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.
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Cause for Concern | 1974-01-04 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | Lesson Number One | 1974-01-11 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Walls Came Tumbling Down | 1974-01-18 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | In Her Own Right | 1974-01-25 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Prisoner by Marriage | 1974-02-01 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Group | 1974-02-08 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | One Step Forward, Two Steps Back | 1974-02-15 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | Failing to Report | 1974-02-22 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | Tea on St. Pancras Station | 1974-03-01 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | Guessing Game | 1974-03-08 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 11 | When the Bough Breaks | 1974-03-15 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 12 | Labour of Love | 1974-03-22 | 60 min |
Season 1 | Episode 13 | A Sense of Duty | 1974-03-29 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | When the Door Opens | 1975-01-10 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | Remand Wing | 1975-01-17 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | Nowhere for the Kids | 1975-01-24 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Slap | 1975-01-31 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Playground | 1975-02-07 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | The Truth Game | 1975-02-14 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Debate | 1975-02-21 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Protest | 1975-02-28 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 9 | Let the People See | 1975-03-07 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 10 | Skivers | 1975-03-14 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 11 | Coming Home | 1975-03-21 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 12 | The Good Life | 1975-04-04 | 60 min |
Season 2 | Episode 13 | For Life | 1975-04-11 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 1 | To Reason Why | 1975-09-06 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 2 | Prison Cat | 1975-09-13 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 3 | Deception | 1975-09-20 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 4 | Babyface | 1975-09-27 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 5 | Long Shadows | 1975-10-04 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 6 | The Keys | 1975-10-11 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 7 | A Lurking Doubt | 1975-10-18 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 8 | Mother's Girl | 1975-10-25 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 9 | A Free Woman | 1975-11-01 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 10 | Getting Out | 1975-11-08 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 11 | Windows | 1975-11-15 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 12 | Get the Glory Down | 1975-11-22 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 13 | My Dad Was Called Charlie | 1975-11-29 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 14 | Inside Out | 1975-12-06 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 15 | The Animals Went in Two by Two | 1975-12-13 | 60 min |
Season 3 | Episode 16 | On the Second Day of Christmas | 1975-12-20 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 1 | Catalyst | 1976-09-04 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 2 | The Man with the Magic Touch | 1976-09-11 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 3 | The Complaint | 1976-09-18 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 4 | The Line of Duty | 1976-09-25 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 5 | K Block | 1976-10-02 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 6 | A Way of Loving | 1976-10-09 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 7 | Love and the Chaplain | 1976-10-16 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 8 | The Mystery | 1976-10-23 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 9 | A Sentence of Death | 1976-10-30 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 10 | Vacuum | 1976-11-06 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 11 | On Trial | 1976-11-13 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 12 | Visitors | 1976-11-20 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 13 | Transfer | 1976-11-27 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 14 | Someone's Got to Do It | 1976-12-04 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 15 | Islands in the Heartline | 1976-12-11 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 16 | Invasion of Privacy | 1976-12-18 | 60 min |
Season 4 | Episode 17 | Silent Night | 1976-12-24 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 1 | Mixer | 1978-01-21 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 2 | Arrivals, Departures | 1978-01-28 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 3 | Raft | 1978-02-04 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 4 | Public Opinion | 1978-02-11 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 5 | Sisters | 1978-02-18 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 6 | Love Me, Love My Bear | 1978-02-25 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 7 | The Inquest | 1978-03-04 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 8 | The Governor | 1978-03-11 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 9 | Freedom | 1978-03-18 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 10 | New Girls | 1978-03-25 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 11 | One for the Road | 1978-04-01 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 12 | Nemesis | 1978-04-08 | 60 min |
Season 5 | Episode 13 | Is There Anyone There? | 1978-04-15 | 60 min |
Production | Rex Firkin | Producer |