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Season guide

Dempsey and Makepeace: Season 3

10 episodes Premiered Aug 30, 1986
Previously on Dempsey and Makepeace

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dempsey and Makepeace Season 2.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (7): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

The Burning (1)

Aug 30, 1986

Dempsey goes undercover and infiltrates a gang after discovering a link between the London underworld and the New York police department.

S3·E2 Core

The Burning (2)

Sep 6, 1986

While working undercover, Dempsey comes across a former nemesis from New York City.

S3·E3 Core

Jericho Scam

Sep 13, 1986

When Dempsey is framed by another cop for something he didn't do, Makepeace risks her career to prove his innocence.

S3·E4 Core

The Prizefighter

Sep 20, 1986

While investigating a death of a boxers, Dempsey and Makepeace discover a counterfeit money laundering scheme.

S3·E5 Core

Extreme Prejudice

Sep 27, 1986

Dempsey and Makepeace go undercover as Middle East terrorists to find an arms dealer supplying several terrorist groups in Britain, Can they find the dealer and stop him.

S3·E6 Core

Bird of Prey

Oct 4, 1986

When the main witness of a trail of a drug dealer threatens to withdraw her statement when her daughter is kidnapped, Dempsey goes to the Bogeyman for help.

S3·E7 Core

Out of Darkness

Oct 11, 1986

A murderer who is obsessed with Makepeace threatens to kill his hostage within 24 hours if Makepeace will not meet with him.

S3·E8 Core

The Cortez Connection

Oct 18, 1986

When an old girlfriend of Dempsey's shows up it causes problems as Dempsey is in pursuit of a cocaine dealer.

S3·E9 Mytharc

Mantrap

Oct 25, 1986

Dempsey and Makepeace are targeted into a deadly trap which involves both jewels and bank robbers who set the trap, to even the sides Dempsey get help from a boxer who Dempsey sent

S3·E10 Mytharc

Guardian Angel

Nov 1, 1986

When Dempsey is nearly killed during an investigation, Makepeace resigns for good from the police force.

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