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Riot in Prisoner Cell Block H
 

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With the first UK DVD box set now released we celebrate the classic Aussie soap Prisoner Cell Block H.

EPISODE 1: Welcome to Wentworth - this first episode introduces us to some very familiar faces for the first time. New inmates Karen Travers and Lynn Warner are inducted and have to quickly adjust to life inside.

EPISODE 2: Top Dog Bea Smith and long term inmate Mum are released on parole while Lynn protests her innocence by going on a hunger strike. Bea's first day of freedom is short lived when visits her husband with a 'present'.

EPISODE 3: Franky Doyle takes over as Top Dog and starts stirring trouble immediately. Chrissie Latham unsuccessfully tries to seduce the prison social worker Bill Jackson. When Bea returns, a riot breaks out resulting in tragic consequences.

EPISODE 4: Bill dies in hospital and the women are determined to punish whoever killed him during the riot, while his wife - Officer Meg Jackson struggles to control her feelings following his death. Mum has an accident in her motel room.

EPISODE 5: Mum recovers at her daughter's house but isn't allowed to disclose her real identity to her grand-children. Lynn collapses following her hunger strike but is shocked to find out that she is pregnant when examined by the doctor.

EPISODE 6: Lynn is told she can't have an abortion so threatens to kill the baby herself. Still protesting her innocence she convinces Meg to investigate. Lizzie plans an escape but ends up drunk in her cell instead.

EPISODE 7: Lizzie finds a new friend in the garden but is devastated when things go wrong. Franky tries to control her temper in the hope she'll be released. Marilyn is tempted to return to prostitution when she can't find a job on the outside.

EPISODE 8: Marilyn gets as job working in a hotel. Celebrity beauty consultant Helen Masters is arrested and sent to Wentworth following a hit and run accident but makes a big mistake when she 'lags' on one of the other women.

EPISODE 9: Lynn's appeal is arranged thanks to the help of Helen, but Meg finds herself in trouble when details appear in the newspapers. Eddie accuses Marilyn of going back to her old ways. Lynn finally has something to smile about when she is released.

EPISODE 10: Helen convinces the women to protest about the prison food and offers to help everyone with their problems, but her promises are soon broken when she is released. Vera drowns her sorrows and makes a fool of herself when she gets drunk in a bar.

EPISODE 11: Vera forms an alliance with Graham and between them make Marilyn's life inside very difficult. Lynn and Doug run away from Lynn's parents' house. Franky receives some very bad news about her brother.

EPISODE 12: Karen talks Franky down from the roof. Meg notices that Graham is intimidating Marilyn and threatens to him and Vera that she'll report it to the Governor if it doesn't stop. Franky's advances to Karen are not reciprocated resulting in 3 of the women going over the wall...

EPISODE 13: Lizzie can't keep up with Doreen and Franky so ends up back inside in the prison hospital while the others find a barn to sleep in for the night. Lynn and Doug plan to get married but Doug can't resist one more robbery before they settle down.

EPISODE 14: The robbery doesn't go according to plan when two of the men are shot. Lynn goes into labour but loses the baby. New social worker Jean Vernon arrives and convinces Judith-Anne to visit Mum again. Karen's mother visits and shares some home truths.

EPISODE 15: Doreen and Franky disguise themselves as nuns in the hope that they can raise some money for their own funds and find a new place to live. Lynn returns to Wentworth after being questioned about the robbery.

Prisoner Cell Block H episodes 16 - 32

 
 
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Episode guide: 16 - 32

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Peta Toppano (Karen) audio
Betty Bobbitt (Judy) audio
Maggie Millar (Marie) audio
Gerard Maguire (Jim) audio
 
     
 
 

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