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81 Episodes 1980 - 1981
Episode 1
Bea, Lizzie and Doreen are trapped in the tunnel while the women are confined to their cells after the extent of the escape becomes known.
Episode 2
Chrissie arranges a birthday party for Elizabeth while Anne's behaviour gives cause for concern. The escapees are rescued from the collapsed tunnel.
Episode 3
Gillespie attempts to introduce blanket censorship as unrest mounts within the prison. Judy and Lizzie decide to write letters to the Ombudsman.
Episode 4
Vera performs external heart massage on Lizzie until an ambulance arrives and she is taken to hospital. Judy meets Wally's daughter. In hospital, Lizzie receives a letter from Ellen in America.
Episode 5
Lizzie's condition improves, however Erica realises her prison record will prevent her from being allowed into America. Doreen goes to trial. Micki and Judy see Wally being taken in by the police.
Episode 6
Lizzie regains some of her old fight. Erica goes on TV to refute Judy's claims. David Andrews arrives to start the new Education Centre in the prison library.
Episode 7
Jock Stewart 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 new prison teacher David for comfort.
Episode 8
David is accused by the women and Jim. Newcomer Sandra is actually a journalist who has had herself sentenced in order to do a story on Wentworth.
Episode 9
The women send Sandra to Coventry and believe she is getting favoured treatment. David shows Doreen's socks to Vera who then teases her. Lizzie is worried about Sid.
Episode 10
The women decide to use Sandra to get some good PR. Lizzie visits Sid in hospital. And Doreen becomes ill.
Episode 11
Doreen misunderstands Evelyn's herbal remedy instructions. Georgie attends class in the library, but goes berserk when the women laugh at her. Lizzie collects pollen and weeds for Evelyn when she visits Sid.
Episode 12
Wentworth is isolated after a tropical disease breaks out, believed to be carried by Jenny. Judy strikes up a friendship with Georgie. Meg contracts the disease and is put in the prison hospital with Lizzie and Evelyn.
Episode 13
Sandra is recaptured and placed in the pound. Judy is looked after by Georgie.
Episode 14
The secret of Evelyn's remedy is discovered. David begins to suspect that Georgie is deaf. Margot gets a visit from her boyfriend Wayne.
Episode 15
Margo tries to contact her boyfriend Wayne, and David arranges for Georgie to have some hospital tests.
Episode 16
Margo tries to see Bea. Georgie returns to the prison after the operation.
Episode 17
The argument between Judy and Bea escalates. Margo discovers that Wayne owes $6,000 in gambling debts.
Episode 18
Bea is taken to the prison hospital. David starts an intensive course to teach Georgie to read and write.
Episode 19
The siege with Margo and her boyfriend continues. Bea is returned to Wentworth.
Episode 20
Margo is back in Wentworth. The women decide to retaliate against David's plans to stop Georgie's parole.
Episode 21
Lizzie requests a day out. Meg arranges a job for Georgie. Sally has a run-in with Doreen and Bea.
Episode 22
Lizzie has disappeared. Bob entertains important client. Chrissie is transferred to H Block.
Episode 23
Chrissie receives a surprise visit, while Meg approaches Erica with an interesting offer.
Episode 24
Trouble brews over the conjugal visiting suite.
Episode 25
Bea is ostracized by her fellow inmates. Meg returns to the prison to work as a parole officer.
Episode 26
Bea feels that Debbie is meddling in her personal life. Debbie talks her mother into coming to Melbourne.
Episode 27
Chrissie arrives home. Doreen reveals her secret about the Lonely Hearts Club to Judy. Lizzie receives a letter from America.
Episode 28
Doreen tells Judy about her feelings for Peter and is humiliated by Vera. Meg gives a positive report about Chrissie and Mick to Child Welfare. The officers are angered by the proposed project for Bea and the Braille machine.
Episode 29
The women support Bea's stand on the strike. Meg talks to Chrissie and Mick about getting legal aid to fight for custody of Chrissie's daughter Elizabeth.
Episode 30
The women revolt while Colleen Powell is promoted. Erica finds herself losing control.
Episode 31
Lizzie is becoming increasingly frightened about the atmosphere in Wentworth.
Episode 32
Del gives Chrissie some shocking news. Bea moves into a cell with Tracey Morris.
Episode 33
While Judy is confined to solitary, Margo is sentenced to ten years.
Episode 34
Margo's terror campaign continues, while the police find the van they believe Bea used for her escape.
Episode 35
Mum pleads with Bea to give herself up to the police. Judy and Doreen finally admit they were setting up Margo. Meg tries to matchmake when she realises Terry Harrison is interested in Vera.
Episode 36
Bea is found by Terry in a heap in the laundry. When it transpires she may be suffering from amnesia Jim is not convinced.
Episode 37
Nick's flatmate has been arrested on drug charges. Bea is locked in the storeroom.
Episode 38
Vera is the only one who doesn't believe Bea has amnesia. Nick doesn't turn up for work. And Meg is delayed getting to court, where Mum is relying on her evidence.
Episode 39
Margo confronts Bea. Nick is amazed at Bob's trust in him. Vera makes a decision about Terry.
Episode 40
Lizzie has taken over Margo's book with some success. While Terry moves into Vera's flat, Margo determines to set him up.
Episode 41
Lizzie attempts to pay off her debts. Nick is infatuated with Meg, who is suspicious of Bob. Terry confronts Margo.
Episode 42
Margo accuses Terry of hitting her. Bob gives Nick an ultimatum. The women are introduced to Arna, a visitor from Sweden, and Nick goes crazy when Meg reveals her true feelings.
Episode 43
Bea and Judy escort a drunken Doreen to Judy's cell. Meg is distressed at her failure with Nick, and Bob is unable to console her.
Episode 44
Jim is upset when Terry decides to resign. Florence dies during her operation. Judy meets Lori.
Episode 45
Judy and Lori establish that they are mother and daughter. Jim tells Erica of the incident outside the perimeter fence, and is convinced of her innocence.
Episode 46
Meg brings the solicitor to see Michelle. Erica finds the love-letters that her father wrote to her mother. Lori is taken to the Parole Officer.
Episode 47
Jim confides in Terry that he is trying to locate a witness for Michelle.
Episode 48
Jim discovers Amelia in the park and rushes her to court. Terry is mortified when he bumps into Kathy.
Episode 49
Meg and Erica are worried about Sid's living alone, and Meg offers to take him in. Bea warns Kathy not to succumb to Terry's temptations.
Episode 50
Determined to solve the mystery, Bea and Judy search Kathy's cell. Jim asks Vera about Terry's involvement with Kathy.
Episode 51
Lizzie and Sid discuss their wedding which is to be held in the prison garden - who gets the ball-and-chain?
Episode 52
Bea saves Alison's life by applying cardiac massage.
Episode 53
Vera and Terry argue. Erica's decision about Alison alarms Jim. Kathy's flatmate has disturbing news.
Episode 54
Alison is upset and confused. Kathy worries about getting out. Vera goes for an interview.
Episode 55
Don threatens to take the matter of the attack further. Bea is interested in Alison's access to files. Kathy is let out of prison - with tragic consequences.
Episode 56
Alison is allowed out of isolation while Doreen is sent to solitary. Terry makes Vera a startling proposal.
Episode 57
Terry pressures Vera for an answer, and Lizzie awaits news of her parole.
Episode 58
Terry tells Vera how he is implicated in Kathy's death. Alison is allowed to visit Don in hospital. The women decide to wear black arm bands.
Episode 59
After Terry is shot dead, Vera makes a final decision that rocks the staff of Wentworth. She accepts the promotion of Governor at Barnhurst, and in typical Vera style, decides to leave quietly when everyone else is celebrating.
Episode 60
Colleen Powell is suspicious of the women's good behaviour after Vera leaves. Lizzie is ecstatic when she is told of her release.
Episode 61
Alison is put on a charge when she hits out at Colleen, and Don has an accident at work.
Episode 62
Jim offers no reason for his resignation. Colleen's promotion may be jeopardized after the women give her a hard time about Alison.
Episode 63
Peter tells the women he's on the run. Doreen sees this as a chance to go on the pull.
Episode 64
Linda and Ricky prepare Andrea's escape attempt. Meg gives Peter an ultimatum.
Episode 65
Linda and Ricky break into Erica's flat Erica is threatened with a shotgun when she arrives home discovering Linda and Ricky have broken into her flat.
Episode 66
Doreen and Peter risk capture to take Martin to hospital. Ricky and Linda take Erica hostage.
Episode 67
A new female officer arrives at an already understaffed Wentworth knowing a secret about Bea. Andrea lets slip a clue to Erica's whereabouts. Peter and Doreen break into Lizzie's house.
Episode 68
Peter discovers that Doreen is in love with him. Andrea and Linda have a fight and are taken to hospital.
Episode 69
Linda and Andrea are returned to Wentworth after their attempted escape from hospital. Janet worries her past is comeback to haunt her. Lizzie is released from Wentworth.
Episode 70
Tension in the dining room when Linda and Andrea come face to face, and two new prisoners, Kate and Sandy, are introduced to the other women.
Episode 71
Linda needs help before it is too late.
Episode 72
Meg asks Bea for help regarding Lizzie.
Episode 73
Sandy asserts herself as top dog. Janet confesses to Meg that she met Bea previously. Gordon tells Lizzie that he wants Syd's house to rent it out. and Bea is seriously ill with a suspected brain tumour.
Episode 74
Sandy steals some painkillers for Bea. Lizzie decides what to do about Gordon with Doreen's help.
Episode 75
The women decide to discredit Officer Powell. One of the women is stunned when a doctor says her tissue is compatible with Bea's.
Episode 76
Lizzie returns to Wentworth as a remand prisoner, protesting her innocence, and Judy gets a shock.
Episode 77
The women decide to discredit Officer Powell. One of the women is stunned when a doctor says her tissue is compatible with Bea's.
Episode 78
Doreen struggles with the idea that she has to give away her kidney to Bea, while staff are at loggerheads when Mr Douglas enforces Mr Gillespie's security recommendations.
Episode 79
Dr Kennedy visits Bea and confirms that Doreen has agreed to donate her kidney.
Episode 80
The women become determined to disrupt the harsh security measures that plague them, and the infamous Marie Winter arrives on transfer from Barnhurst and sounds out Sandy's leadership.
Episode 81
Doreen and Judy are sent to Barnhurst after the roster mix - up.. and Judy is also questioned about the fire in the staff room.. News is going around the prison about Bea being taken to Hospital for her kidney transplant and Lizzie is caught in the act of stealing from the kitchen by Colleen and is sent to another block.. The women are fed up on how the screws are treating them and Marie Winter tries to make trouble - Top Dog Sandy Edwards agrees to Riot - The Inmates start collecting weapons for the riot and Marie starts making sling shots out of the scraps in the laundry.. Colleen is promoted and Meg Morris tries to tell everyone there is going to be trouble with the women but no one cares as they just think it will die down.. Later that night.. Meg Morris, Jim Fletcher, Janet Conway and New Officer Steve Faulkner are on Night duty - Sandy and Kate Peterson start letting the women out after lights out.. Marie and the other women are making fire bombs in Doreen and Judy's old cell.. Jim and Meg go on there rounds for the final time before knocking off.. when all hell breaks loose when Meg and Jim spot the women unlocking a gate.. The women spot them and charge at them.. Jim runs for it and sounds the riot alarm.. and Meg just stands there in terror.. The women throw fire bombs and try to unlock the 2nd gate.. Jim runs back and grabs Meg and they run for it.. The season ends with the women charging at Meg and Jim with fire bombs and Polls yelling.