Promised Land Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Promised Land: Season 3 (1998 - 1999)

• Season 3 Episode 22: Finale

  LT inadvertently uncovers a black market baby ring; Josh goes to college.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Darkness Visible

  LT tries to help a homeless schizophrenic man (Billy Dee Williams).

• Season 3 Episode 20: Baby Steps

  LT and a female friend get unexpected reactions when they experiment with interracial dating; guest Usher.

• Season 3 Episode 19: Leaving the Life

  Russell and LT try to help a young woman leave a gang before she and her family are killed; Dinah introduces Margot to a man.

• Season 3 Episode 18: A Day in the Life

  LT tries to help a friend avoid a rival gang's retaliation for a drive-by shooting.

• Season 3 Episode 17: What's in a Word?

  Nathaniel naively uses a racial slur and must deal with the ramifications.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Pursuit of Happiness

  Claire expresses concern that Josh's relationship with Bobbie may be too intense for him.

• Season 3 Episode 15: In the Money

  Russell risks losing the generosity of a rich volunteer at the teen center.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Undercover

  LT accuses Claire of racism after she withholds important information; Dinah's new boyfriend is shocking.

• Season 3 Episode 13: All in the Family

  LT learns his father's death is imminent; guest Ben Vereen.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Wounded Hearts

  LT gets in trouble at school; Dinah goes to a costume party; guest Ben Vereen.

• Season 3 Episode 11: The Visitor

  Shamaya and LT hold grudges against their estranged father, who returns after 10 years; guest Ben Vereen.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Jury Duty

  Claire opposes her fellow jurors in a case involving a child's death.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Out of Bounds

  A troubled teenage girl falls for Russell; LT's former gang friends give him an ultimatum.

• Season 3 Episode 8: And Baby Makes Three

  Josh dates a student with a 2-year-old son; Dinah befriends an odd girl.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Anywhere But Here

  Russell and Claire search for the father of a runaway who saved Josh from a bad beating.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Denver: Welcome Home

  In return for repairs, the stranded Greenes stay in a onetime teen 'party house.'

• Season 3 Episode 5: Chasin' the Blues

  Josh heads out alone to help a friend in trouble; a Cajun con man bedevils Russell.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Baptism of Fire

  Racists target the Greenes for helping Erasmus and friends rebuild a church destroyed by arson.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Restoration

  A family's perfect facade hides a serious medical problem that threatens Dinah as well.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Balancing Act

  Josh confronts a boy who is spreading rumors about Dinah.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Saving Grace, Part 2

  The mother of a victim of Joe's car accident kidnaps Nathaniel.

Promised Land: Season 2 (1997 - 1998)

• Season 2 Episode 23: A Hand Up Is Not a Handout

  Claire goes into labor prematurely; Joe offers to help with a Habitat for Humanity house.

• Season 2 Episode 22: A Hand Up Is Not a Handout

  Claire goes into labor prematurely; Joe offers to help with a Habitat for Humanity house.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Total Security

  The long-gone wife of a security guard shows up wanting to see her daughter; guest Pam Tillis.

• Season 2 Episode 20: When Darkness Falls

  A deeply troubled teen holds holds a classroom hostage at gunpoint.

• Season 2 Episode 19: On My Honor

  A principal may be faking his school's academic results; Nathaniel cheats to get a cub scout badge.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Undercover Granny

  Hattie enters a rest home to investigate abuse of elderly residents; guest Gwen Verdon.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Secret of Bluestem

  It seems that the Greenes are neither safe nor welcome on Claire's inherited ranch.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Two for the Road

  Russell's brother, Joe, gets a weekend pass from prison to visit Nathaniel.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Designated Driver

  Erasmus' young houseguest invites Josh to a drinking party.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Purple Heart

  Nathaniel finds a Purple Heart at a flea market and sets out to find its owner.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Mirror Family

  The Greenes encounter a family that seems to be a mirror image of themselves.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Recycled

  A friend asks Hattie's help to die; Claire has emergency surgery; Josh and Nathaniel try to win a computer.

• Season 2 Episode 11: The Bookworm

  Substitute-teacher Claire discovers that a popular student can neither read nor write; Nathaniel's road stories fail to impress others.

• Season 2 Episode 10: To Everything a Season

  Her barren sister is bitter about Claire's pregnancy; meanwhile, brother-in-law Steve wants to close a shelter for wayward boys.

• Season 2 Episode 9: The Winner

  The Greenes befriend a widowed father who is a compulsive gambler.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Mr. Muscles

  Hoping for football stardom and his father's approval, a young man takes steroids.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Take Back the Night

  Devastated Russell goes after candy-striper Dinah's attacker; guest Jameson Parker.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Saint Russell

  A woman who saw Russell save a drowning victim believes he can heal her cancer.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Mooster's Revenge

  Mooster visits her estranged son-in-law in hope of coming to grips with her daughter's death.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Crushed

  Josh considers intimacy; pregnant Claire deals with morning sickness.

• Season 2 Episode 3: The Road Home, Part 2

  A drugged Joe Greene drives off with Nathaniel in the back seat; guests Richard Thomas, Faith Hill.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Par for the Course

  Claire has startling news for Russell; Hattie's embroidered map is left in a gift shop.

• Season 2 Episode 1: The Promise

  Claire forgoes an important family event to help an old flame.

Promised Land: Season 1 (1996 - 1997)

• Season 1 Episode 23: Stealing Home

  The social worker who accused the Greenes finds herself under investigation when her son runs away with Nathaniel.

• Season 1 Episode 22: Stealing Home

  A social worker, rebuffed by Russell, charges the Greenes with child neglect.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Civil Wars

  Russell and Dinah fear the worst when a car accident prevents the rest of the family from meeting them at an appointed spot; guests John Dye, Ossie Davis.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Cowboy Blues

  Anger over his wife's death drives a rancher (David Selby) to alcoholism and to alienating loved ones.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Intolerance

  A witness (Rue McClanahan) fails to report a boy who sprayed swastikas on a synagogue.

• Season 1 Episode 18: The Outrage

  A tribal policeman vows vengeance after his brother is killed during a land protest.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Downsized

  A company passes over qualified Russell and replaces his nearly vested friend (Stacy Keach), both for younger men.

• Season 1 Episode 16: The Collapse

  Trapped in a mine cave-in, a semiconscious Russell sees his father.

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• Season 1 Episode 15: Running Scared

  The Greenes' search for a boy puts a runaway's life in danger.

  Next on: Friday 4th December 3:00pm EST - GOSPEL MUSIC CHANNEL
• Season 1 Episode 14: Mirror Image

  Claire undergoes a breast biopsy; smitten Dinah does a boy's homework.

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• Season 1 Episode 13: Independence Day

  Russell and Claire help a couple cope with family responsibilities.

• Season 1 Episode 12: The Getaway

  A sheriff takes Claire and the family hostage after Russell helps his abused wife and daughter escape.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Christmas

  At Christmastime, Claire learns of her mother's long-ago affair.

• Season 1 Episode 10: King of the Road

  A scam artist (Steve Forrest) proposes to smitten Hattie (Celeste Holm).

• Season 1 Episode 9: Homecoming Part 2

  A reformed prostitute (Delta Burke) comes to Chicory Creek to reclaim her son -- Nathaniel.

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Secret

  A grieving teen tells substitute-teacher Claire (Wendy Phillips) about her miscarriage.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Little Girl Lost

  Dinah's camper buddy is missing; Nathaniel and Hattie (Eddie Karr, Celeste Holm) search for buried treasure.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Leap of Faith

  Russell helps an astronaut who had an unexplained experience in space.

• Season 1 Episode 5: The Magic Gate

  Nathaniel is thrilled to meet his favorite author (Valerie Harper), then sees she's a morphine addict.

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Hostage

  The Greenes encourage a relative to blow the whistle on illegal dumping.

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Expatriate

  A jobless man (Gerald McRaney) and his family pack their truck and hit the road in search of work.

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Prodigy

  A woman fears her talented young son will follow in his rock-star father's fatal footsteps; with Joe Walsh (the Eagles).

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Motel

  An embittered motel owner (Marion Ross) cannot let go of the past; Nathaniel (Eddie Karr) steals a gun.