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19798 Seasons50m episodes7.6

Soap, Drama

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Runtime: 50m episodes
Genre: Soap
Certificate: NR
Origin: AU

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

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Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Feb 27, 1979
Network: 10
Studio: The Grundy Organization, Grundy Television Productions

Time to finish

577 hrs

692 episodes. About 83 weeks at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Gerda Nicolson

Ann Reynolds

Maggie Kirkpatrick

Joan "The Freak" Ferguson

Janet Andrewartha

Reb Kean

Elspeth Ballantyne

Meg Morris

Louise Siversen

Lou Kelly

Glenda Linscott

Rita Connors

Lois Collinder

Alice "Lurch" Jenkins

Julia Blake

Nancy McCormack

Pepe Trevor

Lexie Patterson

Joy Westmore

Joyce Barry / Joyce Pringle

Peter Adams

Bob Moran

Kylie Belling

Sarah West

Terry Gill

Jack Grace

Bryon Williams

Dr Eric Weissman

Ray Meagher

Ernest Craven

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SERIES

19798 Seasons50m episodes7.6

Soap, Drama

TMDB7.6

Votes35

Your rating

Runtime: 50m episodes
Genre: Soap
Certificate: NR
Origin: AU

About

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

Where to watch

Region

Stream

WOW Presents Plus

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Feb 27, 1979 · 47m
Episode 1
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 ...
E2 · Airs Feb 27, 1979 · 46m
Episode 2
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.
E3 · Airs Feb 28, 1979 · 46m
Episode 3
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 ...
E4 · Airs Mar 6, 1979 · 48m
Episode 4
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, ...
E5 · Airs Mar 7, 1979 · 48m
Episode 5
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 ...
E6 · Airs Mar 13, 1979 · 46m
Episode 6
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 ...
E7 · Airs Mar 14, 1979 · 49m
Episode 7
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 ...
E8 · Airs Mar 20, 1979 · 45m
Episode 8
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...
E9 · Airs Mar 21, 1979 · 48m
Episode 9
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.
E10 · Airs Mar 27, 1979 · 47m
Episode 10
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.
E11 · Airs Mar 28, 1979 · 47m
Episode 11
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.
E12 · Airs Apr 3, 1979 · 48m
Episode 12
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.
E13 · Airs Apr 4, 1979 · 46m
Episode 13
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.
E14 · Airs Apr 10, 1979 · 45m
Episode 14
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.
E15 · Airs Apr 11, 1979 · 46m
Episode 15
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.
E16 · Airs Apr 17, 1979 · 47m
Episode 16
E17 · Airs Apr 18, 1979 · 46m
Episode 17
E18 · Airs Apr 24, 1979 · 45m
Episode 18
E19 · Airs Apr 25, 1979 · 47m
Episode 19
E20 · Airs May 1, 1979 · 47m
Episode 20
E21 · Airs May 2, 1979 · 46m
Episode 21
E22 · Airs May 8, 1979 · 46m
Episode 22
E23 · Airs May 9, 1979 · 47m
Episode 23
E24 · Airs May 15, 1979 · 45m
Episode 24
E25 · Airs May 16, 1979 · 46m
Episode 25
E26 · Airs May 22, 1979 · 45m
Episode 26
E27 · Airs May 23, 1979 · 46m
Episode 27
E28 · Airs May 29, 1979 · 45m
Episode 28
E29 · Airs May 30, 1979 · 45m
Episode 29
E30 · Airs Jun 5, 1979 · 48m
Episode 30
E31 · Airs Jun 6, 1979 · 47m
Episode 31
E32 · Airs Jun 12, 1979 · 48m
Episode 32
E33 · Airs Jun 13, 1979 · 45m
Episode 33
E34 · Airs Jun 19, 1979 · 49m
Episode 34
E35 · Airs Jun 20, 1979 · 47m
Episode 35
E36 · Airs Jun 26, 1979 · 48m
Episode 36
E37 · Airs Jun 27, 1979 · 47m
Episode 37
E38 · Airs Jul 3, 1979 · 48m
Episode 38
E39 · Airs Jul 4, 1979 · 46m
Episode 39
E40 · Airs Jul 10, 1979 · 47m
Episode 40
E41 · Airs Jul 11, 1979 · 48m
Episode 41
E42 · Airs Jul 17, 1979 · 47m
Episode 42
E43 · Airs Jul 18, 1979 · 48m
Episode 43
E44 · Airs Jul 24, 1979 · 47m
Episode 44
E45 · Airs Jul 25, 1979 · 45m
Episode 45
E46 · Airs Jul 31, 1979 · 47m
Episode 46
E47 · Airs Aug 1, 1979 · 49m
Episode 47
E48 · Airs Aug 7, 1979 · 48m
Episode 48
E49 · Airs Aug 8, 1979 · 47m
Episode 49
E50 · Airs Aug 14, 1979 · 46m
Episode 50
E51 · Airs Aug 15, 1979 · 48m
Episode 51
E52 · Airs Aug 21, 1979 · 44m
Episode 52
E53 · Airs Aug 22, 1979 · 47m
Episode 53
E54 · Airs Aug 28, 1979 · 47m
Episode 54
E55 · Airs Aug 29, 1979 · 46m
Episode 55
E56 · Airs Sep 4, 1979 · 45m
Episode 56
E57 · Airs Sep 5, 1979 · 44m
Episode 57
E58 · Airs Sep 11, 1979 · 48m
Episode 58
E59 · Airs Sep 12, 1979 · 48m
Episode 59
E60 · Airs Sep 18, 1979 · 45m
Episode 60
E61 · Airs Sep 19, 1979 · 44m
Episode 61
E62 · Airs Sep 25, 1979 · 47m
Episode 62
E63 · Airs Sep 26, 1979 · 47m
Episode 63
E64 · Airs Oct 2, 1979 · 48m
Episode 64
E65 · Airs Oct 3, 1979 · 46m
Episode 65
E66 · Airs Oct 16, 1979 · 48m
Episode 66
E67 · Airs Oct 17, 1979 · 47m
Episode 67
E68 · Airs Oct 23, 1979 · 45m
Episode 68
E69 · Airs Oct 24, 1979 · 46m
Episode 69
E70 · Airs Oct 30, 1979 · 48m
Episode 70
E71 · Airs Oct 31, 1979 · 47m
Episode 71
E72 · Airs Nov 6, 1979 · 48m
Episode 72
E73 · Airs Nov 7, 1979 · 47m
Episode 73
E74 · Airs Nov 13, 1979 · 46m
Episode 74
E75 · Airs Nov 14, 1979 · 47m
Episode 75
E76 · Airs Nov 20, 1979 · 44m
Episode 76
E77 · Airs Nov 21, 1979 · 47m
Episode 77
E78 · Airs Nov 27, 1979 · 47m
Episode 78
E79 · Airs Nov 28, 1979 · 47m
Episode 79

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Feb 27, 1979
Network: 10
Studio: The Grundy Organization, Grundy Television Productions

Time to finish

577 hrs

692 episodes. About 83 weeks at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Gerda Nicolson

Ann Reynolds

Maggie Kirkpatrick

Joan "The Freak" Ferguson

Janet Andrewartha

Reb Kean

Elspeth Ballantyne

Meg Morris

Louise Siversen

Lou Kelly

Glenda Linscott

Rita Connors

Lois Collinder

Alice "Lurch" Jenkins

Julia Blake

Nancy McCormack

Pepe Trevor

Lexie Patterson

Joy Westmore

Joyce Barry / Joyce Pringle

Peter Adams

Bob Moran

Kylie Belling

Sarah West

Terry Gill

Jack Grace

Bryon Williams

Dr Eric Weissman

Ray Meagher

Ernest Craven

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