Jem (season 3)

Season 3

Season 3 DVD cover
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 12
Broadcast
Original channel first-run syndication
Original run February 2, 1988 – May 2, 1988

The third season of Jem aired between February 2, 1988 and May 2, 1988 as first-run syndication in the United States.[1]

Episodes

No. Title(s) Writer(s) Airdate(s) Prod.Code(s)
1"The Stingers Hit Town: Part 1"Christy Marx2 February 19885205-58

Fed up with the Misfits' childish behavior, Eric Raymond sells everything he owns to buy Misfits Music from Harvey Gabor. However, he decides to offer a recording contract to a new band called The Stingers. Jerrica also discovers The Stingers and decides to offer them a recording contract but the lead singer Riot tells her that only Jem can make him join Starlight Music.

Disc 1

Featured songs: "Stingers Theme" – The Stingers, "Like a Dream" – Jem and The Holograms, "Perfect Match" – The Stingers
2"The Stingers Hit Town: Part 2"Christy Marx3 February 19885205-59

Riot wants Jem to leave Rio. Eric changes the name of his company to Stingers Sound to get the Stingers to sign with him.

Disc 1

Featured songs: "Lovesick" – The Misfits, "Take It or Leave It" – The Stingers, "Now" – Jem and The Holograms/The Misfits/The Stingers
3"Video Wars"Cary Bates & Gary Weisman4 February 19885205-47

Clash, disguised as a film student named Sarah, tries to get even with the Holograms by making a bad video of them to replace Video's. While spending time with them, Clash becomes friends with the Holograms, and she loses track of where her loyalties lie-with the Misfits, her old friends who treat her badly, or with her new friends the Holograms, who are nice to her.

Note: This is one of the five episodes with different animation and where Raya's skin color is lighter than normal.

Disc 2

Featured songs: "Like a Dream", "One of Those Days", "The Last Laugh" – all by Jem and The Holograms

Bonus Song: "We're Off and Running" – The Misfits
4"Beauty and the Rock Promoter"Clare Noto5 February 19885205-53

Jem throws herself into the role of "Beauty" in a rock opera version of Beauty and the Beast. She finds herself intrigued by the actor playing The Beast, much to the chagrin of Rio. She also works herself until she is forced to sleep for days and Pizzazz replaces her in the play, but Jem quickly recovers and gets her role back before the play ends.

Disc 1

Featured songs: "You'll Never Win My Love" - Jem and The Holograms, "Let Me Go" - Jem/Beast, "Our Love Makes You Beautiful" - Jem and The Holograms
5"Homeland, Heartland"Carla Conway8 February 19885205-51

Giselle "Danse" Dvorak returns to Zagreb in her home country of Yugoslavia to learn more about her family. There, she falls in love with the lead ballet dancer Stefan and also finds out more about her mother's (Nadia Dvorak) past in the ballet. But Victor Korsach, the director of the Zagreb Ballet, has other plans in mind for Danse, and is determined to make her his. Danse is also reunited with her father.

Note: This is one of the five episodes with different animation and where Raya's skin color is lighter than normal.

Disc 1

Featured songs: "Music and Danse", "Falling in Love with a Stranger", "Music and Danse" - all by Jem and The Holograms
6"Midsummer Night's Madness"Evelyn A.R. Gabai9 February 19885205-60

Jem and the Holograms and the Stingers go to Greece to play in a music festival. Jerrica and Rio have a fight, and thanks to advice from Synergy, who is disguised as an Oracle, she creates a new identity, Jamie. When Rio falls for Jamie, she thinks it means he was never truly loyal to Jerrica in the first place. Meanwhile, Riot tries to make Rio jealous by flirting with Jerrica.

Disc 1

Featured songs: "Can't Get My Love Together" - Jem and The Holograms, "Destiny" - The Stingers, "Midsummer Night's Madness" - Jem and The Holograms
7"The Day the Music Died"Roger Slifer11 February 19885205-61

Riot whisks a stressed-out Jem away on a Mexican cruise; the pair then disappears and no one hears from them for three months. Without Jerrica, Eric Raymond and the Misfits are able to take complete control of Starlight Music and the Starlight Foundation. Pizzazz then forces the Holograms and the remaining Stingers to join the Misfits, thus making the mega group rule the radio airwaves. Rio, the Holograms, and the Stingers have to find Riot and Jem fast in order to get their lives back to normal. In the end, Eric and Pizzazz give Starlight Music and the Starlight Foundation back to Jerrica when the Starlight Girls drive them insane, forcing Pizzazz to walk away while Eric flees in a panic.

Disc 2

Featured songs: "Under My Spell" – The Stingers, "Top of the Charts" – The Misfits, "All's Right with the World" – Jem and The Holograms

Note:In this episode, Kimber, Raya, Aja, Pizzazz, Riot, and Ashley talk directly to the viewers.
8"That Old Houdini Magic"Jina Bacarr15 February 19885205-62

In order to get the Stingers onto the bill of a certain concert, Rapture cons the superstitious arranger into thinking she is possessed by the spirit of famous magician Harry Houdini.

Disc 2

Featured songs: "She's Got the Power" – Jem and The Holograms, "Mind Games" – The Stingers, "Believe/Don't Believe" – The Stingers/Jem and The Holograms
9"Straight from the Heart (a.k.a. Your 15 Minutes Are Up)"Buzz Dixon17 February 19885205-63

A new fashion designer, Regine Cesare comes to town and decides whether her loyalties lie with Jem and The Holograms or the Stingers.

Disc 1

Featured songs: "It All Depends on the Mood I'm In" - Jem and The Holograms, "All in the Style" - The Stingers, "Straight from the Heart" - Jem and The Holograms
10"A Change of Heart"Christy Marx18 February 19885205-64

When Minx has a near-death experience, she decides to change her attitude and become kind and helpful, much to the dismay of Riot and Rapture. She sets out to do all kinds of good deeds for Rio, Jerrica, Jem and the Holograms to make up for her past bad behavior. Unfortunately, the new Minx turns out to be much more trouble that the old Minx.

Disc 2

Featured songs: "Outta My Way" - The Misfits, "Are You Feeling Alright?" - The Stingers, "Too Much" - Jem and The Holograms
11"Riot's Hope"Roger Slifer22 February 19885205-65

Riot and his father don't get along. Can they put their differences aside when Riot's mother gets sick suddenly?

Disc 1

Featured songs: "Take It or Leave It", "It's a Hard, Hard, Life", "Let Me Be" - all by The Stingers
12"A Father Should Be..."Christy Marx2 May 19885205-66

Jem and The Holograms (with help from Riot and his dad) search for Ba Nee's father. The Holograms travel to different parts of the country using information provided by Riot and speak to various people they think may be Ba'Nee's father. At first, the Holograms are tricked by a deadbeat gambler named Andy Martin who kidnaps Ba'Nee and tries to extort $1 million from Jem by keeping her hostage at the abandoned zoo. Ba'Nee's true father, Martin O'Carolan, turns out to be an amnesiac Vietnam veteran and a very gifted artist who has no memory of her. Ba'Nee's father comes back to Starlight Mansion and upon hearing about Ba'Nee being kidnapped; he and Jem go to the rescue. During the rescue, he regains his lost memory in flashbacks and the two reunite. Jem then sends Andy into a panic with holograms of gorillas, driving Andy towards Martin, who then angrily pushes him into the monkey cage. At Starlight Mansion, the Holograms and the Starlight girls as well as the Stingers have a going away party for Ba'Nee. The Misfits arrive with going away presents as well and make peace with Jem and The Holograms and Ba'Nee says goodbye to Jerrica and they affirm their love for each other.

Disc 2

Featured songs: "Family Is..." - Jem and The Holograms, "A Father Should Be..." - Ba'Nee, "This Is Farewell" - Jem and The Holograms/The Misfits/The Stingers

References

  1. TV.com. "Jem Episodes". TV.com. Retrieved 2012-06-18.

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