Season 3 (1981)

Episode 166
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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 and hear Bea...Read more

Episode 167
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February 10, 1981

Jim overhears Mouse and Margo discussing the escape and what might have happened to Doreen and Bea, and Irene's death in the cave-...Read more

Episode 168
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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 is, inviting...Read more

Episode 169
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February 17, 1981

Vera gives Lizzie mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while the women wait for the ambulance to arrive. Meanwhile, Hazel removes the buck...Read more

Episode 170
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February 18, 1981

Wally tells Judy he's concerned that Micki is getting too involved in Judy's campaign to improve conditions, and Judy agrees to ta...Read more

Episode 171
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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 an intervi...Read more

Episode 172
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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 both Judy an...Read more

Episode 173
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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 both in fa...Read more

Episode 174
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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 be allowed...Read more

Episode 175
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March 10, 1981

Bea tells the women they can use Sandra to feed her information which supports their cause. Meg gives Lizzie the news that Sid has...Read more

Episode 176
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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 heated up the ...Read more

Episode 177
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March 17, 1981

A doctor arrives to carry out tests for tropical diseases: Evelyn scoffs at him from her bed in the infirmary. Dr Granger warns Er...Read more

Episode 178
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March 18, 1981

Sandra is persuaded to come back inside. Evelyn seems worried that her medicine isn't working on Meg. Sandra is told she could be ...Read more

Episode 179
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March 24, 1981

Dr Granger says he wants to carry out further tests on the women to confirm his suspicions. Jim reports Georgie's attack on Judy, ...Read more

Episode 180
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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, the other wom...Read more

Episode 181
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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 straight, b...Read more

Episode 182
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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. Bea cuts Geor...Read more

Episode 183
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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 get medical a...Read more

Episode 184
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April 8, 1981

Det. Insp. Thorne arrives to control the handling of the siege, and snipers and gunmen take up position all around the building. M...Read more

Episode 185
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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 won't acce...Read more

Episode 186
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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 sympathises with Sa...Read more

Episode 187
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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 says the same ...Read more

Episode 188
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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 escape and ...Read more

Episode 189
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April 28, 1981

Chrissie returns to the laundry sobbing and Bea makes veiled remarks to Vera to indicate that she holds her responsible. Doreen pr...Read more

Episode 190
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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, provoking Bea ...Read more

Episode 191
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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 to stand in...Read more

Episode 192
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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 her as a way ...Read more

Episode 193
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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 Erica had t...Read more

Episode 194
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May 13, 1981

Judy urges the women to stick together and support the strike: only Doreen mutters grumpily that she can't why they should put the...Read more

Episode 195
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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 harbouring a f...Read more

Episode 196
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May 20, 1981

The corridors are silent when Jim and Colleen check up later, though the din resumes after their dialogue. The women are taken for...Read more

Episode 197
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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 on the game...Read more

Episode 198
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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 will be too mu...Read more

Episode 199
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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 walks away. L...Read more

Episode 200
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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 the authoriti...Read more

Episode 201
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June 9, 1981

Terry finds Bea weeping hysterically in the corridor. She begs to see Meg. Bea tells Meg that she almost killed Margo, but doesn't...Read more

Episode 202
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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. Bea asks for...Read more

Episode 203
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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. Margo the...Read more

Episode 204
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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 amnesia for a fe...Read more

Episode 205
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June 23, 1981

Lizzie's book is officially "opened". Mr. Muirhead visits Meg at home and tells her that Nick absolutely must move out. Lizzie doe...Read more

Episode 206
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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 brings in a bot...Read more

Episode 207
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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 in Arna and...Read more

Episode 208
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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 escorted to priso...Read more

Episode 209
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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 phones Erica an...Read more

Episode 210
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July 8, 1981

Judy is stunned at meeting Lori and asks how she found her. Lori explains that her adoptive parents, the Youngs,were afraid that J...Read more

Episode 211
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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. Erica then te...Read more

Episode 212
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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 that Doreen i...Read more

Episode 213
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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 recognizes h...Read more

Episode 214
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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 other prison...Read more

Episode 215
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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 most unple...Read more

Episode 216
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August 5, 1981

Doreen leads the verbal attack on Alison until Judy intervenes allowing Alison to run out of the rec room, bumping into Bea on her...Read more

Episode 217
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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 resuscitati...Read more

Episode 218
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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 that she's go...Read more

Episode 219
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August 18, 1981

Jim warns Alison not to be so stand-offish with the other prisoners. Wendy is pleased with Alison's quickness in picking up the jo...Read more

Episode 220
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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 washing machi...Read more

Episode 221
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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 reception rings...Read more

Episode 222
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August 26, 1981

Vera find Terry sweeping up the fragments of his broken mug. Bea warns the other prisoners about Terry, and tells them never to be...Read more

Episode 223
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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 has a slippe...Read more

Episode 224
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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 immediately pho...Read more

Episode 225
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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 temporary posi...Read more

Episode 226
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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. Bea writes a ...Read more

Episode 227
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September 15, 1981

Meg offers to look after Alison's children. Jim tells Meg that he has resigned, to her great astonishment. Erica phones the Depart...Read more

Episode 228
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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 was involved...Read more

Episode 229
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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 unpopular ...Read more

Episode 230
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September 23, 1981

Lizzie discovers that Doreen is missing, and starts to go after her. Jim brings Mrs Reid inside the house with the police, who fin...Read more

Episode 231
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September 29, 1981

Andrea's friends take Erica hostage, blindfolding her and bundling her into a delivery van. Linda rings Ted Douglas from a call bo...Read more

Episode 232
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September 30, 1981

... but she misses and Erica escapes. Wentworth gets a new prison officer, Janet Conway. Jim is disappointed when he finds out tha...Read more

Episode 233
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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 Conway is, and ...Read more

Episode 234
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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's been beha...Read more

Episode 235
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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 keep Andrea an...Read more

Episode 236
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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 gives in. ...Read more

Episode 238
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October 20, 1981

Episode 72 of Season 3 premiered on October 20, 1981

Episode 238
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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 if the TV h...Read more

Episode 239
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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 take over ...Read more

Episode 240
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October 28, 1981

Erica tells Meg that Lizzie's house has burnt down, and that Lizzie has vanished. Erica orders Colleen to return the goods confisc...Read more

Episode 241
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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, but Erica ...Read more

Episode 242
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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 prisoners that if t...Read more

Episode 243
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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 did on Jane...Read more

Episode 244
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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 the regula...Read more

Episode 245
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November 17, 1981

Kate speaks with Inspector Grace. Kate wants a witness "found" for her appeal in exchange for information. She tells Grace where M...Read more

Episode 246
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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 outside the cel...Read more