Postman Pat - Season 3 (2004)

Ted Glen is working on an ice-cream machine for the children's picnic, but there are a lot of problems with it.

Pat, Alf, Ted, Ajay and PC Selby take part in a race with their trusty vehicles, but who will win?

Pat helps Nisha gather up items for a big jumble sale during a big recycling effort in Greendale.

It's Meera's birthday and the adults have planned a special surprise - a magic show featuring Pat the magician.

There is an outbreak of chickenpox in Greendale.

Postman Pat decides to make a video diary of Greendale with his new video camera, but he captures more than he bargained for.

Julian and Pat are playing in a five-a-side children's and parents football match in Greendale. Julian is worried that Pat won't play very well. Its years since Pat last played football and he hasn't had a chance to brush up his skills. After a busy day rushing to deliver the post, where Pat finds himself catching flying parcels, heading oranges, vaulting fences and weaving in and out of flocks of sheep, Pat is more than fit for the game and scores the winning goal.

Pat offers to take Alf's racing pigeon for a check-up while delivering the mail. Later, when Pat runs out of petrol, he relies on the pigeon to get help.

Pat takes Julian out on his post round so that he can learn all about different jobs the people of Greendale do ahead of a class talk.

Pat looks after Nikhil Bains for the day so that Meera and Nisha can join Julian and Sara in a trip to the cinema.

Two rare butterflies have escaped from Pencaster Zoo and there are free passes on offer for their safe return.

It's Pat's day off and Ajay has invited him to be a train driver for the day. Pat is thrilled but soon discovers that being a train driver is harder work than he supposed. The train is making good speed when Pat notices that the boiler is dangerously low on water. Everyone rushes down to the River Pen with buckets, thermos flasks or anything else they can find to refill the water tank. With disaster averted the Greendale Rocket sets off once more. Ajay soon gets up speed again but Pat notices that the carriage has become disconnected from the train. They hurriedly ...

Julian, Charlie and Meera search for UFOs. Meanwhile, the post office is in a terrible muddle due to a mix-up.

The children of Greendale are bored until Ted Glen and his friends accidentally bring the beach to them.

The village decides to do a job swap as a fund raising event for the school. Pat will act as judge for the day to see how everyone does. Ted works at the caf... for the day and invents a brilliant system for pouring multiple cups of tea - before he realises he doesn't have any customers. Nisha and Sarah decorate Dr Gilbertson's house and end up wallpapering over the door. The Rev. Timms tries to look after Alf's sheep and soon finds that a real flock is rather different to a human flock. Alf tries to teach a PE Class and finds it easier to pretend that the children ...

Julian is thrilled when he's picked to bring home the school guinea pig, Dotty. The next morning he's distressed to discover that Dotty has escaped. Pat offers to look for her whilst he's on his rounds. All day long Pat keeps seeing strange things. Firstly Mrs. Goggins's knitting seems to move on it's own, then Julia Pottage's old fur hat runs off down the path on it's own and finally the station caf... tea cosy jumps off the table and runs out of the door. Pat is convinced that he's seeing things but Jess knows better. It's naughty Dotty who has been trying to find a...

Postman Pat helps audition singers for Julian and Charlie's band.

The adults are making the children a dinosaur slide while the children go on a dinosaur hunt.

Julian has Katy and Tom Pottage over for a sleepover. Meanwhile, Pat arranges a surprise for his wife and drives around Greendale looking for Ted Glen who has it.

It's time for the traditional Midsummer Market but it can't start until Alf's pigeon, Cedric, comes down from the church belfry. Traditionally the ringing of the church bell always starts the market. Everyone tries different ways to get Cedric down but nothing works until Pat has the bright idea of luring him down with music. The Reverend plays a variety of instruments, ending with a boogie-woogie solo on the piano. Cedric is charmed down and the Midsummer Market can get underway.

The residents of Greendale all pull together to help Ajay's station and engine pass an inspection.

Pat uses Alf Thompson's new ladder to rescue Katy and Tom Pottage when their sledge gets stuck on a frozen pond.

A large snowball ends up on the railway line. Can Pat and the children stop the Greendale Rocket before disaster strikes?

The kids are all making sculptures or doing drawings of "My Most Exciting Thing" to show to their parents for the school open day. As they each draw their picture they reminisce about their different favourite things. For Julian it is finding the Greendale Rocket and driving her, whilst for Bill it is the time he was a clown in the Circus. The twins remember how scary it was when Pat rescued them from the ice whilst Charlie makes a wonderful sculpture of an alien and recalls looking for flying saucers in Greendale. Sarah Gilbertson is at a loss as to what to draw ...

One Christmas Eve, Postman Pat gains a magical mystery assistant on his post round and plans a big surprise for the children of Greendale.

Pat's Cousin Matt returns to Greendale to find the Greendale Cup. which he buried when he was young, in time for the flower festival.