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My Name Is Earl season 3

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ3468657 ↗
Source-derived summary

The third season of My Name Is Earl originally aired from September 27, 2007, to May 15, 2008, on NBC. Originally, 25 episodes were planned for the season, but due to the 2007-2008 WGA strike, there were only 22 episodes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “My Name Is Earl season 3” as season of television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Name, Earl and season.

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—2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Name, Earl and season providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “My Name Is Earl season 3”, the useful work is to connect “season of television series” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3468657. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2008.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “My Name Is Earl 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.