Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
Cast: Gerda Nicolson, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Janet Andrewartha
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79 episodes
1. Episode 1Two 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 ...NRCC47minFeb 27, 1979
2. Episode 2Lynn 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.NRCC46minFeb 27, 1979
3. Episode 3With 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 ...NRCC46minFeb 28, 1979
4. Episode 4Bill 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, ...NRCC48minMar 6, 1979
5. Episode 5Mum 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 ...NRCC48minMar 7, 1979
6. Episode 6Lynn 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 ...NRCC46minMar 13, 1979
7. Episode 7Lizzie 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 ...NRCC49minMar 14, 1979
8. Episode 8Bea 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...NRCC45minMar 20, 1979
9. Episode 9Marilyn'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.NRCC48minMar 21, 1979
10. Episode 10Helen 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.NRCC47minMar 27, 1979
11. Episode 11The 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.NRCC47minMar 28, 1979- 12. Episode 12The 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.NRCC48minApr 3, 1979
- 13. Episode 13Vera'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.NRCC46minApr 4, 1979
- 14. Episode 14Shot 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.NRCC45minApr 10, 1979
- 15. Episode 15Karen 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.NRCC46minApr 11, 1979
- 16. Episode 16No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minApr 17, 1979
- 17. Episode 17No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minApr 18, 1979
- 18. Episode 18No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minApr 24, 1979
- 19. Episode 19No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minApr 25, 1979
- 20. Episode 20No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minMay 1, 1979
- 21. Episode 21No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minMay 2, 1979
- 22. Episode 22No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minMay 8, 1979
- 23. Episode 23No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minMay 9, 1979
- 24. Episode 24No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minMay 15, 1979
- 25. Episode 25No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minMay 16, 1979
- 26. Episode 26No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minMay 22, 1979
- 27. Episode 27No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minMay 23, 1979
- 28. Episode 28No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minMay 29, 1979
- 29. Episode 29No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minMay 30, 1979
- 30. Episode 30No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minJun 5, 1979
- 31. Episode 31No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minJun 6, 1979
- 32. Episode 32No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minJun 12, 1979
- 33. Episode 33No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minJun 13, 1979
- 34. Episode 34No synopsis available yet.NRCC49minJun 19, 1979
- 35. Episode 35No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minJun 20, 1979
- 36. Episode 36No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minJun 26, 1979
- 37. Episode 37No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minJun 27, 1979
- 38. Episode 38No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minJul 3, 1979
- 39. Episode 39No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minJul 4, 1979
- 40. Episode 40No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minJul 10, 1979
- 41. Episode 41No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minJul 11, 1979
- 42. Episode 42No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minJul 17, 1979
- 43. Episode 43No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minJul 18, 1979
- 44. Episode 44No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minJul 24, 1979
- 45. Episode 45No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minJul 25, 1979
- 46. Episode 46No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minJul 31, 1979
- 47. Episode 47No synopsis available yet.NRCC49minAug 1, 1979
- 48. Episode 48No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minAug 7, 1979
- 49. Episode 49No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minAug 8, 1979
- 50. Episode 50No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minAug 14, 1979
- 51. Episode 51No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minAug 15, 1979
- 52. Episode 52No synopsis available yet.NRCC44minAug 21, 1979
- 53. Episode 53No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minAug 22, 1979
- 54. Episode 54No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minAug 28, 1979
- 55. Episode 55No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minAug 29, 1979
- 56. Episode 56No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minSep 4, 1979
- 57. Episode 57No synopsis available yet.NRCC44minSep 5, 1979
- 58. Episode 58No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minSep 11, 1979
- 59. Episode 59No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minSep 12, 1979
- 60. Episode 60No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minSep 18, 1979
- 61. Episode 61No synopsis available yet.NRCC44minSep 19, 1979
- 62. Episode 62No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minSep 25, 1979
- 63. Episode 63No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minSep 26, 1979
- 64. Episode 64No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minOct 2, 1979
- 65. Episode 65No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minOct 3, 1979
- 66. Episode 66No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minOct 16, 1979
- 67. Episode 67No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minOct 17, 1979
- 68. Episode 68No synopsis available yet.NRCC45minOct 23, 1979
- 69. Episode 69No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minOct 24, 1979
- 70. Episode 70No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minOct 30, 1979
- 71. Episode 71No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minOct 31, 1979
- 72. Episode 72No synopsis available yet.NRCC48minNov 6, 1979
- 73. Episode 73No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minNov 7, 1979
- 74. Episode 74No synopsis available yet.NRCC46minNov 13, 1979
- 75. Episode 75No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minNov 14, 1979
- 76. Episode 76No synopsis available yet.NRCC44minNov 20, 1979
- 77. Episode 77No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minNov 21, 1979
- 78. Episode 78No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minNov 27, 1979
- 79. Episode 79No synopsis available yet.NRCC47minNov 28, 1979
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Prisoner
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Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Reg Watson
- Cast
- Gerda Nicolson, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Janet Andrewartha, Elspeth Ballantyne, Louise Siversen, Glenda Linscott
- Studio
- The Grundy Organization, Grundy Television Productions, Network Ten
Maturity rating
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Audio languages
English
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