Mad TV season 3
 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
| Mad TV (season 3) | |
|---|---|
| Season 3 | |
 DVD cover | |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | September 20, 1997 – May 16, 1998 |
| Season chronology | |
The third season of Mad TV, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on the Fox Network between September 20, 1997, and May 16, 1998.
Season summary
At the start of season three, one third of the original cast (Bryan Callen, Orlando Jones and Artie Lange) was replaced by newcomers Alex Borstein (who would later do voicework and writing work on FOX's Family Guy), Chris Hogan, Pat Kilbane, Lisa Kushell, Will Sasso, and Aries Spears.
This was the last season to feature original cast members David Herman and Mary Scheer. Herman left to pursue a movie career, while Scheer left show business to become a full-time mother.
This was the last season Fax Bahr and Adam Small would produce Mad TV with Quincy Jones and David Salzman, although Barr and Small are still credited as "executive consultants". They went on to create Blue Collar TV, a similar sketch show that ran from 2004 to 2006 on the WB.
This was the last season Alfred E. Neuman and the bomb sequence was seen in the opening credits. However, Neuman's image still appeared on the Mad TV stage in the fourth season. There were reruns of Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts following the fourth season and fifth since the last episodes starring them were in the second season.
Spy vs Spy pictures were appeared on cameo idle on this season.
This was the first season in which Mad TV showed "classics", i.e. reruns of sketches from previous seasons.
Opening montage
The title sequence begins with several fingers pointing at a bomb. Then the bomb explodes and a picture of Alfred E. Neuman and a brain appears on a purple screen followed by the Mad TV logo. The theme song, which is performed by the hip-hop group Heavy D & the Boyz, begins. Cast members are introduced alphabetically with their names appearing in caption over black-and-white still photos of them. When the last cast member is introduced, the music stops and the title sequence ends with the phrase "You are now watching Mad TV."
Cast
|
|
* Performer was a featured cast member at the start of the season, but was promoted to repertory status mid-season.
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Guest(s) | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 1 | Sandra Bernhard (host) and Jalen Rose (special guest) | September 20, 1997 |
| 43 | 2 | Carmen Electra (host) and Salt N Pepa (special guest) | September 27, 1997 |
| 44 | 3 | Corky and the Juice Pigs (musical guests) | October 4, 1997 |
| 45 | 4 | Jennifer Love Hewitt and Daisy Fuentes (special guests) | October 11, 1997 |
| 46 | 5 | TBA | October 25, 1997 |
| 47 | 6 | Bret Hart (special guest) Corky and the Juice Pigs (musical guests) | November 1, 1997 |
| 48 | 7 | I Love Lucy (special guest) and Eddie Murphy (special guest) | November 8, 1997 |
| 49 | 8 | Daisy Fuentes (special guest), Gilbert Gottfried (special guest) | November 15, 1997 |
| 50 | 9 | Kerri Strug (special guest), Corky and the Juice Pigs (musical guests) | November 22, 1997 |
| 51 | 10 | Don Most (special guest) | December 6, 1997 |
| 52 | 11 | Howie Long (special guest) Corky and the Juice Pigs (musical guests) | December 13, 1997 |
| 53 | 12 | Pam Grier (host) and Corky and the Juice Pigs (musical guests) | January 3, 1998 |
| 54 | 13 | La Toya Jackson (special guest) | January 10, 1998 |
| 55 | 14 | Tony Little, Ahmet Zappa, Dweezil Zappa | January 17, 1998 |
| 56 | 15 | TBA | January 31, 1998 |
| 57 | 16 | Mark Hamill (special guest) and Corky and the Juice Pigs (musical guests) | February 7, 1998 |
| 58 | 17 | Jerry Springer (host), Mark Hamill (special guest) | February 28, 1998 |
| 59 | 18 | Phyllis Diller (special guest) and Corky and the Juice Pigs (musical guest) | March 7, 1998 |
| 60 | 19 | Phyllis Diller (special guest) | March 14, 1998 |
| 61 | 20 | Anna Nicole Smith (special guest) | March 28, 1998 |
| 62 | 21 | Ashley Edner (special guest) | April 11, 1998 |
| 63 | 22 | Lou Diamond Phillips (host), Dylan and Cole Sprouse, and Corky and the Juice Pigs (musical guests) | April 25, 1998 |
| 64 | 23 | David Boreanaz (special guest) | May 2, 1998 |
| 65 | 24 | Corky and the Juice Pigs featuring Debra Wilson (musical guests) | May 9, 1998 |
| 66 | 25 | Halle Berry (host) | May 16, 1998 |
Home releases
Shout Factory released Mad TV Season Four on DVD on June 25, 2013.