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Prisoner: Season 4

80 episodes Premiered Feb 9, 1982 Updated Sep 25, 2026
Previously on Prisoner

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Prisoner Season 3.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

96%
Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (77): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

Episode 247

Feb 9, 1982 · 47 min

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, Mar

S4·E2 Core

Episode 248

Feb 10, 1982 · 47 min

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

S4·E3 Core

Episode 249

Feb 16, 1982 · 47 min

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 th

S4·E74 Core

Episode 320

Oct 20, 1982 · 47 min

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

S4·E75 Core

Episode 321

Oct 26, 1982 · 47 min

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 a

S4·E76 Core

Episode 322

Oct 27, 1982 · 47 min

Margo's escape attempt is thwarted when she is stopped by armed guards. The concert is halted and cancelled by Erica and Ted Douglas. Lizzie is rushed to hospital. Margo is brought

S4·E77 Core

Episode 323

Nov 2, 1982 · 47 min

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 lat

S4·E78 Core

Episode 324

Nov 3, 1982 · 47 min

Joan fights back and manages to get away from her attackers. Bea worries that she will be blamed for the attack and lose her parole. Maxine is annoyed by Melissa's presence at the

S4·E79 Mytharc

Episode 325

Nov 9, 1982 · 47 min

Joan fools the women into thinking that Lizzie is dead and they stage a protest, even Bea joins in from isolation. Her parole board hearing is postponed. Colleen tells the inmates

S4·E80 Mytharc

Episode 326

Nov 9, 1982 · 47 min

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 isolatio

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