Prisoner cell block h fans protest

[simey1]

@doctorwhofan400 People did record Prisoner when it was first aired here, I certainly did. Prisoner was never shown on UK Gold. ITV never cancelled it, a small number of the regional stations didnt show it until the very end but the majority of the ITV regions did. Central TV repeated the show but pulled it after appprox 90 episodes. Channel 5 never cancelled it, it was shown fully.

[Sheri451]

AWWW It's Judy Mc Burney Pixie Mason! I loved Pixie Mason. And Val too.

[MzCheeky75]

@doctorwhofan400 .. though i am sure VCR recorders were available in the early 90's.. so that's how they could have recorded it ;)

[JamesHutch2k11]

1:00 look at the guy behind the girl being interviewed. a younger jude law? lol

[DaveyC95]

This makes me cringe..I am so glad i would have been too young in 1991 to go, not that i would for ANY programme however much i liked it..I am a fan of Prisoner, but those two female fans were SAD. I am surprised a load of drag queens weren't there aswell.

[DAJAZDJ1]

048 SHE SHOULD OF BEEN IT SHE'S DEFINATELY UGLY ENOUGH

[joostay]

I wanna know who the woman from northern ireland is! I'm from bangor near belfast. anyone know?!

[JamesHutch2k11]

@joostay i was suprised to hear that too! im from omagh. wen she said she was from N.I i spotted the accent and i was like..'NORN IRON!!!!!!!' lol

[cellblockferguson]

@joostay why? ya not gonna hook up with her are ya?

[67psych]

Don't Mess with Prisoner fans Muthafuckers!!

[thepcledgend]

the 1 thing i dont get is its already been showed if everyone wnted there show to re broadcast then what a mess television wud be the fact that it ent shown on tv no more makes it a good memory so let the memory live instead of protesting just buy the box sets on amazon

[danny6092]

does anyone out there know of anyone selling copies of the oz 4 disc box sets. theyre sooo expensive to buy, around £25 each on amazon, im upto episode 192. so i need from 193 onwards.would be willing to pay £10 for 4 discs (copies done on a laptop).

[444rosey444]

@danny6092

buy them on ebay

[HotShotRuksy]

i think they should do a re-run

because from watching the clip where the freak goes then the prisoners start playing ball games it doesn't reli make sense

[richardbarclay]

Living in Birmingham from 1984 to 1995 (where Central TV broadcast the show three times a week (Saturday, Sunday and Monday)), I had the good fortune to happen upon the first episode in 1987 just before it started. I then watched every single episode bar two (I can't remember why not). Me and other people I knew then became totally enthralled with the series. Thanks for posting this Jiggarypokery!

[bastardpoet]

Pixy got her voice back! Damn, youtubes turning me into a PCBH nerd :S

[PleaseGoAway1000]

"My whole life" Wow, no life then!

[ElensarFFXI]

"Prisoner cell block H is my whole life" lol life fail....

[dinomancari]

692 and i just watched them all. it took me 5 months

[andy78100]

what year was this?

and that lass prisoners my life ,there my friends .....oh dear

[SassySuzi]

God that woman at 0:47 looks slightly unhinged here. As someone said in a comment below, it could almost be a Victoria Wood sketch, if it wasn't so sincere. She really meant all that. I hope she managed to get over it OK!

[Hammersley1967]

I consider myself to be a REAL Prisoner fan...

I never missed an episode of Prisoner from the pilot to the series final...

However, when I see people protesting outside a TV studio over the program being pulled nearly 10 years after the final episode went to air - for some strange reason the words "GET A LIFE" spring to mind...

[jlenoconel]

They didn't know that it had been off the air that long though I don't think.

[Hammersley1967]

No, I said "when the FINAL episode went to air"...

The program has been continually repeated ever since...

That is, up until they decided to pull it once and for all as shown in this video...

[prisrulz]

OMG! Thank God there are loads of other loonies who think like me. (even if the TV station spelled 'Pixie' 'Pixy'.

[nighthawk006]

0:47 LOL! Rent it or buy it, love. Bloody good programme.

[grahamcoles1966]

just take out a bank loan and buy the box set :-)

[Summerskill]

I went to see the Central studios in Birmingham (in March 2006) with a group of people, as I am a Crossroads fan as well. :)

The lady who said that she didn't know what to do without Bea, Doreen, Lizzie and Rita as they were her mates and that Prisoner gave her life meaning, from memory, was called Lisa Blair as one or a few of the people on the Prisoner Cell Block H message boards sites were there on this video.

I'm also on the Prisoner message board sites as well. Dazza :)

[makingmocks]

Oh My God!! This could be a sketch from Victoria Wood, As Seen On TV!!!

[dave34ni]

lizzies smelly knickers here....prisoner rules,,,, wentworth forever

time it was back on uk screens....

[NolaMckenzie]

I loved Prisoner but some thing's are best left in the past if your so intrested on seeing the show then buy the dvd's direct from aus.

[Markjuk]

Quite possibly the biggest boxset of a TV show ever! with a price tag to match!

[gemkilt]

Prisoner stopped showing on Channel 10 Australia in 1986. I remember watching it in Adelaide at that time wen I was a kid. Im surprised these people in the UK protested over there to get it back again and even more B smith there as well (how she looks like my mum lol)

[JustB3N]

Britain got a raw deal with Prisoner, a fan once said ITV were embarrised by its popularity and I have to agree. Even 5 who saved the show and brought it back for another repeat put it on at 4:30 in the morning! Well us blokkies on youtube have done thier job for em I guess

[mriainsmith]

did they win theoir campaign in the end? i must say that woman who said the show gave her life meaning was a bit OTT! I rememebr watching it and enjoyed it but i wouldnt go that far!would be great to see it back on a cable channel nowadays even though its a bit dated

[chris223b]

Kind of, Central did eventually start a rerun, but this was usually at the rate of only 1 episode per week and was eventually cancelled in 1995 after only around 100 episodes had been repeated.

[HondaH100A]

I remember watching Prisoner when I was eleven back in 1991.

[mirrors23]

I'm collecting all the episodes from Australia at the moment. I'm up to Volume 24 so far.

Buy the collection - then they are all yours for KEEPS!

And the first volume has just been released in the UK!

[froggyola]

Get a new hairdo and meet some new people. Yikes!

[nigelwilletts]

love this show

[tosh395181]

it is very unlikely that prisoner cell block h will ever be repeated on uk tv ,after channel 5 ran it twice.The only hope of seeing all 692 episodes is to buy the hugh box set available in oz!!!!!!!!

[SuperJaSIN72]

Wow... I have never seen these news stories on my fave show ever, Prisoner, I live five mins away from where it was filmed, so if anyone wants photos of the site, just let me know... :)

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Was Central the reason that did repeat some of the series?

[deniseuk]

i love myra desmond, lol @ that female fan there my mates lol prisoner rulz

[spanglehoff]

lol@the bird from n ireland, im from n ireland, fancy seeing one of us over there protesting lol.

[acelib82]

My God, how long ago was this? Im thinking late 1980's? Ive loved cell block H for 11 years (since I was 15) and Im currently in the process of watching it through for the 2nd time, but that 1st woman was far too extreme, wasn't she? lol. I would love to meet some of the cast members though, actors as opposed to characters :)

[JacquelineMooreFan]

wasn't it december 1991

[ANDREWMUZAK]

Gimme a break. That lady who was interviewed first needs to get a life seriously. Fancy living every moment for PRISONER. A good show but she needs to get out more.

[vampodoug]

i love prisoner but thats just embarrassing, i imagine the first women the interviewd to have been rocking in her chair for the last ten years..until the dvds come out of course ha ha

[ElensarFFXI]

That first women that they interviewed saying the characters are her mates and that the show is her life needs help... holy shit sad or what O_o

[Martin26uk]

lol :)

[1djatwork]

prisoner cell block h i grew up with it, the show was absolutely brilliant, i loved it, would be good if they put it back on itv

[SimplyBen84]

Brilliant! Us fans are nutty for prissie! I want to see this show be re-air and be revised! I can't believe after so long and with revivals being so poplar that they have not even attempted to make new episodes! Ive even show it to friends born way after the show ended (including myself) and they love it! With Bad girls gone and Prison Break ending in the next few years, the climate is ripe for a PCBH comeback!

[Etcher]

I love Prisoner but jesus christ - 'Prisoner gives my life meaning' - that woman at 0.40 is insane

[Martin26uk]

lol  :)

[robb37419]

why dont they just stick it on uk gold and have done with it then all will be fine...lol but yeah uk gold everything else gets stuck on there

[Martin26uk]

Prisoner Cell Block H BEST Australian Tv Drama Series EVER, Love Prisoner

[WJC007]

they spelt pixie wrong lol

[brookvr]

wow that was good.:)

[CanberraUser]

WARNING!! Contains SPOILERS for Episode 692

[jiggarypokery]

I know! Fancy broadcasting that the night the last episode is to be screened, they well and truley spoilt the last ever scene for the fans lol

[fleafly79]

Not really. I expect they knew that the last episode was to be screened that night, otherwise there wouldn't've been the protest.That and I don't see any spoilers in the clip shown...

[jiggarypokery]

If i was a bit older at the time and lived in the central region, i would have well been at that protest. Nah, it was just where the guy said 'the very last moment of the very last episode' after they were all cheering. was he not referring to that scene as the last?

[fleafly79]

He was, but in retrospect nothing was shown that would have given away any vital plot points of the episode. Plus the clip was very fleeting anyway. :)

[MzCheeky75]

@jiggarypokery .. it didn't give anything away really.. all you can see is the women getting excited & throwing around some balls. how would anyone know beforehand what it would have all meant or what led up to it? :/

[jiggarypokery]

@MzCheeky75 You can clearly hear Rita Connors 'war cry' and see her at the end before the credits role. When this first went to air, I knew Rita wasn't dead halfway through the episode because I knew she hadnt sat in the garden and gave her 'war cry'. This has been discussed by fans many a time.

[allenmx]

Thanks for adding this - it was great to see, although I had to hide a smile at the spelling of poor Judy's surname and character name!

[jiggarypokery]

Your welcome, and yeah that was a bit pathetic they didnt even know the names/correct spellings of the people they were interviewing