Season 3
(1981)
Overview
The third season of Australian drama television series Prisoner (commonly known as Prisoner: Cell Block H) premiered on Network Ten on 4 February 1981. It consists of 81 episodes and concluded on 11 November 1981. The season is notable for the conclusion to the tunnel escape storyline which ended the previous season; the departure of Vera Bennett ("Vinegar Tits") when she accepts the position of governor of Barnhurst; the kidnapping of Erica Davidson; the arrival of new prisoners Sandy Edwards…
Cast
as Lizzie Birdsworth
as Bea Smith
as Doreen Anderson / Doreen Burns
as Colleen Powell
as Myra Desmond
as Meg Morris / Meg Jackson
as Chrissie Latham
as Judy Bryant
as Vera 'Vinger Tits' Bennett
as Erica Davidson
as Heather "Mouse" Trapp
as Ted Douglas
as Phyllis Hunt
as Margo Gaffney
as Joyce Barry / Joyce Pringle
as Jock Stewart
as Jack Grace
as Dr Eric Weissman
as Helen Smart
as Janet Conway
as Steve Falkner
as Kate Peterson
as Jeanette "Mum" Brooks
Episodes
Episode 166 0.0
February 4, 1981
Judy and Mouse dig in the rubble with their bare hands, but they only turn up Irene's dead body . They shout for help a…
Episode 167 0.0
February 10, 1981
Jim overhears Mouse and Margo discussing the escape and what might have happened to Doreen and Bea, and Irene's death i…
Episode 168 0.0
February 11, 1981
Wally tells Judy he saw her photo in the newspaper, but tells her he has no intention of telling the police where she i…
Episode 169 0.0
February 17, 1981
Vera gives Lizzie mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while the women wait for the ambulance to arrive. Meanwhile, Hazel remov…
Episode 170 0.0
February 18, 1981
Wally tells Judy he's concerned that Micki is getting too involved in Judy's campaign to improve conditions, and Judy a…
Episode 171 0.0
February 24, 1981
Graeme Hopkins arrives at Wentworth threatening to expose the contents of Judy's tape if Erica won't agree to grant him…
Episode 172 0.0
February 25, 1981
Jock tells Judy she's now going to work for him: he wants $300 every time he visits - if not, he'll bash her and turn b…
Episode 173 0.0
March 3, 1981
Doreen tries to take the blame as Jim returns her to her cell, but he obviously doesn't believe her. Bea and Lizzie are…
Episode 174 0.0
March 4, 1981
Bea orders the women to send Sandra to Coventry so she can't get any more information. Judy overhears Sandra ask Jim to…
Episode 175 0.0
March 10, 1981
Bea tells the women they can use Sandra to feed her information which supports their cause. Meg gives Lizzie the news t…
Episode 176 0.0
March 11, 1981
Bea dashes off to make Evelyn reveal what was in the the mixture she gave Doreen. When Evelyn finds out that Doreen hea…
Episode 177 0.0
March 17, 1981
A doctor arrives to carry out tests for tropical diseases: Evelyn scoffs at him from her bed in the infirmary. Dr Grang…
Episode 178 0.0
March 18, 1981
Sandra is persuaded to come back inside. Evelyn seems worried that her medicine isn't working on Meg. Sandra is told sh…
Episode 179 0.0
March 24, 1981
Dr Granger says he wants to carry out further tests on the women to confirm his suspicions. Jim reports Georgie's attac…
Episode 180 0.0
March 25, 1981
Sandra protests to Meg when her breakfast is brought to solitary that she didn't cause the fire. In the dining room, th…
Episode 181 0.0
March 31, 1981
Vera wants to censor a letter from Ken Pearce to Bea when she sees it contains praise for Bea for setting his daughter …
Episode 182 0.0
April 1, 1981
Hazel comes to Judy's cell to see if she's all right, and has to listen to a tirade against Georgie for her trouble. Be…
Episode 183 0.0
April 7, 1981
Meg is also injured and the women are locked in the dining room: Judy asks for the gate to be opened so that Bea can ge…
Episode 184 0.0
April 8, 1981
Det. Insp. Thorne arrives to control the handling of the siege, and snipers and gunmen take up position all around the …
Episode 185 0.0
April 14, 1981
Georgie interrupts the TV news about the siege to tell the women her own news about David's decision on her parole. Bea…
Episode 186 0.0
April 15, 1981
Erica tells Sally she's fallen for the oldest trick in the book and warns her that her work must improve. Vera sympathi…
Episode 187 0.0
April 21, 1981
Vera thinks that Lizzie hasn't escaped at all and that the women are hiding her to play a joke on the officers. Jim say…
Episode 188 0.0
April 22, 1981
Bob tries to apologise to Meg, but he still wants her to change her job. Lizzie is interviewed by the police about her …
Episode 189 0.0
April 28, 1981
Chrissie returns to the laundry sobbing and Bea makes veiled remarks to Vera to indicate that she holds her responsible…
Episode 190 0.0
April 29, 1981
No-one will talk to Bea in the rec room, though Hazel and Chrissie pointedly talk about her as if she wasn't there, pro…
Episode 191 0.0
May 5, 1981
Bea refuses to talk to Ken on try to persuade him to give up his work for the PRG, but Debbie says she won't allow Bea …
Episode 192 0.0
May 6, 1981
Chrissie lays into Mick as soon as she's through the front door of the new flat , accusing him of only being nice to he…
Episode 193 0.0
May 12, 1981
Bea and the others are keen to know how Doreen's day out went. She tells them Peter wasn't what she expected, and that …
Episode 194 0.0
May 13, 1981
Judy urges the women to stick together and support the strike: only Doreen mutters grumpily that she can't why they sho…
Episode 195 0.0
May 19, 1981
Chrissie phones Meg at work to tell her about Mick's arrest and that she is in danger herself of being charged with har…
Episode 196 0.0
May 20, 1981
The corridors are silent when Jim and Colleen check up later, though the din resumes after their dialogue. The women ar…
Episode 197 0.0
May 26, 1981
Chrissie tries to convince Meg that the half-naked man fleeing her flat is an old friend, but Meg suspects she is back …
Episode 198 0.0
May 27, 1981
At breakfast Judy, Hazel and Phyllis all "vie" for top dog, but it is only a ploy to make the staff feel that there wil…
Episode 199 0.0
June 2, 1981
The driver of the police van is dead and the officer unconscious. A very disoriented Bea stumbles out of the van and wa…
Episode 200 0.0
June 3, 1981
Meg goes to phone the police but Mum tells her Bea needs medical attention. Meg agrees to go see Bea before alerting th…
Episode 201 0.0
June 9, 1981
Terry finds Bea weeping hysterically in the corridor. She begs to see Meg. Bea tells Meg that she almost killed Margo, …
Episode 202 0.0
June 10, 1981
Bea finds Mum unconscious and stays with her while Jim runs for help. Margo comes in tossing Mum's pills in her hand. B…
Episode 203 0.0
June 16, 1981
At meal time, Margo acts terrified of Bea. Both Mum and Vera notice. Bea later tells Margo not to act frightened of her…
Episode 204 0.0
June 17, 1981
Bea tells her counsel that she wishes to change her plea to guilty. On the stand, Bea testifies that she only had amnes…
Episode 205 0.0
June 23, 1981
Lizzie's book is officially "opened". Mr. Muirhead visits Meg at home and tells her that Nick absolutely must move out.…
Episode 206 0.0
June 24, 1981
Bea bails Lizzie out of trouble by having her give the women back their original bets and IOUs for the rest. Terry brin…
Episode 207 0.0
June 30, 1981
Jim runs for help. Margo comes to in the infirmary, but has no idea who hit her. Bob tells Meg that he has no interest …
Episode 208 0.0
July 1, 1981
Judy asks Bea what she intends to do with the cassette, but Bea is not yet sure. Meg gets to Nick as he is being escort…
Episode 209 0.0
July 7, 1981
Jim finds Vera sobbing in the rec room. She asks to be excused for the afternoon and Jim agrees. The family doctor phon…
Episode 210 0.0
July 8, 1981
Judy is stunned at meeting Lori and asks how she found her. Lori explains that her adoptive parents, the Youngs,were af…
Episode 211 0.0
July 14, 1981
The Keep-Fit class ends with Jim about as winded as the women. Meg visits with Erica, who thanks her for the dinner. Er…
Episode 212 0.0
July 15, 1981
Bea and Judy search for Doreen. Bea tells Lizzie to keep an eye on Lori. Lori claims she isn't at all frightened and th…
Episode 213 0.0
July 21, 1981
While running in the park, Jim comes across Amelia and speaks with her. He shows her a photograph of Michelle and she r…
Episode 214 0.0
July 28, 1981
Terry is not happy to see Kathy. He advises her to keep quiet about their marriage as it might put her in danger from o…
Episode 215 0.0
August 4, 1981
Bea and Judy give Kathy's cell a thorough check for any more booby-traps. Inspector Grace arrives to see Kathy. Vera is…
Episode 216 0.0
August 5, 1981
Doreen leads the verbal attack on Alison until Judy intervenes allowing Alison to run out of the rec room, bumping into…
Episode 217 0.0
August 11, 1981
Bea hears Alison howling and rushes to the rescue, using a chair to break the circuit. Jim gives Alison mouth-to-mouth …
Episode 218 0.0
August 12, 1981
The gunman, Harry, is looking for Terry, and forces Vera to ring him at work, but Vera tricks Harry by telling Terry th…
Episode 219 0.0
August 18, 1981
Jim warns Alison not to be so stand-offish with the other prisoners. Wendy is pleased with Alison's quickness in pickin…
Episode 220 0.0
August 19, 1981
Don is furious with the security after the assault on Alison, and takes it out on Jim. A repair man comes to fix the wa…
Episode 221 0.0
August 25, 1981
The gate guard sees what has happened, and finds Kathy dead in the road. He calls for an ambulance, while Wendy in rece…
Episode 222 0.0
August 26, 1981
Vera find Terry sweeping up the fragments of his broken mug. Bea warns the other prisoners about Terry, and tells them …
Episode 223 0.0
September 1, 1981
Terry is forced to go with "Wacka" and Dinah in his car: two men watching his flat see them drive off. Don is told he h…
Episode 224 0.0
September 2, 1981
Terry is killed by a gunshot from the car. Erica gets a telephone call from the gate guard about the shooting, and imme…
Episode 225 0.0
September 8, 1981
The women bet on who will replace Vera and tease Jim for not getting the Barnhurst job. Officer Powell is offered a tem…
Episode 226 0.0
September 9, 1981
Bea and Doreen comfort Lizzie and convince her to carry on fighting for the house because Sid wanted her to have it. Be…
Episode 227 0.0
September 15, 1981
Meg offers to look after Alison's children. Jim tells Meg that he has resigned, to her great astonishment. Erica phones…
Episode 228 0.0
September 16, 1981
The "ghost" turns out be a young man called Peter Richards, who explains that he is on the run from the police, as he w…
Episode 229 0.0
September 22, 1981
Jim believes that Colleen is trying to influence him to forget that he saw her hit Andrea. Judy tells Andrea that she's…
Episode 230 0.0
September 23, 1981
Lizzie discovers that Doreen is missing, and starts to go after her. Jim brings Mrs Reid inside the house with the poli…
Episode 231 0.0
September 29, 1981
Andrea's friends take Erica hostage, blindfolding her and bundling her into a delivery van. Linda rings Ted Douglas fro…
Episode 232 0.0
September 30, 1981
... but she misses and Erica escapes. Wentworth gets a new prison officer, Janet Conway. Jim is disappointed when he fi…
Episode 233 0.0
October 6, 1981
Peter is not angry with Doreen, and tells her it is his fault that Doreen is in trouble. Bea remembers who Officer Conw…
Episode 234 0.0
October 7, 1981
The shot hits Jim in the arm but he still manages to overpower Linda. Doreen and Judy suspect that the strange way Bea'…
Episode 235 0.0
October 13, 1981
Meg meets Lizzie to take her to Sid's house and advises her to try to make new friends on the outside. Bea tries to kee…
Episode 236 0.0
October 14, 1981
Sandy tells Judy she thinks the importance they all give to the press is childish, and holds Judy's arm in it until she…
Episode 238 0.0
October 20, 1981
Episode 238 0.0
October 21, 1981
Judy is worried that Hazel might have hit Kate too hard, and asks Doreen to go and find out how she is. Meg asks Janet …
Episode 239 0.0
October 27, 1981
Meg comes back to work as a prison officer. Sandy gets to hear that Bea is seriously ill and wonders whether she should…
Episode 240 0.0
October 28, 1981
Erica tells Meg that Lizzie's house has burnt down, and that Lizzie has vanished. Erica orders Colleen to return the go…
Episode 241 0.0
November 3, 1981
Colleen accuses Meg of putting her in a bad light with Erica. Judy thinks can teach herself to use the Braille machine,…
Episode 242 0.0
November 4, 1981
A police officer comes to talk to Colleen. Janet and Meg go out for a night on the town. Sandy tells the other prisoner…
Episode 243 0.0
November 10, 1981
Jim returns to work after a week's holiday. Joyce Barry shows Jim the drawing, and it has the same effect on him as it …
Episode 244 0.0
November 11, 1981
There is a cell search, and Colleen tries to get Meg to leave her alone to search Sandy's cell, but Meg points out that…
Episode 245 0.0
November 17, 1981
Kate speaks with Inspector Grace. Kate wants a witness "found" for her appeal in exchange for information. She tells Gr…
Episode 246 0.0
November 18, 1981
Doreen tells Judy about life at Wentworth under Marie's rule before Bea took over and how bad it was. Marie stands outs…