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

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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.

Bobbitt joined a year into the show’s seven-year run (1979-86), when Judy, a taxi driver, got herself convicted for trying to smuggle drugs into the prison to be with her lover. She left in 1985 after appearing in 430 episodes. A stage version of Prisoner, based on the original scripts, was produced in 1989 and toured the United Kingdom. Elspeth Ballantyne (Meg Morris) and Patsy King (Erica Davidson) reprised their characters and Glenda Linscott (Rita Connors) played a new character, Angela Mason. A second tour, with Fiona Spence ( Vera Bennett) and Jane Clifton (Margo Gaffney), followed in 1990; Jacqui Gordon (Susie Driscoll) played new character Kath Evans. The series is loosely based on British prison drama series Within These Walls, although it focuses more on the prisoners or inmates, rather than the prison staff led by officious governor Faye Boswell, played by Googie Withers, who was even approached by producers of Prisoner to play the governor. [4] Beirne, Rebecca (2008). Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium. Palgrave Macmillan. p.35. ISBN 9780230615014 . Retrieved 13 November 2018.In 2009, writer Allan Caswell alleged that Alabama's song " Christmas in Dixie" was 'ripped off' from "On the Inside", but conceded that legal action was unlikely as both he and Alabama were signed to Sony. [11] Cover versions [ edit ] 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. Prisoner was part of Channel 5's schedule when it launched in 1997. [33] The series returned to the UK in September 2023 after 22 years when it was added to the channel's streaming service My5. [34] United States [ edit ]

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. Kent Music Report No 288 – 31 December 1979 > National Top 100 Singles for 1979". Kent Music Report . Retrieved 10 January 2023– via Imgur.com.Production commences on Wentworth Season 7". Showcasechannel.com.au. 12 April 2018. Archived from the original on 14 April 2018 . Retrieved 21 June 2018. 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. 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. The song was rerecorded and released by singer Ella Hooper to coincide with Foxtel's Australian re-run of the series, which started in March 2011. [13] Prisoner: Eight Years Inside". Aussie Soap Archive. Archived from the original on 11 September 2009 . Retrieved 7 December 2006.

Several Prisoner actors have appeared in British stage drama and pantomime, including Val Lehman ( The Wizard of Oz, Beatrix Potter and Misery), Peta Toppano, Fiona Spence, Maggie Dence (Bev Baker), Debra Lawrance (Daphne Graham), Linda Hartley (Roach Waters), Ian Smith (Ted Douglas) and Maggie Millar (Marie Winter). 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] 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. The show would move to Tuesdays at 9 p.m. in the fall of 1980, continuing with the Caged Women title. [46] The show would be off the schedule by the 1981–1982 television season, [47] but by the fall of 1982, Global would reintroduce the show to the schedule, still as Caged Women, in the half-hour format, weeknights at midnight and 12:30am. [48] The program would be off the schedule by the start of the 1983–1984 season. [49] The actor was more concerned about the soap’s violence. “One week you’d be raped and the next you’d be at someone with a bit of lead pipe,” she said.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.