Bad Girls series 3

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Bad Girls Series 3

Bad Girls returned to ITV with 16 episodes from 20 March to 3 July 2001.

Plot at a glance:
- The story picks up right after Series 2. Shell traps and stabs Fenner with a broken bottle, nearly killing him. Hollamby moves Shell to the mental health wing.
- Helen brings Nikki back to Larkhall and ends their relationship.
- Shell and Denny escape and cause trouble in London, visiting Hollamby at her home.
- Crystal is newly engaged to Josh, but Shell and Denny’s return unsettles things on the wing.
- Maxi, Tina Purvis, and Al MacKenzie (the Peckham Boot Gang) arrive on G-Wing and shake things up. Josh is now a prison officer and sees Crystal back on the wing.
- Nikki’s appeal is looming; if she wins, Helen might be waiting for her.
- Shell is confined to G-Wing, while Julie S is out on a tag and reconnects with Trevor.
- A prison strike frees inmates to run the wing; a large knife goes missing.
- New girl Buki Lester challenges Denny; Yvonne takes on her husband Charlie in court. Denny is badly injured and Fenner returns to work.
- Charlie gets a pizza delivery, and aristocrat Charlotte Myddleton is jailed for drug offences. She is helped by others as she confronts life in prison, and Crystal supports her during a hunger strike.
- Di begins to abuse her mother and plots to stop Josh and Crystal’s wedding in a small prison ceremony.
- The Peckham Boot Gang arrives with more trouble, while Julies come back on remand with Virginia O’Kane, a wealthy and secretive inmate.
- Fenner and Virginia figure out a way to gain power, and Helen, with Yvonne, tries to prove Fenner is unsafe around women prisoners. The Boot Gang exposes Virginia’s secret, making her unpopular.
- Gina Rossi makes her final appearance. Fenner gets closer to Karen and flirts with Maxi. His campaign against Helen grows as Nikki’s appeal is used to help his schemes.
- Crystal announces a “miracle,” but Yvonne is accused of murder amid the chaos.

Release formats:
- The third series was released on VHS in the UK as five volumes. The DVD came out on 25 March 2002.
- A re-release DVD was planned for 2011, both as a single and in a boxset with Series 4.
- Series 3 is included in the Series 1–4 boxset released on 9 October 2006.
- In Australia, Series 3 was released on 8 September 2003, with later releases in The Complete Collection boxset on 10 November 2010 and as a separate full boxset on 9 March 2011.