Same here! It was on really late for some reason but we (me, my Mum) were always up watching it?! I remember having some sort of love - hate relationship with The Freak, she was horrible but somehow endearing.
Prisoner cell block H was like my guilty pleasure when I was younger, it was always on TV really late in the UK but I always stayed up to watch it, loved it.
Yes indeed it was Melbourne that made prisoner even more special..I genuinely also think if prisoner had been set in another Australian city it wouldn't of been as special..something about Melbourne at that particular time period that intertwined the city and Wentworth
This used to be shown really late at night in Sweden in the 90's, three episodes a week. Despite the time slot it gained quite a following. It was always a treat when it was time for a new episode. Good times, different times.
Mine and my Mum's go to show every week in the UK back in the 80's. But even more amazing was that each week, the lads at school would talk about it. Cell Block H was truly a universal get together, age, sex... it didn't matter... such an amazing show then and now. Who can forget Bea Smith, Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson and Vinegar Tits! Ah man... Lizzie! Thanks for making the difference. Pure Aussie Gold!
My Aunt passed a while ago and this song just gives me goosebumps we watched Cell Block H together . I'd give anything to spend one episode with her again some wounds never heal.Happy 2022 🌎 🌐 🤗
I used to watch prisoner with my beautiful mum who has sadly passed away we both loved this song and now my grandson who's 3 loves the song because I'd sing it to him when he was a baby to get him off to sleep and he still says sing roses which he calls the song
I can't believe this song is on youtube. I used to watch this series in the 80's here in the United States. My mother and I loved this song. I wish she were alive to hear it again.
I grew up listening to this theme tune, mum was a massive fan, I got into trouble myself in my younger years, was sat in my cell, "solitary due to bad behaviour," remember listening to the screws watching this on there tv, don't mind admitting I never cried as much as I did that night when the theme tune came on at the end.
I first started watching prisoner as a kid with mum...tvnz had a complete repeat of all episodes at 11pm each weekday night in the 1990s and I was hooked..I've literally seen every episode..for any young people that haven't seen it I fully recommend watching it from day one on a box set or off internet..awesome characters awesome acting and gripping storylines
I used to watch this in the early 90’s when I was young. I used to visit my grandparents on a Saturday and watch it with them as my grandad had ‘taped’ it off the t.v during the week. Listening to that theme tune has just taken me back to those wonderful times with the most amazing, caring, loving grandparents anyone could want or need ❤ I miss them both dearly and will forever cherish the wonderful memories of us watching this great program together 😊
I came here from the 1970 Incredible Hulk theme tune so I can't fully agree 100% this one is the saddest but I did come here straight afterwards lol. ❤️
Me and my brother used to watch this late night while I was 16 and he was 14. He used to sneak up to my room once my parents had gone to bed and we'd get stoned out of our minds while we watched it. Happy days! Loved the Freak, Lizzie and, of course, Top Dog Bea.
I love Prisoner Cell Block H. Years ago I went to see them for real in Liverpool. It was fantastic. I watch it on Freeview.I had to record the program as it was on late I had school the next day. My favourite program.
I remember watching this show in our den when I was in high school. It came on about 10 or 11 at nite. My girl would come over ( now my wife) to stay the nite with my sister and we'd sit up watching this show with my mom & dad. Then she'd sneak in my room later that nite! Loved high school!
bea Smith and the freck was my two favourite people love watching it with my mum wen I was a kid now I am watching it from the start on youtube from start to finish
I miss this show used to watch this every week day @4 ,The ending was kinda sad listening to the song as the cell block closed .I wonder if any replays were ever mad !?
@fairfax17 Fairfax It aired on US Televison from late 1979 to early 1981. And Due to controversial topics of a violent nature it aired late evenings 11:00-2:30 in the mornings. Also the major networks refused to carry the show. Instead it aired on the smaller networks.
My old mommy's favourite program ..used to pretend I liked it just to stay up late..I'm 43 now with 4 kids 2 grandchildren..but I did come to love it eventually..wat I wudnt give to have my old dad and mom back, and too be that innocent boy once again..blessing every from my era..who gone tru the same thing🙏
Our nan let us watch it in the late 80s. I was only about 4 when it first aired in 1987 on ITV! I remember watching it up and until the last episode in about 1998, when I was 15, so I basically grew up with it..
A Classic, just watched an old episode of Eastenders and noticed a dodgy staircase bannister, it brought me right back to the dodgy props in Cell block H. CLASSIC.
Anyone else reminiscing to a time before fooking Covid? The song takes me back to the early 90’s- i thought i was a mini gangster watching prisoner, listening to happy hardcore, ub40 and tracy chapman. Mis spent youth that some would say what a waste. I would go back tomorrow.
Man. Memories. My ethnic parents who had migrated to Australia from Greece, and us all kids all watching this together, my mum who hardly spoke English loved this show, and she would always sing this song when each episode ended. What an iconic tv series this was. Magnificent production that had us all completely captivated.
watching this now on thats uk tv 2 channel just started the whole series again the 3rd episode of series 1 tonight ❤ love it i watched it as a kid and then in my 20s and now in my 40s
It ended because someone smuggled a pair of kitchen scissors into the prison and they were able to cut a big hole in the wall and have a mass break out
Thinking of watching this , just my mum and I.....love my mama bear....her name is Veronica, she's struggled her whole life with people...she's an amazing woman, has been terribly ill with Multiple Sclerosis since 17, she's now in her 60,s and has lung cancer and dementia.....God please look after her 💔 xxxxxxxxxxx
Wow! That brings back so many memories. I can remember those wobbly walls & keys being rattled in make-shift locks. The father-in-law used to call it 'good rubbish'. You knew it was crap but you had to tune in to the next episode to find out what had happened.
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RIP to my dearest mother, she used to looove this show.. watching it with her, is a memory I'll cherish forever.
Am just watching this coz wd watch with my grandmother take care of urself x
Same! Beautiful song. She loved it as much as the show. R. I. P. Mum 💔💚💙💜
@@Harry-gf6dx ahh bless you. Takecare of yourself too😊
@@a2zhaircreations130 R.I.P to your mum ❤
RIEP Mum I love you soo much. I’m trying Mum
Me and my Mum used to watch this when I was really young early nineties. Miss those times just being young and care free such a different time. 💖
+Cassidie Hailley. Me and my mum watch prisoner as well. And I'm a 32 year old man
Same here! It was on really late for some reason but we (me, my Mum) were always up watching it?! I remember having some sort of love - hate relationship with The Freak, she was horrible but somehow endearing.
Me and my mum used to watch this as well. This song makes me cry remembering those days 💕
Deffo innocent times. I'd sneak down to watch it every Monday night while mum was asleep. Miss you mum 💔
Prisoner cell block H was like my guilty pleasure when I was younger, it was always on TV really late in the UK but I always stayed up to watch it, loved it.
+Sam Hill now say thank you to the best country the well not the only but think you get the point just say thank you to Australia for a great tv show
Me too !
yep
Same here could never get up for school
Mint song
Tears. Feeding my first baby boy at four in the morning. Would give anything to go back.
Huge hit in the U.K. and Ireland, never missed a episode.
This is the saddest and most memorable theme tune. I used to watch this when I was young with my big brother.
I used to watch it with my big sister
I am in the uk. I grew up on the repeats late 90s! I loved it!
Me too, but watched it late 80’s & round 10pm every Friday night
Same here, my wife now watches the remake
I watched this show when I was very young ... pleased to learn it was shot in my hometown of Melbourne. A true classic!
Yes indeed it was Melbourne that made prisoner even more special..I genuinely also think if prisoner had been set in another Australian city it wouldn't of been as special..something about Melbourne at that particular time period that intertwined the city and Wentworth
This used to be shown really late at night in Sweden in the 90's, three episodes a week. Despite the time slot it gained quite a following. It was always a treat when it was time for a new episode. Good times, different times.
Bout same time In uk also me n ma sister were 80's kids but we were up for every episode bout 3am many sleepy days at school
I watched it faithfully here in the u.s. in the 80's I loved it 😊
Mine and my Mum's go to show every week in the UK back in the 80's. But even more amazing was that each week, the lads at school would talk about it. Cell Block H was truly a universal get together, age, sex... it didn't matter... such an amazing show then and now. Who can forget Bea Smith, Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson and Vinegar Tits!
Ah man... Lizzie! Thanks for making the difference. Pure Aussie Gold!
It's 2024 now I loved watching cell block h
Times flies proper tv then even the song brilliant
My Aunt passed a while ago and this song just gives me goosebumps we watched Cell Block H together . I'd give anything to spend one episode with her again some wounds never heal.Happy 2022 🌎 🌐 🤗
Reminds me of staying up late to watch this on ITV after the WCW Wrestling!
At one point it was on after Married with Children, in my area at least. Made an amazing late night double bill, along with a chinese.
GSF * gotta love Al Bundy!
TheJMascis666 Yes used to be on Monday night's on itv i think.
TheJMascis666 Diddo, Monday night's in 1991, Prisoner followed by WCW, the only night I was allowed to stay up late (I was 10 at the time lol)
YES ! I used to stay up and watch it too. Trouble is I was 13 years old and had school the next day !!!!
I used to watch prisoner with my beautiful mum who has sadly passed away we both loved this song and now my grandson who's 3 loves the song because I'd sing it to him when he was a baby to get him off to sleep and he still says sing roses which he calls the song
I shouldn't stay up and watch this, I've got school tomorrow but I need to know what happens! - Me in the UK circa 1993 watching late night on ITV.
Oh my God so many memories!! I’m literally in tears!! Thank u LYNN HAMILTON!!
I can't believe this song is on youtube. I used to watch this series in the 80's here in the United States. My mother and I loved this song. I wish she were alive to hear it again.
I cried at the end of every episode because of this song. As a child it was one of the only shows that every one in the house watched.
This song always makes me cry.
I grew up listening to this theme tune, mum was a massive fan, I got into trouble myself in my younger years, was sat in my cell, "solitary due to bad behaviour," remember listening to the screws watching this on there tv, don't mind admitting I never cried as much as I did that night when the theme tune came on at the end.
My mum showed me this intro as she loved prisoner cell block h and used to watch it every night with my great gran in our scotland home! nostalgic
I first started watching prisoner as a kid with mum...tvnz had a complete repeat of all episodes at 11pm each weekday night in the 1990s and I was hooked..I've literally seen every episode..for any young people that haven't seen it I fully recommend watching it from day one on a box set or off internet..awesome characters awesome acting and gripping storylines
Old vinegar with that smirk on her face when she had caused trouble between the prisoners. lol.
I used to watch this in the early 90’s when I was young. I used to visit my grandparents on a Saturday and watch it with them as my grandad had ‘taped’ it off the t.v during the week. Listening to that theme tune has just taken me back to those wonderful times with the most amazing, caring, loving grandparents anyone could want or need ❤ I miss them both dearly and will forever cherish the wonderful memories of us watching this great program together 😊
Saddest tv theme ever written
And perhaps the most beautiful
Cade Buchanan yes
I agree with you i love that song
It always makes me cry!
I came here from the 1970 Incredible Hulk theme tune so I can't fully agree 100% this one is the saddest but I did come here straight afterwards lol. ❤️
Me and my brother used to watch this late night while I was 16 and he was 14. He used to sneak up to my room once my parents had gone to bed and we'd get stoned out of our minds while we watched it. Happy days!
Loved the Freak, Lizzie and, of course, Top Dog Bea.
haha me n my cousin did the same smoke a joint while watching prisoner good old days the freak was awesome bee smith rita lizzy vinegar tits
Mad junkies
I love Prisoner Cell Block H. Years ago I went to see them for real in Liverpool. It was fantastic. I watch it on Freeview.I had to record the program as it was on late I had school the next day. My favourite program.
Watched this all the time when i was in my teens. Fantastic program, please bring it back! The theme tune brings back a lot of memories :)
Memories of watching this when I was a kid :'(
This is such beautiful song . sung with true feelings
My mum used to let me stay up late to watch this. An absolute barnstorming show.
Same ! I honestly thought I was the only person who had this experience but quite clearly not, the comments!
Bring back Prisoner: Cell Block H ! Best thing since sliced bread!!!
Cezza Kopite Owen We now have 'Wentworth' :)
John Hookway Yeah, because reality television is so much more entertaining
John Hookway FFS, you're just being offended for the sake of it
John Hookway They have bought it back and it's a huge hit lol.
I don't think sliced bread is all that good to be honest!
Same here it was my mom's favourite show
What a classic theme song loved the show
Totally agree.
How I miss my grandparents when u listen to this song.... we shall meet again. R.I.P mamma en pappa
Watched this in the late 1970’s back in NZ - childhood memories 👍👍👍. Didn’t realize WENTWORTH on Netflix is a series based on the PRISONER .
I only came here for the song, but it was nice to see all the old inmates and screws.
Lovely song and wonderful program with such great characters my favourite was Rita the beater and Alice rock on Rita
I remember watching this show in our den when I was in high school. It came on about 10 or 11 at nite. My girl would come over ( now my wife) to stay the nite with my sister and we'd sit up watching this show with my mom & dad. Then she'd sneak in my room later that nite! Loved high school!
I'm 32 but love the original series and the song love it
Strong memories with this. The song usually makes me teary eyed. ❤️
bea Smith and the freck was my two favourite people love watching it with my mum wen I was a kid now I am watching it from the start on youtube from start to finish
I remember feeling really sorry for Lizzie
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This must be the most saddest song ever written .every time I listen to it I cry & I'm not sure quite why .
Me too!!
Crying
I miss this show used to watch this every week day @4 ,The ending was kinda sad listening to the song as the cell block closed .I wonder if any replays were ever mad !?
I should check a local library
Beautiful ❤️ song "He used to give me rose's "
@fairfax17 Fairfax It aired on US Televison from late 1979 to early 1981. And Due to controversial topics of a violent nature it aired late evenings 11:00-2:30 in the mornings. Also the major networks refused to carry the show. Instead it aired on the smaller networks.
My old mommy's favourite program ..used to pretend I liked it just to stay up late..I'm 43 now with 4 kids 2 grandchildren..but I did come to love it eventually..wat I wudnt give to have my old dad and mom back, and too be that innocent boy once again..blessing every from my era..who gone tru the same thing🙏
My mum used to love this programme . Miss you mum . Xxx
i once drank with B smith we got blind drunk and had a great night.
i loved this back in the early 90s when it was on uk tv
Me to.
Lizzy Birdsworth, BIRD BRAIN, lol. That is what I remember more than anything about Cell Block H.
When I couldn't sleep I would sneak down to my mom and most of time this would be on. Some lovely memories.
This reminds me of the good old days.
OMG Loved this Song and Show!! LOL 2020
started watching this all over again on my5 channel loving it again brings back loads of old memories
Watch by sad teenage virgins
Fantastic Australian show. Its quote sad seeing these legends some passed and some here. Mum lived to 106 and Frankie died young 50s.
i remember staying up all night to watch the final episode!!! Brilliant :D
I loved that theme tune. Quite gentle for such a powerful show.
Totally love this track
So many of us with memories of staying up late with our Mum to watch this and so many Mums no longer with us 💔
fond memories
Yes me and my mum stayed up late to watch it too miss those times
I remember watching this with my Grandmother. Brings back some good memories
I love this show, I can't stop watching it.
Never got really deep into the show, but I did always tune in for the theme tune. So good.
Our nan let us watch it in the late 80s. I was only about 4 when it first aired in 1987 on ITV! I remember watching it up and until the last episode in about 1998, when I was 15, so I basically grew up with it..
Nostalgia, I watched this TV show when i was a child (1967) cannot believe how old this show is.
Prisoner wasn't made til 1979 and ran til 1986.
This song used to scare the fuck out of me as a 8 year old. now 31 it's beautiful
Same, it used to freak me out. Not really sure why.
@@fecklessmovies spitting image used to scare me!
im so glad this is back on, loving every minute of it
this song gives me a strange feeling. i was born in 1976, so i was young when i used to watch prisoner. It sooooo reminds me of bed time!!! hahaha
A Classic, just watched an old episode of Eastenders and noticed a dodgy staircase bannister, it brought me right back to the dodgy props in Cell block H. CLASSIC.
Rest in peace all the ones who have died
prisoner is one of my favourite programmes and i used to watch the repeats in the 90s
Beautiful piece of music. Classic Aussie TV : )
Late Sunday or Monday night on ITV back in the late 80’s/early 90’s watching with my mum. Loved Bea & Vinegar Tits👌
I used to stay up late to watch this with my mum but it was the theme tune that got me into the show. Damn I miss the carefree days
Anyone else reminiscing to a time before fooking Covid? The song takes me back to the early 90’s- i thought i was a mini gangster watching prisoner, listening to happy hardcore, ub40 and tracy chapman. Mis spent youth that some would say what a waste. I would go back tomorrow.
Ooo wow that brings back memories was so corny but so great at the same time classic
Reminds me of my hardworking parents in the early 80s..I miss those times as a kid. Sad
Man. Memories. My ethnic parents who had migrated to Australia from Greece, and us all kids all watching this together, my mum who hardly spoke English loved this show, and she would always sing this song when each episode ended. What an iconic tv series this was. Magnificent production that had us all completely captivated.
I remember sneaking downstairs watching lthis late in UK, when all had gone to bed.
This creeped me out when I was little
watching this now on thats uk tv 2 channel just started the whole series again the 3rd episode of series 1 tonight ❤ love it i watched it as a kid and then in my 20s and now in my 40s
I remember this show played on PBS in America awesome drama.
I saw this on our PBS affiliate here in the States, and this show scared the shit out of me as a child, the lady guards in particular!
Oh the theme & the memories
I taught myself to play this on the piano when i was a teen.
I did too. What a beautiful song.
One of the best Australian tv shows. 👍👍
I was a bit too young when the show aired. It aired at 11PM in a local TV station in NYC. My older sister would stay up to watch it.
It ended because someone smuggled a pair of kitchen scissors into the prison and they were able to cut a big hole in the wall and have a mass break out
Only on youtube you can tell a joke that makes someone laugh 12 years later.
Brings back memories of being a kid at my uncles being aloud to stay up late and watch it
Love u uncle scobie
Thinking of watching this , just my mum and I.....love my mama bear....her name is Veronica, she's struggled her whole life with people...she's an amazing woman, has been terribly ill with Multiple Sclerosis since 17, she's now in her 60,s and has lung cancer and dementia.....God please look after her 💔 xxxxxxxxxxx
Loved this was fab Greg miller and Karen and Rita Connors are brilliant
I just remembered how beautiful this song was.... Im surprised I recall the lyrics so well
Loved watching this with Grandma Malley.
I can still see Bea Smith, and Franky Doyle going at it!LOL!
everyone used to go on about the wonky sets, but the most unrealistic bit for me was the complete absence of lez ups.
"He use to give me roses, I wish he could again".
My mums favorite show, she even had the dvd's.
blazzingsaddles4 Do you know where you can get the DVDs?
+waivedwench on the internet
ITV Thursday night late 80s
22.40 Married with children
23.10 Prisoner cell block H
You're right mikey it was Tyne Tees . I couldn't stomach political chitchat that late :D
The pure fucking nostalgia of it all , sitting up late every night it was on . Good times 👌🏻
Wow! That brings back so many memories. I can remember those wobbly walls & keys being rattled in make-shift locks. The father-in-law used to call it 'good rubbish'. You knew it was crap but you had to tune in to the next episode to find out what had happened.
The only school nights my mum let me stay up late was to watch Prisoner, Mondays and Thursdays, ah memories !!!