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Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
Season 1
8.6/1090 votesEpisode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/27/1979
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 ...
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8.3/1057 votesEpisode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/27/1979
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.
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8.5/1051 votesEpisode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/28/1979
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 ...
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8.3/1049 votesEpisode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/6/1979
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, ...
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8.1/1045 votesEpisode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/7/1979
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 ...
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7.8/1046 votesEpisode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/13/1979
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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8.2/1043 votesEpisode 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/14/1979
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 ...
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8.2/1043 votesEpisode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/20/1979
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...
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8.4/1045 votesEpisode 9
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/21/1979
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.
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8.5/1044 votesEpisode 10
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/1979
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.
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8.3/1043 votesEpisode 11
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/28/1979
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.
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8.3/1043 votesEpisode 12
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/3/1979
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.
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- 8.2/1039 votes
Episode 13
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/1979
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.
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- 8.5/1042 votes
Episode 14
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/10/1979
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.
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- 8.4/1041 votes
Episode 15
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/11/1979
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.
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- 8.8/1046 votes
Episode 16
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/17/1979
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- 8.4/1041 votes
Episode 17
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/18/1979
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- 8.5/1040 votes
Episode 18
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/24/1979
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- 8.7/1042 votes
Episode 19
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/1979
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- 8.8/1046 votes
Episode 20
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1979
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- 8.0/1033 votes
Episode 21
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/2/1979
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- 8.3/1036 votes
Episode 22
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1979
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- 8.0/1032 votes
Episode 23
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/1979
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- 8.0/1032 votes
Episode 24
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/15/1979
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- 8.3/1033 votes
Episode 25
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/16/1979
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- 8.2/1031 votes
Episode 26
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/22/1979
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- 8.2/1031 votes
Episode 27
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 5/23/1979
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- 8.3/1031 votes
Episode 28
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 5/29/1979
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- 8.4/1032 votes
Episode 29
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 5/30/1979
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- 8.2/1029 votes
Episode 30
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 6/5/1979
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- 8.2/1029 votes
Episode 31
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 6/6/1979
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- 8.3/1029 votes
Episode 32
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 6/12/1979
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- 8.2/1028 votes
Episode 33
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 6/13/1979
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- 7.9/1027 votes
Episode 34
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 6/19/1979
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- 7.8/1029 votes
Episode 35
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/20/1979
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- 8.1/1026 votes
Episode 36
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/26/1979
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- 8.0/1026 votes
Episode 37
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/27/1979
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- 7.9/1026 votes
Episode 38
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 7/3/1979
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- 8.0/1026 votes
Episode 39
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 7/4/1979
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- 8.0/1028 votes
Episode 40
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 7/10/1979
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- 7.9/1026 votes
Episode 41
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 7/11/1979
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- 8.2/1025 votes
Episode 42
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 7/17/1979
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- 8.1/1026 votes
Episode 43
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 7/18/1979
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- 8.3/1026 votes
Episode 44
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 7/24/1979
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- 8.0/1027 votes
Episode 45
Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 7/25/1979
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- 8.2/1026 votes
Episode 46
Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 7/31/1979
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- 8.2/1026 votes
Episode 47
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 8/1/1979
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- 8.3/1026 votes
Episode 48
Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 8/7/1979
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- 8.4/1028 votes
Episode 49
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 8/8/1979
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- 8.2/1027 votes
Episode 50
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 8/14/1979
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- 7.9/1027 votes
Episode 51
Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 8/15/1979
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- 7.8/1027 votes
Episode 52
Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 8/21/1979
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- 8.0/1026 votes
Episode 53
Season 1 Episode 53 - Aired 8/22/1979
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- 8.1/1024 votes
Episode 54
Season 1 Episode 54 - Aired 8/28/1979
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- 7.9/1023 votes
Episode 55
Season 1 Episode 55 - Aired 8/29/1979
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- 8.0/1024 votes
Episode 56
Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 9/4/1979
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- 8.2/1028 votes
Episode 57
Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 9/5/1979
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- 8.1/1025 votes
Episode 58
Season 1 Episode 58 - Aired 9/11/1979
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- 8.1/1025 votes
Episode 59
Season 1 Episode 59 - Aired 9/12/1979
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- 7.8/1024 votes
Episode 60
Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 9/18/1979
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- 8.1/1025 votes
Episode 61
Season 1 Episode 61 - Aired 9/19/1979
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- 7.9/1024 votes
Episode 62
Season 1 Episode 62 - Aired 9/25/1979
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- 8.0/1024 votes
Episode 63
Season 1 Episode 63 - Aired 9/26/1979
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- 8.1/1025 votes
Episode 64
Season 1 Episode 64 - Aired 10/2/1979
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- 8.1/1023 votes
Episode 65
Season 1 Episode 65 - Aired 10/3/1979
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- 8.0/1023 votes
Episode 66
Season 1 Episode 66 - Aired 10/16/1979
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- 7.9/1022 votes
Episode 67
Season 1 Episode 67 - Aired 10/17/1979
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- 7.7/1023 votes
Episode 68
Season 1 Episode 68 - Aired 10/23/1979
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- 7.8/1022 votes
Episode 69
Season 1 Episode 69 - Aired 10/24/1979
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- 8.1/1022 votes
Episode 70
Season 1 Episode 70 - Aired 10/30/1979
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- 7.9/1023 votes
Episode 71
Season 1 Episode 71 - Aired 10/31/1979
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- 7.9/1022 votes
Episode 72
Season 1 Episode 72 - Aired 11/6/1979
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- 7.8/1024 votes
Episode 73
Season 1 Episode 73 - Aired 11/7/1979
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- 7.9/1022 votes
Episode 74
Season 1 Episode 74 - Aired 11/13/1979
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- 7.9/1023 votes
Episode 75
Season 1 Episode 75 - Aired 11/14/1979
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- 7.6/1022 votes
Episode 76
Season 1 Episode 76 - Aired 11/20/1979
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- 7.8/1022 votes
Episode 77
Season 1 Episode 77 - Aired 11/21/1979
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- 7.4/1023 votes
Episode 78
Season 1 Episode 78 - Aired 11/27/1979
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- 8.1/1026 votes
Episode 79
Season 1 Episode 79 - Aired 11/28/1979
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