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CLIFFHANGERS LIST

In the original Australian run of Prisoner, there was usually a break of 11 weeks at the end of each year. The final episode for each year usually involved some highly dramatic event, but since there were many other episodes which had dramatic cliffhanger endings, it's easy to get confused about which episodes were the real end-of-year cliffhangers.

This list is based on information from Robert Lindsay.
 

  • CLIFFHANGER end of 1979 - Erica is shot during the escape attempt by Ros Coulson and Janet Dominguez.
  • CLIFFHANGER end of 1980 - the tunnel escape attempt during the performance of a pantomime in the grounds. Bea, Lizzie and others are trapped underground.
  • CLIFFHANGER end of 1981 - Marie Winter starts a riot in Wentworth and Steve Fawkner and Janet Conway are taken hostage.
  • CLIFFHANGER end of 1982 - the big fire (November 1982).
  • CLIFFHANGER end of 1983 - David Bridges is revealed as the killer of three women, and holds Lizzie at knifepoint in the garden.

    • Episode (500) was shown in October 1984 - 6 weeks prior to the final episode of the year, so the exploding warehouse is *not* (as you might think) the end of season episode
     

  • CLIFFHANGER end of 1984 - Myra announces that Reb is the new top-dog but then plays the tape of Reb's selfish statements where she says 'bugger the women'.
  • CLIFFHANGER end of 1985 - Eve Wilder's solicitor shoots himself during a visit with her at Wentworth.

    • After this, I'm not sure what happened. Sydney and Melbourne weren't showing the same episodes at the same time and Terry Bourke's book claims that the last 30-odd episodes were shown in 1987 (not 1986).

    If there was a 1986 cliffhanger too, it ought to have come around (661) which ends with Rodney bashing Spider Simpson, which is as plausible a candidate as any on grounds of sheer suspense.

    Updated ~ 05 July 2000