Women in Prison
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Women in Prison (1987)

14 ep US FOX 30 min/ep CrimeComedy

Women in Prison is an American television sitcom created by Katherine Green which aired on Fox from October 11, 1987 to April 2, 1988.

🏳️‍🌈 A broad subgenre or reference to 1980s US sitcoms. While women-in-prison formats inherently spark heavy sapphic subtext, coded dynamics, and brief mentions, they lack modern healthy GL arcs.

Episodes

Season 1 1987 · 13 eps
Ep 1 Vickie Does Prison
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Vickie arrives at Bass Woman's Prison, and immediately makes the other prisoners jealous by getting a coveted job.

Ep 2 Goldfingers
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Eve hopes she can join the prison's forestry detail when she finds out they'll be working where she has gold hidden.

Ep 3 Hello, I Must Be Going
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Vicki's husband turns to bribery to try to secure her freedom. Meanwhile, Dawn finds she's earned the wrath of the nastiest prisoner in the joint.

Ep 4 Nell's Bells
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The assistant warden won't allow Vicki to memorialize Dawn's cousin.

Ep 5 Walk This Way
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Pam has a plan to escape the prison, but Vicki is hesitant to lend her support.

Ep 6 Skirts on Ice
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The prisoners take well to Vicki's claim that the new heaters she's been campaigning for will soon arrive.

Ep 7 The Hole Story
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Five days in solitary confinement leads to Vicki experiencing hallucinations.

Ep 8 Veni, Vidi, Vicki
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Five days in solitary confinement leads to Vicki experiencing hallucinations.

Ep 9 Prisoners of Love
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Eve's husband smuggles himself into Bass Women's Prison to celebrate their 30th anniversary.

Ep 10 52 Pick Up
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A lucky streak at poker leads to Dawn and Vicki's gambling addiction.

Ep 11 One Hero with Relish
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Meg steals Vicki's thunder by falsely claiming that she was the one to use CPR to save Assistant Warden Rafferty.

Ep 12 I Do, I Don't
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A marriage proposal from a former john sees Bonnie imagining being a housewife instead of a prostitute.

Ep 13 The Triangle
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When Vicki pleads with the assistant warden to be nicer to a heartbroken Meg, the following morning it seems he may have gone beyond simple kindness.

Season 2 2016 · 1 ep
Ep 4 The Nurse and The Outsider

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