Heartbeat - Complete Season 3 - 3-DVD Set ( Heartbeat - Complete Season Three ) ( Classic Heartbeat (Heart beat) )

Heartbeat - Complete Season 3 - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Heartbeat - Complete Season Three
Alternate Title: Classic Heartbeat (Heart beat)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
500 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Terry Marcel

Written By:
David Martín
Nicholas Rhea

Actors:
Nick Berry ..... PC Nick Rowan
Niamh Cusack ..... Dr. Kate Rowan
Derek Fowlds ..... Sergeant Oscar Blaketon
Frank Middlemass ..... Dr. Alex Ferrenby
Bill Maynard ..... Claude Jeremiah Greengrass
William Simons ..... PC Alf Ventress
Mark Jordon ..... PC Phil Bellamy
Stuart Golland ..... George Ward
Tricia Penrose ..... Gina Ward
Emma Harbour ..... Debbie
Michael McNally ..... Baz
Kieran O'Brien ..... Neil
Diane Whitley ..... Mavis Briggs
Ian Bleasdale ..... Gordon Briggs
Andrew Williamson ..... Ricky
Stephen Bird ..... Spike
Malcolm Gerard ..... Mr. Thorpe
Dean Gatiss ..... Graham Blaketon
Charlotte Clotworthy ..... Jane
Rita Verity ..... Ward Sister

Synopsis:

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield and initially starring former EastEnder Nick Berry as PC Nick Rowan, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines, with a host of colourful characters that viewers took to their hearts and a wonderfully nostalgic soundtrack. Staple Sunday-night viewing for two decades, Heartbeat won several prestigious TV awards - including Best Performing Peak-Time Drama in 1999 and a number of ITV Programme of the Year awards. Attracting a peak audience of 14 million and spawning a highly successful spin-off, The Royal, and a Top Ten hit single, the series has garnered a devoted following and remains prime-time viewing world-wide. Available for the first time on DVD, this complete third series was originally transmitted in October 1993 and features guest appearances by among others Daniel Craig, Dora Bryan, Clive Swift and Susan Jameson.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Speed Kills
Original Air Date-3 October 1993
Season 3, Episode 2: Riders of the Storm
Original Air Date-10 October 1993
Season 3, Episode 3: Dead Ringer
Original Air Date-17 October 1993
Season 3, Episode 4: Going Home
Original Air Date-24 October 1993
Season 3, Episode 5: A Chilly Reception
Original Air Date-31 October 1993
Season 3, Episode 6: The Frighteners
Original Air Date-7 November 1993
Season 3, Episode 7: Father's Day
Original Air Date-14 November 1993
Season 3, Episode 8: Endangered Species
Original Air Date-21 November 1993
Season 3, Episode 9: An American in Aidensfield
Original Air Date-28 November 1993
Season 3, Episode 10: Bringing It All Back Home
Original Air Date-5 December 1993

HEARTBEAT is a British police drama set in 1960s Yorkshire where PC Nick Rowan (Nick Berry) and Dr Kate Rowan (Niamh Cusack) arrive in a small village after living in London. The features all episodes from the third series.
Season 3

Season 3, Episode 1: Speed Kills
Original Air Date-3 October 1993
Alex Ferrenby is knocked down by two men who break into the surgery and steal amphetamines. Afterwards they speed away in Greengrass' pink Cadillac. To stop the drugs from getting into circulation PC Rowan checks out the schools in the area and is surprised to learn that sergeant Blaketon has a son. But he is looking in the wrong places. Gina is on a girls' night out with her friend Debbie who is rushed to hospital after getting a couple of the pills in a disco. Kate Rowan is worried about Mavis Briggs who is pregnant and has a history of severe morning sickness and miscarriages.

Season 3, Episode 2: Riders of the Storm
Original Air Date-10 October 1993
The police in Ashfordly have been asked to look out for Stevie Walsh who has been released from prison after serving a ten year sentence for armed robbery. His wife Ellen still lives in Aidensfield and it is believed he will go there to collect the money from the robbery which has never been recovered. But a severe snow storm is brewing and in the bad weather the train carrying Walsh, Gina's cousin Barry and Dr. Ferrenby crashes near the station in Aidensfield, and everybody has to lend a hand in the emergency. To complicate matters Ellen Walsh is pregnant with her new boyfriend and Kate Rowan is out in storm trying to deliver the baby, and she knows nothing about the train crash.

Season 3, Episode 3: Dead Ringer
Original Air Date-17 October 1993
PC Bellamy is in trouble. There was a break-in on his beat while he was visiting one of his girlfriends. Witnesses noticed a noisy minivan speeding away from the scene of the crime immediately afterwards. An anonymous tip leads to part of the loot - and Phil Bellamy's address. Blaketon has no choice but to suspend him from duty. Greengrass notices a fast, black greyhound and spots an opportunity to make a bob or two because it's a dead ringer for ruthless businessman Jack Scarman's somewhat slower dog Northern Flash. If only they can "borrow" it from its owner Mr. Parrish and swap the two.

Season 3, Episode 4: Going Home
Original Air Date-24 October 1993
A series of illegal knuckle fights has been taking place all over North Riding and sergeant Blaketon asks his constables to look out for Irishman Michael O'Leary, who is suspected of being behind them. Not surprisingly O'Leary is spotted at Claude Greengrass's place. Martin Lessor is attacked in his home, but the attacker Victor Kellerman is much more eager to see the case in court than Lessor is. And with good reason! To complicate matters Lessor, who is a diabetic, will only allow Alex Ferrenby to look into his medical files, but Ferrenby is away on a fishing trip. A trip he will not return from alive!

Season 3, Episode 5: A Chilly Reception
Original Air Date-31 October 1993
Susan Siddons is looking after her old nanny Mary Begg, but one morning she comes to her house the old lady is dead. And that with Susan's wedding only a couple of days away. When Mary's grandson Peter, who is also Susan's old boyfriend, arrives in Aidensfield to take care of the funeral he gets a chilly reception by her father. The next day all the wedding presents have been stolen. And that is just the beginning. Kate's aunt Eileen tells her she has inherited a lot of money from her uncle. Kate refuses to accept the money although she could use them for a new surgery after Alex Ferrenby's death.

Season 3, Episode 6: The Frighteners
Original Air Date-7 November 1993
Greengrass is walking his dog Alfred when Raymond Walker takes a shot at him for trespassing. And Greengrass is not the only one having trouble with Walker. He has offered Jane Thompson to buy her cottage after her husband's death, but the old lady has been the victim of harassment since she turned down his offer. She does not want to sell even though she can live with her daughter Jennifer and her husband. Alf Ventress saves a cute, little kitten from drowning and keeps it at the police station to the great displeasure of sergeant Blaketon.

Season 3, Episode 7: Father's Day
Original Air Date-14 November 1993
DJ Tiny Weedon is assaulted after playing at a dance at the village hall in Aidensfield. Weedon claims nothing was taken, but word has it that drugs were involved. And according to young Karen Fletcher, who witnessed the assault, sergeant Blaketon's son Graham was one of the assailants. Greengrass delivers a letter to "Sweaty" Betty Such from her late husband Arthur. A few days later PC Rowan is knocked down with a spade at the church yard and the very next morning somebody has been trying to desecrate old Arthur's grave.

Season 3, Episode 8: Endangered Species
Original Air Date-21 November 1993
David Stockwell is fascinated by dogs he hears in the forest in the middle of the night. The dogs belong to a group of men involved in illegal badger digging, and when they drive away they hit David's mother with their car. She knows more about the matter than she is willing to tell and makes her backward son change his statement, but PC Rowan has already found a piece of glass from the headlights of the car that hit her and knows he is lying.

Season 3, Episode 9: An American in Aidensfield
Original Air Date-28 November 1993
The arrival of a young American, Charlie Dameron, divides the population of Aidensfield in two. Some think he is only dodging military service in Vietnam while others do not mind his presence. Among the former is Fred Manchester, who also blames him for causing an accident. Among the latter is Claude Greengrass, who sees yet another opportunity to make some money - by selling classic motorcycles to Dameron. Only, Greengrass does not have any motorcycles to sell - yet!

Season 3, Episode 10: Bringing It All Back Home
Original Air Date-5 December 1993
An ill wind called Inspector Crossley has blown into Ashfordly police station. Crossley will be supervising Ashfordly and Aidensfield and is known to clamp down on any violation of regulations. Things do not get off to a good start when he finds the police house in Aidensfield used as a temporary surgery by Kate Rowan. Gina is happy because she has got a gig singing at a night club in Whitby. It causes quite a stir when half the village turns up to listen to her. Kate is visited by Sally, an old friend who has a proposition that makes her think. Greengrass's fate has finally caught up with him - in the shape of the Inland Revenue! Graham Blaketon's day in court for his participation in the assault on Tiny Weedon is getting nearer and Blaketon tries to spend more time with him.

A British police constable and his doctor wife, weary of the turmoil in contemporary London, decide to move and work in a quiet village where life is livelier than they anticipated.

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