EPISODE 171Broadcast on Channel 5 Tuesday 09 December 1997 23:35 Lizzie regains some of her old fight, Erica goes on TV to refute Judy's claims, and David Andrews arrives to start the new Education Centre in the prison library. Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Vera ~ Fiona Spence Jock ~ Tommy Dysart Helen ~ Caroline Gillmer Sid ~ Edward Hepple David ~ Serge Lazareff  Hopkins ~ Peter Flett Doris ~ Valma Pratt  Mouse ~ Jentah Sobott OTHER CHARACTERSBruised prostitute Ugly old man (Judy's first customer)  Is the statuette in this shot Someone from the props department has given Helen the taste of an old queen - note the photos of Marilyn | Graeme Hopkins arrives at Wentworth threatening to expose the contents of Judy's tape if Erica won't agree to grant him an interview. Helen Smart comes home to find Judy waiting for her: after a bit of persuasion (and a wad of banknotes to cover her lost "business") she agrees to let Judy stay for a while, but she is slightly worried when Judy vows that she intends to avenge herself on Gillespie and Jock Stewart. Erica warns Graeme Hopkins that his campaign to free Lizzie could kill her, but she agrees to let him talk to her so she can hear it in Lizzie's own words. At first, Lizzie says she does want to get out of prison, but when Hopkins tells her he can't help her get a visa, she turns on him and says she doesn't want his help. Helen is sceptical about Judy's enthusiasm when she finds out her tape is to be shown on TV after all, saying the police won't act on the word of a criminal alone. Bea overhears Meg and Vera discussing the TV broadcast and Erica's interview, and cooks up a little diversion so she can talk to Sid. She tells him she can make it up to Lizzie by fixing it so the TV doesn't get taken away. Sid pretends he can't fix the TV, so it is left where it is, but Doreen has the valve which will make it work again. Only extracts from Judy's tape are shown on Graeme Hopkins' programme  and the names of Gillespie and Jock Stewart are bleeped out: Erica  is able to answer Judy's accusations by pointing out that Gillespie has left, the security has been tightened and that Sharon's inquest returned a verdict of accidental death. Judy is angry at the betrayal and demands that Helen traces Jock Stewart for her and finds out which massage parlours he uses. Sid brings flowers for Lizzie and Vera lets him give them to her himself. His little speech of apology touches Lizzie and she admits she hasn't had a gentleman bring her flowers for over 30 years. Helen tells Judy that Jock Stewart has been seen as a customer at Doris' massage parlour, and has to give Judy a quick lesson in deportment and a few tips on how to satisfy a man. Lizzie apologises to Vera, but Vera warns her she will have to tell her family the reason she can't visit them. The new teacher, David Andrews arrives for his first day at work, and of course Vera offers her customary words of encouragement to any newcomer. Judy tells Helen she's a virgin, but even so she manages to put up a good enough front for Doris to agree to give her a trial in the massage parlour. David Andrews finds the women's attention drifting when he describes the aims of the education project. Lizzie writes a letter to Ellen and Josie to tell them she's unlikely to see them again. Judy just misses Jock Stewart at the massage parlour, and the girl he's been with looks as if he's beaten her up. Bea gives David Andrews a rough ride for his condescending attitude to the women, though it hasn't escaped Lizzie's attention that Doreen at least seems very taken with the new teacher, and Doreen and Lizzie tease each other about their new "boyfriends". Doris sends in Judy for her next customer: she sees he is Jock Stewart and pulls a knife ready to stab him in the back. He easily overpowers her and holds her the knife to her throat  . |
EPISODE 172Broadcast on Channel 5 Wednesday 10 December 1997 23:40 Jock blackmails Judy into working for him, but she tips off the police. Sid's friendship with Lizzie develops. The divorce papers depress Doreen and she looks to David for comfort.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Vera ~ Fiona Spence Jock ~ Tommy Dysart Helen ~ Caroline Gillmer Sid ~ Edward Hepple David ~ Serge Lazareff Detective ~ Peter Aanensen  Policeman ~ Geoffrey Clendon Cruiser ~ John McCallum-Howell Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce UNCREDITEDJulie ~ Christine JackOTHER CHARACTERSCustomer (the unappealing specimen who takes his trousers off) Another silent customer is an actor seen on other occasions as a detective | Jock tells Judy she's now going to work for him: he wants $300 every time he visits - if not, he'll bash her and turn both Judy and Helen over to the police. Doreen is noticeably more enthusiastic about the classes than the other women. After leaving the massage parlour after a hard night's work, Judy has to fend off a kerb crawler and ends up being chased by two patrolcar policemen. Helen suggests that Judy should go away somewhere quiet, but Judy says she wants to get Jock in her own way, no matter how many men she has to go with. Only Doreen turns up for David's classes. Jim tells Sid he ought to make a list of his tools so he knows if any of them go missing. Judy goes back to work at the massage parlour  , and when Jock comes to collect his money he hits her across the face when she says she hasn't got it yet. He suggests that if business is slow she ought to offer something more than "a gentle rub-down". Judy gives Helen back $800 for her to start an account in Doreen's name: she says she won't be needing it as she intends to turn herself in. Helen is dismayed to see her pick up the phone, but Judy tells the police to follow Jock Stewart if they want to find her. Sid asks Meg if Lizzie can help him in the garden by telling him what had been planted there before. Jock tries to demand sex from Judy, and she attacks him just as the police burst in to arrest them both  . Meg warns Sid that his gifts to Lizzie could get her into trouble. Doreen has her nose put out of joint by Phyllis' visit to the library to suggest some ideas for classes to David. Erica calls Doreen to her office to show her the papers for Kevin's application for divorce. Doreen refuses his solicitor's offer of maintenance. Judy is brought back to Wentworth, still in blue frock and full wig  , giving Vera  difficulty identifying her  . David offers to help Doreen fill in the forms Erica has given her. Judy is so pleased with herself for fixing Jock Stewart that she brags about it to Erica, and tells her that her interview on TV was "whitewash". By the time she is back in the rec room, doubts have set in and she tells Bea that she regretted escaping, even though it meant she could fix Jock. Erica tells the officers to keep an eye on Judy. David decides to interview the women individually to find out what they want to study, and annoys Lizzie when he tells her she's being unrealistic to want to train as a lawyer. Judy suggests that the women would benefit from information about their rights on the outside after release. The women hear from a report on TV that Jock Stewart has been charged with living off immoral earnings and assaulting a police officer and his bail has been refused. Doreen volunteers to help David brighten up the library. While they are alone, she interrupts his reading from Shakespeare by throwing her arms around him and giving him a kiss  . Unfortunately, Jim chooses exactly that moment to enter the library. |
EPISODE 173Broadcast on Channel 5 Monday 15 December 1997 23:45 The women and Jim accuse David. Newcomer Sandra is actually a journalist who has had herself sentenced in order to do a story on Wentworth.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Vera ~ Fiona Spence Sid ~ Edward Hepple David ~ Serge Lazareff Sandra ~ Candy Raymond  Hazel ~ Belinda Davey UNCREDITEDJulie ~ Christine JackOTHER CHARACTERSGary (Sandra's "boyfriend") | Doreen tries to take the blame as Jim returns her to her cell, but he obviously doesn't believe her. Bea and Lizzie are both in favour of letting David take the blame. Next morning, Jim reports what he saw to Erica, and says he doesn't think Doreen should be held entirely responsible. Erica orders David that he can no longer speak to Doreen if she's on her own, and suggests that he tries to interest more women in his classes. Bea tells Doreen not to waste time mooning over David, as she'll never get anywhere. Sid asks to drive Meg and Lizzie to hospital, but Meg agrees only if he will keep it quiet. Vera accuses David of seducing Doreen, and her tone carries more than a hint of the spite she feels because it wasn't her. Bea snaps and tells Doreen she's had enough of her always going on about David. David starts to approach the women individually about his classes, but Hazel tells him she isn't much interested after her bad experiences at school. David and Doreen sort out their differences but when David comes to the laundry to announce his new course in "modern living", Bea has a hard time convincing Doreen that he didn't come to laundry just as an excuse to see her. Lizzie tells Sid about her husband "Blossom" (a nickname obviously, though not much preferable to his real name, Tennyson). Sid offers to let Lizzie live in his house when she's released in about a year. Vera brings a new prisoner into the rec room: Sandra Hamilton, who is on a three week sentence for driving without a licence. Sandra recognises Judy from her TV appearance. In the shower block next morning, Sandra starts asking Doreen and Judy  a lot of questions and Bea has to warn her about respecting other people's privacy. Doreen tells Sandra about David's classes so she will have someone else to go with, and when she mentions wanting to give David a present, Sandra offers to get her boyfriend to smuggle something in. David tries to soft soap Vera to get another staff member on his side. Sandra and her "boyfriend" have a conversation in code: he slips a ring off his finger and gives it to her in response to a particularly pointed hint. Bea tries to get Judy not to blame herself, but Bea eventually realises that Judy's experiences in the massage parlour have affected her more deeply than she's willing to admit. Judy says that Jock will probably be in isolation at Pentridge, so he won't even be having a particularly hard time. Doreen gives David the ring passed on to her by Sandra, but he refuses to accept it. Bea is suspicious that Sandra knows far too much for a first time prisoner. Lizzie suggests that Doreen gives David a more personal gift, like a pair of socks she's knitted herself. Sandra tries to probe Judy further and when Judy walks away she latches onto Doreen asking more questions and wanting to know more about the escape. Bea suspicions harden, and she declares that Sandra must be a police informer. |
EPISODE 174Broadcast on Channel 5 Tuesday 16 December 1997 23:45 The women send Sandra to Coventry and believe she is getting favoured treatment. David shows Doreen's socks to Vera who then teases her. Liz is worried about Sid.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann Vera ~ Fiona Spence Sid ~ Edward Hepple David ~ Serge Lazareff Sandra ~ Candy Raymond Off. Powell ~ Judith McGrath UNCREDITEDOff. Barry ~ Joy WestmoreMiss Vaughan ~ Babs McMillan  | Bea orders the women to send Sandra to Coventry so she can't get any more information. Judy overhears Sandra ask Jim to be allowed to make a phone call and using considerable knowledge of regulations to get her own way. Doreen borrows Bea's torch so she can finish knitting the socks after light out. Doreen breaks the no talking to Sandra ban to ask her if she'll agree to go top classes with her, and she manages to give David his present. However, Erica comes in to the library to see how classes are going and David hides the socks on the bookshelves. Bea and Doreen try to cheer Judy up by saying she did the right thing for all of them while she was on the outside. David shows Vera the socks and she comments acidly that he ought to start knitting classes. When she next sees Doreen she can't resist making a snide comment which makes Doreen run back to her cell. Bea and Lizzie find her in tears and decide to attend the classes to settle the score. They turn up next day with a few extra bodies in tow, and Bea lets David know that any personal information he learns about the women must remain private, but she accepts his explanation that he didn't mean to hurt Doreen's feelings. Sandra is cleaning the showers when someone creeps up behind her and knocks her out by pushing her head against the tiled shower wall. Vera discovers her when she's coming round  , but she claims to have slipped on a wet patch. Bea says they will change tactics and turn the tables on Sandra to try to find out more about her. Vera sends Sandra for another examination after she comes over dizzy. When Sandra returns to the rec room, the women start to interrogate her. She starts to flirt with Judy dropping a heavy hint that she thinks they'd get on just fine if they could share a cell. Judy objects when Sandra is moved to share her cell, after Sandra has gone to Erica to ask for a transfer. Meg and Colleen speculate on the connection between Sandra's "accident" and her request for a cell change. Bea tells Doreen she'll have to lay off David as she's changed her mind and now gives the classes her approval. Sandra tries to seduce Judy by taking off her clothes in front of her, but Judy tells her to piss off. Lizzie is worried that Sid hasn't come into work and asks Colleen to check on him. Doreen sees Miss Vaughan in Erica's office who tries to reconcile with Kevin. David goes shopping for new clothes with Vera (though they still seem way too small for him!) and she invites him for dinner, only to find out he already has a girlfriend. Vera changes the rosters to put herself in maternity: Erica is surprised and reminds Vera that she's always called it "the Siberia of Wentworth". Sandra finally offers Judy cash in return for information, and finds herself being frog marched to Bea's cell, where she is roughed up  until she admits who she really is: she's a journalist and she had herself deliberately imprisoned to follow up Judy's story. Colleen calls in to see Sid and finds him unconscious  . |
EPISODE 175Broadcast on Channel 5 Wednesday 17 December 1997 23:35 The women decide to use Sandra to get some good PR. Lizzie visits Sid in hospital. And Doreen becomes ill.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Erica ~ Patsy King Bea ~ Val Lehman Jim ~ Gerard Maguire Doreen ~ Colette Mann David ~ Serge Lazareff Evelyn ~ Julia Blake  Sid ~ Edward Hepple Georgie ~ Tracey Mann Sandra ~ Candy Raymond Jenny ~ Sally Cooper  Sister Franklin ~ Diane Greentree Mr Thompson ~ David Scott  Physiotherapist ~ Carol Browne  Never judge a book by its cover: Sandra finds that "War and Peace" | Bea tells the women they can use Sandra to feed her information which supports their cause. Meg gives Lizzie the news that Sid has had a stroke, and promises to ask permission for her to visit him in hospital. Sandra says she's willing to pay the women for information, but only if it's what she thinks her editor will want. Three new prisoners are brought to Wentworth: when the van door is opened, one of them, Jenny Armstrong, has been given a bloody nose by one of the others, Georgie Baxter. Jenny is in prison for not paying a parking fine. Georgie is manhandled shrieking into reception and after wiping the fingerprint ink all over Jim's face  , she is sent straight to solitary  . When she is left alone there, she tears up the uniform she is supposed to put on. Meg introduces the third new inmate, Evelyn Randall, to the women in the rec room. Sandra complains the stuff the women are telling her is too boring to print. Evelyn announces that she's a herbalist and antagonizes Bea by calling her ignorant after Bea scoffs at her "profession". Sandra agrees to listen to Evelyn's story if she'll snoop around for gossip about Judy and Doreen. Lizzie talks to Jenny in sickbay and finds she was arrested when she got back from Asia for not paying a fine before she left. Bea says she is going to frame Sandra to have her put in solitary out of everyone's way. Lizzie visits Sid in hospital. Evelyn warns Sandra that she's liable to end up in solitary, but Sandra isn't too bothered and thinks she might get a story on Georgie that way. Bea realises why Evelyn is sticking up for Sandra and warns her not to interfere. Sandra gives Doreen tips on how to attract a man. Erica wants Georgie kept in solitary until she learns how to behave. Doreen is seen by Erica after Miss Vaughan's report, but Doreen rejects the offer of counselling. She tells Erica she won't make the same mistakes in any future relationship. Evelyn is affronted by David's suggestion that she attends his classes and tells him that not only is she highly qualified already but she'll be out after her appeal is heard. Doreen tries to make herself look pretty  and goes to David's class. Sandra tells her to ask for a hard assignment to impress David and promises to help her with it. Bea watches as Sandra passes the sheet to Doreen and it turns out to be full of mistakes. Doreen asks Evelyn for a remedy for an upset stomach and Evelyn says she could make one just using the plants in the prison garden, but only if Doreen keeps it secret from Bea. Meg tells Doreen it's time she grew up and forgot David. Evelyn gives Doreen a beaker of green liquid to drink. The physiotherapist tells Lizzie that Sid needs to take a more positive attitude if he's going to recover, so she gives him a stiff talking to. Bea takes a file from David's desk in order to plant it in Sandra's cell. It turns out to be Evelyn's file, so of course she and Judy read it first. An official from the Health Department arrives at Wentworth trying to trace Jenny Armstrong because a woman on the same flight has come down with a dangerous infectious disease, possibly typhoid. When the search for the missing file locates in under Sandra's bed, Bea tells Erica that Sandra is a reporter. Erica adopts Meg's suggestion that Sandra is confined to isolation for the rest of her stay in Wentworth. Doreen is running a temperature and confesses to Bea and Judy that she's taken some of Evelyn's medicine. Bea tells her that Evelyn is in prison for manslaughter after poisoning one of her patients. |
Script Editor: Patrick Amer (171); Ian Smith (172)-(173); Patrick Amer (174)-(175)
Storyliners: Dave Worthington, Alastair Sharp
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