Season 3
6 episodes
48 min. per episode
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An undertaker and a midwife navigate love and loss, challenging societal norms while confronting their pasts in unexpected ways.
Episodes
The stair gate is broken and Mary makes a comment "Mind the future" as William climbs over with Thomas. William wonders if Mary wants another baby. Molly has lost her job and is suffering menopause because she has come off HRT. Rick is worried. The daughter of a vicar has died and William must deal with the vicar wanting to perform the service. Rick has to help William move the body. Mary has an issue with a consultant (Mr Spink) over a blind couple wanting to have a home birth. Brendan doesn't want to go to university.Its his 18th Birthday. Kate gets 3 interviews to Oxford. She brings Callum home. Molly finds out she has cancer.
Doris's new bloke Amon, starts making his obnoxious appearance. Terrence starts tagging someone else's turf. Molly continues treatment and enters competitions. William leaves the band but goes back. Reuben is hanging around again. William and Mary go to Oxford with Kate for the interviews but have to leave when Mary gets a call. W and M argue about privilege and Oxford.
There is a postal strike and Kate is waiting to find out about university. Mary is feeling a bit depressed and organises a dinner party with Doris and Eamon and Billie. William has to repatriate a body from Holland as Penelope (Nick's ex) has inherited his business and nominated William on the paperwork. Mary has to fight off the advances of the partner of her current home birth (Rosie). William has to fight off the advances of Penelope. Kate doesn't get into university. The repatriation goes awry. Penelope turns up at the dinner party whilst Eamon and Billie are fighting outside the house.
A group of bikers hires William to arrange a special funeral for a club member. Rick and Molly compete in a ballroom dance competition. Terence is attacked by a gang of street artists.
Terrence has gone and Mary is depressed and cross with William. Doris and Eamon are back together. Mrs Ball has gone to visit her father. A young boy inquires about having a funeral for someone who is missing at sea, his dad(Jim). Mary has a mother on life support who isn't married to the father. Social services may take the baby. Jane has trouble dealing with Arnold's relationship with Mrs Ball and goes to live with her sister. The police advise William that Terrence should stay away for at least 6 months. Molly is in hospital being treated. Mary goes to Brighton to see Terrence. Mary gets a call from Rick that Molly might be dying. Jim's mother won't accept he has died. She eventually attends his service. Mary finally realises she needs William.
The lives of William (an undertaker) and Mary (a midwife) cross. They become romantically involved, but what happens for the rest of the series is far less predictable.