and was the last of the series of productions Kennedy Miller made for Network Ten. Also one of the last mini-series that attracted a large viewing audience, before the demise of the mini-series boom of the 1980s Later productions with similar stories include Return to Paradise and Brokedown Palace. After the series aired, the name Bangkok Hilton has regularly been used in the media to refer to any and all Bangkok prisons as if those prisons were actually nicknamed Bangkok Hilton in real life. Some news reports state that the Lard Yao women's prison carries the nickname Bangkok Hilton A 2004 BBC documentary about Bangkwang prison - a male only prison - was titled "The Real Bangkok Hilton". Some news reports have claimed that Bangkwang prison itself carries the real-life nickname "Bangkok Hilton". Versions The miniseries was originally broadcast in Australia on 10 TV Australia as three episodes on 5, 6 and 7 November 1989, each running two hours with adverts, for a complete running time of four-and-a-half hours. This version was also broadcast in the US on TBS in October 1990 with a few minor edits of seconds at a time for content and language. In 2000 it was released on DVD in the United Kingdom. Each episode was cut in half, creating six new episodes with three episodes on each of two discs. This version mistakenly left the subtitles off an important scene which is spoken in the Thai language. The bootleg version, commonly available from Russia and other countries, cuts the series down to ninety minutes, only a third of its original length. The DVD version released in Australia in 2005 presents the series in the original three parts, but has been cropped for widescreen televisions, from 1.33:1 to 1.78:1, cutting off the top and bottom of the film. Because of this, the opening and closing credits had to be redone and the final shot of the film, which played under the closing credits of episode 3, has thus been omitted. Cast Nicole Kidman as Katrina "Kat" Stanton Denholm Elliott as Harold "Hal" Stanton Hugo Weaving as Richard Carlisle Jerome Ehlers as Arkie Ragan Joy Smithers as Mandy Engels Judy Morris as Catherine Faulkner Norman Kaye as George McNair Noah Taylor as Billy Engels Gerda Nicolson as Lady Faulkner Pauline Chan as Pretty Warden Lewis Fiander as James Stanton Ric Carter as Detective King Tan Chandraviroj as