EPISODE 376Broadcast on Channel 5 Friday 09 October 1998 04:40 Mikki faces losing her job and her boyfriend. Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Maxine ~ Lisa Crittenden Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Maggie May ~ Davina Whitehouse Mikki ~ Christine Keogh Lizta ~ Christine Totos Cliff ~ Robbie McGregor Carol ~ Merrin Canning Jilly ~ Natasha Love Laura/Brandy ~ Roslyn Gentle Roxanne ~ Peppi D'Or Mrs Landon ~ Eve Godley Joe Palmer ~ Vince Gill  Frances ~ Wanda Davidson Jen ~ Dawn Klingberg  Welfare Officer ~ Helen Tripp The children's home seems to be the same as the one where Russell Tyler was sent. This Scrabble game is developing a bit of a theme Colleen does not appear in this episode (Thanks Mark C) | Brandy wants to know how to get booze inside the prison. Bea breathes a sigh of relief that at least she isn't still pretending to be "Mary Poppins". Maggie tells Bea she won't ever get out of prison in the States, and so won't ever see her grandchildren again. Litza goes home, and Mikki assumes she's just being obedient to Manoli. Lizta replies that perhaps Mikki has too much "freedom" to know what to do with it. Joan assures Ann she won' t let her experience affect her treatment of Carol, but Ann tells Joan that even so it would be a good idea to keep away from her to avoid any possible misunderstandings. Mikki is left alone with Frances and Jen who brings in drink and pulls a broken bottle on Mikki when she reminds her of the no-booze rule. Mikki turns tail and runs out of the house. Meg visits the library and finds that the librarian has eloped. Mikki runs into Judy in the street, who is very annoyed that Mikki didn't stay to calm Jen down. Despite Ann's order, Joan goes to talk to Carol, who asks to see Jilly. Meanwhile, Wally talks Jen into dropping the bottle and getting rid of the booze by telling her that the house could be closed down. Colleen overhears Joan phoning the home to check on Jilly and warns her to stay away from Carol as Ann ordered, but she neverthless agrees to pass on the message to Carol that her daughter is well. Judy gives Mikki the sack for running away from trouble: Mikki goes into a huff and says she'll leave straight away. Carol is introduced to the women in the dining room. Maxine reminds Bea of what they did to Denise: and it turned out that she was innocent. Bea notices how the officers are keeping watch on them and their reaction to Carol, so that suggests that they at least think she'd guilty. Maxine agrees to try to find out one way or another. Cliff isn't very sympathetic at Mikki's whining about losing her job. Maggie gives Lizzie some cash and a photo of her as a farewell present. Maxine asks Carol what she did: Joan cuts in to stop Carol answering. Maxine suspects that Joan is defending Carol because she fancies her. Bea thinks it is just further proof that Carol is guilty. Mikki's jealousy and her refusal to have sex with Cliff on demand makes him tell her to go back to her "dykey mate" at Driscoll. Roxanne is brought to Wentworth, heavily pregnant, for handling stolen goods. Brandy makes the drier break down, so that maintenance men are brought in. Mikki decides to go back to her old flat. Judy offers Wally the job at Driscoll. After Joan's report on the incident with Carol and Maxine, Ann decides that an officer should be with Carol at all times and agrees to let Joan visit Jilly. Brandy seduces the workman. Joan offers to take Jilly for a day out away from the home. Brandy takes the workman's money and suggests she could fix it for something else to go wring with the drier so he can come back again. Roxanne tells Ann she already has a gynaecologist, and reveals to Lizzie that she's having the child for another couple for $20,000 |
EPISODE 377Broadcast on Channel 5 Saturday 10 October 1998 04:40 Joan's involvement in Carol Colsen's murder has shattering repercussions.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Maxine ~ Lisa Crittenden Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Laura/Brandy ~ Roslyn Gentle Carol ~ Merrin Canning Jilly ~ Natasha Love Roxanne ~ Peppi D'Or Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Pixie ~ Judy McBurney  David Sheldon ~ Chris Hallam Joe Palmer ~ Vince Gill Phillip Farnham ~ Victor Kazan  Brian Stockwell ~ John Bishop  Trevor Wilkins ~ Tony Mack  Pamela Jordan ~ Lisa Rodgers  Welfare Officer ~ Helen Tripp  | Lizzie doesn't approve and tells Roxanne she agrees with the women in maternity, who were criticising Roxanne for giving her baby away. Maxine and Roxanne overhear Joan talking to Carol as she reports back to her about Jilly and asks her why she killed her husband. Bea also turns against Roxanne when she finds out about her deal. Carol asks Joan to stay for her interview with her solicitor, even after he points out that Joan could be called as a witness for the prosecution. When Bea criticises Carol for being too friendly with Joan, Carol tells the women that it was Joan who stopped her killing her child. Bea is amazed. Roxanne is warned that she will be found guilty on the shoplifting charge, and that the police have frozen her bank account. Bea hints to Joan that she knows she's having an affair with Carol, but that the women don't care whose "friend" Carol is - they still don't like her. Roxanne asks to phone the Sheldons and has to tell them she's in prison. Carol's sister Pam visits her, and tells her she cannot look after Jilly. Joan tells Ann about the women's attitude to Carol, and Ann advises Joan not to go and see Jilly or the women might get the wrong idea. David Sheldon has to tell Ann he's the father of Roxanne's baby in order to get permission to see her. Joan takes Jilly to the zoo, and they watch a seemingly interminable sequnece of different monkeys. Jilly bursts into tears when she sees a happy family there. Phyllis keeps watch while Brandy goes to the boiler room to meet Joe the repair man. "Sandy Gilham" arrives at the halfway house, having run away from her husband, claiming he beats her. Tom gives money to Brandy, but a swig of booze changes her back to Laura, looking lost and terrified. Phyllis takes her money and leaves her alone. "Sandy" tells different people that her husband's name is variously Phillip, James and Andrew. Laura is found by Colleen cowering in a corridor. Ann invites Wally to stay in her attic. "Sandy"'s fiance Phillip turns up at Driscoll: he tells Judy that "Sandy" ran away from their wedding. Judy agrees to ask her to call him. Jilly is brought to visit her mother, but sulkily refuses to say anything apart from "you killed my dad". Sandy sweeps back into Driscoll with an armful of presents for everyone. Her response to questions about Phillip are rambling and vague, and tries to distract everyone further by giving out the presents - including a huge pink boiler suit for Judy to wear while she's doing the gardening. Carol is distraught that she couldn't explain to Jilly why she killed her father. Joan tells Ann she thinks she may have made things worse by bringing Jilly in to see her mother. Ann goes to talk to Carol and finds she has hung herself in her cell  . |
Funny that "Laura the Librarian" whose information on the cinema in (359) was read out by Bill Buckley on Channel 5 over the closing credits gives exactly the same information as I do...
EPISODE 378Broadcast on Channel 5 Sunday 11 October 1998 04:40 Roxanne realises the legal position she's in as a surrogate mother. Meanwhile the eccentric Pixie Mason's power games have disastrous results.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Maxine ~ Lisa Crittenden Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Laura/Brandy ~ Roslyn Gentle Roxanne ~ Peppi D'Or Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Pixie ~ Judy McBurney David Sheldon ~ Chris Hallam Andrea Sheldon ~ Pat Forbes  Phillip Farnham ~ Victor Kazan Sister Kelly ~ Liddy Holloway Dr Hodges ~ Tom Travers  George Haley ~ Ian Clutterham  Magistrate ~ Arthur Barradell-Smith James Watson ~ James Wright  Gavin Storm ~ Cole Horsfall Insp. Lane ~ Peter Drake  Brian Molan ~ Howard Eynon  Defence Counsel ~ Con Williams [I have corrected the misspelling "Defence Councel"] | Joan blames herself for bringing Jilly
in to see Carol. Ann tries to send her home but she insists on finishing her shift, and she even offers to break the news to Jilly about her mother's death. Lizzie tells the women she's seen Carol's body being taken away and blames the silent treatment the women gave Carol for her suicide. Joan refuses to confirm any rumour about Carol for the women. Ann talks to Brandy, but she's completely unable to remember why she was in the corridor or how she got there. Roxanne takes advantage of a meeting with David Sheldon to demand more money. Maxine tells Judy she can't give her mother the real story about what happened with the robbery. Judy is bothered by Roxanne's attitude and says that the Sheldons could well lose both the money and the baby. A doctor recommends that Brandy see a psychiatrist. Meg takes Judy to see Brandy: now as Laura, she is shocked to find out what she was charged with. David Sheldon decides to seek legal advice to enforce the original contract with Roxanne. He is told that they could claim back the money, as the contract very carefully framed it as a "loan", but that won't mean they will have any claim on the baby, even though David is the natural father. Ann tells Joan that Carol's sister has agreed to take Jilly after all. Roxanne is sentenced to six months. James Watson visits Driscoll to look for his wife Pixie, and Judy recognizes from a photo as "Sandy"  . Pixie won't come back with him, but cadges a lift with him to Phillip's house. The women at the pottery class are disappointed to see Roxanne back inside and point out that her baby will probably now be born in prison. Pixie tells Judy later she left her first husband Eddie, then married James, and is now moving in with Phillip. Phillip, however, turns up at the halfway house wanting to speak to Pixie with a note from her saying she's going back to her husband. He also wants to know what she plans to do with the diamond engagement ring he bought her. Wally is persuaded to move into Ann's attic after she cooks him a good meal. Judy finds a bank book dropped by Pixie and sees it is made out in another woman's name. Roxanne is having second thoughts about giving the child up. Pixie claims she is being picked up at Driscoll by Phillip, then James, but it is yet another man when he finally does turn up. Laura asks Phyllis for the bottle of brandy, telling her she isn't bothered about the money, and Phyllis can keep it. The police arrive at Driscoll looking for Sandra Mason, with another of Pixie's husbands: she is to be charged with bigamy and fraud. |
EPISODE 379Broadcast on Channel 5 Tuesday 13 October 1998 04:40 Pixie launches her madcap plan to avoid conviction. Phyllis unwittingly aids a suicide attempt.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Maxine ~ Lisa Crittenden Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Laura/Brandy ~ Roslyn Gentle Roxanne ~ Peppi D'Or Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Pixie ~ Judy McBurney David Sheldon ~ Chris Hallam Paul Reynolds ~ Paul Newman  Martin Cawley ~ John Murphy  James Watson ~ James Wright Ambulanceman ~ Nick Antipas  Pixie's wedding photo collection Just what is Roxanne going to give birth to witha bump like this? | Pixie is brought to Wentworth charged with four counts of bigamy. When she finds out that Joan isn't married, she tells her not to worry, she obviously hasn't met the right man yet. Lizzie meets Pixie's and is shown her album of wedding photos: Pixie realises she may actually have six husbands and the police think there's only four. When Meg brings Laura her medication, she at last gets her to admit that where Meg has seen her before, but after Meg has gone she takes the pill out of her mouth and hides it with the others she has been saving. Laura takes all the pills she's been saving at once. Ann's son Paul helps Wally move in and tells Judy of his ambition to be a photographer. Ann tells Meg they should notify the police of Brandy's other name. Laura finds the pills aren't having any effect, so she slashes her wrists with a broken bottle  . Pixie entertains the women with her illogical ideas on marriage, divorce and immorality. Lizzie goes looking for Brandy to get drink and finds her unconscious. As Laura is taken away to hospital, she mutters about being murdered. Colleen points out that this isn't really consistent with the blood in the wash basin. Joan tells Pixie off for wandering around the prison and orders her out of the laundry if she isn't going to work. Pixie promptly volunteers for work. James comes to visit Pixie: he wants to know the truth, and particularly if they were ever married. He promises to wait for her until she is released, but she tells him to leave or he'll make her cry. No-one will admit to knowing where the brandy bottle came from. Pixie says she had an illegitimate child at the age of 16. By talking about what will probably happen to Laura, the women give Pixie the idea of making a plea of temporary insanity. David tells Roxanne he can't raise any more money but says he will show the police the loan contract to make them unfreeze her bank account. Paul visits Wentworth and takes photos of the women without asking permission: Bea stops him angrily. Roxanne is upset at Bea's constant sniping at her for her mercenary motives, so Maxine lets Bea know the effect her remarks are having. Wally suggests that Paul could take some photos in to brighten up the women's cells and get back in their good books. Pixie sees her solicitor: she finds out she will still have to face the bigamy charges and two charges of fraud, and is blankly told she has no chance of getting an acquittal. She later stages a faint in the laundry in front of Joan, and pretends to be Joan of Arc when she wakes: Colleen warns her not to play with fire. Paul shows Ann a photo in the newspaper of Lionel Fellows and shows her another photo he's taken of the same man being handed an envelope by another man. Ann identifies the second man as Ted Douglas  . |
EPISODE 380Broadcast on Channel 5 Thursday 15 October 1998 04:40 Bea finds an incriminating photo and uses it to blackmail Ted Douglas. A visit from her boyfriend forces Roxanne to reconsider selling her baby.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Betty Bobbitt Lizzie ~ Sheila Florance Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Bea ~ Val Lehman Colleen ~ Judith McGrath Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Maxine ~ Lisa Crittenden Wally ~ Alan Hopgood Laura/Brandy ~ Roslyn Gentle Roxanne ~ Peppi D'Or Phyllis ~ Reylene Pearce Pixie ~ Judy McBurney David Sheldon ~ Chris Hallam Andrea Sheldon ~ Pat Forbes James Watson ~ James Wright Paul Reynolds ~ Paul Newman Mr Douglas ~ Ian Smith Dr Weissman ~ Bryon Williams Craig Lambert ~ Paul Alexander  Brian Molan ~ Howard Eynon  Defence Counsel ~ Neil Mitchell  Prosecutor ~ Eugene Schlusser  Tipstaff ~ Richard Hutson Judge ~ Ray Burgess  Doctor Marlowe ~ Steve Cumming  Ted Douglas's number - which Colleen fails to recognise - is 117 4896 | Ann says she will have to ask Ted Douglas as she is sure there must be some simple explanation. Paul says he thinks he may also have given the women a copy of the same photo, and the photos are collected up. Bea, however, has seen the incriminating photo and keeps it after Phyllis identifies Fellowes. Roxanne adds that Fellowes has taken over the Mcnally operation. Ann tactfully asks the women about the "missing" photos and Bea pretends the women only had a chance to have a quick look at them. Meg goes to see Laura in hospital, but cannot get any response. The doctor tells Meg he thinks Laura will need psychiatric help. After he leaves, Brandy returns and we hear her thoughts accusing Laura of trying to kill her. Ted Douglas visits at Ann's request: she shows him the photo and he demands the negative and all copies of the photo immediately, pretending it is a highly confidential matter and Department business. Lizzie reports back to the women that she's seen Ted Douglas in the building, but Bea has already worked out that Ann would have called him in. At Pixie's trial she blames her twin sister Audrey for the crimes she is accused of, but the Judge takes her to task for frivolity. Paul refuses to hand over the photos to Ted Douglas, when Ann takes him back to her house to collect them. Bea wonders why there hasn't been a cell search and decides she will phone Ted Douglas herself. Pixie is sentenced to five years, but when she arrives back at Wentworth she tries to con Colleen into letting her wear her own clothes. Lizzie spills some tea to get a look at Ann's telephone book and finds Ted Douglas' number: Roxanne volunteers to phone him: Colleen dials the number and Roxanne passes on the message that "the girls all liked the photo". Lizzie tries to cheer Pixie up by telling her they've had several weddings inside. Roxanne has a visit from an old boyfriend Craig, who is under the impression he is her child's father. Ted Douglas comes to see Bea to discuss terms: she demands a doctor, teacher, social worker and conjugal visits. Roxanne decides not to hand over the baby and tells Maxine she thinks the Sheldons wouldn't sue her. Pixie comes to breakfast in her underwear: Meg forces her to dress, and in front of Joan, Pixie accuses Meg of undressing her. However, Pixie backs down when Meg insists on taking her the the Governor to repeat the complaint. Bea is disgusted with Roxanne for deceiving Craig. Roxanne phones David Sheldon to say she's keeping the baby. Dr Weissman recommends Brandy is returned to Wentworth. Andrea Sheldon visits Roxanne and convinces her to change her mind and give up the baby after all. Brandy returns, now as Susan, a confident middle-class woman. Roxanne goes into labour early. |
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