Wentworth is an Australian television drama series. It was first broadcast on SoHo on 1 May 2013. The series serves as a contemporary reimagining of Prisoner , which ran on Network Ten from 1979 to 1986. Lara Radulovich and David Hannam developed Wentworth from Reg Watson's original concept. The series is set in the modern day and begins with Bea Smith's (Danielle Cormack) early days in prison.
During the course of the series, 100 episodes of Wentworth aired over eight seasons, between 1 May 2013 and 26 October 2021.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
First aired | Last aired | Network | |||
1 | 10 | 1 May 2013 | 3 July 2013 | SoHo | |
2 | 12 | 20 May 2014 | 5 August 2014 | ||
3 | 12 | 7 April 2015 | 23 June 2015 | ||
4 | 12 | 10 May 2016 | 26 July 2016 | ||
5 | 12 | 4 April 2017 | 20 June 2017 | Fox Showcase | |
6 | 12 | 19 June 2018 | 4 September 2018 | ||
7 | 10 | 28 May 2019 | 30 July 2019 | ||
8 | 20 | 10 | 28 July 2020 | 29 September 2020 | |
10 | 24 August 2021 | 26 October 2021 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Aus. viewers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | "No Place Like Home" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 1 May 2013 | 244,000 [1] |
2 | 2 | "Fly Me Away" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 8 May 2013 | 102,000 [2] |
3 | 3 | "The Girl Who Waited" | Catherine Millar | Pete McTighe | 15 May 2013 | 110,000 [3] |
4 | 4 | "The Things We Do" | Catherine Millar | Pete McTighe | 22 May 2013 | 97,000 [4] |
5 | 5 | "The Velvet Curtain" | Tori Garrett | Pete McTighe | 29 May 2013 | 115,000 [5] |
6 | 6 | "Captive" | Tori Garrett | Pete McTighe | 5 June 2013 | 92,000 [6] |
7 | 7 | "Something Dies" | Jet Wilkinson | Pete McTighe | 12 June 2013 | 97,000 [7] |
8 | 8 | "Mind Games" | Jet Wilkinson | Lally Katz & Emma J. Steele | 19 June 2013 | 82,000 [8] |
9 | 9 | "To the Moon" | Kevin Carlin | Guila Sandler | 26 June 2013 | 77,000 [9] |
10 | 10 | "Checkmate" | Kevin Carlin | Emma J. Steele | 3 July 2013 | 125,000 [10] |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Aus. viewers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11 | 1 | "Born Again" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 20 May 2014 | 75,000 [11] |
12 | 2 | "Whatever It Takes" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 27 May 2014 | 99,000 [12] |
13 | 3 | "Boys in the Yard" | Catherine Millar | Timothy Hobart | 3 June 2014 | 95,000 [13] |
14 | 4 | "The Danger Within" | Catherine Millar | Marcia Gardner | 10 June 2014 | 66,000 [14] |
15 | 5 | "Twist the Knife" | Dee McLachlan | Pete McTighe | 17 June 2014 | 64,000 [15] |
16 | 6 | "The Pink Dragon" | Dee McLachlan | Marcia Gardner | 24 June 2014 | 100,000 [16] |
17 | 7 | "Metamorphosis" | Pino Amenta | John Ridley | 1 July 2014 | 68,000 [17] |
18 | 8 | "Sins of the Mother" | Pino Amenta | Timothy Hobart | 8 July 2014 | 79,000 [18] |
19 | 9 | "The Fixer" | Steve Jodrell | John Ridley | 15 July 2014 | 87,000 [19] |
20 | 10 | "Jail Birds" | Steve Jodrell | Timothy Hobart | 22 July 2014 | 81,000 [20] |
21 | 11 | "Into the Night" | Kevin Carlin | Adam Todd | 29 July 2014 | 86,000 [21] |
22 | 12 | "Fear Her" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 5 August 2014 | 103,000 [22] |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Aus. viewers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
23 | 1 | "The Governor's Pleasure" | Kevin Carlin | Stuart Page | 7 April 2015 | 100,000 [23] |
24 | 2 | "Failing Upwards" | Kevin Carlin | Adam Todd | 14 April 2015 | 94,000 [24] |
25 | 3 | "Knives Out" | Catherine Millar | Pete McTighe | 21 April 2015 | 98,000 [25] |
26 | 4 | "Righteous Acts" | Catherine Millar | John Ridley | 28 April 2015 | 102,000 [26] |
27 | 5 | "Mercy" | Steve Jodrell | Adam Todd | 5 May 2015 | 97,000 [27] |
28 | 6 | "Evidence" | Steve Jodrell | Stuart Page | 12 May 2015 | 118,000 [28] |
29 | 7 | "The Long Game" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe & Marcia Gardner | 19 May 2015 | 104,000 [29] |
30 | 8 | "Goldfish" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 26 May 2015 | 108,000 [30] |
31 | 9 | "Freak Show" [lower-alpha 1] | Catherine Millar | Adam Todd | 2 June 2015 | 108,000 [32] |
32 | 10 | "A Higher Court" | Catherine Millar | Stuart Page | 9 June 2015 | 127,000 [33] |
33 | 11 | "The Living and the Dead" | Steve Jodrell | John Ridley | 16 June 2015 | 109,000 [34] |
34 | 12 | "Blood and Fire" | Steve Jodrell | Pete McTighe | 23 June 2015 | 113,000 [35] |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Aus. viewers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
35 | 1 | "First Blood" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 10 May 2016 | 140,000 [36] |
36 | 2 | "Poking Spiders" | Kevin Carlin | Marcia Gardner | 17 May 2016 | 97,000 [37] |
37 | 3 | "Prisoner" | Steve Jodrell | Pete McTighe | 24 May 2016 | 81,000 [38] |
38 | 4 | "Screw Lover" | Steve Jodrell | Michael Lucas | 31 May 2016 | 97,000 [39] |
39 | 5 | "Love and Hate" | Jet Wilkinson | John Ridley | 7 June 2016 | 103,000 [40] |
40 | 6 | "Divide and Conquer" | Jet Wilkinson | Marcia Gardner | 14 June 2016 | 119,000 [41] |
41 | 7 | "Panic Button" | Adrian Russell Wills | Pete McTighe | 21 June 2016 | 121,000 [42] |
42 | 8 | "Plan Bea" | Adrian Russell Wills | Michael Lucas | 28 June 2016 | 84,000 [43] |
43 | 9 | "Afterlife" | Steve Jodrell | Michael Lucas | 5 July 2016 | 110,000 [44] |
44 | 10 | "Smitten" | Steve Jodrell | Samantha Winston | 12 July 2016 | 110,000 [45] |
45 | 11 | "Eleventh Hour" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 19 July 2016 | 123,000 [46] |
46 | 12 | "Seeing Red" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 26 July 2016 | 95,000 [47] |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Aus. viewers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
47 | 1 | "Scars" | Mat King | John Ridley | 4 April 2017 | 101,000 [48] |
48 | 2 | "The Bitch is Back" | Mat King | Andrew Anastasios | 11 April 2017 | 96,000 [49] |
49 | 3 | "Nothing But the Truth" | Geoff Bennett | Pete McTighe | 18 April 2017 | 88,000 [50] |
50 | 4 | "Loose Ends" | Geoff Bennett | Marcia Gardner | 25 April 2017 | 85,000 [51] |
51 | 5 | "Belly of the Beast" | Fiona Banks | Marcia Gardner | 2 May 2017 | 79,000 [52] |
52 | 6 | "Happy Birthday, Vera" | Fiona Banks | John Ridley | 9 May 2017 | 80,000 [53] |
53 | 7 | "The Pact" | Mat King | Andrew Anastasios | 16 May 2017 | 83,000 [54] |
54 | 8 | "Think Inside the Box" | Mat King | Pete McTighe | 23 May 2017 | 73,000 [55] |
55 | 9 | "Snakehead" | Catherine Millar | Andrew Anastasios | 30 May 2017 | 74,000 [56] |
56 | 10 | "Mere Anarchy" | Catherine Miller | Marcia Gardner | 6 June 2017 | 81,000 [57] |
57 | 11 | "Coup de Grâce" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 13 June 2017 | 81,000 [58] |
58 | 12 | "Hell Bent" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 20 June 2017 | 119,000 [59] |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Aus. viewers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
59 | 1 | "Clean Slate" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 19 June 2018 | 101,000 [60] |
60 | 2 | "The Boxer" | Kevin Carlin | Marcia Gardner | 26 June 2018 | 87,000 [61] |
61 | 3 | "Bleed Out" | Fiona Banks | John Ridley | 3 July 2018 | 105,000 [62] |
62 | 4 | "Winter Is Here" | Fiona Banks | Andrew Anastasios | 10 July 2018 | 83,000 [63] |
63 | 5 | "Bitter Pill" | Roger Hodgman | John Ridley | 17 July 2018 | 71,000 [64] |
64 | 6 | "Angel of Wentworth" | Roger Hodgman | Andrew Anastasios & Marcia Gardner | 24 July 2018 | 82,000 [65] |
65 | 7 | "The Edge" | Sian Davies | Pete McTighe | 31 July 2018 | 77,000 [66] |
66 | 8 | "Lovers and Fighters" | Sian Davies | John Ridley and Marcia Gardner | 7 August 2018 | 91,000 [67] |
67 | 9 | "Shallow Grave" | Fiona Banks | John Ridley | 14 August 2018 | 91,000 [68] |
68 | 10 | "Fractured" | Fiona Banks | Pete McTighe | 21 August 2018 | 103,000 [69] |
69 | 11 | "Indelible Ink" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley & Marcia Gardner | 28 August 2018 | 82,000 [70] |
70 | 12 | "Showdown" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 4 September 2018 | 102,000 [71] |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Aus. viewers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
71 | 1 | "Blood Wedding" | Kevin Carlin | Marcia Gardner | 28 May 2019 | 89,000 [72] |
72 | 2 | "Payback" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 4 June 2019 | 96,000 [73] |
73 | 3 | "Atonement" | Jonathan Brough | Max Conroy | 11 June 2019 | 88,000 [74] |
74 | 4 | "Karen" | Jonathan Brough | Pete McTighe | 18 June 2019 | 86,000 [75] |
75 | 5 | "Ascension" | Beck Cole | Pete McTighe | 25 June 2019 | 86,000 [76] |
76 | 6 | "Mother" | Beck Cole | John Ridley | 2 July 2019 | 72,000 [77] |
77 | 7 | "Bad Blood" | Fiona Banks | Marcia Gardner | 9 July 2019 | 94,000 [78] |
78 | 8 | "Protection" | Fiona Banks | Max Conroy | 16 July 2019 | 103,000 [79] |
79 | 9 | "Under Siege, Part 1" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 23 July 2019 | 91,000 [80] |
80 | 10 | "Under Siege, Part 2" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 30 July 2019 | 110,000 [81] |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Aus. viewers | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Part 1: Redemption | ||||||||||||
81 | 1 | "Resurrection" | Kevin Carlin | Pete McTighe | 28 July 2020 | 107,000 [82] | ||||||
82 | 2 | "Ends and Means" | Kevin Carlin | Max Conroy & Kim Wilson | 4 August 2020 | 78,000 [83] | ||||||
83 | 3 | "Enemy of the State" | Beck Cole | Marcia Gardner | 11 August 2020 | 73,000 [84] | ||||||
84 | 4 | "Revenant" | Beck Cole | John Ridley | 18 August 2020 | 59,000 [85] | ||||||
85 | 5 | "Fallout" | Fiona Banks | Pete McTighe | 25 August 2020 | 65,000 [86] | ||||||
86 | 6 | "Fugitive" | Fiona Banks | Marcia Gardner | 1 September 2020 | 56,000 [87] | ||||||
87 | 7 | "Battle Lines" | Corrie Chen | Max Conroy & Kim Wilson | 8 September 2020 | 62,000 [88] | ||||||
88 | 8 | "Goldfish, Part 2" | Corrie Chen | John Ridley | 15 September 2020 | 54,000 [89] | ||||||
89 | 9 | "Monster" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 22 September 2020 | 46,000 [90] | ||||||
90 | 10 | "The Enemy Within" | Kevin Carlin | Marcia Gardner | 29 September 2020 | 65,000 [91] | ||||||
Part 2: The Final Sentence | ||||||||||||
91 | 11 | "Rogue" | Fiona Banks | Kim Wilson | 24 August 2021 | 55,000 [92] | ||||||
92 | 12 | "Requiem" | Fiona Banks | Marcia Gardner | 31 August 2021 | 53,000 [93] | ||||||
93 | 13 | "The Ties That Bind" | Roger Hodgman | John Ridley | 7 September 2021 | 72,000 [94] | ||||||
94 | 14 | "Judas Kiss" | Roger Hodgman | John Ridley | 14 September 2021 | 46,000 [95] | ||||||
95 | 15 | "The Unknown Terrorist" | Mat King | Kim Wilson | 21 September 2021 | 68,000 [96] | ||||||
96 | 16 | "One Eye Open" | Mat King | John Ridley | 28 September 2021 | 51,000 [97] | ||||||
97 | 17 | "Collateral" | Beck Cole | John Ridley | 5 October 2021 | 57,000 [98] | ||||||
98 | 18 | "The Abyss" | Beck Cole | Kim Wilson | 12 October 2021 | 67,000 [99] | ||||||
99 | 19 | "The Reckoning" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 19 October 2021 | 64,000 [100] | ||||||
100 | 20 | "Legacy" | Kevin Carlin | John Ridley | 26 October 2021 | 73,000 [101] |
Season | Episode number | Average | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||
1 | 244 | 102 | 110 | 97 | 115 | 92 | 97 | 82 | 77 | 125 | N/A | 114 | ||
2 | 75 | 99 | 95 | 66 | 64 | 100 | 68 | 79 | 87 | 81 | 86 | 103 | 84 | |
3 | 100 | 94 | 98 | 102 | 97 | 118 | 104 | 108 | 108 | 127 | 109 | 113 | 107 | |
4 | 140 | 97 | 81 | 97 | 103 | 119 | 121 | 84 | 110 | 110 | 123 | 95 | 107 | |
5 | 101 | 96 | 88 | 85 | 79 | 80 | 83 | 73 | 74 | 81 | 81 | 119 | 87 | |
6 | 101 | 87 | 105 | 83 | 71 | 82 | 77 | 91 | 91 | 103 | 82 | 102 | 90 | |
7 | 89 | 96 | 88 | 86 | 86 | 72 | 94 | 103 | 91 | 110 | N/A | 92 | ||
8A | 107 | 78 | 73 | 59 | 65 | 56 | 62 | 54 | 46 | 65 | N/A | 67 | ||
8B | 55 | 53 | 72 | 46 | 68 | 51 | 57 | 67 | 64 | 73 | N/A | 61 |
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