List of Case Closed episodes (season 3)

The third season of the Case Closed anime was directed by Kenji Kodama and Yasuichiro Yamamoto and produced by TMS Entertainment and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. The series is based on Gosho Aoyama's Case Closed manga series. In Japan, the series is titled Detective Conan (名探偵 コナン) but was changed due to legal issues with the title Detective Conan. The episodes' plot continues Jimmy Kudo's life as a young child named Conan Edogawa and features the introduction of the gentleman thief Phantom Thief Kid.

The episodes use six pieces of theme music: one opening theme and two closing themes in the Japanese episodes and one opening theme and two ending theme in the English adaption. The Japanese opening theme is lit. "Mystery" (謎) by Miho Komatsu. The first ending theme is lit. "Romance of Light and Shadow" (光と影のロマン) by Keiko Utoko until episode seventy. It later uses lit. "Summer Without You" (君がいない夏) by Deen for the rest of the season. The English opening theme is "Nazo" with English lyrics by Stephanie Nadolny. The first English ending theme is "Hikari to Kage no Roman" with English lyrics also by Stephanie Nadolny until episode seventy-two. It is followed by "Kimi ga inai Natsu" with English lyrics by Carl Finch.

The season initially ran from April 21, 1997 through November 24, 1997 on Nippon Television Network System in Japan. Episodes fifty-five to eighty-two were later collected into seven DVD compilations by Shogakukan and were released on March 24, 2006. The season was later licensed and dubbed by Funimation Entertainment and released in ten DVD compilations and released between August 24, 2004 and December 20, 2005. They were later collected into a DVD boxset on November 25, 2008 containing episodes fifty-three to seventy-nine, fifty-two to seventy-six in the Japanese numbering. The Viridian edition of the season is slated for release on March 23, 2010.