- Title: Shameless - Series 3
- Date: 24th January 2006
- Summary: When Carol discovers her best friend Lillian had an affair with her husband back in the seventies,she takes revenge by reporting her to the DSS for benefit fraud. Frank Gallagher,who has been posing as Lillian's dead husband and claiming his benefits,comes under suspicion
- Description:SHAMELESS is a brilliantly funny and offbeat drama series created by Paul Abbott (Clocking Off,Touching Evil,Linda Green,State Of Play). Charting the wickedly unpredictable chapters of family life,Shameless tells the every day story of life with the Gallaghers. This award-winning drama throws up a world of sexual adventures,triumphs,love,scams and a fair bit of crime on a Manchester housing estate where wheel-less cars are the norm and the moving ones are stolen. Head of the Gallagher family in name only,is Dad Frank feckless,colourful,self-pitying,comic,selfish,and an unemployed,alcoholic bully a model fatherand The Gallagher kids are being raised by their 20-year-old big sister Fiona since Mum went AWOL and Dad hit the bottle. Lip,16 good looking,street-wise lad around town on the verge of (finally) losing his virginity; and Ian,15 actively gay,who keeps his private life very private. Siblings Debbie plus baby Liam round off the highly un-orthodox yet extremely tightly knit family.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Entertainment
- Producer:Company Pictures Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 4
- Transmission Date:24/01/2006
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 2000s