EPISODE 641Kath turns Wentworth into a casino, while Rita finally sees a way to kill the Freak.First broadcast ... 1986 (Melbourne) | ![]() |
![]() Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Marty ~ Michael Winchester Rodney ~ Philip Hyde Rita ~ Glenda Linscott Lexie ~ Pepe Trevor Alice ~ Lois Collinder Nancy ~ Julia Blake Kath ~ Kate Hood Lorelei ~ Paula Duncan Roach ~ Linda Hartley Merle ~ Rosanne Hull-Brown Vicki ~ Rebecca Dines Capt. Muldern ~ Keith Eden Sist. Hall ~ Gael Andrews Health Off. ~ Niall O'Donell Delia ~ Desiree Smith Mick ~ Nick Carrafa | Rodney tells the women in the laundry to stop work and go to the rec room immediately. Kath's suspicions are aroused when he says that Roach, who's on skip duty, shouldn't touch any of the linen from maternity: however Kath is more concerned about whether Roach will be able to hide the casino equipment in time. Lexie is returned to her cell, and is later told by Ann that she'll be staying in H block rather than returned to maternity. Captain Muldern is a hard taskmaster and tells Rita and the women off for messing about. Alice finds some rum while making a drink in the kitchen but realises the Captain has taken a fancy to her ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Many thanks to Scott Carson, who tells us what happened at this point during the original run in Adelaide (Southern Australia):
At episode 641 (when they all go out to sea), they stopped Prisoner screening at its weekly evening timeslot and the following week started from episode 1, 5 days a week at the 1pm timeslot! This went on for about 8 months when eventually they stopped screening the early episodes and recommenced episode 642 (without any publicity) at 11pm and took nearly another year to get to the finale. Weird thing was that towards the end (around 670) the network went overboard promoting the finale and increased the screening to three times a week until the last episode (screened the day before Xmas)
Story Editor: Gwenda Marsh
Script Editor: Pauline Clayton
Storyliners: Tony McDonald, John Coulter, Bob Greenberg
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