Within These Walls offered an authentic portrayal of day-to-day prison life as well as the progress of the penal system reflecting the shift from a Victorian ethos of punishment to an emphasis upon rehabilitation. Focussing on the trials of a newly appointed governor and her attempts to liberalise the regime of Stone Park H.M. Prison for women Within These Walls was a huge success for LWT and would set the template for later series such as Prisoner: Cell Block H and Bad Girls; the series is still fondly remembered more than 30 years after its original screening. Googie Withers (The Lady Vanishes) stars as the principled and compassionate prison governor Faye Boswell whose task is to understand and help the women who find themselves in the closed world of Stone Park. With strong writing and direction Within These Walls remains a high point of British television drama. The third episode of this series - Nowhere for the Kids - no longer exists in any format but its script is included in PDF format on Disc One as a special feature.
A huge success for ITV throughout the 1970s, General Hospital carried on in the tradition of Emergency - Ward 10 and other medical shows of the 1960s. This highly popular series offers a dramatic insight into life at a busy hospital, featuring both compelling medical storylines and those highlighting the often strained personal lives of the doctors, nurses and consultants. General Hospital initially ran for 270 half-hour episodes as a twice-weekly soap-style afternoon serial before being reformatted into a series of hour-long, self-contained dramas in 1975. Out of this first series, only a comparative handful remain in the archive and this set contains all episodes known to exist.
Within These Walls: Series 3 Box Set (4 Discs)
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