Prisoner: Cell Block H - Episode 87

[@soapsnthings4182]

I think Ros holds the record for the amount of time spent in solitary.

[@pokemontrainerelio3648]

Ros would have seen Joan Ferguson come and go, see Myra, Rita, Nora, Nola, Lexie, Bobbie, Lurch and Kath if she stayed til 1986 (she was probably in there until way after then).

[@Summer21.]

Pokémon Trainer Elio She must have seen or at least heard of a lot of those characters even though she was in another wing at that point and then released in time. 😃

[@markxxx21]

She did spend a long time but Bea is the tops by far. Whenever Val needed a holiday, Bea went to solitary :o)

[@andybee6885]

Lizzie should have got the ending, not the social worker

[@3032l-k9z]

The passageways are getting darker and darker too!

[@stuartpatto1976]

20, years wrongly locked-away, nothing can make-up for that, not money not anything.

[@bernadettelamb54]

And then she gives the money away.

[@maggiepereira7083]

Poor Lizzie

[@karennicholls8532]

Giving you money when you are elderly doesn't make up for spending much of your younger years in prison.

[@thinkthensend9228]

Then she should not have messed with poison all those years ago.

[@stevenmcghee6649]

That's why the death penalty is such a mistake. Try telling that to 50% of Americans, though. 99% in Texas.

[@Kblog777]

The faces of the screws were a picture when they were told of Lizzie's innocence.

[@cuccicucci4480]

I noticed how they had their mouths open lol

[@susi-emily]

It was almost like the actors themselves had no idea of where Lizzie's storyline was going.

[@eh4977]

Damn Lizzie knows how to tug on the heart strings😟 thanks to who ever posted this channel, I love having something to watch. I'm from the US and this is my second go around with Prisoner.

[@ajs41]

Do you have any problems with the Australian accents?

[@sandygirl1966]

So much for solitary confinement, they talk through the walls to each other!

[@Mynewlife2025]

Telecom Wentworth.

[@AlanMclay]

So Lizzie's getting out? Bet the first thing she does is get plastered, lol !!!

[@radioandtvmemories6178]

I would if I was her

[@unknown-fq9fn]

Buckingham palace who wouldn't!!

[@karennicholls8532]

Wouldn't you?

[@rosiew1952]

@@radioandtvmemories6178 and me 100%

[@marycalmeiro1135]

Yup!

[@3032l-k9z]

Ah, the days of the old circular dial telephones and not a mobile phone in sight!

[@silvana8246]

they were the better days

[@cuccicucci4480]

In some ways :)

[@Summer21.]

3032l I do love them as they add to the nostalgia and the fashions and whatnot of this show. 😊😃

[@ajs41]

Car phones did exist at this time. Apparently about 10,000 people in London had car phones in 1980.

[@cuccicucci4480]

I saw a movie with Bogart and Hepburn 'Serendipity' or something he's rich business guy and has a phone in the car. Maybe in the 1950's not sure if it really worked or if it was just for the movie. Filmed in London but I could be wrong :)

[@3032l-k9z]

Poor Vera, she meant well when asking misery guts Meg for a drink out and Meg took her apart!

[@LC-ys6ic]

You reap what you sow and all that jazz....

[@amykjorlien326]

Sigh...how I so wanted Vera to find happiness. I will say Meg was about the closest friend she had. Meg at least gave her a chance

[@nevermore380]

The few times Vera let her guard down people bit her head off. You see it over and over again throughout the course of the show. I almost understand her being so uptight and bitter.

[@karennicholls8532]

Meg is a real bitch at the moment. Not the fault of everyone else that she climbs into bed with anyone who asks and it doesn't work out well.

[@lamontbradford4630]

@@nevermore380 Vera does the same thing to people more often than Meg.

[@pauliejay4161]

Haven't heard Vera say "MOOOVE!" for a while now...

[@lamontbradford4630]

Davo is sick for not letting Lizzie know she’s innocent of murder. Just letting her stress out knowing she has a bad heart.

[@joedaley3054]

Did y'all know that Sigrid Thornton, who plays Roslyn Coulson also plays Sonia Stevens on "Wentworth".

[@ajs41]

Yes, although I haven't watched it apart from 2 minutes.

[@karennicholls8532]

Yes. Don't watch it. Can't replace Prisoner.

[@pixiepixie8114]

Yes.

[@jencavacas4625]

It’s been mentioned numerous times already.

[@MrsLevinson175]

@@karennicholls8532i initially thought the same, but I watched it and put Prisoner out of my mind. They’re very different shows but Wentworth gives the occasional nod to Prisoner. I loved Sigrid as Sonia, superb villain.

[@expandingthemind5174]

Chrissy is one of the best characters. You love then you hate he, I really like her character

[@arlaabrell8658]

I'm a big Chrissy fan, even when she's horrid I can't full on hate her, because she's decent at heart. (and yes I know it's just a TV show)

[@heather9329]

Lizzy getting her cornflakes and sitting on her own looking so forlorn brought a tear to my eye 😢

[@NativeMoon]

Love the shadow of the Boom Mic on Davo's papers on the desk during her meeting with Lizzie 😆 But how horrible that Lizzie was locked up for something she didn't do ... but it's a trip that Ralph Campbell **overheard her talking to herself** and that's what gets the ball rolling ...

[@amykjorlien326]

just dawned on me....how on earth is Erica doing her hair with her arm in a sling!? lol

[@TheRealCharnley]

Thank you for wondering the same thing I was wondering a few episodes back!! It's like magic!!

[@amykjorlien326]

Great minds think alike! I adore Patsy King! And Elspeth....but my favorite is Fiona! I fell in love with her. She played Vera so very well. Vera was misunderstood. I wish we had seen her truly happy

[@stephenpovey-jones6520]

Amy Kjorlien The make up people on the show are doing her hair.

[@1corrsfan]

Amy Kjorlien shame she didn’t leave it down, I hate her hair do.. she must have gotten head sore a lot!!!

[@rosslamb7069]

@@1corrsfan her hair looks like a motorcycle helmet

[@LC-ys6ic]

Episode 87. Does that make 87 times that Vinegar has barked "Now get back to work" or "The rest of you get back to work" after showing up in the laundry??

[@LC-ys6ic]

Not to mention (and I know I am being redundant and have mentioned in previous comments) her other favourite line "If it was up to me...." It just cracks me up that she can deliver the same old tired lines with just as much venom as the first time around. You would think

[@TheRealCharnley]

I like when she says "the lot of you" and "that goes for you too, (insert name here)" haha

[@amykjorlien326]

Fiona is awesome! She was so consistently, well, Vera! She could of read the phone book and had every word as sharp as the next. I understand why Fiona left the show...i would of been spent after a day let alone 3 years...but it sure would of been fabulous had she stayed. I soooo wonder what Joan would of thought of her.

[@felisityfoxx7224]

And others like, “if you behave like animals, you’ll be treated like animals!” Oh and “this is a prison not a(n) ... insert stock phrase ...” e.g. lonely hearts club, finishing school, holiday camp, hearts and flowers club etc etc

[@karennicholls8532]

At least I would imagine.

[@lisadominobuzz2967]

Two episodes til Judy arrives. Can't wait. Yes, I have seen all of Prisoner before. Several times. ❤😂

[@392Lesley]

The head says set Lizzie free and make her as happy and as comfortable as possible, my heart says, dont go Lizzie, know one can take your place we love you!!

[@radioandtvmemories6178]

8:40 “Mind over natter”, very nice line

[@stevenmcghee6649]

Every time I see that VJ, I picture Vera offering him another vanilla slice.

[@waivedwench]

I remember watching this episode at my grandparents ' house in the 80s.

[@GusMcGuire]

Those two extras sitting at the dining table at 28:36 are in many more episodes than some of the prisoners convicted of murder. They must be mass murderers or something.

[@3032l-k9z]

Is it just me or is it getting darker and darker in the laundry? I don't know how the girls can see what they're doing in such a horrible dull light!

[@amykjorlien326]

Omg I know. There are so many critical scences throughout this show that are lost because they are soooo dark

[@deanhall4064]

3032l - Yes the corridors are really dark to - yeah the lighting on set was pretty bad at the best of times - i have to turn up the brightness on my tv here, however the lighting on set does get much better later on. I also love noticing how many times you can spot the microphone boom. Now adays this never happens in the digital age because programmes are so more polished, however it was not always like this and Cell Block H is a classic example of this.

[@MsVelasca]

You'd think they would at least tell Lizzie something to put her mind at rest and tell her that their making some inquiries that don't necessarily mean anything bad would come of it instead of treating her like shit .

[@rickylee369]

Davo.... I've got some good news for you... you spent the last 20 years in jail for nothing...

[@felisityfoxx7224]

Hahahaha yeah! Especially given she was due out in about a fortnight anyway.

[@syedfaruque2020]

Holy crap! Lizzy is innocent!

[@cathyfaruque8207]

5:50 Vera only thinks someone is right if she agrees. Mrs. Davidson - "What is your wrong?" Vera - "there's no point carrying on like that." LMAO

[@jadebunnytait]

Ross does my head in.

[@Thechampissammy]

Who the fuck is Ross

[@susi-emily]

@@Thechampissammy Oh come on, it's Ross. You know Ross. He posts loads of comments on here. In more serious news, I think they mean Ros. As in Coulson.

[@soapsnthings4182]

Ian Bradley's out as Producer, and now Philip East takes over.

[@1corrsfan]

Love Lizzie ‘WHAT’ the way she says it makes me laugh.....

[@lampshade8818]

I've seen Chrissie's amazing master key that fits any lock that she always says she made herself- it's just a metal nail file. It didn't look to have had anything done to it whatsoever. Just a nail file. Amazing how not one prison warden suspected a thing when the alarm went off and Chrissie was wandering in the corridors. Because, of course, what could possibly go wrong in a prison? Prisoners creating diversions to do something sneaky? Nah- that would never happen. I felt sorry for poor Vera- she's been really nice and caring to Meg, and then Meg just goes and bites her head off- for no reason!

[@carleneboulden4386]

Yeah poor Vera! She shows her nice side and gets snapped at, I don't know why she bothers, Fletch was nice to her to, trying to apologize for that looney mate of his and what thanks does he get.

[@lisawortman5844]

Lamp Shade she was showing Ros how to use a hanger in an earlier episode, lol

[@1981Galadriel]

+Lamp Shade I hear ya about Vera. What a way to teach her that it doesn't pay to be nice.

[@cuccicucci4480]

Meg was nice to Vera too many times and it didn't pay off. So Meg has had enough of the Veras and the Jeans and everyone else who's used her kindness. She stopped being a doormat. Good for her!

[@karate_girl_ibiza]

Hated meg and her stuck on cardboard hair do.

[@2008giles]

At 21:00 is that the first time that we hear the music supposedly from the TV. It gets used over and over and over again throughout the series!

[@TheRealCharnley]

Amazing how many problems back then could be solved with a cell phone LOL

[@amykjorlien326]

Seriously! I love when they're trying to find someone and they don't answer the phone and they're like well the phone must be off the hook. Lol

[@cuccicucci4480]

Anazing how easy it was to ring a professional newspaper head without even 1 machine or recording. Also how you go straight to a receptionist & the person without holding. Oh also how fast the pro came to the prison without checking his agenda. Now it would take a wk to make an appointment for 2 months down the road.

[@cuccicucci4480]

Let's not forget the fun crank calls when it rained and nobody could play outside.

[@cuccicucci4480]

You naughty boy, over cranking is a crime. I'm not going to lag though

[@ajs41]

20 years? In the UK a huge number of people had mobile phones by the early 1990s. I know they weren't as popular in the United States until 10 years later because ordinary phones were a lot cheaper in the USA.

[@teresacalladine7479]

Lizzie sure is my favourite. But love them all, one way or another. They all so interesting and deep, funny and have a physicalogical behaviour and type of conversations , that's what I like about there characters.

[@dcmassiveable]

pity pat and ros didn't piss off aswell

[@glennsanders2962]

Bea actually got a brand pack of cards to play with. Whoopee!

[@gman2588]

Chrissies 1 key opens every lock in the prison lol

[@iandennis1]

Never mind Lizzie you can escape through the sewer via the hole you spent the last 20 years digging with that small rock hammer behind the poster in your cell.

[@martha-anastasia]

Har!!!

[@TheRealCharnley]

Yay the original song on the closing credits.

[@ajs41]

The other version was slightly annoying for some reason.

[@marytunstall2333]

it is so dark it's like watching a blank screen.

[@ajs41]

It must be deliberate, to create an atmosphere.

[@Fledeye]

Mary Tunstall I think part of the problem is that the show was made to be watched on CRTs, not on a HD or 4K display or anything else modern. These days we have “true blacks”, but back then screens weren’t capable of showing such rich colours and so it’s all too dark. I’m sure when I watched Prisoner Cell Block H when I was a kid, it wasn’t as dark. But we did own a black and white tube telly at the time.

[@LC-ys6ic]

36:11 I must be getting soft because Lizzie totally made me mist up.

[@felisityfoxx7224]

Hahaha, that programme on the telly! Never off after this episode.

[@johnw2328]

Bob Morris before he got totally insane and married a manikin😀

[@simosc2]

Roz is guilty of two escapes...but dimwit Davo fears dealing too harshly with her???

[@chris.c9885]

Love the scenes with Chrissie and Bea. Can't wait for Pat O'Connell to go and for more interesting characters to arrive. I think Judy enters soon !

[@carleneboulden4386]

Yeah lol, they are good scenes, I liked franky Doyle and bea scenes to!

[@loujuanataylor5269]

Newspaper? What happened to the typing class? After all, they had 2 typewriters.

[@huanking4238]

Like the way they can talk through the walls. It's as if they're made of cardboard.

[@jeffryder1430]

looked like they were talking through the toilet.

[@veronicasimmonds1874]

They should have told Lizzie before giving it to the paper.

[@digchri2]

I almost started crying when Lizzie did and Bea rushed over to hug her and then I felt like crying again when she was talking to Erica.

[@Tecie-x5e]

So did I !!

[@Tecie-x5e]

So did I !!

[@samisticlife]

Locked in their cells after their evening meal with tea/coffee making facilities but no toilet

[@brandismith6916]

I love her. She's so enjoyable to watch.

[@angielee3365]

bea ur a genius... I been thinkin that 4a long time.. lmao that's great

[@stevenmcghee6649]

34:15 I'm trying to imagine Meg and Vera hanging around a hotel bar night after night looking to "meet people".

[@jokergrin090]

Ever watched blankady blank wow if this episode gets any darker it be like watching a blank screen

[@expandingthemind5174]

Like any show that runs for many years, you can only do so much.

[@sandrajohnson5804]

Lizzy might have been wrongly accused of being a murderer,but she rightly was a thief😅😅

[@slrxxxxx]

Really don't like meg she just shouts at everyone for no reason

[@vickythefist7062]

Whsts with the shitty cell doors with normsl locks on them . Swear to god that when i was in jail the doors were 12 inch thick steel and it wasnt a crappy normal door handle like 25:26 they've got at wentworth . No wonder women keep breaking out of there .also a piece of metal that looks like a tinopener can undo all the doors and drug cabinets there 😂 hilarious

[@Kawijazz]

Does anyone know what show the women are watching in the background in the recreation room? I've heard in various episodes, but can't make out what it is. Sounds like a western.

[@ajs41]

Good question. Probably not a real film.

[@maxb28]

8:43 mind over natter, lol

[@andrewmorrice9139]

13:55 "Three bags full sir."

[@SapphireRose1982]

love Lizzy, she's my favourite x

[@Kblog777]

Wonder what film Bea and Pat are talking about at 34:52.

[@8ballpoolking1]

So poor Lizzie has been sitting in that hole all them years for nothing! I hope she enjoys her compensation and has some fun when she gets out because she sure as hell deserves it! That Goodwin is a complete swine!! People like him shouldn't be given power over others because they have no conception of the word "fair" whatsoever!

[@jenniferhakes9293]

8ballpoolking1 cuffed d deeded discarded#ft; coffee v ;

[@markxxx21]

It's hardly for nothing she did POISON four people, Lizzie is hardly innocent.

[@MzRage]

She will proably die now... 20years as a murderous damn!

[@susi-emily]

@@markxxx21 The bottom line is that she didn't put enough poison in the food to kill anyone. Therefore she didn't murder anyone. Therefore, she is innocent.

[@sarahkorver2439]

Awwww lizzy ❤❤! She is such a wonderful lady bless her heart! When she started crying and Bea and Pat comforting her really made me cry 😢😢😢 xxxx

[@malinachainey1564]

Poor old Lizzy. Yea she can say she is innocent, and she will be compensated, but she can never get that time back. 20 yrs is along time, and now she is getting out an elderly women with a bad ticker, how long will she actually get to enjoy her freedom and compensation!?

[@MissX905]

Glad she was in the show as she made a good "prison" character. Sad that she was locked up all those years for a crime she didn't commit. But she still did poison the shearing crew but just not enough to kill them. Now she can get out and go on a big toot drinking her life away as that's all she talks about. She never bettered herself while being locked up sad really.

[@TheCosmicVagabond]

Mouse has been in the background for the last dozen shows but hasn't had any lines.

[@deanhall4064]

TheCosmicVagabond - Mouse was one of my favourite characters she later does have a much bigger part in Prisoner, so keep watching!

[@ajs41]

When people started talking about Mouse, I thought they meant Kathleen Leech because she does look a bit like a mouse. But I realise now they mean the other person who looks even more like a mouse.

[@daviddemarco8327]

She wasn't actually playing Mouse, then. At this time she was referred to as "Pauline". But once she becomes "Mouse" she'll be instantly identifiable, due to the way she walks....as though a watermelon's stuck up her rear end

[@Jamie-my6xx]

Most of the actors in prison started out in the background and they slowly work them into the show

[@lynseycurrie1002]

Can some Australian pcbh friend help. Does anyone recognised the music being played on the television set at 20.30 and almost to the end of series. Was it a show or a film that was repeated nightly

[@markxxx21]

Bea figures out what is going on with Lizzie, thus begins the start of Bea Smith's "superpowers."

[@felisityfoxx7224]

What IS that tune on the telly at 21.05? It seems to always be on from this episode onwards for a number of years, hehe.

[@ajs41]

Yes, it's amusing that it's always the same music!

[@Problembeing]

Bea's a cunning fox ^^

[@virginiaguiney1644]

Poor old Lizzie. At least now she can hit the tiles with Doreen and get steamy-poos!! Love the collaboration of the women for her. Paul Reid? Dunno!!

[@ScratchyBaws]

LizzieeEEE.

[@moominmay]

lol what is with the social workers always getting their cars stolen!

[@lostghost101]

o firk me with your golden hair helmets, ladies ... 33:38

[@DeeTeaDee]

That long haired bird soon got over her dead son didn’t she? How long has it been now? One episode??😂

[@DublinWarrior1]

Only 200 episodes till the freak makes her arrival.

[@ianprice6591]

bea to chrissie….. "mind over natter...…" LOL.... LOL...

[@rosiew1952]

just noticed at 36.06 the huge lump on Lizzies wrist . wow

[@IsisFlavia]

I cant believe how wrong both Bea and Erica are getting it with Lizzie's revelations. Bea farming out the story so any and everyone will know about it before she does giving her a massive sick to see it plastered all over the papers - the governor treating her need like it's a Christmas present!! 😢 Poor Lizzie!!!

[@michelledavidson8190]

They must've had good bladder control to be locked in their cells all night.

[@wisecampmotorcycles8258]

Michelle Davidson they had a bucket under there beds.

[@deborahcolebourne5828]

Absolutely love this drama, 👍🏻

[@pacmanindy]

In reality please don’t ask social workers about other people’s predicaments. It is confidential information!!!

[@Davez621]

Is the governor British? She sounds like she's got a bit of a British accent.

[@Oscaeone]

not sure, but vinegar tits is british.

[@sperrin]

Patsy King (Davison) was born in Australia but her family moved to England in the 50's where she was raised. And it's an English accent, not a British one. There is no such thing as a "British accent".

[@adam3141]

+Steve Perrin Her English sounds very polished, I wouldn't at all be surprised if she went to a finishing school.

[@knightsoffreddys8367]

Her accent is very Briiiighton !(Brighton, a suburb of Victoria )

[@ajs41]

It's a posh Australian accent. She pronounces a lot of words in a very Australian and non-British way, for instance "accident" sounds like "eccident" from a British point of view.

[@expandingthemind5174]

Well Roz got the book thrown at her

[@MrsLevinson175]

Aww poor wee Lizzie B

[@CharlotteWebb-tr3mn]

Towards the end of Paul's bit I always thought he had a little soft spot for bea

[@ChaosHusky]

For anyone wondering about the film mentioned at 34:48 onwards.. It's a John wayne film called "The Quiet Man"! :) Here's a link to the kissing scene talked about: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5y0qoV7ZceseKs

[@sheriheffner2098]

Geez Louise Meg, we really are having PMT aren't we. Quit being so sarcastic to Vera. You'll get a man soon.

[@louisemulcahy7264]

This is my 3rd watch and I still cannot remember where Roz goes haha

[@daviddemarco8327]

She wasn't a very memorable character

[@huanking4238]

But she's teh best character, we'd have missed her if they hadn't locked her away.

[@knightsoffreddys8367]

Does anyone know who Paul Reed was in Cop Shop. I think he was the boss.

[@ngdukic]

George Mallaby is the actors name and he was Senior Sargent Glen Taylor. His wife on Cop Shop, Rowena Wallace, was also on Prisoner. She played the mentally disturbed and quite scary character Anne Griffin.

[@sheriheffner2098]

Yes, I've seen Cop Shop on here. I love Australian television programs and I've seen Matlock Police too. I love Australian accents and I hope someday to visit your beautiful country. I want to visit Melbourne, then Sydney, then Canberra then Queensland. I really want to meet Fiona, Patsy, Elspeth, Jackie(Chookie) Jaqueline (Susie Driscoll) Maggie Kirkpatrick, Gerard, Janet Andrewartha, Margo,Bobbie.

[@stuarttaylorsctconstructio9983]

Yellow cab co yet the taxi is clearly orange.

[@jadebunnytait]

4th time around. love lizzy

[@teresacalladine7479]

Dont tell me theres no loo in there rooms.

[@MichaelCotton-c3r]

Someone said no one says much about lizzie.she made this program.her one liners are the best❤

[@MARKBPHARM]

I am trying to work out what those old volumes with red covers and gold writing on the spines are, sitting on the bench directly behind Erica. They might be a set of 'Cambridge Ancient History' books - any thoughts?

[@noxyproductions2107]

Like you, you mean? Complete idiot

[@noxyproductions2107]

No, that's you

[@noxyproductions2107]

No, I referred to one of Erica's 'Cambridge Ancient History' books

[@noxyproductions2107]

Yeah! x

[@stevenmcghee6649]

"The Condensed Poetry of Banjo Patterson - The Golden Years"

[@rreally7108]

oooh ! poor lizie. love her guts

[@stuarttaylorsctconstructio9983]

Poor lizzie, 20 years banged up for nowt.