Idiot Box

Australia, Film, 1996

Film that you can either take as great, or a boring waste of time, about two slobs who plan a bank robbery. Amanda Muggleton plays one of their mothers through most of the film.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Deborah Kennedy ..... Detective Leanne
Amanda Muggleton ..... Mum

IMT

Australia, TV

A Late Night talk show - IMT stands for In Melbourne Tonight - that has been running for years and years, and is mentioned by Val Jellay in her autobiography. Has been hosted by Frankie J Holden.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Frankie J Holden ..... Host

Initiation

Australia, Film, 1987

I gladly admit to fast forwarding all the way through this film in order to get to the credits - it was just so boring. Anyway, it was something about drug smuggling and wandering about in the bush after a plane crashed.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Tony Mack ..... Detective

Inspector Morse

UK, TV Series, 1993

Penny Downie starred in an episode of this British show as a nurse who also happened to be ....... Wait for it ........ an amateur painter, mirroring the role as Kerry Vincent in Prisoner. It was the painting that eventually gave her away as being involved in the murder.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Penny Downie ..... Nurse Wendy Hazlitt ('Deadly Slumber')

It'll be Alright on the Night

UK, TV Series, 1978-

British cock-ups show. Apparently there weren't many Prisoner outtakes - they used them all in the show!

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Colette Mann failing to smash a mirror.
Elspeth Ballantyne drinking green gunk.
Fiona Spence as Vera trying to pour a wine box down a sink and failing.
Ann Phelan in another programme altogether failing to switch off a light.
John McTernan in another programme chasing after a car being driven by Brett Climo that wouldn't start.
Diane Craig in another programme.
Judy McBurney and Tony Alvarez with a baby being shoved into the background in The Young Doctors.
Lucinda Cowden and Olivia Hamnett struggling with a flaming toaster.
Debra Lawrance in Home & Away with Isla Fisher forgetting her lines and saying a naughty word.
Andrew Clarke with a sneezing horse behind him on Snowy River.