Prisoner: Cell Block H - Episode 283

[@bernadettelamb54]

It was so satisfying seeing Jackie tell Powell as she left lol.

[@carolinedutton5537]

Lizzy in the boiler room was epic, going back for that last sip. She is the cutest.

[@elainegoad9777]

My mother used to carry a 5th of "White Lightening" (Moonshine) back in the 1950's, 60's, 70's back when my state, North Carolina USA was a "dry" state and and you couldn't get a drink in a restaurant/bar. She's always added a cap or two full to her 7-UP. One of our last illegal Moonshine Still Operators, "Popcorn", died a few years ago. Lizzie really has a great "Moonshine/White Lightening Still going down in the boiler room. There is a reason it was called "White Lightening" here in Western NC.

[@MrSifter]

42:03 “With our noise down here it should drown out a bazooka!” 😂😂 another great line from Lizzie 👏🏻👏🏻

[@AlanMclay]

I've said it before but Lizzie is comedy gold, that scene in the boiler room was hilarious !

[@rosiew1952]

she should have put a lid on the jar , just in case it gets tipped over lol

[@MeathookCinema]

That music too!

[@marycalmeiro1135]

Lizzie is a true Golden Girl.

[@eaglemaccallister7543]

The way Helen Smart is being treated & censored, at all costs to make sure she has absolutely no contact with the outside. Two words come to mind. (POLICE STATE)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@marilarroy7422]

I’ve watched this show a million times and every time I start watching again I always feel differently for each character than I did the previous times I watched, it’s crazy. The only show to confuse me like this but it’s awesome!!

[@soapsnthings4182]

Jackie gets off with a $500 fine, yet Judy was facing 2 years for the same offence?? (minus the parole violation, of course) Loved Jackie's parting shot at Powell, though!

[@silvana8246]

yes some things here just don't make sense, like the helen smart thing.

[@nickprince9881]

@SoapsNthings... yes, it is the same offence but Judy Sasquatch would be in the Guinness Book of Records for the escapee of the twentieth century in the Soap/Drama section. Even in the magical world of the Grundy Organisation, a serial escapee would get longer. Don't forget Sasquatch was out on a bond/licence.

[@kutaman1]

A harsher penalty because of repeat offences

[@fionan6805]

Judy’s offence was conspiring to attack and rob the man. It was her word against his. Now, it’s just opportunistic theft from a punter.

[@fionan6805]

A nasty punter at that

[@sashasectionn4287]

Am I the only one that misses Sid and Lizzie relationship

[@baronmeduse]

The only person in the entire world. Probably the universe. No-one else thought it.

[@HayleyMyles-j6v]

I do x

[@DeeTeaDee]

Yes

[@childrensorg856]

Nope. Moved on.

[@cathrinehalfpenny3835]

Yes I do

[@josephd.2725]

These last few episodes showcase Margo in some of the few occasions where she is on side and being somewhat supportive of the "good" clan! lol

[@TYNEPUNK]

Great bit of acting from Helen at 10mins!

[@samisticlife]

Think we only notice actors being used again in different roles as we're able to now watch episodes closer together than we could when it was originally aired

[@sheriheffner2098]

HAH! For a second I thought Meg was about to say " Just what I need, a cigarette." Seeing Colleen sitting there lighting hers.

[@josephd.2725]

37:35 Nice to see Jenny Powell enjoying the Sugar Ray Leonard vs Bruce Finch Welterweight world title fight in 1982! lol

[@adelesteele2008]

What is really 'depressing' is that we had some covers for our settees, similar to the la chez powell and we only got rid of them about 3 years ago!

[@MzRage]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@nickprince9881]

I'm missing the magic table cloth

[@Mynewlife2025]

We had exactly the same dining room chairs. I thought they were so cool back then.

[@bernadettelamb5990]

What Jackie said to Po face on her way out 😂

[@MidnightEagle26974]

Mrs Beamish is the same person who played Karen’s mother in an early episode, and then came back in a later episode as a nun

[@Mynewlife2025]

Poor thing, type cast as a dry vag.

[@jacquelineedwards701]

well spotted, I knew i was not going bonkers!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@HayleyMyles-j6v]

Recognised her straight away x

[@Frooqi786]

That's what I thought as well

[@ninjaprincess26]

Smart how bee takes breaks from each episode to keep her character appreciated

[@chris.c9885]

So Joyce Barry has finally returned !! Not seen her since the stripping incident. Erica must of given her some time off to recover from her shock ! When Colleen set fire to Carol's letter in the staff room why didn't it set off the smoke detector's. We know there is one in the staff room as in a previous episode one of the prisoners set fire to a locker in there, setting the alarms off.

[@Mynewlife2025]

Joyce Barry has been unconscious since the stripping incident and is being treated at Wentworth General. G spot went wild like a piglet.

[@wisecampmotorcycles8258]

One piece of paper won't set the smoke alarm off.

[@IndianChiefDarkhouse]

I often burn a single piece of paper, it never sets off the smoke alarms, neither does my open fire.

[@emmaroome6486]

Joyce Barry s been away practicing shuffle hop spring brush step step 😂

[@Sheri451]

Poor Helen..OOOOHHH! According to the pictures on here, it's four more episodes to Joan Ferguson

[@natvan29]

I don't know why everyone's so excited about Joan coming she made the show boring

[@sheriheffner2098]

@@natvan29 Says you.

[@sheriheffner2098]

I love that music they're playing as Lizzie tries the concoction she made in the boiler. Is it Vodka?

[@paulwalters5349]

36:06 Lizzy in the boiler room scene the music sounds like Steptoe & Son theme tune

[@mansellracing8690]

You little ripper, I was just saying that, It's true i wonder if anyone else can here that to,Infact i was singing the Steptoe & son music to it when i was watching it, Well spotted sir.

[@fionan6805]

Nice wee bit of comic relief I thought

[@Julie44Inlouisiana]

Thanks for sharing these episodes

[@timpaden3641]

The lovely Mrs Beamish at the Church Hostel, umming and aaahing over Susie, great Christian charity!

[@ukchristian28]

I have imagine her as the Mrs Beamish in this song. Maybe there is an Anglican church in Melbourne. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5SbYXpsjt-oZpY

[@sb6678]

She is in training for a future role.

[@8ballpoolking1]

Just because Colleen has destroyed the letter Jenny sent, she can still give evidence verbally in Carol's favour anyway. There is nothing she can do to stop her either so she wants to learn to accept it. Judy needs to stop and think more about what is at stake for her now. She was warned by Erica to keep her nose clean until she is released and then she goes and gets involved with that muck in the boiler room, against Bea's better judgment, and in addition to that she then participates in the plan to help Helen. That Mrs Beamish in the girls home looks a right old cow face! Susie would almost be better off staying where she is if early indications are any guidance.

[@Munrobagger1976]

Yes Mrs Beamish is a dragon

[@michelleevans4948]

@@Munrobagger1976 Karen travers mum

[@davidhamlin992]

Mrs my hands are tied Davison.

[@Mynewlife2025]

Yes very well, once my hands are untied, I'm pleased to advise.....you mey go!

[@sb6678]

And send a meemo to that effect.

[@burbercat3558]

That's a very large boiler room and looks like it would need a lot of maintenance, so why does nobody down their? I find it hard to believe they could get away with making a still so openly.

[@frankbrodie5168]

So sad to see Colleen, already having suffered, letting herself go to the dark side. Which won't ever help her recover from her ordeal. It will just add another sin on top of the pile. (and yes, I know how this particular bit ends.)

[@rupert-j8f]

officer powell,s husband is a dead ringer for "phil lynott" from the 1970s irish group thin lizzy. i always expect him to start singing jailbreak at any time.

[@angieparry3010]

😂😂😂

[@paulwalters5349]

Phil Lynott is mixed race

[@zorenxam4693]

Karen Travers mother returns again as mrs. Beamish. I just find it weird I'm sure other people keeping up on this Saga does also

[@Mynewlife2025]

Should've brought back her friend Madge Whitton, double the dry vagina again!!

[@kevintraynor4508]

I'm overwhelmed with Maroges brilliant ideas😁

[@farrellmcnulty909]

😆Just like Blair from "The Facts of Life".

[@2008giles]

What on earth are the 'extras' prisoner officers doing at 45:00 - a half-hearted attempt to cover up their ears from the noise?!

[@bikeride3054]

Isn't that cop actually Lionel Fellowes lol

[@ajs41]

Yes he is. The actor plays lots of characters in the show.

[@amykjorlien326]

Love when Helen asks if Mrs. Davidson is a lesbian...classic

[@Finse1605]

roflmfao

[@Imjustlurkingidk]

hey when she said shed probably be into skinny brunettes it u think bout it VERA WAS

[@cathrinehalfpenny3835]

She could be that's why her and the freak don't get on

[@lamontbradford4630]

I think Davo And Meg have a thing going on.

[@stephenpovey-jones6520]

8/4/19 - "Got a Mick like a Kule". First time I got that in watching it probably 10 times now!!!!!

[@eviem2514]

30:19... yeah right, like the staff room's not going to smell of paper smoke.📄🚬

[@Jamesjamsi]

... countdown is progressing: 4...

[@blueboychapple]

do you really have to tell ppl when the freak comes into the show let ppl find out for themselves!!!!

[@izaaksalazar6301]

@@blueboychapple - He didn't mention anybody- you did.

[@emmaroome6486]

😂😂😂

[@SteveHulkUK]

36:10 ...what the heck is that music?! 🤣

[@kronenbourg316]

Loving lizzie's new music Only lizzie would take a gulp of the booze and not wince at the taste Hardcore

[@elainegoad9777]

Po Face needs to be fired and charges brought against her.

[@sandrajohnson5804]

They can't fire Po face😮 they have to wait so she can get Janice Youngs husband😂

[@sb6678]

Did that inspector play a thug in a previous episode? His weird voice sounds familiar

[@rosslamb6643]

Misses Beamish was only interested in helping when she seen it would get her publicity. Typical.

[@jessicaj8564]

Now Karen’s mother is recycled too!😂

[@farrellmcnulty909]

Wait, does she play that bitch at the halfway house Susie gets sent to?

[@ronnielight4102]

That's who she is, I couldn't place her

[@sb6678]

She turns up again later in the series as someone else

[@bernadettelamb5990]

Margos so funny 😂

[@mcguire202]

Lizzy is a true legend in this show. Totally adore Lizzy. But at 36:11 - Whats with the daft song lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

[@djstephennicholls]

@35:37 Still cracks me up. " In that case Mrs Powell, you know... you could be quite nice really, If you where not such a miserable bitch" 😂

[@josephd.2725]

I thought Steve was leaving a tape recorder for Helen, not some stupid music lol. But I guess that would have been an obvious breach considering she wasn't allowed a pen and paper!

[@bernadettelamb54]

We even have Davo calling Suzie 'Susen' ridiculous.

[@sarahkorver2439]

Lizzie having her last sip of the old grog lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mansellracing8690]

YEH! that Steptoe & son music just made it even more funny, What an actress she was, Brilliant.

[@sheriheffner2098]

At 19:40, OH NO! Not her again, she's up there with Bea Smith's dead husband Jack.

[@incrediblehulks1595]

How did Steve get hold of Vera's radio?

[@farrellmcnulty909]

He slept with her.

[@lovecatspiracy]

Haha, "Wentworth" made "Erica Davidson" a lesbian who liked a skinny brunette, "Frankie".

[@boolah128]

love cat OMG that’s right!

[@wisecampmotorcycles8258]

Mrs Powell's husband was in Home and Away in around late 90's.

[@adelesteele2008]

@36:36 'water' never tasted so good!

[@revagrundy1075]

Powell’s husband’s hair 😂

[@rosiew1952]

I think its lovely, love a man with curly hair lol

[@sadiestoltzfus9798]

I read a comment stating his hair looks like Big Birds feathers.

[@michaellindahl7969]

18:25: Gorilla's armpit. Hahaha Judy!

[@jacquelineedwards701]

Even though i watch these episodes again,,, I still think I have missed key things and people re-appearing as different characters,,,, its great when you spot them,, like the lady of the girls school meg is speaking to used to play karens mother at the beginning of Prisoner Cell Block H.. keep Safe ..

[@mansellracing8690]

YEH! i know what you mean, Like the Steptoe and son style music when Our Lizzie is supping the Grog, I don't remember that to be honest, And the women at the school Karen's mom, i had to think about it, it didn't click till i read your comment. I knew her face, But couldn't think who she was.

[@MarzieMalfoy]

I don't think it's Carol that Powell is angry at.. it's the fact that Carol is a reminder of when she couldn't protect her daughter. And someone needs to pay in her mind, even at the expense of the women who protected her daughter (which in further thought, Powell is probably angry at herself for that).

[@elainegoad9777]

Po Face Powell still has no right to appoint herself Judge, Jury and meet out any punishment and harassment she deems fit any time she feels justified. Carol shouldn't even be in the facility where Powell works. The incompetency of this prison and the justice system regarding these women prisoners is criminal.

[@MarzieMalfoy]

@elainegoad9777 oh of course! I didn't mean to suggest that she had every right to do what she did. I was just giving some of my own perspective of why she acted that way. You are absolutely correct and I should have added that in as well.

[@Mynewlife2025]

22:30 can't walk on water.....got ball n chain....

[@bernadettelamb54]

Doreen saying Steve has no guts, yes okay Doreen

[@farrellmcnulty909]

She's a bastien of courage. Notice the way she just chomped at the bit to donate her kidney to Bea.

[@tarbellehiggins8234]

Terrific scene with Lizzie swilling the grog in the boiler room! And the background music kicking in around 36:10 is too perfect--it brings to mind a kiddies' show with all sorts of animated neon-colored critters at work in a fantastic construction zone. Hope Powell ends up being exposed and incurring Erica's wrath for all her shenanigans. Whereas Vera was so pathetic you just wanted to spit on her, PoFace is truly the kind of loathsome bitch you love to hate!

[@scottleicester4266]

Could Margo hit that chisel any softer lol.

[@robertboyle2573]

Was that Reg Gutteridge doing the boxing commentary?

[@andrewmorrice9139]

Suzie Driscoll wants a job? Got it! Escape artist.

[@ravenswing64]

whats Karens mum doing back running a church hostel lol

[@nickprince9881]

She just can't get enough of it.

[@jonathanbuxton6991]

Never knew Karen Travis Mother runs a boarding house lol

[@lamontbradford4630]

10:47 of course Helen would suspect you of planting the drugs. You’re the biggest drug kingpin in all of Australia.

[@sandi43able]

Poor Helen Smart

[@bernadettelamb54]

Margos so funny lol

[@chloeleech6293]

cockney, buzzin 24/7 mi still watching 17/4/16😇

[@Frooqi786]

Jenny Powell is the spitting image of Jordan Henderson 🤣 (ex LFC player)

[@andrewjoyce4034]

That's not like Helen Smart to crack up

[@eviem2514]

23:00... The police lady in reception, is the ugly chick that played Gordon's Wife, at the cemetery the day of Syd's burial.😖

[@Mynewlife2025]

Looks like a mannequin from Woolworths variety window.

[@cathrinehalfpenny3835]

Love Helen I feel for her

[@392Lesley]

Powells daughter going to go to court to give evidence and Powell goes to work!!!!!!! Mind you she went to work when her daughter was missing. Great parenting skills on show there Powell. Wonder if shes miss her daughter testifying coz shes so wrapped up in her work. Ill just have to watch 284 now to find out....hoovering can wait another 45 mins.

[@beasmith1]

Coleen Powel always cared more about her job than her family.

[@jtpinnyc]

Karen Travers' mother gets about

[@rosslamb7069]

That Misses Bemuish or however it's spelt represents most people who 'help' others

[@PaulDoe79]

Jackie says it all. "You can be quite nice really. If you weren't such a miserable bitch." Po Face sure changed for the better once a freakish new guard appears.

[@samisticlife]

Safeway bag in the background at 29:29

[@pauliejay4161]

4:08 - "And all being well the sentence should be quashed" - Sasquashed, that is.

[@Sheri451]

BTW? Why does the theme song get slowed down when the lady sings it? Has anyone else noticed that?

[@laurenbrooks3091]

Gaw, Gaffney. Put your back into it. Damn.

[@MsVelasca]

Love the music at 36.10

[@GeorgeEugeneBarrett]

@ 16:16 - I would give Helen a pen, alright.

[@Sheri451]

Lizzie the lush.I happen to like the "poor miserable bitch.". As Jackie called Colleen. I liked the ending. Goodnight folks.

[@eviem2514]

36:25 "YOU LITTLE BEAUTY" Drinky-Drinky.🍺🍺😆

[@boolah128]

Evie m I like Lizzie’s drinkin’ music 😀

[@elainegoad9777]

The system is more criminal than the criminals !

[@mike-kellydutkiewicz5991]

I cannot with Doreen 🙄

[@zorenxam4693]

I hate that they're doing this crap to Helen smart this is so sad she's such a great character she's so beautiful and they're just screwing her over for no damn reason very sad

[@elainegoad9777]

The reason is she has evidence against a person in power and the police and Governor Erica are suppressing the evidence and Helen is the victim here. Now I have lost my respect for Erica as she is a two face bitch. Don't let her prim and proper manners fool you.

[@sashasectionn4287]

Can I just say I really prefer this new uniform

[@josephd.2725]

HOW do the women just get free reign of the boiler room?? lol

[@samisticlife]

Lizzie got an impression of the key off an officer after faking a turn in the corridor and Judy made it in the workshop

[@josephd.2725]

@@samisticlife I know, but still... the women's movements are just off the hook. Like when they just drop in to the staff room too.. lol

[@Matrịx.101-o2s]

12.40 Corona lol

[@Estepona-kx2vr]

Sgt Ryan has re-emerged as a policeman and was previously a court barrister and a radio horse racing pundit. 🙄

[@prd1073]

He also played the supermarket boss where Georgie Baxter went to work, a sailor who picks up Ros Coulson, and the doctor who performed an abortion for Karen Travers.

[@lamontbradford4630]

And Lionel Fellows

[@nikkiderricott4169]

4 more episodes until The Freak 😨

[@adrianenglish4909]

Who is this freak ?

[@sashasectionn4287]

adrian english lol 😂 😆 😝

[@marycalmeiro1135]

A big disappointment

[@jiggarypokery]

35:53 Judith McGrath plays such a brilliant 'miserable bitch' she is my favourite screw in Prisoner.

[@johnw2328]

Agree 👍 agree 👍 agree 👍

[@nevermore380]

The landlady of the girls' boarding house was Karen Travers' mother...

[@Magnificentnailsbynina]

James Cannon Right! lol recycling recyling actors

[@rpatricknabors]

James Cannon. and still playing an uptight old bitch.

[@ChristAndChristCrucified]

I thought she looked familiar.

[@williamf4544]

I guess there was a shortage of innocent people to play the innocent parts - it makes you think

[@tammylynn4478]

holy shit....so judy just got told she will be released soon and she`s willing to risk it all for a drink....show`s how much she cares about what her daughter did for her....these writers sure were not prepared to carry this show out for so long....every story is the same....and for all you who think judy is a saint....give your head a shake....and she is always on about how it`s everyones fault but hers why she keeps ending up back there....please...not to mention whining about how they never get a `fair go` on the outside.......

[@kop1986]

Is "Darling" Bob gone for good?

[@adrianenglish4909]

Bloody hope so

[@Mynewlife2025]

Yes darling.

[@kop1986]

@@Mynewlife2025 🤣🤣🤣

[@shafiquezaman3508]

Africa, Bob’s home.

[@sadiestoltzfus9798]

I think Meg and Bob split up. I don't understand why they made such a darling couple.

[@racinggal33]

You can tell who wears the pants in Colleen's relationship.

[@tessatrebelli9570]

im picturing judy as erica's baby daddy ahahha