S03 Episode 1
Heartbreak High
Sam returns as a substitute teacher to Hartley High, insisting that the past is in the past. She quickly runs into difficulties with both Deloraine and Rivers. Effie is unsure how to respond to a request from Bart.
43 mins · Sun, 20 Aug 1995
S03 Episode 2
Heartbreak High
Katerina returns from Greece and, with the knowledge of Peter's affair with Sam, does her best to blackmail him into a relationship. Jodie agrees to help Steve out for a school project, while Bart and Effie's relationship runs into difficulties.
44 mins · Sun, 27 Aug 1995
S03 Episode 3
Heartbreak High
Steve learns a surprising fact on a visit to his mother. Matt runs into trouble after borrowing Peter's car for a trip to the beach, and Katerina looks for the upper hand.
43 mins · Sun, 3 Sep 1995
S03 Episode 4
Heartbreak High
As the HSC trials approach, Rivers seeks tutoring help from Allie and promises to teach her to drive in return. Danielle throws herself into her study.
44 mins · Sun, 10 Sep 1995
S03 Episode 5
Heartbreak High
Allie attends Hartley High without telling her parents - or seeking Steve's approval. Rivers takes on the challenge of directing a contemporary version of Romeo and Juliet.
43 mins · Sun, 17 Sep 1995
S03 Episode 6
Heartbreak High
Con grows concerned about Roberto's health, while Katerina threatens to withdraw from the play. Mr Bell hands out an unfortunately timed detention.
43 mins · Sun, 24 Sep 1995
S03 Episode 7
Heartbreak High
Matt and Jodie's relationship is tested when Matt sets out to prove that a local factory is responsible for dumping toxic chemicals illegally. Andrew moves in with Sam.
44 mins · Sun, 1 Oct 1995
S03 Episode 8
Heartbreak High
Rivers' fugitive father returns to town, putting Rivers in a difficult position. Steve and Danielle grow closer while working on Steve's exhibit, while Matt and Jodie decide to end things.
45 mins · Sun, 8 Oct 1995
S03 Episode 9
Heartbreak High
Jodie develops an infatuation with a former rock star. Katerina's initiative to sell healthy food to her fellow students takes a hit when Con sets up a hotdog stand. Andrew admits his jealousy to Sam.
43 mins · Sun, 15 Oct 1995
S03 Episode 10
Heartbreak High
Con is left out in the cold after Jodie gets a record deal. Katerina prepares for an audition for a national dance company, while Steve's first assignment while working for a local newspaper does not quite go to plan.
44 mins · Sun, 22 Oct 1995
S03 Episode 11
Heartbreak High
During a pool party at the Bordinos', a game of Truth or Dare results in widespread hurt feelings. Jodie quits school to pursue her music career, but feels guilty about the way she treated Con.
42 mins · Sun, 29 Oct 1995
S03 Episode 12
Heartbreak High
Con and Andrew turn to an illegal method to help promote Jodie's single. Katerina struggles to tell Con how she truly feels about him, and Allie moves into the warehouse.
43 mins · Sun, 5 Nov 1995
S03 Episode 13
Heartbreak High
Hartley High faces permanent closure unless its enrolment rates increase. Allie gives Matt a ring, landing him in a dilemma, and Deloraine has a heart attack.
43 mins · Sun, 12 Nov 1995
S03 Episode 14
Episode 79
Bolton costs Hartley the first round of a debating competition by agreeing with his opponent, a girl from St. Catherine's Girl School [Allie's former school] whom he has a crush on. Bolton asks Linda out on a date but after his dinner with her parents, they forbid Linda to see him again. Hartley wins the second debate on the strength of Bolton's inspired concluding argument on the topic of racism, but afterwards Linda tells him that she will be moving back to Taiwan with her family. Stassy's home life interferes with her school work. Katerina flirts with Internet dating.
Sun, 15 Sep 1996
S03 Episode 15
Episode 80
New teacher Tom Summers, son of school Superintendent James Summers, arrives at Hartley as Dyson begins a programme to teach the girls auto mechanics and the boys cooking.
Sun, 22 Sep 1996
S03 Episode 16
Episode 81
After Danielle discovers the body of her deceased neighbour, Danielle and Allie decide to volunteer their time to an organisation that provides companions for senior citizens.
Sun, 29 Sep 1996
S03 Episode 17
Episode 82
Mr. Summers announces a new Creative Marketing Project which sees the kids pair up to create and market environmentally friendly products from their original ideas. While Matt and Bolton push their ""Bolton's Beads"", Danielle markets Declan's repackaged musical talents, while Katerina's perfume endeavour fizzles. Meanwhile, Stassy and Allie's project is threatened by Stassy's father's steadfast refusal to allow his daughter to work after school or go to the final presentations at the Shark Pool. Stassy goes behind her father's back to attend the presentations but when he finds out (her picture was in the newspaper), their heated argument culminates in Stassy leaving home.
Sun, 6 Oct 1996
S03 Episode 18
Episode 83
It's the day of the school's cross country race. Tom's girlfriend, book editor Vicki Hodge, looks at Allie's work and asks her to skip the race so they can work on the book together.
Sun, 13 Oct 1996
S03 Episode 19
Episode 84
Rocco returns from America (Con is doing well) and consults Roberto about the possibility of selling the Shark Pool.
Sun, 20 Oct 1996
S03 Episode 20
Episode 85
Charlie approaches Matt to ask for his help in becoming ""cool"". After the make-over, the girls's fawn all over the ""new"" Charlie, and a superficial Katerina quickly changes her mind about the former nerd, and despite her failed attempt to change his personality as well, the predestined couple finally hook up. A former bandmate from Declan's days in ""Rapscallion"" arrives with an offer to cut him in on her impending record deal. Unfortunately, their fateful partnership falls apart when it is revealed that she is only interested in using his songwriting talents to further her struggling career. Bolton helps Stassy through her first runway modelling session and the pair succeed in bringing down the house, quite literally in fact. Afterwards, Stassy admits to Bolton that she never wanted to model but was only looking for a way to earn money, and when her financial assistance comes through, she is able to give it up. Tom helps Allie finish her novel, entitled ""Clouds in the Water"", and annou
Sun, 27 Oct 1996
S03 Episode 21
Episode 86
Stassy enraptures Bolton with her new-found mysticism but only manages to enrage the Petty Tyrant that is Katerina with displays of her so-called psychic abilities.
Sun, 3 Nov 1996
S03 Episode 22
Episode 87
Dyson announces that Allie has won the state literary fellowship but Allie decides to turn down the award after having just learned that she is pregnant.
Sun, 10 Nov 1996
S03 Episode 23
Episode 88
Bolton surprises everyone when he wins the prestigious Henry Lawson poetry contest.
Sun, 17 Nov 1996
S03 Episode 24
Episode 89
Bolton goes to great lengths to prevent the closing of his uncle's bowling alley but receives little help from his friends. Dani and Declan win the school elections and want no part in Bolton's plan to create a school bowling programme and instead, Declan proposes fencing as an alternative sport for the school. Katerina accuses Stassy of stealing a lottery ticket the group bought in hopes of giving the prize money to Bolton's uncle and challenges her to a dual during Declan's fencing exhibition. June sits in on Ronnie's blind date with Roger, a real ""blue algae"" of a guy. When Bolton learns from his uncle that the Hartley Council is taking money from a developer interested in redeveloping his uncle's property, Bolton informs Dyson who convinces Roger to obtain the evidence needed to reveal the Council's corruption and save the bowling alley. A 50's gala is held at the bowling alley to celebrate. Matt decides to move in with Stassy at the warehouse.
Sun, 24 Nov 1996
S03 Episode 25
Episode 90
With his parents making plans to divorce, Charlie falls into the clutches of a cult, the ""Deliverance Movement"". Katerina asks Stassy for her help (she was very briefly involved with them) to get Charlie out, and along with Matt, Bolton, and Declan, they rescue Charlie from the cult's commune. Helen is irked by Roberto's laissez-faire attitude towards their impending 20th anniversary and petty jealousies about one another's coworkers only add to the Bordino's domestic dilemmas. Feeling squeezed out by Matt's arrival at the warehouse, Danielle asks Declan about the possibility of moving in with him and his mother. Declan turns her down stating that his mother would feel embarrassed but Danielle quickly realises that Declan is not telling her the truth.
Sun, 1 Dec 1996
S03 Episode 26
Episode 91
With HSC exams just a few short days away, Bolton rallies his classmates to make their Muck-Up Day an event to remember. Events however go horribly wrong when a fire breaks out in the school computer lab and Dyson eyes Matt as her prime suspect — and threatens to withdraw the entire class's HSC eligibility unless the culprit comes forward. Fortunately, while reviewing the video Charlie made of the days events, Katerina spots the real perpetrator (he's an old friend of Matt's who was kicked out of school and returned to settle the score) and Matt is exonerated. Charlie proposes to Katerina, but after her acceptance, they both begin to have second thoughts about the commitment and decide to put off their nuptials — much to Roberto's delight. The gang decide to create a time capsule to mark the year's end, and after burying it, Danielle announces to her friends that she's decided to take a reporter's job offered to her by a television station in Wollongong.
Sun, 8 Dec 1996
