EPISODE 662Broadcast on Channel 5 Saturday 04 November 2000 04:40. Joan catches Rodney in the process of bashing a prisoner. Lester's belongings are delivered to Lisa in jail. Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Rita ~ Glenda Linscott Alice ~ Lois Collinder Kath ~ Kate Hood Lorelei ~ Paula Duncan Merle ~ Rosanne Hull-Brown Rodney ~ Philip Hyde Delia ~ Desiree Smith Mervin ~ Ernie Bourne Vicki ~ Rebecca Dines Spider ~ Taya Stratton Sarah ~ Kylie Belling Pamela ~ Justine Saunders Marty ~ Michael Winchester Lisa ~ Terrie Waddell Bruce West ~ Peter Drake Joanne West ~ Vicki Mitchell Adrian Harrow ~ John Mortimore  Rodney tells Ann "I'm not an officer any more, Mrs Reynolds: I know my job backwards". Presumably this is a line fluff and he should have said that he's not a trainee officer any more. Spider claims to have been watching Joan for "four bloody years" but Joan at least has been there to observe for longer than that. | Joan stops the beating, sends Rodney out of the cell and takes Spider to sick-bay, despite her initial insistence that she won't be cleaned up until the Governor sees her. Spider accuses Rodney and Joan to Joyce when she arrives on the scene, but Joan pours scorn on the allegation. Joan is angry with Rodney for "going too far" and tells him she will insist on an immediate Departmental investigation, but she will fix it so it appears that Spider is trying to frame her and Rodney. Rodney is interviewed by Mr Harrow from Internal Affairs but his denials that he even touched Spider fails to convince him even though Rodney's hands are unbruised when he is asked to show them. Spider is put back in her cell as the other women shout to her to try to find out: Spider shouts back that she is sure Rodney and Joan will be out of a job and they have her to thank for it. Joan backs up Rodney by claiming Spider must have got someone to bash her before lockup. Mr Harrow tells Ann that he has no evidence and rules that charges against Joan and Rodney are to be dropped. The women are outraged when Ann announces the decision in the dining room. Alice warns Spider she should not to take action on her own or they will lose the shop. Ann warns Rodney to watch his step and if she ever finds any evidence that he bashed Spider, he could still be prosecuted. Marty has to prevent Sarah going for Spider when they trade insults walking along the corridor after muster. Lisa is shown Lester's pitifully few possessions in a cardboard box and a note from Wendy, which she tears up, but it turns out she cannot keep any of the things. Rita tries to explain to Sarah why they have to back Spider against the officers. Rodney tries to suck up to Joan, but she freezes him out. Lorelei and Lisa comfort each other. Marty sends Merle and Sarah to get paint for the shed, but Sarah scares Merle away by pretending she's about to put a curse on her. Spider takes the opportunity to drive a tractor at Sarah, but Merle pushes her out of the way  . Lorelei tries to arrange Lisa's modelling career, and asks Joyce for permission to use the camera from Lester's box of stuff. Merle defends Sarah when Vicki pretends to attack her with a plank of wood. Pamela asks Ann to lunch with Sarah's foster parents. Sarah knocks Merle out with a door thinking she's Vicki and has to run to get Lorelei from the workshop to help. Vicki offers to paint up a sign for the shop  . Merle comes round and Lorelei decides she doesn't need to see the Sister. Vicki and Spider are thrown out of the rec room by the other women when they insist on making puerile racist comments. At their dinner meeting, the Wests  tell Ann and Pamela they are unsure whether to tell Sarah what they have found out about her real parents: her mother died about six months before and her father is a white alcoholic jackaroo who probably can't even be traced. Rita decides on a suitable punishment for Spider and the women put the plot into action. Vicki is moved in to share with Spider. Sarah is brought to see the treatment the women have given her: she's been blacked up with mud  and her hair twisted into devil's horns. For some inexplicable reason, Sarah does not seem to find the sight very amusing. Pamela and Ann come to talk to Sarah and see Spider in blackface. |
Unusually, the whole of the final scene of the previous episode is repeated at the start of this episode after the credit sequence (approximately 2 minutes 15 seconds of it). I suspect that this episode may have been intended as the year end episode and the usual lengthy recap at the start of the first episode after the Christmas/New Year break was simply incorporated within the programme itself.
EPISODE 663Broadcast on Channel 5 Sunday 05 November 2000 04:40. Sarah's problems are a helpful diversion while Kath and Rodney buy contraband for the Wentworth shop. She is forced by Rita to face some home truths.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Rita ~ Glenda Linscott Alice ~ Lois Collinder Kath ~ Kate Hood Lorelei ~ Paula Duncan Merle ~ Rosanne Hull-Brown Delia ~ Desiree Smith Marty ~ Michael Winchester Rodney ~ Philip Hyde Vicki ~ Rebecca Dines Spider ~ Taya Stratton Lisa ~ Terrie Waddell Sarah West ~ Kylie Belling Pamela Madigan ~ Justine Saunders Bruce West ~ Peter Drake Joanne West ~ Vicki Mitchell Pete (Harpo) Marks ~ Chris Gaffney  G. G. Paul ~ David Le Page  Trainee Manager ~ Mark Belvedere Sleaze ~ Steve Goldsmith | Sarah is about to take responsibility for painting Spider, but the other women step forward at the same time to share the blame. Sarah offers to call quits on the feud with Spider, but Spider rejects it. Joan phones up a contact to set up the merchandise for Rodney to collect on his trip out of the prison with Kath and Merle. Sarah is told about her real parents and that her father's name is Franklin but she rejects the information and refuses to let the Wests visit her. Vicki warns Spider not to be too keen to put revenge against Sarah get the better of her business plans. Kath gives Merle a poncho to wear on their shopping trip, which is the only thing she has that will fit her. Meg returns to work from holiday in the outback. Rita makes Sarah talk her problems over. Meg's presents for her colleagues include a "precious thing"  for Mervin and a "frightful tea towel"  for Joyce. Merle and Kath load up the car while Rodney collects the drugs and booze from a man in the car park. While Kath takes Merle to an amusement arcade followed by a skating rink, he hides the drugs in cold cream jars. Ann gives the women permission to use the camera as long as Joyce takes the photos. Meg gives the women a souvenir boomerang to put up on the wall. Rita agrees to try to convince Sarah to see the Wests and Pamela says she will try to get them to visit just in case. Joan tells Kath to start selling the contraband straight away rather than wait until the shop is established as Kath wants. Lorelei sympathises with Sarah over the loss of her mother and Sarah urges her to get Zoe back from her foster parents. The women are given their first chance to buy goods from the shop. The boomerang Meg brought back from holiday crashes suddenly through the Ann's window just as she, Meg and Pamela are discussing the marked improvement in the women's behaviour since they knew they were getting the shop. It turns out to have been Merle trying it out. Alice orders some booze from Kath, and goes straight to Rita to tell her about it. Rita tries to find out from Merle what happened on her and Kath's trip out, but what she says makes no sense. Joan orders Kath to double her prices after only one day's "introductory" sale. Rita has to drag Sarah outside to see her foster parents and then has to force her to speak to them. Spider overhears Kath quoting the new prices, and offers to undercut them until Kath threatens her. Mr West tells Sarah he thinks he may have traced her real father and tells her that he wants to see her. Rita leads a boycott of the shop over the price rises  . |
EPISODE 665Broadcast on Channel 5 Sunday 12 November 2000 04:40. The Freak finally finds a way to beat Rita. Kath is being set up to be the next top dog.Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicolson Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Rita ~ Glenda Linscott Alice ~ Lois Collinder Kath ~ Kate Hood Lorelei ~ Paula Duncan Merle ~ Rosanne Hull-Brown Rodney ~ Philip Hyde Vicki ~ Rebecca Dines Spider ~ Taya Stratton Lisa ~ Terrie Waddell Sarah ~ Kylie Belling Pamela ~ Justine Saunders James Dwyer ~ James Condon Brumby Tucker ~ Sheryl Munks Spike Marsh ~ Victoria Rowland Ernest Craven ~ Ray Meagher Terry Walters ~ Bruce Kilpatrick Bongo Connors ~ Shane Connor Government Off. ~ Geoffrey Pullan  Ian Hardy ~ Ric Harley Policeman no 1 ~ Adrian Jenkins Policeman no 2 ~ Ed Ryan Attendant ~ Stewart Lowe UNCREDITEDThe man who relays a message to Ann at the conference table (unless he is the mysterious "Attendant"?) | Alice worries where Rita has gone. Meg accuses Joan of taking advantage of Ann's absence. Ann embarrasses the Minister by mentioning reform projects at the conference, but is called away to the phone by Meg. Sarah sees Rita being transferred and tells the women: Alice is put on the spot, but Spider and Vicki decide to support her and declare a strike. Ann arrives back and is outraged. Kath leads some of the women back to work, as Alice leads a protest. Joan tells Kath she will be top dog again. Ann talks to the protesters and orders that the women are to be locked in their cells. Rita gets her first sight of Blackmoor  : she fails to send on an imaginary white line at induction and is sent to the pound  . Governor Craven  tells Brumby she will be sharing a cell with Rita. The Minister refuses to transfer Rita back. The women at Blackmoor listen to Rita's fight with the officers. Alice proposes a hunger strike. Joan gives Kath her orders, and Kath drops a plate in Alice's lap to provoke a confrontation: Joan takes them both outside and arranges a fight between them, then gives Kath some lead to make a cosh. Sarah asks Pamela to visit Rita in Blackmoor. Brumby tells Rita about Roo Morgan, the top dog at Blackmoor. Alice and Kath fight in the laundry and Alice is knocked out almost immediately. Kath is voted in as top dog. Pamela is denied permission to see Rita by Craven. Rita sees Bongo as the male prisoners are led through the exercise yard  : Brumby tells her he's been in Blackmoor for about 3 weeks and is a junkie being fed dope by Roo Morgan. |
Story Editor: Gwenda Marsh (661)-(664); Bevan Lee (665)
Script Editor: Pauline Clayton (661); Neil Luxmoore (662); Pauline Clayton (663)-(665)
Storyliners: Tony McDonald, John Coulter, Bob Greenberg
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