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The first season of the television soap opera Prisoner (widely known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the United States and the United Kingdom and Caged Women in Canada) premiered on Network Ten on 27 February 1979 and consisted of 79 episodes airing twice weekly sometimes with two episodes airing on the same night from 8.30 pm. The season concluded on 28 November 1979.Prisoner was originally devised by television producer Reg Watson as a sixteen-part serial or mini-series in late 1978.