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Ellen season 3

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ5364715 ↗
Source-derived summary

The third season of Ellen, an American television series, began September 13, 1995 and ended on May 21, 1996. It aired on ABC. The region 1 DVD was released on February 28, 2006. This season also contains two episodes that were meant to be a part of season one, "The Tape" and "The Mugging".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ellen season 3” is season of television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ellen, season and television, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1996, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ellen, season and television is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “season of television series” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5364715. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995, 1996 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ellen season 3” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.