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London's Burning: Series 3

8 episodes Premiered Sep 29, 1990 Updated Sep 27, 2026
Previously on London's Burning

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 London's Burning 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 (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (4): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Episode 1

Sep 30, 1990 · 45 min

A flat is alight and parents and two children are trapped. The mum dials 999, but soon collapses. Nancy is on control and hears the screams, but she is helpless. She calls back thr

S3·E2 Core

Episode 2

Oct 7, 1990 · 45 min

Josie is acting Sub at her new station and supervises a shout involving a crashed lorry and some hot tar. Tow workmen are injured - one sprayed with molten tar, the other lying ben

S3·E3 Core

Episode 3

Oct 14, 1990 · 45 min

A drug war leads to a fire in a block of flats. Colin chases one of the suspects and is threatened with a knife. Fortunately, Bayleaf has followed him and comes to his rescue but a

S3·E4 Core

Episode 4

Oct 21, 1990 · 45 min

After Hallam saves a distressed claimant who set fire to himself in a DHSS office, Blue Watch are called to a collapsed trench on a building site. The foreman has ignored warnings

S3·E5 Core

Episode 5

Oct 28, 1990 · 45 min

High up on the side of an office tower block, a window cleaner's arm gets stuck in a cradle mechanism. In the absence of a high line rescue team, a terrified Sicknote is sent down

S3·E6 Mytharc

Episode 6

Nov 4, 1990 · 45 min

Kate Stevens joins Blue Watch and proves herself at an accident involving two cars and a chemical lorry. She helps Bayleaf release a woman but hears a baby cry and pulls it out jus

S3·E7 Mytharc

Episode 7

Nov 11, 1990 · 45 min

Blue Watch are on night duty and have been called out to a number of what Tate calls "looney tune shouts" - a dustbin fire, a pregnant cat stuck up a tree and so on. If nothing els

S3·E8 Mytharc

Episode 8

Nov 18, 1990 · 45 min

George is suffering from last minute nerves before he and Kelly appear on a TV talent show. He only agreed because apart from the SAS, no one has satelite. The Watch are called out

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