Episode
Prisoner: Episode 217
Overview
Bea hears Alison howling and rushes to the rescue, using a chair to break the circuit. Jim gives Alison mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Vera is delighted by Terry's proposal, and accepts. Alison is transferred to sickbay, with burns to her hands. Jim praises Bea for her swift reaction. Jim reports Alison's suicide attempt to Erica, who suggests that she could be moved to share a cell with Judy. Terry makes an excuse to get out of having dinner wth Vera and Meg. Vera tells Meg that she will give up her carreer now that she's getting married. Meg is asked to contact Alison's husband. When Sid visits Lizzie, she tells him that she can't marry him and scuttles away without giving a reason. Meg tells Don about Alison's "accident": he rightly complains that someone ought to have been watching her. He is allowed to visit Alison in sickbay at Wentworth.
Details
- Series
- Prisoner
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 52
- Air date
- 1981-08-11
- Runtime
- 47 min
Episode context
Episode 217 is Episode 52 in Season 3 of Prisoner. It aired on 1981-08-11. The runtime is 47 min.
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