Did you watch Prisoner in the Scottish ITV days?
 

This and the other ITV regional threads are here so you can take a trip back down memory lane and let us know how you discovered Prisoner, how your local ITV company showed it (some were better than others in how they treated the show) and any other memories you associate from the time - all are welcome on this thread.

Yeah,many moons ago,I was a forklift driver on the backshift.
Finish at 11pm and get home about 11.30pm-Prisoner was about the only thing on the box and one of my brothers who was also on the back shift was a fan,so Iused to watch it quite regularly too.:nod:

Anyone else watch it north of Carlisle? :eyebrows:

Yorkshire area and my mum and dad watched so i got to see pcbh in summer hols.

Scottish tv here. I think it 's about time for Prisoner to return to ITV and all its regional variations. Be a hell of a lot more entertaining than all the reality rubbish on our screens today! I think it would be a ratings winner yet again.

Judging by the huge fanbase,it certainly looks like it! :nod:

With the right publicity, I think that you would be surprised at the amont of fans that would magically appear. There must be a LOT of people out there with fond memories of this superior slice of drama.

If, theoretically a channel was to show it at about 9 or 10:00pm in a regular timeslot and if it was advertised a lot before being shown, I think people would be shocked at the ratings it would get.

But that will never happen.

If ITV or channel 4 where to show it at 9:00 or 10:00 it would get millions. But TV networks are ashamed of it.

Here's a Scottish television ident introducing none other...


YouTube - Scottish TV Night Time Junction - 1996





From back in the day when idents where simple, short and sweet. :coolblue:

And here's a nice christmas one. Awww...

YouTube - Start of Prisoner Cell Block H - Scottish TV Region

This might be my favourite Scottish television ident though.

YouTube - scottish ident nighttime Intro


I remember it was used before Prisoner and a guy with a strong Scottish accent would proudly exclaim: And now on Scottish, Prisoner. :coolblue:

Those Idents bring back memories. We should get some from different regions across the UK that were used when introducing Prisoner, and get them on some of the dvds.

Would copyright come into that at all Stephen?

I'm not an expert, but I'd think they would be owned by STV. But seeing as they have dropped lots of ITV programs as they say they can't afford to buy them, If I was them, I'd be glad of some extras pennies.

Sounds like it's worth pursuing.:cool:

Yip, that was one of my ideas for extras on the DVDs. :)

But, unfortunately Shock are determined the UK release will be exaclty the same at the Australian release for some reason.

I don't know why they're not more flexable on that. Because there's lots the UK release could have, that the Aussie release doesn't.