Prisoner (1979)
8.0/10
Drama
Quick Facts
- Premiered
- Feb 1979
- Runtime
- 60 mins
- Language
- English
- Status
- Ended
Also Known As
Caged Women
Prisoner: Cell Block H
Networks
Network 10
Storyline
Prisoner is an Australian soap opera, set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. In the United States and United Kingdom it was billed as Prisoner: Cell Block H, and in Canada as Prisoner: Cell Block H and/or Caged Women. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation in Australia, and aired on Network Ten, running 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986, after originally only devised as a 16 part series.
Episodes
Cast
Val Lehman
Bea Smith
Colette Mann
Doreen Anderson
Sheila Florance
Lizzie Birdsworth
Amanda Muggleton
Chrissie Latham
Andy Anderson
Rick Manning
Billie Hammerberg
May Collins
Christine Amor
Jean Vernon
Fiona Spence
Vera 'Vinegar Tits' Bennett
Jane Clifton
Margot Gaffney
Janet Andrewartha
Reb Keane
Jim Smillie
Steve Wilson
Jude Kuring
Noeline Burke
Judith McGrath
Colleen 'Po-Face' Powell
Louise Siversen
Lou Kelly
Maggie Kirkpatrick
Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson
Maggie Millar
Marie Winter
Margaret Laurence
Marilyn Mason
Patsy King
Erica Davidson
Pepe Trevor
Lexie Patterson
Sigrid Thornton
Roslyn Coulson
Tina Bursill
Sonia Stevens
Barry Quin
Greg Miller
Carol Burns
Franky Doyle
Elspeth Ballantyne
Meg Jackson
Gerard Maguire
Jim 'Fletch The Letch' Fletcher
Kerry Armstrong
Lynn Warner
Lesley Baker
Monica Ferguson
Mary Ward
'Mum' Brooks
Peta Toppano
Karen Travers
Richard Moir
Eddie Cook
Brian Bannan
Terry Harrison