EPISODE 481Broadcast on Channel 5 Friday 05 March 1999 04:40CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Bobbitt Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson Myra ~ Anne Phelan Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha Dennis ~ Nigel Bradshaw Diedre ~ Anne Charleston Angela ~ Kylie Foster Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon Dot ~ Alethea McGrath Heather ~ Victoria Nicolls Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Phillip ~ Steve Kuhn Barbara ~ Myra de Groot Major ~ Carl Bleazby Shane ~ Robert Summers Gordon ~ Jim Ewing Geoffrey Johnson ~ John Murphy Lou ~ Louise Siversen Frances ~ Wanda Davidson Alice ~ Lois Collinder Lorna ~ Barbara Jungwirth Vera Rogers ~ May Howlett Det. Insp. Rouse ~ Paul Karo Doris Cruickshank ~ Nicki Paull Peter Wright ~ Alan Pentland  Mr Montgomery ~ Chris Waters Mrs Taylor ~ Hazel Campbell Debbie Peters ~ Anna Crawford Social Worker ~ Andrea Swifte  News Interviewer ~ Lindsay Edwards Backpack Cameraman ~ Julian Noel Policeman No. 1 ~ Bill Binks  Policeman No. 2 ~ Ian Sprake  UNCREDITEDThe anonymous caller ~ who sounds like the actor who later plays Brian Lowe, though he is supposed not to be the same.Another cheeky Kean/Dean shot | Heather tells Ann about Marie's threats and admits the truth of the allegations about drugs, but denies any involvement in the escape. Ann wants to know why Marie has waited until now to make her accusation and wonders if there is anyone who could be using Marie to get back at Heather. Heather says she should be able to make a shrewd guess who that might be. Joan tells Shane she will visit him in the home and his father confronts Joan for making him lose his son. Dennis says goodbye to the women in the rec room while the dance marathon is still going on: Bobbie asks him to try to visit Cass. In another tear-jerking farewell scene, Shane gives Nicky to the Major to look after, at Joan's suggestion, until he gets a foster family who will let him have a dog. Joan decides she will stay at Wentworth rather than go with her father to live in Forbes. Judy has a dizzy spell that causes Bobbie to worry about her health. Mrs Rodgers assumes that Heather's mood is to do with Dennis, but Heather tells her it's because she's worried about losing her job. Alice sprains her ankle, and Dot takes her place on the dance team, though she changes partners so she doesn't have to dance with Marlene. Dennis tells Heather to let him know when she's made up her mind whether she's more concerned with her job or their relationship. Heather accuses Joan of setting her up through her friend Cynthia at Blackmoor, but Joan just sneers that she only has herself to blame if she's in trouble. During a break in the marathon, Angel tries to charm Phil with some outrageously untrue and flattering remarks. Meg tells Ann about Joan's friend Cynthia Drewin, now at Blackmoor. Ann can't start her car and the policeman watching her finds it has been tampered with - the brake line has been cut. Reb refuses to help Heather get rid of Joan by telling her the truth about who attacked her, and tells her she'll do it her own way. Angel overhears Phil and Meg discussing a date. Diedre stands up for Reb when Joan issues a veiled threat to her and is told not to bother by both Reb and Joan. Barbara Krantz persuades Ann not to stop the marathon for the sake of Dot and Judy, and her speech telling them the Governor thinks they should stop makes them defiant enough to be determined to carry on. Doris shows Dennis a letter saying that his mother is ill and says they should do the decent thing and go back together to visit her. Reb sees Lou and Frances tormenting Diedre in the shower block but tells them to carry on, as she doesn't care. Ann tells Meg the police are questioning a suspect picked up breaking into her flat. [Meg comments it would be "too much of a coincidence" for him not to be connected to the threatening letters. Apparently not...] After Lou has insisted she has an extra large helping at dinner, Reb salts Diedre's food then pushes her face in it. Dennis tells Heather he has to go back to England to see his sick mother. The sponsor arrives with a cheque that the gate guard wants to open until the PR lady vouches for everyone. Dot collapses with only ninety minutes to go. Angel calls in Peter Wright and tells him to rape Meg to "turn her off men for a while", or she will tell the police about his other rapes. Heather vows to take Joan with her if she has to leave. The women break the record and have another half hour to go to win the sponsor's money when an anonymous caller phones the prison and tells Ann he has planted a bomb because of the "degradation" forced on the women by taking part in the dance marathon. |
EPISODE 482Broadcast on Channel 5 Saturday 06 March 1999 04:40 Wentworth is evacuated after a bomb threat is received, Joan is set up by Heather and the women, and the rapists enter Meg's flat.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Bobbitt Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson Myra ~ Anne Phelan Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha Dennis ~ Nigel Bradshaw Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon Dot ~ Alethea McGrath Heather ~ Victoria Nicolls Diedre ~ Anne Charleston Angela ~ Kylie Foster Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Phillip ~ Steve Kuhn Barbara ~ Myra de Groot Mr Montgomery ~ Chris Waters Det. Insp. Rouse ~ Paul Karo Debbie Peters ~ Anna Crawford Peter Wright ~ Alan Pentland Mrs Taylor ~ Hazel Campbell News Interviewer ~ Lindsay Edwards Backpack Cameraman ~ Julian Noel Masked Intruder ~ Jon Williams  Constable ~ Stephen Hutchinson  Ambulanceman ~ Peter Dade  Ambulanceman ~ Bruce Atkins Bomb Squad man 1 ~ Michael Anderson Bomb Squad man 2 ~ Roger Davey Bomb Squad man 3 ~ Robert Wiseman With this episode the lockup officer in the final credits changes from Delva Hunter to Geraldine Girvan | Ann orders the officers to evacuate the building with only a few minutes to go: the dance team refuse to leave so Ann agrees to stay with them to validate their efforts. Debbie Peters, one of the deaf children, hides rather than leave the building and Meg and a policeman go back inside to try to find her. Ann counts out the final seconds then escorts the women outside. Joan finds Debbie hiding under a bed in one of the cells, but has to chase after her when Debbie runs away. Judy hears that Debbie is missing and goes to find her. Joan corners Debbie in the dining room and Debbie bites her hand to get away from her. Mr Montgomery tries to wriggle out of paying the money: the news reporter and the women put pressure on him to make him change his mind. Judy collapses with exhaustion and Joan has to take Debbie outside and send someone back for her. The empty prison corridors are shown with the sound of the dance marathon music still playing: when the music stops, we can here a regular ticking sound, but it is only the noise made by the loose end of a reel-to-reel tape when it runs out. The bomb squad give the all clear and the women go back inside: Inspector Rouse tells Ann that the man who made the call has been arrested. Angel finds Marlene's Willie Bear sitting on her bed and stabs and slashes at him with a pair of scissors  . Peter Wright waits outside Meg's for her to arrive home. Heather asks Myra for help in getting rid of Joan. Phil's arrival at Meg's foils Peter Wright: Phil tells Meg he saw someone leaving as he came up the path. Marlene is worried what has happened to Willy Bear: Angel tells her she saw Bobbie playing with him. Heather puts a bagful of miniatures and pills in one of the lockers. Marlene runs into a wall and accuses Joan of pushing her. When Marlene is taken to the Governor, Heather adds that she has seen Joan bash prisoners on a daily basis since she arrived. Myra tells Reb she has to help Diedre cope with being in prison. Heather gets Bobbie to break into Joan's locker and plants the contraband. Marlene finds the slashed Willie Bear under Bobbie's pillow: Bobbie accuses Angel of setting her up but no-one believes her. Ann tells Heather the Department will not suspend her immediately after their experience over the strike caused by suspending Joan. Meg is set up to find Bobbie high on pills in the laundry: Bobbie claims it was Joan who supplied her with "Ferguson's fun fizzers". Phil volunteers to run (once again) typing classes for the woman. Meg reports Bobbie's condition to Ann. Phil spots that Bobbie is only pretending to be high. Ann asks Meg to stay as a witness while Joan's locker is searched and finds the contraband. She orders Meg to take a statement from every woman in the prison about drug dealing and brutality. Bobbie bashes Angel in the shower block, after a prolonged mutual hair pulling bout. Meg is surprised at home by a masked intruder and opens her front door to escape, only to let in Peter Wright. |
EPISODE 483Broadcast on Channel 5 Sunday 07 March 1999 04:40 Meg has a traumatic experience, while the women discover the truth about Angel.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Bobbitt Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson Myra ~ Anne Phelan Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon Dot ~ Alethea McGrath Heather ~ Victoria Nicolls Diedre ~ Anne Charleston Angel ~ Kylie Foster Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Phillip ~ Steve Kuhn Lou ~ Louise Siversen Frances ~ Wanda Davidson Alice ~ Lois Collinder Ruth ~ Mary Murphy Ray Proctor ~ Alex Menglet Mrs Adams ~ Myrtle Woods  Stanley ~ Brian James Neville Sloan ~ Jon Evans  Det. Insp. Rouse ~ Paul Karo | Meg tries to escape by kicking Peter Wright in the crotch, but he punches her in the face and ties her to the bed and gags her  . He and his accomplice Trog  then rape Meg. Phil tries to phone Meg but can't get an answer and tell Joyce she's "struck out". Heather is disgusted that someone has beaten up that "sweet little girl" Angel. Reb has a much needed haircut from one of the extras. Bobbie returns to the rec room marked with Angel's scratches: the women are appalled when she admits her attack on Angel. She says she isn't surprised - Angel told her no-one would believe her. Meg unties herself after her rapists have left. Marlene rejects Bobbie, and accuses her of being jealous of her for having a family that loves her. Bobbie takes the pills she had been given for the frame-up against Joan. Meg showers and tries to phone the police, but hangs up when she can't actually say the word "rape". Joan recruits Lou to find out the details of the plot against her: she offers to let Lou run any racket she likes and even says she can have a free go at Reb's mother. Meg calls Ann, asking her to come over to talk. She insists to Ann that she does not want to report the rape, after seeing how the police treated rape victims when she was a probation officer. Joan visits Reb in the night  to threaten her and undermine her further by making Lou declare she has turned against her. Meg gets up in the middle of the night to have another shower. Ray returns to work in the kitchen while Mrs O'Reagan recovers. Joyce tells Ann that Angel lagged on Bobbie, and has found her grandmother's address in the file, so she's called her in. Lou seems interested in who has applied for the handyman job. Meg comes in to work, much to Ann's dismay, especially when she tries to deny that anything has happened to her. Lou trips Diedre, who immediately lags on her to Joan, who puts Lou on a charge. Judy returns from hospital. Joan lets all the women know that Angel lagged. Ray gives Marlene a cake for Marlene to give to Bobbie to make up with her. Inspector Rouse tells Ann that the man arrested for the bomb threat refuses to admit to sending the threatening letters: Ann asks his advice about her "daughter's friend" who has been raped. Myra and Judy decide to end hostilities when the news of Angel's lagging make them have second thoughts about her. Ann is horrified by Mrs Adams' assertion that Angel is one of the most "evil, despicable" people she knows and that Angel started the fire that killed her parents. Meg reacts furiously to Marlene's jokes about men. Joyce sees Angel's anger when she finds out that her grandmother has revealed the truth. Neville Sloan and Stan Dobson are the only serious candidates for the handyman job. Angel tells Joan that Heather planned the frame-up in return for protection. Bobbie is told her father and sister are coming to visit her. Stan gets Ann's recommendation for the job. No-one believes Angel's story and Myra announces that she is to be sent to Coventry. Joan sends Diedre to the laundry pretending that Reb wants to speak to her. Neville approaches Stan outside the prison to try to get him to drop out. Meg reacts badly when Phil grabs her arm. Joan tells Reb her mother is being bashed and tries to drag her along to watch. Judy and Myra prevent her, but when they hear Diedre is being bashed they leave Reb and go themselves to help Diedre. |
EPISODE 484Broadcast on Channel 5 Tuesday 09 March 1999 04:40 Lou makes plans to get rid of Stan; Heather and the women plan to dispose of Joan; and Peter Wright makes a surprising revelation to the police.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Bobbitt Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson Myra ~ Anne Phelan Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha Diedre ~ Anne Charleston Angel ~ Kylie Foster Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Dot ~ Alethea McGrath Stanley ~ Brian James Edie ~ Marion Heathfield  Ray ~ Alex Menglet Police Surgeon ~ Douglas Hedge  S.O.S. Policewoman ~ Sue Formby  Police Sergeant ~ Peter Black  Photofit Artist ~ Gus Coelissen  Constable ~ Alan Bowles  Policeman No. 1 ~ Gary McConville  Policeman No. 2 ~ Bill Fozz UNCREDITED?Heather ~ Victoria NicollsA spare policeman who isn't Bill Binks  I wonder who these reprobates in the mugshot book | Lou and Alice are pulled off Diedre by Judy and Myra, and Lou has her head held in the steam press. Diedre is knocked out, and Reb finds her unconscious. Ann persuades Meg to report the rape. As they clean Diedre up, Reb apologises and Diedre and Reb make up. Angela is ignored by Judy and Myra, apart from to have her face slapped by Myra when she throws something to attract their attention. Meg gives a statement to a woman police officer, but the male officer makes slighting comments about her delay in reporting the rape. Joan breaks up the happy family reunion and tells Diedre to pack up as someone (...who?) has paid her bail and she is to be released. Stan tells Edie he has a job at Wentworth: she assumes he means as an officer, and he does not contradict her. Angel throws a tantrum when no-one will let her sit with them at dinner: Joan makes her clean up the mess with her bare hands. Meg does a photofit of her assailant  (which results in a Michael Redgrave lookalike). Heather tells Myra Joan hasn't yet been charged with trafficking, and Judy suggests they try to set Joan up for sexual harassment of a prisoner, but even though Marlene manages to make up with Bobbie, she refuses to be the target. Meg is alarmed by the police surgeon's warning that she has been tested for venereal disease (without her knowledge?) Angel makes a snide remark to Meg hinting that she knows something about her rape. Stan tries again to tell Edie he's only a gardener but she's got it into her head that he's an officer and has already told her friends. Joan brings an old friend back to laundry - Pixie  . Stan asks if he can have his old uniform. Pixie tells Judy she was arrested and got a three month sentence for shop-lifting a brooch, because she was distracted by a "gorgeous" man who was a store detective. With a sad irony, Pixie tells the women she had visited Cass, but she doesn't remember much about Wentworth. Meg tells Phil she has been raped, and he immediately reaches out to grab hold of her. Pixie agrees to help with the plot against Joan, but Lou overhears the details of the set-up. Stan is called to fix one of the driers and is nearly mown down by Lou with the laundry trolley. Lou lags to Joan about the setup plot in return for her promise to get Nev into Stan's job. Meg picks out Peter Wright on an identity parade, but is told he alleges that she had sex with him willingly. Lou's attempt to collect Fran and Alice to fix Heather is prevented by Reb: the set-up goes ahead. Judy and Myra strip Joan  though a smirk from Joan  makes Judy wonder for a moment if Joan is aware what's going on. Marlene goes to fetch Ann. Heather pretends to be unlocking the cell and lets Ann into the cell to see what is going on. Joan denies the charge: Heather realises it is not going to work and immediately takes the blame. Phil tells the police officer he thinks he saw Peter Wright leaving Meg's flat the night before the rape. Ann is furious at the attempt to set up a fellow officer and dismisses Heather. |
During one of the ad breaks during the Channel 5 broadcast of (484), Pot Noodle extended their sponsorship of the show into a women's prison themed advert 
. Though it appears to be shot on a set more like the set of Bad Girls 
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EPISODE 485Broadcast on Channel 5 Wednesday 10 March 1999 04:40 Joan gloats over her victory as the women learn of Heather's dismissal. Meg's rape causes serious problems in her relationship with Philip.CREDITSMeg ~ Elspeth BallantyneJudy ~ Bobbitt Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson Myra ~ Anne Phelan Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon Pixie ~ Judy McBurney Dot ~ Alethea McGrath Angel ~ Kylie Foster Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Phillip ~ Steve Kuhn Lou ~ Louise Siversen Stanley ~ Brian James Edie ~ Marion Heathfield Kerryn ~ Jill Forster  Cheryl Mitchell ~ Dior Deumer  Charlie Mitchell ~ Stewart Faichney  Mr Warren ~ John Proper Mrs Warren ~ Eve Godly Policewoman ~ Carolyn Kennett Drunk ~ Bernard Blestell  Thanks to Barbara for lending me her tape of the broadcast on Yorkshire TV 1994. | Meg is disgusted with Phillip for his remark at the police station which seems to lend support to Peter Wright's defence of prior association with her. He begs her not to blame all men for what happened to her and when she doesn't respond, he leaves. Joan gloats that after the failure of their plot no-one would believe the women even if they came up with a genuine grievance against her. Ann rescinds the loss of visiting privileges, as she doesn't want Bobby to lose the chance of meeting her father. Stan returns home in uniform after his first day at work to a meal specially cooked by Edie in celebration. Lou protests to Joan that Reb has a knife, but Joan replies that she'd better take it off her if she doesn't want to get hurt. Ann calls on Meg at home as she doesn't feel safe at home: Meg tells her that she feels the same even after identifying her rapist in a police line-up. Reb catches Lou searching her locker after lights out, and holds the knife to her throat, asking if this is perhaps what she's looking for? Lou agrees to tell Reb whatever Joan is planning for her. Stan changes into workman's overalls in a public toilet on his way to work. Bobbie meets Stan and fills him in on what has happened to her since the last time they saw each other: he offers to visit Cass to see how she is. Reb asks Ann to have power of attorney transferred to her mother, and Ann gives permission for Reb to make an extra phone call to contact an old friend to ask him to keep an eye on her mother. Meg apologises to Phillip and confides in him that she was worried by a remark of Angel's that seemed to imply that Angel knew she had been raped. Reb tells Lou that her friend will have some dope plants smuggled in for them: Lou replies that if they could arrange for Nev to have the handyman's job they could get whatever they wanted. Joyce returns a set of keys to Ann that she found on the floor outside the rec room: Stan realises that they belong to him. Bobbie is visited by her father, but he soon loses his temper with her and slaps her face and calls her a slut: Joyce and Phillip hustle him out of the visiting suite. Judy gets a letter from Lori congratulating the women on their dance marathon record. Joan warns Lou to leave Stan alone, and orders her to start a scuffle in the garden later on that can be blamed on Reb: Lou demands in return that Joan should help with getting rid of Stan. Marlene looks for other things to bet on to get her and Bobbie a bit of extra money. Ann tells Stan the drier he fixed the previous day has broken down again. Marlene challenges the women to solve a puzzle of making nine matches into TEN, which Reb solves easily and takes the stake. Kerryn Davis is brought to Wentworth on a two year sentence for fraud, and Joan refuses her repeated request to be able to phone her husband. When the women discuss Meg's strange behaviour and mysterious bruises, Angel attempts to make them take notice of her by saying that she knows that Meg was raped: Myra makes her confess that she knows because it was one of her friends who did it. Ann also refuses to let Kerryn contact her husband and puts her to share a cell with Pixie. Dot makes Kerryn feel even worse with her tactless remarks. Angel tries to get Dot on her side, but Dot tells her she wants nothing to do with her. Stan pulls up the dope plants that Reb and Lou put in the garden as weeds, but Bobbie recovers one or two from the wheelbarrow. Lou starts a scuffle as arranged to give Joan an excuse to search Reb and find the knife, so she can have her sent to solitary. Bobbie puts the dope plants under the shed. Joan manages to shift the blame for the scuffle onto Stan. Dot finds her cell wrecked and her crochet pulled apart. Stan finds a letter inside a newspaper Ann gives him, which she brought into the prison herself. Joan takes Reb the "back way" up to solitary and tells her she's going to have a little "accident". When Joan tries to push Reb down the stairwell, Reb smacks her in the face and gives her a push, so it is Joan who goes over the bannisters  . Reb is just about to stamp on Joan's hand to make her lose her grip when she has a flashback to Phyllis unconscious on the floor of the shower room  . Instead of finishing Joan off, Reb runs away, leaving Joan dangling from the bannisters  . |
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