Pacific Drive

Australia, Soap, 1995

Rowena Wallace was taken ill on the set and had to be replaced by someone else for the last couple of months of the role - none other than Olivia Hamnett. (Thanks to Marcel Verplancke for that info.)

Rowena Wallace - on Pacific Drive.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings (very incomplete!)
Rowena Wallace ..... Mara de Villenois
Olivia Hamnett ..... Mara de Villenois

Panel, The

Australia, TV Programme, 1998

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Glen Robbins ..... Regular Guest

Paradise

USA, TV, 1990s

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings (very incomplete!)

Paradise Beach

Australia, Soap, 1993

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings (very incomplete!)
Zoe Bertram ..... Paula Taylor
Paula Duncan ..... Joan Hayden

Parallel 9

UK, Children's TV, 1990s

British Saturday morning filler show.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Lucinda Cowden ..... Presenter

Patrick

Australia, Film, 1978

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Julia Blake ..... Nurse

Patrol Boat

Australia, TV Show, 1970s

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Nina Landis ..... NK

COMMENT - "This was a series in the 70s on ABC TV." - Peter Criddle

Paws

UK/Australia, Film, 1997

A film about a computer literate talking dog in a battle for good against evil. Stars Sandy Gore as the evil ex-wife stalking the dog to try and find the whereabouts of the stolen money - looking suitably evil, but very wrinkled and a bit too old for her part as glamorous villain. Caroline Gillmer is the friend of the dog's murdered owner - played by Norman Kaye. Billy Connolly is the voice of the dog, and the film goes downhill very soon after he starts to talk!

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Caroline Gillmer ..... Susie Arkwright
Sandy Gore ..... Anja
Norman Kaye ..... Alex
David Nettheim ..... Rabbi
Rebel Russell ..... Carla

Phoenix

Australia, TV, 1992

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Sean Scully ..... NK

Piano, The

New Zealand, Film, 1993

Very well-received film and worth seeing just for the music and the scenery. Genevieve Lemon played one of the women in the village in a role written specifically for her after her appearance in another Jane Campion film, Sweetie.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Genevieve Lemon ..... Nessie

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Australia, Film, 1975

A strange one this - a lot of people really like this film, but I fell asleep in the middle of it so have never actually found out what happened at the end ... Kirsty Child and Vivean Gray are teachers at the school, Jenny Lovell a pupil.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Kirsty Child ..... Miss Lumley
Vivean Gray ..... Miss McCraw
Jenny Lovell ..... Blanche

Pirate Movie, The

Australia, Film, 1982

A film version of Pirates of Penzance. This may have sounded like a great idea at the time - combining the old Gilbert and Sullivan numbers with some modern poppy ones, but believe me, in the end it's lousy. Some of the song and dance numbers are OK - the major general song and the policemen are good, but apart from that it's just a VERY strange mixture. Maggie K is plays the only woman on the Pirate ship who keeps throwing herself at the Pirate King - most amusing ;)

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Bill Binks ..... Policeman
Phil Brock ..... Policeman
Stephen Clark ..... Policeman
Clive Hearne ..... Butler
Peter Hosking ..... Policeman
Tim Hughes ..... Policeman
Maggie Kirkpatrick ..... Ruth
Margot Knight ..... Sister
Bernie Ledger ..... Pirate
Iain Murton ..... Policeman
George Novak ..... Pirate
Chris Peters ..... Policeman
Glen Ruehland ..... Policeman
Colin Setches ..... Policeman
Kevin Summers ..... Policeman
David Swann ..... Policeman

Play School

Australia, Children's TV, 1967-

George Spartels was a Playschool presenter - anyone got any more details, pictures, evidence please .....

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
George Spartels ..... Presenter

Police Rescue

Australia, TV Series, 1990

The original Police Rescue TV Series, it provided plenty of opportunity for guest acting and so spottings. This is very incomplete.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings (incomplete)
Kerry Armstrong ..... Michelle Harris?
Steve Bastoni ..... 'Angel' Angelopoulos (Regular)
Shane Connor ..... Cave Rescue Man (Guest)
Fiona Corke ..... Woman with missing son (Guest)
Arianthe Galani ..... Angel's mother
Frankie J Holden ..... Glenn 'Spider' Webb
Bill Hunter ..... Insp Keth 'Crusher' Carroll
Deborah Kennedy ..... Bronwyn Catteau
Tim McKenzie ..... Snr Sgt Peter 'Ridgy' Ridgeway

Police Rescue (film)

Australia, Film, 1994

A spin-off film from the TV Series, featuring the same main cast but a longer story.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Paul Alexander ..... Negotiator
Steve Bastoni ..... 'Angel' Angelopoulos
Alan David Lee ..... Simmo

Prisoner Cell Block H Musical

'The Freak Sings' - Maggie Kirkpatrick on The Prisoner Cell Block H Musical.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Maggie Kirkpatrick ..... Joan Ferguson

Prisoner Stage Play

Toured Britain in the late 80s or early 90s. It was based upon the very early years of Prisoner, and there were two versions with different casts. As Glenda Linscott was in the country at the time she was given a role, but not that of Rita Connors, as most people in the UK would not have recognised that character.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Elspeth Ballantyne ..... Meg Jackson
Jane Clifton ..... Margo Gaffney
Jacqui Gordon ..... NK
Patsy King ..... Erica Davidson
Glenda Linscott ..... NK
Fiona Spence ..... Vera Bennett

Professionals, The

UK, TV Series, 1970s?

Bryan Marshall guested in an episode (Hunter-Hunted) as a cop who had spent time in jail and then started murdering people with an amazing-super-laser gun stolen from the car of our favourite policemen.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Bryan Marshall ..... Preston ('Hunter-Hunted')

Proof

Australia, Film, 1991

Film about a blind man who, convinced that his mother lied to him when he was a child, takes photographs and makes people describe their contents. Belinda Davey appears VERY briefly as a doctor, and Frank Gallacher as a vet with a very suspect accent indeed.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Susanne Chapman ..... Chemist Girl
Belinda Davey ..... Doctor
Roy Edmunds ..... 2nd Policeman
Cliff Ellen ..... Cemetery Caretaker
Frank Gallacher ..... Vet
Frankie J Holden ..... Brian

Pugwall's Summer

Australia, Children's TV, 1991ish

Series about a teenager and his band, the 'Orange Organics'. Elspeth Ballantyne played Aunt Annabel, the record producer that gets them a record deal. Maurie Fields played the recurring character of Pugwall's Uncle Harry.

Prisoner Actor/Actress Spottings
Elspeth Ballantyne ..... Aunt Annabel
Julie Day ..... Mrs Orfonsinski
Roy Edmunds ..... Bashem - Teacher
Maurie Fields ..... Uncle Harry
Ken James ..... Herohead - Pugwall's father
Jenny Jarman-Walker ..... Summerburn - Teacher
Alan Hopgood ..... (Scriptwriter)
Lawrence Mah ..... Mr Sakimoto (Guest)
Tiriel Mora ..... Okomura O'Shaughnessy (Guest)
Rod Richardson ..... Policeman
Jenny Seedsman ..... Dianne