Strangers: 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 Strangers 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
Retribution
Oct 14, 1980 · 52 min
Bulman and Willis join the new inter-city detective squad and are involved in tracking down a gang of sophisticated villains running an arms-for-sale racket out of London.
You Can't Win 'Em All
Oct 21, 1980 · 51 min
Bulman and Willis are assigned to a case involving the widespread fraud of major banks.
Armed and Dangerous
Oct 28, 1980 · 50 min
A routine escort job turns dangerous for Bulman and Willis when they're assigned to bring a villain to London for questioning, and two inter-city detectives are murdered.
Racing Certainty
Nov 4, 1980 · 52 min
Bulman and Willis find themselves going undercover to track down a gang hedging their bets by ensuring that the odds are in their favour during a racehorse meeting at Newmarket.
Clowns Don't Cry
Nov 11, 1980 · 50 min
One of Bulman's criminal contacts is beaten up for no apparent reason. The trail leads Bulman and Willis into the world of counter-espionage, and a circus that chooses the towns in
Tom Thumb and Other Stories
Nov 18, 1980 · 51 min
Bulman disguises himself as a tramp hoping to catch the smugglers' 'Tom Thumb' who works Liverpool docklands. He soon discovers that with a fortune at stake the organisation behind
No Orchids for Missing Blandisch
Nov 25, 1980 · 50 min
Bulman gets a tip-off from an informer about a hired killer. With Willis and Bennett, he tries to find the connection between the killer and two arms dealers.