Unlocking the secrets behind the music used in Prisoner
To enhance your enjoyment of Prisoner, here is a list of
the names of some of the drama music tracks (referred to as 'incidental music'
or 'library music') used in the background during some scenes of the show.
The background, or "incidental" music used in Prisoner,
has been discovered as an as-yet untapped resource of information. Welcome to
what might be the first-ever site on the Internet ever to document in detail
the music used in a television series. A lot of the music is believed to have
been licensed in the early days of the series by an entity called Australian
Screen Music. We believe the music editor sourced music from KPM, Bruton, De
Wolfe, and other music production companies.
This
page is under heavy construction. A complete database of music cannot
be guaranteed due to the limited availability of information on the production
of Prisoner. I will be starting off with the most important known music,
and maybe working on the lesser tracks later.
This is a spoiler zone for any episodes you have not yet
seen.
A lot of research has gone into the making of this page, and I
would like to thank those who helped me name the tracks listed.
Track name (and artist if known). Description if applicable
Examples of when the music occurs
Lifetime (if regularly used)
The Plot
by Brian Bennett
Meg and Vera chase Sally Lee down the corridor in the opening scene
of Prisoner. Famous first words spoken by Franky Doyle: "She
bumped into me" (1)
Franky getting onto the roof and is seen by Karen Travers at the end
of Episode 11
Mrs Davidson tells Mr Fletcher she has been given a vote of no confidence,
and has to prove she can work with Gillespie and his methods, or she may
no longer remain as Governor (167)
Beginning (1) to clearly 500s? — dies in the Great Production Massacre
of Episode 534?
Darkside
by Brian Bennett[2]
Droning with occasional clanging of iron bars and doors in a Prison
Women choose Bea or Franky 1st PRISON Riot (3)
Franky's pig pen (6?)
Susan Rice rambles to Meg about Jason Richards ruining everything for
her (26, 42:00)
Bee thumps Nolene Bourke for smashing the TV (50, mixed in with In
Terror (see below))
Roslyn Coulson sets off the fire alarm while escaping (73)
Doreen whispers in Kevin's ear "he hit me Kevin" and Jock
Stewart immediately terminates the visit (117)
Gail Summers screams "LET ME OUT!" as she gets sick of the
abuse from the other Prisoners (130?)
Doreen writes suicide note, tries to commit suicide (using a piece
of broken mirror) Episode 139
Vera wakes to find house robbed at the end of Episode 157
Aftermath of Great Escape right at the beginning of Episode 166 after
the mugshots
Baxter throws a lump of clay at Doreen, and it lands in a bowl of water
splashing Mrs Davidson (181)
Gaffney gets a punch in the stomach from Sandy Edwards (247)
The Freak proudly announces to the women she has been promoted to Chief
Prison Officer (300)
Lorrie tells Bryant she does not want the deaf baby (346?)
Jail looms large for Len Murphy as the police go ahead with the
charges against him for the assault on Myra Desmond and (wrongfully) the
rape of Pixie Mason (511)
Insp. Grace comes into the staffroom and tells Dennis Cruikshank he
is under arrest for the murder of hitch-hikers (late 520s)
Dennis Cruikshank apologises to the parents of the girl he picked up
hitch-hiking, who was later found dead (532)
Beginning (3) to 532
Thoughtful
by Brian Bennett
Meg mourning Bill's death (4)
Franky mourning the death of her brother (11)
Chrissie Latham makes up with Doreen when she explains why she "kidnapped"
Elizabeth (157)
The Freak and her father don't get along well when going out to dinner
with Meg and Colleen in about Episode 357?
Occasionally used up until Episode 157, then the final occurrence in 357.
Startle 2
by Brian Bennett
Vera provoking Franky, starting the riot (3). Travers has a flashback
of this in Episode 5 when Bee and Franky pick a fight in the rec room
during a dance class.
Mr Douglas catches Mr Gillespie opening Lizzy Birdsworth's letter to
the Ombudsman (168)
Bee swipes a coffee mug from Kathy Hall's hands (214)
Becomes scarce from the 200s?
Startle 1
by Brian Bennett
Inmates chanting behind the gate like a bunch of wild animals at the start
of the riot before the alarm goes off (3)
Rarely used, and only in early episodes
Suspect
Bill Jackson trying to negotiate and reason with Franky to let Meg
go (3)
Bee finds a hole in the ground (160)
Never heard again after Episode 160?
Flying Fists
by Brian Bennett[2]
The big brawl that ends with Bill Jackson being found with a pair
of scissors sticking into his chest (3)
Franky and Doreen are chased on foot by police before Franky is shot
(20)
Linda Jones smashes a kettle over Kay White's head as White strangles
Birdsworth (145)
Yemill gets scared at Frank taking a fancy to her lovely face, and fights
him off with the help of Pixie Mason (505)
Beginning (3) to 505?
Turbulence
by Wally Asp[1]
"Mum" dreams about being in Wentworth at the beginning of Episode
5
Only used once?
Getaway
by Brian Bennett
(Referred to in an article on the Bee's Knees website as sounding like
Dolly Parton's 9 To 5)
The women chase Chrissie Latham after they find out she stabbed Bill
Jackson (4)
Gaffney driving off with the man she and her boyfriends were trying
to rob of his payroll. (183)
Lill and Jacko try to get away from McKenzie (342)
Morning
Meg telling Marty he must go to school despite Bill Jackson's death
(4)
Gail Summers arrives at reception to be inducted (127)
Beginning to 142?
Shapes To Come
"Mum" at Bill Jackson's funeral (4)
Limited to a few occurrences in 1979
Espionage
Doreen and Franky running through the forest immediately after their
escape, at the beginning of Episode 13
Monica yells for help after Bee is stabbed, while Yates runs down the
corridor and hides (29)
Only ever used twice (Episodes 13 and 29). Probably part of the Australian
Screen Music set used by the music editor, which became defunct early on
in the series??
Franky breaks down and cries when on the roof (12)
Doreen telling Alice Hemmings at the end of Episode 71 "you're
my mother"
Mr Fletcher frozen in a photographer's flash while in a daze (111)
Never heard again after Episode 111. Probably part of the Australian Screen
Music set used by the music editor, which became defunct early on in the
series??
Film Clip G
Doreen and Franky see a police officer before dressing themselves
up as nuns (15)
Gilmore is found dead at the bottom of the stars at the end of Episode
116
Kay White finds herself eating broken glass the women planted in her
food (136)
Used frequently in 1979 then becomes more rarely used in 1980 until the
final time in Episode 136
Research Establishment by Keith Mansfield[1]
George Lucas runs away leaving Vera tied to a chair in her own home at
the end of Episode 32
Dies out in about the 200s
Soft Haze.
Birdsworth finds a cat (7)
Meg Morris visits the Department (189)
Rebel
Franky threatens to jump from the roof. Vera yells at her to STOP
and to GET DOWN FROM THERE AT ONCE! (12)
Travers has a flashback of when she found her husband in bed with another
woman, as she and Bee talk about their crimes (18)
Bella Albrecht is drowned in the handbasin in the showers at the end
of Episode 52
Alf stops Meg from answering the phone, and thrashes her (83)
Rarely used beyond 1979, never heard again after about the 260s-270s?
Tragic Background
Doreen Burns's tragic background. Also occasionally heard in scenes such
as when Davo tells Lizzy Birdsworth that Capt. Barton has tracked down her
children (116)
Becomes very rare especially beyond Episode 200
By Candlelight
"Mum"'s granddaughter with baby in hospital (68)
Alice Hemmings in bed reading a photo album (72)
Never heard again after c.Episode 100
Elegy In Blue
Sarah visits her mother Catherine in jail (20)
Jim Fletcher's wife and kids are lowered into the grave (112)
Chrissie Latham promises Mick to stay in touch (194)
Lizzie Birdsworth's release in Episode 235
Birdsworth writing her will, confessing to burning down Syd's house
(350?)
Used often in 1979, but rarely afterwards.
Riot
Franky, Doreen and Birdsworth going over the wire at the end of Episode
12
Mrs Davidson is taken hostage as Bryant, Gaffney and Birdsworth take
over the Governor's office (121)
Bee giving Kay White a thrashing (142)
Seems to become more and more rare over the 100s and 200s
In Suspense
by Brian Bennett[2]
"Mum" collapses (4)
Omen
Vera busts up the play and catches Bee and Ken together in the storeroom
(116)
Episode 196 ends with Meg catching Latham literally with her pants
down
Colleen Powell finds files (that were planted) hidden in Barbara Fields's
cell (324)
Beginning to 531
Hot Cargo
by Brian Bennett
Meg being held hostage (hint: Meg is "hot cargo")
(3)
Karen Travers running down the stairs as Frank threatens to jump off
the roof (12)
Doreen sits there in maternity and sees a cat sitting on top of the
Latham baby (151, 34:59)
Doreen and Lizzy telling a reporter Bee should be pardoned (159)
Bomb disposal officers give Bee the come-on as they try to defuse the
bomb outside solitary where Bee is stuck (387)
Fatal Error
by Keith Mansfield[1]
Bee, Birdsworth and Doreen stuck in the drain. Birdsworth saying now she
knows how the miners feel.....Bee hopes Margo will tell the screws who will
come to the rescue but Doreen says nobody would lag, and it looks like we're
going to be stuck down here. (166)
Sleeping Giant 1
by Keith Mansfield[1]
Sounds like Fatal Error
Preparations for Sandy's riot (246)
Beginning but rarely used before 1981. Fades away again from the late
200s
Strange Stillness
At the end of Episode 194, police knock at the door and tell Latham's
boyfriend "Mick O'Brien" he is under arrest for escaping Yatala
Jail in 1971. The screen shows a still of "Mick", Latham and
Elizabeth shrinking into a dot over a white background.
Dies out completely in the 400s
Short Tension D
At the end of Episode 29, Vera tells Mrs Davidson in the Governor's office
she has looked everywhere for Yates. Nothing.
Never used beyond early 1980 episodes
Questions
by Simon Benson[2]
This music track has 2 separate parts used almost always separately
A love-sick Meg talks to herself saying "Face it Jackson, you've
been stood up" (in the episodes leading up to her and Bob's wedding)
Mrs Davidson tells Chrissie Latham that in view of the history of violence
at Wentworth, Welfare will not grant permission for Elizabeth to visit
her while she is in jail (189)
Hideout
by Brian Bennett[1][2]
Charles Baldwin giving evidence in court at Birdsworth's appeal against
her 5-year sentence for killing Kay White
Sands Of Time
Travers negotiating Franky down from the roof (12)
Lynn crawls up to Doug after the getaway car crashes (13)
Martha Eaves holding Vera hostage on the prison roof.
After the mugshots after Colin Bourke fired a shot out the window (36)
Vera catches Jock making Doreen do deals on the phone
Vera held hostage in her home by one of McNally's thugs (218)
Rarely used after 1980, and never used again after Episode 218?
Moment Of Tension
Franky demolishing the rec room after hearing of her brother being
in hospital (11)
Colin Bourke shoots at police at the start of the siege, at the end
of Episode 34
Travers is shot at the end of Episode 78
Rarely used after 1979, and possibly never heard again after Episode 218
Journey Into Fear
Susan Rice shoplifting (25)
Mrs Davidson tells Vera she is suspended for blackmailing Kerry Vincent
(115)
Wally catches Judy Bryant trying to start his van (168)
Randall falls ill (176?)
Latham calls Bee a "top suck"
(189)
Used many times especially pre-200
In Danger
by Brian Bennett[2]
Bee tells Chrissie Latham how she is going to use the scissors she
used to stab Bill Jackson (4)
"Mouse" questioned by police for speeding in the hire truck
(166)
Underlying Menace
by Keith Mansfield[2]
Bee and her gang teaching Helen Smart a lesson (8)
Judy Bryant escaping from the hospital (131)
Bryant and Mikki hiding in the bushes watching plain clothes police
arresting Wally (171)
Deadly Enemy
The tunnel collapsing at the end of Episode 165
Children Of Devon by Brian Bennett[1]
Meg accepting Bob's proposal, before the scene where Vera wakes up
to find her house robbed (end of 157)
Menace
Birdsworth asks the gate guard to let back in as she seems to be fainting
(13)
Jim restrains Alf as Meg begs him to ease off (84)
Despair
Judy Bryant goes into the massage parlour to find Jock Stewart (171)
Vera cooperating with the gunman in her home (218)
Fades from use in the 200s
Paradise Ending
Birdsworth in despair after the Christmas play (75)
The women watch from a distance as Vera takes the puppy away (106)
Gilmore sarcastically telling Bryant with crocodile tears, "who
needs you anyhow?" (116)
Mrs Davidson tells Judy her stupidity has indirectly resulted in Leanne
Bourke's death (122)
Bee (who has lost her memory) says her husband can bail her out (201)
Deserted Factory Clive Hicks[1]
Franky & Doreen arrive at a deserted church before disguising
themselves as nuns (15)
Screws strike leaving women locked in their cells all day (67)
The women arrive at Reynolds's factory (127)
Meg looking for Baxter after her release (187)
Beginning (15) to Episode 187??
Industrial Sabotage
by Johnny Pearson[1]
Terrorists blasting the locks off gates as they break Dominguez out
(82)
Inmates and officers search for Doreen as she prepares to hang herself
with flashbacks of her wedding shown (139)
Women escaping down the hole one by one (165)
Hamilton prepares to make a run for it as food is delivered to the prison
(177)
Bee and Judy take their own hostage: Andrea Hennesseed (233?)
McKenzie and Quinn hoarding buyup (335??)?
Never heard again after the scene where Faye Quinn steals buyup from the
store-room for McKenzie
Atoms & Mushrooms
by Frank Talley
Sounds like a jet aircraft taking off.
Paul Bentley's other girlfriend stands naked on top of the stairs
(9)
Franky goes berzerk and smashes up the recroom (11)
Susan Rice having visions of her husband playing around (27?)
Mr Fletcher literally sees red from hemophobia as he breaks up a fight
between Monica and her husband's prostitute lover
Flashback sequence as Meg is horrified at the sight of Latham as she
is returned (65)
David O'Connell has a flashback of Dr Miller who was involved with the
police he had the shootout with (77)
A drunken Kerry Vincent smashes her boyfriend's face with an ashtray
at the end of Episode 122
Doreen hanging herself (139)
Bee gets her memory back with a flashback sequence when locked in the
storeroom (202)
Kathy Hall lights a match and threatens to set Vera on fire (220)
Bee screams at Dr Kate Peterson to leave her alone about this brain
tumour she thinks she has in the recap before mugshots at the beginning
of Episode 239. (Atoms & Mushrooms is never heard again after
this).
Beginning (9) to Episode 239
Tragic Despair
Nolene Bourke's brother is shot dead by police
Fight For Survival
Bob gives Meg an ultimatum at the end of Episode 188
Nuplex
by Brian Bennett[1]
Sarah Forest/Jacki Nolan finds a uniform in Jim Fletcher's wardrobe,
and runs out on him (naked?!) at the end of Episode 152
Ted Douglas tells Mrs Davidson: "You are relieved of your duties
as of now. Mr Fletcher you are to take over as Acting Governor immediately,
pending official promotion. I'm sorry....." Gateslam. (196)
Dies out in the 200s?
Solus
Bee asks Jacki Nolan to pass on a 'G'day' to Ken Pierce once her
pardon comes through (159)
At the end of Episode 453, Reynolds tells Hannah in hospital she won't
have to worry about being sent back to Germany for another 2 weeks
Heard rarely after 1979.
Speed And Efficiency
by Brian Bennett[1]
Police chase down Irinni (the non-English-speaking inmate) before
arresting her for prostitution (42)
Straight after the mugshots in Episode 83
The women rip Vera's clothes off in the laundry while chanting "YOU'RE
THE ANIMAL! VERA'S AN ANIMAL!" (121)
Doreen finds a cat sleeping on top of Chrissie Latham's baby Elizabeth,
panics and calls for help!
Margo Gaffney pleads with Wayne and Bazza to give themselves up and
throw the gun outside (183)
Music in the background of a promo for a late episode of Prisoner
Occasionally used. Never heard again after Episode 183 although it was
used in one or maybe more promos during the original run in 1986.
Open Door
Bee tells Judy Bryant she can go ahead with her escape plans, when
she sees a screw walking outside the fence carrying a gun (162)
Mr Gillespie making final inspections on the morning of the escape, as
prisoners do their last rehearsals (165)
Dies out in the 200s?
Protoplasm
Sexy Ros on the run, after she climbs out the back of a truck (83)
Only used a few times around 1979/early 1980
Unease
by David Lindup[1]
Jock Stewart walking through the corridor to Doreen's cell, and slapping
her across the face (116)
Pretty Scenes
Doreen visits her mother after being talked into it by Travers (72)
Bee dreaming about having good times on the outside with Ken (191)
Aftermath
by David Lindup[1]
Terrorists climb onto the roof in the dark (82)
The beginning of Episode 184 after the mugshots, after Margo Gaffney
and her boyfriends hold hostages at a shop after a bungled payroll job.
Cold Sweat
by David Lindup[1]
Terrorists breaking into the prison through the trapdoor on the roof
(82)
Meg walks into the shop volunteering as a hostage in Gaffney's siege
(184)
Careful Endeavour
Mr Fletcher finding the evidence that was planted on Sandra Hamilton in
order to clear her of burning Evilyn Randall's face so she could be released
(181)
Only used in 83 and 181?
Watchful Eye by Brian Bennett (according to Universal
Music)[2], however, the exact same tune is listed on the same website
as Watchful Eye by John Cameron![2]
The sad music that plays as Margo Gaffney chatters to Wayne about their
future as they wake up in the shop the morning after the siege (184)
Meg lying in bed following her ordeal (483)
Possibly one of the casualties of Episode 534
Watchful Eye
by James Clarke[1]
The only 3 occasions this is heard is when:
"Vera Bennett stinks" (84)
Judy Bryant pulls up in a taxi outside the gates hot on Gilmore's
tail inside (97?)
Mr Gillespie arrives at Wentworth (160)
Episodes 84–160
Waiting
Tony Reid is kept Waiting for his girlfriend Sally, who has "moved
on" (128)
The doctor tells Meg she will have to have the baby taken out if she
is to live (510)
Dennis Cruikshank comes home to Meg after being bashed (530)
At the end of Episode 535, Ann Reynolds tells Desmond (after finding
the Freak innocent of bashing Loo Kelly) she no longer accepts her as
spokeswoman for the women, and if she causes anymore trouble, she will
be shipped off to Blackmoor.
Survives the production massacre of Episode 534
Risk Element
Judy Bryant finding Helen Smart & asking her to hide her out
Unseen Danger
Julian Phillips in the interview room negotiating Jacki Nolan's pardon
(159)
Cobwebs
Mr Fletcher faces a scene of devastation following Alf's bomb blast (110)
Only used a few times, between 104 and about the late 200s
Uneasy Atmosphere 1
Bryant says to Jock Stewart "got the big A did you Mr Stewart?"
and he says they're just transferring him. Ends with Desolation (see
below) when Bryant slaps him on the face (119)
Debuts Episode 107 but not used again after Episode 159
Desolation:
Jock Stewart confessing to Bryant that he did kill Sharon Gilmore,
and describing in detail how he wanted to kiss her before chucking her
down the stairs (119)
Chrissie Latham telling her brother Derek she refuses to move Elizabeth
and herself in while their father is still alive (195)
Debuts Episode 107
Psychopath A
Anne Griffin seeing a baby in one of the dryers (164)
Debuts Episode 107 but used only a few times, the last being when the
women terrorise Randall (180)
Phantasma??? (NB: the actual name of this track is not
known and has been mistakenly identified as 'Phantasma')
Judy Bryant confronts Jock Stewart at the staircase where her "friend"
Sharon Gilmore fell all the way down to the bottom (118)
Bryant calling Jock Stewart a murderer and a butcher in front of Vera
and the other prisoners in the corridor (119)
Episode 161 begins with Jude finding Bee unconscious on the floor after
the mugshots.
Bryant counsels one of the girls at the halfway house who is being stalked
and terrorised, after the boy next door is cleared.
118 to the mid-300s
Behind The Locked Door:
Judy Bryant sneaking up behind Jock Stewart with a knife at the massage
parlour at the end of Episode 171
The compactor van drives away during a fight used as a diversion so
Sandy could "escape" (really when Winter and Peterson kill her)
(264)
Debuts Episode 109. Used as late as the 600s!
Space Probe
Gilmore eavesdropping on Jock Stewart "negotiating" with
Doreen in her cell (116)
Vince Talbot moving in on Doreen in the storeroom at the end of Episode
128
Running Scared
by Brian Bennett[2]
Kathleen Leach chickens out from stabbing Tracey Morris (147)
Mr Fletcher fires warning shots at Hamilton as she tries to escape (177)
Forgotten Garden by Brian Bennett[2]
Tracey Morris is taken into Wentworth following her sentencing
Following her heart attack, Lizzy Birdsworth tells doctors in hospital
that she is old and she doesn't want to go on.(169)
Joan Ferguson remembers a friend of hers who died in custody (c.444),
the death of which turned her into 'The Freak'
Debuts Episode 149
Emergency
A sniper aims his rifle at Tracy Morris from the fence, and fires. (148)
Only ever used once
Lost World
Latham jumping through hoops after lights out with the key Bee stole from
Vera when she came to the prison pissed (155)
Crisis
Tracy Morris driven away by McNally gang members disguised as policemen
at the beginning of Episode 154
Only ever used once?
Canaveral Scape:
Helen Smart telling a dog to "piss off!" while driving the
hire truck across a bridge (165)
Doreen sneaks away with Evilyn's herbal preparation while Meg lies sick
in the infirmary (179)
Strange Encounter by Brian Bennett[2]
PRG meeting and 'Free Jacki Nolan' posters, and Vera pouring alcohol
down the sink (159)
Baxter sneaks a dose of Evilyn Randall's preparation to Meg while Mr
Fletcher asks Doreen and Hamilton to help move the food from the gate
(177)
Linda and her accomplice stick guns in Davo's face at the end of Episode
230
Endurance Of Man
"Mouse" caught speeding in the hire truck (166)
Doreen trying to save the dogs at the end of Episode 258
Debuts Episode 166
Achievements Of Man:
Tracy Morris ambushed in a phone box by a drug lord at the end of Episode
146
Major Construction D
Tracy Morris being escorted to court under police guard. (154)
Gaffney and a "non-speaking" prisoner watch guns and ammunition
being loaded into the armoury (162).
Running Colours
Doreen stealing the baby from the hospital at the end of Episode
155
Judy Bryant running away after Wally is arrested (170)
Judy finding Linda Goldman hanging in her cell (236)
Debuts Episode 155 but dies out in the 300s
Appearing Shapes by Brian Bennett[2]
Sad violin that plays when Vera is at home at the beginning of Episode
156 after telling Davo she has resigned.
Baxter throws a tantrum and rips up her test paper in solitary.
Joyce Barry breaks up with her husband to be with her new lover Pringle
Debuts Episode 156
Ascending Shapes
by Brian Bennett[2]
The Freak and her lesbian Sharon Gilmore lookalike Terri Malone in the
550s/560s
Prowler
by Brian Bennett[2]
Jacki Nolan released into the arms of Julian Phillips at the gates
(159)
Officers at rifle practice (161)
Only used twice (159 and 161)?
Time Lapse
Vera resuscitates Lizzy Birdsworth as she suffers a heart attack at the
beginning of Episode 169
Chance
Detectives follow a Channel 10 news crew and are led to where Judy Bryant
is hiding out (170)
Debuts Episode 170
Flashing Knives by Steve Gray[1]
The final shootout with police ending Wayne & Gaffney's siege
"YOU BASTARDS, YOU DIRTY ROTTEN BASTARDS!!" (184)
Andrea Hennesseed is chased onto the hospital roof in the recap at the
beginning of Episode 234
Debuts Episode 184
Evolving Shapes
by Brian Bennett[2]
Ken visiting Bee in the visiting suite (189)?
Moorland Mist 1
by Brian Bennett[2]
Davo takes Doreen out to the park by the lake to meet her penpal Peter
Hope (194)
Quiet Waters 1
by Brian Bennett[2]
Latham and O'Brien take Elizabeth out to the zoo (194)
Manta Ray
Relentless cell searches/spot checks (195)
Terry Harrison apparently doing detective work on the crime gang trying
to kill Kathy Hall
Susie Driscoll runs away from the hospital
Debuts Episode 195
Gas Cloud
Bee wandering around the streets lost in a daze. (199)
Only ever used in 199?
Hideout Letdown
by Brian Bennett[1]
Mr Fletcher stops Andrea Hennesseed and Linda Goldman outside the hospital
escaping with guns
Nerves Of Steel
Bee sneaking around the hospital trying to get on the phone to Davo to
try to talk to her about Sandy Edwards's riot (248)
Debuts Episode 213 (Mr Fletcher "loses interest" in Michelle
the runner when she offers him an expensive pair of running shoes as a present,
after being acquitted of robbing her employer)
Trek
Steve Faulkner fights a fire in a cell with a fire extinguisher full of
booze
Datalink
Phone dropping out on Steve Faulkner (247)
Fire shorting out the prison gates (326)
Debuts Episode 247
Forewarning
Sandy's riot
Swirling Grey:
Anne Griffin dumping a wheelbarrow full of dirt on the drainhole
cover (165)
Bee finds herself dazed from Winter's "magic mushrooms" at
Barnhurst (198)
Bee has to face the reality that she has a problem with her kidneys
(237)
Debuts Episode 165
In Terror
by Brian Bennett
Journalists question Catherine Roberts over her light sentence (23)
Bee warns Nolene Bourke about damaging communal property, over the smashed
TV (50)
Kathy Hall finds a threatening note (216)
Detectives show Lizzy Birdsworth a kerosene bottle they found at Syd's
house after it burnt down (240)
Colleen Powell warns Steve Faulkner about his improper relationship
with Sandy Edwards (266?)
A snake slithers around the prison (400s).
The Freak is castigated in court over her alleged history of prisoner
bashing during Loo Kelly's trial (533)
Rarely used before Episode 216?
Computer
Crime by George Fenton[citation needed]
Gate guard finds Kathy dead straight after the mugshots (221)
Davo running through the bushes (232)
Steve Faulkner escapes Sandy's rioting prisoners (247)
Jock Stewart barges into Judy Bryant's flat in the middle of the night
(258)
Susie Driscoll trapped in the ducting while pest controller sprays chemicals
(277??)
Joan Ferguson kicks the shit out of Chrissie Latham (297, plays over
mugshots)
Bee tries to pour the battery acid that killed Donna down her throat
but is stopped by Meg (303)
Bee and the Freak having a fight during the fire (326)
Bee escapes by walking right out the front gate disguised as the Freak
(352)
Cass Parker attacks and tries to kill Cruikshank, calling him a murderer
because Bobbie had a miscarriage (460)
Marie Winter's riot (466)
Reb Keane tries to make the Freak fall down the stairs (483)
McRae cops it from a sabotaged band-saw in the workshop after Frank
sabotages it (532)
Debuts Episode 221 straight after the mugshots, when the gate
guard finds Kathy Hall lying on the road outside after a hit-and-run,
and calls for help .
Computer Crime is probably never heard again after Episode 532,
possibly one of the casualties that didn't survive past Episode 534.
Time Schedule
Andrea Hennessy's mates trying to break her out (226)
Sandy preparing for the riot (246)
Only used a few times, confined to the 200s
Mercury
Andrea Hennessy's mates trying to break her out (226)
Cold Steel
Kathy Hall sabotaging the dryers (219)
Danger Sign
Harrison chases Vera out of the prison before being shot (223)
Hannah Simpson is involved in a courtroom breakout drama (289)
Debuts at the end of Episode 223 when Terry chases Vera before being shot
dead. However, it doesn't seem to be used again after Hannah's courtroom
breakout.
Sapphire Song
Vera having a flashback of the gun poking out the car window when Terry
Harrison was shot, when she is questioned by Det. Insp. Grace (224)
Kate Peterson having "nightmares" in solitary (272)
Only used a few times in the 200s
Plans
Alison Page helping the other inmates pull a practical joke on the screws
Only ever used twice?
Time Schedule
Linda and a mate of hers preparing to try to break Andrea out (232?)
Sandy Edwards preparing for the riot (246)
Momentum A/B:
Vera finds a gun in her face as she arrives home from work at the
end of Episode 217.
The Freak putting the hard word on Hannah Simpson as she puts on her
trademark Black Gloves (289)
Reb Kean smashes Phyllis Hunt's head in (460)
Winter blackmails the Freak into helping her with her escape (470)
Dot finds blood on the locker from Bev Baker's handiwork, and screams
when finding something under the bed (477?)
Desmond and her boyfriend McRae realise the Freak is having dizzy spells
from the bump on the head, as she walks past while they grope in her cell
in clear sight of her (534)
Debuts Episode 217. Used on quite a regular basis (particularly in a lot
of scenes involving Joan Ferguson) until it ends up as one of many tracks
facing the axe in Episode 534
House Of Horror
by Merrick Farran[2]
Birdsworth getting nuisance phone calls and frightened by strange noises
in Syd's house at night. She calls Meg for help.
Mystery Cycle
Occasional piano trickle
Meg looking for her ID tag (with Colleen Powell pretending to help)
Room 13
Sandy Edwards making final preparations for the riot at the end of Episode
246
Flashpoint
Mr Fletcher tells the women to go back to their cells when the garage
door opens (247)
Lexie prints copies of the prison newspaper bearing the headline "THE
FREAK ANNOUNCES MARRIAGE TO MALONE" at the end of Episode 566
Nocturne 2
by Simon Benson[2]
Carol's boyfriend Doug rapes Colleen Powell's daughter Jennifer (277)
Only ever used twice in the 200s?
Straight Flight
Women prepare to make a big racket as cover for Gaffney bashing the solitary
gate with a big metal hammer (283)
Woodblock?
Jock Stewart blackmailing Bryant in the park (257)
The women (with McKenzie as their leader) make a racket in the dining
room demanding to see Mr Douglas, just before Davo disappears (360)
Winter punches Reb Keane in the stomach in the showers just before escaping
in the helicopter (471)
Frank sabotages the band saw in the workshop after class (532)
Debuts Episode 257
East Of Suez
Margo Gaffney quietly tells Helen Smart she has a pen and paper for her
(283)
Brick In The Wall
Guitar riff
Prisoners chant "FREE SMART! FREE SMART!" at the end of Episode
283, before Gaffney threatens Colleen Powell with a big hammer up in solitary
(284)
Used a few times between Episode 283 and the late 300s?
Free Wheeling
Brenda Latham dobs Chrissie into the police as she tries to escape
with Elizabeth (286).
At the end of Episode 324, Bee gets a note allegedly from Paddy, saying
Birdsworth has died in hospital.
Bee finds herself lying next to Joan Ferguson in hospital (327)
Ann Reynolds has got bad news at the end of Episode 536, that one of
the deaths during the Barnhurst fire/riot we never saw was Bee Smith
First heard in Episode 286
Repetition
by John Cameron[2]
Bee and the other prisoners spring a surprise table blockade in the dining
room, resuming their protest against the Freak (302)
Used a couple of times in the 300s
Breaking Out
by Ray Russell[1]
Barbara Fields leaving the safe hanging open before lighting her factory
(302)
Automotive
Fast action
Fire breaks out at Barbara Fields's factory (302)
The Freak wakes up, and, walking like one of the bosses in Wolfenstein,
sneaks up behind Bee to retaliate. The women are evacuated as the fire
takes hold (326)
The Freak pulls Zara Moonbeam away as Bee wakes up from her "nightmare"
(368)
The women evacuated as firefighters attend to the prison during the
bombing (387)
Heather and Cruikshank at accident scene.(469)
Episode 483 at 02:38
Frank Bourke drags Pixie Mason into the library after she thumps him
(510)
Frank prepares to have sex with Anita Selby but stops cold when finding
a crucifix on her neck at which point, Night Hawks plays: "a
religious crank" . She admits she is a nun (526)
Frank having a fight with Desmond in the library at the end of Episode
532. Plays over the opening mugshots of Episode 533.
Debuts near the end of Episode 302 as the factory goes up in flames.
Never heard again after the mugshots at the start of Episode 533
Night
Hawks, composed by Mike Moran and Ray Russell
Scary flute and trickling piano
Episode 303: Joan refuses to seek medical help for Lizzie
until blockade is lifted
Neil Murray explains to Latham why she is having her "last meal"
then the police shoot him (317?)
Episode 319: Sally Dempster hanging herself
Episode 324: Joan attacked by masked prisoners
Theme for The Great Fire of Episode 326
Bee tries to make Latham admit to lighting the fire in the library (330?)
Colleen Powell raises the alarm — Paddy has just been killed (338)
Episode 368: Moonbeam and Joan making Bea go mad
Bee questions Latham about the fire (330?)
Doreen pretends to be held hostage by Bee just before she is recaptured
(360)
Women evacuated after bombs are planted in the prison (387)
Woman with baby at halfway house stalked by gunman (410??)
Paul Reynolds shot (422)
Chick with baby at halfway house stalked by gunman outside
Gaffney hides her drug stash (444?)
Reynolds and Bryant close in on the mind control doctor after he is
found out, and save Bobbie from being stabbed by Cass Parker (recap, mugshots
and beginning of Episode 455, loops)
Fight during the fete, and again after Cass attacks Cruikshank (460)
Marie Winter's riot (466), also plays over the mugshots of Episode 467
Reb Kean preparing to escape from hospital (477)
Loo Kelly forces Joyce Barry to let her out at gunpoint
Episode 510:
As Pixie Mason walks down the corridor, Night Hawks begins
to play as Frank Bourke pops out from behind a door and asks her out
for a smoko. She refuses, he dances around telling her to show him her
muscles, and she thumps him, setting Automotive alight
Len Murphy is framed at the end of the episode
Plays over the mugshots of Episode 511
Frank stops having foreplay with Anita when he finds a crucifix on her
neck (526)
Loo alerts McRae in the recroom to Frank bashing Desmond in the library
(532)
The Freak is set up. The
final scene of Episode 534: Lexie calling Meg and Cruikshank into
the laundry to find the Freak standing over Loo Kelly who has been beaten
up, while Desmond says Ferguson bashed her. Ferguson doesn't deny it because
she can't remember.
Debuts at the beginning of Episode 303
This track is heard quite regularly from Episode 303 until Episode 534
Dies in the final scene at the end of Episode 534
Superlative
Chrissie Latham walking through the corridors of the hospital she escapes
from, aided by Neil Murray (314?)
Weapon
Susie Driscoll runs out of the hospital, escaping again (273?)
Maxine and fellow prisoners gang up against "baby basher"
who was accused of killing one of her 2 sons (366?)
Maxine in police chase (373)
The final fight between Bee and the Freak (400)
Women fighting in the recroom witnessed by the Minister (4??)
The little boy plays up as the Freak has a friendly dinner with his
foster parents (514)
The Freak's father dies in hospital (522)
The little boy remembers the good times he had with Ferguson, taking
him to Luna Park etc. (525?)
Joan Ferguson in staffroom talking to Joyce Barry about not being able
to remember Loo Kelly being bashed, after she is suspended from duty (535)
Nora tells Myra Desmond she has spent the last 23 years in jail because
"another Nora Flynn" was really stupid and killed the hitch-hikers
(537)
Nora looks at someone's baby in maternity (538)
Jennifer and her grandmother (540s)
The Freak meets up with Ballinger's "barrister" (who looks
like Gordon Humphrey) to make sure the negatives are destroyed (548)
Nicole (Niki) tells her mother about the chemist being robbed (569)
First heard in Episode 510
Poltergeist
Scary, haunting
* Not to be confused with Witchcraft (see below)
The Freak has a memory lapse when using the coffee urn (531)
The Freak having dizzy spells and in the laundry, Desmond says to Lexie
she is not sure if she is just pulling a shifty (532), plays over the
opening mugshots of Episode 533
The Freak standing outside at Melbourne Ports in what looks like a daze
(533)
The Freak doesn't have much to say when Ann Reynolds questions her about
what happened with Loo Kelly (535)
Myra Desmond has this scary hallucination of Dennis Cruikshank when
in the infirmary when drugged out on "acid" smuggled in by Ruth
Ballinger (544)
Jennifer finds her grandmother dead (recap, plays over opening mugshots
of Episode 548)
Reb Kean has a flashback of when the Freak tried to push her down the
stairs (578)
First heard in Episode 531 as Ferguson spills water from the tea
urn in the staffroom
MUSIC
ONLY EVER USED FROM EPISODE 535 ONWARDS
Blueprint For Murder
Anita tells Myra she can't live with her "conscience" knowing
Joan Ferguson has been set up (535)
Pumping Heart
by Jean Bouchety [2]
In the laundry, Desmond puts Loo Kelly on skip duty for hassling Julie
Egbert (537)
Only used once?
The Golden Web
by Alan Hawkshaw[2]
Recap at start of Episode 545 when the Freak makes a full admission to
the Governor to bashing Ruth Ballinger.
Sultry Suspense
Edith "robs" the bank (544)
Witchcraft
by Alan Hawkshaw [2]
Jennifer finds her grandmother bludgeoned to death (547)
Approaching Danger
by James Clarke[2]
Low, creepy, angry playing of drums
The Freak confronts Ruth Ballinger and prepares to bash the shit
out of her after reading about her involvement in Fellowes's child pornography
rackets. The Freak then rips up an incriminating photo of her with a criminal
associate (544)
The prisoners first notice Pippa standing on the roof (553)
New York 2001
Mugshots at the beginning of Episode 552
High Noon
Ann Reynolds finds her car windscreen smashed (566)
Tokyo Traffic
Escape on garbage truck (620s)
Four Winds
The death of Prisoner — end of Episode 692
The case of the mystery tracks: can you solve these?
The following YouTube clips contain scenes with music we have not yet been
able to identify.
This
page is under heavy construction. A complete database of music cannot
be guaranteed due to the limited availability of information on the production
of Prisoner. I will be starting off with the most important known music,
and maybe working on the lesser tracks later.
Last
updated
July 18, 2008
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