TV series / 1974

Within These Walls

Name: Within These Walls
Genre: Drama
Released: 1974-01-04
Cast: Jerome Willis, Mona Bruce, Denys Hawthorne, Beth Harris, Googie Withers

Episode directors Paul AnnettPaddy RussellBill BainMalcolm Taylor

More directors

Peter MoffattBryan IzzardJohn GorrieDerrick GoodwinJim Goddard

Drama

★ 6.0/10Audience rating

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 …

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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.