On screen rivals, off screen friends: Fiona Spence (Vera Bennett) and Elspeth Ballantyne (Meg Morris-Meg Jackson) having a drink.

Celebrating the 400th episode of Prisoner, which aired on 11 November 1983.

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.

Dangerous Women was the American remake of Prisoner, running for 52 episodes from 1 August 1991 to 1 January 1992.

On Thursday 26 September 1974 an Ansett plane touched down at Canberra Airport carrying a global musical phenomenon.

In Canberra in the early 1970s a cycling boom pushed the need for planning of better infrastructure for bike riders.

Every year for the Christmas holidays, thousands of Australians head to our beautiful beaches for some well-earned rest and relaxation.

For the first time in Australia’s history the field of sport became a political arena when the South African Springboks came to Australia for a six-week tour at the height of their country’s aparth

In the final episode the show’s longest serving actors, Gwen Plum and Tim Page, gave a touching farewell to the closure of the Albert Memorial Hospital and the end of the series.

The opening sequence from episode one, gives a sense of this mix of hospital drama and socialising among the characters.