Cast of
Within These Walls

About Within These Walls

  • Released on January 04, 1974
  • Drama

Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison TV series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the prison staff rather than the inmates.

The lead character was the well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell, and episodes revolved around her attempts to liberalise the prison regime while managing her personal life at home. Another prominent character was her Chief Officer, Mrs. Armitage. Googie Withers left after three series; in Series Four her character was replaced as governor by Helen Forrester, who in turn left to be replaced in the final Series Five by Susan Marshall.

The creator and writer of the programme, David Butler, played the prison chaplain, the Rev Henry Prentice, in some episodes.

As of November 2011 Network DVD have released all five series in the UK, with the exception of "Nowhere for the Kids", an episode from Series Two which appears to have been wiped from the archives.

Main Cast of Within These Walls

Denys Hawthorne

Secondary Cast of Within These Walls

Elizabeth Estensen

Ursula Hirst

Ann Davies

Gabrielle Blunt

Shirley Cheriton

Dennis Burgess

Freda Dowie

Elizabeth Cassidy

Hetty Baynes

Daphne Heard

Charmian May

John Crocker

David Hanson

Jo Kendall

Cheryl Murray

Charles Hyatt

Ann Way

Anna Keaveney

Joolia Cappleman

Jo Warne

Jamila Massey

Joanna McCallum

John Bryans

Jeanne Watts

Ann Mitchell

Sheila Keith

Kenneth Watson

Theresa Watson

Elizabeth Bell

Jay Neill

Liane Aukin

Sheila Kelley
plays Jill (1 episode)

Diane Mercer
plays Linda (1 episode)

Diane Mercer as Linda

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Sharman Macdonald

Peter Baldwin
plays Mr. Simms (1 episode)

Peter Baldwin as Mr. Simms

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Crew of Within These Walls

Directing

Jim Goddard
Director

John Gorrie
Director

Bill Bain
Director

Peter Moffatt
Director

Bryan Izzard
Director

Paddy Russell
Director

Production

Rex Firkin
Producer