Season 3
Footballers' Wives is a British television drama series created by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus which surrounds the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players and their wives against the backdrop of bitchiness, back stabbing, adultery and murder.
The series aired in the UK on ITV from 8 January, 2002 to 14 April, 2006. There are 42 hour-long episodes in five seasons.
The series originally aired in South Africa on SABC3 from 13 January, 2003 to 15 January, 2007. It was rebroadcast on SABC3 in 2012. See "Seasons" below for seasonal broadcast dates and times.
Season 3 originally aired on SABC3 from 21 June to 16 August, 2004, on Mondays at 21h30. New episodes broadcast weekly.
A rebroadcast of Season 3 premiered on SABC3 on Friday 28 September 2012, at 21h30. New episodes broadcast weekly. There are nine episodes in the third season.
Episode Synopses
Season 3
They're young, they're rich, they're sexy, and they've got everything that fame and money can buy. As the wives of players on the soccer team known as the Sparks, they should be having the time of their lives... but the reality is very different.
Several couples deal with marriage, sex, drugs, high fashion, fast cars, staggering salaries, catfights, mansions, copious affairs and life in the celebrity spotlight.
In Season 3, Chardonnay has killed Jason and died of anorexia, and Kyle has found new romance. Debt-ridden Tanya marries Frank but has an affair with new captain Conrad Gates, resulting in vicious confrontations with his jealous wife, Amber, who fakes her own kidnapping.
But Conrad is also cheating with Noah Alexander, one of the Sparks players.
Finally, pregnant by Frank, Tanya kills him with a lethal combination of Viagra, alcohol, cocaine and sex. When Amber subsequently announces that she's pregnant with Conrad's child, Tanya bids to keep Conrad by claiming that he is also the one who got her pregnant.
Seasons
Season 1 (8 episodes)
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 13 Jan 2003 | Finale: 3 Mar 2003 | Mondays, 21h30
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 9 Mar 2012 | Finale: 4 May 2012 | Fridays, 22h00
Season 2 (8 episodes)
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 10 Mar 2003 | Finale: 28 Apr 2003 | Mondays, 21h30
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 11 May 2012 | Finale: 29 Jun 2012 | Fridays, 22h10
Season 3 (9 episodes)
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 21 Jun 2004 | Finale: 16 Aug 2004 | Mondays, 21h30
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 28 Sep 2012 | Finale: 23 Nov 2012 | Fridays, 21h30
Season 4 (9 episodes)
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 6 Feb 2006 | Finale: 3 Apr 2006 | Mondays, 21h00
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 7 Dec 2012 | Finale: 15 Mar 2013 | Fridays, 22h35
Season 5 (8 episodes)
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 13 Nov 2006 | Finale: 15 Jan 2007 | Mondays, 21h00
Channel: SABC3 | Premiere: 22 Mar 2013 | Finale: 10 May 2013 | Fridays, 22h35