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The Best Episodes of Rafferty's Rules Season 3

Every episode of Rafferty's Rules Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Rafferty's Rules Season 3!

Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules was one of the first programs undertaken by the Seven Network's then new in-house drama unit,

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 1 - Nine Tenths of the Law
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    #1 - Nine Tenths of the Law

    S3:E1

    Michael wrestles with the concept of possession after the discovery of Aboriginal remains creates a conflict of ownership between the state and the Indigenous community.

    Director:Kevin James Dobson
    Writer:Tim Gooding

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  2. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 2 - Freedom
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    #2 - Freedom

    S3:E2

    Michael is caught between a rock and a hard place when he is forced to decide the fate of a young boy whose doctors believe is sick, but whose parents are refusing further tests on religious grounds.

    Director:Mike Smith
    Writer:John Upton

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  3. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 3 - Those Who Can
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    #3 - Those Who Can

    S3:E3

    Fulvio learns that his teacher and idol isn't quite the perfect magistrate that he thought after he takes over when Michael falls ill.

    Director:Graham Thorburn
    Writer:David Allen

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  4. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 4 - Sense of Duty
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    #4 - Sense of Duty

    S3:E4

    The courthouse becomes the centre of the fallout from a Secret Intelligence Agency training exercise.

    Director:Kevin James Dobson
    Writer:Chris Roache

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  5. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 5 - One for the Road
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    #5 - One for the Road

    S3:E5

    Gibson faces his past after a series of alcohol-related prosecutions force him to confront the reasons he gave up drinking.

    Director:Mike Smith
    Writer:Nicholas Langton

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  6. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 6 - Confessions
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    #6 - Confessions

    S3:E6

    A series of sexual assaults has consequences for the courthouse when the police fit up suspects and Paulyne is attacked in her own home.

    Director:Graham Thorburn
    Writer:David Marsh

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  7. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 7 - Horse Play
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    #7 - Horse Play

    S3:E7

    Pauline finds that her personal life is mirroring her professional life when her former lover Gavin reappears and announces that he is getting married, just as she is defending a woman who refuses to accept that her marriage is over.

    Director:Mike Smith
    Writers:Chris Peacock, David Allen

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  8. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 8 - Truth's a Dog
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    #8 - Truth's a Dog

    S3:E8

    Paulyne accuses an insurance company of racism when they report a Lebanese man to the police after he claims his precious rings were stolen just days after taking out a policy.

    Director:Graham Thorburn
    Writer:Justin Fleming

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  9. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 9 - The Great Divide
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    #9 - The Great Divide

    S3:E9

    Michael, Paulyne and Gibson find their ethics challenged when they deal with a man accused of raping his wife; however, it soon becomes apparent to all that the case is far more sinister than they ever could have imagined.

    Director:Graham Thorburn
    Writer:Sue Castrique

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  10. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 10 - Quanity of Mercy
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    #10 - Quanity of Mercy

    S3:E10

    Rafferty is confronted with the limitations of the law when it comes to dispensing justice.

    Director:Mike Smith
    Writer:David Allen

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  11. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 11 - Peace of Mind
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    #11 - Peace of Mind

    S3:E11

    The courthouse finds itself becoming caught up in the deadly web of a cult. Michael is shocked when he goes on an early morning run and discovers the body of a young woman washed up on the beach.

    Director:Mike Smith
    Writer:Nicholas Langton

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  12. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 12 - Thursday the Twelfth
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    #12 - Thursday the Twelfth

    S3:E12

    Michael takes responsibility for a foreign woman after she shows up on his doorstep.

    Director:Mike Smith
    Writer:Christopher Lee

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  13. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 13 - Friends and Neighbours
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    #13 - Friends and Neighbours

    S3:E13

    A heatwave frays tempers at the courthouse when everyone arrives at work to find the air-conditioning broken.

    Director:Graham Thorburn
    Writer:David Allen

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  14. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 14 - The Fleet's In
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    #14 - The Fleet's In

    S3:E14

    The personal and the professional converge for Flicker when the anti-nuclear group his son is involved in begins protesting the arrival of nuclear warships.

    Director:Graham Thorburn
    Writer:Tim Gooding

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  15. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 15 - Family
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    #15 - Family

    S3:E15

    Rafferty's 6-year-old son goes missing.

    Director:Kevin James Dobson
    Writer:John Upton

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  16. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 16 - Crispin's Day
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    #16 - Crispin's Day

    S3:E16

    The Bard comes into the courtroom when an elderly man reciting Shakespeare is arrested for busking without a licence.

    Director:Riccardo Pellizzeri
    Writer:Michael Cove

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  17. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 17 - Mum's the Word
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    #17 - Mum's the Word

    S3:E17

    Michael's hopes of reuniting with his estranged wife are dashed when Joanne reveals that she has come to visit to end their relationship, and then their son falls ill.

    Director:Riccardo Pellizzeri
    Writer:David Marsh

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  18. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 18 - Brief Candles
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    #18 - Brief Candles

    S3:E18

    An unexpected tragedy forces Paulyne to re-evaluate her life; meanwhile she struggles to remain objective while defending a man accused of manslaughter over the death of a pedestrian.

    Director:Graham Thorburn
    Writer:Nicholas Langton

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  19. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 19 - The Deep End
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    #19 - The Deep End

    S3:E19

    New Legal Aid solicitor Lisa Blake starts work at the courthouse; however, she soon finds herself coming into conflict with Michael when she grandstands in the courtroom, then fails to fully prepare a case in mitigation for a defendant.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Cove

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  20. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 20 - A Matter of Circumstances
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    #20 - A Matter of Circumstances

    S3:E20

    A journalist sets out to prove that corruption exists in Rafferty's court.

    Director:Riccardo Pellizzeri
    Writer:Sue Castrique

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  21. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 21 - Waifs and Strays
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    #21 - Waifs and Strays

    S3:E21

    Lisa continues to have problems settling in, with her abrasive nature putting Michael offside.

    Director:Riccardo Pellizzeri
    Writer:David Allen

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  22. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 22 - The Beast
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    #22 - The Beast

    S3:E22

    Lisa begins to wonder whether evil does exist when she defends a sociopath.

    Director:Graham Thorburn
    Writer:Nicholas Langton

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  23. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 23 - Systems
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    #23 - Systems

    S3:E23

    The entire courthouse struggles to cope when Michael is forced to decide whether a man accused of murder has a case to answer.

    Director:Graham Thorburn
    Writer:John Upton

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  24. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 24 - Those Who Can't
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    #24 - Those Who Can't

    S3:E24

    Lisa defends a young man who seems to be heading for the same life of crime as his father once did, but she refuses to believe Ray Brown's claims that the father's intentions are anything but honourable.

    Director:Riccardo Pellizzeri
    Writer:Chris Roache

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  25. Rafferty's Rules Season 3 Episode 25 - Blood Relations
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    #25 - Blood Relations

    S3:E25

    Michael's world is turned upside down after learning that he has a twenty-two year old daughter from a previous relationship.

    Director:Riccardo Pellizzeri
    Writer:Nicholas Langton

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Nine Tenths of the Law" is the best rated episode of "Rafferty's Rules" season 3. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Kevin James Dobson and written by Tim Gooding, it aired on 2/4/1989. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Freedom".