Willow B: Women in Prison (also known as A Matter of Survival) is a 1980 television pilot starring Elizabeth Hartman, Debra Clinger, Trisha Noble, Sally Kirkland and Ruth Roman as Sergeant Pritchard, a sadistic prison guard. The pilot was produced by Michael Filerman.
Plot A formerly rich socialite is convicted of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter and now spends her life in a frightening section of the El Camino Women's Detention Center.
Spinoff Willow B: Women in Prison was a spinoff for an unproduced American version of Prisoner, an Australian television series.
Critical reception The Washington Post wrote "Whoooo -- hot stuff! ABC, which has always had sleaze at the bottom of its heart, unloads an unsold serial pilot Sunday night called "Willow B: Women in Prison" that makes "Dallas" look like "Little House on the Prairie.""
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