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Urban Legends Season 3 Episodes

Season 3 Episode Guide

15 Episodes 2011 - 2011

Episode 1

Best Laid Plans

24 mins

'Out of the Frying Pan' / 'Deliverance' / 'With Friends Like These'. A Californian couple decide to build their new home in a forested area, but when a major forest fire threatened, the husband ignored a Fire Marshall's warning to leave. Unluckily, their house caught fire and was found burned to the ground, but where were the couple forced to find safety from the all consuming fire. / A small town mayor found a delivery on his doorstep, thought nothing of it and took it in. Very quickly his house was invaded by a heavily armed SWAT team and police who want answers about the contents of the box. The box was packed with cannabis, but why was it left at the door of an innocent man. / Something has come between two friends - the girlfriend of one of them. In bizarre circumstances, one of them stabbed the other, but was their claim true that there was a pact for one to stab the other to death as an assisted suicide.

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Episode 2

Stranger Than Fiction

24 mins

A women's night of horror; a fisherman's unbelievable tale; a high school football team fumbles.

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Episode 3

Expect the Unexpected

24 mins

'A Wing and a Prayer' / 'Killer Ratings' / 'The Big Payback'. A truck driver has a very nasty road accident and within a year he is blind and nearly deaf. Modern medicine can't help. One day a chicken fell off a truck near his house, which he rescued. During a storm he goes outside to bring the chicken inside but is hit by lightning. Soon after he begins to recover his vision and hearing, but did the rescued chicken have anything to do with this miracle. / A Mexican newsman Martinez decides to run for mayor, due to his success of his top rated crime reporting TV show . Another reporter Juan can't understand how his rival is constantly in the right place all the time when a crime takes place. In one incidence Juan thought he had got to the crime scene first, but yet again Martinez was already there. But how could this be, what was his secret. / Two tourists think they've been swindled by a crooked financier and are looking for revenge. They are soon joined by another three victims after they kidnap him to force him to repay them. The financier offers to repay them using Swiss bank funds and faxes instructions to the bank which contains a secret instruction to call the police. Did the bank get the message and would the man be rescued.

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Episode 4

Stolen Dreams

24 mins

'Pregnancy Predators'/'Beer Goggles'/'Dust to Dust'. A pregnant woman meets another pregnant woman and the two become friends. However the new friend isn't pregnant at all and hatches a plan to steal the other's baby by removing it from her womb. Will she survive her ordeal and manage to get her baby back. / Two friends backpacking across Ireland have a drunken night out at a local pub. Five years later the friends have lost touch, but they reunite when one reveals his elderly Irish B&B landlady left him a fortune in her will. He thinks back and realises with horror that he had drunken sex with the old lady. However the wrong friend was left the money, but why. / Tragedy strikes a family when the mother dies suddenly, then the four remaining male sons die shortly after in a plane crash. Was their act of scattering their mother's ashes the cause of the plane crashing to the ground.

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Episode 5

More Than Meets the Eye

24 mins

'Homecoming Queen'/'Lulu'/'Re-discovered'. A new girl at school becomes a popular cheerleader due to her excellent abilities. However she was very secretive about her home life and after becoming homecoming queen she disappears. When the police finally visit her home they find the shocking truth about her life. / An overweight pensioner at a retirement home has a heart attack when nobody was around to help, however her long time overweight pet potbellied pig Lulu manages to get help in an unusual fashion. Lulu becomes famous and is showered with fattening treats but her celebrity status brings her life to an end with a heart attack of her own. / A respected New York art critic can make or break an aspiring artist's career. He discovers the works of a brilliant new artist who can't get his work recognised and his frustrations eventually cause him to commit suicide. He leaves an unusual request; his work is not to be shown for 20 years, the theory being that by being dead his works will be appreciated much more than it ever could be if he were still alive, but, did this aspiring artist ever exist?

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Episode 6

Heads or Tails

24 mins

A viral video from a bachelor party; over 100 lottery winners; a businessman suspected of arson.

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Episode 7

Reap What You Sow

24 mins

Story 1: Police trying to solve the murder of a woman trick their suspect into revealing her whereabouts using her phone to send him a text message from beyond the grave. Story 2: A woman scheduled for the removal of a bunion on her foot has the same name as another woman listed to have her foot amputated How will the operation go? Story 3: A hard working lawyer thinks he's hit the love jackpot when he pursues an online romance with a woman he's never met. When they meet he thinks she's the real deal but is he about to be the victim of an online fraud?

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Episode 8

Love and War

24 mins

'A Shadow of Himself' / 'Hippo Slippo' / 'Nothing Personal'. A man needs a heart transplant, and gets one, but after the surgery his lifestyle changes dramatically. He takes on the persona of the donor, who it transpires, had shot himself. His new heart changes his life in more ways than could be expected. / A popular circus clown bites of more than he could chew when his heavy drinking leads to him carrying out dangerous pranks and a circus trick that goes badly wrong. / A woman's best friend was murdered, but it was no ordinary crime, because the police find both the woman and her husband dead at the same time in their own home after dinner. They were both poisoned, but did they secretly poison each other.

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Episode 9

Close Calls

24 mins

A female serial killer goes on a crime spree; a man avoids death; a married couple's infidelities.

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Episode 10

Under Wraps

24 mins

'Money in the bank' / 'Miscommunication' / 'Cramped caper'. A woman's husband made a fortune on the stock exchange. On the way to visit her uncle, he fails to appear. Unusual because he's never done anything like this before, but a shock phone call from the police tells her the husband's been arrested. What is the big secret he was hiding that led to his arrest and incarceration. / A young girl and her lookalike friend are involved in an accident and one family are told that their daughter had died, but her best friend was barely alive. A month after the surviving girl's wounds heal there is a shock for one family and grief for another. The girl thought to have died was alive but the one thought to have made it had perished. / A Swedish bus driver gets a shock when a passenger claims a laptop is missing and the driver is the only key holder to the secure luggage compartment. Worse still there are other robberies on more of his routes. He is adamant that he had nothing to do with any of these thefts and it turns out he was telling the truth, so who or what was behind the bizarre spate of thefts.

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Episode 11

Blink of an Eye

24 mins

A woman's hoarding addiction; a Winnipeg DJ disappears; a medical student's antics.

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Episode 12

Missing Pieces

24 mins

'One Good Turn' / 'The Ties That Blind' / 'Cold Bloodied Killer'. A barmaid on her way to work in a London pub saves a man from being hit by a taxi. He thanks her by warning her not to go to work that night. At work she recalls seeing the man in the pub earlier and instead of working her shift she goes to the police and finds out that he is an IRA terrorist. Is there a bomb in the pub? / Two complete strangers fall in love and when they meet each others' families they eventually find out a shocking truth which could destroy their love for each other, or will it? / When a woman visits her sister the first thing she sees is the family doctor leaving the house, but inside the sister is lying dead. The doctor denies having been in the house and DNA evidence seems to exonerate him. However there is a bizarre reason why his DNA did not match any found at the crime scene.

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Episode 13

The Terrible Truth

24 mins

Series which dramatises 3 well-known urban legends each episode. The catch is one of the 'legends' actually did happen, and it's for the viewer to guess. This episode features 3 stories about ugly discoveries which turned lives upside-down. 1) A Russian model gets a rude awakening on a reality show leaves hen hungry for much more than fame. 2) A divorce turns ugly when the sudden appearance of a child leaves everyone wondering who's the true father. 3) A happily marred woman tries to save her family after one night from her past returns to haunt her.

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Episode 14

Out of the Blue

24 mins

Series which dramatises 3 well-known urban legends each episode. The catch is one of the 'legends' actually did happen, and it's for the viewer to guess. This episode features 3 stories all linked by jaw-dropping surprises. 1) An idyllic family vacation in S. Carolina turns into traumatising terror. 2) A N. Dakota man takes a quick detour, and makes a diabolical discovery. 3) A Minneapolis woman's fairytale romance descends into a nightmare.

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Episode 15

Skeletons in the Closet

24 mins

'Troublesome tipster' / 'Kidney Kinship' / 'Double Take'. A top police detective is unable to crack a series of bank robberies until he receives a series of text message clues, leading to the robber's home, which turns out to be the detective's. He claims he's been framed but it turns out he has a split personality, robbing banks himself then sending himself the texts under another persona. / A long lost son given up for adoption at birth turns up just in time to provide his gravely ill brother with a matching kidney. / Twin girls born in Mexico and separated at birth miraculously turn up years later at the same USA university at the same time and in an unexpected turn of fate are reunited thanks to a chance meeting with a student who thinks a girl at a party looks uncannily like a girl he knows.

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