Love it when The Freak is at the half-way house and she says.. "one more word out of you, Smart, and I'll....". Or you'll what? Judy reminds her they are not in Wentworth any more and promptly kicks her the hell out! So cool. That was gold! haha
Thank you to whomever uploaded this series. I watched it once before in 1981 and 82 on Global TV in Toronto, but only up to the time that Leanne Burke fell off the roof during the protest over Jock Stewart. This is all new territory for me and I'm enjoying it so far.
This is a really well constructed episode. I can see why Val Lehman often cites Leigh Spence as one of the show's best directors. Some nice variety with low angle shots to create a mood of secrecy at key moments. Bea Smith mending the steam press was a nice touch showing just how familiar the character is with the place she has lived for the last 10+years. It's in many ways an uneventful episode, but it does show how the writers, when on good form, could make the mundane very enticing. Bea and Joan's power play has a real sense of menace and implication of looming danger whilst dragging both inmates and officers into the crossfire. I like how the writers inject the officers with a degree of reality in these episodes. Even Meg understands the need to break the rules if they're going to get rid of Ferguson. Even the halfway house scenes are effective with some comic moments with Daniels, Smart and Bryant. Helen's defiant defence of prostitution gave the character a lot of dimension without it being preachy or out of place. A very good episode that a lot of modern shows could learn from.
42:20........a superb little "blink and you'd miss it" scene where Bea says 'you never give up, do you?' and Lizzie puts her serious face on and shakes her head. I never noticed it before but it sums Lizzie up perfectly!
They're definitely experimenting with some new camera angles in this episode. We've had the view from under the press, the view from the top of the stairs in the halfway house, the overhead view of Chrissie lying on her bed and the up and over pan-shot of the loading bay at 26:58
Hip, hip hurray! Judy's back! There's an aviary in one of your rooms Judy! How exciting! Judy throws Fergo out on the fake street! LOL! That male nurse only has eyes for Chrissie!
14:34 "Drawing up the contracts.." lol...always loved this line, sticks in the mind for some reason. I think it's the way Joan subtly threatens Fields; I also love Joan's speech pattern, particularly the way she says "insubordination" lol...
There are times that Joan's manner of speaking that remind me of Alan Rickman's portrayal of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films lol... Slow but over-emphasis on certain syllables ... But she also reminds me of Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows" ... With a bit of Lerch from "The Addams Family* ..., *EEK*
26:36 So funny the way Bea's breath ruffles Margot's fringe. 31;07 to 31:53 I guess Paddy must be about 100 years old if she had a Victorian childhood.
that music when Maxi drives up to the house reminds me of the Tetley Tea ad in the 90s....a lovely daaaaay. Peter looks like that copper off the Thin Blue Line.... the one who kept saying , "Fannying about!!!!". The way Judy returns to the house and nonchalantly responds to the slew of murders that have gone on while she was away. Funny when Barbara Fields said , " She's always saying how she wants to go to bed with Mr. Murray. " How sweetly put..made me LOL. WHY on EARTH would Chrissie wanna slide down his pole? The man looks like someone who waits for the bookie's to open. It seems Wiseman needs to stick around and check Latham's head. I reckon I could make a Sally Dempster mask by putting 2 currants in a ball of dough and then squashing said mixture between my cheeks.
Tony. The halfway house is for those ex prisoners who really need the accommodation not working girls who earn enough money and don't even want to be there, in the hope they're suddenly going to go straight and get a secretarial job next week? OK, there may be prostitutes that desperately want to get off the game and can stay there for a while. But honestly, Trixie and Francene seem happy with what they do.
@Oliver M You’re right that some prostitutes want to leave that line of work to live safer, healthier lives, free of crime, unlike Francine and Trixie, for example. They’re happy staying in that line of work, it seems. If Tony had helped other vulnerable people instead of being too nice, friendly and helpful, accommodating prostitutes, he wouldn’t have been accused of murdering Penny Seymour, Tina Gibson and attempting to murder Helen Smart, who is scared for her life, suspecting him and/or any other man she meets, even at work, as she told Judy earlier in this episode.
Isn’t Smart supposed to live a flamboyant, elegant life on the game? All fancy dinners escorting in designer gear and a nice flat to entertain her punters. As if you’d give that up for a dull, dead end job as a secretary on minimum wage
I think the idea was to get the halfway house filled with women so the council or the department or whoever does stuff can't shut it down. They had problems attracting ex-cons, apparently.
It was only a few episodes ago she had the tar and feather routine. I like Margo always trying to be the tough ,but at the first bit of resistance she backs off completely. Margo is an interesting character. I wish they would have put her under hypnosis. I would love to find out what makes her tick.
I think that little Michelle is a doll. She reminds me of a former child actress that played a character named Michelle Bauer on Guiding Light in the nineties. Rachel Miner is her name, she grew up and married former child star Maculey Culkin. Unfortunately, the marriage didn't last for long.
I won't be popular for saying this i know that but rewatching these episodes now the freak just gets on my nerves now. There are 400 episodes of her behaving the same way having the same stories over and over. It gets really tedious to me.
Grundy’s should have been brave enough to end Ferguson at the end of 1984 with the Selby lagging nun storyline - after that, the character is stale, we’ve seen it all before and it’s like watching a pantomime villain
@@joedaley3054 It's the exact same set. Colleen's kitchen is very obviously the same set as Sid's kitchen, and the rest of the house too. I'm sure they justified this in their minds by the fact that they lived next door to each other and hence the architecture was the same.
18:35 Making Judy's assistant seem like the killer is just a diversion to keep the viewer guessing, especially since the identity of the killer was already revealed in episode 312. Even though the killer was shown in shadow, the physical build does not match that of Tony Berman, and there is no doubt as to who it belongs to. Besides, we already know that the killer has a car--a 4-door type of model. Does Tony even drive?
Boy, you're good. I couldn't recognise him by his build. At first, I thought it WAS Ferguson after all...but then, it struck me as a man's build. But whose?
He's a red herring for sure. I don't know but it's a cool journey finding out - if we ever do. I love these episodes. Great stuff. Keeps me interested.
I used to be petrified of the dark as a small child. I remember when I was about five years old, I don't know what I had done, but my mum shut me in a dark room and I remember screaming and crying for a long time. I can remember that like it was yesterday, plus she used to pinch the crap out of my sister and myself in church because we used to whisper during the sermon. Sometimes she dug her fingernails into our skin. One afternoon we were at an ice cream place here called Dairy Queen, I was sipping a milkshake, we were sitting on the back of a station wagon, like The Brady Bunch had, it was a friends car. I accidently knocked my cup of milkshake over a a teeny bit spilled onto the metal part of the back of that station wagon. My mum pinched the crap out of me, I began crying with a mouth full of milkshake. I could have choked on that. She didn't even apologize for making me cry, it took one swipe with a paper napkin to wipe up the spill. I told myself when I was old enough to understand that not all mothers pinch their children, that I would NEVER pinch any child of mine. I have a niece and nephews and I have never one time spanked them or pinched them.
...yer mum was a biatch...parents do horrible crap to their kids when the stress is too great & when their mate/spouse, doesn't help-out with the kids...after-all, parents need to raise kids together, not apart ...anybody can work a job all day & come home & do NOTHING !!
I don’t understand the point of this comment. Many of us I’m this world have abusive parents or family members who do far worse things than this. Think yourself lucky you were not beaten, starved, locked in a cupboard for days upon end and molested
...WHAt was that crazy jaw movement MEG did in the break-room ? Lol ! So, why didn't FERGO go to the Classification meet, so she could hear what the psych had to say...about PATTY...insteAD SHe hasseled the Crims...&I hope MARGO goes to live with NOELENE..cuz they both have the same bloody mind-set...!
I heard that Joan was originally intended to appear in about 16 episodes, but her popularity led to her being kept on. She joined in 287. I can see how this story arc could have been adapted so that she was the ripper.
Wendy walked out of the staff room uneventfully after a tiff with stud Steve Fawkner around episode 291, after a huge run since the first ever episodes. That was it for her; she was never seen or spoken of again!
Utterly ridiculous hypnosis scene, with some Dickensian childhood flashback, with little Paddy going 'I tried so hard Mummy'. Just made me laugh but I don't think it was intended to be funny.
Alan Mclay Yes, i can put up with her now. She was in the show from the start so she had to go in the end. I have watched it so many times that i have become desensitized to her :)
Sandy Wilson was the real life inmate that inspired the Prisoner halfway house stories. I think they made the Nora Flynn character after Sandy. She was in prison for murder like Nora I think.She was in prison twenty years I think.
The whole "who's killing the pros" storyline reminds me so much of the Sandy Edwards ending-- everyone wondering what happened or ,in this case it's, who done it . Thought that little pat on the rump Bea gave to Margo was interesting . Looks like all's been forgiven.
Anne Reynolds and Meg Morris are so two-faced with how they treat Ferguson; it’s all ‘damn you Ferguson’ but they have several times to sack her but they always back down and reinstate her
1corrsfan its just a shop / corner store that can sell anything from milk, bread, lollies, ice creams, ice blocks ,cigarettes and whatever else they wish to sell. 🍬🍦🍩🍰☺😁
I'd think it would be funny; if it were Davo's glove, found at the scene of the crime. The Freak investigating the crime. There wouldn't be a need to investigate; if she would've locked her locker. Leaving her locker unlocked; with all that money she stole from the prisoners. Ferguson must clear her name. Harrassing Judy; good for Judy telling the freak off and ordering her off the property
Sally Dempster and her dreadful husband are up there with the worst of the "middle class housewife with a baaaaastard husband" characters the writers saddled us with over the years. See also Catherine Roberts, Gail Summers, Alison Page, and, still to come, Nancy McCormack. I think, because these characters all start out in the show with the most tenuous of links with the regulars, we immediately know this is an insipid attempt at covering a "contemporary issue" and that the female lead will somehow end up in Wentworth. But, they all fall flat because they're not relatable in their chinsey surroundings, with pink net curtains, crystal decanters, spindled archways, and floral 3-piece suites. Their dialogue is clunky, the guest actors are often poor, and, as a viewer, you just hope their 6 or 13 week stint is over and done with as soon as possible!
I agree about all of them, apart from Nancy McCormack. The character is the complete opposite of Connors, two women who would have never met under normal circumstances, but who teach each other about themselves in many ways
The scene with Paddy reminds me of when I was little, I don't remember how old I was, maybe five? My mum shut me in the front room and turned out the lights. She knew I was afraid of the dark. I kept screaming and crying but she just left me in the dark room. She used to enjoy punishing me or my younger sister. But usually it was me who got the blame for things that happened. My dad was always at work whenever stuff happened. Then she'd tell him what I done and he'd whip me with a belt. 😭
Jesus! some people don't deserve to have children. I wouldn't do that to any child least of all my own. So sorry for you. I hope you're in a better place now. 💛 💗
Pat Bishop only ever had one role in Prisoner, as Antonia McNally. She never reappeared in the series again in another role. She was good friends with series writer, Denise Morgan and Fiona Spence in real life too
hmmm? im not too sure now if the docs the killer.. hellen has a pretty good damned argument going with her theory that the halfway house guy could be scaring people into staying there.
The lighting in this episode is terrible! Even Amanda Muggleton and Val Lehman commented on it in the 310 the commentary. Its my favourite period of the show too.
The Friek to Chrissie: "Sluts like you...tarts..." Why oh why does she get away w saying demeaning things like this? Even Vera wasn't quite so cruel, cruel as she was.
....but VERA had a classic way of insulting someone...& a softer-side, too...FERGO, is just plain gutteral & a flim-flammer & she could be satan's girlfriend, on top of every-thing ELSE..Lol !
I only saw Vera get really cruel on two occasions. When she taunted Bea about not letting her go tonDebbie's funeral during the amnesia story, and then when she went after Jude about her lesbianism. Otherwise she just saw them all as "animals". Though she did gave a soft spot for Lizzie and we saw a good side to her at those times. Joan doesn't seem to like any of them at all.
My maternal grandmother used to lock me & my brothers in her icky basement and she'd shut off the lights. Im glad im not claustiphobic! I do hate her though!
WHO EVER PUT THE COMPLETE EPISODES OF PRISONER ON YOU TUBE IS THE GREATEST HUMAN EVER TO LIVE.☺😃🥇🏆
Ray S agreed 😀
More than one person has done it.
@@ajs41 so, we the fans are thankful to all of them.
I agree..I've been sick and binged these, getting out of my head.
Yesssssss. Thank you , I would never got the joy of witnessing such a fantastic piece of international tv history
Glad Helen Smart managed to avoid being murdered… she’s one of my favourite recurring characters on the show so far
Yeah mine too, I was scared she was gonna get murdered x
Love it when The Freak is at the half-way house and she says.. "one more word out of you, Smart, and I'll....". Or you'll what? Judy reminds her they are not in Wentworth any more and promptly kicks her the hell out! So cool. That was gold! haha
Yes, I loved that bit, just class, and seconds before Judy said ''Get out'' I said out loud.... ''GET OUT'', hahaha
31st May 2023.
Great 2 see Judy get one up on Joan! Once again many thanks for the uploads!
Lizzie '' You make me feel like a mushroom. Kept in the dark and covered in Bullshit'' LOL
...hhhaaa....LIZZY !!!
I know it cracked me up too, gotta try remember that one :P LOL
common saying here xxx
Thank you to whomever uploaded this series. I watched it once before in 1981 and 82 on Global TV in Toronto, but only up to the time that Leanne Burke fell off the roof during the protest over Jock Stewart. This is all new territory for me and I'm enjoying it so far.
This is a really well constructed episode. I can see why Val Lehman often cites Leigh Spence as one of the show's best directors. Some nice variety with low angle shots to create a mood of secrecy at key moments. Bea Smith mending the steam press was a nice touch showing just how familiar the character is with the place she has lived for the last 10+years.
It's in many ways an uneventful episode, but it does show how the writers, when on good form, could make the mundane very enticing. Bea and Joan's power play has a real sense of menace and implication of looming danger whilst dragging both inmates and officers into the crossfire.
I like how the writers inject the officers with a degree of reality in these episodes. Even Meg understands the need to break the rules if they're going to get rid of Ferguson.
Even the halfway house scenes are effective with some comic moments with Daniels, Smart and Bryant. Helen's defiant defence of prostitution gave the character a lot of dimension without it being preachy or out of place.
A very good episode that a lot of modern shows could learn from.
It puts modern shows to shame.
Betty Bobbit loved Leigh Spence too. She said he was the director when she escaped from hospital in the 100s. Is he the brother if Fiona Spence?
19:42 Tony Berman has perhaps one of the world's first man purses.
It's a murse LOL
It's a wallet isn't it.
It's very inner city Melbourne bag.
I had to re-read that LOL I thought you wrote man pus... well you can imagine. lol
Judy's mugshot... now that's the look of disappointment! lol
42:20........a superb little "blink and you'd miss it" scene where Bea says 'you never give up, do you?' and Lizzie puts her serious face on and shakes her head. I never noticed it before but it sums Lizzie up perfectly!
They're definitely experimenting with some new camera angles in this episode. We've had the view from under the press, the view from the top of the stairs in the halfway house, the overhead view of Chrissie lying on her bed and the up and over pan-shot of the loading bay at 26:58
@@eugenedegeorge5084 lmao that was about 100 episodes ago😂
THE NURSE HAS MEGS OLD LEGOMAN HAIRSTYLE .
Some great camera angles in this episode, very imaginative
Hip, hip hurray! Judy's back! There's an aviary in one of your rooms Judy! How exciting! Judy throws Fergo out on the fake street! LOL! That male nurse only has eyes for Chrissie!
14:34 "Drawing up the contracts.." lol...always loved this line, sticks in the mind for some reason. I think it's the way Joan subtly threatens Fields; I also love Joan's speech pattern, particularly the way she says "insubordination" lol...
There are times that Joan's manner of speaking that remind me of Alan Rickman's portrayal of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films lol... Slow but over-emphasis on certain syllables ... But she also reminds me of Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows" ... With a bit of Lerch from "The Addams Family* ..., *EEK*
...oohh, yea, more JONATHAN FRID, definitely....FERGOJON...Lol ! I sure loved J.F.....I thought he was sexy in DARK SHADOWS....but FERGO is a boor...
I've been saying INsubordinATION like that since I first watched Prisoner in the late 80's
5:08 whoa a little insight into the operation of the press there, I never knew there was footwork involved!
Who knew! I certainly didn't!
Sally Dempster’s face when Maxine walks in the door is classic!!
Sally Dempster’s face is unique
26:36 So funny the way Bea's breath ruffles Margot's fringe.
31;07 to 31:53 I guess Paddy must be about 100 years old if she had a Victorian childhood.
That was funny at about 34.20 when Meg was talking about sneaky things and her jaw did that funny side to side thing.
Bea smacking Margos butt! Thats too funny! :D
maxine is so funny shes a right laugh xx
that music when Maxi drives up to the house reminds me of the Tetley Tea ad in the 90s....a lovely daaaaay.
Peter looks like that copper off the Thin Blue Line.... the one who kept saying , "Fannying about!!!!".
The way Judy returns to the house and nonchalantly responds to the slew of murders that have gone on while she was away.
Funny when Barbara Fields said , " She's always saying how she wants to go to bed with Mr. Murray. " How sweetly put..made me LOL. WHY on EARTH would Chrissie wanna slide down his pole? The man looks like someone who waits for the bookie's to open. It seems Wiseman needs to stick around and check Latham's head.
I reckon I could make a Sally Dempster mask by putting 2 currants in a ball of dough and then squashing said mixture between my cheeks.
I am crying with laughter at the Sally Dempster joke lmao in tears hysterical. Well done 👏🏻👏🏻💎😉👍🏻😊😂😂😂😂
loved the Sally Dempster mask remark! Very true!!!
@@jonathanfollone2729 what does it mean? I don’t get it
@@hirhprincealexisvon-habsbu263 I don’t get it
Oh I get it now when I saw the actress! 😂😂
Tony. The halfway house is for those ex prisoners who really need the accommodation not working girls who earn enough money and don't even want to be there, in the hope they're suddenly going to go straight and get a secretarial job next week? OK, there may be prostitutes that desperately want to get off the game and can stay there for a while. But honestly, Trixie and Francene seem happy with what they do.
@Oliver M You’re right that some prostitutes want to leave that line of work to live safer, healthier lives, free of crime, unlike Francine and Trixie, for example. They’re happy staying in that line of work, it seems.
If Tony had helped other vulnerable people instead of being too nice, friendly and helpful, accommodating prostitutes, he wouldn’t have been accused of murdering Penny Seymour, Tina Gibson and attempting to murder Helen Smart, who is scared for her life, suspecting him and/or any other man she meets, even at work, as she told Judy earlier in this episode.
Isn’t Smart supposed to live a flamboyant, elegant life on the game? All fancy dinners escorting in designer gear and a nice flat to entertain her punters. As if you’d give that up for a dull, dead end job as a secretary on minimum wage
@Redsleather that's what I dreamed of when I once worked as a secretary. 😁
I think the idea was to get the halfway house filled with women so the council or the department or whoever does stuff can't shut it down. They had problems attracting ex-cons, apparently.
Margo is long overdue for a bashing from Bea.
agreed.
It was only a few episodes ago she had the tar and feather routine. I like Margo always trying to be the tough ,but at the first bit of resistance she backs off completely. Margo is an interesting character. I wish they would have put her under hypnosis. I would love to find out what makes her tick.
Agree she's annoying
I think that little Michelle is a doll. She reminds me of a former child actress that played a character named Michelle Bauer on Guiding Light in the nineties. Rachel Miner is her name, she grew up and married former child star Maculey Culkin. Unfortunately, the marriage didn't last for long.
I won't be popular for saying this i know that but rewatching these episodes now the freak just gets on my nerves now. There are 400 episodes of her behaving the same way having the same stories over and over. It gets really tedious to me.
Grundy’s should have been brave enough to end Ferguson at the end of 1984 with the Selby lagging nun storyline - after that, the character is stale, we’ve seen it all before and it’s like watching a pantomime villain
Fergusons too smart and experienced and cunning to fall into that silly trap set by the staff
Maybe they should make officer Ferguson play a game of Strip poker. And then take a photo of her naked. And send it to the TV show. You been framed.
Jude in it for another 210 episodes
20:46 - That family has Coleen's bird pictures hanging in their hallway and up the stairs.
The inside of Colleen Powell's house looks like a recycled stage set of Sid Humphrey's house...
@@joedaley3054 It's the exact same set. Colleen's kitchen is very obviously the same set as Sid's kitchen, and the rest of the house too. I'm sure they justified this in their minds by the fact that they lived next door to each other and hence the architecture was the same.
Guy at Judy's walks in with a purse handbag😂
18:35 Making Judy's assistant seem like the killer is just a diversion to keep the viewer guessing, especially since the identity of the killer was already revealed in episode 312. Even though the killer was shown in shadow, the physical build does not match that of Tony Berman, and there is no doubt as to who it belongs to. Besides, we already know that the killer has a car--a 4-door type of model. Does Tony even drive?
Boy, you're good. I couldn't recognise him by his build. At first, I thought it WAS Ferguson after all...but then, it struck me as a man's build. But whose?
It can't be Jock Stewart unless there's a supernatural twist.
5:00 Why are we watching from the ceiling?
Because creativity
Bonnie Chiaccio its spider cam
He's a red herring for sure. I don't know but it's a cool journey finding out - if we ever do. I love these episodes. Great stuff. Keeps me interested.
The Freak is running scared lol :D
Sandy spent the Easter holidays with Betty and her two sons Chris and Oliver.
I used to be petrified of the dark as a small child. I remember when I was about five years old, I don't know what I had done, but my mum shut me in a dark room and I remember screaming and crying for a long time. I can remember that like it was yesterday, plus she used to pinch the crap out of my sister and myself in church because we used to whisper during the sermon. Sometimes she dug her fingernails into our skin. One afternoon we were at an ice cream place here called Dairy Queen, I was sipping a milkshake, we were sitting on the back of a station wagon, like The Brady Bunch had, it was a friends car. I accidently knocked my cup of milkshake over a a teeny bit spilled onto the metal part of the back of that station wagon. My mum pinched the crap out of me, I began crying with a mouth full of milkshake. I could have choked on that. She didn't even apologize for making me cry, it took one swipe with a paper napkin to wipe up the spill. I told myself when I was old enough to understand that not all mothers pinch their children, that I would NEVER pinch any child of mine. I have a niece and nephews and I have never one time spanked them or pinched them.
...yer mum was a biatch...parents do horrible crap to their kids when the stress is too great & when their mate/spouse, doesn't help-out with the kids...after-all, parents need to raise kids together, not apart ...anybody can work a job all day & come home & do NOTHING !!
That's true. She learned that stuff from her step mother.
Jesus what a nightmare
That's is so fucking cruel of your mum how could she do that to you😢
I don’t understand the point of this comment. Many of us I’m this world have abusive parents or family members who do far worse things than this. Think yourself lucky you were not beaten, starved, locked in a cupboard for days upon end and molested
Fields drawing up the contracts lol 😆
You tell her Judy!
Dont get your knickers in a knot - what so Chrisie Latham actualy wears knickers?
Yes, but at half-mast.
Meg Morris and her yo-yo knickers beat Chrissie
...WHAt was that crazy jaw movement MEG did in the break-room ? Lol ! So, why didn't FERGO go to the Classification meet, so she could hear what the psych had to say...about PATTY...insteAD SHe hasseled the Crims...&I hope MARGO goes to live with NOELENE..cuz they both have the same bloody mind-set...!
Meg does strange things with her jaw all the time
Yeah, noticed that, had to replay it... lol
I heard that Joan was originally intended to appear in about 16 episodes, but her popularity led to her being kept on. She joined in 287. I can see how this story arc could have been adapted so that she was the ripper.
34:21 did meg really just make her chin move side to side when she said that to Faulkner?? Weird.
Joan confortation with Judy and Helen
Loved it when Jude sent the freak on her way!
I guess Wendy quit because we haven't seen her in a while or Julie. lol Now we have this new receptionist Heather
they had trouble walking after the pounding Steve the prison officer gave then - they might be back when they feel better
I did like Wendy
Wendy walked out of the staff room uneventfully after a tiff with stud Steve Fawkner around episode 291, after a huge run since the first ever episodes. That was it for her; she was never seen or spoken of again!
In an ideal world, Julie left because she emigrated to live with me!
Locked up in a secret place nobody knows by man eating Meg Morris, who didn’t want any competition for every man who walked into Wentworth
Helen is so beautiful
Totally
The freak must go
how can Maxine afford to run her bike - and I thought she had her licence suspended too
Utterly ridiculous hypnosis scene, with some Dickensian childhood flashback, with little Paddy going 'I tried so hard Mummy'. Just made me laugh but I don't think it was intended to be funny.
Just wait for Hannah Geldschmidt's nightmare sequence somewhere in the mid-400s, it'll make these flashbacks look like the work of Martin Scorsese.
PrisonerCellBlockH95 Oh yes, and also Joan's acid trip too. One of the most unforgettable Prisoner sequences ever!
zoe vincent l
LMAO!
ERL -Agreed Joan’s acid trip definitely takes the cake in pcbh nightmares!!! Made me have a few.
I was wrong about Betty Bobbit. Betty had gotten cut with a rusty saw and got a very bad case of blood poisoning.
Can't wait until Bea or someone gets their mits on Gaffney. Sick of her in this show.
Funny how quickly opinions Change a hundred or so episodes Margo was pretty popular
Yeah, Margo was like a cockroach, not exactly deadly but annoying as hell!
I love Margo. She's a great antagonist.
I left the series during this part. The Sandy/Marie/Kate bit was my part. Its interesting watching this all play out
Were you in the show?
No, but I was another watcher
@@stevencassidy6982 ???
Mmmmm Miss Fields gets nicer every time 🌠
I've noticed that Doreen's been replaced by Judy in the opening titles. Wonder if that's her out of the show now?
Nope. She will return again.
Shadegat3 . You're right about that (although not as annoying next time)!
Alan Mclay Her return is very funny. When she beats the cop up :)
Shadegat3 . That was funny, she was so desperate to get back inside ! Didn't find her as annoying this time !
Alan Mclay Yes, i can put up with her now. She was in the show from the start so she had to go in the end. I have watched it so many times that i have become desensitized to her :)
Brings back childhood memories
Where is the freak during the classification meeting she is after all a senior officer 👮😜😳
She nipped out for a cold beer cos she had half a day off before it. 😅
"Sort these in hypothetical order."
the nurse his wearing a dentist shirt even his buttons are crookerd space cadet
Very old as well as they're not exactly white anymore
Anyone notice the Freak walks differently than she did in her earlier episodes
Sandy Wilson was the real life inmate that inspired the Prisoner halfway house stories. I think they made the Nora Flynn character after Sandy. She was in prison for murder like Nora I think.She was in prison twenty years I think.
Some of the serious comments on here, really. For god's sake people lighten up!
The whole "who's killing the pros" storyline reminds me so much of the Sandy Edwards ending-- everyone wondering what happened or ,in this case it's, who done it . Thought that little pat on the rump Bea gave to Margo was interesting . Looks like all's been forgiven.
I always thought Meg had a touch of the 80s Agnetha about her.
It's funny how Meg goes on to save Joans job in the future but here she is involved in setting bear traps for her lol.
Anne Reynolds and Meg Morris are so two-faced with how they treat Ferguson; it’s all ‘damn you Ferguson’ but they have several times to sack her but they always back down and reinstate her
Joan confrontation with bea about rackets lol
THE FREAK IS A MEAN YOUNGER VERSION OF ALICE FROM THE BRADY BUNCH.
In the 80s Alice from the Brady bunch should've done a guest appearance as the freaks long lost sister.
Can anyone tell me what a milk bar is, we don’t have them in the UK ( that I know off )
1corrsfan its just a shop / corner store that can sell anything from milk, bread, lollies, ice creams, ice blocks ,cigarettes and whatever else they wish to sell. 🍬🍦🍩🍰☺😁
They did exist a few decades ago in the UK because my grandmother used to live above one in the 1950s.
A milk bar is like a convenient store
Thx guys
My nan used to work in a milk bar here in the UK in the fifties.
The first time we see the two bookies Margo and Faye at the same time.
How unethecal for psychiatrist to be discussing a patients medical condition with the screws and governor without her permission !
I'd think it would be funny; if it were Davo's glove, found at the scene of the crime. The Freak investigating the crime. There wouldn't be a need to investigate; if she would've locked her locker. Leaving her locker unlocked; with all that money she stole from the prisoners. Ferguson must clear her name. Harrassing Judy; good for Judy telling the freak off and ordering her off the property
Can't wait until spud chucks in his chips😂😂😂
The freak is a bully
Sally Dempster and her dreadful husband are up there with the worst of the "middle class housewife with a baaaaastard husband" characters the writers saddled us with over the years.
See also Catherine Roberts, Gail Summers, Alison Page, and, still to come, Nancy McCormack. I think, because these characters all start out in the show with the most tenuous of links with the regulars, we immediately know this is an insipid attempt at covering a "contemporary issue" and that the female lead will somehow end up in Wentworth. But, they all fall flat because they're not relatable in their chinsey surroundings, with pink net curtains, crystal decanters, spindled archways, and floral 3-piece suites. Their dialogue is clunky, the guest actors are often poor, and, as a viewer, you just hope their 6 or 13 week stint is over and done with as soon as possible!
I agree about all of them, apart from Nancy McCormack. The character is the complete opposite of Connors, two women who would have never met under normal circumstances, but who teach each other about themselves in many ways
The scene with Paddy reminds me of when I was little, I don't remember how old I was, maybe five? My mum shut me in the front room and turned out the lights. She knew I was afraid of the dark. I kept screaming and crying but she just left me in the dark room. She used to enjoy punishing me or my younger sister. But usually it was me who got the blame for things that happened. My dad was always at work whenever stuff happened. Then she'd tell him what I done and he'd whip me with a belt. 😭
some parents have a lot to answer for ,hope youre o.k. now.
Your mother sounds like a lovely woman.
Jesus! some people don't deserve to have children. I wouldn't do that to any child least of all my own. So sorry for you. I hope you're in a better place now. 💛 💗
5:12 Weird camera angle, shaky too
They call it spider cam in the industry.
20:36 - Bloody hell - why does he have to be so aggressive about it?
Mrs Mcnelly returns as paddys mum
Pat Bishop only ever had one role in Prisoner, as Antonia McNally. She never reappeared in the series again in another role. She was good friends with series writer, Denise Morgan and Fiona Spence in real life too
I think it's disgusting when one of the women throw a cigarette onto the floor and put it out with their shoe or throw it into the mop bucket.🤢😤
What should they do, then?
Considering how many of the women chain smoke, you don’t see many ashtrays about
Why have they made Faye Quinn so soft? People who's surname is Quinn are usually tough people lol
What?????
@sb6678 what, what?
Jude or Helen should have tossed freak out by scruff neck
My gaydar is awfully high on tony with that man bag
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Why did they spell "Patty" with two d's in the credits? Her name is PATricia. Not PADricia.
Lauren Brooks Her nick name is Paddy.
@@debrak8521 I know but it isnt logical to spell it with two d's. That's my point.
I suppose its like being called patrick and that's normally shortened to paddy...
@@laurenbrooks3091I have never come across the shortened version of Patricia to be Patty, it’s always been Paddy.
Quinn joan says u been paying faulkner lol
hmmm? im not too sure now if the docs the killer.. hellen has a pretty good damned argument going with her theory that the halfway house guy could be scaring people into staying there.
Joan's going about detective style Murray and guy from house
Straight from horses mouth lol joan brilliant
The lighting in this episode is terrible! Even Amanda Muggleton and Val Lehman commented on it in the 310 the commentary. Its my favourite period of the show too.
Thanks for the pointer. Will listen in sometime soon.
The Friek to Chrissie: "Sluts like you...tarts..." Why oh why does she get away w saying demeaning things like this? Even Vera wasn't quite so cruel, cruel as she was.
Vera was overly fond of calling the prisoners "animals" ... Not much better...
...FERGO, is depressing the WHOLE SHOW...
....but VERA had a classic way of insulting someone...& a softer-side, too...FERGO, is just plain gutteral & a flim-flammer & she could be satan's girlfriend, on top of every-thing ELSE..Lol !
"Satan's girlfriend" lmaooo!!! I HOLLERED!
I only saw Vera get really cruel on two occasions. When she taunted Bea about not letting her go tonDebbie's funeral during the amnesia story, and then when she went after Jude about her lesbianism. Otherwise she just saw them all as "animals". Though she did gave a soft spot for Lizzie and we saw a good side to her at those times. Joan doesn't seem to like any of them at all.
I Love You Bea!
Bea right joan too involved with murders rather then rackets
I reckon Maxine and Rita would
have got on really well both being bikies.
RITAS A BIKIE MAXINE IS A TRYHARD
Both annoying as fuck too
And Monica Ferguson's Belle Peter's.
Rita would've hit her one.
@@lamontbradford4630 Tink lol
Did budgie lady move to the farm that Erica was on about?
We'll just assume that she did and she and her birds lived happily ever after.
I see Fiona's brother is the director on this episode.
❤Tony is so adorable
This Paddy storyline is horrendously boring, skipping all her scenes with Wiseman.
I prefer the Brandy Sherry Carter session with Doctor Wiseman better.
@@Mynewlife2025 She can actually act Paddy is a dreadful actress
Meg set her up too lol
Joan crapping it lol
My maternal grandmother used to lock me & my brothers in her icky basement and she'd shut off the lights. Im glad im not claustiphobic! I do hate her though!
What does icky mean?
Pattys storyline is really boring. It's been great since Doreen hasn't been in the show.
Jojo1311 69 Bring on Nola McKenzie already
@@rosslamb7069 Scary lookin woman that one.
Poor jude stuck between rock hard Place 😢
Well, if she didn’t interfere so much she wouldn’t find herself in that situation
Little Michelle is so cute.👧