"Virtual" (sic) prison, where the inmates are kept locked in drawers on large amounts of a psychoactive drug that puts them into a permanent, pleasant dreamlike state. Strangeways was the name of the "prison cat" in the 1960 movie Two-Way Stretch, a comedy set inside a fictitious Manchester Prison which starred Peter Sellers, Lionel Jefferies and Wilfrid Hyde-White. In an episode of Hancock's Half Hour, Bill Kerr defends Sid James's character with the words - "He's not a criminal - he's just got strange ways." In the Welsh sitcom High Hopes, Richard 'Fagin' Hepplewhite served eight years in Strangeways for second degree murder. See also Listed buildings in Manchester-M60 References Bibliography External links Capital punishments executed at Strangeways, Manchester in the 20th century Ministry of Justice pages on Manchester Government buildings completed in 1869 Infrastructure completed in 1869 Category A prisons in England Prisons in Greater Manchester 1869 establishments in England Grade II listed buildings in Manchester Alfred Waterhouse buildings Execution sites in England