Prisoner Cell Block H - Volume 31

EPISODE 481

First broadcast ... 1984 (Melbourne)

Broadcast on Channel 5 Friday 05 March 1999 04:40

DVD release: volume 31 disc 1 (AUS)

Duration: 0:46:05

Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne

Judy ~ Bobbitt

Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick

Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson

Myra ~ Anne Phelan

Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha

Dennis ~ Nigel Bradshaw

Diedre ~ Anne Charleston

Angela ~ Kylie Foster

Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis

Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon

Dot ~ Alethea McGrath

Heather ~ Victoria Nicolls

Joyce ~ Joy Westmore

Phillip ~ Steve Kuhn

Barbara ~ Myra de Groot

Major ~ Carl Bleazby

Shane ~ Robert Summers

Gordon ~ Jim Ewing

Geoffrey Johnson ~ John Murphy

Lou ~ Louise Siversen

Frances ~ Wanda Davidson

Alice ~ Lois Collinder

Lorna ~ Barbara Jungwirth

Vera Rogers ~ May Howlett

Det. Insp. Rouse ~ Paul Karo

Doris Cruickshank ~ Nicki Paull

Peter Wright ~ Alan Pentland

Mr Montgomery ~ Chris Waters

Mrs Taylor ~ Hazel Campbell

Debbie Peters ~ Anna Crawford

Social Worker ~ Andrea Swifte

News Interviewer ~ Lindsay Edwards

Backpack Cameraman ~ Julian Noel

Policeman No. 1 ~ Bill Binks

Policeman No. 2 ~ Ian Sprake

UNCREDITED

The anonymous caller ~ who sounds like the actor who later plays Brian Lowe, though he is supposed not to be the same.

•Written by Jan Smith & John Powers

•Directed by Steve Mann



Another cheeky Kean/Dean shot

Heather tells Ann about Marie's threats and admits the truth of the allegations about drugs, but denies any involvement in the escape. Ann wants to know why Marie has waited until now to make her accusation and wonders if there is anyone who could be using Marie to get back at Heather. Heather says she should be able to make a shrewd guess who that might be. Joan tells Shane she will visit him in the home and his father confronts Joan for making him lose his son. Dennis says goodbye to the women in the rec room while the dance marathon is still going on: Bobbie asks him to try to visit Cass. In another tear-jerking farewell scene, Shane gives Nicky to the Major to look after, at Joan's suggestion, until he gets a foster family who will let him have a dog. Joan decides she will stay at Wentworth rather than go with her father to live in Forbes. Judy has a dizzy spell that causes Bobbie to worry about her health. Mrs Rodgers assumes that Heather's mood is to do with Dennis, but Heather tells her it's because she's worried about losing her job. Alice sprains her ankle, and Dot takes her place on the dance team, though she changes partners so she doesn't have to dance with Marlene. Dennis tells Heather to let him know when she's made up her mind whether she's more concerned with her job or their relationship. Heather accuses Joan of setting her up through her friend Cynthia at Blackmoor, but Joan just sneers that she only has herself to blame if she's in trouble. During a break in the marathon, Angel tries to charm Phil with some outrageously untrue and flattering remarks. Meg tells Ann about Joan's friend Cynthia Drewin, now at Blackmoor. Ann can't start her car and the policeman watching her finds it has been tampered with - the brake line has been cut. Reb refuses to help Heather get rid of Joan by telling her the truth about who attacked her, and tells her she'll do it her own way. Angel overhears Phil and Meg discussing a date. Diedre stands up for Reb when Joan issues a veiled threat to her and is told not to bother by both Reb and Joan. Barbara Krantz persuades Ann not to stop the marathon for the sake of Dot and Judy, and her speech telling them the Governor thinks they should stop makes them defiant enough to be determined to carry on. Doris shows Dennis a letter saying that his mother is ill and says they should do the decent thing and go back together to visit her. Reb sees Lou and Frances tormenting Diedre in the shower block but tells them to carry on, as she doesn't care. Ann tells Meg the police are questioning a suspect picked up breaking into her flat. [Meg comments it would be "too much of a coincidence" for him not to be connected to the threatening letters. Apparently not...] After Lou has insisted she has an extra large helping at dinner, Reb salts Diedre's food then pushes her face in it. Dennis tells Heather he has to go back to England to see his sick mother. The sponsor arrives with a cheque that the gate guard wants to open until the PR lady vouches for everyone. Dot collapses with only ninety minutes to go. Angel calls in Peter Wright and tells him to rape Meg to "turn her off men for a while", or she will tell the police about his other rapes. Heather vows to take Joan with her if she has to leave. The women break the record and have another half hour to go to win the sponsor's money when an anonymous caller phones the prison and tells Ann he has planted a bomb because of the "degradation" forced on the women by taking part in the dance marathon.