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Prisoner reruns now on 10Play

All 79 episodes of S1 are now available for nostalgia buffs.

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Original episodes of Prisoner are now available on 10 Play.

All 79 episodes of S1 are currently available (692 were made in total).

From memory the ATV-0 series was the second set visit I ever did…. you can read a very rusty time capsule of that visit here.

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  1. All 692 episodes are now on 10play. One big problem though: The end credits on episodes 403-692 (all 290 episodes) have been replaced with the credits belonging to episode 402 (yep, what the actual). As a result, the cast/crew and copyright year information on all of seasons 6, 7 and 8 is grossley inaccurate and misleading to say the least. The official DVD release did not have this issue.

    10play need to source their master tapes and replace these episodes – clearly Fremantle have played with these episodes.

      1. I somewhat agree and respectfully disagree, David. I can’t fathom a rationale that would affect *just* the credits being removed from 290 consecutive episodes. If tape damage, there is no way damage applied to the credits only (Fremantle supplied the dvd release and they’re fine). On 10play, Fremantle are telling us the last episode was produced in 1983, when in fact it was 1986 – the last 3 years of cast members don’t exist. Fremantle should have done the right thing – spend dollars to get the original tapes from the National Film & Sound Archive, however they chose to mislead the viewer. The same company who were greedy with their ask for Neighbours broadcast rights.

          1. Thanks David. Getting an explanation will be very helpful and appreciated. I praise the hard work you do with the TV industry.

  3. Interesting! I was waiting to see the old 0-10 network logo on screen (as it was prior to ATV-0 becoming ATV-10 In January 1980) and it featured the gold animated Grundys logo which did not exist in 1979. Then came the Fremantle distribution tag on the end so maybe these are not from 10s library. Will have to check out episode 2. (I have a feeling episode 1 had a different credit background).
    But must say episode 1 is a great episode for the time and understand why people were hooked straight away. Just so groundbreaking

    1. The ones with the FremantleMedia distribution tag at the ends are the better-quality ones (which form the majority of the episodes being used by 10play) than the colour-saturated, contrasty ones with the shortened gateslams used in the DVDs.

        1. Yes indeed. Something very weird going on there. From 391 there was a gate slam at the ends of the episodes. However, in the full-release Shock DVD version, this gate slam has been cut, and it jarringly goes straight to the credits.

          I hoped when I saw a few episodes on 10play that had the gate slam left intact, followed by a FremantleMedia countdown before the closing credits (Episodes 398 to 402), they would leave the gate slams in, but no, the gate slam is cut out, and as you noted, they have copied the credits from 402 at the ends of all the rest of the episodes.

          Really, really weird on the part of Fremantle

  4. I notice they’ve acquired Hollyoaks also. I’ve been saying for a while they should pair this up with Neighbours on Peach. However the way Neighbours is, it won’t surprise me if it’s a Paramount+ exclusive soon

    1. It is pretty weird what happened to Episode 1. The credits seem to belong to c.Episode 401

      However, I am finding the picture quality better than in the full DVD release, and the gate slams uncut (not cut short)

      1. Interesting, i have the dvd of season 1 so didn’t think it would be worth bothering on Tenplay, but if the pic quality is better maybe. Unfortunately it might not be anyway since last time i used it, over a year ago, it was so bad i didn’t want to use it again, hoping maybe its improved since then.

  6. Issue with episode one. The end credits belong to an episode some 4 years later (in 1983). I suspect 10 haven’t transferred their own master tapes which is unfortunate.

    1. Could it be that the original airing in 1979, the first episode was a “feature length” so that there was the ending of the episode was after 2 episodes that we see now. 2 hours rather than 1.

      1. No, it aired as a single episode. The dvd release has the correct credits. If there was tape damage on the copy 10 sourced, they should have at least taken the credits from episode 2, not episode 401 some 4 years later.

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