Masters immediately went on to produce Grundy's stablemate Prisoner from 1983, along with several cast members, including Judy McBurney, Genevieve Lemon, Babs McMillan and Peter Bensley who all had leading roles in Prisoner after The Young Doctors finished.

The last time an episode of Prisoner was shown on ITV was in Southern region Meridian ( formerly TVS ), again still on their initial run, who finished on episode 586 in July 1999.

It aired on Sunday and Monday nights from March 1992 replacing Prisoner in the schedule ( which had finished December the previous year ).

* The Prisoner Video Companion, 1990: a 48-minute American production with clips, including a few from Danger Man, and voice-over narration discussing origins, interpretations, meaning, symbolism, etc., in a format modelled on the 1988 Warner book, The Official Prisoner Companion by Matthew White and Jaffer Ali.

Mason reunited with " Goodbye Girl " co-star Richard Dreyfuss and writer Neil Simon in Duncan Weldon and Emanuel Azenberg's production of " The Prisoner of Second Avenue " in 1999 which was performed at the L. A. Theatre Works shortly after a revival in London's West End and led to a Grammy nomination in comedy.

As Prisoner entered into production for a second year in 1980, the long-term format and structure to the series established the previous year was firmly in place.

In December 2007, " On the Inside " launched an official online yearly subscription membership, with members having exclusive access to cast interviews, Prisoner out-takes and rare cast and production images.

The MGM-British Studios complex ( demolished in the early 1970s ) saw the production of many well-known films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, as well as many ITV television series including The Prisoner.

He played Stanley in two consecutive New York Classic Stage Company ( CSC ) productions of Pinter's 1957 play The Birthday Party, directed by Carey Perloff ( since 1992 artistic director of the American Conservatory Theatre ), in 1988 and 1989 ; the dual roles of prison Officer and Prisoner in Pinter's 1989 play Mountain Language ( in a double bill with the second CSC Rep production of The Birthday Party ); Edwin Booth in a workshop production also featuring Angela Goethals of Booth: A House Divided by W. Stuart McDowell at The Players in 1989 ; Kerner, in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood ( 1994 ); and Devlin, opposite Lindsay Duncan's Rebecca, in Pinter's 1996 two-hander Ashes to Ashes in the 1999 New York premiere by the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Watson also dabbled in television production in America, producing Dangerous Women, a short-lived soap opera based on the Australian Prisoner series.

At the play's start, Nemov is the production chief of his work group and is later replaced by, Prisoner Engineer Khomich.

* According to the book The Prisoner by Robert Fairclough, McGoohan was informed that production was cancelled on the series immediately following filming of the preceding episode " The Girl Who Was Death " and was given only a week to write a finale to conclude the storyline started in " Once Upon a Time ", which had been filmed a year earlier.

Man in a Suitcase was effectively a replacement for Danger Man, whose production had been curtailed when its star Patrick McGoohan had decided to create his own series, The Prisoner.

* According to The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series by Robert Fairclough, the strain of filming this episode caused McKern to suffer either a nervous breakdown or a heart attack ( accounts differ ), forcing production to stop for a time.

In 1921, she married director Rex Ingram during production of The Prisoner of Zenda ( released 1922 ), which he directed and in which she appeared as Princess Flavia.

In the late 1980s Central TV acquired the Australian soap opera Prisoner, which was produced between 1979 and 1986.

The Reg Grundy Organisation subsequently reached even higher levels of success with women's-prison drama Prisoner ( 1979 – 1986 ) on Network Ten, and melodramatic family saga Sons and Daughters ( 1981 – 1987 ) on the Seven Network.

* Prisoner ( TV series ), an Australian soap opera that ran from 1979 to 1986, also known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the UK and the USA and " Caged Women " in Canada

Subsequent television acting roles included three different roles as various villains in Prisoner, including Geoff Butler between 1979 and 1980, Kurt Renner in 1984, and Ernest Craven in 1986.

* Prisoner ( 1986 ) TV Series .... Ernest Craven

* Prisoner ( 1979 ) TV Series .... Geoff Butler ( 1979 – 1980 )/ Kurt Renner ( 1984 )/ Ernest Craven ( 1986 )

The first was Julie " Chook " Egbert in Prisoner, a role she played from 1985 to 1986.

Before this she appeared in children's drama series Home, and in Prisoner as Roach Waters in 1986.

He played the recurring role of Bongo Connors in the women's prison drama serial Prisoner in 1986.

In 1985 she played the glamorous villain Eve Wilder in the cult soap opera Prisoner and her character was spectacularly lynched during the infamous episode 600 riot, screened in 1986.

Grundy's Prisoner began screening in the United States in 1979 and achieved high ratings in many regions there, however only the first three years of the series would be screened in that country.

In 2004, he began playing Albus Dumbledore, Hogwarts's headmaster in the third installment of J. K. Rowling's franchise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, taking over the role after the death of Richard Harris.

Since The Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004, Warner Bros. began releasing the Harry Potter film franchise in IMAX to strong financial success.

As the initial episodes began to air and were met with enthusiastic reception, it was felt Prisoner could be developed into an on-going soap opera, and as such, the initial storylines were developed and explanded, and new plots and characters phased in.

Believing that Prisoner would resonate with new audiences, in 2010 111 Hits Group Programming Director Darren Chau began planning to replay the entire series on 111 Hits to combat the launch of channel Eleven, and in particular Network Ten's plans to move a struggling Neighbours from Network Ten to channel Eleven.

Robbins began his acting career in 1984, appearing in two episodes of Prisoner, and in 1985 Robbins appeared on the sketch show The Eleventh Hour.

Hughes refused to let her work for a time ; when she finally began film acting again, she appeared in You're in the Navy Now ( 1951 ), The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1952 ), Run for the Sun ( 1956 ), and The Man of a Thousand Faces ( 1957 ).

Born and bred in Brisbane, Carol attended Milton State Primary School where her initiation into the world of theatre began with elocution classes in 1958. Carol first shot to fame in her award winning performance in the now cult TV program, Prisoner, in which she played tough lesbian bikie, Franky Doyle although only appearing in the first 20 episodes, her charactor attained cult status, comparable to the length of the series winning her a Logie Award for best lead actress.

Swanwick's film career began in 1951 with bit parts in films such as The African Queen, and he became a recognisable face on British TV during the mid-1960s when he guest starred in a number of popular shows, including The Avengers and Danger Man where he first worked with later Prisoner star and co-creator, Patrick McGoohan.

The website plans for the future include among other things the launch of an official Prisoner magazine.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

* 2011: BAFTA Children's Award-First Light Awards-Kids ' Vote for Film of the Decade ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won )

Since the Vietnam War, the official US military term for enemy POWs is EPW ( Enemy Prisoner of War ).

A January 2008 directive states that the reasoning behind this is since " Prisoner of War " is the international legal recognized status for such people there is no need for any individual country to follow suit.

Popular examples include the allegory Orwellian series The Prisoner, The Avengers and Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ), all produced for ITV.

For example, Dave Rogers, in the book The Prisoner and Danger Man, said that Markstein claimed to have created the concept first and McGoohan later attempted to take credit for it, though Rogers himself doubted that McGoohan would have wanted or needed to do that.

McGoohan had originally only wanted to produce seven episodes of The Prisoner, but Grade argued that more shows were necessary in order for him to successfully sell the series to CBS.

The episodes have been restored by Network DVD to create new high-definition masters, of which standard-definition versions were used for The Prisoner: 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD boxset released in 2007.

* A 2006 survey of leading rock and film stars by Uncut magazine ranking films, books, music or TV shows that changed the world, placed The Prisoner at # 10, the highest for a TV show.

Skaarj troops board the downed Vortex Rikers and kill the remaining survivors, save for Prisoner 849, who manages to find a weapon and escape from the ship.

Bao Pu was also an editor for Zhao's autobiography, Prisoner of the State.

During the events of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the werewolf Remus Lupin forgets to take his dose of Wolfsbane Potion that Severus Snape prepared for him and ends up turning into a werewolf during the full moon.

The first door ( labeled " The Prisoner ") brings Eddie Dean, a heroin addict who is in the process of smuggling cocaine for the drug lord Enrico Balazar.

Portmeirion has served as the location for numerous films and television shows, most famously serving as The Village in the 1960s television show The Prisoner.

The best-known use of the location occurred in 1966-1967 when McGoohan returned to Portmeirion to film exteriors for The Prisoner, a surreal spy drama in which Portmeirion itself played a starring role as " The Village ".

Because of its Prisoner connection, Portmeirion has been used as the filming location for a number of homages to the series, ranging from comedy skits to an episode of the BBC documentary series The Celts which recreated scenes from The Prisoner.

The Channel 4 music program The Tube also produced videos for XTC's songs " The Meeting Place " and " The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul " filmed in Portmeirion with the band wearing costumes from The Prisoner.

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

His successes continued with classics such as The Garden of Allah ( 1936 ), The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ), A Star Is Born ( 1937 ), Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ), The Young in Heart ( 1938 ), Made for Each Other ( 1939 ), Intermezzo ( 1939 ) and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), which remains the highest grossing film of all time ( adjusted for inflation ).