell the kids they’re having TWINS!