I think its very cool that we can spend some of our spare time watching a show which clearly gives us so much pleasure. It could actually be a welcome break from reality for some, and there are many worse things one could be doing.
Yes noticed the green wall is actually the canteen and rec room. I notice in previous episodes a white mark on the wall near door gate entrance and realised then that canteen and rec room is same set .
Please note that you rarely saw Bea in solitary. Prisoner originally wasn't supposed to run for as long as it did and possibly many of the cast had other commitments. Solitary or a quick transfer to Barnhust and back gave them time out.
YouMadeItEasy In an episode later on, Vera is seen in the office walking the women outside--seconds later Vera is seen walking out the doors outside and Her hair color is a lot darker, as in dyed darker.
Yeah sure! for a gangster drug pushers wife she wasn't all bad. 🙄😒 The actress herself Pat Bishop looked very classy though in the outfits she wore on screen. She was married to the guy who played George Lucas in earlier eps with Anne Yates... Deceased Ex Prison Officer turned prisoner in ep25.
Toni is a cool customer in the mould of later characters Sonia Stevens and Ruth Ballinger and I really like her for this. Anne Lucas, script editor for this episode, also acted in the series as Faye Quinn.
Ah! Similar to the more recent 'The Office US' where a lot of the writers ended up playing parts in the series as it went on? As a 5th time through veteran I know exactly who you refer to in Faye Quinn.
The cheesy mustaches on both detectives are alternately cracking me up and icking me out. I was about nineteen years old when this episode was made , and I honestly don't remember that many bad 'staches in my neck of the world. Maybe I just blocked them out - self preservation...))
@@ajs41 I know what you mean. Maybe not in Australia due to the climate. But bad 'staches were par for the course as I remember it in the 70's/80's. Particularly on cops lol.
I feel sad that actress Pat Bishop (Antonia) died at only 53. Didn't know she was married to Bill Hunt (Vera's lover, con man, big time drug dealer), his second wife of 3, all divorced. True, we don't see any bullet wound in the killing here, but I think the victim falls v. convincingly.
Why did Karen give her full name to Melinda's dad on the doorstep? How's she gonna stay incognito if she needlessly drops her full name to everyone who turns up on the doorstep when all she had to say was 'Karen'? Intelligence comes in many forms, and common sense is one of them. Also, Melinda did tell her she could move in straight away. I seem to remember Karen saying she would be round in the morning- so why was Melinda acting like it was a total surprise? And why didn't she mention that she didn't have a spare bed?
I socialised in the same club for years and only ever introduced myself as Karen and I have nothing to hide. Don't see the need to give everyone my life story when I meet them.
This episode debuts the more familiar end titles design that is used for the remainder of the series (although only for the cast at this point). Also worth noting is the rarer 1979 copyright stamp design.
Karen has almost an Audrey Hepburn look to her with her hair up. I think Antonia was talking about George Lucas as in Vera's drug dealing boyfriend. I admit, they weren't very creative with that name, considering the time.
@@baronmeduseI don't see a joke in the name Edith Wharton? If they'd created her character as Edith Piev the french singer then yeah I would of got the joke...Nooooo no regrets!
@@baronmeduse I didn't even know about any pulitzer prize novelist called Edith Wharton??? I'm 38. What did she write about?? she must have been an american cos the word (pulitzer) is usually used over there or Oz.
I don't know why Leila is on about Jim's money - a Deputy Governor in the prison service is about equivalent to an Inspector of Police - add to that the shift allowances and the extensive overtime Jim does - he would be on reasonable money - not quite millionaire stuff but hardly slumming it either.
Because she married him for the security not for the love...Just a gold digging bitch who does the " not seeing your kid anymore cause you came here talking to me drunk". Sadly, a lot of women are like this and use the kids against the father to gain what they want! They're showing it well and showing it as normal and ok. Being the time and age, times haven't changed at all in that regard and if not are much worse and much sneaky these days! Not all are like that, though any parent who does that, is not worthy of the name mother/ father unless its for obvious reasons of protection compared to just spite. Never use the children in a tug of war event for personal gratification and nothing else..
This Fletch guy seems to have more problems on top of his drinking. He has issues that are just underneath the surface that haven't come out yet. I hope as this show goes on they will make it clearer for us what makes him so hard to live and work with. Yes though, women or men that use kids as pawns are low selfish parasites.
The McNally epoch. Melinda's a two-faced, underhanded snake. I'm hooked on PCBH. Aside from catching the odd snippet during the 80's, this is my second stint. Seems Antonia's got them eating out of her hands already. Uh-oh! The grass has vanished out the patio doors!!
8:44 The flap at the front of the woman's dress billows up but there's not the slightest hint of a bullet wound around that area. Then at 8:51 the way the victim turned her head then dropped it again looked totally unconvincing.
I had asthma from when I was 16 for years. Gave up smoking about 18 months ago - not a single wheeze since not to mention more money. Had nothing to do with MY emotions.
Yep that McNally got away with just about everything in there. When it comes to her and bea...Toni can have anything she wants brought in, but bea has no outside friends or family and has to make do with (by up) goods to steal or get from the store cupboard on behalf of le screws or food smuggled from the kitchen to make up food for a party for any of her closest inmates who may have a birthday? Toni has style whereas bea can get caught out by vera or fletch because she thinks shes got style. Most of the time bea can think on her feet but doesn't thoroughly think her plans through. When I was a kid, I always used to think she was good at it all but boy as I got older I was wrong!! When you're around age 5 or 6 your brain doesn't fully understand characters letting themselves down when they fail and now I appreciate PCBH more because I understood more when I reached my 20s after so many years of having to go without access to the series anywhere because TH-cam hadn't been out long in 2004 or 2005 I believe it was created??? Can't remember the name of the creator of TH-cam these days cos nobody talks about him much? I used to watch drips + drabs on regional tv in scotland britian back in the early 90s when I was aloud to stay up abit later on the weekend.
I think there is a big difference between prisons in America and those in Australia - including the time people are confined in solitary. People seem to go to prison with more regularity and for longer periods in America than other places.
@@ajs41you get so many chances in the UK it's unreal 11 years ago I breached my suspended sentence 5 times . It was ridiculous .you can also test positive on a drug order every week for 4 years and they never send you to jail .they are far too lax . There and then I don't think jail works either because their is such long waiting lists for training or education opportunities.
Toni McNally - one of the shows best character's🙂. On my 2nd round. I watched the full 692 episodes about 3 weeks ago. Toni McNally has to be one of the shows best characters, a very strong character & a very powerful lady.
Isn't that the same actor who was Daphne Graham's lawyer, Ben Fulbright, playing the copper looking after the McNally witness. He certainly looks very familiar.
... the 70's sure was the decade that taste passed by, lol. Notice the pot plant in the bird cage at Moaning Mel's bedsit! And I forgot about the decor in most of the houses. Even ours wasn't as gaudy as that (I think, but maybe it was too traumatic so I blocked it out!)
Have to agree. We had carpet that had orange, green and brown in it and an orange and black lounge. I don't know what mum was thinking. To this day I've never owned anything or decorated in those colours.
George Lucas the filmmaker was quite famous when this was made. In an early episode you can see a poster with R2-D2 in the rec room. The 1st Star Wars movie came out out in '77, the 2nd in 1980.
LittleMissJmoo Moo do you know what series number this is. I have a funny feeling series 2 but nearly the end of series 2, as I looked on my dad's his amazon fire tv two weeks ago and it was series 2 but I'm not sure if this is nearly the end of it cos Pat o Conell and Chrissy come in at ep65. Then I think series 3 begins? I can't fully remember without checking the series numbers and episodes on my dad's Amazon tv fire.
This is Series 1, episode 57. The episode numbers are from 1 to 692, they don't include the series number, but there were about 90 episodes in each season. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prisoner_episodes
The prisons sets are accurate for modern door knobs ( post war) Handles were mostly used after 1960s. The inside of Dr Millers surgery is nothing like a 19th century terrace house. They had 4 panel doors with low knobs (doorknobs not patients). The inside is 1920s- 30s & high doorknobs were the fashion. No terrace houses would have been refitted. The inner city was run down & unpretty ( cars included, what the cast drive is interesting and not chosen randomly. old bombs to brand new luxury). Today, Millers house looks a million $ ( but you'll need another million if you want to buy it) & wallpaper only exists in buildings that haven't been renovated for decades (With Australias soaring population, old, rundown buildings are a dying breed) Keep in mind how old these episodes are. If you were 15 then, you are over 50 now.
John that's all interesting but the old doorknobs were also very fancy and some even made of crystal. The high one in Dr Greg's is very plain and rusty ugly. My thought was they placed it that high so the kids wouldn't be able to reach and roam outside. Just my take on it.
I was 6 months old when this episode was filmed. Love seeing the fashions of the day, although I suspect Australia was slightly behind Europe and America at that time.
My mom wore sundresses & in winter dresses with long sleeves (early 80's). Then MTV came out and fashion was picked up from that. Cindy Lauper had cool clothes & big hair was in full bloom. Later on spandex pants in bright colors were great for a party & fancy halter tops. Then it went downhill when everyone started wearing leggings. OMG I can't stand those things. Men started dressing down like toddlers and the rest is history. LMAO old movies men wore suits even serial killers.
Ah, the young man plays a detective now, but, future he plays a crim in Woodridge prison coming up, and the future Governor Ann Reynolds son in law, an attorney
His character in Woodridge is called Lou Reynolds (a Lou Kelly and Pippa Reynolds, or Ann Reynolds combination lol), and he also plays two delivery men, unless it was supposed to be the same character delivering a television in the 300's and a statue in the 500's. Haha. 😄
The cop who didn't wag his gun around is the thieving bartender from Neighbours - about the time it started getting boring and tedious. The other cop shouldn't have wagged his gun around, else no one would believe it was loaded.
I worked in a mens prison years ago and sometimes ppl spent 1-2 years in Solitary, depending on what they did. So yea 2 weeks is really nothing nowadays.
Nah that's only a petty jibe. I'd hit below the belt an say something like...'I guess in your line of work Ms...bent, you have to act like everyone's mother...Oooh that's right, george told me...yours pegged it didn't she and you turned to booze which was your only friend'!!. (so all the women or men could hear it).THAT is what I call sticking it up to the authorities who treat some prisoners very harshly.
The mind and the body are intrinsically linked. I find it quite refreshing to hear it regarded as Psychosomatic, and I’ve had asthma for over 40 years.
I have had asthma all my life. Stress, crying, excitement, perfumes, dust, ragweed, chenille, feathers, bleach, hard laughing, hot and humid days, running can bring on a severe asthma attack. My mother says when my younger sister came home from the hospital she carried her into the house and showed her to me, I had an asthma attack that day too. You are born with it and you can manage it with Advair an inhaled medication and a rescue inhaler. I've had it for 56 years.
Yes, it was the prison rec room set redressed to look like an employment office/Jobcentre set lol. 😄 Leanne will make a return again soon in the series. I can't remember when, but she will resurface somewhere. 😃
@@charlottewebb582 there's also Robert Maudsley who is in permanent solitary in (I think) Wakefield prison. He's not even allowed anything to read. All he can do is sit there staring into space. The crimes he committed were awful (and that's putting it mildly) but his life now is as close to hell as is possible. Apparently, he'd like to die but he's in a glass cage so no chance of suicide. He now has severe mental issues brought about by extreme isolation. It's an interesting ethical dilemma. Does his punishment fit the crime? Is he still a threat to the wardens? Can his treatment really be justified? Feeling uneasy about this treatment (as I do) doesn't equate to minimising what he is behind bars for.
Sometimes people just stare in public. If one is self-conscious (as Karen was), they can cause themselves to get stared at even more. Or the man may have been coming on to her. or he may have recognized her from the news, or he may have simply been staring. :)
Is it bad that I've watched 57 eps in just under 2 weeks. I need help
It's like a drug you won't stop now! then you will re-watch them all again
That's nothing! I started watching this 5 days ago....and now I'm on this episode..... Reality and Cell Block H are merging into one! :/
Lol you're not the only one :)
I think its very cool that we can spend some of our spare time watching a show which clearly gives us so much pleasure. It could actually be a welcome break from reality for some, and there are many worse things one could be doing.
Me too
Anyone else think that Monnie looks like Chucky the doll off of Child’s play?
Almost 30 years since I watched it ,loving it again z
I've started just reading through the comments and listening to the show 😀just too funny.
fuckin love lizzie. "im a first time offender myself ya know" hahahaha
22:09 "If you was my missus..." "Oh, shut up!"
That one made me laugh!
Me too.
🤣🤣🤣 love Vera
25 minutes the copper” that’s the $64 question”
Even back then it’s hardly the same as $64,000 🤣
I think that's what he was meant to have said. I remember that. Think $64,000 was the jackpot in some game show.
I love it!: "If you were my husband-" "Oh shut up!"
Why on earth did Melinda ask Karen to move in and not even mention that she's only got 1 single bed??!!
Mandy Stevenson good question.
I would have expected my own room.
She's moron
Oh no! Look what happened by accident! I guess we'll just have to share a bed. (70's p0rn music begins)
She cannot be trusted one bit
We're going to check you for fleas and lice.
😂
Funny how the 'employment office' looks like the prison.
DJgaZman who's the lady in the employ agency I've seen her before I think.
Petra's aunt or mother
Yes noticed the green wall is actually the canteen and rec room. I notice in previous episodes a white mark on the wall near door gate entrance and realised then that canteen and rec room is same set .
22:10......my girl vera at her best!!
"If you were my missus......."
"Oh shut up......"
I thought that was hilarious too.
🤣🤣
Watching the unblended makeup helps me understand why I did my makeup that way when I was young.
Lool that blush on Antonia really stands out 😮
I liked Melinda at first but now I hoping she gets sent back to Wentworth and has one of those "accidents" that the place is so notorious for
So Mr's Grant got fired from Butterfields Nursery and now is an employment consultant advising Karen? So funny.
Enjoying watching this series again. First saw it over 20 years ago. Cracking Aussie drama !!!
Fletch is always a bastard to everyone when he get's mad at his wife
I'm still watching as of 2023. I'm not binging it as usual, but I'm still watching.
Jim drunk = good acting.
22:10 Ha ha!
There was something quite mesmerising about the wonderful Pat Bishop RIP
Those eyes, that voice
that shooting was pure comedy.pink blood and the way the girl looked up before just closing her eyes.
Asthma a psycho somatic illness😆😆
That McNally woman is a real smooth operater. She reminds me of Arnold Rothstein in Boardwalk Empire.
loving this show its taken me two weeks to watch 57 episodes. probly a life time to watch the rest!
Same lol 😂
@@sarahcampbell0915 Ah, go on, the two of ya. It's easy to get into, but a bitch to walk away from.
Erica really let bea down it wasn't fair putting her in soliiitary after promising her she could go back to the dining room
They get rid of Bea a lot I noticed, so others become top dog! Then she's back
Please note that you rarely saw Bea in solitary. Prisoner originally wasn't supposed to run for as long as it did and possibly many of the cast had other commitments. Solitary or a quick transfer to Barnhust and back gave them time out.
Erica was delusional
04:00 Karen is a fast worker - she completely changed her hairstyle between the street and Melinda's front door!
YouMadeItEasy In an episode later on, Vera is seen in the office walking the women outside--seconds later Vera is seen walking out the doors outside and Her hair color is a lot darker, as in dyed darker.
@@k8lynmae Some of the other prisoners do that later on too. They go outside and then come back inside with perms.
Not even a subtle change either 😅🤔
Tony McNally was a real class act.
One of my absolute favourites. Such a shame her time was so short, too good a character
Same. “Butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth.”😹
Even had bea giving her a run for her money 😂
@@tomprice9204 And she never had to lift a finger while in Prison
Dr Miller is the only doctor in Melbourne I think 😮
Just like Steve Wilson was the only lawyer in Melbourne
And bloody Jean Veron the only social worker
Hilarious how Vera calls someone a cold fish.
I like when Tony McNally joins the crew. Plus it means Roz Caulson’s entrance is right around the corner.
I thought Roz was a bit of a pain in the arse personally. Those who have seen this before will know why.
Tony was a class act
I mean Vera was right Fletch did tell her to report right back to him, what he wasn't counting on was his ex-wife calling his job.
see how they turned the dining room into an employment agency. lol
Office Panels do wonders.by the way Antonio we saw Shawn he wasnt worth it !
I'm loving this McNally lady, such gravitas on screen here🥰
Yeah sure! for a gangster drug pushers wife she wasn't all bad. 🙄😒 The actress herself Pat Bishop looked very classy though in the outfits she wore on screen. She was married to the guy who played George Lucas in earlier eps with Anne Yates... Deceased Ex Prison Officer turned prisoner in ep25.
@@Halfscotboy_39 oh I didn't know that!
@@AbrasiousProductions ok now ya know.
WOOO! Another one of my fave chars. Toni? McNally is a great prisoner for her short time in the series.
Such a shame we didn't get more of her. Too good
That closing credits music I imagine bea lizzy and dor running through the meadows crying freedom..
Love the music playing on the radio,Prog Rock on a bad day.
Toni is a cool customer in the mould of later characters Sonia Stevens and Ruth Ballinger and I really like her for this. Anne Lucas, script editor for this episode, also acted in the series as Faye Quinn.
Ah! Similar to the more recent 'The Office US' where a lot of the writers ended up playing parts in the series as it went on? As a 5th time through veteran I know exactly who you refer to in Faye Quinn.
So Jim suddenly has a blonde kid when in earlier episodes his kids were both brunette?
So what
I didn't think either of them were blonde either.
@@carolepworth2857 Calm down, dear.
The cheesy mustaches on both detectives are alternately cracking me up and icking me out. I was about nineteen years old when this episode was made , and I honestly don't remember that many bad 'staches in my neck of the world. Maybe I just blocked them out - self preservation...))
Are you from Australia?
@@ajs41 I know what you mean. Maybe not in Australia due to the climate. But bad 'staches were par for the course as I remember it in the 70's/80's. Particularly on cops lol.
My dad had one .only realised looking back on old photo's recently because I can't really remember it in person .
I feel sad that actress Pat Bishop (Antonia) died at only 53. Didn't know she was married to Bill Hunt (Vera's lover, con man, big time drug dealer), his second wife of 3, all divorced. True, we don't see any bullet wound in the killing here, but I think the victim falls v. convincingly.
I thought the victim's fall was very good, too! It stood out amongst a lot of badly acted scenes. :)
Why did Karen give her full name to Melinda's dad on the doorstep? How's she gonna stay incognito if she needlessly drops her full name to everyone who turns up on the doorstep when all she had to say was 'Karen'? Intelligence comes in many forms, and common sense is one of them.
Also, Melinda did tell her she could move in straight away. I seem to remember Karen saying she would be round in the morning- so why was Melinda acting like it was a total surprise? And why didn't she mention that she didn't have a spare bed?
Karen doesn't like to be dishonest. And Melinda probably wanted some company in her flat so didn't mention about having only one bed.
I socialised in the same club for years and only ever introduced myself as Karen and I have nothing to hide. Don't see the need to give everyone my life story when I meet them.
Melinda is a horrible narcissistic person she's going to get karen in trouble
Terry's hair reminds me of a bucket of popcorn.
37:39 What's with the cage around the houseplant?
Karen is so pretty.
That womans scream was on a 5min delay, when couldon was shot
I love Toni, the gangsters moll
Sexy to
She's scary haha I wouldn't want to be anywhere near her. Imagine if she even thinks you've been fooling around on her.
This episode debuts the more familiar end titles design that is used for the remainder of the series (although only for the cast at this point). Also worth noting is the rarer 1979 copyright stamp design.
Karen has almost an Audrey Hepburn look to her with her hair up. I think Antonia was talking about George Lucas as in Vera's drug dealing boyfriend. I admit, they weren't very creative with that name, considering the time.
And later in the series there is a Geoffrey Chaucer, i.e. The guy who wrote Canterbury tales hundreds of years ago!
@@kirstymaclaren They already had an Edith Wharton. They like a laugh with the names, it must be an in-joke among the writers.
@@baronmeduseI don't see a joke in the name Edith Wharton? If they'd created her character as Edith Piev the french singer then yeah I would of got the joke...Nooooo no regrets!
@@Halfscotboy_39 You don't think it's amusing that they named a minor character after a famous Pulitzer prize-winning novelist?
@@baronmeduse I didn't even know about any pulitzer prize novelist called Edith Wharton??? I'm 38. What did she write about?? she must have been an american cos the word (pulitzer) is usually used over there or Oz.
ha, were we not supposed to notice that the social welfare office Karen went to was just the prison wreck room/screws staff room??
I don't know why Leila is on about Jim's money - a Deputy Governor in the prison service is about equivalent to an Inspector of Police - add to that the shift allowances and the extensive overtime Jim does - he would be on reasonable money - not quite millionaire stuff but hardly slumming it either.
Because she married him for the security not for the love...Just a gold digging bitch who does the " not seeing your kid anymore cause you came here talking to me drunk". Sadly, a lot of women are like this and use the kids against the father to gain what they want! They're showing it well and showing it as normal and ok. Being the time and age, times haven't changed at all in that regard and if not are much worse and much sneaky these days! Not all are like that, though any parent who does that, is not worthy of the name mother/ father unless its for obvious reasons of protection compared to just spite. Never use the children in a tug of war event for personal gratification and nothing else..
This Fletch guy seems to have more problems on top of his drinking. He has issues that are just underneath the surface that haven't come out yet. I hope as this show goes on they will make it clearer for us what makes him so hard to live and work with. Yes though, women or men that use kids as pawns are low selfish parasites.
@@LittleMissJmoo It's a TV show.
Such women don't really exist.
( honestly, they don't?)
val getting another break lol
The McNally epoch. Melinda's a two-faced, underhanded snake. I'm hooked on PCBH. Aside from catching the odd snippet during the 80's, this is my second stint. Seems Antonia's got them eating out of her hands already. Uh-oh! The grass has vanished out the patio doors!!
I can't stand that Melinda.
8:44 The flap at the front of the woman's dress billows up but there's not the slightest hint of a bullet wound around that area. Then at 8:51 the way the victim turned her head then dropped it again looked totally unconvincing.
I loved how she was shot looked dead then looked up at her to only die again 😂😂 and her blood was a funny colour 🤣😂😅🙄😜
It was awful that scene, blackcurrant colour blood. As believable as the tooth fairy
Where or how is toni mcnally gonna get that whole carton of cigs out with out Vera noticing 😂😂😂 that carton looked huge
Karen Travers 😍
"if you were my mrs..." lol
Oh Jim Fletcher, you are so misinformed about asthma!
Maybe they had different theories about asthma in 1979.
The doc even agreed!!
In some cases, it is psychosomatic, and can be caused by emotional distress. Not ALL cases, of course, but in some, yes.
I had asthma from when I was 16 for years. Gave up smoking about 18 months ago - not a single wheeze since not to mention more money. Had nothing to do with MY emotions.
32:57: looks like the "tighter security regulations" have been relaxed to the point of being non-existent.
Yep that McNally got away with just about everything in there. When it comes to her and bea...Toni can have anything she wants brought in, but bea has no outside friends or family and has to make do with (by up) goods to steal or get from the store cupboard on behalf of le screws or food smuggled from the kitchen to make up food for a party for any of her closest inmates who may have a birthday? Toni has style whereas bea can get caught out by vera or fletch because she thinks shes got style. Most of the time bea can think on her feet but doesn't thoroughly think her plans through. When I was a kid, I always used to think she was good at it all but boy as I got older I was wrong!!
When you're around age 5 or 6 your brain doesn't fully understand characters letting themselves down when they fail and now I appreciate PCBH more because I understood more when I reached my 20s after so many years of having to go without access to the series anywhere because TH-cam hadn't been out long in 2004 or 2005 I believe it was created??? Can't remember the name of the creator of TH-cam these days cos nobody talks about him much? I used to watch drips + drabs on regional tv in scotland britian back in the early 90s when I was aloud to stay up abit later on the weekend.
@@Halfscotboy_39 we both watched the series from Scotland, then!
@@stevenmcghee6649 How old r u if you don't mind me asking?
I'm worst 😂😂 I'm on ep 57 and it's only been four days 😊
I think there is a big difference between prisons in America and those in Australia - including the time people are confined in solitary. People seem to go to prison with more regularity and for longer periods in America than other places.
America's rate of imprisonment is massive compared to all other western countries.
@@ajs41you get so many chances in the UK it's unreal
11 years ago I breached my suspended sentence 5 times . It was ridiculous .you can also test positive on a drug order every week for 4 years and they never send you to jail .they are far too lax . There and then I don't think jail works either because their is such long waiting lists for training or education opportunities.
"SOME OF THOSE GIRLS HAVE GOT NO MORALS" 😂
Toni McNally - one of the shows best character's🙂. On my 2nd round. I watched the full 692 episodes about 3 weeks ago. Toni McNally has to be one of the shows best characters, a very strong character & a very powerful lady.
There are 692 episodes? Wow.
The show ran from February 1979 to December 1986. This episode is from September 1979: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prisoner_episodes
I guess those blue overcoats like Vera's at 20:17 is part of their uniform--the other women officers have them too.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to turn this off just to get stuff done. I can never find a balance with anything.
Turn it off
I'll watch just one more episode... lol
My favourite is "I'll go to bed after the next one".
No. Lol
Isn't that the same actor who was Daphne Graham's lawyer, Ben Fulbright, playing the copper looking after the McNally witness. He certainly looks very familiar.
Yea and he also played a thug prisoner in some other prison I have forgotten the name of and a mad crazy loony from a religious sect.
I think she was referring to George Lucas American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur.
Was that really a commonly held opinion about asthma at the time? I’ve never heard that before.
... the 70's sure was the decade that taste passed by, lol. Notice the pot plant in the bird cage at Moaning Mel's bedsit! And I forgot about the decor in most of the houses. Even ours wasn't as gaudy as that (I think, but maybe it was too traumatic so I blocked it out!)
Have to agree. We had carpet that had orange, green and brown in it and an orange and black lounge. I don't know what mum was thinking. To this day I've never owned anything or decorated in those colours.
@@karennicholls8532 Whereas today's palette of beige, white and IKEA boxwork is so much better.
@@baronmeduse Agreed 😅
George Lucas the filmmaker was quite famous when this was made. In an early episode you can see a poster with R2-D2 in the rec room. The 1st Star Wars movie came out out in '77, the 2nd in 1980.
This was being filmed about 18 months after the first Star Wars movie was released in Australia.
2 driffrent ppl
George Lucas was also Vera's drug dealing boyfriend.
val getting another break god she had them buy the balls lol
Jim has a nerve he and Lila are both committing adultry his kids just dont see his cheating episodes, he .lives in a huge glass house😂
Yes McNally! She was quite attractive too and I love her voice
LittleMissJmoo Moo do you know what series number this is. I have a funny feeling series 2 but nearly the end of series 2, as I looked on my dad's his amazon fire tv two weeks ago and it was series 2 but I'm not sure if this is nearly the end of it cos Pat o Conell and Chrissy come in at ep65. Then I think series 3 begins? I can't fully remember without checking the series numbers and episodes on my dad's Amazon tv fire.
This is Series 1, episode 57. The episode numbers are from 1 to 692, they don't include the series number, but there were about 90 episodes in each season. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prisoner_episodes
Funny how you disrespect females who ain't pretty but you are all for McNally.
Enter, Mrs Macnally .
They got rid of Bea for her storyline
When it comes to smoking, Australia of the late 70s was like Britain of the late 40s - 85% of the adult population indulged.
And America is like that today.
Cell phones replaced smoking.
Bea's in the pound for 2 weeks? Thought the most was 2 days then the VJ decided? Val must have work somewhere else?
Wow! Are the door knobs high enough? Good lord!
aowens9192 right?!?
I'm pretty average height for a woman (5ft 5-6) and all my door knobs are around the top of my rib cage. Dead locks a little higher.
the detective later turns up as an attorney who gets involved with anne reynolds daughter
And that misfortune will be the death of him. He would be better of with Lizzie and those false teeth of hers😁
McNally looks like a man in that costume and hat
are all the doorknobs mounted so high is Aussie?
No one ever answers that question when it's posed here. I'm curious to know, myself!
The prisons sets are accurate for modern door knobs ( post war) Handles were mostly used after 1960s. The inside of Dr Millers surgery is nothing like a 19th century terrace house. They had 4 panel doors with low knobs (doorknobs not patients). The inside is 1920s- 30s & high doorknobs were the fashion. No terrace houses would have been refitted. The inner city was run down & unpretty ( cars included, what the cast drive is interesting and not chosen randomly. old bombs to brand new luxury). Today, Millers house looks a million $ ( but you'll need another million if you want to buy it)
& wallpaper only exists in buildings that haven't been renovated for decades (With Australias soaring population, old, rundown buildings are a dying breed)
Keep in mind how old these episodes are. If you were 15 then, you are over 50 now.
John that's all interesting but the old doorknobs were also very fancy and some even made of crystal. The high one in Dr Greg's is very plain and rusty ugly. My thought was they placed it that high so the kids wouldn't be able to reach and roam outside. Just my take on it.
I was 6 months old when this episode was filmed. Love seeing the fashions of the day, although I suspect Australia was slightly behind Europe and America at that time.
My mom wore sundresses & in winter dresses with long sleeves (early 80's). Then MTV came out and fashion was picked up from that. Cindy Lauper had cool clothes & big hair was in full bloom. Later on spandex pants in bright colors were great for a party & fancy halter tops. Then it went downhill when everyone started wearing leggings. OMG I can't stand those things. Men started dressing down like toddlers and the rest is history. LMAO old movies men wore suits even serial killers.
Mrs Fletcher came back in other episodes wen chook was going to marry her son.
Steve Ryan's mum.
And she was the real life daughter of Ettie Parslow/Agnes Foster.
with police protection like that who would ever give evidence lol
Ah, the young man plays a detective now, but, future he plays a crim in Woodridge prison coming up, and the future Governor Ann Reynolds son in law, an attorney
Lisa Wortman. and the leader of a cult
His character in Woodridge is called Lou Reynolds (a Lou Kelly and Pippa Reynolds, or Ann Reynolds combination lol), and he also plays two delivery men, unless it was supposed to be the same character delivering a television in the 300's and a statue in the 500's. Haha. 😄
Alpha Centauri, I think.
“Wanna play cards?”
“Dunno how”
“Wanna play Snap?”
“Dunno how” 💀
He was a character in earlier episodes, A Drug Dealer Vera's lover...
The cop who didn't wag his gun around is the thieving bartender from Neighbours - about the time it started getting boring and tedious.
The other cop shouldn't have wagged his gun around, else no one would believe it was loaded.
I have tried so hard to get into that show neighbors. I just can't.
Tomi McNally reminds me a bit in Elsie Tanner
Good spot and both hugely sexy 🍧
Who is Elsie Tanner?.
@@debrak8521no idea, probably some old slapper.
I worked in a mens prison years ago and sometimes ppl spent 1-2 years in Solitary, depending on what they did. So yea 2 weeks is really nothing nowadays.
great to watch old shows from over20 years ago
mr Fletcher such a bully!!!
The little boy needs a breathing treatment and a puffer. He'll have asthma for the rest of his life. I ought to know because I have asthma.
Girl crushing on Karen 😍
I like Vera.
41:12 "Isn't she the bird old Georgie Lucas was knocking off?"
Now that's what I call, sticking it up the screws.
Nah that's only a petty jibe. I'd hit below the belt an say something like...'I guess in your line of work Ms...bent, you have to act like everyone's mother...Oooh that's right, george told me...yours pegged it didn't she and you turned to booze which was your only friend'!!. (so all the women or men could hear it).THAT is what I call sticking it up to the authorities who treat some prisoners very harshly.
Where do they do their research, Since when is Asthma psychosomatic
Maybe that was the latest theory in 1979.
The mind and the body are intrinsically linked. I find it quite refreshing to hear it regarded as Psychosomatic, and I’ve had asthma for over 40 years.
Ii suffered from Asthma for years and stress was one of the worst things for stirring it up.
I have had asthma all my life. Stress, crying, excitement, perfumes, dust, ragweed, chenille, feathers, bleach, hard laughing, hot and humid days, running can bring on a severe asthma attack. My mother says when my younger sister came home from the hospital she carried her into the house and showed her to me, I had an asthma attack that day too. You are born with it and you can manage it with Advair an inhaled medication and a rescue inhaler. I've had it for 56 years.
Mine wasn't. It was smoking.
Who's this "Terry Mansini" that seems to be in the credits at the end of each episode?
He was McNally's lawyer in this episode.
That employment office set was beyond pathetic. The $64 question?! And what has happened to Leanne?
Yes, it was the prison rec room set redressed to look like an employment office/Jobcentre set lol. 😄
Leanne will make a return again soon in the series. I can't remember when, but she will resurface somewhere. 😃
I believe she was a juvenile and maybe was sent elsewhere...but I'm not sure. I know she comes back in later episodes and it doesn't end well for her.
She was publicly tortured than hung.
She did get busted by the police but she's only 16 so we haven't heard. Don't worry, it's not the last of her.
I like Antonia she's awesome
I wonder if Jim's kids were played by cast members children?
why was that bloke looking at karen like that?
He probably thought she was a street girl
Omg, the way Erica, Vera and Jim's ex tiptoe around him and his entitlement is annoying. Sign of the times, I suppose.
we have a man in the UK he has spent most of his team in solitary he changed his name to Charles Bronson
He has also never killed or molested anyone what they have done to him is criminal and disgusting 🙄🤔
@@charlottewebb582 there's also Robert Maudsley who is in permanent solitary in (I think) Wakefield prison. He's not even allowed anything to read. All he can do is sit there staring into space. The crimes he committed were awful (and that's putting it mildly) but his life now is as close to hell as is possible. Apparently, he'd like to die but he's in a glass cage so no chance of suicide. He now has severe mental issues brought about by extreme isolation. It's an interesting ethical dilemma. Does his punishment fit the crime? Is he still a threat to the wardens? Can his treatment really be justified? Feeling uneasy about this treatment (as I do) doesn't equate to minimising what he is behind bars for.
@@charlottewebb582 Bronson's a very talented artist, apparently? To the point where his work has been exhibited.
lovely pretty Karen
As gorgeous as Karen is, and she is very gorgeous, I would date Vera at the drop of a hat
So ur a lez?
+Kristen Miller yup
And that matters how?
That was meant to be directed at Kristen.
When she has her hair down and is all made up, Vera is very pretty.
Sometimes people just stare in public. If one is self-conscious (as Karen was), they can cause themselves to get stared at even more. Or the man may have been coming on to her. or he may have recognized her from the news, or he may have simply been staring. :)