Within These Walls (1974)
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Cast & Crew.
Jerome Willis
Charles Radley
Mona Bruce
Mrs. Armitage / Mrs Armitage
Denys Hawthorne
Dr. Peter Mayes / Dr. Mayes
Rex Firkin
Producer
Beth Harris
Miss Clarke
David Butler
Writer
Googie Withers
Prison Governess - Faye Boswell
Elaine Wells
Prison Officer Spencer / Mrs. Spencer / Prison Officer Mrs. Spencer
Sonia Graham
Martha Parrish / Miss Martha Parrish
Janet Lees-Price
Janet Harker
Miranda Forbes
Prison Officer Parsons / Miss Parsons / Officer Parsons
Paddy Russell
Director
Bill Bain
Director
Bryan Izzard
Director
Peter Moffatt
Director
John Gorrie
Director
Jim Goddard
Director
Sheila Kelley
Jill
Diane Mercer
Linda
Peter Baldwin
Mr. Simms
Angela Thorne
Sorcha Cusack
Frances Cuka
Rosalind Lloyd
Patricia Haines
Richard Aylen
John Bryans
Pam St. Clement
Joanna McCallum
Anthony Ainley
Linda Robson
Elizabeth Adare
Charmian May
Lennard Pearce
Tim Woodward
Stephen Yardley
Cheryl Murray
Angharad Rees
Tom Chadbon
Bernard Horsfall
Jill Gascoine
David Hanson
Joan Benham
Kathleen Byron
Michael Culver
Barbara New
Helen Worth
Rosalind Ayres
Lynda Bellingham
Cheryl Hall
Martin Jarvis
Sheila Keith
Myra Frances
Kathy Staff
Dennis Burgess
Shirley Cheriton
John Crocker
Roger Lloyd Pack
Daphne Heard
Tessa Wyatt
John Franklyn-Robbins
Gabrielle Blunt
Ann Mitchell
Simon MacCorkindale
Tony Steedman
Floella Benjamin
Stephanie Cole
Ursula Hirst
Jay Neill
Joan Hickson
Lucy Griffiths
Marji Campi
Elizabeth Bell
Kenneth Watson
Geoffrey Beevers
Geoffrey Chater
Susan Brown
Jamila Massey
Carmen Silvera
Molly Weir
Anna Keaveney
Elizabeth Estensen
Liz Smith
John Rhys-Davies
Cheryl Campbell
Joanna David
Jane Freeman
Ann Davies
Pamela Stephenson
Sarah Thomas
Pik-Sen Lim
Hetty Baynes
Joanna Van Gyseghem
Elizabeth Cassidy
Freda Dowie
Tim Barlow
Jo Warne
Caroline Mortimer
Theresa Watson
Timothy Bateson
Joolia Cappleman
Michael Byrne
Paul Darrow
Sandra Voe
Details.
Release DateJanuary 4, 1974
StatusEnded
Seasons5
Episodes72
Running Time25m
Genres
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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, 1999β2006), and Australian series, Prisoner (aka Prisoner: Cell Block H, Grundy Organisation, original run: 1979β1986), and Wentworth (2013β2021), 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 (Katharine 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.