Just to add to my previous comment (was writing on the bus on the way to work) I started watching the whole series from last September and finished it this morning before work. Back in the day I watched from late 87 to early 90s when it was shown on British television at a late time (usually around 11pm) but never saw past some early episodes (never saw Bea's exit) but remember Judy Bryant a lot. Some other great characters like Toni Mcnally, Kay White and the Ballinger woman (forget her first name). Maggie Kirkpatrick (Joan) is an outstanding actress and didn't realise at the time her versatility. Thank you for uploading the whole series.
because "rapist" would have been too much for the audience to stomach, despite seeing her sexually assault Doreen Burns, Hannah Simpson and other women. Joan is nothing more than a rapist.
Without a doubt the BEST Prisoner episode in hundreds of episodes (possibly ever)! The exposure of cover ups of abuse of women in institutions is a subject that is personally very dear to me, and while I know this is only fictitious, I'm glad a TV show proved that the right thing can happen and justice prevails. Those scenes at the end with Lorelei with her baby were just heartbreaking!
of course these episodes were written at a time when a lot of institutional abuse of children, women and men was starting to be made public and no country was exempt. We were all feeling the force of the horror of it all
I actually liked Merv from day one. And, his smuggling that tape out of the prison is applaud worthy. We got to see Mervin Pringle finally develop his backbone. BRAVO, MR. P. BRAVO!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
It would have simpler to just have Merv pass a message to Philip Clayton and tell him to wait by the fence. One of the girls with a strong arm could lob the tape over the fence and then Clayton could pick it up and scarper before the screws could act. 19:20 It was a pleasure seeing Rodney stand up to the Freak. 43:00 "I'm sick to death of you, Dwyer!" It's great the way Joan talks to her immediate superior like he's just a troublesome schoolboy. I liked her weary facial expressions in that scene, too.
CRACKING EPISODE!!!!! Even with reading the comments before watching [which I LOVE - doesn't spoil a damn thing!!!] -- my heart was in my throat when Merv finally made it out of Wentworth but was waiting to be let through the gate! I HOLLERED "GO MAN GO"!!! Damn you Lorelei.... after everything you and the other women have gone through thanks to The Freak you just have to save her arse! But at least you finally told her to eff off. The Ingleside Psychiatrist is a a decent bloke. Touching scene with Lorelei and Baby Boy Zoe. It was a hoot to see. Meg on the telly... The Queen's Speech indeed! LOL at Rita nearly knocking Rat-faced Rodney out!!! If there is any justice Mr. Dwyer will be long gone but of course even real life doesn't work like that with politicians. The Freak is a hot mess ... still bucking for Deputy after all is said and done. Good on Reyno for sticking to her guns though. + It's disturbing how a few of the women actually sound a lot like Lexi at times - had to remind myself that she's long gone now!!!
Rita’s an arsehole no more than the Freak is and some other characters at this point in the series are. Rodney is an easy target for those weasels at Wentworth who want to play the victim/warrior card constantly.
I’ve liked Mervin since day one. And the way he finally developed his backbone smuggling the tape out is applaud worthy. Like just about every commentator posts, this is one of my favorite & one of the best episodes.
Get on ya Merv.... *Moves clenched hands and forearms in a circular motion* ---> Go Merv, Go Merv, Go Merv.... whoop whoop. As for Kath and Rita teaming up and agreeing on a deal, w0w, never thought I would see the day. An endearing scene I thought. Really LOVE how they alternated between showing everyone tuning into the programme from Joan to Merv and Reno to Dwyer to the women listening via the radio. And the contrast between Merv all smiley and Reno looking serious when Joycie was on was a nice touch. I immediately burst into tears when Lori leapt up and ran towards the door to her room when she saw Zoe. Nothing else to say but what a cracking episode that was! Oh, and welcome back to the three musketeers that are Meg, Marty, and Joycie, yaaaaaaaaay, ha. 5th January 2024
If it wasn't for him lorelei wouldn't have gotten her sanity and Zoe back and ann meg Joyce and marty would be out of a job leaving Joan to run Wentworth like blackmoor he should be proud
That was quite the professional news reel on the state of the prison system. Good performance from Meg staring right into the camera with her story. Anyone would think she's a professional actor, not a prison officer! 😉
@@sandrajohnson5804if Taya Stratton left you convinced that the way she portrayed Spider was an extension of her true personality... she did her job as an actor. So too did Maggie Kirkpatrick as Ferguson and the Philip guy as Rodney. The highest praise you can pay an actor is that the audience comes away believing what they're seeing.
I think that is the first time I have seen Meg look directly at the camera, as she was giving the interview. as against the norm of not looking at it. That old tape looks like old U-Matic format.
I would have loved to have heard Mrs Reynolds refer to Ferguson as "The Freak" it would have been funny. I recall Marty Jackson referring to her as that to Mrs Morris.
As an American I find it interesting that they would use When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, a civil war song, as everyone comes back to the prison.
27:09-Why is Meg looking as through she's delivering the Queen''s Christmas Day Speech as she's being interviewed 43:35-You know they are nearing the end and running out of Incidental Music when they start using a tune simalr to the Animals went in two by two.
+GROMIT9 it's a variation of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" which was a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war, or in this case the return of the prison officers after their war against corruption in the corrective services.
24:00 Beige Joan wearing her beige jacket over her beige XXL turtle neck sitting on a beige chair in her beige office with its beige lamp and beige drapes.
With Meg being the longest serving member of the cast I wonder what the faces of the past was thinking when they saw her on the telly and listening to all the shenanigans that's been going on at the prison (ya know Fletch the letch, po face, vinegar, Erica, Conway, Steve Faulkner, Doreen, Lizzie, Judy, Dennis Cruickshank etc.). And her second husband *BOB* but I can guess what he was thinking as he believed he and his daughter was so much better then anyone and everyone connected to the prison eventhough his daughter was an inmate 🤣😂 That show they was on should have been reminded that Joan was on the news a few years earlier also when Cass and Jude was on the roof after she poisoned Minnie
I like how Walters almost acts innocent of any wrongdoing when challenged about his part in the unlawful running of blackmoor. He was as bad as craven.
Why didn’t Merve put the tape down the back waist band of his trousers? It was obvious that he would have his bag searched and the officers “frisk” search would have missed it if one was carried out ……………….. 🙄
Since the blackmoor riot and the arrival of the blackmoor bunch this has been the best lot of episodes! Loving Rita, Lurch, spider and Ferguson. Brilliant acting ❤
Tha Freak must have been so pissed off to see 'Terri's former lover boss' "screwing" things up for her yet again with his testimony on national television! He must have ditched that security firm, gone into the prison service and changed his name, after being inspired by Terri and Freak! lol
i experience many weird coincidences as i watch through this wonderful show ... but of all the books for Myrl to pluck off the shelf - Lolita !?!?!? ... it is currently the 18/8/2019 and all over the media is a certain 'man' with a particular plane carrying a rather strange name - The Lolita Express ?!?!?! ... (and also miss Mullins taking pictures of a supposed dead man(( to name just one more coinkydink))) ... weirdness abounds all over ... thanks a lot for taking the time to upload this series ... love it ...
Those pool balls were nice and neat in a perfect triangle, and then The Freak went and knocked a ball out during her check to ensure everything is in place!
@@fabpcbhfan9592 LOL... Surprised The Freak didn't have him killed for that interview revealing the Blackmoor secrets on Craven! Not to mention him banging Terri in her bed! lol... By the way, did you see the first Maggie Kirkpatrick interview where she denied ALL knowledge of Blackmoor?? So dodgy after all these years!! lol
It's such a shame that Joan keeps making the wrong decisions and brings these problems on herself. She's got the potential of being a really good person if she would stop choosing the bad side.
Rita and her mates, need to be mindful of they're surrounding and who is listening in!...Sometimes they can be very stupid!...The best episode, I reckon!
So it turns out that Merle was the unsung hero who changed the course of life at Wentworth prison. My favorite moment of hers was when Kath came to rescue her from the mental hospital and Merle literally whimpered in terror over her involuntary commitment. I think the show handled the Merle character with great delicacy and sensitivity in the actor who portrayed Merle was absolutely sensational which my understanding is her first and only for as an actor. Absolutely amazingly unbelievable.
Just to add to my previous comment (was writing on the bus on the way to work) I started watching the whole series from last September and finished it this morning before work. Back in the day I watched from late 87 to early 90s when it was shown on British television at a late time (usually around 11pm) but never saw past some early episodes (never saw Bea's exit) but remember Judy Bryant a lot. Some other great characters like Toni Mcnally, Kay White and the Ballinger woman (forget her first name). Maggie Kirkpatrick (Joan) is an outstanding actress and didn't realise at the time her versatility. Thank you for uploading the whole series.
Loved seeing Rita & Kath teaming up in regards to the tape, little scenes like that make the show as incredible as it is.
Joan Ferguson ‘a vicious self serving Misfit’ 😂😂Love Ann Reynolds.
because "rapist" would have been too much for the audience to stomach, despite seeing her sexually assault Doreen Burns, Hannah Simpson and other women. Joan is nothing more than a rapist.
one of my all time fave episodes- ferguson is knocked down and Rita is back on top- love it love it love it :)
Mervyn Pringle's finest hour.
Mervins laugh when he got the video out lol.
😂😂😂 love his laugh lol
I liked how Pringle could pull one over Adams especially about the video tape.
love the way rita chucked rodney out the rec room hehehe
good 1 rita the beater
Shows how masterful Mr Adams is
Without a doubt the BEST Prisoner episode in hundreds of episodes (possibly ever)! The exposure of cover ups of abuse of women in institutions is a subject that is personally very dear to me, and while I know this is only fictitious, I'm glad a TV show proved that the right thing can happen and justice prevails. Those scenes at the end with Lorelei with her baby were just heartbreaking!
of course these episodes were written at a time when a lot of institutional abuse of children, women and men was starting to be made public and no country was exempt. We were all feeling the force of the horror of it all
dane there STILL is ffs!!!
Love how merve laughed
I got the biggest laugh with the music "when Johnnie comes marching home"
For the pringles and jackson😂😂👍
Me too.
Isn't it from "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"
I actually liked Merv from day one. And, his smuggling that tape out of the prison is applaud worthy. We got to see Mervin Pringle finally develop his backbone.
BRAVO, MR. P. BRAVO!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This IS the BEST episode of P.C.B.H ever!
Rodney reminds me a bullied child that grew up sour, bitter and desperate to be a part of the popular crowd, or in this case the winning side.
,
Lol
I agree. He wanted a job where he could bully other people.
What an incredible episode. One of the best!
I’m so glad merv got the tape out. Ferguson didn’t deserve to be in that chair.
@28:17 Merv blushing at his wife being on tv ... lol.
Joannie literally sealing her own fate by pissing off the one person who has just acquired the hammer to hammer the nails in her coffin.
This is now officially my fave episode!!!!
Fab episode,down with the freak! Loved watching this so much. Thank you soooo much for for uploading :)))
This episode is BIG !!!!!
RIP ANNE PHELAN
It would have simpler to just have Merv pass a message to Philip Clayton and tell him to wait by the fence. One of the girls with a strong arm could lob the tape over the fence and then Clayton could pick it up and scarper before the screws could act.
19:20 It was a pleasure seeing Rodney stand up to the Freak.
43:00 "I'm sick to death of you, Dwyer!" It's great the way Joan talks to her immediate superior like he's just a troublesome schoolboy. I liked her weary facial expressions in that scene, too.
Yeah, it is about time Rodders grew a spine. Yeah, the way fergie speaks to Dwyer is hilarious.
Nice one Merv for getting the tape out.
The rec room is looking bare like it did when it was refurbished after the "Great Fire of Wentworth" about 350 episodes ago.
Just so you know, this played fine on my iPad. A fine episode too!!!
One of the best episodes ever. From Michael from Yorkshire and proud of it.
Merv could've stuffed the tape in his waistband at the back since they only search bags but at least he got it out 🤣🤣
CRACKING EPISODE!!!!! Even with reading the comments before watching [which I LOVE - doesn't spoil a damn thing!!!] -- my heart was in my throat when Merv finally made it out of Wentworth but was waiting to be let through the gate! I HOLLERED "GO MAN GO"!!! Damn you Lorelei.... after everything you and the other women have gone through thanks to The Freak you just have to save her arse! But at least you finally told her to eff off. The Ingleside Psychiatrist is a a decent bloke. Touching scene with Lorelei and Baby Boy Zoe. It was a hoot to see. Meg on the telly... The Queen's Speech indeed! LOL at Rita nearly knocking Rat-faced Rodney out!!! If there is any justice Mr. Dwyer will be long gone but of course even real life doesn't work like that with politicians. The Freak is a hot mess ... still bucking for Deputy after all is said and done. Good on Reyno for sticking to her guns though. + It's disturbing how a few of the women actually sound a lot like Lexi at times - had to remind myself that she's long gone now!!!
Rita’s an arsehole no more than the Freak is and some other characters at this point in the series are. Rodney is an easy target for those weasels at Wentworth who want to play the victim/warrior card constantly.
I’ve liked Mervin since day one. And the way he finally developed his backbone smuggling the tape out is applaud worthy.
Like just about every commentator posts, this is one of my favorite & one of the best episodes.
Get on ya Merv.... *Moves clenched hands and forearms in a circular motion* ---> Go Merv, Go Merv, Go Merv.... whoop whoop.
As for Kath and Rita teaming up and agreeing on a deal, w0w, never thought I would see the day. An endearing scene I thought.
Really LOVE how they alternated between showing everyone tuning into the programme from Joan to Merv and Reno to Dwyer to the women listening via the radio. And the contrast between Merv all smiley and Reno looking serious when Joycie was on was a nice touch.
I immediately burst into tears when Lori leapt up and ran towards the door to her room when she saw Zoe. Nothing else to say but what a cracking episode that was!
Oh, and welcome back to the three musketeers that are Meg, Marty, and Joycie, yaaaaaaaaay, ha.
5th January 2024
Mervin watching that news show when his Joycie came on... OMG 🙄🙄 The proud husband lol
❤❤👍 He was indeed
If it wasn't for him lorelei wouldn't have gotten her sanity and Zoe back and ann meg Joyce and marty would be out of a job leaving Joan to run Wentworth like blackmoor he should be proud
That was quite the professional news reel on the state of the prison system. Good performance from Meg staring right into the camera with her story. Anyone would think she's a professional actor, not a prison officer! 😉
Haha. Yes. Meg should think about changing jobs 😅
This show is just so good and cult comes to mind and now getting near the final, gonna miss it so much and in time yet again I will revisit.
I'm a great fan of glenda linscott she's the best actress in the show
I loved Spider. She was very entertaining. Such a shame that Taya Stratton is no longer with us. I’d have loved to see her acting now on tv.
Spider is a great character!
I found Spider very irritating, and believing she was just as crazy in real life,same as Donna who mislead Lil Suzy Driscoll.
Good on ya Merv😂😂😂
@@sandrajohnson5804if Taya Stratton left you convinced that the way she portrayed Spider was an extension of her true personality... she did her job as an actor. So too did Maggie Kirkpatrick as Ferguson and the Philip guy as Rodney. The highest praise you can pay an actor is that the audience comes away believing what they're seeing.
I think that is the first time I have seen Meg look directly at the camera, as she was giving the interview. as against the norm of not looking at it.
That old tape looks like old U-Matic format.
She’s acting the part of Meg Jackson, prison officer being interviewed on tv. It’s how the character would have acted in that circumstance
Lori's shrink is a top bloke!
I would have loved to have heard Mrs Reynolds refer to Ferguson as "The Freak" it would have been funny. I recall Marty Jackson referring to her as that to Mrs Morris.
As an American I find it interesting that they would use When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, a civil war song, as everyone comes back to the prison.
Lol can't wait for that one
It was kind of appropriate.
27:09-Why is Meg looking as through she's delivering the Queen''s Christmas Day Speech as she's being interviewed
43:35-You know they are nearing the end and running out of Incidental Music when they start using a tune simalr to the Animals went in two by two.
+GROMIT9 it's a variation of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" which was a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war, or in this case the return of the prison officers after their war against corruption in the corrective services.
+GROMIT9 LMFAO
Gromit Sooty tis right but ur right too... it DOES sound like it!!! lol id never noticed that b4 lol
@@queeng5925 I thought it was "The Animals Came in Two by Two."
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Yes. The over sincere acting to camera was so unrealistic. Too confident/actressy for a prison officer!
24:00 Beige Joan wearing her beige jacket over her beige XXL turtle neck sitting on a beige chair in her beige office with its beige lamp and beige drapes.
It shows that she's a 'colourful' character!🤭🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊
Walters is a deadspit for Begbie from Trainspotting lol.
Great parking at the end there, Meggy-pops!
Mr Dryer is quite funny in the tv interview. I could imagine him in a Carry On film back in the 70s.
I would have liked to have heard Ann Reynolds refer to Joan as The Freak
That was Mervin's plan to get the tape out! Just as well Rodney is a plank. 🤣
This was a stunning episode WOW!
With Meg being the longest serving member of the cast I wonder what the faces of the past was thinking when they saw her on the telly and listening to all the shenanigans that's been going on at the prison
(ya know Fletch the letch, po face, vinegar, Erica, Conway, Steve Faulkner, Doreen, Lizzie, Judy, Dennis Cruickshank etc.).
And her second husband *BOB*
but I can guess what he was thinking as he believed he and his daughter was so much better then anyone and everyone connected to the prison eventhough his daughter was an inmate 🤣😂
That show they was on should have been reminded that Joan was on the news a few years earlier also when Cass and Jude was on the roof after she poisoned Minnie
I like how Walters almost acts innocent of any wrongdoing when challenged about his part in the unlawful running of blackmoor. He was as bad as craven.
what an episode!!
adams should be fired when reynolds comes back
Reynolds? Two faced and piss weak. How many times could she have got rid of Ferguson, never mind Adams, but never did. She’s as bad as Meg Morris
Geez, that was close with Mervin getting through the front gate like that! I thought for sure he'd get busted! lol
LOLOL🤣🤣
Why didn’t Merve put the tape down the back waist band of his trousers? It was obvious that he would have his bag searched and the officers “frisk” search would have missed it if one was carried out ……………….. 🙄
What an episode!
just loved Merle's innocence thinking that Lolita was about Lollie's
Loved the end. The good guys winning and coming back.
Love that end scene with Joan and the minister
Meggiepops looked beautiful when she went on live TV.
She looked like an 80's breakfast TV presenter
She looked like Bjorn-from-ABBA as usual.🤭🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊
Merv could of just put the tape up his jumper rather than in a bag simples
Since the blackmoor riot and the arrival of the blackmoor bunch this has been the best lot of episodes!
Loving Rita, Lurch, spider and Ferguson.
Brilliant acting ❤
That's good way Mervin gets the tape out
Justice is served! Damn it, Joan!
Fair play to Phillip Hyde for playing the greenhorn
Doc need's to shave the lil pubic patch off his head @24:44 it would look much better w/o it
Tha Freak must have been so pissed off to see 'Terri's former lover boss' "screwing" things up for her yet again with his testimony on national television! He must have ditched that security firm, gone into the prison service and changed his name, after being inspired by Terri and Freak! lol
*Ferguson:* "What was that?"
*Rita:* "Nothing, Ms. Ferguson."
*Ferguson:* "You're 'nothing' yourself right into a charge, Conners."
😂
Lolita it's about lollies I recon lmfao
Happy ending for Lorie with her kid.
i experience many weird coincidences as i watch through this wonderful show ... but of all the books for Myrl to pluck off the shelf - Lolita !?!?!? ... it is currently the 18/8/2019 and all over the media is a certain 'man' with a particular plane carrying a rather strange name - The Lolita Express ?!?!?! ... (and also miss Mullins taking pictures of a supposed dead man(( to name just one more coinkydink))) ... weirdness abounds all over ... thanks a lot for taking the time to upload this series ... love it ...
I read Lolita years ago. He was pretty much a dirty old man.
Yes Merle Lolita is about lollies I recon lmao
why is everyone on Mervs case he got the tape out didnt he. go Merv
Merv never said anything about a wedding breakfast he said it was congratulations on ur wedding messages 😂😂🙄
Merv! 👍😁 However he should have hidden the tape on him somewhere 😆
Those pool balls were nice and neat in a perfect triangle, and then The Freak went and knocked a ball out during her check to ensure everything is in place!
Was "Barry" in this episode or no?😂
@@fabpcbhfan9592 LOL... Surprised The Freak didn't have him killed for that interview revealing the Blackmoor secrets on Craven! Not to mention him banging Terri in her bed! lol... By the way, did you see the first Maggie Kirkpatrick interview where she denied ALL knowledge of Blackmoor?? So dodgy after all these years!! lol
Haha. Delia called Rod a paedo to his face 😂😂😂
Only 15 episodes to go what will I indulge in when it's over?
? .? Me too
Merv laughs like Tigger from Winnie the Pooh
It's such a shame that Joan keeps making the wrong decisions and brings these problems on herself. She's got the potential of being a really good person if she would stop choosing the bad side.
Id love to know what the cab driver was thinking when Merv was laughing when he got out with the tape, if he knew what he was laughing at.
Mervs laugh was quite dirty
Merv the perv
That chuckle from Merve had me rotfpmsl 🤣🤣🤣👍
I love when justice is served!!! :D
Well done Merv for getting that tape out ! xx
Merven finally come through.
THE MINISTER MAKES ME LAUGH . GOOD EPISODE
Game, set and match to Reno and co. They should join the Wentworth warriors
Never mind Reno's rebels let's all join the Wentworth warriors
Happy that Spider got her comeuppance!!!!
20.56 It’s Begbie from Trainspotting 👍😜
TV on FM? Now that is old school!
Yes I remember those days when a good FM radio in Australia could pick up analogue tv stations.
That was when the ABC was on Channel 2 (86.250MHz)
18:59 Mr. Pringle giggled
Not a fan of the Merle character but I loved her retort to Spider about the poor little hungry mices!
Rita and her mates, need to be mindful of they're surrounding and who is listening in!...Sometimes they can be very stupid!...The best episode, I reckon!
Mr. Pringle you are awesome! 😁😂🤣👍👌😚
The sad thing but truth is that these kinds of things still happen in prisons to date
against the prisoners from prison officers.
The way Meg looks into the camera when she’s being interviewed is like she is the presenter 😀
I love rita in the show she the best top dog
So it turns out that Merle was the unsung hero who changed the course of life at Wentworth prison. My favorite moment of hers was when Kath came to rescue her from the mental hospital and Merle literally whimpered in terror over her involuntary commitment. I think the show handled the Merle character with great delicacy and sensitivity in the actor who portrayed Merle was absolutely sensational which my understanding is her first and only for as an actor. Absolutely amazingly unbelievable.
Alice, to get the tape she says to bash it out of Maxell 😅 she forgets her bashing skills haven't been going to well gotta love her though😅
At 3.45 Adams says to Merle 'Get back to your cells' How many cells does Merle have? hehe
🤣🤣
What a beauty! Bonza! XD
I love the characters but I'm team Myra all the way
Team Myra for life!! Bestest Top Dog ever!! 🙌🏽
Me 2 :-)
Yes, Myra was excellent..
17:06 oh my I've never seen such a devious looking Meg
16:30 Ann you had over a million chances to get rid of The Freak. It’s your damn fault she is still a screw.