Episode 1

S01 E01 • Tuesday, Feb 27, 1979 • Feb 27 • 47m

Two new prisoners, Karen Travers and Lyn Warner, are inducted into Wentworth Detention Centre and have to adjust to the harsh regime and the tough women they meet there. Karen, convicted of stabbing her cheating husband to death in the shower, turns out to be an old flame of prison Doctor Greg Miller. Lynn has been convicted of kidnapping and burying a baby alive, and though she loudly protests her innocence, she is bullied by the other women, led by their 'Top Dog', murderess Bea Smith. Meanwhile, young inmate Sally Lee hangs herself in her cell while going through ...

Episode 2

S01 E02 • Tuesday, Feb 27, 1979 • Feb 27 • 46m

Lynn withdraws her complaint, so Bea's release is approved. The prisoners hold a farwell party for Bea and Mum. Mum leaves her beloved garden in the hands of Lynn. Mum is released into the care of her daughter, Lorraine, and Bea gets a lift into town from Eddie. Meg and Bill are having problems with their teenage son Marty, who tells them he wants to move out and get a place with his girlfriend. With Bea gone, Franky siezes the opportunity to take over the press and announces she is now in charge. Greg tries to talk Karen into appealing against her sentence, realising her husband was abusing her. Lynn goes on hunger strike until her innocence is believed. Mum's daughter rejects her, saying she doesn't want her coming home with her, so Mum checks into a grotty bedsit in town. Bea spends her first night of freedom in luxury at a hotel. Next morning, she visits daughter Debbie's grave and picks up a package from her old cellmate, a ""present"" for her husband.

Episode 3

S01 E03 • Wednesday, Feb 28, 1979 • Feb 28 • 46m

With Frankie's hold over the women growing, she attempts to show the screws who is in charge by getting the women to stay in the dinning room until she gives the order for them to leave. Prostitute Chrissie Latham tries to seduce Bill but he turns her down. Lizzie and Marilyn mess around with the wiring so that Eddie will be called in. Marilyn and Eddie climb up into the roof for a "Liaison". Bea's return sends Frankie over the edge and she starts a riot in the dinning room. Bea, Doreen and some other women are trapped in the laundry; Frankie, Lizzy, Chrissie and ...

Episode 4

S01 E04 • Tuesday, Mar 6, 1979 • Mar 6 • 48m

Bill dies on the way to hospital and Rosie gives Birth to a boy. Meg is devastated as the police investigate into Bill's murder begins. The cops are not getting very far; meanwhile, Eddie tells Marilyn he saw who stabbed Bill. Bea and the girls learn from him that it was Chrissie who killed him. They attack and scalp Chrissie, and she is transferred away to another prison. Meg turns up for work, yells at everyone and is sent home by Erika Davidson until the funeral is passed, Mum collapses at the bedsit and her landlady goes through her belongings. After the funeral, ...

Episode 5

S01 E05 • Wednesday, Mar 7, 1979 • Mar 7 • 48m

Mum recuperates from her collapse at her daughter's home but has to pretend to the children that she is an aunt as Lorraine told them their grandmother was dead. Frankie and Bea fight during a dance class in the Rec Room. Yates is caught smuggling the pill in for Marilyn. Suspected of being the one who supplied Sally Lee with drugs, she is reprimanded by Erica Davidson, and quits in disgust. Bea reads the girls tea Leaves and Lizzie pinches a bottle of surgical spirit from the infirmary. Mum can't deal with Lorraine any longer and walks out. After which Judith Anne ...

Episode 6

S01 E06 • Tuesday, Mar 13, 1979 • Mar 13 • 46m

Lynn reveals she must be pregnant after being raped by her employer, Mr Bentley, the father of the baby she is supposed to have buried alive. Frankie bullies Lizzie into giving her some of her Buy-Up and later steals her false teeth when she refuses. Marilyn learns she is to be paroled in a few days. Eddie proposes to he but she turns him down, though she agrees to move in with him. Horrified by Lynne's story, Meg Jackson attitude softens again and she tells Erica Davidson she believes Lynn. Screw, Vera Bennet, is having trouble with her ailing mother but refuses to ...

Episode 7

S01 E07 • Wednesday, Mar 14, 1979 • Mar 14 • 49m

Lizzie finds a stray cat in the garden and brings it into the prison. When it dies, she blames Frankie for killing it, but it turns out she did it accidentally herself by giving it water from the garden tainted with weed killer. Lizzie then tries to fake amnesia in order to get an early release but Meg Jackson sees right through it. Gary Doyle comes to visit Frankie again and gives her a copy of his plans for the farm. Later the other women deface the plans by scribbling all over them. Mum suggests Frankie work in the garden to keep her away from Bea Smith. Erica ...

Episode 8

S01 E08 • Tuesday, Mar 20, 1979 • Mar 20 • 45m

Bea Smith and the other inmates find out about Frankie's plans to get paroled and live on a farm so they try to rile her into blowing her chances. Marilyn gets a job at a hotel but she is demoted after beauty consultant Helen Masters complains about her and then quits after being sexually harassed by her boss. She goes back on the game to buy Eddie a birthday present, prompting them to have a row and she walks out on him. Helen Masters is sent to Wentworth charged with manslaughter after her car is used in a hit-and-run. At first she is to be bailed but when she tries...

Episode 9

S01 E09 • Wednesday, Mar 21, 1979 • Mar 21 • 48m

Marilyn's boyfriend Eddie is suspicious of where she got the money for his birthday gift: back "on the game" (prostitution)? The final straw is a visitor who is obviously a "workmate" from the street. Officials and inmates are puzzled when Helen Masters drops her application for bail. She uses the media to bring attention to the "innocent" women being incarcerated--including herself, of course. The Bentleys, the culprits responsible for Lyn's conviction, continue their libertine ways, but are finally exposed and arrested.

Episode 10

S01 E10 • Tuesday, Mar 27, 1979 • Mar 27 • 47m

Helen Masters sets out to affect the quality of prison meals as part of her campaign to get a character witness for her trial, the prison doctor. Marilyn returns to prison, but Eddie is through. Vera's drinking almost gets her arrested in a pub, but the officer grants her professional courtesy and takes her home. Masters cons everybody--even her blackmailing assistant--and wins acquittal, trashing the prison officials and inmates in her first TV interview.

Episode 11

S01 E11 • Wednesday, Mar 28, 1979 • Mar 28 • 47m

The inmates start realigning after Master's release; Frankie gains motivation from her brother to work on good behavior. Lyn, who has returned to her parents' home, runs away with Doug whom she had met while in prison. A detective, pretending to be attracted to Vera, interrogates Marilyn about her associates and their drug connections. Frankie, who can't read, gets a telegram saying her brother was injured and goes berserk when it's read to her, deciding to end it all.

Episode 12

S01 E12 • Tuesday, Apr 3, 1979 • Apr 3 • 48m

The inmates start realigning after Master's release; Frankie gains motivation from her brother to work on good behavior. Lyn, who has returned to her parents' home, runs away with Doug whom she had met while in prison. A detective, pretending to be attracted to Vera, interrogates Marilyn about her associates and their drug connections. Frankie, who can't read, gets a telegram saying her brother was injured and goes berserk when it's read to her, deciding to end it all.

Episode 13

S01 E13 • Wednesday, Apr 4, 1979 • Apr 4 • 46m

Vera's attitude continues to become more punitive toward the inmates, bringing a reprimand from the governor. Lizzie's heart forces her to return to the prison, while Frankie and Doreen face life on the run with no money. Lyn faces the fact that Doug is still a criminal, and she reluctantly gets involved in a holdup.

Episode 14

S01 E14 • Tuesday, Apr 10, 1979 • Apr 10 • 45m

Shot in the holdup, Doug dies and Lyn cannot run, so she calls the prison doctor who gets there just before the cops. She loses her baby. Doug gets sacked because of his involvement with Marilyn. Frankie and Doreen are still on the run. The new social worker visits Mum's granddaughter and explains how much Mum needs to see her. Karen's mother is planning to be remarried, and in her first prison visit is appalled at the news Karen might get a retrial, renewing the publicity.

Episode 15

S01 E15 • Wednesday, Apr 11, 1979 • Apr 11 • 46m

Karen permits the prison doctor to contact her lawyer about a retrial, and Dr. Miller kisses her. Vera walks in on them and reports him. A new prisoner, who is reputed to be really tough, is admitted; she and Bea turn out to be old friends, dashing Vera's hopes. Lyn is returned to prison. Doreen and Frankie have disguised themselves as nuns to beg money on the street, but decide to find an older person whom they can rob and perhaps take over their home.

Episode 16

S01 E16 • Tuesday, Apr 17, 1979 • Apr 17 • 47m

Episode 17

S01 E17 • Wednesday, Apr 18, 1979 • Apr 18 • 46m

Episode 18

S01 E18 • Tuesday, Apr 24, 1979 • Apr 24 • 45m

Episode 19

S01 E19 • Wednesday, Apr 25, 1979 • Apr 25 • 47m

Episode 20

S01 E20 • Tuesday, May 1, 1979 • May 1 • 47m

Episode 21

S01 E21 • Wednesday, May 2, 1979 • May 2 • 46m

Episode 22

S01 E22 • Tuesday, May 8, 1979 • May 8 • 46m

Episode 23

S01 E23 • Wednesday, May 9, 1979 • May 9 • 47m

Episode 24

S01 E24 • Tuesday, May 15, 1979 • May 15 • 45m

Episode 25

S01 E25 • Wednesday, May 16, 1979 • May 16 • 46m

Episode 26

S01 E26 • Tuesday, May 22, 1979 • May 22 • 45m

Episode 27

S01 E27 • Wednesday, May 23, 1979 • May 23 • 46m

Episode 28

S01 E28 • Tuesday, May 29, 1979 • May 29 • 45m

Episode 29

S01 E29 • Wednesday, May 30, 1979 • May 30 • 45m

Episode 30

S01 E30 • Tuesday, Jun 5, 1979 • Jun 5 • 48m

Episode 31

S01 E31 • Wednesday, Jun 6, 1979 • Jun 6 • 47m

Episode 32

S01 E32 • Tuesday, Jun 12, 1979 • Jun 12 • 48m

Episode 33

S01 E33 • Wednesday, Jun 13, 1979 • Jun 13 • 45m

Episode 34

S01 E34 • Tuesday, Jun 19, 1979 • Jun 19 • 49m

Episode 35

S01 E35 • Wednesday, Jun 20, 1979 • Jun 20 • 47m

Episode 36

S01 E36 • Tuesday, Jun 26, 1979 • Jun 26 • 48m

Episode 37

S01 E37 • Wednesday, Jun 27, 1979 • Jun 27 • 47m

Episode 38

S01 E38 • Tuesday, Jul 3, 1979 • Jul 3 • 48m

Episode 39

S01 E39 • Wednesday, Jul 4, 1979 • Jul 4 • 46m

Episode 40

S01 E40 • Tuesday, Jul 10, 1979 • Jul 10 • 47m

Episode 41

S01 E41 • Wednesday, Jul 11, 1979 • Jul 11 • 48m

Episode 42

S01 E42 • Tuesday, Jul 17, 1979 • Jul 17 • 47m

Episode 43

S01 E43 • Wednesday, Jul 18, 1979 • Jul 18 • 48m

Episode 44

S01 E44 • Tuesday, Jul 24, 1979 • Jul 24 • 47m

Episode 45

S01 E45 • Wednesday, Jul 25, 1979 • Jul 25 • 45m

Episode 46

S01 E46 • Tuesday, Jul 31, 1979 • Jul 31 • 47m

Episode 47

S01 E47 • Wednesday, Aug 1, 1979 • Aug 1 • 49m

Episode 48

S01 E48 • Tuesday, Aug 7, 1979 • Aug 7 • 48m

Episode 49

S01 E49 • Wednesday, Aug 8, 1979 • Aug 8 • 47m

Episode 50

S01 E50 • Tuesday, Aug 14, 1979 • Aug 14 • 46m