Prisoner Cell Block H - Locations - Then And Now
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Directed and taped by Stephen West, March 2009. A look at various outside locations that were used in the making of the tv series 'Prisoner'. What they were like then compared to how they look now.
For Prisoner fans, this is truly an outstanding video. The then and now establishing shot of the first Driscoll House in particular, with the train running over the bridge at the same time was a work of art!
It's quite hard to define the feeling, but there's something magical about seeing (or better yet, being at) a location where someone memorable or important to you has been before. I'm desperately jealous that I haven't been able to lean up against that tree where Marie Winter once stood....
Really, a great video. Thank you so much for the time and effort this took to put together.
Hello. At 7:10 that policeman running across the street is my dad. He's a Victorian Policeman in real life and did a lot of extra work on the show. I put a video up on youtube titled 'Prisoner Cell Block H My Dad's Appearances' in case you'd like to check out some of the other episodes he showed up in.
Interesting, They used real life police at times!! I will watch your videos with your dad in.
NicBunnymen
Dad says you can tell who's a real police officer an who's an actor just by looking at them physically. A real policeman generally has a more muscular physique, where as an actor who delivers lines generally doesn't. You can also tell by how they behave on screen. E.g. a real police officer would hold his firearm in a more precise and defensive position compared to an actor. But it is television afterall.
solomonpictures
I totally agree. Thanks for the info.
How cool izzat? Wicked!
thank you I will watch tham
Great work this. A real labour of love. I'll never forget Prisoner, it was broadcast here in the UK as part of ITV's new all-night schedule in the late 1980's. I loved it.
Outstanding and very informative video. I read that the lunatic asylum used for Woodridge had a dark history. Of all the locations used during the entire series, the pumping station used for Blackmoor impressed me the most. It just looks creepy and intimidating!
Love this. I have become a Prisoner addict!!! Thank you 😎 from Texas.
Thankyou so much for posting this! As a Melbourne boy born and bred, this gives an amazing insight to where each of these key scenes were filmed. I actually though Barnhurst Prison was filmed up in the country in the middle of nowhere, didn't realise the scenes were filmed across from the CBD in the Abbottsford Convent.
The irony is Barnhurst, a country prison, was filmed in an inner city area, whilst the city based Wentworth Prison was filmed at Nunawading Studios located further away from the city in the outer east.
A professionally done video is well worth the 20 min's viewing time. I enjoyed this from beginning to end. Thank you
My living room faces the old brickworks site in Box Hill which is 4km away from my home. The old chimney was visible back then.
"Inspector Thorn" lived around the corner from me.
The old asylum in Kew was visible from our back yard in Clifton Hill when I lived there as a child in the 1950s/60s
"Judy Bryant" lived in Clifton Hill some years later.
Did she live in Clifton Hill? I encountered her on one of the backstreets in Richmond about 15 years ago, had a friendly chat with her and assumed she lived in Richmond. She certainly looked like she lived nearby and was out for a stroll.
@@tsutsuji1 Yes she did live in Clifton Hill in Berry St.
I plan on going to Australia next year I've got to see all this thanks
Brilliant video! Really well edited and put together. I wish it had featured the weird retro block of flats where Judy lived, and where Jock Stewart fell down the steps. I think it was somewhere in Nunawading.
Apparently it is this location: 1761 Princes Hwy, Oakleigh East VIC 3166
@@spikeyroberto Oh wow! Great! Thanks. I will go there next when I'm in Melbourne. I want to find that old 70s style fountain where Joan Ferguson caught up with Bobbie working as a prostitute.
wow! that was GREAT. only now watching this series thanks to UA-cam. Just finished season one 1-79. Love it!
thanks Tom I am glad you enjoyed it! Great to hear from someone who was actually involved with it too!
I enjoyed this thoroughly. Great editing too. Many thanks 😊🙏🏻
Great Job... Loved this series when I was young and still love the repeats every now and then.. HATE the all new wentworth TV show though :-)
I prefer the original version. Much darker & grittier. Why they used the same names, I’ll never know? They could have had new characters & got the original remaining ones in as guests every so often.
What a fantastic piece of nostalgia, really enjoyed watching this. Your attention to detail is fantastic. many thanks.
and i thought i was the only person into finding Pris locations!! I used to work in Port Melbourne area and loved spotting the familar locations! I also grew up in the eastern suburbs so lots of familar locations! Thank you for such a great video.
Wow!.Great job putting this together.Love it as I love Prisoner. Still spinning me out as I always thought Prisoner was shot in a real prison in Melbourne.
Excellent video so nostalgic
Great video ! Thanks for sharing. Long time fan of PCBH. Did you visit each location yourself or did you request footage or otherwise obtain it elsewhere?
Hi Andy - this was edited by me and filmed by someone else who went to all the locations..however since this was filmed I have been to the locations but only took photos. It was fan who filmed all these.
This is an amazing compilation...thank you for posting. I am an afficianado of PCBH....live and breathe it!! I hope someday to visit Melbourne.
fan-bloddy-tastic! (as the wonderful 'mad maxine' would have said) :D Wonderful video.
Wow! Thank you for the hard work you put into this video Spikey. Prisoner was a brilliant drama!!
Somehow the places seem more real in Prisoner than they do in real life today!
Hey spikeyroberto...this is awesome Thanks for the video. I'm another huge Prisoner fan.
Thanks very much Nic xx
spikeyroberto you're very welcome
Blackmoor prison was also featured in the first Mad Max film as the Halls of Justice.
Great video. should be an extra 'easteregg' type thing on Prisoner DVDs, well done. Very interesting.
awesome & thank you love Prisoner & watching it all again
Wow that's amazing, that Oriental Shoes PTY thing on the episodes if your in Driscol house looking outside the door it looked so perfect and clean i always thought it was some fake studio cut out thing can't believe its a real street.
It was a painted backdrop to match the real street
I always thought is was fake, too. Amazing that it's a real factory that's still in use.
brilliant have you got any more then and now videos from other tv shows sitcoms films ?
I kind of debate the year that this started. Everywhere they say that it was 1979. I remember watching it with my mother before I got married and I was married in March 1979. I know that I'm correct because we stayed briefly with my in-laws because our house was being built and in the end, I had them addicted to the show. They started to watch it for my sake. I'm sure it was 1978 or even earlier.
It was definitely February 1979 as they started filming late 1978 for it
I like the music. I only know the music as it the same as Famous Five.
The music is fantastic in this, especially during the lunatic asylum part. Could you tell me where you got it from?
Amazing job. An amazing documentary.
Well done , geezer, well done!!
That missing row of windows 😮 I removed them in 1992, I remember the day very well it was hot hot hot !
wonder how much the buildings have changed since filmed nearly 8 years ago, hope the historically interesting ones are still safe.
Great comparison shots of then & now. Any chance of another video with other locations used?
great job spike,found it very interesting
Fantastic video I wish when I'd lived in Melbourne I'd investigated these sites More!
Great stuff, @spikeyroberto! Interested to know where you got hold of some of the music? I've got lots of Prisoner music but there will still some tracks in this video I haven't acquired
You've done a fantastic job with this. Thanks so much, I really enjoyed it. :)
Brilliant video,great to see then and now,love to seen Judy’s final Driscoll house as that seemed a nice house
someone on wentworth forum has found that house
Most interesting. & creepier than the show itself. Apart from Jeff Butler that is.
" Anyway, we must keep the Minister happy".. Good on ya Ian Smith.
Brilliant this thx for sortin it out.
Nice to see lots of Australian buildings that have become listed
Brilliant work Robert.
This is amazing. Well done.
Really enjoyable
I only have vague memories of the outside buildings for this original series (my late mother watched it) but great all the same. It’s also nice to see (not that I watch it) that Doreen (Collette Mann) is actively acting in the TV series ‘Neighbours’.
Honest! I don’t watch it! My wife does.
Love it !!
The outside of the "prison" is still recognisable bar the removed props for prisoner.
Some great KPM Music there !....
Love the music. So Prisoner! Where did you get it?
I am pretty sure most of the music has been put on youtube to be honest
thanks appreciated
2:08 it's mad the windows are still on the building
are there tours available of the prison building?
Are all the interiors of Wentworth, like the cells and offices now used for sets of Neighbours or are the Cell Block sets still there and untouched?
All completely pulled down and gone
excellent, loved this!!
Love it, thanks :-)
don't know about that house..I only edited the video together. I can't put the sheila video on youtube as it gets blocked (anything by channel 5)
good vid
Yay I loved this
the last scene ov this video the two pump houses was the police station in madmax
hi spikeyroberto please can you do a whole vidio on box hill brickworks please?
FAB JOB!!! well done you! :)
thanks Lee Bee!
*****
I recommend going out to visit it all!
Where were the actual prisoner cells filmed. I'm talking about inside "wentworth" where the front desk, the governors office and each prison con cell, the shower block, etc. I know the outside of the building is the tv station but what about the inside?
chenoaspirit They filmed the indoor scenes and they had all the sets that you mentioned inside the very same red bricked building. 😃
Thanks this was amazing, I loved it
very surprising that some of the fake bars are still intact at the studio location
The 1st Driscoll House is now a block of flats i think which is in Abbotsford where was the 2nd halfway house that Alice Dodds took over
It’s at 13 Lyndhurst Crescent, Hawthorn
@@spikeyroberto Ok thanx
*CUT OUT THE REFERENCE TO "CELL BLOCK 'H'"!* It was *NEVER* part of the *PROPER* title of the show! The show was simply called *Prisoner* by Grundy Organisation but interference from overseas markets pushed in the unwelcome extra bit. And it's not a valid argument to say the extra bit distinguished our Australian-made series from a British series that was produced and ran its course 20 years earlier and was just about forgotten by the time our show came along.
It's only in the video title - unfortunately for you it's how it was known in the UK whether you agree or not with the name.
when bea smith escapes she runs up a long drive way and bangs on the front door then runs back down the drive, that was my late uncle lieth hickmans house
No golf course on here? I was on it recently, I met Geoff Butler and he was telling me about the big biccies in Africa 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
At 1:26 you'd nearly know that brickwork was fake
Where was Franky Doyle shot looks like sumwer near North Balwyn
8 Quinton road, camberwell, Victoria
@@spikeyroberto ok thanx
I remember one episode joan ferguson was having black outs she went to a statue, and just staired at it and also her house i wondered where these were filmed.
Her house is Number 27 HOward Street Box Hill. I went there!
@@Juliukas101 They actually used a house and not the studio then.
the area around Fremantle media is not looked after. and building up to the station building and it will be there for awhile what I head today
very interesting.
ok
is this same set as Wentworth film
What is the music played during the lunatic asylum shots?
That was from 10 years ago. I hope they demolished the abandoned warehouse because of the asbestos which does cause cancer.
Nope, still there
@@ashtonrichardson3825 Public access has been banned...The site needs to be decontaminated..It isn't just asbestos that is a problem...The health of the cast and crew were put in jeopardy
Where is the houses bea goes to when she has amnesia and can u upload when colette says I'm no lagger on neighbours
Isn't that stefan Dennis walking by at 4.58 looks like him
No lol
Definitely looks like him and he did play a few roles in it 😄
Bugger me backwards
Do you have the addresses please. I’d love to visit
It’s too much to list but there’s a thread on this forum that has details of where everything is
www.prisonercellblockhworld.co.uk/forum/
Blackmoor is science works
Old wentworth detention prison should be for youth crime
What's music at15:15 plz
Sunarise - Gaston Borreani ua-cam.com/video/TUZAgJX8vVE/v-deo.html
Thank you soo much sir, appreciwte all your help @spikeyroberto
Strange music tho lol
heard today
how can i watch this is there a dvd box set i can get
oufc29 You can see all the episodes on PrisonerCellBlockH95's channel (also check out PrisonerArchives' channel as well in case of any missing episodes on the other mentioned channel) and you can get all 20 boxsets of the Prisoner tv series on Amazon and on eBay. 😃
Oufc29 you can purchase prisoner cell h block on DVDs on eBay.from the start till the finish.
that was interesting
Channel 0 ?
Channel 0 in Melbourne became Channel 10 in January 1980 just before the start of the second season of Prisoner.
I am afraid not - sorry