Heartbreak High: Season 3
Hartley students deal with a distressing death, a new teacher and a newly revealed drug addiction. But they still find time to hang at the Shark Pool.
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 Heartbreak High 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.
Season overview
Hartley students deal with a distressing death, a new teacher and a newly revealed drug addiction. But they still find time to hang at the Shark Pool.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Episode 66
Jun 16, 1996 · 44 min
Matt's comfortable existence at Hartley High is threatened when his past comes back to haunt him. Paul - Matt's competitive, over-achieving father - wants his son to return home to
Episode 67
Jun 23, 1996 · 45 min
When Steve's death is investigated for a Coronial Report, the question arises of how well his sister, Allie, and friends actually knew him. Allie is convinced his death was an acci
Episode 68
Jun 30, 1996 · 44 min
It looks like time is up for Athol Pike Hartley's maths teacher. When the senior students should be learning linear progression and binomial theorem, Athol is more intent on teachi
Episode 69
Jul 7, 1996 · 44 min
Allie and Bolton try to save Danielle from the lure of the drug dealer, Bunka, but not before Ronnie discovers drugs in her locker. Matt's elusive behaviour is explained when he
Episode 70
Jul 14, 1996 · 44 min
Bolton can hardly contain his excitement. Not only is he about to break his own blade-skating speed record, but he and the gang are about to go on the excursion of the century unti
Episode 71
Jul 21, 1996 · 44 min
A dream comes true for Con when he is accepted as a student exchange in America. However, this causes problems with Katerina who, after taking a gamble on the relationship in the f
Episode 72
Jul 28, 1996 · 44 min
With Declan's past haunting him he has a huge chip on his shoulder and proves to be a menacing presence in the school. Could it be that Declan's attitude is the consequence of his
Episode 73
Aug 4, 1996 · 44 min
Her name is Stassy and she is an enigma. Stassy has no friends at Hartley and does not seem to want any. After school, she does not hang out with the gang, instead she is whisked a
Episode 74
Aug 11, 1996 · 44 min
Ronnie has set her English class a Friday the 13th assignment; they are to watch tonight's horror movie - Frankenstein - and write an essay on confronting fear. The kids get in t
Episode 75
Aug 18, 1996 · 44 min
Danielle is disgusted when she and Declan stumble upon Matt and Stassy secretly kissing in the school gym. She wrestles with her conscience - she should tell her best friend Allie
Episode 76
Aug 25, 1996 · 44 min
Stassy borrows Allie's essay and copies it to hand in as her own but when Ronnie confronts her about the matching papers,
Episode 77
Sep 1, 1996 · 45 min
The senior class is participating in a work experience programme. Katerina is eager to go to work at an advertising agency but is disappointed to learn she has been given the job o
Episode 78
Sep 8, 1996 · 45 min
An old flame from Andrew's past visits him en route to her new research job in Antarctica. While Katerina spends the evening managing the Shark Pool on her own, the rest of the gan
Episode 79
Sep 15, 1996 · 44 min
Bolton costs Hartley the first round of a debating competition by agreeing with his opponent, a girl from St. Catherine's Girl School [Allie's former school] whom he has a crush on
Episode 80
Sep 22, 1996 · 44 min
New teacher Tom Summers, son of school Superintendent James Summers, arrives at Hartley as Dyson begins a programme to teach the girls auto mechanics and the boys cooking.
Episode 81
Sep 29, 1996 · 44 min
After Danielle discovers the body of her deceased neighbour, Danielle and Allie decide to volunteer their time to an organisation that provides companions for senior citizens.
Episode 82
Oct 6, 1996 · 44 min
Mr. Summers announces a new Creative Marketing Project which sees the kids pair up to create and market environmentally friendly products from their original ideas. While Matt and
Episode 83
Oct 13, 1996 · 44 min
It's the day of the school's cross country race. Tom's girlfriend, book editor Vicki Hodge, looks at Allie's work and asks her to skip the race so they can work on the book togethe
Episode 84
Oct 20, 1996 · 45 min
Rocco returns from America (Con is doing well) and consults Roberto about the possibility of selling the Shark Pool.
Episode 85
Oct 27, 1996 · 44 min
Charlie approaches Matt to ask for his help in becoming ""cool"". After the make-over, the girls's fawn all over the ""new"" Charlie, and a superficial Katerina quickly changes her
Episode 86
Nov 3, 1996 · 44 min
Stassy enraptures Bolton with her new-found mysticism but only manages to enrage the Petty Tyrant that is Katerina with displays of her so-called psychic abilities.
Episode 87
Nov 10, 1996 · 44 min
Dyson announces that Allie has won the state literary fellowship but Allie decides to turn down the award after having just learned that she is pregnant.
Episode 88
Nov 17, 1996 · 45 min
Bolton surprises everyone when he wins the prestigious Henry Lawson poetry contest.
Episode 89
Nov 24, 1996 · 44 min
Bolton goes to great lengths to prevent the closing of his uncle's bowling alley but receives little help from his friends. Dani and Declan win the school elections and want no par
Episode 90
Dec 1, 1996 · 44 min
With his parents making plans to divorce, Charlie falls into the clutches of a cult, the ""Deliverance Movement"". Katerina asks Stassy for her help (she was very briefly involved
Episode 91
Dec 8, 1996 · 44 min
With HSC exams just a few short days away, Bolton rallies his classmates to make their Muck-Up Day an event to remember. Events however go horribly wrong when a fire breaks out in