Interview with Betty Bobbitt and Anne Phelan
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- Interview with Betty Bobbitt and Anne Phelan
Interview with Betty Bobbitt and Anne Phelan
Welcome to this special episode of Talking Prisoner. This interview has never been made public, This episode is devoted to the memory of Betty Bobbitt and Anne Phelan. Betty played Judy Bryant between 1980 to 1985 in 429 episodes and Anne played Top Dog Myra Desmond. It was shot as a promo for the charity event on January 21, 2000, at The Forum theatre in Melbourne. Anne was on the organizing committee of the 21st Anniversary reunion party for Prisoner and fans had flown in from around the world and raised money for Aids charities. It was recorded in Betty's living room by the Director (and boom operator) Chris Adshead, you can even hear the trams going past in the background. The cameraman is Noel Penn and the interviewer is journalist Kim Wilson. Barrie Pullen who was the cameraman on Prisoner managed to get the Beta tapes from Chris and convert them to what you will see in this 37-minute interview. Betty and Anne discuss how they got their roles on Prisoner and why they think the show is so popular. Anne shares a very funny story about Elspeth Ballantyne and floor manager Ray Lindsay. Anne talks about her favourite scenes she filmed on Prisoner and what it was like to shoot her final scenes with Betty and how she felt when Betty left the show. Betty shares a very funny story about her son and both Betty and Anne talk about how fond they were of the cast and crew of Prisoner and the special comradery they all shared between them. Anne talks about why she left Prisoner and the special friendships they both had with the non-speaking extras on Prisoner. Anne talks about the preparations for putting together the 2000 Prisoner event and the cast Anne and Betty were looking forward to seeing again and the fans that flew in from around the world for this spectacular event. Lots of behind-the-scenes footage of this interview at the end. A big Thank you to Ken Mulholland and Barrie Pullen for allowing Talking Prisoner to present this amazing interview to all the fans and a big thank you to Chris Adshead, Noel Penn, and Kim Wilson as without you we would never have seen this interview.
#bettybobbitt #annephelan #prisoner #cellblockh
I was lucky enough to have a small role in Prisoner in 1982 at 21 . I played Paul White the boyfriend of Kerry Brodie episode 320 .I Remember going to that cast reunion in 2000 and caught up with all the cast it was great. I am 63 now , the years have flown by. I am so proud to have been part of such an iconic show. I was very lucky.
Awww that is absolutely wonderful.. I'm gonna have to look out for you .. thanks for sharing your little story .. ❤xxx
What an awesome experience! Prisoner is still popular in the UK.
Such a lovely pair, heartbreaking to think they’re no longer with us. RIP to them both
They were. Their banter and closeness comes across. R. I. P both.
The chemistry is still very much there, you can tell they cared for each other a great deal. What a great time-capsule for us to be able to look back on and see two old mates talking about their fond memories of a show we all love. I’m sure they’re both up in heaven still laughing and joking now, RIP Betty & Anne, class acts. 👏
My thoughts exactly
Amazing comment; sums it up…
It’s being rerun on my5 again after 44 years it’s still being shown. I’ve watched 692 episodes 9 times now. Fantastic show.
An early Christmas present to all Prisoner fans and so lovely to see Annie and Betty together again, may they rest in peace and continue to cause havoc in heaven. Huge thanks to Ken, Barrie, Chris, Noel and Kim for allowing Talking Prisoner to share this special treat with us fans, brilliant.
Beautiful ladies. Met Betty Bobbitt and she was lovely. Bless them both XX
I 100 Percent agree. Where did you meet Betty ?
@@TalkingPrisoner in Birmingham in 2016 (I think 🤔) It was my first Screenstars event. Although I had met Maggie K back in the 90s when she came to my home town. But Betty was lovely. Such a gentle lady X
great inteview rip both pased now love watch prisoner reruns❤
Rest In Peace Eternal To Anne Phelan & Betty Bobbitt . Two angels 👼🏻 👼🏻 reunited in Heaven ❤❤
Great ladies, lovely to see them. Both of them - especially Betty- have such recognisable voices, brilliant memories.
I can't believe I still watching prisoner h block
When I first heard Betty's voice, it was like hearing an old friend. Thank you to all who made it possible to share this
This is pure gold, thank you so much, Matt. I can't believe these two beautiful ladies are no longer with us. RIP
Judy was my favourite character I loved her and myra Desmond best top dog after the legend bea smith my absolute favourite characters rest in eternal peace Betty and Annie your very missed still can’t believe there gone 😢 ❤
Fantastic interview. They both come across as such lovely, down to earth actresses.
Thanks so much Jeff.
What an interview!!!! Truly amazing! Thank you Talking Prisoner!!!!
rip to two legends ,great interview
RIP...
They both still looked great. Watching this with tears in my eyes now both of them have gone 😢
I still watch prisoner and I can relate to it so well, just constantly reminds me of my boarding school! We even got locked in our dorms at night, so boys and girls wouldn't wonder and mix....though it didn't stop us getting out of the windows 😂
'Judy' was my favourite character. Both Betty and Annie still looked great.
May they both rest in peace
Great interview and brilliant ladies, both missed. The conversation seems very authentic and natural, probably as it's conducted in Betty's home. Two of my favourite ever Prisoner characters! Thanks for uploading this, Matt.
Great to see these Podcasts back.
What a great piece of work putting this interview together for us Prisoner fans, thanks to all those involved.
I'm sure if both ladies were still alive today they would have been happy to be interviewed by Matt.
Lovely to see this interview.....so sad to think they died within a very short time of one another.....RIP the lovely Betty and Anne...well done Matt for all your continued hard work.
Two very engaging ladies. Wonderful interview.
Thank you, We are so lucky to have been able to see this.
I loved Anne Phelan in Prisoner but a couple of years ago I saw Anne in " The harp in the South" and she was Fantastic and Betty aka Judy was so loved in Prisoner and a lovely character.
And I loved The brides of Christ which had a few ex Prisoner Stars and I never knew until Anna Hruby talked about her mum being on it and that was a great drama series also.
I will have to check that movie out again, it’s been so long since I have seen it
Such a gem! TY so kindly for sharing it.
Thanks so much Bonnie. It was amazing to watch this myself.
I love PCBH I watch everyday ♥️ Great actresses Continue to Rest peacefully Betty and Anne ♥️
Thank you, did you enjoy the interview?
Thanks so much for uploading. Two great ladies. RIP
still both easily recognisable,. and great characters on and off screen
Agree. Both Fantastic.
two legends gone now 😥
The whole 692 episodes are on TH-cam. I’m up to 422 - just loving it.Reb Keen has just arrived RIP Janet Andrewartha x
2 of my favourite ladies and characters , they definely carried the show after Val left.
What a great interview. Very funny ladies
Who was your favorite top dog ?
@@TalkingPrisoner Ooh, tough question. Bea and Myra I'd say.
Fabulous interview,Thank you for showing this.
Thankyou for sharing, amazing interview 👍👍
This was a lovely interview with Annie and Betty, I throughly enjoyed it. I have Betty’s book and got it just before she passed away and recommend it to any Prisoner fan. Thank you so much for sharing this interview with us.
This is fantastic. Thanks so much for finding the footage and putting it on this channel. Andrew, UK
Great upload! RIP! Both Anne and Betty ❤
Two lovely ladies. Thanks for sharing
Did you enjoy the interview?
@@TalkingPrisoner yes I did thank you Betty was one of my favourite actress's her dry sense of humour came through into Judy. I loved Betty's book too. Thanks
Great interview, and good transfer too - I'm glad someone held onto the tape!
An amazing find! well done guys! I love the idea of this kind of set up for Talking Prisoner moving forward, throwing 2 cast members together as they really bounce of each other.
Great stuff 👍😀
The banter is adorable and very funny!! What a find. Thanks for publishing.
So so happy to see these ladies again. Thank ypu so much for sharing.
It was amazing to see them both. Did you have a favorite storyline with Myra and Judy ?
@@TalkingPrisoner I'd say when Jude was handing over top dog to Myra working to overthrow Margo. Jude hadn't yet let go and Myra were very committed. They were very team focused.
Those 2 were and still one of my favourites actresses in prison h block
rest easy to two of the most brilliant actors...pcbh was huge to us here in the states...still watching and the admin for this group pcbh...
Can you share this to your group please
Marvellous interview. Merry Christmas Matt, Ken and Coral. Hope you are all well. Lewis x
Thank you for sharing this, Betty and Annie, were fantastic actors/ actresses, and two of my favourite characters, was lovely to hear and see their memories of Prisoner.
Thank you, I was so happy that I was able to share it with everyone
Such a shame to see this channel stall, your interviews were great
Stall? People have day jobs, and a family.
Incredible.
Thanks Philip, I was totally blown away when i was given this interview to share, it was amazing to watch both Betty and Anne. RIP.
@@TalkingPrisoner No doubts. Would've been amazing watching this back.
@@philiphayes6733 It was just so real and authentic.
Well, this is fantastic. Great characters.
Fabulous interview, so nice to hear them talk about their time on Prisoner 😊
Two true prisoner legends ❤
Definitely, did you enjoy the interview
@@TalkingPrisoner absolutely loved it , what great fun they were , I enjoy all the interviews, hope there is a Glenda one ✌🏼
That was wonderful, thank you! 👍😊
Betty hasn't changed .. she looks amazing xx
Fantastic interview !! Thank you for the upload!! 😁
Thank you. :-)
Great interview, thanks so much for sharing ❤
Thank you, Happy to hear you enjoyed.
Amazing to see this. Thank you so much for sharing the whole recording.
Both Fantastic actresses and characters in Prisoner ❤️❤️
Thanks for uploading 😊👍🏻
Hope both ladies are flying high
When you coming back? 😂we miss these amazing interviews 😀
Nice to see you back with a new upload. Nice fun interview. Good nostalgia. Thanks for making available. Props to Anne Phelan for wearing the Aboriginal Flag of Australia.
They seemed an absolute hoot.
"Is this gonna take much longer?" LOL!!!!!!! Love their banter!
This is awesome 2 lovely ladies now lost but we have them forever in prisoner. Was the charity night recorded is it on TH-cam?
Thank you so much for this 💗
Love the look Betty gives at 26:18 when she hears the words "buy their autograph". This must have been around the time things were changing and autographs and photo-op had to be paid for (they were always free in the 90s as far as I remember!)
If only they had royalty payments!
The producers made a lot of money from this
Thank you for posting this interview. Really enjoying it. 👍
Was the series ever screened in it's entirety in the US? I was led to believe the show stopped being screened on American telly after the "Tunnel Cave in" finale of 1980 - much to the US audience's dismay. But the lovely Betty mentions in this interview about Judy trying to kiss Georgie Baxter and the US viewers thoughts on this. Although probably filmed towards the end of 1980 wasn't this scene from 1981? (Season 3).
Anyway, thank you again for the transfer across from the BETAMAX tape and immortalised now. Kind of weird hearing Annie say the series debuted "21 years ago". Which really doesn't sound that long ago in today's terms 😮
It never screened in it's entirety in the US but did screen past the initial few seasons in some states, New York for instance screened the show into 1982. Someone will have more info I'm sure.
Wonderful!!!!!
Loved this - with thanks
I love these TP installments. I keep coming back to them again and again
2 lovely ladies you were both very good 👍🏻 xxxx
The harp of the south and Poor man’s orange was fantastic too I only watched them because Annie Phelan starred in them.
i went to a Prisoner reunion party at Channel 10 studios in 2003 (or 2004) it was fantastic, lots of the cast there... we got to walk around the grounds outside channel 10 we were all had dinner sat on tables in one of the studios, which they had cleared to allow the tables etc at least one of the cast was sitting at your table and had dinner with you (there was about 7/8 people to a table), the cast shared a lot of behind the scenes stories with us while having dinner, then after dinner we all just mingled and chatted to them all through out the night, it was a great night....there was quite a lot of fans there.
Fantastic
Wow! what a great interview !kudos to you Matt--great introduction. and kudos to Ken also for all you've done with talking prisoner. The most moving thing is the fact that we lost both of them in the past few years and that they were on this interview together--what a coincidence .I thought the comment from Betty about why America wouldn't tolerate the lesbian scenes was interesting , given the fact that she was born in America and was the only American in the show .I always said that if you watch the series somewhere all of the male pinups disappeared and were replaced with James Dean and Marlon Brando posters. I think that's because when it came to America the censors wouldn't tolerate stuff like that on American television. And I'm speaking as an American who was there in the Eighties when it came on American TV. Kudos again Matt and Ken.
Their intelligence radiates out of them.
Been missing these. Great find. Any news on when another interview will drop?
fantastic find Matt!
In the clip Betty makes reference to a novel she wrote. Apart from her autobiography, that she kindly signed for me when I meet her, I can't find information about the novel on the internet.
Does anyone have a copy? was it ever published?
I will ask Chris her son as I was curious also to the novel Betty wrote
@@TalkingPrisoner thank u for sharing this and did u ever find out about the novel that betty wrote
@@meepanderson3617I saw a cook book on Amazon in the name of Betty Bobbitt called Teen Cuisine but that’s all I could find.
OMG Betty hasn't aged a minute! What is her secret. Anne looks great too of course, but Betty! love you cats
I remember Betty was in blue heelers and so was Anne
2 things ! I’d love to read bettys book and I wanna hear Po Face sing !
I hate how everyone says England were great fans, the UK 🇬🇧 consists of more countries than England. Scotland 🏴 had Prisoner cell block H and I seen the reruns in the 90s with my Gran as I was born in 83 and I loved it. Now I've introduced Prisoner to younger people who have lapped it up, it's better than Wentworth the new program. Sometimes there's no need to update a series, Sometimes it's perfect as it was. ❤
I'm from Ireland, I remember watching in the early 80s with my Granny, she loved it.
Wentworth was good to show the backstory of Bea, but could never live up to Prisoner cell block H ❤
@@leeleef I 100% agree with you. You can never beat an original. Yet people do try, sometimes it works, most often it doesn't though. God bless our Irish 🇮🇪 cousins. Hope life is treating you well 🙏 ♥
The interviews ruled. With the actors and some others. Become a bit toxic especially with the soap box. Still I will watch some of these again.
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Very interesting interview. I loved both of the characters in the show. Judy / Betty looks a little uncomfortable at times, however I realise she had been retired and a lot of time had passed since the days of the show. Anne / Myra comes across as very campy. I wonder if she was a lesbian in real life, not that it particularly matters, but it's just the vibe I get from her. It must have been weird how something from so long ago was, and still is, talked about so much. I really loved the strong characters, and how Prisoner managed to be so many different things. It was realistic, yet it wasn't, it was relatable, and yet it wasn't, it was funny, and yet it wasn't, it was brilliantly acted and written, and at times it wasn't. It was rubbish, and yet it wasn't. Watching it is like going back in time! I absolutely LOVED it, and as someone who doesn't care for TV, I was really gutted after I watched the final episode. I felt like I'd lost a family. Best programme ever, bar none! I think it had a very down-to-earth quality about it that I liked, and a curiosity factor to it and a style all of its own. I also loved the way it was filmed and directed. I have visited Nunawading and toured around some of the locations.
This was a fun interview, had me laughing many times. Thanks for uploading it:-)
Towards the end of the interview, Betty was about to give the reason she got back into acting. She was cut off and never told the story. Does anyone know it?
Was just wondering that myself
Hi, do you not post any new interviews anymore? I used to love watching them on a Friday but there haven’t been any for ages?
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Prisoner returns back on TV but not as Prisoner give it a new name what is called Behind Bars but it has the same thing music some of the same characters and some of the same cast so with the new cast set in a mixed prison with men and women actor episode more exciting didn't know that we could pull it off but we did more update about behind bars as a new series with the same thing music of Prisoner state change❤
Wentworth
They were funny lady’s.
Ladies, or WOMEN.
Any word on when Lynne McGranger's interview will be uploaded or anymore Neighbours?
I am a 72 born baby, I watched prisoner later on
Both taken far far too soon.
11.32;- Anne argues jails are much worse than in Prisoner, i heard the opposite, that jails in real life were not as bad as portrayed in TV drama
I think Jails in real life are much worse than Cell Block H 😀
@@TalkingPrisoner just going on what i heard which was the opposite of what Anne was saying
why did Betty Bobbitt leave Prisoner ?
She wanted to do other things.
When are we going to get new interviews? I hope there is going to be more Corals
soapbox.
I’m just trying to balance another project I’m working on and will be back to this really soon
@@TalkingPrisoner thank you for your reply ♥
So Jude was into men?
Betty was straight.
Anne you werent worth the money you demanded.
Why wasn't she?
Proper armchair toll on here ain't ya.
You all became too big for your boots.
They're dead, so can't read your comment.
Two of the worst characters from Prisoner
You really are stupid
Something seriously wrong with you if you think they were the worse.. they played very big parts in prisoner cell block H, and fantastic parts too.