The BEST episodes of Home Improvement season 3

Every episode of Home Improvement season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Home Improvement season 3!

Home Improvement is a family sitcom about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, the host of a local cable home improvement show called "Tool Time." Home Improvement looks at Tim at work, and at home, as the husband of Jill and the father to three teenage boys. Having been married for almost 20 years, Tim and Jill have had their share of fights, but with the help of their wise, mysterious neighbor Wilson W. Wilson, Jr., things often turn out all right.

Last Updated: 8/10/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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The Great Race II
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7.63
392 votes

#1 - The Great Race II

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/25/1994

After Bob Vila raises more money than Tim for Jill's library fundraiser, Tim challenges him to a race... in his unfinished hot rod.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Watch Now:Amazon
Crazy for You
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7.59
391 votes

#2 - Crazy for You

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1993

It's Halloween and as usual Tim is up to his old tricks, however Jill plans a prank of her own. Tim gets flowers from a fan named Rose, but soon strange things start happening. She keeps calling him, Wilson thinks she is obsessed with him. Tim tries to hide, but it's no use.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Watch Now:Amazon
Be True to Your Tool
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7.42
465 votes

#3 - Be True to Your Tool

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1993

Wes Davidson, the president of Binford, makes Tim promote a bad tool on Tool Time. Meanwhile, the boys go shopping and find a way to save money.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Writer: Bruce Ferber
Too Many Cooks
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7.38
482 votes

#4 - Too Many Cooks

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1994

When Irma can't host her show (Cooking with Irma) for a week, she asks Al to fill-in as host and Tim to be his assistant. Tim has a hard time not being the center of attention, but when Jill shows him that he can assist her he decides to continue to help Al. Randy finds it hard to talk to a girl in his class named Beth.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
This Joke's for You
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7.34
441 votes

#5 - This Joke's for You

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1993

Tim stops telling jokes and screwing up on Tool Time after he installs an intercom and hears Randy call him a screw up. Brad wants to read "David Copperfield" so he can talk about it to Jennifer, but he finds out it's not about the magician and Jennifer breaks up with him.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Blow Up
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7.33
491 votes

#6 - Blow Up

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1993

Tim accidentally blows up a bad picture of Jill for her library fundraising dinner. Meanwhile, Al takes the boys miniature golfing and throws a fit after Brad gets a hole-in-one.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Swing Time
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7.33
466 votes

#7 - Swing Time

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1994

Tim and the boys plan on getting Jill a hot tub for Mother's Day and getting rid of the swing set. But they find the swing set meant more to Jill than they thought and she wants an herb garden instead of a hot tub.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Writer: B.K. Taylor
Aisle See You in My Dreams
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7.32
528 votes

#8 - Aisle See You in My Dreams

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1993

At Al's 35th birthday, he wants a wife and kids, so Jill fixes him up with Ilene Markham. Al finds out that Ilene wants kids too, so he proposes to her on Tool Time. Randy and Brad write a letter to Mark pretending to be Isaiah Thomas, so Tim and Jill tell Mark to get revenge.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
'Twas the Blight Before Christmas
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7.27
547 votes

#9 - 'Twas the Blight Before Christmas

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1993

Tim tries to beat Doc Johnson in the neighborhood Christmas light contest, but Randy is leaking information to Doc's granddaughter. Brad wants to go skiing with Tom Wheeler's family on Christmas.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Writer: B.K. Taylor
Room for Change
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7.26
430 votes

#10 - Room for Change

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/1994

Randy and Brad constantly fight over the shared room. They both need their privacy, but their house won't allow them to build another room, so Jill and Tim are considering all options. However, when Tim runs out of patience with Randy and Brad's endless bickering, he moves the boys without Jill's consent. Of course, Jill doesn't like that.

Dream On
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7.26
458 votes

#11 - Dream On

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1994

Al doesn't want to come to dinner with the Taylors after Ilene has a dream about Tim riding on a golden stallion in tight bicycle shorts.

Writer: Paul Wolff
A Sew, Sew Evening
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7.25
500 votes

#12 - A Sew, Sew Evening

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1993

Tim has trouble with Joe Morton, his new neighbor, after Joe dents part of his hot rod. Jill becomes good friends with Marie Morton, Joe's wife. Brad signs up for home ec. as his elective to meet girls, but when the other boys in school find out about his plan, it doesn't work out the way he planned.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Fifth Anniversary
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7.25
507 votes

#13 - Fifth Anniversary

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/6/1994

Tool Time doesn't have enough money for a big fifth anniversary show, so Tim shows a clip of the first episode.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Reality Bytes
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7.24
474 votes

#14 - Reality Bytes

Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/18/1994

Randy, pretending to be thirty-two years old, meets a woman on a singles message board on the computer and she comes by for a visit. Meanwhile, Tim tries to help Mark with his science project.

Directors: Peter Filsinger
Dollars and Sense
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7.23
488 votes

#15 - Dollars and Sense

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1993

The boys buy a remote controlled car with stock bonds from their grandmother.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Watch Now:Apple TV
The Colonel
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7.23
427 votes

#16 - The Colonel

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1994

Jill feels bad when her father, the army colonel, asks her opinion on his boring book. Meanwhile, Tim builds a hockey puck shooter when Randy becomes a goalie.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Maybe, Baby
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7.23
361 votes

#17 - Maybe, Baby

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1993

Jill's sister Carol is having a baby girl. When they talk about the baby's name and Jill is going through the boy's baby toys, she wishes she could have a baby girl. Tim tells Randy and Brad that Jill always wanted a girl so they tell Mark that Jill wished he had been a girl. This upsets Mark and when Jill wants to bake a cake with him, he doesn't want to. When she finds out the truth, she tells Mark that what Randy and Brad told him isn't true. Tim is also upset because he doesn't want another child. But he feels alright again when Jill tells him that they don't have the time for another child.

What You See Is What You Get
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7.22
447 votes

#18 - What You See Is What You Get

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1994

After researching cosmetic surgery on the computer, Jill finds that Tim wants her to have cosmetic surgery. Meanwhile, Tim plays a computer game with the boys and the loser must clean the house.

Arrivederci, Binford
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7.18
465 votes

#19 - Arrivederci, Binford

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1993

Tim is afraid to cry after Mr. Binford, his boss and close friend, passes away.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
A Frozen Moment
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7.18
469 votes

#20 - A Frozen Moment

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1993

On Thanksgiving, for a perfect Christmas card, Tim builds a Christmas Village and has the family wear costumes.

Slip Sleddin' Away
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7.13
453 votes

#21 - Slip Sleddin' Away

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1994

Randy loses a sled race to Vinnie. But after following Tim's advice of racing Vinnie again with a better sled, Randy sprains his arm. Meanwhile, Brad contemplates stopping his saxophone lessons.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
The Eve of Construction
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7.13
448 votes

#22 - The Eve of Construction

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1994

Jill joins Al's team for Habitat for Humanity because Tim thinks married couples shouldn't work together. Meanwhile, Brad finds a locket and gives it to Ashley, but finds out it was Marie's.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
Reel Men
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7.11
507 votes

#23 - Reel Men

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1994

When Jill is having Ilene and Marie over, Tim goes fishing with Al to get out of the house.

Directors: Peter Filsinger
Feud for Thought
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7.08
519 votes

#24 - Feud for Thought

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1993

At their high school reunion, Jill tries to avoid Joanie Graham, her high school friend who stole her boyfriend, and Tim and Jack try to fix the amplifier. Meanwhile, Al watches the boys and Brad's girlfriend Ashley.

Directors: Andy Cadiff
It Was the Best of Tims, It Was the Worst of Tims
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7.05
399 votes

#25 - It Was the Best of Tims, It Was the Worst of Tims

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/1994

After Tim charms all the women at a baby shower, Jill wants a romantic evening with him, but Tim takes the boys to a Demolition Derby.

Directors: Andy Cadiff