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Postman Pat: Season 3

26 episodes Premiered Sep 7, 2004 Updated Nov 13, 2026
Previously on Postman Pat

Season 3 Lore Primer

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

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Postman Pat Season 2.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (23): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Postman Pat and the Runaway Kite

Sep 7, 2004 · 15 min

The villagers prepare to enter Ajay's kite festival. Jess loves all the activity but his curiosity gets the better of him when he steps onto Ted's kite and it takes off.

S3·E2 Core

Postman Pat and the Hungry Goat

Sep 8, 2004 · 15 min

Alf's goat Rosie escapes, so Pat and Alf help to round her up but not she does a lot damage like eating the labels off Pat's parcels.

S3·E3 Core

Postman Pat and the Ice Cream Machine

Sep 9, 2004 · 15 min

Ted invents an ice cream machine for the picnic. When the power cuts out, the ever-inventive Ted tries all kinds of ways to get his machine back in action – including connecting it

S3·E6 Core

Postman Pat the Magician

Sep 15, 2004 · 15 min

Pat is to be a magician at Meera's birthday party, and Ted builds a magic stage to make Jess disappear.

S3·E7 Core

Postman Pat and the Spotty Situation

Sep 16, 2004 · 15 min

When a nasty bout of chicken pox spreads around Greendale, Pat spends a busy day delivering calamine lotion to everyone who needs it.

S3·E9 Core

Postman Pat Goes Football Crazy

Sep 21, 2004 · 15 min

Pat and Julian are to take part in a Greendale football match. Will Pat still have all his skills?

S3·E10 Core

Postman Pat's Pigeon Post

Sep 22, 2004 · 15 min

Pat offers to take Alf's racing pigeon Cederic to the vets in Pencaster but his van runs out of petrol. Will anyone be able to find Pat?

S3·E11 Core

Postman Pat and a Job Well Done

Sep 23, 2004 · 15 min

Julian is to give a class talk about peoples' jobs so Pat takes him on his round to find out while Ted varnishes the schoolroom floor.

S3·E12 Core

Postman Pat and the Green Rabbit

Sep 24, 2004 · 15 min

Pat offers to babysit Nikhil during his round while Julian goes with Ajay, Nisha and Meera to the cinema in Pencaster. Nikhil can't sleep without his green rabbit toy.

S3·E13 Core

Postman Pat and the Big Butterflies

Sep 27, 2004 · 15 min

Two escaped butterflies from Pencaster Zoo go on the loose in Greendale. Whoever catches them will get free tickets to the zoo so the children try to catch them.

S3·E15 Core

Postman Pat and the Flying Saucers

Sep 29, 2004 · 15 min

The children are out hunting for UFOs, whilst Ted's new invention – the Washer-Sorter machine – is playing up. Later, a strange bubble creature appears in the station café...

S3·E16 Core

Postman Pat at the Seaside

Sep 30, 2004 · 15 min

The children are bored on a sunny day. Meanwhile some sand falls off the back of Ted's lorry and onto the road!

S3·E17 Core

Postman Pat and the Job Swap Day

Oct 1, 2004 · 15 min

The school roof needs repairing so Pat suggests that Greendale has a job swap day to raise enough sponsorship money.

S3·E18 Core

Postman Pat's Disappearing Dotty

Oct 4, 2004 · 15 min

Julian is looking after the school guniea pig, Dotty, but on her first night at the Clifton residence she escapes. The next morning, everyone is looking for Dotty. When Pat leaves

S3·E19 Core

Postman Pat's Popstars

Oct 5, 2004 · 15 min

Everyone in Greendale is auditioning for Charlie and Julian's new band. It's seems no one is right, but will Lucy Selby have the confidence to audition?

S3·E20 Core

Postman Pat and the Great Dinosaur Hunt

Oct 6, 2004 · 15 min

Pat, Ted and the villagers are working hard on a very special surprise for the children. Meanwhile, the children are looking for dinosaurs, and it's not long before they find one..

S3·E21 Core

Postman Pat and the Spooky Sleepover

Oct 7, 2004 · 15 min

Julian's friends are staying for a sleep over, but Jess has disappeared and there's a strange noise coming from the cupboard under the stairs...

S3·E22 Core

Postman Pat and the Midsummer Market

Oct 8, 2004 · 15 min

It's always been a tradition for the Reverand Timms to ring the church bells at the start of Greendale's Midsummer market. However, when Alf's racing Pidgeon Cedric settles next to

S3·E23 Core

Postman Pat and the Train Inspector

Oct 11, 2004 · 15 min

Ajay receives a letter and learns that the Greendale station and Rocket locomotive are to be inspected that afternoon. The other villagers lend a hand and Ajay passes with flying c

S3·E24 Core

Postman Pat and the Ice Ladder

Oct 12, 2004 · 15 min

The children are having a great time sledging, but disaster strikes when Katy and Tom get stuck on an icy pond. How can Pat and Alf's ladder help?

S3·E25 Mytharc

Postman Pat and the Rocket Rescue

Oct 13, 2004 · 15 min

It's still winter in Greendale and the children are making a snowman. Then, they lose control of a large snowball and it crashes onto the railway line, but the Greendale Rocket is

S3·E26 Mytharc

Postman Pat's Perfect Painting

Oct 14, 2004 · 15 min

Pat delivers a new supply of arts materials to the school. There, the children are making pictures of their favourite adventure from the past year. Everyone except Sara Gilbertson,

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