That 70's Show - Season 3
20th Century Fox (2000)
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IMDB   8.5
575 mins USA/English
DVD  4   NR (Not Rated)
Tommy Chong
Topher Grace Eric Forman
Mila Kunis Jackie Burkhart
Ashton Kutcher Michael Kelso
Danny Masterson Steven Hyde
Laura Prepon Donna Pinciotti
Tanya Roberts Midge Pinciotti
Debra Jo Rupp Kitty Forman
Kurtwood Smith Reginald "Red" Forman
Wilmer Valderrama Fez
Don Stark Bob Pinciotti
Lisa Robin Kelly
That 70's Show
Director David Trainer
Tim Ryder
Various Directors
Producer Franco Bario
Dean Batali
Mark Hudis
Writer Bonnie Turner
Terry Turner
Mark Brazill
Will Forte
Jeff Filgo

Keep reeling in the years with the third season of Fox's popular and long-running teen comedy That '70s Show. As usual, this season's adventures for Eric Foreman (Topher Grace) and his friends in the wilds of suburban Wisconsin circa the mid-'70s are broadly humorous (often to the point of slapstick), but the performances are genuinely warm and honest, especially between Eric and girlfriend Donna (Laura Prepon), and Eric and his parents (the wry Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp). Episodes in season 3 center around the complicated relationships within Eric's gang--Eric and Donna attempt to resist the urge to take their romance to a physical level, while Kelso (Ashton Kutcher), Jackie (Mila Kunis), and Hyde (the show's secret comedy weapon, Danny Masterson) find themselves in an unlikely romantic triangle. Other season highlights include the Halloween Hitchcock tribute "Too Old to Trick or Treat, Too Young to Die"; Fez (Wilmer Valderamma) spoils Kelso's attempts to get back together with Jackie ("Ice Shack"); and Fez's disastrous relationship with the possibly deranged Caroline (a multi-episode arc starting with "Fez Gets the Girl"). The Season 3 set offers all 25 episodes on a four-disc set, and features a wealth of fun extras that should make it a must-have for series fans. Commentary by director David Trainer is featured on six episodes (writer Patrick Kienlen joins him for three), and several cast members provide introductions to each episode (though oddly, not Grace and Prepon). --Paul Gaita
Episodes
Disc 01
 30 mins    10/3/2000  1.  Reefer Madness
Hyde returns from jail only to find Red beyond furious and ready to kick him out of the house. Afraid that he'll turn the other kids into dope fiends, Red asks Eric if Hyde has ever pressured him to do drugs in the past. Eric wonders if he should confess the truth to Red in order to keep him from forcing Hyde out. Elsewhere, Leo visits the Formans to speak on Steven's behalf while Donna uncovers the reason behind Jackie's new found obsession with Hyde.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Joshua Sternin  / Jeffrey Ventimilia 
Guest starring:  Joey Zimmerman, Broc Benedict, Ethan Peck
 30 mins    10/10/2000  2.  Red Sees Red
As punishment for being "dope-heads", Red gives Eric and Hyde a curfew. Laurie is all for it until she discovers that it applies to her too. Red booby-traps the house so that he'll know if there are any escape attempts, and keeps increasing the discipline, despite Kitty's pleas for leniency. Jackie is still trying to convince Hyde that she's the woman for him, but he's not buying it.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Linda Wallem 
Guest starring:  Shirley Jones, Charo, Spiros Papadatos
 30 mins    10/17/2000  3.  Hydes Father
The guys get into a bar without showing their fake IDs only to learn that the bartender is none other than Hyde's father, Bud. Kitty finds out about this and, against Hyde's wishes and Red's advice, invites Bud over in an attempt to set things right between father and son. Meanwhile, Donna is disgusted when she finds out that Eric keeps dirty magazines under his bed. And Fez tries to woo Donna and Jackie using suggestions he reads in Playboy.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  John Schwab 
Guest starring:  Angelica Bridges, Lisa Arning, Robert Hays
 30 mins    10/31/2000  4.  Too Old To Trick Or Treat, Too Young To Die
A Halloween episode filled with parodies of Alfred Hitchcock movies: "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "The Birds", "North By Northwest" and "Psycho".
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Jeff Filgo  / Jackie Filgo 
Guest starring:  Jordan Masterson
 30 mins    11/14/2000  5.  Rollere Disco
Jackie has wonderful news: there's a roller disco competition in Kenosha and she wants Hyde to be her partner. When she finds that he's more than unwilling, she's left with a choice between Kelso and Fez, and after seeing their moves, she chooses Fez. This leaves Kelso less than happy, and more than a little jealous. Red, meanwhile, is being sued by an ex-Price Mart employee for wrongful termination, and has to prove to the Labor Board that he's not "unnecessarily angry."
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Mark Hudis 
Guest starring:  Robert Clendenin, Ted Kairys
 30 mins    11/21/2000  6.  Eric's Panties
Donna finds a pair of panties in the Vista Cruiser and thinks that Eric is cheating on her with his lab partner. Everyone is in for a big shock when they find out who the panties really belong to. Red's doctor's appointment shows that he has high blood pressure, so Kitty puts him on a strict diet, which he finds inedible. Kelso gains a new nickname due to a mishap in the cafeteria.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Dean Batali  / Rob Des Hotel 
Guest starring:  Marnette Patterson
 30 mins    11/28/2000  7.  Baby Fever
Red is not happy when Kitty becomes obsessed with the idea of having another baby after bringing a friend's child home for Laurie to baby-sit. Laurie is completely at a loss on how to take care of a baby until her maternal instincts eventually kick in. Donna gets mad at Eric for thinking that she'll stay home with the children when they have their own. And Hyde and Fez mediate a mock divorce settlement between Jackie and Kelso after Jackie crashes Kelso's van.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Kristin Newman 
 30 mins    12/12/2000  8.  Jackie Bags Hyde
It's Veteran's Day and the Formans are getting ready for their annual barbeque after the town parade. Trouble is that Bob, who was only in the National Guard and never saw any action, has inexplicably decided to throw his own barbeque in competition with the Formans. Hyde tells Jackie point blank that he's not interested, inspiring her to bring a date to the Formans' to make him jealous. This ploy causes Hyde to come to a horrifying realization about his true feelings for Jackie.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Dave Schiff 
Guest starring:  Kavan Reece
 30 mins    12/19/2000  9.  Hyde's Christmas Rager
Living with Bud has some definite benefits; Hyde finds this out when he's having his first Christmas party at Bud's place, and Bud leaves the guys alone with a keg of beer. Eric suffers the consequences of being bad at quarters, and has to be carried home, where Red and Kitty decide that Bud needs a talking to about proper parenting practices. Meanwhile, Jackie is desperate for a boyfriend, and drags Donna out to a bar where they meet some interesting firemen.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Mark Hudis 
Guest starring:  Matt Battaglia, Markus Flanagan, Robert Hays
 30 mins    1/9/2001  10.  Ice Shack
Kelso's new master plan to get Jackie back is to copy all the lovey-dovey things that Eric does for Donna. To carry out this plan, he tricks the three of them into going to his uncle's ice shack for the weekend. But his plan hits a major snag when Fez tags along and does everything in his power to make Kelso look bad. Back in Point Place, Kitty orders Red to talk to Laurie about her future, while Hyde – who's on probation – gets pulled over while driving Leo and his suspicious brown paper bag.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Philip Stark 
Guest starring:  Tommy Hinkley
 30 mins    1/10/2001  11.  Who Wants It More
After an argument, Eric and Donna decide to withhold sex to see who'll cave in first. Red is nearly killed by a falling tree and it changes his whole outlook on life. He starts being nice to people, even Fez, but he soon realizes that that's not who he is. Kelso claims to have seen a UFO.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Joshua Sternin  / Jeffrey Ventimilia 
Guest starring:  Jim Beaver, Jeff Doucette
 30 mins    1/16/2001  12.  Fez Gets The Girl
Fez has a crush on a girl but is too shy to approach her, so Donna sets them up together. Donna wins two tickets to see Led Zeppelin in concert but Eric can't go because he has to work so she gives one to Fez and the other to Caroline, the girl that Fez has a crush on, because Kelso, Hyde and Jackie keep fighting over who she's going to take. Eric is named Price Mart employee of the month and it goes to his head. Laurie uses Kitty as a hair model and Kitty doesn't like the job she did but won't tell her because Laurie wants to quit already after only two weeks in beauty school.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Bryan Moore 
Guest starring:  Paige Scurti Sternin
 30 mins    1/30/2001  13.  Dine & Dash
Kelso invites the gang to an expensive dinner but skips on the bill, leaving Eric and Donna in the restaurant with no money. The two of them decide to shed their "square" personalities and get back at the gang. Bob is upset that Red didn't offer him a job at Price Mart.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Jeff Filgo  / Jackie Filgo 
Guest starring:  Brian Dunkleman
 30 mins    2/6/2001  14.  Radio Daze
Donna gets a job at a radio station and Eric gets jealous because on the air she's known as Hot Donna and supposedly single. Red gets Earl fired from Fatso Burger but Kitty makes him get Earl his job back. Leo wants to sell his car to Kelso but then changes his mind and gives it to Hyde.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Dave Schiff 
Guest starring:  Howard Hesseman, Alice Cooper, Curtis Armstrong, Danny Bonaduce, Robert Clendenin
 30 mins    2/13/2001  15.  Donna's Panties
Eric pulls Donna's pants down in public and reveals her granny panties to everyone. So he tries to make up by giving her sexy panties on Valentine's Day. When Kelso finds out that Laurie cheated on him he realizes how Jackie must have felt when he cheated on her with Laurie; to Jackie's surprise he doesn't want her to feel sorry for him. Fez asks Caroline to go steady with him and only afterwards does he finds out that she has some strange ideas about romance.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Dean Batali  / Rob Des Hotel 
Guest starring:  Oliver Macready
 30 mins    2/20/2001  16.  Romantic Weekend
Eric finds a brochure for a nice motel and plans a romantic weekend with Donna, who's glad for the chance to get away from her feuding parents. Both lie about their whereabouts to their parents. But the lie blows up in their faces when they learn who their neighbors are at the motel. Meanwhile, Kelso thinks that he's not a man any more because he can't perform with Pam Macy.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Jeff Filgo  / Jackie Filgo 
Guest starring:  Jennifer Lyons, Paul McKinney
 30 mins    2/27/2001  17.  The Trials Of M. Kelso
It's Kitty's birthday and the only one who remembers is Hyde. To make up for forgetting, Eric and Red agree to do the most horrifying thing imaginable. Meanwhile, Kelso plans to win Jackie back by being her friend, but it doesn't work the way he thinks it would. And Hyde learns something disturbing about Caroline when he drives her home in his new car.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Bryan Moore  / Chris Peterson 
Guest starring:  Doug Killen
 30 mins    3/13/2001  18.  Eric's Naughty No-No
Jackie tests Kelso to see if she should get back together with him. Fez, Eric and Hyde vandalize an opposing school's locker room because Fez was beaten up by their jocks. Kitty is angry at Bob and Midge for not inviting her and Red to their party until she finds out that Bob and Midge are nudists.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Philip Stark 
Guest starring:  Keri Lynn Pratt
 30 mins    3/27/2001  19.  Holy Craps
Kitty's sister visits and Kitty thinks she's only there to show off that she's more successful. After going to see an X-rated movie, Eric tries a new move on Donna but it freaks her out; Kelso learns that honesty is the best policy.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Kristin Newman 
Guest starring:  Valerie Harper, Ashley Peldon, Kala Savage, Curtis Anderson, Ryan Bumcrot, Christina Cacciotti
 30 mins    4/17/2001  20.  Fez dates Donna
Kitty forces Red, Eric, Hyde and Kelso to help out at a church fundraiser. Red spends all of his time at the craps table, Kelso and Hyde cheat at bingo so they can win all the prizes. Eric is busy worrying about his relationship with Donna because a church member told him that his wife was nice too, when they first met, until they got tired of each other. Jackie and Donna tell Fez that Caroline is a psycho so he dumps her after she threatens him.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Mark Hudis 
Guest starring:  John Ratzenberger, Suanne Spoke, Don Perry, Terry Wills
 30 mins    5/1/2001  21.  Eric's Drunken Tattoo
Fez and Donna pretend to date so Caroline will leave him alone, but she stalks him anyways, until Fez tells her he doesn't like her any more. Bob reads the deed to his house and discovers that he owns half of Red's garage but Red sets him straight by turning the deed around and proving him wrong. Eric and Hyde have a pool going on when Kelso and Jackie will fight.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Dean Batali  / Rob Des Hotel 
 30 mins    5/1/2001  22.  Canadian Road Trip
After reading an entry in Donna's diary, Eric decides to get a tattoo, but things don't turn out the way he planned. Kitty has Pastor Dave over for dinner and he ends up in the hospital; Jackie tries to get Kelso to sleep so he can repeat something he said before when he was sleeping.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Joshua Sternin  / Jeffrey Ventimilia 
Guest starring:  Nick Bakay
 30 mins    5/8/2001  23.  Backstage Pass
Eric, Hyde, Fez, Kelso and Leo go to Canada to get some beer. Unfortunately, they get stopped on their way back across the border because Fez lost his green card. Donna tries to convince Jackie that she's being scammed by a modeling agency. Red gets a bonus at work: a Beta Max so he can tape something now and watch it later, but he forgets a vital step in the process.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Dave Schiff 
Guest starring:  Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Ileen Getz, Terry Rhoads
 30 mins    5/15/2001  24.  The Promise Ring
Eric gets upset at Donna when she goes backstage at a Ted Nugent concert and then forgets about him; Hyde and Fez get busted for selling counterfeit t-shirts; Kelso tries to be more romantic; and Red and Kitty can't remember how they first met.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Philip Stark 
Guest starring:  Howard Hesseman, Ted Nugent, Ashley Peldon, Corey Landis, Leslie David Baker, Dave Power
Disc 04
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/22/2001  25.  The Promise Ring
Eric gives Donna a promise ring but things don't turn out the way that he planned; Jackie, seeing Donna's ring, demands that Michael gives her a promise ring too; Hyde and Fez go cruising for chicks.
Director:  David Trainer  Writer:  Jeff Filgo  / Jackie Filgo 
Guest starring:  Monty Hall
Edition Details
Series That '70s Show
Distributor 20th Century Fox
Release Date 11/15/2005
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio 1.33:1
Subtitles English (Closed Captioned)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 4

Features
Disc 01 • Overview
• 15 Episode Introductions
• 20 Episode promos
• Audio Commentaries
• 5 Episode Promos
• 3 Episode Introductions