One of the best interviews so far, Margot has such strong memories of the filming and shared a lot of details. Very talented actor and she hasn’t really aged at all
These interviews have always been enhanced by actors who actually have very detailed memories of their time on the show!! Sheryl Munks is another great example
Thanks Andrew. Margot was fantastic and still looks so young. I am happy to hear that you are enjoying them all. We have many more to come on and speak with us.
What amazes me most is the power of prisoner to come back again and it’s presence. I remember watching all the episodes in the late 1980s/early 1990s in the uk, and the impact it had on me as a fan. Then years later when it was re-shown, yet again. Then the DVD release, and now these interviews - no wonder the cast and crew are so amazed we are still talking about it after all these years
Just discovered all these excellent interviews. Think the two of you have a great way of interacting with your guests and showing interest in their whole careers, not just their time on Prisoner. It must help that Ken worked with them all those years ago and it's brilliant that so many of your guests, such as here with Margot, can recall so well their time on the programme. I'd love to see an interview with Roseanne Hull-Brown and understand the effort and work which went in to portraying Merle. Many thanks!
@@TalkingPrisoner Hi Matt. Yes, I've finally caught up with them all. Had a bingefest watching them these past weeks. Really really great work. Thank you so much.
Well done Matt and Ken, that was probably my favourite interview so far. Margot is so giving and had such clear memories and even without prompt remembered her time with Amanda Muggleton. Loved her honest and straight forward talk and opinions on the arts and politics. I thought Sharon was such a great role for the time and her later stint as Terri was definately kudos for Joan and the way she had treated people in the past. Nice to hear she would have stayed longer if that had been an option but, the fact both characters had such strong endings made her work even more dramatic especially as both Jock and Joan eventually got their cumupance. Brilliant interview.. Big thanks to Margot for her Pisoner work and being so lovely and she really hasn't aged at all.
@@TalkingPrisoner I enjoyed it from begining to end and you guys seem to be asking nearly all the questions us fans ask. As a future question it might be interesting to ask the future interviewees if theyve attended fan events and their thoughts on fandom and actors who they met who weren't of their time on the show. Wish I'd got that one in for Val and Margot as I know both have.
This really made my day! Love getting notification and seeing who'll be interviewed next. Good to see Margot Knight and yes she does have a beautiful voice!!
@@TalkingPrisoner I have so many… but from early days I loved Noeleen, even dim witted Martha ! I liked the underdogs! I loved Bev and Lil too and even called my cats bev and lil a few years back hahaha! Overall my fav would have to be Lizzie - what a great actress!!!!! Chrissie too was awesome and saw Amanda in a play in London a couple years back. She was brilliant to meet too! I loved them all! Cass Parker was good, reb, Merle !!! Too many :-)
@@TalkingPrisoner oh do you mean out of Sharon or Terri ? Sharon was superb tbh, she was so horrible at times but had layers.. Terri was so hot and cold towards Joan, was funny when she had the affair with her boss and treated Joan terribly at the end, but overall Sharon was a better character !
Wow! What a delightful and fun interview! With the lovely and talented Margot Knight.You look absolutely great,it's wonderful to see you again! I thought this interview was so much fun and I thoroughly enjoyed hearing everything Margot had to say.Really ace and thank you so much Margot Knight for participating! Did I say you're looking great? You really are! Lovely to see you again! I was a young teen in the United States when Prisoner first aired,every weekday at 5 pm.I had never sèen anything like it and after seeing the first few episodes,I was hooked.Tnere was nothing so real and so raw on American tv ,not even close. I would come home from school,have a little snack,do.my school work for the next day and then tune in to Prisoner. The Judy Bryant/Sharon Gilmore episodes disturbed some people in my corner of the Northeastern USA ( ha ha,ironically where Judy Bryrant's character came from!) that they kept complaining to get the show taken off the air.They had already complained about the openly lesbian Frankie Doyle character but because she didn't have a serious partner,the networks had let it be.But when Jude and Sharon appeared on the show with a serious,ongoing relationship,all hell broke loose. Prisoner was so far ahead of its time,the American public couldn't take it.This alone should always and forever be a point of pride for Australia!!!! You were leading the way!!!! Prisoner was cancelled in my area of Northeast USA with no prior warning.As I recall,the episode that would have been Doreen's wedding to Kevin Burns was supposed to air on a Monday after a weekend hiatus cliffhanger. Monday came and at the usual airing time of Prisoner,there was some bland boring talk show.Prisoner had been summarily removed without any debate or prior announcement! Just like that.Gone. Some of the girls at.school who watched Prisoner religiously wrote to the.local network to complain but to no avail.We were so upset! Prisoner was suddenly cut just before the episode when Doreen was going to.marry Kevin Burns. Years later,I discovered all of these Prisoner episodes on UA-cam and was able to pick up where the episodes got cut off because of the Judy Bryant/ Sharon Gilmore episodes.Puritans!!! Ridiculous!!! And to think now that Sharon Gilmore's character was to be of a limited duration and yet all episodes after that particular storyline were obliterated in the USA......Disturbing! And now such storylines are pretty much mainstream...
@@TalkingPrisoner I don't think any episodes were censored or cut out because when I rewatched Prisoner,I didn't notice anything I'd missed.After the series was cancelled,the local press I think was saying that there was a fear of what Prisoner would come up with next,possibly even more unsavoury storylines so it had to go! As a young person watching Prisoner I didn't agree that I was being 'corrupted' and of course resented adults deciding for me what I should or shouldn't watch,lol.It wasn't like either Judy or Sharon presented as role models anyone would want to emulate,nor did they ever get up to anything 'racy' together.It was just really interesting since it was so different to anything else on American television. In a funny irony-and I believe this was when Prisoner was still on the air-I found two paperback books that were apparently from a series written about particular Prisoner characters at a church yard sale of all places.A yard sale meaning people donated used items to be resold to raise funds for that church.In a box of donated paperbacks,one was the Frankie Doyle story and the other was The Secret Life of Erica Davidson.I snapped them right up although I no longer have them.Apparently the people from the church who put out the box of books for sale didn't vet them very carefully if the Frankie Doyle one slipped through 😅😅😅
@@eugenedegeorge5084 Yes I was watching Prisoner in the early 80's! I'm not sure exactly what year it got cancelled because I had many other things going on in my life but I do remember my bitter disappointment! I was watching it in the Philadelphia area.How long did Prisoner remain on the air up your way? Do you remember it being considered controversial? Did it air in the late afternoon where you lived?
@TalkingPrisoner Matt was wrong about Jock Stewarts fate. He wasn't pushed down the stairs. He fell when he was chasing Judy because she had blinded him with pepper spray. And he didn't die, he was paralyzed. And this was not when Judy was working at the brothel. It was several months later when she was on parole.
Briliant interview one of the best so far. It was nice to see someone that less of an ego and actually acknowledged something with some love for what she did on Prisoner :) Great work Matt and Ken
@@jamesmurphy1632 very much so . Val was great due to her being the top dog and her rivlary and stuff with Joan but i found her uncomfortable at times to listen to .
We hope to have Tommy on, We have a big list of cast and crew already booked to come on. Are you a big fan of Tommy ? I just recently watched the Great Bookie Robbery which was produced by Ian Bradley who was the producer on prisoner and Tommy was a prison officer on Bookie, Have you seen it ?
Another great interview. Margot was in top form which made it enjoyable listening. Hate to say Reylene Pearce wasn't exactly forthcoming or in a bit of a cranky mood during her interview (we'll put it down to lockdown).
Hi Johnny, I am glad you are enjoying our interviews. Ken and I (Matt) spoke with Reylene after the interview and she mentioned to us that she was quite nervous doing the interview. What interview have you enjoyed so far ?
@@TalkingPrisoner Cheers Matt, Maria's was very interesting and Barrie Pullen talking about the Russell St Bombing. All have an important story to tell. It's a great interview series that has captured people's attention.
Great interview. I never understood why joan and terri could not hold hands or hug...were they scared offending media...certain groups? A show which saw blood.... hangings... fights...could not have a same sex couple hold hands? In 1985 i sure it be shown on other programmes... Eastenders had same sex couple at the same time which sure there was a embrace...
Judy did NOT push Jock down the stairs, she prayed bug spray in his face and he fell when chasing her as she fled down then stairs. Clearly Margot did not remember this episode!
@@TalkingPrisoner Yes it was good as Margot is a decent actress, but PCBH recycled characters a lot which was i suppose to save money as it must have been made on a very tight budget according to Gerard maguire the actors wern't really on much money, hence why they recycled actors a great deal.
Yes how dare she not remember every single minute detail about a show that she acted in briefly over 40 years ago.... how dare she 🙄🤦♂️ get a hobby or a life
@@Callithenicsking Not sure why that should bother you so, I am merely stating my thoughts on her interview, as compared to some of the other actors. I personally don't find her as engaging as some of the other interviewees, and it seems she is making things up and spinning out generalisations.
One of the best interviews so far, Margot has such strong memories of the filming and shared a lot of details. Very talented actor and she hasn’t really aged at all
These interviews have always been enhanced by actors who actually have very detailed memories of their time on the show!! Sheryl Munks is another great example
Thanks Andrew. Margot was fantastic and still looks so young. I am happy to hear that you are enjoying them all. We have many more to come on and speak with us.
@@DistantCousin Its fantastic how much they can remember as it was so long ago.
What amazes me most is the power of prisoner to come back again and it’s presence. I remember watching all the episodes in the late 1980s/early 1990s in the uk, and the impact it had on me as a fan. Then years later when it was re-shown, yet again. Then the DVD release, and now these interviews - no wonder the cast and crew are so amazed we are still talking about it after all these years
@@Its-big-A How does it feel re watching the episodes now compared to the 80s when you watched them ?
Just discovered all these excellent interviews. Think the two of you have a great way of interacting with your guests and showing interest in their whole careers, not just their time on Prisoner. It must help that Ken worked with them all those years ago and it's brilliant that so many of your guests, such as here with Margot, can recall so well their time on the programme. I'd love to see an interview with Roseanne Hull-Brown and understand the effort and work which went in to portraying Merle. Many thanks!
Thank you so much for your kind comments. We really appreciate them. Have you seen all the interviews yet ? Matt
@@TalkingPrisoner Hi Matt. Yes, I've finally caught up with them all. Had a bingefest watching them these past weeks. Really really great work. Thank you so much.
Just discovered this brilliant account today. Will be binging non-stop. Thanks for the time put into this amazing content.
It's a real treat to see these interviews.
Well done Matt and Ken, that was probably my favourite interview so far. Margot is so giving and had such clear memories and even without prompt remembered her time with Amanda Muggleton. Loved her honest and straight forward talk and opinions on the arts and politics. I thought Sharon was such a great role for the time and her later stint as Terri was definately kudos for Joan and the way she had treated people in the past. Nice to hear she would have stayed longer if that had been an option but, the fact both characters had such strong endings made her work even more dramatic especially as both Jock and Joan eventually got their cumupance. Brilliant interview.. Big thanks to Margot for her Pisoner work and being so lovely and she really hasn't aged at all.
Thanks Billy, we love your support, Margot was great. What did you enjoy most about the interview ?
@@TalkingPrisoner I enjoyed it from begining to end and you guys seem to be asking nearly all the questions us fans ask. As a future question it might be interesting to ask the future interviewees if theyve attended fan events and their thoughts on fandom and actors who they met who weren't of their time on the show. Wish I'd got that one in for Val and Margot as I know both have.
@@TalkingPrisoner can you get an interview with Margaret Laurene who played original character Marilyn Mason?
This really made my day! Love getting notification and seeing who'll be interviewed next. Good to see Margot Knight and yes she does have a beautiful voice!!
Thanks for the support, Are you enjoying the interviews ?
@@TalkingPrisoner most definitely enjoying the interviews, keep them coming mate!!
@@childrensorg856 Thanks Oliver, we have many more to come, cast and crew
@@TalkingPrisoner I look forward to it!!!
Was just watching Sharon earlier in an episode, she was gorgeous! Still looks great! Really enjoyed this, thanks.
Wow she looks fantastic does Margot - always loved her characters
Which character was your favourite?
@@TalkingPrisoner I have so many… but from early days I loved Noeleen, even dim witted Martha ! I liked the underdogs! I loved Bev and Lil too and even called my cats bev and lil a few years back hahaha! Overall my fav would have to be Lizzie - what a great actress!!!!! Chrissie too was awesome and saw Amanda in a play in London a couple years back. She was brilliant to meet too! I loved them all! Cass Parker was good, reb, Merle !!! Too many :-)
@@TalkingPrisoner oh do you mean out of Sharon or Terri ? Sharon was superb tbh, she was so horrible at times but had layers.. Terri was so hot and cold towards Joan, was funny when she had the affair with her boss and treated Joan terribly at the end, but overall Sharon was a better character !
Another slam dunk of a great interview
Thank you Bonnie. We do hope you are enjoying the interviews
Excellent actress
Brilliant actress and writer. What was your favourite Sharon Gilmore scene ?
@@TalkingPrisoner was when she was talking in Scottish taking mickey out of jock Stewart 😂
Wow! What a delightful and fun interview! With the lovely and talented Margot Knight.You look absolutely great,it's wonderful to see you again! I thought this interview was so much fun and I thoroughly enjoyed hearing everything Margot had to say.Really ace and thank you so much Margot Knight for participating! Did I say you're looking great? You really are! Lovely to see you again!
I was a young teen in the United States when Prisoner first aired,every weekday at 5 pm.I had never sèen anything like it and after seeing the first few episodes,I was hooked.Tnere was nothing so real and so raw on American tv ,not even close.
I would come home from school,have a little snack,do.my school work for the next day and then tune in to Prisoner.
The Judy Bryant/Sharon Gilmore episodes disturbed some people in my corner of the Northeastern USA ( ha ha,ironically where Judy Bryrant's character came from!) that they kept complaining to get the show taken off the air.They had already complained about the openly lesbian Frankie Doyle character but because she didn't have a serious partner,the networks had let it be.But when Jude and Sharon appeared on the show with a serious,ongoing relationship,all hell broke loose.
Prisoner was so far ahead of its time,the American public couldn't take it.This alone should always and forever be a point of pride for Australia!!!! You were leading the way!!!!
Prisoner was cancelled in my area of Northeast USA with no prior warning.As I recall,the episode that would have been Doreen's wedding to Kevin Burns was supposed to air on a Monday after a weekend hiatus cliffhanger.
Monday came and at the usual airing time of Prisoner,there was some bland boring talk show.Prisoner had been summarily removed without any debate or prior announcement! Just like that.Gone.
Some of the girls at.school who watched Prisoner religiously wrote to the.local network to complain but to no avail.We were so upset! Prisoner was suddenly cut just before the episode when Doreen was going to.marry Kevin Burns.
Years later,I discovered all of these Prisoner episodes on UA-cam and was able to pick up where the episodes got cut off because of the Judy Bryant/ Sharon Gilmore episodes.Puritans!!! Ridiculous!!! And to think now that Sharon Gilmore's character was to be of a limited duration and yet all episodes after that particular storyline were obliterated in the USA......Disturbing! And now such storylines are pretty much mainstream...
Oh wow, did they edit the episodes that were shown in the USA when you were younger ?
Hey Krista. I watched prisoner in the early 80s .I'm from the Northeast also ,right outside of New York City in NJ.When did you watch it?
@@eugenedegeorge5084 Interesting fact, Prisoner was rating higher than the Johnny Carson show at the time
@@TalkingPrisoner I don't think any episodes were censored or cut out because when I rewatched Prisoner,I didn't notice anything I'd missed.After the series was cancelled,the local press I think was saying that there was a fear of what Prisoner would come up with next,possibly even more unsavoury storylines so it had to go! As a young person watching Prisoner I didn't agree that I was being 'corrupted' and of course resented adults deciding for me what I should or shouldn't watch,lol.It wasn't like either Judy or Sharon presented as role models anyone would want to emulate,nor did they ever get up to anything 'racy' together.It was just really interesting since it was so different to anything else on American television.
In a funny irony-and I believe this was when Prisoner was still on the air-I found two paperback books that were apparently from a series written about particular Prisoner characters at a church yard sale of all places.A yard sale meaning people donated used items to be resold to raise funds for that church.In a box of donated paperbacks,one was the Frankie Doyle story and the other was The Secret Life of Erica Davidson.I snapped them right up although I no longer have them.Apparently the people from the church who put out the box of books for sale didn't vet them very carefully if the Frankie Doyle one slipped through 😅😅😅
@@eugenedegeorge5084 Yes I was watching Prisoner in the early 80's! I'm not sure exactly what year it got cancelled because I had many other things going on in my life but I do remember my bitter disappointment! I was watching it in the Philadelphia area.How long did Prisoner remain on the air up your way? Do you remember it being considered controversial? Did it air in the late afternoon where you lived?
33:39 Matt has such a adorably cute smile 😊
loving these interviews, very insightful, bringing back loads of memories of Prisoner.
These videos are really good,Thank you.
Thanks so much Gary. Have you had a chance to watch the other interviews
Well done Matt and Ken as always.great interview can’t wait to start another one.great channel.
@TalkingPrisoner Matt was wrong about Jock Stewarts fate. He wasn't pushed down the stairs. He fell when he was chasing Judy because she had blinded him with pepper spray. And he didn't die, he was paralyzed. And this was not when Judy was working at the brothel. It was several months later when she was on parole.
Just started watching. She reminds me of Annie Potts from Ghostbusters 😁
Ghostbusters was a great movie. haha
@@TalkingPrisoner Ghostbusters Afterlife looks great.
Briliant interview one of the best so far. It was nice to see someone that less of an ego and actually acknowledged something with some love for what she did on Prisoner :) Great work Matt and Ken
Totally agree! No ego and a pleasure to listen to.
@@jamesmurphy1632 very much so . Val was great due to her being the top dog and her rivlary and stuff with Joan but i found her uncomfortable at times to listen to .
Todd's death in Neighbours?! Blimey, that was traumatising for me as a teenager!! 😆
HAHA It was traumatic, I remember all the girls coming to school the next day in tears
Same!! Lol
@@andrews6341 The girls even came to school with pictures of him from Tv Week lol
Any chance of getting Tommy Dysart on the podcast?
We hope to have Tommy on, We have a big list of cast and crew already booked to come on. Are you a big fan of Tommy ? I just recently watched the Great Bookie Robbery which was produced by Ian Bradley who was the producer on prisoner and Tommy was a prison officer on Bookie, Have you seen it ?
Another GREAT interview. Do you think there's much chance of getting an interview with Elspeth/Meg? That would be amazing.
We hope to have Elspeth on at some stage
when can you do maggie kirpatrick and elespth ballaytne
We hope to have Elsbeth and Maggie on at some stage, who was your favourite officer ?
@@TalkingPrisoner my favourite two officers was jock stewart and heather the one that got dismiised for framing joan
@@TalkingPrisoner Elspeth.
Another great interview. Margot was in top form which made it enjoyable listening. Hate to say Reylene Pearce wasn't exactly forthcoming or in a bit of a cranky mood during her interview (we'll put it down to lockdown).
Agreed. She was hard work!!!
Hi Johnny, I am glad you are enjoying our interviews. Ken and I (Matt) spoke with Reylene after the interview and she mentioned to us that she was quite nervous doing the interview. What interview have you enjoyed so far ?
@@TalkingPrisoner Cheers Matt, Maria's was very interesting and Barrie Pullen talking about the Russell St Bombing. All have an important story to tell. It's a great interview series that has captured people's attention.
When did Judy push Jock down the stairs , ? He fell after chasing her but lived on in a damaged state.
Yes, That was my slip up so to speak lol - Matt
OMG she has barely aged a day! You need to get her back on and ask her what her secret is!!!
Margot looks amazing, We can ask her if you would like ?
Great interview. I never understood why joan and terri could not hold hands or hug...were they scared offending media...certain groups? A show which saw blood.... hangings... fights...could not have a same sex couple hold hands? In 1985 i sure it be shown on other programmes... Eastenders had same sex couple at the same time which sure there was a embrace...
Judy didn’t kill jock - he was left in a wheelchair ! ::)
That was my fault...I have seen the episode so many times which makes it even worse lol (Matt)
Judy did NOT push Jock down the stairs, she prayed bug spray in his face and he fell when chasing her as she fled down then stairs. Clearly Margot did not remember this episode!
Sharon had a big impact on my late mum. She hated her guts.
Bluey
Margot was more beautiful as Sharon Gilmour then as Terri the screw.
Did you like how the producers had Margot come back as Terri ?
@@TalkingPrisoner Yes it was good as Margot is a decent actress, but PCBH recycled characters a lot which was i
suppose to save money as it must have been made on a very tight budget according to Gerard maguire the actors wern't really on much money, hence why they recycled actors a great deal.
Interesting interview! I hated spiteful "Sharon" and her annoying voice and was not keen on Terri, however Margot comes across as a really nice lady.
She was very pretty when she was young. She had a nasty streak though …
You can tell she doesn't remember much and is making up things and spinning out generalisations.
Yes how dare she not remember every single minute detail about a show that she acted in briefly over 40 years ago.... how dare she 🙄🤦♂️ get a hobby or a life
@@Callithenicsking Not sure why that should bother you so, I am merely stating my thoughts on her interview, as compared to some of the other actors. I personally don't find her as engaging as some of the other interviewees, and it seems she is making things up and spinning out generalisations.