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Veronica Mars

Wichita Linebacker

TV Flash files “Wichita Linebacker” as hour 47 of 72 in the TV Flash guide — Veronica Mars (2004–2007) on UPN/CW, season 3, episode 3, aired 2006-10-17, 60 min.

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This leaf is S03E03: listed hour 47 of 72 in the Veronica Mars guide, hour 3 of 20 in season 3. It aired 2006-10-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “My Big Fat Greek Rush Week” (S03E02). Next is “Charlie Don't Surf” (S03E04).

Veronica Mars — Wichita Linebacker (S03E03)

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Veronica is hired by by a Hearst football player to help him find his stolen playbook before the next practice, or risk losing his scholarship. As a result of the expose Veronica wrote about the campus sorority, Dean O'Dell threatens to expel her if she doesn't reveal one of her sources. Logan tells Veronica his schedule is keeping them apart, but she realizes he has been spending time participating in illegal gambling. Meanwhile, Veronica convinces Keith to hire Weevil to assist with office work at Mars Investigations.

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Where does Wichita Linebacker sit in the Veronica Mars guide?

S03E03 is listed hour 47 of 72 — hour 3 of 20 in season 3, season 3 episode 3.

When did Veronica Mars S03E03 air?

Wichita Linebacker aired 2006-10-17 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Is season one of Veronica Mars the whole show?

Season one's central mystery is a high-water mark and the conversion. Two more UPN/CW seasons continue Neptune; a Kickstarter film and Hulu revival are afterlife with receipts.

In the series

Why this series still plays

Kristen Bell's teenage P.I. narrates a class war in sunny Neptune with hard-boiled snap. Veronica Mars is father-daughter detective shop as the real romance, a season-one mystery that still holds, and cancellation-to-Kickstarter lore with actual receipts.

Sunny Neptune is a lighting trick. Kristen Bell's teenage P.I. walks through California glare in a narration that cuts like a black dress at noon: hard-boiled snap, class war as the silhouette, a father-daughter detective shop as the real romance. Rob Thomas's Veronica Mars (2004–2007) ran UPN then The CW — Enrico Colantoni as Keith Mars, Jason Dohring, Percy Daggs III, Francis Capra, Tina Majorino — and proved young-adult television could look sharp, funny, and hard-boiled without borrowing a grown-up's trench.…

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