Bad Girls (series 3)
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Bad Girls
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with its third series on 20 March 2001 and ended on 3 July 2001. It consists of 16 episodes.
Shell has led Fenner into her trap by luring him into her cell and stabbing him with a broken bottle she smuggled back from Bodybag's anniversary party. Fenner almost loses his life, while Hollamby has Shell transferred to the mental health wing where she comes face-to-face with an old enemy. Helen manages to get Nikki back into Larkhall where Helen puts an end to their relationship. Shell and Denny escape and wreck havon in London, as they pay Hollamby a surprise visit at her home. Things seem to be going well for Crystal, who has recently be released from prison and is now engaged to Josh, but things are set to get worse as Shell and Denny arrive at her house. Maxi & Tina Purvis and Al MacKenzie (aka The Peckham Bootgang) arrive on G-Wing and make their presence known to the prisoners and officers alike. Josh has just become a prison officer, but he's in for a shock when he sees that Crystal is back on the wing. Nikki is set for her appeal, and if she wins will she find Helen waiting for her?
format in the UK, consisting of 5 volumes. The DVD was released on 25 March 2002. A re-release DVD is expected to be released in 2011, both as a single and also in a boxset along with series four. Series three was released in the series one-four boxset on 9 October 2006.
In Australia, series three was released on 8 September 2003 in the same cover packaging as the UK DVD. A second release was made when it was release in the series one-eight boxset, "The Complete Collection", on 10 November 2010. It was also released sepearate for the complete boxset on 9 March 2011.
Bad Girls (TV series)
Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...
returned to ITV1
ITV1
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with its third series on 20 March 2001 and ended on 3 July 2001. It consists of 16 episodes.
Shell has led Fenner into her trap by luring him into her cell and stabbing him with a broken bottle she smuggled back from Bodybag's anniversary party. Fenner almost loses his life, while Hollamby has Shell transferred to the mental health wing where she comes face-to-face with an old enemy. Helen manages to get Nikki back into Larkhall where Helen puts an end to their relationship. Shell and Denny escape and wreck havon in London, as they pay Hollamby a surprise visit at her home. Things seem to be going well for Crystal, who has recently be released from prison and is now engaged to Josh, but things are set to get worse as Shell and Denny arrive at her house. Maxi & Tina Purvis and Al MacKenzie (aka The Peckham Bootgang) arrive on G-Wing and make their presence known to the prisoners and officers alike. Josh has just become a prison officer, but he's in for a shock when he sees that Crystal is back on the wing. Nikki is set for her appeal, and if she wins will she find Helen waiting for her?
Main cast
| Cast | Character |
|---|---|
| Simone Lahbib Simone Lahbib Simone Lahbib , born 6 February 1965 in Stirling, Scotland is a Scottish actor who has received widespread recognition for her portrayal of strong, emotionally charged characters.... |
Helen Stewart |
| Mandana Jones Mandana Jones Mandana Jones is a British actress best known for her role as prisoner Nikki Wade on the British television series Bad Girls.-Biography:Mandana Jones was born on 26 February 1967 to a Welsh father and an Iranian mother. She is the youngest of three, having two older brothers... |
Nikki Wade |
| Debra Stephenson Debra Stephenson Debra Stephenson is an English actress, comedian, impressionist and singer.-Career:At the age of fourteen Stephenson appeared on BBC TV's Opportunity Knocks, winning her way through to the All-Winners' Final, broadcast live from the London Palladium... |
Shell Dockley Shell Dockley Michelle "Shell" Dockley is a fictional character in the television drama series Bad Girls. She is portrayed by British actress Debra Stephenson. Shell Dockley was a lead character on the series, she was top dog on G-Wing in Larkhall prison... |
| Claire King Claire King Claire King is a popular English actress, best known for playing the roles of Kim Tate in the ITV Soap Opera Emmerdale from 1989 to 1999 and Karen Betts in Bad Girls from 2000 to 2004.-Biography:... |
Karen Betts |
| Jack Ellis | Jim Fenner Jim Fenner James Graham "Jim" Fenner is a fictional character in the British television series Bad Girls, portrayed by Jack Ellis.Fenner is the Principal Prison Officer, working on 'G wing' at HMP Larkhall Women's Prison, and is a regular major character during seven out of eight series of Bad Girls... |
| Alicya Eyo Alicya Eyo Alicya Eyo is a British theatre, film and television actress. She is best known for portraying Denny Blood in the award winning and critically acclaimed prison drama series Bad Girls.-Early life:... |
Denny Blood |
| Sharon Duncan-Brewster | Crystal Gordon |
| Linda Henry Linda Henry Linda Henry is an English actress, best known for her roles as Yvonne Atkins in the ITV television drama Bad Girls and Shirley Carter in the BBC's soap opera EastEnders.- Early life :... |
Yvonne Atkins |
| Helen Fraser Helen Fraser Helen Fraser is an English actress, a familiar face in many television comedies and dramas from the early 1960s to the present. She is now living in Halesworth, Suffolk.-Career:... |
Sylvia Hollamby |
| Nathan Constance Nathan Constance Nathan Constance is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Ian Walmsley in the TV series Footballers' Wives, Leon Richards in the TV series Dream Team and as Josh Mitchell in the TV series Bad Girls... |
Josh Mitchell Josh Mitchell (Bad Girls) Josh Mitchell was a fictional character in the ITV prison drama series Bad Girls.... |
| Victoria Alcock Victoria Alcock Victoria Alcock is a British actress who played the prisoner Julie Saunders on the television drama series, Bad Girls and Agnes Clarke in The House of Eliott. She currently resides in Bromley, Kent.-Filmography:-External links:... |
Julie Saunders |
| Kika Mirylees Kika Mirylees Kika Mirylees is a South African-born British actress.-Biography:She has played Angela Snow in The Darling Buds of May, and Doc Newton in Red Dwarf.... |
Julie Johnston |
| Lindsey Fawcett Lindsey Fawcett Lindsey Fawcett is a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as the inmate Sharon 'Shaz' Wylie on the hit drama television series, Bad Girls.-Personal life:Lindsey is the daughter of Michele Fawcett and sister of Keeley Fawcett.... |
Shaz Wylie |
| Kim Oliver Kim Oliver Kim Oliver is a Black British actress . She is perhaps best known for her role as the inmate Buki Lester on the hit drama series Bad Girls.-Personal life:... |
Buki Lester |
| Kerry Norton Kerry Norton Kerry Norton is an English actress.- Acting career :Kerry had a small part on the American TV series, Sabrina the Teenage Witch in 1996. The episode, entitled "A Girl and Her Cat", saw Norton putting her years of gymnast training to the test... |
Maxi Purvis |
| Victoria Bush Victoria Bush Victoria Bush is a British actress best known for her role as Tina Purvis, later known as Tina O'Kane, on the British television drama Bad Girls from Season 3 shown in 2001, to Season 8 in 2006... |
Tina Purvis |
| Pauline Campbell Pauline Campbell Pauline Campbell is a Scottish television and film actor who is perhaps best known for her role as Alison 'Al' Mackenzie on the hit British television series, Bad Girls.-Personal life:... |
Al McKenzie |
| Tracey Wilkinson Tracey Wilkinson Tracey Wilkinson is an English actress primarily known for her role as Di Barker, later Grayling, later Fenner and finally known as Barker once more, in the series Bad Girls... |
Di Barker |
| Lisa Turner | Gina Rossi Gina Rossi Gina Rossi-Dodds was a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. She was portrayed by Josephine Davison and was part of the original cast.-1992-1995:... |
| Paul Opacic Paul Opacic Paul Opacic is an English actor. He is currently best known for his role as Carl Costello in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.-Career:... |
Mark Waddle |
Episodes
| # | Episode | Writer | Director | Original airdate | Viewing figure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | Back From The Brink | Maureen Chadwick | Mike Adams | 20 March 2001 | 9,420,000 |
| Revenge-hungry Shell is armed and locked in a cell with Fenner. The officers, still recovering from Hollamby's party must take drastic action. As must Helen to save escaped prisoner, Nikki Wade. | |||||
| 25 | The Turn of The Screw | Jayne Hollinson | Mike Adams | 27 March 2001 | 8,490,000 |
| Fenner dies but is resuscitated and transferred to the hospital. Hollamby is determined to make Shell suffer for her attack on Fenner and gets her moved to a psychiatric ward. 'Mad' Tessa, Shell's old adversary, is ready and waiting to do the rest and Shell meets Podger Pam. | |||||
| 26 | The Chains of Freedom | Phil Ford | Laurence Moody | 3 April 2001 | 8,590,000 |
| Shell is returned to G-Wing but is confined to her cell. Julie S is out of prison on a tag and the officers are out on mass sick leave, when Sylvia propses a strike. The women jump at the chance to run the wing themselves. Things are going swimmingly - until a large knife goes missing. | |||||
| 27 | False Identity | Martin Allen | Laurence Moody | 10 April 2001 | 9,100,000 |
| Julie S is back in Larkhall. Barbara is shocked to hear that she's been accused of bigamy and murder. Yvonne is getting legal advice of her own - from a succession of hunky young men. | |||||
| 28 | Blood Ties | Liz Lake | Laurence Moody | 17 April 2001 | 8,600,000 |
| New girl on the wing Buki Lester challenges Denny to prove how tough she is, while Yvonne challenges husband Charlie in court. Denny almost bleeds to death and Fenner returns to work to find Shell waiting for him. And Charlie receives a gift in the form of a pizza man. | |||||
| 29 | Do or Die | Maureen Chadwick | Jo Johnson | 24 April 2001 | 8,840,000 |
| Tensions mount as Podger Pam arrives on G-Wing and the new doctor, Dr. Waugh, impresses Helen. Josh begins his stint as a trainee PO under the ever-watchful eye of Di, who claims to have just come out of a relationship but starts a new obsession with Josh. | |||||
| 30 | The Great Escape | Jaden Clark | Jo Johnson | 1 May 2001 | 8,510,000 |
| Buki cuts up and reveals the truth of her child hood. A fly-on-the-wall documentary crew invades HMP Larkhall, creating havoc in the process. Fenner sees a chance to get rid of Shell for good. | |||||
| 31 | Uninvited Guests | Phil Ford | Mike Adams | 8 May 2001 | 9,140,000 |
| Shell and Denny celebrate their freedom with a vodka and cocaine binge. But before they make it to the airport they have a few grudges to settle, starting with Sylvia and Bobby Hollamby. Shaz is returned to Larkhall along with Crystal. | |||||
| 32 | Common Criminal | Martin Allen | Mike Adams | 15 May 2001 | 9,100,000 |
| Aristocratic 'it-girl' Charlotte Myddleton is sentenced to a year in Larkhall for drug offences and the other inmates don't react too kindly to the new Prada-clad prisoner, but they begin to help her when she attempts suicide. | |||||
| 33 | Chapel of Love | Jayne Hollinson | Jim O'Hanlon | 22 May 2001 | 8,400,000 |
| Crystal is on hunger strike to protest against her incorrect drugs test results and it seems that only new girl Charlotte can save her. Josh and Crystal wed in a small ceremony in the prison chapel but Di is determined to stop it. And new group of girl arrive, calling themselves the Peckham Boot Gang. | |||||
| 34 | Battle Lines | Jaden Clark | Jim O'Hanlon | 29 May 2001 | 8,600,000 |
| When Nigerian prisoner Femi is bullied by the officers, Nikki organises a sit-in to help. But with the Peckham Boot Gang involved, things look like getting out of hand, and a riot takes place on G-Wing. And The Peckham Boot Gang reveals their plan to get rid of Yvonne, after Yvonne batters Al. | |||||
| 35 | Tough Love | Martin Allen | Jim O'Hanlon | 5 June 2001 | 8,410,000 |
| The fall-out from the riot leaves Nikki very unpopular so she is grateful of support from an attractive new prisoner, Caroline... that is until Maxi finds some nasty surprises in Caroline's past. The Julies are released and arrested in the space of 5 minutes. | |||||
| 36 | Revolving Doors | Jayne Hollinson | Laurence Moody | 12 June 2001 | 8,460,000 |
| The Julies are returned to Larkhall on remand along with Wealthy madame Virginia O'Kane, an old friend, but both the inmates and officers are ill-equipped to deal with the disabled grand dame, but she hides a secret. | |||||
| 37 | Standing Up | Jaden Clark | Laurence Moody | 19 June 2001 | 8,180,000 |
| Fenner and Virginia strike a deal that could make him a very rich man. Helen gets wind of it and sets out to prove that Fenner is unfit to work with woman prisoners with the help of Yvonne. The Peckham Boot Gang reveals Virginia's secret causing her to be very unpopular. | |||||
| 38 | Cat & Mouse | Phil Ford | Di Patrick | 26 June 2001 | 8,120,000 |
| Yvonne exposes the deal between Fenner and Virginia. Fenner decides to strike back - and Barbara's diary gives him all the leverage he needs, but this could mean trouble for Nikki. Al and Maxi get annoyed when Tina breaks away from the gang and becomes friends with Virginia. | |||||
| 39 | Coming Out | Jaden Clark | Di Patrick | 3 July 2001 | 8,150,000 |
| The Peckham Boot Gang make up with Virginia but all is not what it seems. Fenner's campaign against Helen hots up and Nikki's appeal gives him the ideal outlet for his schemes. Crystal announces a miracle, but even the divine cannot help Yvonne who is accused of murder. | |||||
Release
The thirs series of Bad Girls was originally released on VHSVHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
format in the UK, consisting of 5 volumes. The DVD was released on 25 March 2002. A re-release DVD is expected to be released in 2011, both as a single and also in a boxset along with series four. Series three was released in the series one-four boxset on 9 October 2006.
In Australia, series three was released on 8 September 2003 in the same cover packaging as the UK DVD. A second release was made when it was release in the series one-eight boxset, "The Complete Collection", on 10 November 2010. It was also released sepearate for the complete boxset on 9 March 2011.
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External links
- List of Bad Girls episodes at EpguidesEpguidesepguides is a website dedicated to English language radio and television shows. George Fergus, the owner of epguides, began it in 1995 as a personal site at www.xnet.com/~fergus with fan-compiled episode guides and lists for several hundred shows...