Prisoner: Cell Block H - Episode 228

[@rosiew1952]

loved it when Lizzie said to that nosey witch" we are from the lunatic asylum and we are fixing up this place for the other nuts " 🤣🤣

[@natvan29]

So did I but did anyone notice the mistake with Jim when she said she told his folks she would watch him here the thing that Jim should have thought of when did she Meet his parents if she in jail and at the house with them

[@GeorgeEugeneBarrett]

@ 11:45 - Lizzie: “We’re a bunch of loonies!” LOL.

[@sheriheffner2098]

"We're from the lunatic asylum!" 🤣🤣😂😂. I love Lizzie.

[@gemmabrennan9072]

paul robinson from neighbours appears again

[@martynduffy]

This is his 3rd appearance so far. He was involved in the O’Connell shoot out and a car thief.

[@qu33nnitr0s9]

Hilarious Powells fight with Andrea in the dinning room 😂

[@NativeMoon]

Cor Blimey - Po Face coming on to Fletch the Letch....!!! And Boreen perving over Peter. Strewth! Run Peter, Run!!! Andrea should get the press treatment followed by the dryer.

[@dozybitch36]

I'm a bit of a sadist but I would like to see Bea rearrange her face in the press... haha

[@josephd.2725]

So Paul Robinson's voice hasn't changed any in 40 years! lol

[@ewanodoherty2545]

Judith McGrath (Colleen Powell) passed away in 2017 RIP

[@sb6678]

I know, she was my favourite character

[@David-h4z2s]

She was great in Around The Twist Also Circa 1989📸

[@sean5990]

​@@David-h4z2sOMG! I forgot about that! Thanks so much for reminding me.

[@sb6678]

Have you ever, ever felt like this, when strange things happen are you going round the twist?

[@DavidScott-hj7fo]

Thought she passed away early 90s

[@stuarttaylorsctconstructio9983]

One minute Powell as hit her head on a kerb, then the next scene it was just tarmac

[@prisonerofthenight4144]

In the wake of Vera's departure they really made Powell's character a bit over the top. Vera never had to resort to physical violence to be effectively oppressive. Aside from the ever present inappropriate grin, the Powell character isn't really distinguished enough in terms of personality to play a central role as a replacement for Vera.

[@Kblog777]

She's a stopgap bad screw til the godmother of bad screws arrives in 60 episodes time lol.

[@ozlass7778]

Kblogg 777 Exactly what I was thinking. Powell is just a warm up to the Freak coming in and being the Megabitch. As Maggie played so damn well.

[@tefllife2024]

Vera was quite hard but had style, she had her hair nicely in a bun and presented well. Mrs Powell relies on hairclips to fix her hair constantly and has no style. She'll never be another Vera no matter how much she copies her.

[@djbethell]

Po-face had a habit of going from kind to viciously cruel pretty rapidly, long before Vera left, when she was union rep. She was particularly brutal to the teacher David Andrews, happily destroying his employment at the jail.

[@TallSilentGuy]

11:23 "Young fellamelad" LOL I haven't heard that expression used in a wee while.

[@bdchiaccio]

Pick it up, forklift. Just got that after 3 runs through.

[@GothicTrunk]

Love the scene with Colleen in the cafeteria with the new prisoner...I thought it was pretty brilliant

[@prisonerofthenight4144]

Powell is only flirting with Fletch because it was he who caught her beating on the new prisoner Hennesy. Powell is attempting to manipulate the situation by softening Fletch up through flattery, so as to escape the consequences of her actions. This is quite a drastic shift in character for Powell of late--in just a few episodes she is transformed from a strictly by the book union representative to the bride of Frankenstein.

[@myniece11]

Yeah. Yet she was the one who had just turned down being blackmailed and bribed herself by Erica, and now she's doing the same kind of thing to Jim.

[@flumpaustin1994]

Goh, so glad you're around. Otherwise we wouldn't know what was going on.

[@stevenmcghee6649]

Andrea Hennessy - The Ego Has Landed! Looking forward to Bea rearranging her face in the press.

[@8ballpoolking1]

Colleen is proving just how much she cannot handle being promoted. First she overreacts with Alison and now she has a go at Andrea like that when all she needed to do was take her to the governor. Vera had her faults but she would have remained in control of the situation and got it sorted out in a more appropriate way than that. Colleen can butter up Jim all she wants to keep him on side, but I'd still report her if I were him. If only these first timers of reasonable intellectual ability could only see when they first arrive how important it is to get on the right side of Bea. They just make it more difficult for themselves than need be by going against her.

[@tefllife2024]

Colleen could channel her energies into reading the gazette, getting on the typewriter and applying for positions but really, she is acting quite immature.

[@dillongstaff5625]

Hennessy - PCBH script writers know how to make a new character mega-obnoxious within just a few lines of dialogue! It worked with Alison Paige in no time! Joyce Barry and her glasses...How did she wear them without all the others laughing at her?

[@daviddemarco8327]

Andrea: "I could've burned to death in that shower." Um, no....you could've just stepped out of it.

[@bernadettelamb54]

Exactly and you'd just think that the shower is faulty?? You wouldn't get scared lol.

[@karennicholls2296]

Don't go being logical. You'll spoil everything.

[@marycalmeiro1135]

The water was scolding hot. Why wouldn't you leave the shower? No one was holding her down. This is someone who claims to be so intelligent.

[@chris.c9885]

'Po' face coming on to Jim, I thought she was married. Jim and 'Po' wouldn't work. Next in line, Tinky- Winky, Dipsy and Laa Laa !!

[@rosiew1952]

🤣

[@marycalmeiro1135]

Po face is miserable for a reason. Nothing worse than a screw in heat.

[@burbercat3558]

Holy crap are they eating sausages and mash!!! I frickin love Sossy's and mash. The food ain't that bad in Wentworth.

[@ozlass7778]

simon ginsberg Bangers and mash with gravy mmmmmmm 🖒

[@cuccicucci4480]

Well sausages are the cheapest dinner meat you can buy :) I buy the Italian homemade from an Italian grocery in Little Italy. Tasty and delish and cheap. I stock up, my freezer is happy. lol

[@David-h4z2s]

UK Supermarket Do Great Bangers.❤

[@andrewmorrice9139]

Mrs Powell did nothing to provoke that crowd as far as I saw. She just wanted to go for lunch!

[@GeorgeEugeneBarrett]

That’s how liberals see it. Trying to go about your business instead of being held hostage by irate protestors is considered “provocation.” Same thing today with the pro-Hamas supporters at universities.

[@Andy.Something.]

Isn't it crazy how the violent far left mobs haven't changed til this day.

[@Dax893]

Peter Richards? Don't you mean Paul Robinson? Also known as Spike, Your Honour.

[@1981Galadriel]

I really wanted Bea to follow through on the threat to put Andrea's face through the press. Half the time, I actually find myself feeling sorry for the prisoners and screws Bea and Co. go after. It's been fun to completely loath one for once and enjoy their antics fully!

[@AlanMclay]

Yuk, Coleen making a pass at Fletch. Whatever next ?

[@sean5990]

As if a good looking man like Fletch would go for dog like her. 😝

[@laurenbrooks3091]

*0:14* Erica: "Oh, I do." You take charge, Davo!

[@tefllife2024]

I loved that, she sure put Powell in her place!

[@doitlikethebereans1690]

At 7:19, I'm pretty sure I saw Noelene Burke's daughter (the one who's supposed to be dead) in the crowd... And is Fletch _really_ that thick to not see that Colleen more than likely has an ulterior motive? Not only that, but isn't Colleen married and have kids?? Oh, and, for the record, some of Colleen's facial expression really freak me out.

[@rosiew1952]

I watched that scene a few times in slow motion and paused it, but its not leanne burke

[@stuarttaylorsctconstructio9983]

The lad in the loft was in an episode way back on a motorbike then went onto to star in neighbours

[@huanking4238]

Weird.; there's a parallel series of Prisoner on youtube, with different comments and viewing numbers, i got onto it by accident and it was really hard to find my way back to this one.

[@MATTYHOUGH100]

Meg handles our new looney tune brilliantly!

[@pauliejay4161]

"Freedom now! Freedom now!" - go and get a haircut.

[@TomboyVale]

11:46 this never get old, it always makes me laugh when i see that part with lizzie 🤣🤣

[@karennicholls2296]

Out of all the characters on both sides of the bars in Prisoner, if I met that Andrea in real life, I'd have to beat the crap out of her.

[@KayWoods64]

Don't do it, Jim!

[@dillongstaff5625]

Lizzy and Peter nattering at full volume when they can be caught anytime...silly...and more of that nosey old bag next door...what a Dilliant bit of casting!

[@mariaabundantliving6965]

When I first viewed this episode in the 80's I remember how my bf and I howled with laughter, comparing Riki's sweater to the afghan on the back of my mom's sofa! Glad grandma kept that pattern to blankets. Shudder!

[@elainegoad9777]

Protestors are only protesting the people working for government prison system not the lawmakers who make the laws.

[@mcguire202]

Role on Episode 287 -- when we all meet Joan Ferguson ( The Freak). Soon as Maggie Kirkpatrick joined the she show. The show actually improved a lot. I loved the fights with Bea & Joan. They had to be the strongest characters & Actresses on this show - full stop.

[@natvan29]

The show sucked when Joan joined became to much about her the only time I felt bad for Joan was when that bitch had her dog killed

[@ellenoniell8093]

I hope so, I really hope it stays good🤞 wasn't ready for vera leaving and I'm not sure I'm ready for the freak can't really remember much about her it's over 30 years since I last watched this.

[@angieparry3010]

@@ellenoniell809340 years for me lol! 😮🙈

[@bernadettelamb54]

So we lose Alison to get Andrea 'she tried to kill me' Hennesy.

[@tefllife2024]

I wish Thelma Reid ended up in Wentworth, that would've been more interesting, police find out she has double pension cheques, her and her dead husbands. Some story line like that would've been good.

[@David-h4z2s]

Love Paul Robinson's Coat 🌞

[@shirleysmitten1074]

There's a fella up in the roof. Mouse is going to go get him! I don't gave a dang what you think. Oh, Ms. Powell, the strong language is a no no! We're a bunch of lunatics! Lunatic fringe, Lizzie! That new prisoner is a spoiled brat. I hope she gets hers. This table will do. Noone is here. Got that one right, Bea! Wow! The rec room looks like the ghetto! I like the dirty bucket of water joke. Trouble's brewing in the shower. That woman sounds very paranoid! Colleen making a pass at Jim. Yuck!

[@andrewmorrice9139]

That Andrea sure has a high opinion of herself Ah tell yew hwat.

[@Kblog777]

Andrea makes me think of Rick from the Young Ones. A 80s version of a politically inclined hipster student/wannabe anarchist. She spouts crap about justice,freedom and equality yet looks down her nose at those she considers inferior, a typical champagne socialist. For all her talk about changing the world, she'll be working in the city in a few years just like the rest of the 80s yuppies. I've met plenty of her sort before.

[@ozlass7778]

Kblogg 777 The difference between Andrea from Prisoner and Rik from the Young Ones, is Rik wasn't a violent person. And I highly doubt that Andrea would listen to Cliff Richard either heheheee

[@MrMogwali1]

Very good observation Kblogg. Though Rik was much funnier and better looking than Andrea. Andrea looks like the back end of a bus.

[@tefllife2024]

You're so spot on, I've come across so many of them.

[@davymania700]

@@MrMogwali1 I saw the number 27 today, I knew it looked familiar

[@David-h4z2s]

So True Middle Class Greenies Are So Dull

[@PrisonerCellBlockH95]

Yeah, I think you're talking about PrisonerArchives. We began uploading the series around the same time just over a year ago now, I'm not sure if he's finished uploading them all yet.

[@CrispinSlitt]

That end scene was so funny. Lucky Jim!

[@boohoo8649]

Isn't the attendance centre that the prisoner's are doing up the same place they used for the halfway house and Monica Ferguson's house?

[@jtpinnyc]

"Well who the hell's this?"-- I believe it's Stefan "Don't It Make You Feel Good" Dennis

[@DianaSheward]

😂🤣😜🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊

[@LUCAX651]

7:12 onwards - continuity error, why is Colleen Powell wearing three deputy governor pips???.

[@SHINBET666]

Well spotted my darling ❤

[@GothicTrunk]

"she needs to diet" lmao

[@jiggarypokery]

You would be called a 'Fat Shamer' and be accused of committing a 'hate crime' these days If you dare suggest somebody needs to diet, that's how pathetic things have got since 1981.

[@ozlass7778]

jiggarypokery Hate crime? BAHAHAHAHAHAHA geez talk about over exaggerating the exaggeration of political correctness nowadays heheheee

[@Redsleather]

Colette Mann, Betty Bobbitt and Caroline Gillmer definitely need to… Val Lehman could lose a few pounds too

[@stevenhighams4190]

I think Colleen's very good at the nasty stuff, much more sinister than Vera and much less obvious than the Freak. And she chooses her targets well: who wouldn't want to bash Page and Hennessey? The way she went from nice to nasty, with that subsequent gradual mellowing out that was so gradual you barely noticed it, was an interesting character arc that Vera and the Freak never underwent. I always thought she was the best officer of the lot, in all phases.

[@kevintraynor4508]

I still think the freak takes some beating. I mean Ferguson was a psychopath wich made her more dangerous

[@mrmeerkat1096]

She's the most realistic officer of the lot also. Most of them, women officers in England at least are very much like Powell. Stern, alright for the most part, but cross them and they are coming after you and so are there colleagues.

[@jtpinnyc]

Colleen is clearly just trying to butter Jim up to persuade him to not write that report

[@natvan29]

And it's funny how when Alison hit her by accident she wanted to push charges but it's different when she goes to hit a prisoner then she doesn't want Jim to write her up

[@ChristalDawnn]

hate people like andrea always thinking they know better about tings they know nothing about and that they are the most important and everyone is out to sabotage them

[@tefllife2024]

They're all for their own freedom but don't care about anyone else's.

[@syedfaruque2020]

42:40 That sweater looks like my grandmother's afghan. Powell is a nut job

[@lampshade8818]

+Syed Faruque I was thinking it looks exactly like a shawl my mum has- knitted or crotcheted or something by some old relative of hers. :)

[@vanishingpoint2658]

Blimey! Who crocheted her woollly?!😂 42:43

[@daugherofaset8648]

I bet Hennessey is sorry she was protesting for the prisoners.

[@5T3-d3c]

Colleen did something RIGHT!

[@leozam]

I think the show's off the rails a bit here. Just shows you what a core character Vera was.

[@cuccicucci4480]

Yes you can feel the lack of trying to make it work. Their heart just isn't in the storylines. Like they gave up.

[@joannasams1963]

​@@cuccicucci4480🙄

[@DeeTeaDee]

4:29 Probably the funniest thing bryant has ever said 😂

[@MrSifter]

Paul Robinson has been hiding in the roof! 😮

[@UncleSpicey]

WOWZERS This episode is particularly dark Literally Had to turn me brightness up, so high It’s that damn workhouse Can hardly make out “Money Bags” Robinson 😂😂😂😂

[@jtpinnyc]

"I could have burned to death in that shower" -- bigger drama queen than Alison Paige

[@jtpinnyc]

What sort of cops would throw a violent suspect into the back of a police cruiser without handcuffing them first?

[@margarethughes4239]

Why has po face got 3 pips on her uniform as she,not deputy gov.

[@simosc2]

don't worry Peter...somebody will think to call Magnificent Meg to the rescue

[@lauraaa1985]

A shotgun? Not exactly peaceful protestors are they? 😂

[@Thecherkster]

The nosy neighbor needs to mind her business! I can’t believe she said “ don’t you think it’s time for you to tell me what you’re up to?” Um, NO go inside and mind your business

[@leozam]

Concur on Jim's grin. Bleugh.

[@stephanfraser5325]

@17:00 Indecent Language, how the heck can she be charged with that

[@melmazing3993]

Po-face is being a right cow, but she does have purty eyes!

[@Aveatquevale-w6m]

Lizzie singing is brilliant😂😂😂

[@huanking4238]

I could have burned to death in that shower- if I'd stayed under the water instead of stepping away from it.

[@samisticlife]

This episode has gone really dark again

[@ameliarobinson7664]

Peter Richards, the squatter, looks like a very young Paul Robinson from Neighbours

[@lampshade8818]

+Amelia Robinson That would be because he is. :) Stefan Dennis has already appeared in PCBH in at least two previous storylines as other characters.

[@nicolachadwick2055]

Amelia Robinson Stephanie Dennis has played at least 3 different characters on prisoner

[@David-h4z2s]

It's Steffen Dennis With His Funky 70s Coat.

[@DianaSheward]

​@@David-h4z2sFunky coat of many colours.Oh,no that was someone else 😜🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊

[@Summer21.]

Ricki is wearing a patchwork sweater lol. :op

[@sheriheffner2098]

Freedom Now! Freedom Now! OH SHUT UP!

[@andrealee1882]

43:42 that’s Tony Reid’s girlfriend quit dating drug users and bullies now she’s anarchist 😂 I wish there was a list of the actors and their multiple roles but it’s my favorite part of rewatching.

[@angieparry3010]

Knew I’d seen her before! But just couldn’t place which character she’d played!

[@huanking4238]

the comments are more entertaining here, so i'll stick with your version. : ) even if it isn't the same without Vera. :(

[@sheriheffner2098]

I think Colleen has went bonkers. Jim should have reported her for hitting Andrea, even though she needed her head steam pressed.

[@sb6678]

I thought the man in the roof was Paul Reid’s son Tony’s bikie friend?

[@Summer21.]

Yes, it’s the same actor.

[@Stesiaanna7]

Why do they put the younger women in with Judy?

[@leozam]

#Don't it make you feel good#

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

I don't acknowledge this lower class/middle class thing. We are all human, all equal. Class inequality is the cause of all the trouble in the world, not race or religion.

[@sidj6745]

Davo gives these inmates all kinds of opportunities and it's always the same 2ppl that screw it up for everyone else, Doreen and Lizzie. I wld never have them around me, they r nothing but trouble. I was thinking that if Sid wld have married Lizzie it would have been a disaster bc Lizzie is a stone cold drunk and that wld have become apparent very quickly. Honestly he dodged a bullet. Hate he had to pass though.

[@gquinn4159]

2nd appearance by an actress, who also appeared as Tony Reids pregent girlfriend for another guy. I feel it is very obivious Coleen was a stright away replacement at this stage for Vera. I don't like it as it was too soon after Vera's departure. However non the less, she is very good at playing the b**ch screw also. I love her stern face, but also I think she has an edge of Vera, where she is more tactifull using her feminity with confidances, flirting & charm like that. Something Vera lacked

[@tamlynn786]

Colleen going full Nazi in .02 seconds is a result of bad writing and over compensation for Vera being gone 😒 not feeling this Andrea character either or the guy in the attic. I’ll probably skip through a lot of this.

[@loric4550]

Powell and Fletch.... GROSS!

[@Redsleather]

They should have moisturised

[@stuartpatto1976]

Paul Robinson from Neigbours.

[@Stesiaanna7]

The lighting is back to normal

[@childrensorg856]

No meg, her sentence wasn't harsh! Andrea deserves that three months.

[@cathrinehalfpenny3835]

They haven't done much work on that house.

[@gquinn4159]

I actually stand corrected, I would consider the Page family to be working class then middle class. And I agree, we are all human and all equal regards of what kind of back ground and status bracket sociaity brands us with.

[@ozlass7778]

G quinn Are you implying that working class cannot be middle class? I believe that many working class folks are also middle class. It's the upper middle class that wouldn't be considered as working class.

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

@ Ozlass 777: In the expression 'working class', the operative word is 'working' because the other so called classes have never done an honest day's work in their bloody lives.

[@ajs41]

Most middle-class people spend their lives working. What are you talking about?

[@Redsleather]

Page is only middle class in her head. Call her a ‘bogan’ and she’d kick your head in

[@robertjeffries6217]

What !! Coleen and Jim, really, thought she was married, what she's up too ?

[@musicfan8048]

tryng 2 get him on side so he doesnt report her hitting Hennessy

[@expandingthemind5174]

Wtf Coleen. Flirting with fletch ? Oh good god

[@kennyroyal8572]

I know, right?!🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@sevenwilliams3485]

lizzie calling that woman old when she 10 times older than her🤣🤣😂

[@sadiestoltzfus9798]

My mom's 93 and calls people younger than her old.

[@Mattchupichue]

They never seem to use handcuffs

[@karennicholls8532]

I'll be skipping a lot in the next number of episodes. Andrea one of the worst characters ever. Hated her.

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

Andrea is like every other person of her ilk - a hypocrite. What right have they to protest when they know nothing of the ordinary person's struggle to survive?

[@clevelandphil]

What?! You can't cuss in Australia?

[@tammylynn4478]

these writers need to pay attention to what they write.....lizzie keeps saying she's been in jail half her life....which would put her age at ....44 or so....hmmmmm

[@heatherdelatore7866]

Tammy lynn, I think by Doreen saying she's been in jail half her life she's referring to institutions and homes while she was growing up when she was younger along with her multiple prison sentences.

[@ozlass7778]

There's never been any mention of Lizzie spending time in homes or institutions when she was a kid or prior to going to prison for poisoning the sheerers. Lizzie has always talked about a life full of travelling and doing different jobs etc before she went to gaol. And her kids were taken from her and put in welfare. But not Lizzie herself. I think that you're getting Lizzie and Doreen mixed up, Heather.

[@ozlass7778]

But I do agree with the stupidity of Lizzie always claiming that she spent half of her life in gaol. Lizzie is supposed to be 72. And she only got locked up for 20 yrs for the poisoning incident. Even if you add about another year or so since she was released/pardoned for that. But that's hardly half of her life. She hasn't spent 35+ yrs inside hehe. They could have still said Lizzie had spent almost 1/3 of her life inside, and it would still make an impact considering she wasn't a young woman at that time.

[@pauliejay4161]

It's just a figure of speech. No need to be so literal about it.