The BEST episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H season 4
Every episode of Prisoner: Cell Block H season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H season 4!
The lives of women behind bars in a female prison.
#1 - Episode 297
Season 4 - Episode 51 - Aired 7/28/1982
Donna is suffering severe withdrawal symptoms from her heroin addiction. The women learn of the horrific injuries inflicted on Chrissie by Joan.
#2 - Episode 247
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/1982
Jim and Meg escape just as the rioting women take control of the prison but Steve and Janet are trapped inside. The inmates bicker amongst themselves - Marie stirs everyone up, Margo mouths off and Sandy tries to keep control of the situation. Outside the jail, Erica won't allow the police to storm the building, to Jim's disgust. Steve manages to get to a phone and tell the police they are still inside but he ends up having to hide up in the roof from the prisoners. The women give Erica their list of demands. In hospital, Bea hears of the riot on TV and phones the prison to speak to Erica, but Ted Douglas won't let her. The marauding women finally track down Steve, separated from Janet, in the Governor's office. On Sandy's orders, they pin him to Erica's desk and start to strip him.
#3 - Episode 326
Season 4 - Episode 80 - Aired 11/9/1982
Her chance of parole gone, Bea plots to get back at Joan. At the halfway house, Alan is dead but Sara has survived. Bea gets Barbara to tell Joan the diaries are hidden in isolation. Chrissie starts a fire in the library to distract the screws. Unknown to everyone, Margo chucks a molotov cocktail into a store cupboard full of turps. Bea attacks Joan in isolation as Wentworth burns beneath them. Barbara tries to get her diaries from Erica's office but is overcome by smoke. Paddy climbs through the air conditioning to get out. Mouse is engulfed in a ball of flame when the turps explode. Erica runs back in to the burning building to open the locked security gates. Joan and Bea are trapped on opposite sides of a security gate - and Bea has the keys. Bea refuses to unlock the gate, saying she's ready to die - and Joan's going to die there with her...
#4 - Episode 323
Season 4 - Episode 77 - Aired 10/27/1982
Tony tells Maxine he isn't interested in her in a romantic way. Meg realises Joan has sabotaged Bea's job application, which Joan admits to the Governor at a staff meeting, and later to Bea as well. Joan steals papers from Erica's office and plants them in Barbara's cell, which Colleen finds. Bea is suspicious Joan took so much trouble to frame Barbara and wants to know what she has on her. On the night shift, Joan lurks about causing trouble. She threatens Barbara and ends up performing a body search on Paddy to get a note slipped to her by Andy Hudson's sister. Margo and Chrissie plan to attack the Freak. After the incident with Joan, Paddy agrees to take part. They black out the lights on the solitary staircase and get Mouse to lure Joan there, where she is attacked by five baseball-bat-wielding women wearing masks.
#5 - Episode 321
Season 4 - Episode 75 - Aired 10/20/1982
Kerry decides to have the baby and put it up for adoption. Cookie and Kerry walk out on Errol and go to live with Cookie's sister. Margo muscles in on a Woodridge inmate's escape attempt. The Woodridge Governor catches Paddy and Andy in a private liaison and orders Paddy be taken off the concert project. Phillip gets Joan's papers from the thug who broke into her house and finds Joan's diaries among the haul: he visits Barbara and hands the diaries over to her. A furious Joan arrives at work and takes her anger out on Barbara. Joan tells Meg about the burglary and the death of her dog. Bea is laid off from work. The escape bid goes wrong when Lizzie gets in the way and tries to stop Margo - Joan arrives and knocks her roughly to the ground. Geoff begs Joan not to sound the alarm and ruin the concert, but she does it anyway. Lizzie is found lying unconscious on the floor.
#6 - Episode 320
Season 4 - Episode 74 - Aired 10/19/1982
Phyllis and Colleen save Sally's life. Colleen urges Peter to come and see her. They are reunited and he agrees to say in court that he provoked her. Errol worries Kerry will tell someone he is the father of her baby. Benny and Lou set Chrissie up to be killed by Neil. Sally is freed by the court. Chrissie comes face to face with Neil but is rescued in the nick of time by Paddy and Andy, who are busy trying to have a moment of passion. Kerry returns to the halfway house and tells Maxine she wants an abortion. Judy and Maxine realise Errol is the baby's father. Joan pressures Barbara to get her file, prompting Barbara to call Phillip and ask him to do something for her to get Joan off her back. Joan demands Margo put a stop to the concert. Judy urges Kerry to tell her mother the truth. Joan's house is broken into after dark. When she returns home, she finds her dog dead in the back yard. Maxine blurts out the truth about Errol raping Kerry to Cookie. At first she reacts angrily, but the
#7 - Episode 319
Season 4 - Episode 73 - Aired 10/13/1982
Sally becomes depressed after news of the divorce. Chrissie sees someone she really does not want to.
#8 - Episode 318
Season 4 - Episode 72 - Aired 10/12/1982
The concert party meets its male counterpart and Sally learns that Peter has started divorce proceedings.
#9 - Episode 315
Season 4 - Episode 69 - Aired 9/29/1982
Erica is stunned with the news about officer corruption, and Bea gets a rare taste of freedom.
#10 - Episode 295
Season 4 - Episode 49 - Aired 7/21/1982
Des assures Susie that he's taking good care of Donna. Joan bribes Lizzie with some grog. When Duncan recognises Chrissie he wants to kill her.
#11 - Episode 294
Season 4 - Episode 48 - Aired 7/20/1982
Donna tempts Susie with some pills. Chrissie is getting orders from both Joan and Bea.
#12 - Episode 290
Season 4 - Episode 44 - Aired 7/7/1982
Hannah makes an escape bid with the help of two gunmen. Susie's birthday brightens up when a parcel arrives from Wentworth.
#13 - Episode 284
Season 4 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/16/1982
Doreen decides to hide the spirits in the fire extinguishers. Lizzie's plans for Susie's farewell are scuppered by Colleen.
#14 - Episode 280
Season 4 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/2/1982
The woman who abducted Colleen's daughter arrives at Wentworth. Bea gets all the details from Helen about her business deal with Harry Stanfield.
#15 - Episode 267
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/1982
Marie starts throwing her weight around, and Susie begins her escape attempt.
#16 - Episode 250
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/17/1982
Lizzie enjoys her freedom while tensions between the staff and the department reach boiling point.
#17 - Episode 248
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/10/1982
The almost-naked Steve is locked up in a cell. Janet finds him, but he tells her to leave him there and find a way out. Bea phones the prison again and gets to speak to Erica this time. She agrees to let Bea talk to the women. Kate is sent out to speak to Bea, with Colleen sent into the prison in her place temporarily as a trade. Lizzie is sent outside with the women's latest list of demands, only to be grabbed by the cops and taken away for her trial. The police prepare to send Jim in, commando-style, through the roof after dark to find Steve and Janet. The women read Janet's file and learn she is an ex-prisoner. They manage to catch Janet, strip her and dress her in an old prisoner's uniform. The police blackout the jail: Jim scales the wall and finds Steve and Janet safe. He radios the police to tell them, but the women stumble upon him. As they give chase, the riot squad lob tear gas into reception and storm the prison.
#18 - Episode 253
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/2/1982
The women suspect that Bea and Sandy have set Marie up, but there is no proof. Meg learns that the Board is due to review Lizzie's parole following her arrest for non-payment of bills.
#19 - Episode 252
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/1982
Janet thinks that Meg is having an affair with Jim and accuses her of betrayal. Sandy makes moves to consolidate her romantic meeting with Steve.
#20 - Episode 249
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/16/1982
Sandy tries to seduce Steve, but they are distracted by all the commotion and he overpowers her. He finds Jim and they manage to regain control of the situation. Cops swarm into the prison. When they find Janet, they assume she is an inmate and knock her out. Marie tries to escape dressed as an officer but is caught by Erica. In the aftermath of the riot, Kate lets Sandy know the women think it was a waste of time. Sandy is sent to solitary and security measures are increased. Jim applies for another job. Marie siezes control as Top Dog and takes over Sandy's laundry racket, asking Fitzwater to pay them in drugs rather than money. At Lizzie's trial, Colleen testifies against her but is demolished by the defence. Gordon Humphrey admits he wanted to demolish the house and have the land rezoned, prompting an outburst from Lizzie, who is ultimately acquitted of the arson charges.
#21 - Episode 251
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/1982
The staff agree to strike with tensions reaching crisis point between the department and the prison. While Lizze falls for a conman.
#22 - Episode 265
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/13/1982
Suspicions grow when Sandy is found to be missing. Hazel breaks down when she hears that her husband is applying for custody of their children.
#23 - Episode 254
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/1982
Judy's parole hearing is finally here as Sandy gets threats against her. While Jim tells Meg that things between him and Janet are over.
#24 - Episode 305
Season 4 - Episode 59 - Aired 8/25/1982
Maxine is contrite and determines to repay Judy for the damage caused to the Halfway House by her friends.
#25 - Episode 291
Season 4 - Episode 45 - Aired 7/13/1982
Susie loses her job and her home. Joan agrees to appear in court for Brenda and support her claim for custody of Chrissie's daughter.