Episode 1

Episode aired Feb 26, 1979
TV-14

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8.6/10

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Two new prisoners, Karen Travers and Lynn Warner, are inducted into Wentworth Detention Centre and must adjust to the harsh regime and the tough women they meet there. Karen, convicted of st... Read allTwo new prisoners, Karen Travers and Lynn Warner, are inducted into Wentworth Detention Centre and must adjust to the harsh regime and the tough women they meet there. Karen, convicted of stabbing her cheating husband to death in the shower, turns out to be an old flame of prison... Read allTwo new prisoners, Karen Travers and Lynn Warner, are inducted into Wentworth Detention Centre and must adjust to the harsh regime and the tough women they meet there. Karen, convicted of stabbing her cheating husband to death in the shower, turns out to be an old flame of prison Doctor Greg Miller. Lynn has been convicted of kidnapping and burying a baby alive, and t... Read all

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8.6/10

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Trivia
During Karen Travers' trial in Episode 25 (1979), the events of this opening edition are actually dated to September 1978.

Goofs
The van shown driving down the road and into the prison isn't the van Lyn and Karen get out of, it is actually the van Bea arrives in in episode 3.

Quotes
[first line]
Franky Doyle: She bumped into me.

Crazy credits
Characters of inmates and prison staff are listed in the credits with their first name only. All other characters have their full names.