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Within These Walls
Overview
Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison TV series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the prison staff rather than the inmates. The lead character was the well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell, and episodes revolved around her attempts to liberalise the prison regime while managing her personal life at home. Another prominent character was her Chief Officer, Mrs. Armitage. Googie Withers left after three series; in Series Four her character was replaced as governor by Helen Forrester, who in turn left to be replaced in the final Series Five by Susan Marshall. The creator and writer of the programme, David Butler, played the prison chaplain, the Rev Henry Prentice, in some episodes. As of November 2011 Network DVD have released all five series in the UK, with the exception of "Nowhere for the Kids", an episode from Series Two which appears to have been wiped from the archives.
Key Crew
Producer: Rex Firkin
Top Cast
Seasons
Season 1 (1974)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Cause for Concern
1974-01-04Episode 2: Lesson Number One
1974-01-11Episode 3: The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1974-01-18Episode 4: In Her Own Right
1974-01-25Episode 5: Prisoner by Marriage
1974-02-01Episode 6: The Group
1974-02-08Episode 7: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
1974-02-15Episode 8: Failing to Report
1974-02-22Episode 9: Tea on St. Pancras Station
1974-03-01Episode 10: Guessing Game
1974-03-08Episode 11: When the Bough Breaks
1974-03-15Episode 12: Labour of Love
1974-03-22Episode 13: A Sense of Duty
1974-03-29Season 2 (1975)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: When the Door Opens
1975-01-10Episode 2: Remand Wing
1975-01-17Episode 3: Nowhere for the Kids
1975-01-24Episode 4: The Slap
1975-01-31Episode 5: Playground
1975-02-07Episode 6: The Truth Game
1975-02-14Episode 7: Debate
1975-02-21Episode 8: Protest
1975-02-28Episode 9: Let the People See
1975-03-07Episode 10: Skivers
1975-03-14Episode 11: Coming Home
1975-03-21Episode 12: The Good Life
1975-04-04Episode 13: For Life
1975-04-11Season 3 (1975)
No overview available.
16 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: To Reason Why
1975-09-06Episode 2: Prison Cat
1975-09-13Episode 3: Deception
1975-09-20Episode 4: Babyface
1975-09-27Episode 5: Long Shadows
1975-10-04Episode 6: The Keys
1975-10-11Episode 7: A Lurking Doubt
1975-10-18Episode 8: Mother's Girl
1975-10-25Episode 9: A Free Woman
1975-11-01Episode 10: Getting Out
1975-11-08Episode 11: Windows
1975-11-15Episode 12: Get the Glory Down
1975-11-22Episode 13: My Dad Was Called Charlie
1975-11-29Episode 14: Inside Out
1975-12-06Episode 15: The Animals Went in Two by Two
1975-12-13Episode 16: On the Second Day of Christmas
1975-12-20Season 4 (1976)
No overview available.
17 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Catalyst
1976-09-04Episode 2: The Man with the Magic Touch
1976-09-11Episode 3: The Complaint
1976-09-18Episode 4: The Line of Duty
1976-09-25Episode 5: K Block
1976-10-02Episode 6: A Way of Loving
1976-10-09Episode 7: Love and the Chaplain
1976-10-16Episode 8: The Mystery
1976-10-23Episode 9: A Sentence of Death
1976-10-30Episode 10: Vacuum
1976-11-06Episode 11: On Trial
1976-11-13Episode 12: Visitors
1976-11-20Episode 13: Transfer
1976-11-27Episode 14: Someone's Got to Do It
1976-12-04Episode 15: Islands in the Heartline
1976-12-11Episode 16: Invasion of Privacy
1976-12-18Episode 17: Silent Night
1976-12-24Season 5 (1978)
No overview available.
13 episodes
