Knox, David (3 March 2011). "Prisoner cast reunite on the inside". TV Tonight . Retrieved 1 February 2013. 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.

Re-live one of Australia's best dramas – Foxtel Insider – What's On". FOXTEL. 3 March 2011. Archived from the original on 19 May 2013 . Retrieved 1 February 2013. 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. a b c d e "Prisoner Worldwide". Archived from the original on 19 February 2017 . Retrieved 18 February 2017. The series was first aired in the United States on KTLA in Los Angeles on 8 August 1979, initially under the original name, Prisoner. [35] Shown Wednesdays at 8pm, it was the first Australian series broadcast in prime time in the United States. [ citation needed] The series, whose first two episodes were screened as a two-hour special, was viewed by a quarter of all television viewers in the Los Angeles market and was in second place for the night, beaten only by ABC's Charlie's Angels. [36] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p.132. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.

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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.

Toppano, along with Kerry Armstrong were the first actors to be seen on screen, during the opening credits. In Canada, Prisoner began on 10 September 1979 [44] as Caged Women on Global Television Network, at the time a small television network serving southern and eastern Ontario; [25] the program was seen weekly on Monday nights at 9pm [45] 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. 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. Don Battye and Peter Pinne were employed by the Grundy Organisation, Battye wrote and produced scripts for Neighbours, The Restless Years and Sons and Daughters, Pinne worked on The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters and Neighbours and oversaw the overseas productions of Grundy works in North and South America. Both were also Composers, they would write the Theme for Sons and Daughters and two songs for Neighbours. Both had worked on Stage Musicals, both Adult and Children based, so in the 90's they wrote the Book Music and Lyrics to what was then called The Wild, Wild Women of Wentworth, a stage musical using a faithful retelling of the 692 episodes with a mixture of different styles of music from Country to Pop.

Prisoner: Eight Years Inside". Aussie Soap Archive. Archived from the original on 11 September 2009 . Retrieved 7 December 2006. Prisoner began airing on Yorkshire Television on 8 October 1984, [30] with the franchise cutting scenes involving hanging (including the attempted hanging of Sandy Edwards and the hanging of Eve Wilder). [31] Yorkshire also heavily edited the episode 326 fight scene with Joan and Bea. Several other regions also cut scenes deemed inappropriate despite its time slot, well past the 9 p.m. watershed. Inspired by the British television drama Within These Walls, the show was initially conceived as a 16-episode series, with a pilot episode bearing the working title "Women Behind Bars". [nb 2] Its storylines focused on the lives of the prisoners and, to a lesser extent, the officers and other prison staff. When the initial episodes met an enthusiastic reception, it was felt that Prisoner could be developed into an ongoing soap opera. The early storylines were developed and expanded, with assistance from the Victorian Corrective Services Department. [5] Network Ten began rerunning Prisoner on 8 May 1995; the series was cancelled, despite promises that it would return after the 1996 Christmas break. BBC UKTV began airing it from the beginning on 30 November 1997, at 12:15am on Tuesday and Thursday and 11:30pm on Saturday and Sunday. A repeat was broadcast at 2pm on Monday. From March 2022, the show is available for streaming at 10play. [52] [ citation needed] 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]

Lily Savage (now renamed in available production Vera Vicious) is sent to Wentworth for the double crime of stealing a Fondue Set and murdering her sister, despite being innocent she has to deal with the Top Dog, the warden from hell known as Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson and the other inmates. The Governor a softy ends up inside with Joan in control there's a Fashion Show and a happy ending.

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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.) 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. In 1991, Prisoner was reprised for the American market as Dangerous Women. The US version borrowed heavily from the Australian original for characters and was created and written by Reg Watson, who had also created the original Australian series. In Dangerous Women, the emphasis was outside the prison, focusing on prisoner relationships in a halfway house. It is remembered now mainly for the early appearance of actor Casper Van Dien in the role of Brad Morris. [ citation needed] In 1997, Prisoner was revised in a German-language version, Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast ( Behind Bars). The series ran from 1997 to 2007 for 16 series and 403 episodes. Although the song was not used as the theme for Wentworth, the 2013 reimagining of Prisoner, it was briefly heard in the pilot episode, being hummed by Jacs Holt (played by Kris McQuade), the show's main antagonist. The original Lynn Hamilton single version of "On the Inside" was, however, used on the closing credits of the final episode of Wentworth (titled "Legacy") in Australia, which aired 26 October 2021, whilst a modern cover version was used on the UK broadcast on Five Star later the same day. The series, produced by the Grundy Organisation, was conceived by Reg Watson and filmed at the then Network Ten Melbourne Studios at Nunawading and on location.