Bode, un joven recluso, se une a un programa de extinción de incendios en busca de redención y una rebaja en la condena de prisión. Él y otros reclusos trabajan junto a los bomberos de élite para extinguir incendios en toda la región.
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
Dark Minds brings together the sharp criminal minds of author and investigative journalist M. William Phelps and pre-eminent criminal profiler John Kelly to reopen unsolved homicides thought to be the work of serial killers. They are assisted in their efforts by a source known only to viewers as "13," a convict serving multiple life terms for a series of murders, who presents his theories about potential motivations behind these chilling cold cases based on his own experiences. They bring fresh eyes to unsolved serial killer investigations using the combined instincts of three unique perspectives, with hopes that it will encourage viewers to bring forward new leads.
Ambientada en 1788, esta miniserie de TV australiana narra la épica historia de una joven (Romola Garai) enviada a un remoto penal y su lucha por conseguir la libertad y la dignidad de su familia en la pequeña colonia de Botany Bay, en las costas del Océano Pacífico. En los países de habla inglesa salieron dos versiones en DVD, una de 3 horas y otra versión extendida de casi 9 horas de duración
In 1830s England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Diemen's Land where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons.
The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit.