Within These Walls

Jan 04, 1974 (en) Drama [25] Min
  • First Air Date
    Jan 04, 1974
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    53%
  • Original title
    Within These Walls
  • Release
    Jan 04, 1974
  • en
    -

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Rex Firkin

    Producer

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Casts : 4 / Crews : 1

Season 1 ( 1974-01-04)

Cause for Concern

Episode: 1

Lesson Number One

Episode: 2

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

Episode: 3

In Her Own Right

Episode: 4

Prisoner by Marriage

Episode: 5

The Group

Episode: 6

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Episode: 7

Failing to Report

Episode: 8

Tea on St. Pancras Station

Episode: 9

Guessing Game

Episode: 10

When the Bough Breaks

Episode: 11

Labour of Love

Episode: 12

A Sense of Duty

Episode: 13

Season 2 ( 1975-01-10)

When the Door Opens

Episode: 1

Remand Wing

Episode: 2

Nowhere for the Kids

Episode: 3

The Slap

Episode: 4

Playground

Episode: 5

The Truth Game

Episode: 6

Debate

Episode: 7

Protest

Episode: 8

Let the People See

Episode: 9

Skivers

Episode: 10

Coming Home

Episode: 11

The Good Life

Episode: 12

For Life

Episode: 13

Season 3 ( 1975-09-06)

To Reason Why

Episode: 1

Prison Cat

Episode: 2

Deception

Episode: 3

Babyface

Episode: 4

Long Shadows

Episode: 5

The Keys

Episode: 6

A Lurking Doubt

Episode: 7

Mother's Girl

Episode: 8

A Free Woman

Episode: 9

Getting Out

Episode: 10

Windows

Episode: 11

Get the Glory Down

Episode: 12

My Dad Was Called Charlie

Episode: 13

Inside Out

Episode: 14

The Animals Went in Two by Two

Episode: 15

On the Second Day of Christmas

Episode: 16

Season 4 ( 1976-09-04)

Catalyst

Episode: 1

The Man with the Magic Touch

Episode: 2

The Complaint

Episode: 3

The Line of Duty

Episode: 4

K Block

Episode: 5

A Way of Loving

Episode: 6

Love and the Chaplain

Episode: 7

The Mystery

Episode: 8

A Sentence of Death

Episode: 9

Vacuum

Episode: 10

On Trial

Episode: 11

Visitors

Episode: 12

Transfer

Episode: 13

Someone's Got to Do It

Episode: 14

Islands in the Heartline

Episode: 15

Invasion of Privacy

Episode: 16

Silent Night

Episode: 17

Season 5 ( 1978-01-21)

Mixer

Episode: 1

Arrivals, Departures

Episode: 2

Raft

Episode: 3

Public Opinion

Episode: 4

Sisters

Episode: 5

Love Me, Love My Bear

Episode: 6

The Inquest

Episode: 7

The Governor

Episode: 8

Freedom

Episode: 9

New Girls

Episode: 10

One for the Road

Episode: 11

Nemesis

Episode: 12

Is There Anyone There?

Episode: 13
Jan 04, 1974 (en)
Drama
[25] Min
  • First Air Date Jan 04, 1974
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato 53%
Original Title Within These Walls
en

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Rex Firkin

    Producer