Prisoner

1979–1986 · Ended · 8 seasons · 692 episodes · Soap, Drama · Australia

Creator Reg Watson · Channel 10 · Starring Joy Westmore, Terry Gill, Bryon Williams

Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
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Episodes

79 episodes · February 1979 – November 1979
  1. Episode 1: Episode 1February 27, 1979 · 47 min
    Two new prisoners, Karen Travers and Lyn Warner, are inducted into Wentworth Detention Centre and have to adjust to the harsh regime and the tough women they meet there. Karen, convicted of stabbing her cheating husband to death in the shower, turns out to be an old flame of prison Doctor Greg Miller. Lynn has been convicted of kidnapping and burying a baby alive, and though she loudly protests her innocence, she is bullied by the other women, led by their 'Top Dog', murderess Bea Smith. Meanwhile, young inmate Sally Lee hangs herself in her cell while going through ...
  2. Episode 2: Episode 2February 27, 1979 · 46 min
    Lynn withdraws her complaint, so Bea's release is approved. The prisoners hold a farwell party for Bea and Mum. Mum leaves her beloved garden in the hands of Lynn. Mum is released into the care of her daughter, Lorraine, and Bea gets a lift into town from Eddie. Meg and Bill are having problems with their teenage son Marty, who tells them he wants to move out and get a place with his girlfriend. With Bea gone, Franky siezes the opportunity to take over the press and announces she is now in charge. Greg tries to talk Karen into appealing against her sentence, realising her husband was abusing her. Lynn goes on hunger strike until her innocence is believed. Mum's daughter rejects her, saying she doesn't want her coming home with her, so Mum checks into a grotty bedsit in town. Bea spends her first night of freedom in luxury at a hotel. Next morning, she visits daughter Debbie's grave and picks up a package from her old cellmate, a ""present"" for her husband.
  3. Episode 3: Episode 3February 28, 1979 · 46 min
    With Frankie's hold over the women growing, she attempts to show the screws who is in charge by getting the women to stay in the dinning room until she gives the order for them to leave. Prostitute Chrissie Latham tries to seduce Bill but he turns her down. Lizzie and Marilyn mess around with the wiring so that Eddie will be called in. Marilyn and Eddie climb up into the roof for a "Liaison". Bea's return sends Frankie over the edge and she starts a riot in the dinning room. Bea, Doreen and some other women are trapped in the laundry; Frankie, Lizzy, Chrissie and ...
  4. Episode 4: Episode 4March 6, 1979 · 48 min
    Bill dies on the way to hospital and Rosie gives Birth to a boy. Meg is devastated as the police investigate into Bill's murder begins. The cops are not getting very far; meanwhile, Eddie tells Marilyn he saw who stabbed Bill. Bea and the girls learn from him that it was Chrissie who killed him. They attack and scalp Chrissie, and she is transferred away to another prison. Meg turns up for work, yells at everyone and is sent home by Erika Davidson until the funeral is passed, Mum collapses at the bedsit and her landlady goes through her belongings. After the funeral, ...
  5. Episode 5: Episode 5March 7, 1979 · 48 min
    Mum recuperates from her collapse at her daughter's home but has to pretend to the children that she is an aunt as Lorraine told them their grandmother was dead. Frankie and Bea fight during a dance class in the Rec Room. Yates is caught smuggling the pill in for Marilyn. Suspected of being the one who supplied Sally Lee with drugs, she is reprimanded by Erica Davidson, and quits in disgust. Bea reads the girls tea Leaves and Lizzie pinches a bottle of surgical spirit from the infirmary. Mum can't deal with Lorraine any longer and walks out. After which Judith Anne ...
  6. Episode 6: Episode 6March 13, 1979 · 46 min
    Lynn reveals she must be pregnant after being raped by her employer, Mr Bentley, the father of the baby she is supposed to have buried alive. Frankie bullies Lizzie into giving her some of her Buy-Up and later steals her false teeth when she refuses. Marilyn learns she is to be paroled in a few days. Eddie proposes to he but she turns him down, though she agrees to move in with him. Horrified by Lynne's story, Meg Jackson attitude softens again and she tells Erica Davidson she believes Lynn. Screw, Vera Bennet, is having trouble with her ailing mother but refuses to ...
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  1. Episode 7: Episode 7March 14, 1979 · 49 min
    Lizzie finds a stray cat in the garden and brings it into the prison. When it dies, she blames Frankie for killing it, but it turns out she did it accidentally herself by giving it water from the garden tainted with weed killer. Lizzie then tries to fake amnesia in order to get an early release but Meg Jackson sees right through it. Gary Doyle comes to visit Frankie again and gives her a copy of his plans for the farm. Later the other women deface the plans by scribbling all over them. Mum suggests Frankie work in the garden to keep her away from Bea Smith. Erica ...
  2. Episode 8: Episode 8March 20, 1979 · 45 min
    Bea Smith and the other inmates find out about Frankie's plans to get paroled and live on a farm so they try to rile her into blowing her chances. Marilyn gets a job at a hotel but she is demoted after beauty consultant Helen Masters complains about her and then quits after being sexually harassed by her boss. She goes back on the game to buy Eddie a birthday present, prompting them to have a row and she walks out on him. Helen Masters is sent to Wentworth charged with manslaughter after her car is used in a hit-and-run. At first she is to be bailed but when she tries...
  3. Episode 9: Episode 9March 21, 1979 · 48 min
    Marilyn's boyfriend Eddie is suspicious of where she got the money for his birthday gift: back "on the game" (prostitution)? The final straw is a visitor who is obviously a "workmate" from the street. Officials and inmates are puzzled when Helen Masters drops her application for bail. She uses the media to bring attention to the "innocent" women being incarcerated--including herself, of course. The Bentleys, the culprits responsible for Lyn's conviction, continue their libertine ways, but are finally exposed and arrested.
  4. Episode 10: Episode 10March 27, 1979 · 47 min
    Helen Masters sets out to affect the quality of prison meals as part of her campaign to get a character witness for her trial, the prison doctor. Marilyn returns to prison, but Eddie is through. Vera's drinking almost gets her arrested in a pub, but the officer grants her professional courtesy and takes her home. Masters cons everybody--even her blackmailing assistant--and wins acquittal, trashing the prison officials and inmates in her first TV interview.
  5. Episode 11: Episode 11March 28, 1979 · 47 min
    The inmates start realigning after Master's release; Frankie gains motivation from her brother to work on good behavior. Lyn, who has returned to her parents' home, runs away with Doug whom she had met while in prison. A detective, pretending to be attracted to Vera, interrogates Marilyn about her associates and their drug connections. Frankie, who can't read, gets a telegram saying her brother was injured and goes berserk when it's read to her, deciding to end it all.
  6. Episode 12: Episode 12April 3, 1979 · 48 min
    The inmates start realigning after Master's release; Frankie gains motivation from her brother to work on good behavior. Lyn, who has returned to her parents' home, runs away with Doug whom she had met while in prison. A detective, pretending to be attracted to Vera, interrogates Marilyn about her associates and their drug connections. Frankie, who can't read, gets a telegram saying her brother was injured and goes berserk when it's read to her, deciding to end it all.
  7. Episode 13: Episode 13April 4, 1979 · 46 min
    Vera's attitude continues to become more punitive toward the inmates, bringing a reprimand from the governor. Lizzie's heart forces her to return to the prison, while Frankie and Doreen face life on the run with no money. Lyn faces the fact that Doug is still a criminal, and she reluctantly gets involved in a holdup.
  8. Episode 14: Episode 14April 10, 1979 · 45 min
    Shot in the holdup, Doug dies and Lyn cannot run, so she calls the prison doctor who gets there just before the cops. She loses her baby. Doug gets sacked because of his involvement with Marilyn. Frankie and Doreen are still on the run. The new social worker visits Mum's granddaughter and explains how much Mum needs to see her. Karen's mother is planning to be remarried, and in her first prison visit is appalled at the news Karen might get a retrial, renewing the publicity.
  9. Episode 15: Episode 15April 11, 1979 · 46 min
    Karen permits the prison doctor to contact her lawyer about a retrial, and Dr. Miller kisses her. Vera walks in on them and reports him. A new prisoner, who is reputed to be really tough, is admitted; she and Bea turn out to be old friends, dashing Vera's hopes. Lyn is returned to prison. Doreen and Frankie have disguised themselves as nuns to beg money on the street, but decide to find an older person whom they can rob and perhaps take over their home.
  10. Episode 16: Episode 16April 17, 1979 · 47 min
  11. Episode 17: Episode 17April 18, 1979 · 46 min
  12. Episode 18: Episode 18April 24, 1979 · 45 min
  13. Episode 19: Episode 19April 25, 1979 · 47 min
  14. Episode 20: Episode 20May 1, 1979 · 47 min
  15. Episode 21: Episode 21May 2, 1979 · 46 min
  16. Episode 22: Episode 22May 8, 1979 · 46 min
  17. Episode 23: Episode 23May 9, 1979 · 47 min
  18. Episode 24: Episode 24May 15, 1979 · 45 min
  19. Episode 25: Episode 25May 16, 1979 · 46 min
  20. Episode 26: Episode 26May 22, 1979 · 45 min
  21. Episode 27: Episode 27May 23, 1979 · 46 min
  22. Episode 28: Episode 28May 29, 1979 · 45 min
  23. Episode 29: Episode 29May 30, 1979 · 45 min
  24. Episode 30: Episode 30June 5, 1979 · 48 min
  25. Episode 31: Episode 31June 6, 1979 · 47 min
  26. Episode 32: Episode 32June 12, 1979 · 48 min
  27. Episode 33: Episode 33June 13, 1979 · 45 min
  28. Episode 34: Episode 34June 19, 1979 · 49 min
  29. Episode 35: Episode 35June 20, 1979 · 47 min
  30. Episode 36: Episode 36June 26, 1979 · 48 min
  31. Episode 37: Episode 37June 27, 1979 · 47 min
  32. Episode 38: Episode 38July 3, 1979 · 48 min
  33. Episode 39: Episode 39July 4, 1979 · 46 min
  34. Episode 40: Episode 40July 10, 1979 · 47 min
  35. Episode 41: Episode 41July 11, 1979 · 48 min
  36. Episode 42: Episode 42July 17, 1979 · 47 min
  37. Episode 43: Episode 43July 18, 1979 · 48 min
  38. Episode 44: Episode 44July 24, 1979 · 47 min
  39. Episode 45: Episode 45July 25, 1979 · 45 min
  40. Episode 46: Episode 46July 31, 1979 · 47 min
  41. Episode 47: Episode 47August 1, 1979 · 49 min
  42. Episode 48: Episode 48August 7, 1979 · 48 min
  43. Episode 49: Episode 49August 8, 1979 · 47 min
  44. Episode 50: Episode 50August 14, 1979 · 46 min
  45. Episode 51: Episode 51August 15, 1979 · 48 min
  46. Episode 52: Episode 52August 21, 1979 · 44 min
  47. Episode 53: Episode 53August 22, 1979 · 47 min
  48. Episode 54: Episode 54August 28, 1979 · 47 min
  49. Episode 55: Episode 55August 29, 1979 · 46 min
  50. Episode 56: Episode 56September 4, 1979 · 45 min
  51. Episode 57: Episode 57September 5, 1979 · 44 min
  52. Episode 58: Episode 58September 11, 1979 · 48 min
  53. Episode 59: Episode 59September 12, 1979 · 48 min
  54. Episode 60: Episode 60September 18, 1979 · 45 min
  55. Episode 61: Episode 61September 19, 1979 · 44 min
  56. Episode 62: Episode 62September 25, 1979 · 47 min
  57. Episode 63: Episode 63September 26, 1979 · 47 min
  58. Episode 64: Episode 64October 2, 1979 · 48 min
  59. Episode 65: Episode 65October 3, 1979 · 46 min
  60. Episode 66: Episode 66October 16, 1979 · 48 min
  61. Episode 67: Episode 67October 17, 1979 · 47 min
  62. Episode 68: Episode 68October 23, 1979 · 45 min
  63. Episode 69: Episode 69October 24, 1979 · 46 min
  64. Episode 70: Episode 70October 30, 1979 · 48 min
  65. Episode 71: Episode 71October 31, 1979 · 47 min
  66. Episode 72: Episode 72November 6, 1979 · 48 min
  67. Episode 73: Episode 73November 7, 1979 · 47 min
  68. Episode 74: Episode 74November 13, 1979 · 46 min
  69. Episode 75: Episode 75November 14, 1979 · 47 min
  70. Episode 76: Episode 76November 20, 1979 · 44 min
  71. Episode 77: Episode 77November 21, 1979 · 47 min
  72. Episode 78: Episode 78November 27, 1979 · 47 min
  73. Episode 79: Episode 79November 28, 1979 · 47 min

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Film and series details

EPISODE LENGTH
50 minutes
FIRST AIRED
February 27, 1979
LAST AIRED
December 11, 1986
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
The Grundy Organization, Grundy Television Productions, Network Ten

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