Within These Walls

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Genre	Drama
Created by	David Butler
Directed by	John Reardon; Peter Moffatt; Paul Annett; Tony Wharmby; Jim Goddard; Christopher Hodson; Bill Bain; Philip Casson
Starring	Googie Withers; Jerome Willis; Denys Hawthorne; Beth Harris; Mona Bruce; Sonia Graham; Joan Benham; Janet Lees Price
Theme music composer	Denis King
Template:Pluralize from text of origin	United Kingdom
Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	72
Production
Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Rex Firkin
ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text	Jack Williams
Production locationTemplate:Pluralize from text	London, England
Running time	52 minutes
Production Template:Pluralize from text	London Weekend
Original release
Network	ITV
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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 later women-in-prison TV series, Bad Girls (ITV, 1999–2006), and Australian series, Prisoner (aka Prisoner: Cell Block H, Grundy Organisation, original run: 1979–1986), and Wentworth (2013–2021), Within These Walls tended to centre its story-lines around the prison staff rather than the inmates.

The lead character was played by British film actor Googie Withers who played 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 (Mona Bruce).

Googie Withers left after three series; in Series Four her character was replaced as governor by Helen Forrester (Katherine Blake), who in turn left to be replaced in the final Series Five by Susan Marshall (Sarah Lawson).

Creator and screenwriter of the programme, David Butler, appeared in some episodes as prison chaplain, Rev. Henry Prentice.^[1]

DVD release

As of November 2011, Network have released all five series on DVD in the UK, with the exception of "Nowhere for the Kids", an episode from Series Two which appears to be missing from the archives.^{[citation needed]}

Screening

The programme was broadcast around 9:00 p.m. (although exact times varied around the ITV regions), but prisoners were locked in their cells 30 minutes before 9:00pm.

Cast

Googie Withers as Prison Governor - Faye Boswell
Katherine Blake as Prison Governor - Helen Forrester
Sarah Lawson as Prison Governor - Sarah Marshall
Mona Bruce as Chief Officer Mrs. Armitage
Jerome Willis as Prison Deputy Governor Charles Radley
Denys Hawthorne as Dr. Peter Mayes
Beth Harris as Miss Clarke
Elaine Wells as Principal Prison Officer Spencer
Sonia Graham as Assistant Governor Martha Parrish
Miranda Forbes as Prison Officer Parsons
Janet Lees Price as Assistant Governor Janet Harker

Successful alumnae from the series included Helen Worth, later widely known for her role of Gail Platt on Coronation Street. Worth appeared in an episode of season 1 alongside Cheryl Murray. The two would be reunited as flatmates in Coronation Street in 1977, when Murray joined the cast as Suzie Birchall. Shirley Cheriton and Anna Wing both appeared in the season 2 episode "Skivers", long before becoming original cast members of EastEnders together.