Episode 693 - Page 5

marilyns_mole · #41 9th December 2011, 10:27 AM

I have searched for it for years but to no avail.

marilyns_mole · #42 9th December 2011, 10:28 AM

Sweet. Sorry. Just new here and still reading through my regulations book. Thanks Mrs. Barry.

mr 420 · #43 9th December 2011, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by marilyns_mole

Sweet. Sorry. Just new here and still reading through my regulations book. Thanks Mrs. Barry.

No problem bud, I had even forgooten that it was there. One thing though, it's not Mrs Barry, it's Governer Craven!

marilyns_mole · #44 9th December 2011, 10:57 AM

Ah. Ok.

iluvdvds@Cult Labs · #45 11th December 2011, 03:12 PM

Nice call, 420! Threads have now been merged

cellblockhstuff · #46 12th January 2016, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by marilyns_mole

Thanks for the welcome there.

Here is a copy of what Wikipedia says of Episode 693.

Episode 693 was a fan-made new episode of the series which was exhibited at a 1995 "Prisoner: Cell Block H" convention in Durham in the UK. The convention was organised by the editors of "The Block", the now defunct unofficial fanzine, which ran from 1993-1998. Episode 693 featured Joan Ferguson, Dennis Cruikshank, Erica Davison, Lizzie Birdsworth, Myra Desmond, Bobbie Mitchell, Reb Kean, Frank Burke, Barbara Fields, Vera Bennett and Joyce Barry. The storylines centred around Vera Bennett's incarceration inside Wentworth after being convicted of fraud at Barnhurst, and her attempts to escape in a hot air balloon with the help of Barbara Fields. The Freak uses Reb to sell acid pills to the women disguised as smarties and Top Dog Myra ends up being chucked into the washing machine by Reb and Frank. Bobbie and Lizzie's booze-making hi-jinks come to a sticky end for Barbara when the whole lot explodes in a fire bomb, just as Vera is making her escape!

Oh how I wish to see this episode!!!!!!!

I was one of the cast. I played Frank Burke but we had to change all the names because of copyright. So I was Fred Banks instead. There was Bobbie Mitchins, Derek Cockshaft I think, lemon lips instead of Vinegar Tits. The steam press was two ironing boards hinged together with aerosols for steam. We couldn't have been more than 16 yrs old at the time.

My character got locked in a shed at the end with another prisoner. Its all a very long time ago.

I remember a weird dream sequence with ferguson selling drugs to prisoners. I remember they mostlt spoke in geordie accents lol. Yeah there was a hot air balloon escape.

The credits said "A Grumpy Organisation Production".

I think Graham, the lad who seemed to be running it, had gotten some shit off Grundy about it.

The end product was terrible but as I say we were all really really young, and it was good fun to do. But I think people were expecting some long lost episode. It was shown at the convention and I recall people walking out.