Please Sir!: Season 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 Please Sir! 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
Ag Bow Rumber
Sep 20, 1970
A new term starts at Fenn Street and this means even more trouble for Bernard Hedges. Apart from the day-to-day hazards of teaching 5C, he has to prepare his unruly bunch for their
Knick Knack Taffy Whack
Oct 4, 1970
Why does one set about weighing Fenn Street School? It seems that Bernard believes that acts like this will help prepare 5C for their entry into the great, wide world at the end of
Enter Mister Sibley
Oct 11, 1970
Duffy enters the embraces of the cold and harsh world outside school and finds it cold and harsh.
It's a St Bernard's Life
Oct 18, 1970
When Smithy falls ill in the country, Bernard sees Reigate in all its rustic glory. He is quite smitten and dreams of the idyllic married life there, but his fiance, Penny, dreams
Two and Two Make Nun
Oct 25, 1970
Maureen feels rejected, not only by Sir but now by Monsignor Sopwith.
The Honour of the School
Nov 1, 1970
Bernard has an annoying habit of being honourable - even when playing golf. But what of his pupils? When Duffy invites Sharon to a half-term Majorcan holiday, will the habit be cat
Cromwell's Last Stand
Nov 8, 1970
When "Hank" Abbott, private detective, goes into action, he opens the cupboards that let out the skeletons. One produces a rash of honesty from Potter. The other makes Cromwell fee
Catch a Falling Drop-Out
Nov 15, 1970
Bernard and 5C drop in at the Conservative Club and make new friends. Maureen also makes a new friend, but he is more interested in dropping out.
A Star is Born
Nov 22, 1970
It takes a face in a thousand to star in an advertising campaign, but Bernard and Potter make it a two-horse race.
The Facts of Life
Nov 29, 1970
When Bernard hears Abbott's version of the facts of life - which can only be described as high fiction - he feels that it is time to teach 5C the facts of life in an adult way.
Situations Vacant
Dec 6, 1970
With the end of the school term approaching, most of Fenn Street's form 5C are already fixed up with jobs, but animal-loving Dennis Dunstable still has no apparent future. Then Ber
Peace in Our Time
Dec 13, 1970
As 5C break up for the very last time, they prepare to take life by the throat, the shirt, the vest or anything else they can lay their hands on.
And Everyone Came Too
Dec 27, 1970
Bernard and Penny dream of their wedding day: it should be the happiest day of their lives. However, Potter is chief usher, class 5C are guests, the meteorological department forec