Prisoner: Cell Block H - The Final Scene

[@spartybrearly7221]

Maggie Kirkpatrick is a superb actress!

[@LadyCleo1]

Great actress

[@Foebane72]

She's a pedophile, it's been proven, she's been convicted!

[@jaxmanx]

And a child rapist peado convicted 😅

[@rachelsirett8809]

She is fantastic ❤❤❤

[@aiden985]

Omg totally true! Her interactions with anyone in her role in Prisoner cell block H were just fantastic and I've always been a fan of her 😊

[@RichieW90210]

When Ferguson took the bag it looked like it was attached to something. Maybe it was attached to an alarm system so the cops knew to get her.

[@slalomsteve]

It's not real life you know.

[@DarkLordDiablos]

I was thinking the same thing when I saw that as it would be a better system than a hidden camera.

[@martynduffy]

It was all a set up, Joan believed Rita had passed away thus Joan keeping the money. but Anne Reynolds and Rita Connor’s set her up there was no death Rita delivered Joan’s food with Anne Reynolds Rita Alice and Meg. CCTV was a thing but not widely used in the 1980’s.

[@Jools-j2l]

You obviously didn't watch the whole series!

[@jackrussell4437]

RIP Judith McGrath, aka Mrs.Powell, Judith passed away Sunday 22/10/17. Aged 70 here in Australia.

[@thomasninan4813]

So sorry 💔 😔

[@NickSBailey]

losing so many off this programme :( Judith was a good actress she made another really memorable character, some of the best dry quips and delivered spot on.

[@markgreet3543]

Sorry god bless

[@guysmith2700]

And sons and daughters that was another good Aussie soap

[@KathleenGotdon]

Is the lady who played B SMITH still alive

[@RichardMcGeechan-c4q]

Maggie Kirkpatrick was a great person with the program I was watching this back then with my mum in the house and I have a great memory of the decade and the programme Richard McGeechan ❤

[@Tenortalker]

An amazing actress Maggie Fitzpatrick- every reaction finely judged from the look of fear in the bank , going crazy in her cell , to a slight smile just before she is finally taken away.

[@garycleghorn]

"I'm not taking her home, the Mrs might object...". A very underrated line, always found that delivery to be really amusing.

[@micksharman2093]

I remember watching this when I just 10 years old, back in the good old days, you'll never have anything like this on tele again.

[@sue9009]

Me too! Was always on late Sunday nights, so had to tape it - good old vhs! - and watch it as soon as I got home from school on Monday 😄. As you say 'the good old days'

[@MrThedwp]

But yet it was in the form of Wentworth which sadly just finished

[@manweller1]

@@sue9009 VHS the good ole days

[@lisapinfold506]

The aussie version of Within these walls, and later Orange is the new black. ​@@MrThedwp

[@williammccormack2842]

​@lisapinfold506 this started in the seventies,great show.

[@jamalmccoy1982]

Can you imagine being a correction officer. .commit a crime and then be sent to the same prison to do your time in as the one you use to be a officer in crazy! !!!

[@richardmoores]

She’s only in wentworth for the one night because they couldn’t arrange her to go to another prison quick enough. So it’s poetic justice she has the one night of hell and humiliation there.

[@darrensnell3235]

According to the inspector she waxs hated everywhere so for her safety she was being sent to the west

[@Sol-Cutta]

​@@richardmooresin reality tho they wouldn't do that as the security risk would be a nightmare, wherever she went tho , they wouldn't take long to figure who she is as Will always be other women who had been in Wentworth.

[@stephenpowell5912]

Pure Gold from 1986 ,Maggie Kirkpatrick as Joan the freak Ferguson , Absolutely brilliant as her Character .Rita Conners Bringing her first prison meal was Woah Amazing Television from Down Under ❤

[@TheLondonForever00]

It should have been Bea opening the cell door at the end, disguised as an officer. Then finally unveiling herself and killing 'the freak', it would've made the greatest of endings. This show was epic, I loved every minute of it.

[@thecouncilofenderman2824]

Best thing ever only if it happened :(

[@andrews6341]

They asked Bea Smith actress to come back 3 times after she left. She very nearly did on the 3rd occasion. However she said she would come back if her character killed the Freak and she also asked for more money . Grundy or whatever company it was said no to that , then she refused to come back and they killed her off in episode 550 or something off screen.

[@Calicokit101]

The original bea died in a fire in Barnhurst.

[@jaywest3734]

@@Calicokit101 So they said.

[@musicfan8048]

gr8 twist

[@patsystone9891]

Gold, absolute gold. It was a shame we had to wait until the final episode to see The Freak come undone, but it's still an awesome episode and I keep coming back to it again and again.

[@jakeagusta]

Patsy Stone It’s been 4 years - Have you come back to it again ?

[@NemesisGrowz]

@@jakeagusta apparently not lmao

[@ramabaiapparao8801]

Me too.

[@ThatMattOne]

I had the good fortune to meet Maggie in 2018. She is the one person who made me give up smoking. She just looked at me and said "They'll kill you darling". Thank you Maggie. Love you. Xxx

[@sb6678]

There will never be a show to surpass Prisoner. It was the best soap ever, together with Neighbours (at least from the 80s and early 90s). No-one can make soap dramas like the Aussies. Our British soaps are depressing and pale in comparison

[@joshbounce.4429]

The remake Wentworth Prison is good also.

[@NickSBailey]

Coronation street is on a par I'd say because the humour is there. Emmerdale has become like Eastenders, just a load of irritating shouting and arguing, how is that entertaining? lol

[@yeetaway4841]

@@NickSBailey As someone who used to love Eastenders I have to stay I can't watch it anymore. It's turned into Hollyoaks with the silly music in scenes and all the scheming going on. It's had its time.

[@joecasey5213]

Our British soaps will never compare!! Pcbh was amazing!!!!

[@peterwilliamskelhorn6675]

@@joecasey5213 well said. Prisoner is my favourite soap opera as well. And I'm a Pommie as well (as the Aussies say)

[@Sharpy-Staunch]

During the covid lockdown me & the misses watched the whole series of cell block h it was great, took 3 months to get from episode 1 to 693 👍🏻

[@BruceLeroyUK]

How many hours a day did you spend watching it?

[@Sleepymoo123]

Where did you watch it?

[@openyourheart6161]

Shes such a brilliant actress.. it not just her acting its facial expressions are second to non..

[@beejjas3321]

Ferguson finally got her Karma

[@AnthonySmith-fv5iv]

I loved watching this in the UK 😊

[@Tommy1493]

I thought it would have been perfect to have Bea Smith make a return in the background at the very end, to see Joan Ferguson off, suggesting she never *actually* died at Barnhurst, rather she escaped and has been in hiding ever since, and lived to see the end of her fiercest enemy. Ahh, if only.

[@PaulDoe79]

That was always my big regret too. Nothing against Rita, but it should have been Bea or Myra who took down the Freak. Fans wanted it to be Bea. I'd have loved a scene showing Bea at the new prison, having faked her death to escape Barnhurst but caught and sent away to the max security prison where the Freak was being shipped to.

[@pokemontrainerelio3648]

They could have had Bea, Lizzie and Doreen return just for that. Bea could have been transferred from Barnhurst, Lizzie could have arrived again as a prisoner and the same with Doreen.

[@sdrewe99]

Tommy1493 yesh I never accepted queen Bea's supposed death in barnhurst.I drew my own conclusion that she escaped from the fire in barnhurst. So yeah to see Bea send the freak off at the end of the show would have been a nice touch!

[@zaralara4059]

They did an unofficial alternative ending on you tube where The Freak went in the paddy wagon and Bea was coming out (edited when she killed her husband).

[@hkazu63]

Stop hoping for dead characters to be revived. Its not an interesting twist. It undermines the reality of the entertainment and actually ruins interesting, tragic endings. The idea that the Freak outlived Bea and Myra is a tragic mark on their characters that makes them uniquely iconic. That for all their strength and ability, they were defeated by their enemy. Reviving Bea would’ve ruined one of the most tragic and interesting elements to her character’s conclusion. It’d be like reviving Ned Stark to see the Lannisters fall in Game of Thrones.

[@ashleysghosthuntstv2186]

I'm so glad The Freak finally got hers now that she was arrested and I love the music when she is in the car and getting questioned

[@Summer21.]

Ashley's GhostHuntsTV Me too, Ashley. 😃😊👍🏻

[@VictoryRRR]

Wentwoerh brought me here. Ferguson is one evil woman.

[@sevenwilliams3485]

" I trusted you"

[@gavinpowers1217]

Harold Bishop was the busiest man in south east Australia at the time. Coffee shop owner, Crossroads writer, senior police officer, prison officer, bloke from the 'department'. Ian Smith must be loaded!

[@darrensnell3235]

Didn't know he wrote episodes for our own British soap crossroads

[@davidprice5563]

(Ian Smith): Not forgetting the best Knock, Door - Run on Banzai >You really have to see that segment, a real comedy gem. 👍👍👍

[@therezaloftus]

@@darrensnell3235 he didnt look him up on imdb he only wrote episodes on prisoner and neighbours

[@grah84mck]

The freak made this show what it was.

[@elizanne6660]

I disagree, I think the character became stale and old.

[@NickSBailey]

Some people think Bea did, one of my favourites was Lizzy. I think no single character made it there were many great characters and the writing helped a lot as well.

[@naparry4772]

This show made this show what it was.

[@natvan29]

She made it boring I stopped watching after Val left I only watched it for Bea not Lizzie or Doreen or Frankie or Judy and definitely not The Freak I watched for one person and that was Bea

[@derekalexander2120]

The PERFECT culmination to the show. But I I think there could be a continuation in the future, and I don't mean Wentworth, which was excellent....

[@jaywest3734]

All the actors are dead or too old, so it won't happen.

[@mistofoles]

The outside shots of Wentworth was the actual exterior of the studios. The windows in shot were "disguised" to look like they were barred.

[@Suchislife312]

She use to bring me roses❤

[@gavinpuli9052]

so the magnificent career of Maggie Kirkpatrick continues.

[@ziejackson6236]

It would have been interesting if they did a spin off with Joan where she is transferred to another prison and becomes top dog

[@richardmoores]

Yes, I’ve always thought she would become top dog in not too long a time once she is settled

[@tigerlilly5232]

Did you see where Maggie played a prisoner in Home and Away, I imagine that is how Ferguson would have been inside

[@eric7085]

1:53 Icescape A by Graham De Wilde is the song that plays in the background when Joan Ferguson is arrested. Found this to be so fitting in this scene. I dabbled alot in finding the names of tracks used in Prisoner and found alot of the incidental music tracks online

[@simonsaysrewind]

Same here.. many are used from other TV series in Australia and UK like the professionals. I downloaded many over the years to my phone. 😊

[@ramabaiapparao8801]

Watched ..many actresses actors are no more..they were the performers who ran the show so nicely...

[@Smirduylate]

I remember watching this Monday nights weekly with my mum best show ever on tv

[@alexd976]

I also like the scene where Joan Ferguson gets arrested and the music goes with the scene 🎹🎵🎶

[@crevrath7374]

Fitting ending. Although really by this stage the Freak was looking completely washed out as a character. I found it hard to believe Joan let the current bunch of inmates stand up to her when she faught off much tougher adverseries in her time. It would have been better to have Joan around for a year or two and send her exiting in a huge showdown with arch enemy Bea . Rather than waiting for the the show to be axed and drag her on for over 4 years turning her into a panto baddie.

[@motog5s477]

It's easy to be the tough old prison warden when on the other side of the bars. Now she's one of the cons, so the slightest wrong move could have even dire consequences.

[@janebufton1960]

If course in real life. Furgusion wouldn't be sent to the same prison as her work colleagues or other prisoners she was involved with. For her own safety and more guard duty for the wardens. It just wouldn't happen. I m sure Australua has more female prisons. This is just fiction..😂😮 but it was a goid programme though. Good entertainment.😮

[@gavinpowers1217]

I've never taken on board before all the conversation between cops in the background in this scene about where to send Joan lol. Awww bless Miss Ferguson1

[@darrensnell3235]

They should have sent her to blackmoor or queensland

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

If the series kept going she'd find a way to worm her way out of it like she always does. With all the chances they had to nail her they wait until the final episode. I would have added a special called the trial of The Freak or done a post credit sequence of her arriving at Blackmoor.

[@deathstripe1]

Brilliant ending. Go rita!

[@AnkleSnapper72]

I like how you can feel Joan's desperation.

[@ih8hertz1]

We used to hang around the streets until 11.45 then run home to watch this😅

[@justmadeit2]

Reynolds kind of reminds me of a member of the Royal family, maybe a bit like Princess Anne

[@NickSBailey]

That's flattering to old horse face Anne :) The royals really aren't as dignified and graceful as the media portrays them. Gerda Nicolson who played Reno is the real thing.

[@sdrewe99]

This was a cop out by the Producers of Prisoner.It was way out of the Freak's character to be so stupid to do something like that.She was too cunning.

[@peterward3965]

Maggie Kirkpatrick a brilliant actress. The only programme I could follow after pub closing time when I was in pub management. Maggie appeared with Paul Ogrady / Lillie Savage in Londons West End show Prisoner Cell Block H. Opening scene was inside the dark prison, you could hear heavy footsteps approaching which were prison officer Fergersons / Maggie. As she appeared she shouted loud QUIET and the audience fell silent, you could hear a pin drop. Brilliant show, what a laugh 😅

[@cacy1008]

Went to see it in Swansea,got to meet all the cast,she was lovely.😊

[@cubanpete9030]

She should have done a dry run first left without the money and gone back if the coast was clear

[@christinemacleod6771]

Mess with bikers poetic justice rita connors Maggie Kilpatrick absolute sterling job as joan ferguson 79 to 86 a absolute brilliant fuckin show.

[@da90sReAlvloc]

Rita was shit, Ferguson should have turned around and seen bea Smith that would have been great

[@mrtheo7680]

Watched when younger definitely freaked me out with them black gloves

[@spartybrearly7221]

They should have done a spin-off series - ‘’Joan behind bars’ - showing what happened to The Freak when she gets sent down.

[@pamelaadam9207]

all these years I finally see the end

[@fs.pureblood]

My mother used to love this programme. I used to find it laughable when the walls shook when they slammed the doors.

[@5641russell]

fantastic episode

[@pigeonshouse]

I stood outside the Fremantle Studios last year on the spot Ferguson would have been driven in to the 'prison'. I had the incidental tune running through my head.

[@ziejackson6236]

I started watching this show a few years back then stopped to watch other things then got into Wentworth, now that is ending soon I might give this another go

[@office82]

Used to watch PCBH with my nan back in the 90s. Ferguson was always my favourite.. such a complicated character.. vulnerable and loving with Terry, Shane and her father the Major.. then sadistic whith the inmates.. never able to forget what they did to the one she loved.. I know one thing for sure.. I'd want her on my side during a riot!

[@johnoflaherty9105]

Just seen an episode from 1981 featuring Colette Mann and a barechested Stefan Dennis.

[@antpoo71]

Me too. 11pm-1am every night I love it. I thought I recognised him but couldn't place him he was very fit back then.

[@johnoflaherty9105]

@antpoo71 it looked like genuine laughter from Colette and Stefan when Lizzie cackled about borrowing milk from Mrs Powell 😄

[@antpoo71]

@@johnoflaherty9105 It most probably was. I think they keep things in sometimes. I've watched them so many times but HAVE to watch them again 😂🙄, especially the earlier ones. One of my favourites was Vera. I met Vera Jim & Bea at the N.E C I take it you're a die hard too ?

[@johnoflaherty9105]

@antpoo71 I have only recently rediscovered having followed avidly in the 80s and 90s. I remember complaints to the TV when an episode was pulled due to the Gulf War. Lucky you, I find it hard to keep motivated without Vera. I saw 2 stage shows in London way back and saw Val L in a stage version of Misery. I would like to see some of Sheila F's other roles to check whether or not she just plays herself!

[@markcopeland4448]

FER-GU-SON ! FER-GU-SON ! FER-GU-SON ! FER-GU-SON ! FER-GU-SON !

[@KevinHoneysett]

One of the best ever ❤❤

[@ahmedsenussi8232]

It's a shame it had to end 😔

[@aiden985]

Maggie is lovely person and has undoubtedly been through utter hell with trash and unnecessary garbage mentioned about her in the past I can't begin to comprehend the extent of how this impacted her and her family's wellbeing BUT she came through it victorious. She's a wonderful person, actress and I loved that she was so close to the late formidable Paul O'Grady ❤ if you don't agree...please be kind! It costs nothing ❤😊

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Wentworth Prison looks like the kind of prison female villains from Neighbours would have ended up in.

[@spartybrearly7221]

They should have done a spin-off series featuring Joan in prison in Western Australia.

[@criminallyautistic8372]

They did its called Wentworth dummy

[@pedanticradiator1491]

​@criminallyautistic8372 Wentworth is a reboot not a spin off

[@PeterLarne]

Maggie Kirkpatrick an absolute legend

[@itsuptoyou3526]

omg i used to watch this over 30 years ago, religiously. never saw the beginning or the end. now i've seen she got her just deserved

[@andrewbundy1636]

Absolute classic this was

[@FreezinFury]

Brilliant series .The Wentworth updated version was just as good

[@spartybrearly7221]

If only Bea, Myra and Lou were there to see Joan get her just desserts

[@EddieGibb]

I forgot Sven Goran Erikson was in prisoner cell block H

[@kerricoulter7551]

I kinda hate that she was caught. Could have led to a spin off, lol.

[@spartybrearly7221]

Was it ever specified what Lorna Young was in Wentworth for? She’s been there longer than any inmate.

[@gyobfan22]

No, her and Tina were just background extras you saw many times throughout the whole show.

[@TheNutter44]

a good prison guard gone bad oh what a shame........ superb acting from Maggie Kirkpatrick (Ferguson)

[@garyhewitt886]

I wish Bea would have delivered the meal tray

[@richardmacken9410]

It is a shame Colleen Powell was not there to see it,

[@InYourHeadChangedMan]

Steffi Graf's acting debut at 8:46

[@alisonhodge1778]

Rita set her up, Freak got her just desserts, shame Bea wasn't alive to see it though

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

Rita knew shhe was dying and hhad nothhing to llose but thhe freak HHAd far more to lose than to gain.

[@oldskoolfool141]

So they got old Vinegar T*ts in the end eh?

[@rodkirkbride2230]

She wasnt Vinegar. She was the Freak.

[@ronnie1202]

I remember watching this when it aired in Scotland, late night tv on grampian . What a program 😂

[@jaiblue25]

So this is what happened to all the orphans in Annie. And Annie sure lived up to the color of her red hair ;)

[@JosèSuave-v7i]

You used to give me roses....

[@pacman9425]

What does she say at the end? ".....in the world"?

[@Me-nh1fz]

The remake is a lot different then the original.

[@rachelfairfield8755]

Me 2016 you telling me!!! Joan especially, my god she's ten times terrifying in Wentworth and tbh ten times better .

[@sparklywarkly89]

Like apples and oranges.. they're difficult to really compare I think.. love both prisoner and Wentworth for different reasons.. when prisoner was repeated on UK Channel 5 it was sponsored by pot noodle and the sponsorship credits used to mock the wobbly set walls and unreliable props..it's all part of the fun.. although I do find Pamela Rabe as Ferguson far scarier than Maggie Kirkpatrick..but I could have nightmares about either of them!!

[@jaywest3734]

Rachel Fairfield I wouldn't say better, just different.

[@elizanne6660]

Do you mean THAN the original?

[@kevindavis296]

Is the remake better?

[@annmarie4442]

I still haven't got to the end of this series. There is like 700 episodes 😂

[@elizanne6660]

Do you mean you like 700 episodes? I don't understand that last sentence.

[@Ostine8333]

@@elizanne6660 stfu smartass

[@christopherdent5115]

692

[@trevordixon1427]

Sound gone

[@carlthornton2971]

What was the background music song when she was sent back to prison?

[@eric7085]

Icescape A by Graham De Wilde plays 1:53 to 5:01 when Feguson is arrested and sent to Wentworth.

[@michaelspilman5220]

The freak finally got hers . Good. From michael from Yorkshire and proud of it .

[@victoriathurston5326]

I think bea Smith should of been the one to take her meal to her and say something to her

[@TheMightsparrow]

The Freak had it coming

[@drexlspivey5828]

Amazing 👌👌👌

[@spannerflat]

Wow goose bumps again.

[@beejjas3321]

Fergusin has the nerve to commit a robbery a then raise her voice

[@ellenthorne818]

absolutely brilliant series with a fantastic cast yearx. I actually have the single of the theme song.

[@kungfufan540]

i love episodes 1 and 692

[@realwhitebob]

poor Joan wasn't as bad as some... I think I'd have took the money too. I also heard she was a big Manchester United supporter and fan of Sir Alex back in the day...

[@JasonHazell-v3e]

I love this scene its very intense

[@ramabaiapparao8801]

Watched prisoner...love between Ann and wally very romantic .I loved them.

[@BurtReynoldstash]

The freak, putting her gloves on for a “ bashing” 😂

[@PaulKyle-e6n]

In the words of chopper read yer now just another bare arse in the shower 😂😂😂

[@noodles9749]

Prisnaaaaa! Those were the days.

[@colettenasielski9285]

Very Execellemt Final Scene

[@philipjames9924]

Not a tissue in sight! :)

[@josephlaffey4744]

Golden book and video VHS

[@TheDarrenguyuk]

wonder if fergie wud been top dog if prisoner cont

[@Bod8998]

What was her dog called

[@DJSTEVESTER5]

Yes was sad when the gates slammed for the final time saying that was watching one earlier lol