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The Magic School Bus

Season 3 1996
TV-Y

  • 1996-09-14T10:30:00Z on PBS Kids
  • 22m
  • 4h 46m (13 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Children
An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wondrous educational field trips with the help of a magical school bus.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1996-09-14T10:30:00Z

3x01 In a Beehive

Season Premiere

3x01 In a Beehive

  • 1996-09-14T10:30:00Z22m

Tim’s beekeeper Grandfather has the sweetest honey in town. Ms. Frizzle turns her class into bees so they can visit a hive and learn how raw honey is processed firsthand.

1996-09-21T10:30:00Z

3x02 In the Arctic

3x02 In the Arctic

  • 1996-09-21T10:30:00Z22m

“Where did the hot go?” wonders Arnold when his hot cocoa cools off. So, Ms. Frizzle whisks the class to the Arctic!

1996-09-28T10:30:00Z

3x03 Spins a Web

3x03 Spins a Web

  • 1996-09-28T10:30:00Z22m

Ms. Frizzle transports the class into a 1950s horror movie, where a 50-foot praying mantis is wreaking havoc on the town. Ed Asner stars as the film’s power-mad protagonist, General Araneus.

1996-10-05T10:30:00Z

3x04 Under Construction

3x04 Under Construction

  • 1996-10-05T10:30:00Z22m

Two inches tall and trapped in a bathroom at Wanda’s house, the kids must use what they’ve learned about structures to escape before Wanda’s mother discovers them.

1996-10-12T10:30:00Z

3x05 Gets a Bright Idea

3x05 Gets a Bright Idea

  • 1996-10-12T10:30:00Z22m

The light show at Walkerville’s old theater is illuminating, but Arnold’s bossy cousin Janet claims she could put on a much better show—if there wasn’t a ghost living in the theater!

1996-10-19T10:30:00Z

3x06 Shows and Tells

3x06 Shows and Tells

  • 1996-10-19T10:30:00Z22m

Arnold brings in a webbed hoop for the International Show-and-Tell Competition, left behind by his great-aunt, a famous archaeologist, but he has no idea what it is! Can the kids find out what it is before he takes the stage? With Alex Trebek as the “Sportscaster.”

1996-10-26T10:30:00Z

3x07 Makes a Rainbow

3x07 Makes a Rainbow

  • 1996-10-26T10:30:00Z22m

The class finds Ms. Frizzle inside her closet—playing a pinball machine she created with light pulses instead of steel balls. With time and the light pulses running out, the kids must discover the secrets of color—before the principal, Mr. Ruhle, discovers them!

1996-11-02T11:30:00Z

3x08 Goes Upstream

3x08 Goes Upstream

  • 1996-11-02T11:30:00Z22m

Ralphie wants to serve salmon at the annual school picnic, but he can’t find any at his favorite fishing spot. But when the kids are “Frizzled” inside a salmon-bus they have an uncontrollable urge to head upriver.

1996-11-09T11:30:00Z

3x09 Works Out

3x09 Works Out

  • 1996-11-09T11:30:00Z22m

Is Mr. Sinew any match for the Friz? At this year’s “Teacher-athlon,” the kids fear Ms. Frizzle doesn’t stand a chance against the muscle-bound gym teacher from another school, so the class travels inside her body for a closer look.

1996-11-16T11:30:00Z

3x10 Gets Planted

3x10 Gets Planted

  • 1996-11-16T11:30:00Z22m

Phoebe tries to grow a vine for the school play, Jack and the Beanstalk. But her plant is more like a beansprout than a beanstalk! With the opening curtain only moments away, Ms. Frizzle turns Phoebe into a bean plant so she’ll grow into the star of the show!

1996-11-23T11:30:00Z

3x11 In the Rainforest

3x11 In the Rainforest

  • 1996-11-23T11:30:00Z22m

The kids rent a rainforest cocoa tree as an Earth Day present for Ms. Frizzle. But when the harvest arrives, there’s only one shrivelled cocoa bean! Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the rainforest to meet the impeccable Inspector 47 who keeps a tidy, mud-free cocoa grove. What has he done to the rainforest's intricate ecology web?

1996-11-30T11:30:00Z

3x12 Rocks and Rolls

3x12 Rocks and Rolls

  • 1996-11-30T11:30:00Z22m

To celebrate the founding of Walkerville, Ms. Frizzle’s class sculpts a stone likeness of its founding father, Captain Walker. As they add the finishing touches, the statue tumbles down the mountain. Ms. Frizzle turns the Bus into a huge boulder and the kids into rocks while bumping down the mountain in a desperate attempt to save the statue.

Season Finale

1996-12-25T11:30:00Z

3x13 Holiday Special

Season Finale

3x13 Holiday Special

  • 1996-12-25T11:30:00Z22m

Wanda plans to see The Nutcracker ballet, but during a trip to Murph’s recycling plant, the toy soldier she needs to get into the theater accidentally becomes a plastic pellet! Ms. Frizzle activates the Bus’s Un-Recycler, taking the class and Murph on a song-filled field trip, where they learn how everyday items are made from recycled trash.

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