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Kent Music Report No 288 – 31 December 1979 > National Top 100 Singles for 1979". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 10 January 2023– via Imgur.com. a b c d e "Prisoner Worldwide". Archived from the original on 19 February 2017 . Retrieved 18 February 2017. 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. Alongside some outlandish storylines, it featured serious issues, dealing with feminism, homosexuality, social reform and how women responded to prison. The series gained a positive reception. Initially conceived as a standalone miniseries of 16 episodes, its popularity meant it was developed into an ongoing series. It has since endured worldwide, acquiring cult classic status, particularly for its somewhat outrageous acting and plotlines.
Knox, David (29 November 2012). "Anne Charleston guests in Wentworth". TV Tonight . Retrieved 1 February 2013. 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. Betty Bobbitt self-published From the Outside, in 2011, which are her memoirs of her career which included playing the role of Judy Bryant on Prisoner. [23]
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. Although Bobbitt semi-retired in 1998 to run a novelty shop in the Blue Mountains north of Sydney, she appeared alongside other Prisoner stars to celebrate its 40th anniversary with cameos in a 2019 episode of Neighbours. 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. Knox, David (3 March 2011). "Prisoner cast reunite on the inside". TV Tonight . Retrieved 1 February 2013. In some areas of Australia, the Prisoner finale did not air until well into 1987. One example is in Sydney, in which TEN-10 did not screen the final two episodes until 29 September 1987, where they aired in a late-night slot at 11:05 p.m.; two years earlier, TEN-10 began airing Prisoner once a week, instead of twice. [13] In some areas of Australia, Prisoner was taken off the air long before the final episode; examples include Perth, where Nine Network station STW-9 cancelled the series after Episode 542. [14] (STW and Seven Network outlet TVW-7 shared Network Ten's programming until the sign-on of NEW-10 in 1988.)
Other series to have featured Prisoner spoofs included The Paul Hogan Show, Let the Blood Run Free, Naked Video and The Krypton Factor. Beirne, Rebecca (2008). Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium. Palgrave Macmillan. p.35. ISBN 9780230615014 . Retrieved 13 November 2018. In South Africa, public television network SABC 1 began airing the series in 1998, screening Thursday nights at 9 p.m. and a repeat showing on Fridays at 10:45; [25] it was cancelled on 2 October 2000, after episode 156.
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Prisoner: Eight Years Inside". Aussie Soap Archive. Archived from the original on 11 September 2009 . Retrieved 7 December 2006.
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