The Story of Tracy Beaker series 3

The third series of the British children's television series The Story of Tracy Beaker began broadcasting on 25 September 2003 on CBBC and ended on 1 April 2004. The series follows the lives of the children living in the fictional children's care home of Stowey House, nicknamed by them "The Dumping Ground". It consists of twenty-six, fifteen-minute episodes. It is the third series in The Story of Tracy Beaker franchise.

Cast
Dani Harmer (Tracy Beaker), Montanna Thompson (Justine Littlewood), Nisha Nayar (Elaine Boyak), Clive Rowe (Duke Ellington), Lisa Coleman (Cam Lawson), Ciaran Joyce, Ben Hanson, Chloe Hibbert-Waters and James Cartwright all returned to their main roles. Stephen Crossley and Caroline Bunce returned to their guest starring role as Justine's father, Steve Littlewood and his wife, Carrie respectively. Adele Azupadi (Rochelle Gadd), Amber Hearst (Alicia Hooper), Ben Batambuze (Luke Youngblood) & Jenny Edwards (Sharlene White) did not return for this series. Padley, who left the main cast last series, made seven guest appearances. Jack Edwards, Kristal Lau, William Tomlin, Darragh Mortell, Abby Rakic-Platt, Nicola Reynolds and Cara Readle all made their debuts as main characters, Marco Maloney, Hayley, Michael Grice, Liam "Crash" Daniels, Jackie Hopper, Shelly Appleton and Layla respectively. Howell Evans began appearing as a guest character and Jackie's grandfather, Jack and Oliver Llewellyn Jenkins appeared as Wilson for two episodes. This was the last series to feature Cartwright, Padley, Tomlin and Hibbert-Waters. Thompson left her main cast role, but made a guest appearance in series four and a main cast return in the final series. Reynolds also left her main cast role, but returned in the final series. Crossley and Bunce left their guest starring roles, but the characters, Steve and Carrie, returned in the final series, played by Morgan Hopkins and Kathryn Dimery.

Main
• Dani Harmer as Tracy Beaker

• Lisa Coleman as Cam Lawson

• Montanna Thompson as Justine Littlewood

• Nisha Nayar as Elaine Boyak

• Clive Rowe as Duke Ellington

• Ciaran Joyce as Lol Plakova

• Ben Hanson as Bouncer Plakova

• Chloe Hibbert-Waters as Dolly

• James Cartwright as Nathan Jones

• Darragh Mortell as Crash

• Cara Readle as Layla

• Jack Edwards as Marco Maloney

• Abby Rakic-Platt as Jackie Hopper

• Kristal Lau as Hayley

• Nicola Reynolds as Shelley Appelton

• William Tomlin as Michael Grice

Guest
• Howell Evans as Jack Hopper

• Chelsie Padley as Louise Govern

• Kerry Joy Stewart as Mrs Morris

• David Charles as Mr Bygrave

• Rachel Atkins as Mrs Bygrave

• Vivienne Rowdon as Estate Agent

• Jennifer Robinson as Vicki

• Gareth Piper as James

• Angus Alexander Brown as Philip

• June Campbell as Cathy

• Rebecca Walker as Sophie

• Lynn Hunter as Maureen

• Mark Flanagan as Dave

• Jude Mitson as Zara

• Oliver Llewellyn Jenkins as Wilson

• Richard Pask as Adam

• Paul Mohan as Logan

• Sophie Sherrington as Kelly

• Krupa Patel as Sufia

• Caroline Bunce as Carrie

• Dan Winter as Charlie Kean

• Ryan Nelson as Jake

• Matt Zarb as Tom

• Morgan Hopkins as Ron

• Sara McGaughey as Gwen

• Gareth Wyn Griffiths as Dave

• Debra Glazer as Jemima

• Stephen Crossley as Steve Littlewood

• Dafydd Wyn-Roberts as Steward

Production
Cas Lester left the production team after the previous series and was replaced by the former producer, Jane Dauncey. Dauncey was then replaced by Mia Jupp. Filming took place after series two had aired, in 2003. The series 2 directors, Delyth Thomas and Joss Agnew, returned, but were joined by Laurence Wilson. Thomas directed eight episodes, Agnew directed ten episodes and Wilson directed seven episodes. Mary Morris is head writer of this series. Ian Carrey, Rob Gittins, Lucy Flannery and writing duo, Sam Bain & Jesse Armstrong did not return to write any episodes of series 3. They were replaced by Dan Anthony, Simon Nicholson, Holly Lyons, Marvin Close and Ariane Sherine. Returning from writing episodes of series 1 and series 2 are Morris, Laura Summers, Othniel Smith and Andy Walker while returning from writing episodes of only series 2 are Gary Parker, Abigal Abben-Mensah and Tracy Brabin. Morris wrote five episodes; Summers and Parker wrote four episodes each; Smith, Anthony, Lyons and Close wrote two episodes each; and Nicholson, Mensah, Walker, Brabin and Sherine wrote one episode each.