Intense and emotional, this landmark '70s drama series pulled no punches in its portrayal of life inside a women's prison. Created by Oscar and Golden Globe nominee David Butler and produced by BAFTA Award nominee Jack Williams, the series remains a high point of British television drama. The series offered an authentic portrayal of day-to-day life for the inmates and staff, reflecting the shift from a Victorian ethos of punishment to one of rehabilitation and focussing on the challenges facing successive female governors - not least the conflict between adherence... to rules and sensitivity to individual needs. Setting the template for numerous later series, this groundbreaking drama is still fondly remembered more than 30 years after its original screening. This fifth and final series (only ever seen in a few ITV regions) sees a new governor at Stone Park Prison; Helen Forrester has left to study women's prisons in Europe and Susan Marshall has been appointed to act as governor during her absence. At first the staff are startled by Mrs. Marshall's coolness and disciplinarian approach, but she is not insensitive to the atmosphere and menace on North Wing... [show more]
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All 13 episodes from the fifth and final season of the 1970s ITV drama series set in a women's prison. With Prison Governor Helen Forrester (Katharine Blake) away in Europe studying different models of female prisons, Susan Marshall (Sarah Lawson) takes temporary charge of the Stone Park facility. Susan's coldness and thirst for discipline surprise staff at first, but is it all part of a plan to deal with the troublesome residents of the North Wing? The episodes comprise: 'Mixer', 'Arrivals, Departures', 'Raft', 'Public Opinion', 'Sisters', 'Love Me, Love My Bear', 'The Inquest', 'The Governor', 'Freedom', 'New Girls', 'One for the Road', 'Nemesis' and 'Is There Anyone There?'.
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