These are the programmes we grew up watching… Real journalism.

It's incredible to believe that ITV used to show serious documentaries. This went out at 8pm. It was stopped in 1998 when ITV bosses realised they could show a soap opera, quiz or reality show instead

World In Action - A Proper Documentary - unlike Love Island, Wife Swap, Big Brother, First Dates, etc.........

@mikemccaine4229

Жыл бұрын

bloody hell you're observant aren't you?!

@blacksheepdetecting

Жыл бұрын

The others aren't documentary tho. But yeah they don't make TV like they used to.

@moominmay

10 ай бұрын

I like First Dates. Agree with comment above though that these are more reality tv/entertainment rather than serious documentaries and I think most people recognise that. You can still find pretty good documentaries though they’re usually on Netflix or the like these days.

@billycasper289

8 ай бұрын

Is that all what ya missis makes you watch so you come on KZread to see what prisons where like before and now before you strangle her to death 😂

@kingwokosalfordlad

4 ай бұрын

AMEN 🙌🏻

That intro wow nostalgia

@jamessones4044

3 ай бұрын

I was born in 77 but that theme tune is seared into my brain. Powerful.

@pootpoot13

Ай бұрын

Goosebumps

@panmad6156

Ай бұрын

You know it's serious when you hear that music..

The difference in prisoners and prisons these days after 40 years is unreal !

@kingkong81icloud

Жыл бұрын

I went 3 times around year 2000 , I was good got everything, good environment , it’s gone bad now I have heard Al never go back

@matthewjdouglas6471

Жыл бұрын

@@kingkong81icloud me too, 1997 and 2000 and prison was very similar to this. Apart from slop out.

@littleninpo

4 ай бұрын

So is our poor old land

08.28 "Civil prisoners who've been unable to pay debts". Unless it's some sort large fraud, sending people to prison for being poor is absolutely disgusting.

@themerchantofengland

Жыл бұрын

it's bloody medieval mate!

@shaunmufc58

Жыл бұрын

It was the norm in the 70s

@888ssss

Жыл бұрын

stealing by fraud or by stealth is the same theft you goon.

@kdlofty

Жыл бұрын

@@888ssss You completely missed the point you fuck nugget.

@roberttalbot6397

Жыл бұрын

Yes,they gave prison to people unpaid fines. 4 weeks jail. Do 2 weeks

Dont make 'em like this no more,proper production values,great writers and journalists.

I remember getting 6 weeks remand in 1976 and living these conditions i was so shocked by the regime that i never got in trouble again.

@michaelharrison3602

Жыл бұрын

So it worked then

@jinxterx

2 ай бұрын

I only did 1 week remand in 1996 and the conditions were exactly the same as in this film. A real eye opener. I never got in trouble again either.

£100 a week for 70 hours. In 1979 I was taking home £27.50 a week for a 40 hour week

@johnmanning5568

3 ай бұрын

Doing what??? I was earning over £60 a week as a new entrant in an office in 1979. The average wage in October 1978 was £84 per week

I was in Hull prison in 1986,.slop out, no radio could have fm.. Then again in 2009 Doncaster, TV in the cell, kettle, xbox if you wanted washing done for you, .. Its the dream bedroom of any child..

@LadyCleo1

14 күн бұрын

So, prison is your 2nd home?

Started my prison service career at Manchester in the 70s, quite an experience and not one I’ll forget

@jayaybe1

Жыл бұрын

@screaming skull Well someone has to keep the scum off the streets!

@warriorboy1976

Жыл бұрын

@screaming skull Don't hate.

@ThePacko69

Жыл бұрын

Eh screaming skull....I'm an ex con (fully rehabilitated) & that attitude against an ex screw is outa order, he may have been one of the good ones! More respect in a shit world please....

@Alanhock75

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePacko69 cheers- did 30 years, never assaulted, most have been doing something right- good that you got your life together

@Robbiewa-bg4lu

3 ай бұрын

My dad was a prison officer there.He started in late 79.

I remember watching this. First time around.

@capt.bart.roberts4975

Жыл бұрын

Still as fucking bleak.

May 2024 and the introduction to this 1979 documentary applies to our prison service today.

I remember this program

All these prisoners saying it’s not fair that they’re locked up 23 hours a day. Well behave yourself then!

@AB-kx4nc

2 ай бұрын

Civil prisoners?...

@ivok9846

Ай бұрын

good thing they can spare 1hr to go home and take a rest....

@johnmanning5568

Ай бұрын

@@AB-kx4nc yes those too! Pay your bills or maintenance orders! It’s never happened to me. Coincidence maybe?

@AB-kx4nc

Ай бұрын

@@johnmanning5568 locked up with nutters definitely not,locked up, ok

Good 👍 documentary

Any one still live from this programme

Excellent upload Yep, just subbed 🤘

No divvies filming themselves rapping in there cells, these kids doing jail these days haven't got a clue

@kevinkellow2582

Жыл бұрын

Filming on phones??? 1979?? What the fuck you on about!

@davidwarren9932

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinkellow2582 well if you read it properly am saying in the old days you didn't have people rapping on there phones, unlike now, and the kids these days haven't got a clue what jail is

@kevinkellow2582

Жыл бұрын

I did read it properly. And saying the same thing again don’t make it any different. If they had phones they would of done. And maybe if the English jails back then knew what the fuck rap was they might of done. The little prison rap boys everyone see are cat-C prisoners. Easy jail. No phones in the cat-A’s where the real prisoners are.

@dongerz666

Ай бұрын

​@ku sure about that?evinkellow2582

Back when tv programmes were worth watching.

"RIGHT LADS SLOP OUT" never forget that shout

@888ssss

Жыл бұрын

pity you did not remember 'stay out of trouble lad' from school....?

@mikemccaine4229

Жыл бұрын

@@888ssss 🤣

@paulawhitfield3980

2 ай бұрын

@@888ssssIf only!!

The days when prisoners could string a sentence together.

@bosiex

3 ай бұрын

Because prisoners back then were mainly english.

@Shaun-england80

3 ай бұрын

​@@bosiexinit bruv😂

Agree must be a nightmare being in a cell with 3 other people all day. Burgling someones home & scaring those that live there is worse. Dont do the crime then play victim.

remember that music well like yesterday, also wickers world, loved watching that when i was a kid cause it meant i was up late

And ten years after this in Durham we had 4 up in a single cell still banged up 23/7 and slopping out 4 times a day and the authorities couldn't understand why the riots happened

@CARLIN4737

Жыл бұрын

I can. see above comment.

@williamwillis5729

3 ай бұрын

Luxury!

Where’s all the play stations

An inflation rate of 4.19% per year means £100 in 1979 is worth £634.07 in 2024, 33k pa. The average salary for Prison Officer in 2024 is £33,370 per year. so it hasnt changed, apart from its now better conditions and also the 70 hour week has now been cut in half with the same wage so overtime will increase the wage value.

Some well spoken prisoners here. Now you have 'street speak', rapping, spice, mobile phones........

@shihtzu291

3 ай бұрын

I hate them Road man and how they talk! "you get me cuz say no more"! This is where criminals were different but now they all listen to that shite music Drill or Grime Green house or whatever it's called and they think they are gangsters. 🇬🇧

Fascinating watch, especially knowing what happened 10 years later. Similar, or worse, conditions in prisons right now with the COVID lockdowns still very much in effect inside. I'm hearing of protests inside Whitemoor and Belmarsh. Solidarity to all incarcerated people x

Didn’t know bricktop was a governor of strange ways before acting. 😂

I watched a programme called Porridge on tv as a kid. It put me off a life of crime.

@withapulse2000

2 ай бұрын

Seeing this programme.....it makes u realise it was pretty realistic!.....apart from the comedy aspect. Prisons now are relatively soft apart from the risk of random assault by some thug having a bad day

I grew up watching these documentaries this was hard hitting real life journalism. Would something like this be aired today , would it be allowed?

Looking at the intro reel,nothings changed in the last 45 yrs !

cramming 3 blokes into a small space is torture unless they are nonces or murderers.

@leevancleef451

Жыл бұрын

Or gays..

@CARLIN4737

Жыл бұрын

murderers commonly get a single as obviously they are doing a long sentence. Or get carted off to Broadmoor or Rampton because they cant deal with the prison regime and get nutted off. Nonces usually go on the numbers. A protection wing away from the main body of prisoners for there own safety.

@Shaun-england80

3 ай бұрын

Or bummer boys

@kevphillips02

3 ай бұрын

​@leevancleef451What is wrong with gay people ?

@seanoconnor5737

3 ай бұрын

@@kevphillips02 Everything, Its not normal is it to put your cock up another mans asshole. 🤢🤮

Im watching you fletcher. And you young godber

Poor Oscar Wilde, locked up for two years in Reading gaol 😬

One song playing was Warm Feeling by LINDISFARNE. What were the other songs playing?

@RubberTramping

Жыл бұрын

World in action theme tune 😂

@wired2780

Жыл бұрын

Shame it wasn’t run for home 😂

@rockybarrano33

4 ай бұрын

@@wired2780😂😂

@DasTubemeister

4 ай бұрын

Tonight there’s going to be a jailbreak by Thin Lizzy.

That screw with the moustache “ everyone is a volunteer “,definitely a bully boy,would not look out of place as a SS officer back n the day.Exactly how I remember prison in the 70s

@paulhemingway9149

Жыл бұрын

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

@anthonypeck9082

Жыл бұрын

I will 2nd that …..what a little shit Tache was

@geordieal9658

Жыл бұрын

Agree, I bet he was violent towards prisoners for the slightest breach of the Nazi regime

@raymondstives7660

Жыл бұрын

Typically ex military type...bully boy

@galaxion62

Жыл бұрын

By all accounts that screw with the grey mullet of hair & Hitler style tash was known as 'Bootsie'... as he wore ammunition boots with metal studs in the soles. No points for guessing what he used those for on some of the 'volunteers'.

The Bay city rollers banged up?

Prison populaion in Britain in 1979: 42,000 At the most recent estimate, the prison population in England and Wales is projected to grow to between 93,000 and 106,000 by 2027 - more if you add Scotland. And costing approximately £40,000 per prisoner p.a.

@PAUL-ge1kl

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info. Polticians/Daily Mail/ the Scum love the Law n Order rabble rousing

Harry Grout wing ?

If I was asked " What are you going to do tonight" Id have replied " Im going to squeeze between the bars, climb down and jump over the wall, go to the local pub, then at 10.30 pm go to the chippy, then climb over the wall, shimmy up the drainpipe, slide through the bars and go to sleep". And just look at the blank face who asked the stupid question.

@marknestbox

Жыл бұрын

That make me laugh. Thanks!

(Pseudonym) A violent, oppressive hell hole. There was a constant threat of violence from inmates and staff. I spent my first night there aged 15 in 1976, waiting for Borstal, returned a couple of times on other YP sentences. It helped to make me a very angry and aggressive man, then many years in jail. I have been free nearly 24 years. Prisons and staff have gone the opposite way, the new type of inmate is worse. I see now that a certain amount of fear of violence was necessary for control, some staff were just monsters. This new type of criminal needs to feel real pain.

@Thelastborder

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, fight fire with fire!!

@Thelastborder

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏🙏👍👍

@paulhampson8496

Жыл бұрын

that's propper prison one of them cunt screws looked like macki out of porridge looks a grim hole then thanks for sharing

@SiLoJayLo

Жыл бұрын

"This new type of criminal needs to feel real pain" - ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!!! You know damn well how you felt when you'd been on the receiving end of a beating: YOU THEN FELT MORE RESENTFUL, & YOU WOULD THEN TAKE THAT FEELING OUT ON THE NEXT PERSON WHO IRRITATED YOU WITH THEIR BEHAVIOUR. Your perception of strangeways is SPOT ON! YOUR TIME, THERE, TAUGHT YOU ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!!!

@sarahwarden5574

Жыл бұрын

@@SiLoJayLo Yes, there is contradiction in what I say. I despise todays mini gangsters who have no fear of consequences, because there are no serious consequences. Feral gangs roam Bradford with impunity. Society needs to dish out harsh responses or things will only get worse. I watched a video on todays jails. Incredibly, this idiot took himself hostage in his cell and threatened to cut himself. In the old days they would have laughed at him and said 'Get on with it' They treat it like he was going to injure someone else. A team, fully riot kitted, messed about for ages before going in and taking the tiny item off him. Laughable.

4737 Carlin Sir?

@winklebrown1014

3 ай бұрын

Where's your fucking tool?

@barrylongstaff2816

3 ай бұрын

Shit witness

interested to know what become of some of these prisoners.

@BobBob-ok8su

Жыл бұрын

Probably back in and out

@CARLIN4737

Жыл бұрын

All dead.

@marknestbox

Жыл бұрын

They had the perfect experience for the available vacancies and became prison officers.

@Andy-wx4wx

3 ай бұрын

If still alive, they will be at minimum mid 60s now. I'd say 80% of everyone in this episode have died now....

Its Mr Makai from Porridge 😂 the one who says aw dont complain you volunteered.

I was on world in action in 1993 - a skool for crime

Been there done that as they say. 1977 in Winchester YP... 2 to a cell, then Portland Borstal, one to a cell. However over the years since cells became crowded... had at least 2 to a cell. Dartmoor was always 1 to a cell... but nothing like anything they have now... no TV, slop bucket, lights out at 10pm, evening watching TV... 1.5 hours, work mostly involved sewing post bags... butn have to say some went onto trade training.

I've done a lot of work with ex-prisoners and the idea that prisons today are cushy is a myth. They are horrible nasty places, filled with horrible nasty people. One of the stranger facts is that murderers are usually the quietest bunch in the prison. One thing though about prisoners, give them a yard and they'll take a mile... Give them two hours socialisation they'll want six hours.

@ThePacko69

Жыл бұрын

Yes I'm a fully rehabilitated ex con & your right murderers are quieter, probably because there on enhanced status & just want a quieter life tbh

@malbig2344

Жыл бұрын

@@ThePacko69 I'm glad to hear you have got your life back on track... I was told that a lot of the inmates that have committed murder were so shocked by their actions in taking a life that the last thing they want to do is to make more trouble for themselves...

@ThePacko69

Жыл бұрын

You find with most convicted murderers, once sentences they go through a grieving process & some kick off & go loopy!

23 hrs 😮😮

Enquire expected to close in 5 years time.

That would crack me up after a day, living with 3 men in a tiny room,

On remand I preferred the block ..single cell ...after conviction single cell ...

Keep out of trouble...SIMPLES !!!!!!, Don't assultt a police officer,,,

Very grim

I had a Saturday job in 1978 as a 17 year old kid, and would take home 6.80 for that one day. In school holidays I’d do 5 days and get around 36 quid take home. A pint was about 25p, cig’s about 40p for 20. Maybe less.

My dad was going to be a prison officer years ago he paased all the training and everything my dad is only 5ft 6in

@13:27 screw with sunglasses it’s Jeromy Beadle 😂😂😂😂

Born in 78...the title of this show was scary

12 years later the boys ripped the fucking roof off the place 🎉

There's absolutely no way those conditions are fit for a dog let alone a human...Let alone 3! The only thing there is to 'rehabilitate' when there's no work on, is the next best way to rob a car or a house. The governor was spot on in this and I've seen him in a few other good docs. His dad and grandad were both prison governors too apparently. The Strangeways takeover by the prisoners was in the best interests of the screws and prisoners alike.

" Collars down hands out ur pockets & keep to the left "

Fill it up with illegal immigrants, places like this is where they should come not in a 4 star bloody hotel etc

@richardthompson6115

Жыл бұрын

Agree and throw away the key

3 to a cell fk that. Jails are hotels now.

It was almost like a punishment wasn't it?

Only three to a cell? Luxury. When I were banged up, there were 15 of us, with just one bread roll to share each week.

@Sweet.G

2 ай бұрын

Eye trying telling that to the young folk

That place was due a riot long time ago shocking

The more things change the more they stay the same

Not much has changed I was in belmarsh for 3 weeks 2011 that’s not a Victorian jail but it’s just as dirty with 23hr bang up most days.. And the start of the second week there wasn’t any shower gel to wash !

Three in a cell? Think of all the submariners stuffed into uboats during WWII!

3 up..Was bad enough when it was 2 up. 23 hour bang up in Brixton. 3 up.. jesus.

@LadyCleo1

14 күн бұрын

You did tge crime. Do the time. Lol

well now there is over 80.000 locked up today

2024 if the public knew what went on in there now the shit would hit the fan .

@LadyCleo1

14 күн бұрын

Holiday czmp

If I was inside and put on Greenhouse duties I’d throw myself over the bannister🤫

Punishment was the still the norm not rehabilitation.

I haven't slopped out for 20 years but I will NEVER forget that smell...

@myerbarry9912

Жыл бұрын

Prob be a bit more than 20 year!

@beakofthesouth2666

Жыл бұрын

@@myerbarry9912 ..No sir, we were still slopping out in Dartmoor '02..

@myerbarry9912

Жыл бұрын

@@beakofthesouth2666 😯

@beakofthesouth2666

Жыл бұрын

@@myerbarry9912 ...if you look up the Dartmoor riot of 2002 it was actually myself and 9 other good lads that finally snapped and that was what changed conditions on the 'moor...ended slop out, got tv's & kettles in cells....we all got extra bird for it ( and a few digs) but it was worth it ...

@ThePacko69

Жыл бұрын

Same, the smell was enough to turn ya gums 😂

Cor I remember the education welfare officer of Bromley council showing me this at the Chislehurst offices, he also gave me the speech seen in Made in Britain (police and social work casefiles of mine used in writing through me mother lol) and he predicted if I didn't buckle down I would be banged up... well '81 he came good on his promise and I entered into the secure unit merry go round before them finding me a place I couldn't escape from, where the screws were hard bastards who just loved fighting and you were transported like Russian prisoners trussed with handcuffs everywhere... 2 years in that hellhole before migrating to the attached open houses, 3 years but it did keep me on the straight check out Every Mother's Son - Channel 4 20/20 Vision Jan 1984... that was me hehehe Me mum was the journalist some of the old lags might have good cause to remember as she did outreach work for her newspaper working with the lifers in secure prisons, she even put in a very good word for John McVicar to get his job at the Mirror, had lunch with him once with me mum hoping for him to scare me straight but I was on my own runaway train to hell and even a hard man like John wasn't going to stop that train.

people seemed thicker and slower back then ... awful !

Civil prisoners get say 3mth and still must pay for debts 😐

Pooping in a bucket. Holy crap

@sarahwarden5574

Жыл бұрын

Many shat in newspaper, shirt, piece of a sheet or whatever could be utilised, and threw it out of the window, as I did. Many is the time that one had whistled threw the air during exercise, landing in the circles.

@CARLIN4737

Жыл бұрын

wrapped in newspaper. packet, throw it out the window.

23.30 😂

Not a foreigner in sight, crazy!

2024 what has changed apart from now having inexperinced prison staff prisoner still on 23 hour lock down

SOME BRUTAL SCREWS IN THERE BUT ALSO SOME WHO RALLY GAV A SHIT

This is how our current Tory government would treat people today if they thought they could get away with it.

@cooksteve8428

Жыл бұрын

This is how the Tories do treat people, and most can not see it.

@garethjones8047

Жыл бұрын

You mean instead of giving them the holiday camps they get now?

@goodie8567

3 ай бұрын

Hope so

40 years ago. Barlinne had slopping out. Slashing. But for a reason. But even 20 years ago . It was a doddle. Sky TV. Recreation. But you knew what to expect. Same as this place. Plus you could smoke tobacco.

Even the criminals seem like nicer people back then - You would think bit by bit the country/world would improve but it just gets worse - I guess it must have peaked at some point maybe in the 50s just before my time

norman brown .and his screws wer b..........s...

@galaxion62

Жыл бұрын

Yes.... kin square specs had his bunch of henchmen who ran their own little 'firm' in there... especially the ones that worked down the block on D wing!.

I bet they had a shock when they relize its not like that comedy program Porridge,,,, eh where the mr braclough guy

Don't do the crime. Dont go to prison! Simple

The human factory.

Bad news

Terry was always jealous of his brother James…..

All seem decent enough guys - Some of the officers seem more unlikable than any of the criminals we have been showed - Kinda ironic

Nothing really changed however. If you’ve committed a crime do you still have the right you’ve deprived others of? It’s punishment isn’t it?

There's still no socks in the ways and one time in the showers someone nicked my boxers ahaha no shit its a desperate joint strangeways

28 days in the block at strangeways i was 16 lucky to be back on the wing alive terrible place ✌️💚😈

if you cant do the time, then dont do the crime

Proper bird!!!!!

Name and number 😂 I’m the daddy