Episode guide
Prisoner: Season 1
79 episodes · premiered Feb 27, 1979
The first season of Australian drama television series Prisoner (commonly known as Prisoner: Cell Block H) premiered on the then-known 0-10 Network on 26 February 1979 in Sydney and 27 February 1979 in Melbourne. The season contains 79 episodes and concluded on 28 November 1979.
- Episode 1: Episode 1 Feb 27, 1979 · 47m 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…
- Episode 2: Episode 2 Feb 27, 1979 · 46m 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…
- Episode 3: Episode 3 Feb 28, 1979 · 46m 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…
- Episode 4: Episode 4 Mar 6, 1979 · 48m 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…
- Episode 5: Episode 5 Mar 7, 1979 · 48m 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…
- Episode 6: Episode 6 Mar 13, 1979 · 46m 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…
- Episode 7: Episode 7 Mar 14, 1979 · 49m 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…
- Episode 8: Episode 8 Mar 20, 1979 · 45m 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…
- Episode 9: Episode 9 Mar 21, 1979 · 48m 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…
- Episode 10: Episode 10 Mar 27, 1979 · 47m 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…
- Episode 11: Episode 11 Mar 28, 1979 · 47m 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…
- Episode 12: Episode 12 Apr 3, 1979 · 48m 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…
- Episode 13: Episode 13 Apr 4, 1979 · 46m 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…
- Episode 14: Episode 14 Apr 10, 1979 · 45m 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…
- Episode 15: Episode 15 Apr 11, 1979 · 46m 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…
- Episode 16: Episode 16 Apr 17, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 17: Episode 17 Apr 18, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 18: Episode 18 Apr 24, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 19: Episode 19 Apr 25, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 20: Episode 20 May 1, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 21: Episode 21 May 2, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 22: Episode 22 May 8, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 23: Episode 23 May 9, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 24: Episode 24 May 15, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 25: Episode 25 May 16, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 26: Episode 26 May 22, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 27: Episode 27 May 23, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 28: Episode 28 May 29, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 29: Episode 29 May 30, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 30: Episode 30 Jun 5, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 31: Episode 31 Jun 6, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 32: Episode 32 Jun 12, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 33: Episode 33 Jun 13, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 34: Episode 34 Jun 19, 1979 · 49m
- Episode 35: Episode 35 Jun 20, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 36: Episode 36 Jun 26, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 37: Episode 37 Jun 27, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 38: Episode 38 Jul 3, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 39: Episode 39 Jul 4, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 40: Episode 40 Jul 10, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 41: Episode 41 Jul 11, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 42: Episode 42 Jul 17, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 43: Episode 43 Jul 18, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 44: Episode 44 Jul 24, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 45: Episode 45 Jul 25, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 46: Episode 46 Jul 31, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 47: Episode 47 Aug 1, 1979 · 49m
- Episode 48: Episode 48 Aug 7, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 49: Episode 49 Aug 8, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 50: Episode 50 Aug 14, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 51: Episode 51 Aug 15, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 52: Episode 52 Aug 21, 1979 · 44m
- Episode 53: Episode 53 Aug 22, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 54: Episode 54 Aug 28, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 55: Episode 55 Aug 29, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 56: Episode 56 Sep 4, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 57: Episode 57 Sep 5, 1979 · 44m
- Episode 58: Episode 58 Sep 11, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 59: Episode 59 Sep 12, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 60: Episode 60 Sep 18, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 61: Episode 61 Sep 19, 1979 · 44m
- Episode 62: Episode 62 Sep 25, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 63: Episode 63 Sep 26, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 64: Episode 64 Oct 2, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 65: Episode 65 Oct 3, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 66: Episode 66 Oct 16, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 67: Episode 67 Oct 17, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 68: Episode 68 Oct 23, 1979 · 45m
- Episode 69: Episode 69 Oct 24, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 70: Episode 70 Oct 30, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 71: Episode 71 Oct 31, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 72: Episode 72 Nov 6, 1979 · 48m
- Episode 73: Episode 73 Nov 7, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 74: Episode 74 Nov 13, 1979 · 46m
- Episode 75: Episode 75 Nov 14, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 76: Episode 76 Nov 20, 1979 · 44m
- Episode 77: Episode 77 Nov 21, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 78: Episode 78 Nov 27, 1979 · 47m
- Episode 79: Episode 79 Nov 28, 1979 · 47m