Dr. Finlay's Casebook: Series 3
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 Dr. Finlay's Casebook 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.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
The Control Group
Jan 3, 1965 · 50 min
Alan Findlay runs into trouble when he is asked by the Ministry of Health to organise a free milk experiment at the local school.
The Raiders
Jan 10, 1965 · 50 min
Roddy Munro is the envy of every lad in Tannochbrae. After giving up his clerical job it is the day of his first match as a professional footballer and the Tannochbrae United Supp
The Eternal Spring
Jan 17, 1965 · 50 min
On a fishing expedition Dr. Finlay makes an unusual 'catch' when he attends to a stranger hurt in a fall. His patient is Anthony Hay, a well-known London actor staying in Tannochb
A Right To Live
Jan 24, 1965 · 50 min
When Finlay delivers a baby at the Cottage Hospital the result is entirely unexpected and he finds himself up against two dilemmas in quick succession. How can he aid a mother who
The Bull Call
Jan 31, 1965 · 50 min
When Alan Finlay is persuaded to act as midwife to a prize cow his act of kindness to a dumb animal provokes the wrath of local vet Lewis Gilbride. In no time at all there is a st
Devils Dozen
Feb 7, 1965 · 50 min
Problems in one of the two local bakehouses have Drs. Finlay and Cameron taking a strictly professional interest in a batch of twelve twopenny mutton pies which have caused a good
Laughing Gas
Feb 21, 1965 · 50 min
The meanest man in Tannochbrae is Mr. Cogger. When Dr. Finlay is called out to visit Cogger's housekeeper he finds that her trouble is an ailment of the pay-packet. He gives her
Off The Hook
Mar 7, 1965 · 50 min
Alan Finlay has been attending a course in medical hypnotism. Though Dr. Cameron refuses to let him try out his new knowledge on his asthma, but Finlay soon gets the chance when t
The Next Provost But One
Mar 14, 1965 · 50 min
All seem set for Henry MacAlpine to be elected Treasurer of the Burgh Council, just one step away from almost certain appointment as the next Provost. But he is involved in a car
Soon Or Late
Mar 21, 1965 · 50 min
Old Mr. Lennox, a retired university lecturer, has been smitten with an incurable and painful disease. He hints to Dr. Cameron that he would welcome an 'accident, but naturally Ca
The Good Fisherman
Mar 28, 1965 · 50 min
A new minister, the Rev. Craig, arrives in Tannochbrae. A keen angler, he and Dr. Finlay appear to have a lot in common at first. But in dealing with the problems of bedridden wi
A Little Learning
Apr 4, 1965 · 50 min
Lucy Burns, a new young teacher at the local school, is giving the dominie Mr. Miller an uneasy time. Matters come to a head when she tries to have a family of tinkers enrolled at
Belle
Apr 11, 1965 · 50 min
Dr. Finlay discovers that a sixteen year old girl has had an illegal operation, but she won't name the person who carried it out. Her father encourages her silence as he fears the
Another Opinion
Apr 25, 1965 · 50 min
An outbreak of measles means extra work for Dr. Finlay, and Dr. Snoddie adds to the burden by demanding that the relevant paperwork is brought up to date immediately. Then Dr. Cam
Medical Finance
May 9, 1965 · 50 min
Doctors Finlay and Cameron are faced with the annual problem of sorting out their financial affairs. Cameron is far too easy-going about making his patients pay promptly: Finlay b
Beware Of The Dog
May 16, 1965 · 50 min
Alan Finlay and local vet Lewis Gilbride team up when a local farmer shoots an Alsatian dog which has all the symptoms of the dreaded disease rabies. There is more concern when it
An Evening Out
Jun 27, 1965 · 50 min
An upper-crust English girl falls for Dr. Finlay.