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Peta Toppano's first name was spelled in the closing credits as "Peita", her actual spelling. Both "Peta" and "Peita" are used in other television programs, movies, and magazine articles.

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] 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.Such was the programme’s international success that the British fan club brought over Bobbitt and other cast members for personal appearances, although she was not among those who appeared in a 1989 Prisoner stage show touring the UK or a later West End production. 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) 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 was the first Australian series to feature a primarily female-dominated cast [ citation needed] and carried the slogan "If you think prison is hell for a man, imagine what it would be like for a woman!" [2]

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.Due to Prisoner 's popularity in the UK during the late 1980s, its British fan club organised personal-appearance tours for several actresses including Val Lehman (Bea Smith), Carol Burns (Franky Doyle), Betty Bobbitt (Judy Bryant), Sheila Florance (Lizzie Birdsworth), Amanda Muggleton (Chrissie Latham) and Judy McBurney (Pixie Mason). A TV special, The Great Escape, was produced in 1990. The programme, which featured Val Lehman, Sheila Florance, Amanda Muggleton and Carol Burns on their 1990 UK visit, includes extensive footage of their on-stage interview with TV presenter Anna Soubry in which the cast members discuss their time on the series. Recorded at the Derby Assembly Rooms in Derby, [27] it was briefly available in the UK on VHS video. [28] 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. 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. Prisoner: Eight Years Inside". Aussie Soap Archive. Archived from the original on 11 September 2009 . Retrieved 7 December 2006.

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. 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] 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]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] 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] Beirne, Rebecca (2008). Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium. Palgrave Macmillan. p.35. ISBN 9780230615014 . Retrieved 13 November 2018. 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]

The show has no Original Cast Recording, due to the legal issues The Grundy Organisation, there was a plan for a VHS release but Grundy refused to allow it. A Bootleg version does exist from when the show was in Edinburgh and a Studio Cast Recording of some of the songs was recorded in 2000 with Simone Dee as the singer. The cult status of the series has seen many adaptations, including the modern 21st century re-imaging series Wentworth on Foxtel.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.) 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. None of the original cast was initially scheduled to return for the first series, but on 29 November 2012 it was confirmed that Anne Charleston (who appeared in the original series) would make a guest appearance, as well as Sigrid Thornton who was in the original series as Ros Coulson, Thornton would play Sonia Stevens. [15] Wentworth premiered in Australia on Foxtel's SoHo channel on 1 May 2013. [16] [17] [18] As of 2018, the series was still in production, with a sixth season premiering on 19 June 2018, while a seventh season had been announced and due to air in 2019. Season 7 aired in May 2019. While Wentworth was confirmed for a 2021 ending, it won't surpass Prisoner in episodes, but will surpass the show in years on air. [19] During Wentworth 13 actors who appeared in Prisoner also appeared in Wentworth in a guest capacity, including Tina Bursill who appeared in Prisoner as the character of Sonia Stevens she was cast in Wentworth as Eve Wilder [20] and several others. 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] 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.

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