Within These Walls

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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.

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Season 1

13 episodes

S1 E1 · Cause for Concern

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S1 E2 · Lesson Number One

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S1 E3 · The Walls Came Tumbling Down

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S1 E4 · In Her Own Right

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S1 E5 · Prisoner by Marriage

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S1 E6 · The Group

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S1 E7 · One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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S1 E8 · Failing to Report

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S1 E9 · Tea on St. Pancras Station

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S1 E10 · Guessing Game

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S1 E11 · When the Bough Breaks

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S1 E12 · Labour of Love

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S1 E13 · A Sense of Duty

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Season 2

13 episodes

S2 E1 · When the Door Opens

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S2 E2 · Remand Wing

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S2 E3 · Nowhere for the Kids

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S2 E4 · The Slap

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S2 E5 · Playground

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S2 E6 · The Truth Game

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S2 E7 · Debate

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S2 E8 · Protest

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S2 E9 · Let the People See

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S2 E10 · Skivers

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S2 E11 · Coming Home

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S2 E12 · The Good Life

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S2 E13 · For Life

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Season 3

16 episodes

S3 E1 · To Reason Why

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S3 E2 · Prison Cat

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S3 E3 · Deception

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S3 E4 · Babyface

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S3 E5 · Long Shadows

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S3 E6 · The Keys

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S3 E7 · A Lurking Doubt

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S3 E8 · Mother's Girl

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S3 E9 · A Free Woman

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S3 E10 · Getting Out

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S3 E11 · Windows

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S3 E12 · Get the Glory Down

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S3 E13 · My Dad Was Called Charlie

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S3 E14 · Inside Out

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S3 E15 · The Animals Went in Two by Two

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S3 E16 · On the Second Day of Christmas

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Season 4

17 episodes

S4 E1 · Catalyst

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S4 E2 · The Man with the Magic Touch

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S4 E3 · The Complaint

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S4 E4 · The Line of Duty

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S4 E5 · K Block

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S4 E6 · A Way of Loving

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S4 E7 · Love and the Chaplain

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S4 E8 · The Mystery

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S4 E9 · A Sentence of Death

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S4 E10 · Vacuum

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S4 E11 · On Trial

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S4 E12 · Visitors

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S4 E13 · Transfer

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S4 E14 · Someone's Got to Do It

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S4 E15 · Islands in the Heartline

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S4 E16 · Invasion of Privacy

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S4 E17 · Silent Night

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Season 5

13 episodes

S5 E1 · Mixer

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S5 E2 · Arrivals, Departures

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S5 E3 · Raft

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S5 E4 · Public Opinion

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S5 E5 · Sisters

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S5 E6 · Love Me, Love My Bear

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S5 E7 · The Inquest

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S5 E8 · The Governor

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S5 E9 · Freedom

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S5 E10 · New Girls

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S5 E11 · One for the Road

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S5 E12 · Nemesis

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S5 E13 · Is There Anyone There?

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