Within These Walls

Within These Walls

1974 · 5 seasons · 72 eps · ★ 6.0 · Drama

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Within These Walls is a British television drama programme created and written by David Butler. Produced by London Weekend Television for ITV, broadcast between 1974 and 1978, the series portrays life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the staff rather than the inmates. Plots typically revolve around well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell's attempts to liberalise the regime while managing her private life.

Created by David Butler

Network: London Weekend Television

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Jerome Willis Charles Radley
Mona Bruce Mrs Armitage
Denys Hawthorne Dr Peter Mayes
Beth Harris Miss Clarke
Googie Withers Faye Boswell
Elaine Wells PO Spencer
Sonia Graham Martha Parrish
Janet Lees-Price Janet Harker
Miranda Forbes PO Parsons
Katharine Blake Helen Forrester
Raymond Adamson Bill Boswell
Audrey Muir PO Flaxton

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