https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-06/Aus%20Music%20still_Molly_Mega%20Menu.png
I just slipped and fell - Dangerous Women episode 1
Title:
I just slipped and fell - Dangerous Women episode 1
NFSA ID
1024316
Year
1991
Courtesy
FremantleMedia Australia
Holly has been arrested for allegedly abducting the child she was hired to care for. In this scene, she joins the other women in the classroom, and Rita sticks out her leg to make her fall. Holly has no choice but to say to the officer that it was an accident, that she just 'slipped and fell'. Maria hears this and it triggers her memories of covering up the domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband.
Dangerous Women did not feature the iconic scene from Prisoner’s first episode, where Bea Smith, thinking that Lynne 'Wonky' Warner is guilty of kidnapping a child, burns her hand in the press.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.