Prisoner: Cell Block H - Episode 150

[@burbercat3558]

I'm quite convinced the officers are playing a daily game where the winner is whoever says "we're so short staffed" first.

[@stuartpatto1976]

So much for the "no lagging " policy Doreen's just lagged on them all.

[@Kblog777]

They let her get away with it too. If it had been anyone else, at best they would have been sent to Coventry and at worst, Bea would have battered them senseless.

[@ajs41]

I live 20 miles from Coventry but people still use that phrase here. What I've always wanted to know is whether people in Coventry itself use the phrase. Do Australians still use it today? I have a feeling they probably don't.

[@bernadettelamb54]

@@Kblog777 It's what makes her character all the more irritating as there's only a very few characters that give her a slap and it's always when Bea is away or sick. It's ridiculous how Bea coddles her, we need an unbiased top dog.

[@sheriheffner2098]

They should have cut out her tongue. Or her vocal cords. Or even both.

[@karennicholls8532]

Okay, what's wrong with the place? Does nobody speak to anyone who lives there? I only know about it from TV shows. Unless you watched Prisoner or older English shows on TV, nobody in Australia would know the expression.

[@Realpoweronearth]

Why didn't the steam press win an award ? It played it's part perfectly until now !!!

[@charlottewebb582]

It lost out on an award as Erica's hair kept winning

[@rkgaustin]

I hope that press is in the Australian version of the Smithsonian!

[@KayWoods64]

Somebody PLEASE shut Doreen's head in the steam press!

[@elainetaylor7199]

Kay Woods ii

[@michelleevans4948]

Best comment I’ve read so far 😂🤣she gets on my last nerve

[@rickylee369]

Doreen is apparently psychologically disturbed by her miscarriage... so they move her to the maternity wing... that'll help!

[@David315842]

08:08 Lizzie says 'bullshit' WOW! :D

[@queeng5925]

David315842 ... u should hear the gaffes... they say a LOT worse than that more times than u can count... theyre toning it down fer the show lol xxx

[@tylerjohnson5606]

I love it. Only because i said the exact same thing

[@tefllife2024]

And she says flesh instead of Fletch.

[@sheriheffner2098]

I'd rather hear that than Judy screaming G*^@×+=t! anytime. I hate that word more than anything.

[@glennphillips843]

Yeah think that's the first time a swear word was used

[@amykjorlien326]

Vera- "oh" Davo-"Oh indeed"

[@bernadettelamb54]

Doreens only thinking about herself as per usual. Then running out crying expecting for everyone to run after her. Pathetic.

[@leozam]

The (platonic) chemistry between Vera and Fletch is maturing nicely.

[@marycalmeiro1135]

Like siblings😅

[@rpatricknabors]

I think the interior decorator Fletch is chasing shows up again as a nun who gets put in prison.

[@stephenpovey-jones6520]

Patrick Nabors Your right.

[@karennicholls8532]

Yes, but can't remember her name.

[@vanishingpoint2658]

Yes Sister Anita Selby (Diane Craig)

[@quailqueen1833]

I thought she looked familiar but it’s been years since I first watched this show originally, I was expecting something to maybe happen where she ends up inside but knowing how often they recycle actors I’m not surprised to hear she plays a different character later on!

[@Priority76]

Fletch having a cheeky beer on his lunch break!

[@baronmeduse]

Absurd sentence. Karen Travers attacked her husband and gets a suspended sentence, Lizzie gets attacked and (officially) defends herself and gets 5 years??

[@rkgaustin]

Karen was a first time offender. Lizzie has shown she is a recidivist and loves being in prison so why not give her a good long stay?

[@baronmeduse]

@@rkgaustin Probably because she was wrongly convicted originally and wrongly served 20 years?

[@charlottewebb582]

Bea; come on dor why did you do it Dor;I was scared Lizzie :bullshit!!!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@MeathookCinema]

Loving the fact that Davo has Encyclopedia Britannia on her shelves

[@ajs41]

Yes that's interesting. Shows what en educated person she was.

[@sadiestoltzfus9798]

A good idea would be to let the woman read them.

[@darrellclark2299]

Doreen needs to quit being a baby !

[@qu33nnitr0s9]

the woman in the hospital bed next to meg was Ros Coulson's mums friend who ran the brothel.

[@Reikiman]

And that spiteful matron in the children's home where Chrissie's 'Elizabeff' spent some time...

[@Sensabaugh]

Ros Coulson's mums friend?

[@sharknewswires3104]

different actress.

[@lamontbradford4630]

The lady who shared a hospital room with Meg ran a brothel but she wasn't a friend of Roz mother. She ran the brothel where Jude set up Jock.

[@sean5990]

Another re-cast then. There must have been a shortage of actors in the early 80's.

[@Summer21.]

Vera telling Judy to watch her language even though she didn't swear at Vera for Bea to then say, "Alright then, bugger the machine. See if I care." 😄😃

[@johnpaul1610]

Lol lizzie "bull shit" Lmfao love it !!

[@psb1969]

LOL...I noticed too

[@lisaann3063]

Erica always looks nice but when she wears dark blue she is stunning!

[@michelleevans4948]

I think she’s a very attractive lady

[@quailqueen1833]

She really is a classical beauty and I absolutely love the little gap between her teeth

[@ThunderTech-99]

I can't believe Bea forgot the name of the steam press fixer, his name was Ken.. not likely bea would forget that name

[@prisonerofthenight3575]

@ 7:35 "Just when I thought I'd done a fairly good job of convincing Flesh and Davo!" Well, he's only Fletch and blood after all.

[@tracylangsley4064]

@prisonerofthenight I'm on my 4th time binge watching this and this is the first time after reading your comment I caught Lizzie's slip up😂😂 brilliant

[@sperrin]

Oh they have a staff shortage...again.

[@Summer21.]

Steve Perrin Sadly, they have a staff shortage throughout the whole series. 😃

[@MarzieMalfoy]

Baldwin: I’d like to see Birdsworth.. Lizzy, I believe she’s called. Vera: Among other things. Me: What else is she called, Vera?

[@karennicholls8532]

Not as many nasty things as I imagine Vera would be called.

[@Kblog777]

I think Vera is nice to Lizzy cos she empathizes with her regarding being set in her ways. Watching it now in retrospect, it amuses it when they bitch about Vera. If they knew who was to follow in her footsteps, they'd be kissing the ground she walks on.

[@k8lynmae]

Kblogg 777 Fiona Spence and Sheila Florance were really close friends in real life.

[@nette9705]

Doreen needs the BEAT DOWN.....

[@jazhoney8519]

A Harvey tell me about it

[@karenbussell9839]

The main problem with Doreen is, she doesn't think before she acts.. Why is it that every time Vera visits Meg, Bob turns up?

[@arlaabrell8658]

Because Bob is basically an arrogant won't take no for an answer belligerent (in a "nice" way) stalker. I find him repugnant in every way.

[@kevintraynor4508]

Don't understand Veras atitude towards Jim. The poor guy lost his kids he deserves a break and some social time

[@bernadettelamb54]

Bea is so biased when it comes to characters like Doreen lagging and breaking their rules. Anyone else would get bashed. An unbiased top dog is needed. Also Doreen will never grow up if she's continuously coddled and never has to face up to her actions.

[@erickaleeane3384]

So, it appears to be okay to attack someone that is trying to shut down your illegal operations. Don't dare try to defend yourself, so long as you are getting on the monster's nerves, prior to that attack. In what world does that make sense?

[@siuze12ft]

You're right. It makes no sense

[@rpatricknabors]

that guard should not be in the interview room when Lizzie is talking with her attorney.

[@sharknewswires3104]

they can be there.. but the attorney can request the guard leave

[@paulbrown6464]

Matthew James Fletcher! That was a surprise

[@WolvesofWilloughbyChase]

I was just thinking the same. How have I watched this twice through and not known that.

[@ishmaelboylebodie6917]

150 episodes, no wonder I am itching all over

[@AlanMclay]

Poor Lizzie, 5 bloody years. Great to see the back of Doreen though, have a feeling she'll be back in the future !

[@sharknewswires3104]

was that the same judge that lizzie sunk his memoirs into the toilet bowl or something lol

[@apkitching387]

Dor like The Terminator 'She'll be back'😅

[@robertboyle2573]

The actress Diane Craig who plays Jim's new girlfriend is very easy on the eye, I always remember her as Mick Jagger's sister in the film Ned Kelly.

[@sheriheffner2098]

I think she looks better as this character than the nun later on.

[@biddendensue]

It was ceramic - you could tell that when it smashed. I've never seen anything like that. A China electric kettle just doesn't figure to me. But that's what it was.

[@susi-emily]

I know, they're weird things aren't they?

[@GusMcGuire]

33:04 - Blimey! Jim's new girlfriend, Sarah, seems to live in Acorn Antiques (yet another place with no ceilings). I do hope she doesn't end up in Wentworth. And that judge's ruling made no sense. How can he rule that Lizzie should get a heavier sentence for provoking Kay White? Firstly, there's no evidence apart from Lizzie's testimony. With Kay White dead, it is impossible to prove that Lizzie was the only one who provoked her. Secondly, Lizzie was acting to stop Kay White running a book in prison. Since that's an illegal activity, the judge is effectively punishing Lizzie for trying to stop an illegal act.

[@8ballpoolking1]

Doreen was rather silly to go confessing the truth like that, but Erica could have shown more gratitude and appreciation to her for opting to tell the truth, even if it was belatedly. For Erica to show such ignorance and disrespect up to the point where she would interrupt her and not allow her to finish what she was saying was just unprofessional and very rude. So much for honesty being the best policy. Transferring Doreen to maternity was not the worst thing she could have done though because she likes kids and the change of scenery may do her some good. Poor Lizzie, five years is ridiculous and that judge is a complete swine! How Linda could witness that and live with herself is just beyond me.

[@queeng5925]

8ball... remember its wot Lizzie wanted and she did save her life!!! id stay in fer someone who did that too... normally in prison ppl just walk past while other ppl get bashed or next thing u got 5 or 6 ppl turnin up at ur cell to give u a floggin too!!! u gotta b cold in prison... trust me... i done 3 years for GBH xxx

[@sidj6745]

And this is why no one wants to tell Davidson anything..good grief she makes me sick. Once u tell her the truth all she does is threaten them and punish them.

[@grumbleb14207]

‘Vit a min C’.

[@tuxedocat3020]

When Vera is at work I don't like her but when she's at home I do like her, lol

[@apkitching387]

Jim using the "Boss Cocky" phrase at 28:10 🤣 I heard 'Abo' Graham Henry use that on Gangs of Oz once too.😅

[@Halfscotboy_39]

38:30 why did julian put on a lancashire accent😂😂😂 sounds like someone off coronation street. Is julian gay? He could be hiding his TRUE identity from his "wife".

[@rosslamb7069]

That woman in the hospital must go to the same hairdressers as Meg does

[@535657]

The Hollywood George Lucas was in his mid 30s when this came out. This episode is from 1980, the same year the second Star Wars film was released.

[@arlaabrell8658]

Personally, I don't know why so much fuss was made over Kay White, not much worse than killing a cockroach really.

[@TheHighPriestessStudio]

The only thing I find annoying in the episodes are the loud gulping sounds whenever they drink anything aaaarrgh!!

[@rpatricknabors]

The High Priestess. That's only slightly better than hearing them chomp and chew on things.

[@TheHighPriestessStudio]

Patrick Nabors even that erks me but not as much as the gulps :D

[@wingysmissus]

The High Priestess both of those irk me....thank the gods there's no kissing! Or at least very little in the whole series!!! Hate that suck-face slurping! Gah!

[@mioufie23]

Jim the builder, can he fix it?

[@nickprince9881]

Yes he can. Lol

[@apkitching387]

He's no Oz, Dennis and Neville now is he! 😅 👍

[@lauraaa1985]

If they're short-staffed ALL of the time, you'd think someone would come up with the bright idea of hiring more workers!

[@djdelight_musik7181]

The verdict makes no sense at all! - How can you give a bigger sentence due to the fact that Kay was provoked ?1?! She shouldn't have been running an illegal book in the first place

[@queeng5925]

DJ ... exactly and it wouldnt happen irl... she was killing an old woman with a heart condition ffs xxx

[@sb6678]

I’m not surprised that the judge gave Lizzie that sentence; after all, she did flush his manuscript down the dunny.

[@chris.c9885]

Lizzie saying to Mrs Davidson in her office ''Look Mrs Davidson, I think Doreen's lost her marbles'' I don't think Doreen had any to lose !! In the background was Officer 'mute' Barfield again. She's never said anything. She would get on well with Sally in reception !! Erica still has that awful vase on top of her filing drawers

[@ajs41]

It was normal in those days for people to do a job and keep their mouth shut unless there was a good reason to say anything. People today don't realise that. Another example: they think they have a right to be on their smartphones all the time, even at work.

[@charlottewebb582]

Bea said a couple of episodes ago that what she liked about barfield was she cud never get a word in edgeways a little nod there from the writers 🤣🤣😂

[@stevenmcghee6649]

Given what ultimately befell him, Doreen's teddy may feel he would have been better bowing out at the end of this episode.

[@Jamesjamsi]

... dunno why but every time I see Lizzie dressed up, I can't stop thinking of Hinge & Brackett...

[@simonsaysrewind]

Looks like Meg hospital scene is also the officers canteen lockers area and prisoners recreation area. 😁

[@michelleevans4948]

Yeah they did use same room, just shuffled furniture about. And there were only two cells aswell

[@queeng5925]

4:56 i keep noticin that pic of the naked man on the bulletin board... tis it fletch???

[@sharknewswires3104]

lol u reminded me of the time doreen drew the naked sketch of fletch and the female prison officer (cant remmeber her name )

[@childrensorg856]

@@sharknewswires3104 lol. Janet Conwey.

[@2589hbradley]

8:08 hahaha lizzie omfg u r a treasure to the show

[@MeathookCinema]

Linda Jones looks like she's actually washed her hair in this episode. Prison issue shampoo must be dreadful.

[@Halfscotboy_39]

You must need glasses! Her hair looked very thin and greazy like it did in prison and when she got out and still dirty greazy here.

[@GeorgeEugeneBarrett]

@ 7:14 - Why aren’t they beating the living-shit out of Doreen for lagging? She is the most aggravating character on this show. Her motives are always absurdly childish. Bea is the biggest hypocrite on this show for not thumping Doreen AND sending her to coventry.

[@leozam]

Admiring the lovely Wendy. I googled and discovered that she's now a well known opera singer. No mention of PCBH in her bios though!

[@zanniroc]

jim fletcher, tsk tsk, finally meets one on the up & up and digs a great big hole for himself hahahaha :P

[@samisticlife]

How things have changed now you can't take flowers into hospital (or at least you can't in the UK)

[@rreally7108]

lizzie birdsworth among outher things lizzys the best thing since sliced bread and more I love lizzie use to cry for her when I was young my brother cried for lassie but I loved lizzie

[@rreally7108]

I wasn't allowed to watch it back then but persisstance paid off .yay!

[@sheriheffner2098]

I cried for Lassie too. And Lizzie too. Especially when Edie died.

[@giovanni1965]

five years wtf!! Poor Lizzy should never been charged to begin with

[@rainbowandin2205]

Mouse should have had a bigger part in total in this show.

[@virginiaguiney1644]

Poor old Lizzie.xx

[@marycalmeiro1135]

I'm surprised no one is given training, for operating the press. Just assigned to who ever. It's obvious that the press is a dangerous piece of equipment. Inservice classes should be given. Safeguards should be in place. So no one will accidentally put their hands in it. Only one person should be operating the press at a time

[@loric4550]

Fletch's is gonna get burned by all those lies

[@quailqueen1833]

He should have come clean on their lunch date and explained why he lied

[@apkitching387]

Vera on the press is hilarious 25:24 😂 get her a denim uniform 😅

[@gazdublin]

Did Anyone see Jim Fletcher (Gerard Maguire) naked picture pose on the Recreation Room wall at 04.52?

[@glennphillips843]

Wow well spotted It is him Wonder how much he got paid to do that 🤔

[@stevenmcghee6649]

Matthew James Fletcher? I'd quite forgotten he preferred his middle name. Like James Paul McCartney does.

[@Quinn91202]

Doreen's attitude is awful but her hair looks great

[@evagabor5]

wow....they let lizzie say 'bull shit'!

[@ajs41]

Australians have always been more relaxed about using words like that.

[@sb6678]

So what, Americans say it all the time and far worse

[@expandingthemind5174]

Oh lord, Doreen. Why did you lag?

[@goodboysic]

You kind of knew Lizzie was screwed because she is up in front of the same judge whose manuscript she flushed down the bog.

[@robertjeffries6217]

Super fantastic drama

[@ajs41]

True. I'm addicted.

[@doitlikethebereans1690]

Oh my, that is an unfortunate ending. And I look forward to Fletch getting caught in the lies he told. I'm sick of his character on this show.

[@tamlynn786]

Meg and Vera should have let Doreen jump. She’s insufferable!

[@vanishingpoint2658]

I'm sure that the lady sharing Meg's hospital ward is Billie Hammerberg.🤔

[@absoluteb22]

Fletch always had groupies, on & off set.

[@trickynicky4268]

Linda didn't have to hit Kay on the head! She could've hit her on the back. Poor Lizzie taking the rap. Hope Linda gets found out.

[@MissX905]

Well Lizzie said prison was her home....

[@arlaabrell8658]

BLOB??? A good catch???? Oh geez, the man is insufferable.

[@stephenpovey-jones6520]

20/12/19 - 3:59 - Vera's sneer! Reminds of how a cat smells! After a short period of smelling something, they open their mouth slightly to finally inhale and partly taste what they are smelling. Sort of gurning! 🐱!

[@vanishingpoint2658]

The flehman response whuch utilises theit organ of Jacobson.

[@Imjustlurkingidk]

i love how they are making out that vera is older then meg but meg is way older then vera

[@ajs41]

They haven't actually implied that Vera is older than Meg, have they?

[@Imjustlurkingidk]

yea they have i couldn't believe it myself because how vera said in another episode you can get men better then me im finished im hard and old before my time plus in this episode they black haired women called her a hard old spinster

[@ajs41]

In one of the next episodes Bea implies she's already 40 years old, although the actress was only 36 or 37.

[@sheriheffner2098]

@@ajs41 Val was born March 15,1943. She was 37. Fiona was born October 10,1948, she was still 31 here.

[@huanking4238]

So - the murder weapon was an electric jug. Made of plastic presumably? Killing someone with a plastic kettle, LOL> Erica, you can't handle the truth.

[@stevenmcghee6649]

It's bakelite

[@lamontbradford4630]

I thought Mr. Baldwin doesn’t take charity cases.

[@TheHighPriestessStudio]

Ugh if its one thing I can't stand its nosy people, I go in for surgery myself soon I hope I don't share a room with a sticky beak.

[@edwarddowds1014]

It the other patient the social worker from a few episodes back?

[@MamaGemini68]

At this point, Doreen is getting on my last nerves 😡

[@jamessneddon4606]

is that miss forster playing another part at 35.31, talking to meg????

[@lukedavis228]

google "ceramic kettle electric" ;-)

[@charlottewebb582]

Y wud bea get an additional amount of time added to her sentence for this kay drama she was in solitary at the time can hardly blame her this time

[@biddendensue]

5 years for manslaughter would be about right here in the UK. 20 to life would apply to murder, something completely different. (Bearing in mind that we, like the Aussies, don't have capital punishment.)

[@Kblog777]

They had capital punishment in certain Aussie states back then tho. Its part of a significant storyline and character in the not too distant future. Dunno if you've watched Prisoner before or not, so won't say anymore than that. :)

[@stephenpovey-jones6520]

Kblogg 777 I know who your talking about, she in my opinion was one of pcbh's nastiest characters. I think she's a great character in the show though.

[@ajs41]

Yes but no-one has been executed since 1967.

[@apkitching387]

​@Kblog777 Wasn't the infamous Nola McKenzie's back story was she had a "death sentence in WA" hanging over her so "killed one of the clowns in here" to get a life sentence in Victoria. 😮 Mind you capital punishment had been scraped right across Australia by then! 😉 Looking forward to seeing Nola's trail of mayhem fairly soon. 👍

[@lukedavis228]

Nearly, but only if he's wearing a wig in the photo! ;-)

[@charleslaing148]

Was Kay wearing the same cardigan she wore inside?

[@katiemarieparker]

No worries "Sarah " will be joining the gang soon

[@frankbrodie5168]

I mean, I love this show. I'm on my 5th time through here in late 2022. But the plots definitely exist in some strange parallel dimension of morality. It's no wonder we other worlders refer to Australia as 'Upsidedownland' lol. Any time an inmate has a rush of blood to the head and starts telling the truth, they are reviled as akin to the spawn of satan. Then they constantly all wonder what on earth they could possibly have done wrong to deserve being in prison? er... because none of you knows right from wrong it would appear?

[@ngdukic]

Another dreary bloody Fletcher romance! Boooring!

[@Stesiaanna7]

Skip skip.. He's a bore

[@sheriheffner2098]

I love Jim. And he's much happier with a lady friend.

[@pamelacook4896]

Doreen big baby

[@BrianFeral1]

poor Teddy