On The Inside (The TV Theme From Prisoner Cell Block H)

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Ian Bradley served as original producer and then executive producer, from series 2, whilst associate producer and screenwriter was Ian Smith, who appeared as an actor in the series as Head of the Department Ted Douglas, prior to becoming famous as the character Harold Bishop in Neighbours; another screenwriter, Anne Lucas, also acted briefly in the series playing prison bookie Faye Quinn. [3]

Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p.431. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. The second rerun began in May 2014, by station TV4 Guld and again airing Monday through to Thursdays, and screening at 10:00pm, with episode 32 on July 3. She stayed in Australia and appeared in stage revues before acting with the Melbourne Theatre Company and teaming up with Mann and another actor, Anne Phelan, to perform 1940s songs in a tour of the 70s stage show The Glitter Sisters. Kent Music Report No 288 – 31 December 1979 > National Top 100 Singles for 1979". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 10 January 2023– via Imgur.com. In New Zealand, Prisoner was first shown on TV2 on Monday 2 March 1981 and aired up to four afternoons a week, Monday to Thursday, at 2:30p.m. before moving to twice a week, Mondays and Tuesdays, in the same timeslot by October 1985. On Monday 9 February 1987, the series was moved to TV One and continued to air Mondays and Tuesdays at around 2:30p.m. until Thursday 23 July 1987 when it aired only on Thursdays in that slot. The final episode of Prisoner was broadcast on Friday 16 September 1988 at 2:35p.m. The series was rerun on Orange and, later, Sky 1. [25]The song was a hit in Australia in 1979 when the television show was launched, and reached number three on the UK Singles Chart in 1989 when the show attracted millions of viewers in its late night slot in ITV regions. [3] [4] Chart (1979–1981) During the repeat run from 2000 until October 2004, the network screening was four times a week (Monday to Thursday) at 2:15 am. The episodes were then repeated on weekends with both the Monday and Tuesday episode on Saturday and the Wednesday and Thursday episodes on Sunday.

Prisoner was created by Reg Watson, who had produced the British soap opera Crossroads from 1964 to 1973 and then the Australian soaps The Young Doctors and Sons and Daughters and post- Prisoner soap opera Neighbours. Lily Savage' star takes over as Chitty Childcatcher – News". whatsonstage.com. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013 . Retrieved 10 April 2012. Prisoner premiered in Australia on 27 February 1979. [nb 4] Its success prompted the producers to extend the series, first from 16 to 20 episodes and then indefinitely. The production schedule increased from one- to two-hour-long episodes per week; Carol Burns left the show after 20 episodes, feeling that she could not continue playing Franky Doyle with the tighter schedule. Her storyline sees her as an escapee from Wentworth with fellow inmate Doreen Anderson, and after being on the run for three weeks, she is shot dead by a policeman. [12]In Brazil, Prisoner aired as As Prisioneiras around the end of 1980 and early 1981 by TVS (since renamed SBT), Sundays at 10 p.m. [ citation needed] The show was dubbed into Brazilian Portuguese locally by TVS and was cancelled after episode 82 had screened. February 1979 was when the series debuted on ATV-10 as a two-hour special; the show had its national debut in Sydney on TEN-10 the night before on 26 February, where it was televised as a two-part premiere, with the second part seen on 27 February.

a b Doughty J (8 October 1987). "Allan Caswell Loves His Country". The Courier-Mail. Nationwide News Pty Limited. She did team up with Mann and Jane Clifton – who played Margo Gaffney in Prisoner – to form the Mini-Busettes, a singing trio that performed in Australian clubs and restaurants during the soap’s run.Betty was born in Manhattan, New York, the daughter of Elizabeth (nee Sprout), a nurse, and Hubert Bobbitt, who worked in a steel mill when the family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She enjoyed drama while attending Norristown high school and, on leaving aged 18, moved to Los Angeles, where she showed her acting talent playing Agnes Gooch in a stage production of Auntie Mame. Knox, David (4 October 2012). "Wentworth cast on the inside". TV Tonight . Retrieved 1 February 2013. Sheila Florance biography titled "On the Inside" was published in 2016 by Helen Martineau, which details her career as an actress and performer, including her role as Lizzie Birdsworth on Prisoner. Other series to have featured Prisoner spoofs included The Paul Hogan Show, Let the Blood Run Free, Naked Video and The Krypton Factor. The broadcast schedule was later changed to five nights a week airing at midnight. Season 8 began broadcasting Sjuan in September 2017 at 3:00 pm.

The series was shown in Sweden where it was a cult broadcast on TV4, from 7 September 1994 and entitled Kvinofangelset (The Women's Prison). a fan club organised a regular get together and collected several thousands of signatures from fans to repeat the series in again, which TV4 did so in 2000, After the series ended that year, work began to persuade the network to repeat the series a third time. The network originally screened the series three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) in the late night program slot of 1am, with the final episode airing on 3 February 2000. New story arcs were introduced. Karen Travers appealed against her sentence and was eventually released, allowing her to resume her relationship with Greg Miller and becoming involved in prison reform. As original characters began leaving the series (Mum Brooks, Lynn Warner, Karen and Greg appeared beyond the initial sixteen episodes, but most had left by the end of the 1979 season; Greg left in early 1980), new characters arrived: hulking husband-beater Monica Ferguson ( Lesley Baker), career criminal Noeline Bourke ( Jude Kuring), troubled murderess Roslyn Coulson ( Sigrid Thornton) and imprisoned mother Pat O'Connell ( Monica Maughan), in addition to shorter-term inmates with brief storylines. Prostitute Chrissie Latham, a minor character in the early episodes, returned in a more central antagonistic role and a male deputy governor, Jim Fletcher ( Gerard Maguire), joined the female-dominated cast. Bobbitt’s 1963 marriage to Robin Hill, an Australian artist, ended in divorce after three years. She is survived by their son, Chris, and her son Oliver from another relationship, as well as Meg “Mig” Dann, her partner of 31 years.

Prisoner: Eight Years Inside". Aussie Soap Archive. Archived from the original on 11 September 2009 . Retrieved 7 December 2006.