Prisoner: Cell Block H - Episode 540

Episode 540 of Prisoner. All rights to their owners.
111 Hits air date: 11th April, 2013.
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[@pauliejay4161]

Has anybody else noticed how much quieter these episodes have been? No Marlene, no Bobbie, no Judy shouting their heads off every five minutes.

[@andrewmorrice9139]

It's wonderful.

[@ross1748]

No we instead have Daphne screaming about how she wants to die

[@susi-emily]

No just Willie and May squabbling. The more upset Willie gets, the shriller she becomes.

[@ross1748]

@@susi-emily And Lexie screaming

[@wilmabaker4500]

I miss Judy.I liked Marlene and Bobbie but their constant whining got ony nerves.

[@deltawho8002]

Glad to see Sharon Gilmore has risen from dead. Jock Stewart pushed her down the stairs, now she's a prison officer

[@mike-kellydutkiewicz5991]

They've brought a lot of ones back..like the guy who was Fletchers friend that abused Meg 🤣

[@emperorpalpatine783]

I know like Alf Stewart’s frequent parts

[@irenemorley75]

Yes he pushed her down the stairs and she died...... what's going on , are they short of actresses in Australia ?🙄

[@zeddeka]

​@@irenemorley75that used to be the joke - that there were only 5 actors in Australia. I think it's one of the reasons why you've seen a few British and American actors appear in the show - much easier to get work in Australia back then.

[@sb6678]

And don’t forget Anne Yates who suffocated in the dryer.

[@marla7116]

There needs to be an I Slept At Meg's Flat club.

[@lampshade8818]

Bloody brilliant.

[@ORIGINALREDY2MIX]

Marla Parker lmao Good one

[@lampshade8818]

ORIGINALREDY2MIX This has got to be the best comment (from Marla Parker) under Prisoner that I have ever read. XD

[@elgamerico]

They could sell some merch too. "I slept at Meg's and all i got was this lousy t-shirt" :)

[@agemoth]

El Gamerico or 'I slept at Meg's and survived.'

[@sparky2098]

00:40 Meg's hotel for women leaving their husbands.

[@Summer21.]

Haha! Yes, just like when Colleen left her husband, Patrick back in the 300's era.

[@adrianenglish4909]

Lol funny

[@annasassin2470]

Sparky # Skittin.. 😂 was thinking the same .

[@EmmAPestilenciA]

Joan's looking especially evil now with that new slick back hair and flogger look..

[@cuccicucci4480]

Joan reminds me of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction hahaha

[@philipwelshman9609]

Yes, less like Alice from The Brady Bunch.

[@marycalmeiro1135]

Joan Travolta 😅

[@pandoraamos1]

Poor Ann. What did she ever do to deserve a daughter as awful as Pippa!

[@fabpcbhfan9592]

35:25 if they had brought this character in only "7" episodes ago, JUDY would have said "SHAAARONN, you're ALiiiiiiiVE!!!"🙀 And "Ohhh MY GAWD!"🤣

[@bernadettelamb5990]

And would have been stupid enough to fall back in love

[@wandabennett8147]

Love this show. So glad I found it again. Just don't like these new characters. Sure miss the old ones.

[@kathybrooks452]

Me to

[@mcguire202]

😍 Ettie one the show's best characters 😍. Ettie & Lizzie should of bin given their very own spin off show.

[@davidbrown7116]

Judy leaves and Sharon GIlmore returns lol

[@ross1748]

Mervin's a home wrecker, even before he knew Joyce was having marital problems and gave zero indication she wanted to leave her husband he kept invading her space not caring that she was married.

[@benharis1956]

@35:05 Sharon Gilmour Recycles as Terri. And Judy missed her by 6 episodes.😯

[@darrendunn134]

Would been funny

[@mystiquegoth]

When Anne's daughter finally turns up, but ends up being called Pippa, when all along Anne has mentioned her daughter as Julie.

[@alexjohnson1348]

Oh god! I forgot how horrific Reno's daughter was!!

[@chrismarshall2283]

I didn't! :D

[@annasassin2470]

Alex johnson she was never on it before. Just the Son. She was mentioned as Julie before , but had to change name for some reason.

[@Summer21.]

@@annasassin2470 They changed Julie’s name to Pippa (aka Philippa), so as not to cause confusion with Julie Egbert, who is part of the Barnhurst 5. 😃

[@Summer21.]

@@annasassin2470 Alex Johnson just means that he has watched the series before to have forgotten how horrific Ann’s daughter was. 😃

[@GarethColquhoun]

​@@Summer21. I've heard that explanation, but surely it would have made more sense to give Eggbert a different first name instead

[@catherinelael8027]

I'm thoroughly disappointed Pippa didn't end up in Wentworth for something like Fraud. The fun they missed out on....

[@trippinonbud]

She mentioned her friend Jenny Hartley for far to long, calling it now she will be in Wentworth soon enough

[@tefllife2024]

@@trippinonbud Saffy from Ab fabs twin sister.

[@rosslamb7069]

Some of the Barnhurst characters are ridiculous and belong in mental hospitals

[@rosiew1952]

Ross Lamb yes definitely Daphne Graham and her stupid fkn plants .she's really doing my head in and Willie beacham

[@sheriheffner2098]

@MrRichardMichaelDevon Doran I didn't know that.

[@helengazzara8725]

Rosemarie Martin I don’t mind them, oddly.

[@sb6678]

Yea, especially that old woman with the big ears

[@loric4550]

Don't trust Meg with anything personal unless you don't mind it being discussed in the staff room

[@GeorgeEugeneBarrett]

Nora wanting a child while serving a life sentence is the definition of self-centeredness.

[@Laladust]

G'day Sharon!!!!!! You just missed Jude.

[@TheRichmondTiger]

Wow...they've made The Freak scarier than ever with her new haircut and that metal baton thing when she visited Myra in solitary.

[@irenemorley75]

Joan look like Jock with her new haircut, maybe Joan will kill Judy's girlfriend now Sharon has come back into it again as an officer ...... so there is really life after death🙄🙄🙄🤭

[@marycalmeiro1135]

Maybe Bea will come back, or she Jacko?😢

[@lampshade8818]

Isn't that new police officer Sharon; Judy's girlfriend?

[@karennicholls2296]

Last time we saw her she was dead at the bottom of the stairs. Reincarnation?

[@sb6678]

She must be a ghost

[@bernadettelamb54]

Oh no not Pippa

[@pbworld7858]

Pippa 2.0

[@fionahepburn4766]

If Margo was still at Wentworth, there would've been Daphne and Gaffney 😆

[@tsh85]

Just when I thought Ettie couldn't get more obnoxious than she already is....

[@karinswift]

Someone's picked up Joan, must be her lucky day!

[@chris.c9885]

Only on Prisoner:CBH can Ettie be mugged on the beach by extra's from a 'Mad Max' film !!!

[@spartybrearly7221]

Ettie should be sent to Blackmore - see how long she lasts with Marie Winter and Margo Gaffney! 😆

[@darrendunn134]

Margo and Marie

[@shadegat3996]

Now with Terrie in the show, it gets a little better, because Joan starts to chill out a lot. She still gets up to her usual sadistic venom spurting, though. It just gives us a little break to see her being nice like she was with Shane or that little girl in Hospital :)

[@sushil626]

Sharon Gilmore(Judy's ex gf) is back as Teri Malone.

[@doitlikethebereans1690]

Rocket Science I thought that was her!!!!

[@kevinlongman007]

Another muff diver

[@xfreespirit1979x]

What is Lexi's problem with sitting correctly on any furniture? It can't possibly be comfortable to sit on the thin, hard back of the chair like that anyway. She drives me nuts.

[@LaCajaFuertedelVHS]

Ettie misses the 'mates' she knew for about 5 minutes... Be

[@agemoth]

I like Ann wearing neutral colours like cream and grey.. Makes her look much more distinguished and gorgeous than harsh trashy colours like royal blue and maroon.

[@bodhikalisattva]

That's some record hair growth post surgery and are we SURE Joan and Jock aren't related? 🤣 Anyone else notice the police station had an eye chart reading "Get well quick"?

[@thomaswilkinson4027]

Whatever happened to Ann’s son? last time we saw he’d been paralyzed from the waist down after being gunned down by the mob. Not eventful enough to make it into the chit chat I suppose.

[@charlottewebb7783]

Anne told wallie he was learning to walk again and doing well but can't remember him being mentioned again

[@maggiechandler8319]

@@charlottewebb7783 Yes Paul was mentioned again, when Ann told Pippa that she had received a letter and she said to Pippa it was from your brother, he was on a photographic assignment

[@72Bats]

Patterson isn’t a cheat she just copies!

[@TheRichmondTiger]

Funnily enough, the Actress who played Sonia Steven's was also a heavy smoker in real life. She requested to the writers that her character was a non-smoker so she wouldn't be smoking so heavily while making the show.

[@rosslamb5864]

Lou keeps on saying that Myras lost her muscle but the only difference is that Judy got released, was she considered Myras muscle lol... don't make me laugh all Judy did was moan at every decision Myra made and made her job as top dog difficult. She's stronger without her being around.

[@darrendunn134]

Judy can fight

[@ross1748]

@@darrendunn134 Funny joke

[@Karin-]

How the hell is it possible to have brain surgery and then be back at work in 5 minutes with all your hair? :-/

[@rayshipp9163]

Super Freak! Super Freak! It's super freakyyyyy!!!

[@susi-emily]

Depends how they shaved her hair. It's not unreasonable to suggest that hair higher on her head could be covering where they operated.

[@samisticlife]

​@susi-emily especially with all that greasen 2000

[@Laffingrl]

All these episodes later, I instantly recognized the new prison guard as Judy Bryant's ex,dead lover Sharon! You can't fool me PCBH writers!

[@ThePhantomEMT]

35:12 It's Sharon Gilmor back from the dead.

[@rosslamb5864]

That blue and black dress really suits Ruth

[@spartybrearly7221]

Daphne Graham should be transferred to Blackmore for being one of the most irritating characters in PCBH history. Graham, Egbert, Warren, Bobbi and Lexie - irritants to Blackmore!

[@Cosford869]

Why is Myra afraid of Joan in the solitary scene? Didn't she take good care of her when she thumped her in the stomach when Joan was taunting Sonia with the doll?

[@darrendunn134]

She did but freak had locker bar in her hand

[@charlottewebb582]

Ohhhhh nooooo not bloody jenny Hartley her nananananaaaa a drives me mad 😡 😭😭😭

[@ccgrey8731]

Most of the new characters are annoying as hell.

[@tsh85]

This cook is sooooooo boring......bring back Gay Ray!

[@Summer21.]

Aww, they so should have done. I would have welcomed that. 😃

[@sb6678]

Even Mrs O’Reagan was better than merv the perv

[@bernadettelamb54]

Can they not write Anne outside the prison storylines they're always awfully boring and her depressing dull looking house doesn't help matters.

[@rayshipp9163]

I loved the Paintings

[@LaCajaFuertedelVHS]

It was never believable that she'd spent 45 years in prison, much less at Wentworth!

[@TLIMSISNW_p22.1]

anybody notice the eye chart in the police station? 'get well quick' LOL.

[@SaxyLament]

lol yeah

[@felisityfoxx7224]

Haha and bad continuity, it mysteriously vanishes as the cameras switch from Ettie to the copper.

[@mattlindsay6974]

I dont like the way Ann was towards Myra. She ended up killing herself to save the other prisoners when the freak did the stupid thing of trying to stop Ballinger from escaping. Should have let her out, then call the police instead of putting all of the prisoners lives at risk. Im surprised Ferguson didnt get dismissed over that.

[@adeola1]

+matt lindsay - Spoiling things again. What's wrong with you?

[@badwolfsigma6591]

+adeola1 it's a show that's 30 years old, can hardly not talk about it

[@sb6678]

I thought Anne Yates suffocated in the dryer, now she is back as another prisoner after becoming bored being Faye Quinn’s sister.

[@YourJellyFishAteMyTV]

Two best bits of this episode, Lurchs horrible ill-fitted jeans and Joans 'gaydar' with regards to Terri

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

The actress portraying Pippa was once one of the hair stylists on the show.

[@Summer21.]

I thought I saw Christine Harris credited in earlier episodes of the show. Thanks for clearing that up for me and for that bit of trivia for everyone else. 😃

[@spartybrearly7221]

The one thing Flynn has wanted for the last twenty years is a decent haircut

[@CornishMiner]

I thought Sharon Gilmour had been murdered by Jock Stewart! Just as well Judy has gone.

[@richales8735]

CornishMiner Murdered, only to be reincarnated as Terri Malone.

[@darrendunn134]

😅🤣

[@Roger-hq1yt]

Sharon Gilmore recycled as a screw... miraculously back from the dead!

[@Rockaria23]

Oh dear, it's Pippa. Time to fast forward her bits.

[@pauliejay4161]

35:26 - The ghost of Sharon Gilmour!!

[@MsMystique420]

Very unrealistic that Ettie could beat up a Johnny Rotten character! Funny though.

[@bernadettelamb54]

I love how Ettie is scripted to win every fight she has she'd give Mike Tyson a run for his money.

[@loric4550]

These Barnhurst chicks are all off their rockers. Vera must have wanted to slap the crap out of them. I can hear her now... This isn't a holiday camp!

[@audreywooten2911]

Yep I agree

[@fabpcbhfan9592]

35:13

[@speedy692]

The Guy playing the Punk played Spider, Bobby's friend she met when she escaped. He's had a few other similar roles.

[@Tamunett]

Not feelin Joan’s new hairstyle

[@samisticlife]

Too much greasen 2000 😂

[@PrisonerCellBlockH95]

hahaha Believe it or not there's someone far worse in that era. I don't know if you've ever watched Home and Away but I can never look at Alf Stewart the same way again :P

[@Kblog777]

EC was the most evil character in the whole series of Prisoner imo.

[@karennicholls2296]

I know. Good old Alf Stewart did not play a single decent person in Prisoner. By the way, love you for this.

[@rayshipp9163]

@@karennicholls2296 Alf was actually in Summer Bay at the time lol

[@rosslamb7069]

The Sharon recycle is ridiculous

[@scottleicester4266]

Good job Bryant's gone, Sharon's back and she's gone all posh.

[@rayshipp9163]

she's far from posh

[@frankbrodie5168]

Ooh first mention of Jenny! She's real purty!

[@reginaldjones6307]

You're all on a charge!!!!!

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

@ Reginald Jones: But Officer Jones, what about my parole?

[@tefllife2024]

I didn't do it!

[@glennsanders2962]

A member of the British "ROYAL" family used to talk to plants. God bless him!

[@jarrettnelson4035]

Lexie sits in the weirdest way lol

[@marla7116]

Did Daphne tend the mushrooms at Barnhurst?

[@jamessky9155]

Imagine if Terri appeared only several episodes earlier. She could have met Judy.... Don't I know you from somewhere? No, no I don't think so. Yes, yes, I remember now... ''OH MY GOH'D'', you remind me of a woman I used to know called Sharon Gilmour. Did you know her well? Come to my cell tonight and we can talk about it over a hot cocoa. Sorry, I'm having Lezzy drinks tonight with Joan. I think I could write an episode yet, lol 21st October 2023.

[@tefllife2024]

Yay the toilets have toilet seats now!!!

[@darrendunn134]

Lou never gives up

[@badwolfsigma6591]

21:27 police officers acting at "drinking from obvious empty cup"

[@lampshade8818]

Yeah, I know- and what's worse, is that you can actually see through white plastic cups. One of the first things every actor needs to learn to do is to make a convincing job out of drinking from a mug. I think the other is to make carrying heavy baggage convincing, too.

[@kerrysmall8764]

Hey, that new officer used to be Judys girlfriend Sharon who was killed by that creep Jock. Also Mrs Renalds was an oficer at Barnherst. I think they've used other characters twice aswell.

[@mattlindsay6974]

A phone in her cell.....she could easily ring the hacksaw department to have hacksaws delivered and any other tools needed to escape.

[@8ballpoolking1]

Ann should just learn to understand and accept things as they are with Ruth or get out. All the moaning in the world won't change the fact that she is entitled to extra privileges, and for a very good reason. I think its rather pitiful that they want to continue with Ettie's character, it had more than ran its course already. If they are trying to turn her into a Lizzie Birdsworth type character trying to get back into jail then they are making a lousy job of it. She was one unique character who was sublimely played by Sheila Florence. No one can replace her.

[@kmccracken6713]

Red haired woman cashing fraudulent checks, photo in paper when Sadie reads the head.ine to Ettie, looks like Mrs Powell lol.

[@karennicholls2296]

Why doesn't anyone simply have a headache? It has to be a migraine which are not all that common.

[@colleenlamb5521]

It's like that in real life people exaggerate what's wrong with them for attention

[@giovanni1965]

I guess they decided to change Reyno's daughter's name from Julie to Peppa

[@Summer21.]

Not a very good idea for Ruth to talk about "phrasing things" in a certain way on her private telephone, so only her associates can understand what she means, when Dennis Cruikshank is standing at the end of the rec room where the pool table is.

[@emperorpalpatine783]

28:16 im in knots Ettie is hilarious lol

[@sunndive]

The metal baton is the securing bar from the window in the door to the solitary cell.

[@spartybrearly7221]

Terri Malone looks suspiciously like a previous prisoner🤔

[@fionahepburn4766]

She played Sharon Gilmore, Judy's girlfriend pushed down the stairs by Jock Stewart.

[@sb6678]

If I was that norm I’d be celebrating that Barry woman moving out of the home. She is completely useless and a waste of space

[@kathygolas2791]

How is Ballinger wearing her jewelry when she "supposedly" turned it all in when she was booked.

[@stephenpovey-jones6520]

They are only pearls, darling.

[@sb6678]

Pearls before swine

[@grecosgreecedaz6026]

Should have showed clips of barnhurst when Bea was there

[@rayshipp9163]

Thy could've used Jacko! Noone would've known the difference!

[@chrismarshall2283]

Ettie is a horrific character. No wonder viewers were switching off!

[@mcguire202]

Chris Marshall - 😐Actually it was the barnhurst lot : Norah, May, Willie, Julie & Daphine that was the death nail of the show. The show seriously does go downhill after the siege storyline. It was so clear writers had run out of ideas & they lost heart in the show. It was only when Rita's character came into the show. The show picked up a lot & ended on a real high.

[@Cosford869]

Sadie is brilliant! Really funny!

[@dementednun1175]

That was poe face in the newspaper

[@adam3141]

Isn't that officer, Judy's old flame Sharon?

[@burbercat3558]

Indeed it is. Her arrival is convenient now Judy has left otherwise she would be thinking she looked exactly like her dead ex Sharon. Funnily enough she's also as whiney.

[@cathrinehalfpenny3835]

Yes

[@darinrosedotcom]

Wasn't Anne's daughter called Julie? What's this Pippa girl?

[@volginicity]

Oh I see judy bryants girlfriend Sharon has come back from the grave to be a prison guard,thats the one that jock stewart killed throwing down the stairs.Think that's about the 12th actor/actress that's had double roles in cell block h.

[@rayshipp9163]

they make 'em tough in wentworth!

[@waynecooney4643]

oi oi the freak getting naughty thoughts about terri hahaha!

[@iguanna41]

Reynolds Daughter was called Julie never seen her but when Reynolds was asked if she had any Children she mentioned a couple of times the name Julie now she is called Pippa.

[@rayshipp9163]

changed her name so the wife of her lover doesn't find her!

[@maggieblyth2077]

Shame they got rid or the Judy, Marlene and Bobbi, Willie and May are a pain in the a***.

[@Notfunnysam]

Sharon!

[@nigelthomas4820]

Don't like Ann's daughter