Val Lehman proved once again what a star she was in this show. She had the ability to play several different personality styles to fit in with the wide range of story-lines she featured in and most of her acting was of the highest quality. She plays her role in this story tremendously well. Margo is understandably bitter about her sentence because she had very little chance on the outside, but becoming aggressive and acting out her anger on the others is not the answer. She has just bullied her way to the top, as opposed to earning respect from the others and being nominated there. She is proving to be a poor top dog compared to Bea. Good to see Mum again....
Bea is so tough yet vulnerable at the same time. I was amazed how far she could hike without money or food. I was disappointed Mum didn't ask "Do you remember Vinegar Tits?" That surely would have jogged her memory.
.Val ( Bea) is playing a truly stellar performance in these episodes IMHO, It shines through what a an amazing and versatile actress she really is!!. Val et al deserved so many more awards for their work than they actually achieved , at least Val was a highly desered Logie Award!!. In my opinion, most of the "Real Stars" of Prisoner deserved very high awards indeed.
@@k8lynmae Say in Mum's voice. & Meg's Holden Comadore was used to run down a prisoner who just got out. The only car I've seen playing a different roll, may of the actors did. & on the subject of being killed imidiatly after leaving the prison. My advice is for all staff & inmates to stay in & not take the risk (Poor Terry & in the middle of a spaz too).
Here in the UK, yellow (and green) cars are fairly rare. I note the many yellow and beige vehicles in Melbourne. Even the police cars are yellow or pale green. I also note that noone has a doorbell except Meg Morris. Everyone else has to bang on the door.
Must be awful for bea being told her daughter is dead as if it's the first time she has heard it. To go through the greaf a second time with no recollection of the first must be horrible
She said where she lived (Lizzie), she would work in her garden and had to bend over. The locals would drive by telling her name. Florance said they even recognized me bum! I bet she was a hoot!
As soon as everyone heard the beginning of the radio announcement of Bea absconding, they all started talking over it all the way through!!! Are they thick, or what?
Mum is flapping around as usual - why didn't she just ring Davo up and get Bea to hospital ffs - Margo is tryin to imitate Frankie Doyle - looks like she's just been dug up from somewhere with that crew cut lol
Meg. Morris, remember Meg is married to Bob, who is ashamed of Meg.; because of her job. Yet! Bob isn't ashamed of his drug pushing job daughter, Tracey.
As much as I agree, an excellent episode and superb acting. I am surprised the woman in Bea's old home didn't recognise her. Buying a house where a double murderess once lived and of course she shot her husband there, would be of immense curiousity to me and I would have researched the details. And I am sure I wouldn't have recognised her.
I lived in a house where two years before, there had been a murder-suicide. A neighbour told me about it and I was fascinated and read everything I could find.
I hate to sound like Vera, but Margo got herself put back in there. Regardless of the events that led up to her 'incident', there is no excuse for it. She needs to calm down because she is annoying with her entitled attitude. Like she should be able to rob people and hold people hostage and get away with it. I was just thinking about Chrissy's man, too. It's not really fair that he should have to serve out his sentence when that Nolan woman didn't have to. If they are going to pardon one for leading a decent life after breaking the law a second time, by escaping, then they should pardon them all.
The medical definition of losing ones memory is not what Bea has here. She has regressed. If she lost her memory, she would have lost her former identity completely. Dr Wiseman explains this later. Consciousness overlaps itself and thus will leak other periods in their lives to the fore. She is presently very confused and remembers only aspects of a previous period which she associates with being happy in her life - blocking out everything else. It is not rocket science.
A similar thing happened to my grandmother, but through her having Alzheimer's. Before she lost it completely she regressed right back to the mid 60s. She spoke of her husband (my granddad) getting in from work (he'd died in 1977), and of "coming down" for breakfast (implying stairs) when she'd been living in a bungalow since 1969. That was when I stopped visiting her. I was born in 1970, so didn't exist in her mind. I didn't want to cause her upset or confusion.
I just checked Mum, Mary Ward turned 104 on March 6th. I remember looking up her age when I started watching this show over a yr ago. Also the dress Bea is wearing looks the same one she wore when she killed her husband back, way back in the day lol. It might be the same as I remember having one similar :)
I think it's ironic that Vera's hair looks darker when she's out with Terry than it does when she has it in a bun for work. Also when Vera has her hair down at home, it's not that thick. But when she styles it and curls it, it looks really thick.
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Loved Bea's adventures in the Never Never. She can a complete pain in the arse but Val Lehmans acting is top notch. She carries the show. I know she was living in Britain for five years in the 90's. Is that Mum?
@ 27:04. OK so it says on radio that Smith is approximately 63KG. That is only 10 stone! As if she's only 63KG. I know in real like she's only 5ft6 but someone her hight and build I would say she's easily 80 to 85KG
I read somewhere that this episode inspired DAVID LYNCH to write and make Mulholland Drive basing it on Bea's odyssey. I don't know if it is true but there are so many visual and narrative reflections in both stories/film - the one that stands out for me are the roadsigns filmed from the crane shot. Watch the film and see what you think. I thought this nightmarish odyssey was filmed fantastically. What a piece of cinematography and direction. These really are superior episodes in many ways.
It's Treasury Gardens, but it has changed dramatically since this, That fountain has been replaced and most the buildings in the background have been dramatically modernised, and some demolished and replaced.
I think in reality someone like Vera would have been fired or threatened with the sack by now for her constant negativity, side-swipes and criticism of her boss. She's a horrible team player.
2️⃣27/9/17 - •Bea is wearing a pretty dress. Poor Bea she must be knackered and dehydrated. 😳. Bea's trek is quite surreal, it's like she's wandering across a parched desert, looking for water. 😳
Ok wait. Bea has no idea of who she is or that she shot that husband of hers but she remembers where to walk down the streets to all these addresses? wow! lol. And those shoes, if someone really did all that walking, would prolly have broken and/or would make it impossible to continue walking.
By the way Bea was acting I wondered if she got a concussion and amnesia from the car accident. My heart was breaking for her in this episode. Margo saying Bea has "another thing coming" if she thinks Bea's going to become top dog again. PAHAHAHAHA Bea could snap Margo like a twig.
Terry Harrison's first appearance. Terry is an old friend of Jim Fletcher. Mr Fletcher will be a little shocked to see an old friend of his working as a "corrupt" screw at Wentworth Detention Centre. We will soon know how Jim Fletcher and Terry Harrison knew each other and how they became the old friends they were.
13.03 Beas house didn't have outdoor stairs in episode 3??? 25:42 Erica didn't say he could smoke!!! If I was govener I'd tell him NOT to smoke in my office.
Virtually everyone smoked in the office I worked in in 1980/81 (including me). It was common practice and nobody thought twice about it. That started to change in the late 80s and by the late 90s if I wanted a ciggie, I had to walk about 500 yards to the only room where it was allowed. I packed it in 6 years ago.
Bea asking for assistant from a police officer. Should be proof of a head injury. Alot of these storylines are in the Wentworth remake. With different characters being used.
It doesn't make sence that Bea remembers Mum and the pervious apartment she lived in when Bea escaped from hospital, if her amnesia sets her back to her life before prison.
The news report on Bea's "escape" says that she was serving a life sentence for murder, but in earlier episodes only a 10-year sentence was mentioned. Also, she talks when in Barnhurst of serving out the remainder of her sentence, but makes no mention of a life sentence. Or is it just that she might be eligible for parole after another 10 years?
With amnesia sometimes you can remember a time in your life when you were most happy or sometimes a place etc amnesia doesn't actually mean u can forget absolutely everything etc
You wouldn't recognise it now really, looks totally different to this. When she asks directions and he points her to the right direction it' actually about 6-7 miles away in St Kilda. not just down the road like it gives the impression.
Why is Meg spending so much time at the prison? Thought she was a parole officer and she's even sitting in on officer meetings. Have to laugh at the writers of this show for testing our intelligence. lol
because wentworth is her main source of work, where she goes to help the prisoners, it is even mentioned by Erica. There is no point in helping the prisoners if she doesn't go to wentworth to help them
Margo the bully isn't appealing -- its one thing to be "Boss Cocky" because you earned the respect of the women; but it's a whole different story to become Top Dog by playing the hateful heavy.
Third time around. love going through and seeing my earlier comments of years ago.I just wanted to add one more here: if it wasn't for Margo (Jane Clifton ) these episodes wouldn't be half as entertaining and interesting as they are.it was Margo's attempt to take the top dog slot and her conflicts with Bea that really energizes these episodes ;without that it's just ,Bea having amnesia.
The transport van, guards, and procedure is a real joke ! Hopefully, the prison system displayed in this tv soap show isn't a picture of the real prison system in Austrailia. (?)
Val Lehman proved once again what a star she was in this show. She had the ability to play several different personality styles to fit in with the wide range of story-lines she featured in and most of her acting was of the highest quality. She plays her role in this story tremendously well. Margo is understandably bitter about her sentence because she had very little chance on the outside, but becoming aggressive and acting out her anger on the others is not the answer. She has just bullied her way to the top, as opposed to earning respect from the others and being nominated there. She is proving to be a poor top dog compared to Bea. Good to see Mum again....
Totally agree, Val Lehman was great in this episode, as always. Shocked to see 'Mum' back
this storyline was Val Lehmans idea xxx
@@queeng5925 a great idea from val Lehman
Bea is so tough yet vulnerable at the same time. I was amazed how far she could hike without money or food. I was disappointed Mum didn't ask "Do you remember Vinegar Tits?" That surely would have jogged her memory.
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@@sarahcampbell0915 Vinegar Tits is to Bea what NEWMAN is to Jerry Seinfeld.😅😅😅😅
Mum was a lady so she would have said Do you remember Miss Bennett or Do you remember Vera. Mum would never say Vinegar Tits.
Lizzie: " I won't be any competition " 😂😂
Val Lehman's performance is stellar in the amnesia storyline
Love this episode. It was Val Lehman's idea for this story line. Bea having amnesia
I am surprised she didn't ask for time off half way through the storyline and have it done in two parts 😂
@@bernadettelamb5990 why do you suggest that ? not that it matters 44 years on!
Val Lehman is such a terrific actress.
Emotional episode, great acting by Val Lehman !
Love the way they always manage to switch on the radio (or the TV) at the exact moment what they want to hear about is being broadcast.
Would imagine they know the times the news is and they turned it on to see if anything was on about Bea
Turning on the news, you mean.
.Val ( Bea) is playing a truly stellar performance in these episodes IMHO, It shines through what a an amazing and versatile actress she really is!!. Val et al deserved so many more awards for their work than they actually achieved , at least Val was a highly desered Logie Award!!. In my opinion, most of the "Real Stars" of Prisoner deserved very high awards indeed.
Powell looks as though she is trying not to laugh all the time
With a face like hers, you’d laugh or you’d cry
and she's only 33 years old in these episodes.
@@Redsleatherand I suppose you look like Aphrodite?
Possibly, the series greatest achievement, fascinating and riveting story, Lehman is superb.
love this episode. Gives us real insight into what Bea was like before Prison etc
Glad to see Mum back in it! She was one of my favourite characters in the early episodes.
powell always looks like shes trying to not laugh she has this permanent smirk on her face.
OMG I just want to hug Bea in this episode :'(
this is one of the greatest 6 television programmes ever made anywhere in the English speaking countries, in my opinion.
Great actress val lehmen.
Yes she is. This storyline especially let her explore more facet's of Bea's character.
Vera's blue-shaded lamp is now in Mum's apartment.
SoapsNthings It's nice to share 😊
@@k8lynmae Say in Mum's voice. & Meg's Holden Comadore was used to run down a prisoner who just got out.
The only car I've seen playing a different roll, may of the actors did.
& on the subject of being killed imidiatly after leaving the prison.
My advice is for all staff & inmates to stay in & not take the risk (Poor Terry & in the middle of a spaz too).
I remember that style of lamps in those days, we had the exact same at home only orange color. That matched with the curtains. Lol.
B@@Mynewlife2025yessssss orange lamps 😂
Ms Powell is always trying her hardest to not laugh 😂
Here in the UK, yellow (and green) cars are fairly rare. I note the many yellow and beige vehicles in Melbourne. Even the police cars are yellow or pale green. I also note that noone has a doorbell except Meg Morris. Everyone else has to bang on the door.
Davos work hair is god aweful 😂
Gotta love the 80's, when the amnesia trope ran rapid!
Oh I love it, Mum's back..... But please god no Judith-Ann!!!
Bettie Joseph. yeah imagine the poor bloke who knocked her up
@@rpatricknabors I always had Judith Ann down as a bit of a weird crush tbh.
Lol
@@rpatricknabors he ended up leaving her to study engineering at university, so she said.
Must be awful for bea being told her daughter is dead as if it's the first time she has heard it. To go through the greaf a second time with no recollection of the first must be horrible
Terry reminds me of Barney in the Flintstones.
There are some excellent synthesizer tunes and sounds in this episode. Brings me back...
I would love to be able to buy all Lizzie's songs and poems etc on iTunes
Just listen to Kim Carnes or Bonny Tyler.
Same here lol 😂
that is such a good idea.
She said where she lived (Lizzie), she would work in her garden and had to bend over. The locals would drive by telling her name. Florance said they even recognized me bum! I bet she was a hoot!
As soon as everyone heard the beginning of the radio announcement of Bea absconding, they all started talking over it all the way through!!! Are they thick, or what?
Stan Butler got a job as a screw 🤣 now who's going to drive his bus.
Margo and Bea aren't on different levels.
Margo looks like Eddie on the first Iron Maiden album.
Mum is flapping around as usual - why didn't she just ring Davo up and get Bea to hospital ffs - Margo is tryin to imitate Frankie Doyle - looks like she's just been dug up from somewhere with that crew cut lol
bea: 'no no you've got to help me get back'
woman: back where
me: BACK TO THE FUTURE
sorry just had to do it lol xxx
If everyone Vera wanted in the pound was sent there, it wouldn't be very bloody SOLITARY any more.
I love this. This is what I missed when the local station changed time slots to daytime when I was in school. All new to me.
Val really shows off her range as an actress ! xx
' The gender is immaterial' I knew Erica is a Guardian reader.
One of my favourite storylines ever in the entire series starting now. So well played out.
16:43 the music is like something Jean-Michel Jarre would compose.
I love how creative Val is with this storyline with Bea. great idea.
Amazing acting from Val Lehman as always. This episode had me completely gripped. Glad mum has gone to Meg Jackson
You mean it's Mrs Meg Morris now she married Bob Morris Tracey Morris's father remember.
Meg. Morris, remember Meg is married to Bob, who is ashamed of Meg.; because of her job. Yet! Bob isn't ashamed of his drug pushing job daughter, Tracey.
As much as I agree, an excellent episode and superb acting. I am surprised the woman in Bea's old home didn't recognise her. Buying a house where a double murderess once lived and of course she shot her husband there, would be of immense curiousity to me and I would have researched the details. And I am sure I wouldn't have recognised her.
I lived in a house where two years before, there had been a murder-suicide. A neighbour told me about it and I was fascinated and read everything I could find.
I hate to sound like Vera, but Margo got herself put back in there. Regardless of the events that led up to her 'incident', there is no excuse for it. She needs to calm down because she is annoying with her entitled attitude. Like she should be able to rob people and hold people hostage and get away with it. I was just thinking about Chrissy's man, too. It's not really fair that he should have to serve out his sentence when that Nolan woman didn't have to. If they are going to pardon one for leading a decent life after breaking the law a second time, by escaping, then they should pardon them all.
She (mum) might be back for a few more episodes now ?
The cop who questions 'Mum', not bad looking compared to most of the Cops so far.
um-hm. A real spunk
At 24:50 the inspector isn’t bad either! Certainly better than Inspector Grace
Fletch has already moved on from the current receptionist.
Doreen being bullied was hilarious 😂 she always acts so tough when Beas around
I didn't know there was a Surry Hills area of Melbourne. I've only ever been to the Sydney one.
Surrey Hills Victoria, 3127. Next to Box Hill. Eastern suburbs.
The medical definition of losing ones memory is not what Bea has here. She has regressed. If she lost her memory, she would have lost her former identity completely. Dr Wiseman explains this later. Consciousness overlaps itself and thus will leak other periods in their lives to the fore. She is presently very confused and remembers only aspects of a previous period which she associates with being happy in her life - blocking out everything else. It is not rocket science.
A similar thing happened to my grandmother, but through her having Alzheimer's. Before she lost it completely she regressed right back to the mid 60s. She spoke of her husband (my granddad) getting in from work (he'd died in 1977), and of "coming down" for breakfast (implying stairs) when she'd been living in a bungalow since 1969. That was when I stopped visiting her. I was born in 1970, so didn't exist in her mind. I didn't want to cause her upset or confusion.
Luv this episode. Val needs a 100 oscars for her acting
One of the best episodes of the series! Bea at her best!!
Was that Syd Butterfield at Mums old flat? And Terry, to me he is Barney Rubble. As short as he is I mean.
The one at the flat was the manager of the boarding house mum stayed at in the very early episodes.
I just checked Mum, Mary Ward turned 104 on March 6th. I remember looking up her age when I started watching this show over a yr ago. Also the dress Bea is wearing looks the same one she wore when she killed her husband back, way back in the day lol. It might be the same as I remember having one similar :)
She's 106 now!!!
@@Mynewlife2025 Your message was perfect to start this week-end off. Glad to hear positive news in some part of the world. Cheers 🍺🍷
@@Mynewlife2025 sadly Mum (Mary Ward) sadly died on 19th July 2021
@@rosiew1952 yep, she died last year.
Vera with dark hair looks like Miss Hardbroom in The Worst Witch.
I think it's ironic that Vera's hair looks darker when she's out with Terry than it does when she has it in a bun for work. Also when Vera has her hair down at home, it's not that thick. But when she styles it and curls it, it looks really thick.
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Val gave a very convincing performance!
That forwarding address,considering how long he'd already lived there,was bloody handy!
Loved Bea's adventures in the Never Never. She can a complete pain in the arse but Val Lehmans acting is top notch. She carries the show. I know she was living in Britain for five years in the 90's. Is that Mum?
Steven Cassidy the Never Never means the Australian vast and open outback--not the city or suburban.
@ 27:04. OK so it says on radio that Smith is approximately 63KG. That is only 10 stone! As if she's only 63KG. I know in real like she's only 5ft6 but someone her hight and build I would say she's easily 80 to 85KG
I read somewhere that this episode inspired DAVID LYNCH to write and make Mulholland Drive basing it on Bea's odyssey. I don't know if it is true but there are so many visual and narrative reflections in both stories/film - the one that stands out for me are the roadsigns filmed from the crane shot. Watch the film and see what you think.
I thought this nightmarish odyssey was filmed fantastically. What a piece of cinematography and direction. These really are superior episodes in many ways.
Big red ain't back yet 🤣🐓
It's Treasury Gardens, but it has changed dramatically since this, That fountain has been replaced and most the buildings in the background have been dramatically modernised, and some demolished and replaced.
The fountain looked nice, it's a shame it's not there now.
That’s such a shame, it looked such a nice area
The arrival of Terry means the beginning of the end for vera
It's nice to see mum
Harrison is doing a fine impression of Kenneth More.
A VW camper van to transport a prisoner in for murder that isn't even handcuffed?! Was transportation services run by G4S in 80's Australia? PMSL
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏
Good night photography in this episode.
34:35 For some reason this part cracks me up. Bea just sitting there looking clueless. *:'''D*
Start of the end for Vera 😩😔only bonus is it's a longish storyline ❤️
Good episode.
Anyone know who played the atmospheric synth music mid way through?
I think in reality someone like Vera would have been fired or threatened with the sack by now for her constant negativity, side-swipes and criticism of her boss. She's a horrible team player.
If you think such things about Bennett, just wait until Ferguson joins the staff… she makes Bennett look like Mary Poppins
2️⃣27/9/17 - •Bea is wearing a pretty dress. Poor Bea she must be knackered and dehydrated. 😳. Bea's trek is quite surreal, it's like she's wandering across a parched desert, looking for water. 😳
Imagine having to find out that daughter is dead for a second time.
Ok wait. Bea has no idea of who she is or that she shot that husband of hers but she remembers where to walk down the streets to all these addresses? wow! lol. And those shoes, if someone really did all that walking, would prolly have broken and/or would make it impossible to continue walking.
By the way Bea was acting I wondered if she got a concussion and amnesia from the car accident. My heart was breaking for her in this episode.
Margo saying Bea has "another thing coming" if she thinks Bea's going to become top dog again. PAHAHAHAHA Bea could snap Margo like a twig.
Terry Harrison's first appearance. Terry is an old friend of Jim Fletcher. Mr Fletcher will be a little shocked to see an old friend of his working as a "corrupt" screw at Wentworth Detention Centre. We will soon know how Jim Fletcher and Terry Harrison knew each other and how they became the old friends they were.
What would you have done if in Mums position? I wouldve called an ambulance! There, Bea gets help and 5-0 stays off my back. Done and done :)
Old habits die (very) hard. You don't dob your mates in to the cops.
13.03 Beas house didn't have outdoor stairs in episode 3??? 25:42 Erica didn't say he could smoke!!! If I was govener I'd tell him NOT to smoke in my office.
Virtually everyone smoked in the office I worked in in 1980/81 (including me). It was common practice and nobody thought twice about it. That started to change in the late 80s and by the late 90s if I wanted a ciggie, I had to walk about 500 yards to the only room where it was allowed. I packed it in 6 years ago.
Bea asking for assistant from a police officer. Should be proof of a head injury. Alot of these storylines are in the Wentworth remake. With different characters being used.
Get ready for an old friend & an old familiar face's brief come back to the show....🙂
It doesn't make sence that Bea remembers Mum and the pervious apartment she lived in when Bea escaped from hospital, if her amnesia sets her back to her life before prison.
I think she just remembers addresses and names but can't quite put everything in order amnesia is really complexed
did anyone else notice the police man who visited mum was the man who got shot with margos boyfriend
But where is the fountain where she asks for directions?
I actually didnt like this storyline of bea loosing her memory.
26:10 Is so laughably bad. 🤣, had to switch off for bit as lost focus on rest of plot
The news report on Bea's "escape" says that she was serving a life sentence for murder, but in earlier episodes only a 10-year sentence was mentioned. Also, she talks when in Barnhurst of serving out the remainder of her sentence, but makes no mention of a life sentence. Or is it just that she might be eligible for parole after another 10 years?
I think it was only 10 years that she had to serve, yes. 😃
I miss the 80s.bea is so good this episode how does she remembers her address if she lost her memory.
With amnesia sometimes you can remember a time in your life when you were most happy or sometimes a place etc amnesia doesn't actually mean u can forget absolutely everything etc
@@charlottewebb582 I was wondering that, thanks Charlotte
Was that Reb Kean at Beas house?
These days the pound would be called the CSU, Care & Segregation Unit.
You wouldn't recognise it now really, looks totally different to this. When she asks directions and he points her to the right direction it' actually about 6-7 miles away in St Kilda. not just down the road like it gives the impression.
Why is Meg spending so much time at the prison? Thought she was a parole officer and she's even sitting in on officer meetings. Have to laugh at the writers of this show for testing our intelligence. lol
because wentworth is her main source of work, where she goes to help the prisoners, it is even mentioned by Erica. There is no point in helping the prisoners if she doesn't go to wentworth to help them
You do realize it's a show, right?
Meg Morris’ work day consists of drinking coffee while gossiping in the staff room and sitting in the governor’s office moaning on
Margo the bully isn't appealing -- its one thing to be "Boss Cocky" because you earned the respect of the women; but it's a whole different story to become Top Dog by playing the hateful heavy.
Third time around. love going through and seeing my earlier comments of years ago.I just wanted to add one more here: if it wasn't for Margo (Jane Clifton ) these episodes wouldn't be half as entertaining and interesting as they are.it was Margo's attempt to take the top dog slot and her conflicts with Bea that really energizes these episodes ;without that it's just ,Bea having amnesia.
I dont believe that Bea could ever be that placcid. She will have always been hardfaced
They all need tennis shoes.
Bea looks drunk with her acting but doesn't slur her words.
The transport van, guards, and procedure is a real joke ! Hopefully, the prison system displayed in this tv soap show isn't a picture of the real prison system in Austrailia. (?)
Bea needs a hospital that's where she should be. She as a severe head injury.
I freakin love this ep
This epic story was to good for the bathurst 5 to mention let alone them ripping off the story 😳
Best episode ever who's watching this November 24.