The whole mercy killing theme is back again but this time done exceptionally well. Kath is a complex character and she's trying to stand on principle even to the extent of putting herself in jail-- great acting job very well done by Kate Hood.
@Eugene DeGeorge- i completely agree with you! It is done incredibly well and Kate Hood does a great job in playing Kath Maxwell! You really empathise with her character and legitimately question what you would do if you were in that predicament...well scripted and well acted!
To the people who are saying Joan Ferguson's character got repetitive, I agree in part but imagine the show at the moment without her! She's never a dull character and helps keep us watching. Well done Maggie KP! Genuine question: Does it ever snow anywhere in Australia?
This really brings back vivid memories for me. I remember my schools tv very well usually the teacher's used a Ferguson TX televsion with video recorder on a cabinet with wheels showing programs for schools and colleges from the BBC that the teachers use to tape, and us kids sitting on the floor crossed leg pretending to shoot the dots of the tv screen with us kids pretending to use imaginary guns (with our fingers) making noises of gun fire as the dots disappeared counting down to the next programme. The teacher shouting us to be quite. This was would of been in the late 1970s and 80's. How many of you guys out there remember this or similar??
Though I'm more impressed with that VCR - capable of suspiciously studio quality fidelity, and in colour on their usually black and white telly, despite not being plugged in and no tape inserted.
@@deanhall4064 hell yes, that sounds very familiar. It wasn't till 1985 that our school had a VCR and we thought "wow, a video!!!". We watched a lot of ABC TV (Australia) shows like " infinity limited", "BTN- Behind the news" and an American one called "read all about it". Oh and yes, teachers shouting to be quiet even when no one was talking. Lol.
@@julabard She's more annoying than Cass. At least Cass was fairly sussed at times and was likeable. Merle is just an annoying, nosey twit. I actually used to work with someone exactly like her and even shared the same surname. Maybe this is why I dislike Merle so much.
@rayman760- I totally agree! Considering how she was like when she first entered Wentworth to where she is now- she has really come into her own and developed a backbone! Another great casting and another great example of character development at the back-end of the series!!
@ 22:27 Never caught this before. Lorelei sitting in the rec room is flashing herself to the camera, until Roach reaches over Lexi & pulls her skirt down. It's quick, so watch close!
Once again: Rita could have easily have told her biker friends on the outside to kill Joan for her, and they would have been happy to do it. Don't know why she was so set on doing it herself and getting life in jail.
That's cute what Merle did in the kitchen. I was thinking of snow when she did it. It's almost Christmas, and we don't have any snow yet. Boo hoo! You better keep taking your medicine, Merle. Don't listen to Janet! Merle put the tape in the oven? OMG! Fergo, Merv, and Joycey are going to all live together in peace under one roof. Ha, ha, ha! Feel compassion for Fergo? "It's like feeling sorry for a shark when it's taking your leg off!"
Joan needs a break! Her life has been a bit hectic in the last week or so, what with the backstabbing to win promotion, the bomb scare, tit for tat arson, gangland dealings, undercover police work, and her best friend being killed!
Kath is a Jekyll and Hyde character. She has a conscience about lying to keep out of prison, but doesn't give a stuff about how horrible she has been to everyone else.
Well Damn! Nancy is holier-than-though but she certainly handled Rita and The Freak like a Boss. The Freak deserves a hardcore takedown but she's not worth spending the rest of your life behind bars for murder... not to mention the other women would have likely had aggro to deal with off the back of Rita's shenanigans. And I'm not convinced Slasher and Bongo are worth killing Freaky Fergie and losing your freedom over. Poor Merle - I hate seeing her taken advantage of, but it's a very realistic situation. I will say one thing positive about Kath - it's obvious that Merle has become a substitute daughter for her and I do like seeing Kath look after Merle... well she tries to at any rate. Good lord Living Single Shacked Up With The Pringles. One guess how well Freaky Fergie Living With The Pringles will term out!
Ok so.....like most people on this I am an avid fan of Prisoner. So much so I know alot of the background characters and I take interest in seeing their development and how long they last in the series. I am sure there are many of you the same. Tina and Lorna are obviously the two longest, with Ronnie and Jacko not far behind. But there was another prisoner from fairly early days who ironically was called Rita. She's been missing for quite some time but I think she has mad a come back in these 're ent episodes, the frizzy blonde in the group when Lexie and Roach run by. Anyway I just wanted to say that. Totally out geeked myself
How come Rita isn't surprised when Nancy said she didn't kill her husband? In later episodes Nancy tells Rita she is isn't and he replied that she isn't surprised
41:10 Joan's comment 'it won't be in the first place you look, it'll be in the last place' well there'd hardly be any reason to continue looking for it after you find it o.O
I think the show relied too much on The Freak to keep the viewers at this point, all these attempts to 'get rid of Ferguson' and the writers always have somebody step in and save her just to keep her in the show.. It's repetitive. The Freak character ended up like a sucked orange.
she was found guilty, then had it overturned, i cant find anything where she discusses NOT having sex with a minor >> it was different back then, lol, really? it was and still is innappropriate
When Maggie Kirkpatrick talked about it being "Different back then", she was talking about the interaction between TV stars & their fans, and how today you would never have fans back to your home. She wasn't talking about the charges. As for the charges, she would have had to discuss it in court where she did deny it, with the judge concluding that he was "Not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the offending occurred". One of the reasons for that would be that she denied it. You can't find anything when she discusses it because she hasn't....Publicly, which is her right. She said in her only TV interview that she didn't want to discuss her accuser, but she has consistently denied all charges, and was ultimately cleared of all of them.
They've made an unbelievable job of Nancy's character. She started off as one of those suburban housewife characters whom you assumed would lag, cry, get beaten up, lose a family member, attempt suicide and get let off with murder after 10 episodes on the grounds of temporary insanity. In the meantime, we pray for the end of their story. Not Nance. 600odd episodes on and they're rocking that suburban wife!
+rayman760 She actually was in the earlier episodes. And poisened alot of the women. A crazy person who believed she was a doctor using herbs and shit, killed people and yea.. XD
Totally agree. Nancy is for the 600's, what Mum Brooks was way back in the first 15-20 episodes. A decent and caring, but no nonsence person. A well written character.
After Marty told the women about the list, they sounded like a bunch of chooks in the garden trying to lay an egg,And unlike Jiggerypokery, I LOVE Marty #3.
Recently I've been thinking about that gate closing sound that punctuates the commercial breaks. It sounds to me like a snare roll leads into the actual gate closing?
Agree. If I hear "Oh Rita" one more time I'll scream. Does she not remember she caused more problems with her bloody diary than everyone else put together?
9/5/17 - I'm Looking forward to the Blackmore episodes and the Alf Roberts character who comes back as the shades wearing bent governor. I seem to remember a crossbow appears in one episode. Carry on follow that tape..............
Hey Loreli! the airs a bit nipply eh! OOPs I meant nippy. We used to have a television like the one in the rec room.I guess Loreli saw some old prisoner's pictures and thought she would transform herself into the new Chrissie Latham.The blond with the Michelle Tanner ponytail, wasn't she the one that was part of the riot way back when Chookie was bashed and she was knocked out herself by Bob Moran?
Watch the frizzy haired woman behind Rita and Nancy in the rec room scene. She licks her finger and turns a page of a magazine. I used to do that too until I got sick after doing it at the beauty shop last winter. I was reading a magazine and the next day I woke with a fever and a congested chest and head. I don't do that with any magazine in public anymore.
I hate that saying "it's not in the first place you look it's in the last"( Joan to the trainee about a cell search for alcohol), well-known obviously it's gonna be in the last place you look, because you don't continue to look any further once you've found it! Always making it the last place you look !!!! #petPeeves!
Ah, but it _also_ means that it's never in the first place that you look! The saying reminds me of a funny joke Lee Evans did about it on one of his tours.
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*Merv:* "Poor Joan? That's like feeling sorry for a shark when it's taking your leg off!" 😂😂😂
Maggie Kirkpatrick's facial expressions are excellent, she's a great actress
Deffo
It’s a testament to Maggies acting she made us all hate the freak only Maggie could be the freak and I think better than Pamela Rabe in wentworth.
Merv great line - feeling sorry for Joan is like feeling sorry for a shark when its taking your leg off! lmao
Oooh that really cracked me up...too funny but to the point..
Oh I pmsl at that little gem 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As I'm watching this episode today, Tuesday, July 20th 2021, I just read that "Mum" Mary Ward passed away aged 106. Rest in peace Mary!!!!
WOW!...Reading this comment 24.09.23....R.I.P. ' Mum "
@@kimirio66 💕
"Well go on! Do what you're told, Madam Conscience here has spoken" 😂
The whole mercy killing theme is back again but this time done exceptionally well. Kath is a complex character and she's trying to stand on principle even to the extent of putting herself in jail-- great acting job very well done by Kate Hood.
@Eugene DeGeorge- i completely agree with you! It is done incredibly well and Kate Hood does a great job in playing Kath Maxwell! You really empathise with her character and legitimately question what you would do if you were in that predicament...well scripted and well acted!
Rosanne Hull-Brown is a good actress.
Well done, Joyce, you've come up with the perfect Prisoner spin-off show: "Living with the Pringles"
Karin Swift LOL !!
Well in the case of Joyce and Mervin, Joan moving in would be, "Man about the house"
I would have the shark take my leg off. There a pair of twits.
I could imagine much better spin-off ideas than THAT! LOL!!
poor joan thats like feeling sorry for a shark when its takingyour leg off good one merv
Merv is about right too.
That was stupid of the Pringles to let The Freak move in with them.
To the people who are saying Joan Ferguson's character got repetitive, I agree in part but imagine the show at the moment without her! She's never a dull character and helps keep us watching. Well done Maggie KP! Genuine question: Does it ever snow anywhere in Australia?
Yes it snows where I live
It’s forecast snow for tomorrow!
It snows in Tasmania in the mountains.
ah the good old days when you had a tv and video casssette recorder on wheels
Lol, they would wheel them around school, class to class as needed. The good ol 80's
This really brings back vivid memories for me. I remember my schools tv very well usually the teacher's used a Ferguson TX televsion with video recorder on a cabinet with wheels showing programs for schools and colleges from the BBC that the teachers use to tape, and us kids sitting on the floor crossed leg pretending to shoot the dots of the tv screen with us kids pretending to use imaginary guns (with our fingers) making noises of gun fire as the dots disappeared counting down to the next programme. The teacher shouting us to be quite. This was would of been in the late 1970s and 80's. How many of you guys out there remember this or similar??
@@ecolin4906 Lol they were still rolling Tvs around in New Zealand schools in the early 2000s
Though I'm more impressed with that VCR - capable of suspiciously studio quality fidelity, and in colour on their usually black and white telly, despite not being plugged in and no tape inserted.
@@deanhall4064 hell yes, that sounds very familiar. It wasn't till 1985 that our school had a VCR and we thought "wow, a video!!!". We watched a lot of ABC TV (Australia) shows like " infinity limited", "BTN- Behind the news" and an American one called "read all about it". Oh and yes, teachers shouting to be quiet even when no one was talking. Lol.
I hope Discount Reb (Janet) is taken out soon. Horrid character.
Laura F hahahahaha discount Reb
Is Merle a discount Cass Parker?
Discount Reb xx love it.
@@julabard She's more annoying than Cass. At least Cass was fairly sussed at times and was likeable. Merle is just an annoying, nosey twit. I actually used to work with someone exactly like her and even shared the same surname. Maybe this is why I dislike Merle so much.
@@julabard The person that plays Merle can actually act though, Janets annoying because she can't.
Nancy was bloody brilliant in the rec room
@rayman760- I totally agree! Considering how she was like when she first entered Wentworth to where she is now- she has really come into her own and developed a backbone! Another great casting and another great example of character development at the back-end of the series!!
Top dog material
Nance for Top Dog, she handled Joan better than I've seen most...
Watch kath soon
What is the point in Ida??? Just when you forget that she's in the show she pops up for her half a minute appearance.
@ 22:27
Never caught this before. Lorelei sitting in the rec room is flashing herself to the camera, until Roach reaches over Lexi & pulls her skirt down. It's quick, so watch close!
Nacho Mamma yes funny as hell then Lexi pulls at Lorelei's top off her shoulder and Lorelei pulls it back on laughing . pmsl
@@rosiew1952 I just watched that! LOL Lexi looks like she can hardly hold in her laughter.
Great observation; that really was funny. It didn't look like Lorelai was wearing anything under that top.
That little old bag Ida never fails to crack me up! 🤣
They get brownies for afters in Wentworth? Wonder what they get in Blackmoor lol.
Once again: Rita could have easily have told her biker friends on the outside to kill Joan for her, and they would have been happy to do it. Don't know why she was so set on doing it herself and getting life in jail.
For the satisfaction of knowing she did it.
Roach is Lexie's new bestie,bless! They're like 2 peas in a pod whereas Lexie and Chook were like chalk and cheese lol.
@@prisonercellblockhfan4532 I love Bottom! 7th anniversary of Rik’s passing today.
Lexi is so vile
All Roach has to do now is start screaming all her lines
I miss chook
Good god, Mervin was speaking some sense there in the kitchen with Joyce lol
Worse than a Shark🦈 tbh🤣
That's cute what Merle did in the kitchen. I was thinking of snow when she did it. It's almost Christmas, and we don't have any snow yet. Boo hoo! You better keep taking your medicine, Merle. Don't listen to Janet! Merle put the tape in the oven? OMG! Fergo, Merv, and Joycey are going to all live together in peace under one roof. Ha, ha, ha! Feel compassion for Fergo? "It's like feeling sorry for a shark when it's taking your leg off!"
Joan needs a break! Her life has been a bit hectic in the last week or so, what with the backstabbing to win promotion, the bomb scare, tit for tat arson, gangland dealings, undercover police work, and her best friend being killed!
Love merle so much ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Spin-Off Show : "The Pringles Down under" Sounds painfull...
A good spinoff show I think would be about Blackmore or a show based on Barnhurst.
Huh? The Pringles actually live Down Under though
They did true a male version, called 'Punishment', it never flew and was cancelled after 12 episodes.
Kath is a Jekyll and Hyde character. She has a conscience about lying to keep out of prison, but doesn't give a stuff about how horrible she has been to everyone else.
Joans orange lunchbox lol
Ida: "They've got nothing on us," Roach: "we've already done two months remand" -- excuse me? YOU COMMITTED ARMED ROBBERY, WITH A GUN
Lorelei is such a great addition, wonderful character and well played by Paula Duncan.
So many good one liners in this ep!
A good episode after a lot of average ones. Lexi reminds me of a rap star on the video cussing officer Adams lol.
The one liners are great in this episode, the shark, this is not a picnic, etc.
Prisoner is full of great one liners, I loved some of the things Nola came out with.
Kath solicitor is the same one that worked for Bea and Chrissy during the great Wentworth fire!!
Well Damn! Nancy is holier-than-though but she certainly handled Rita and The Freak like a Boss. The Freak deserves a hardcore takedown but she's not worth spending the rest of your life behind bars for murder... not to mention the other women would have likely had aggro to deal with off the back of Rita's shenanigans. And I'm not convinced Slasher and Bongo are worth killing Freaky Fergie and losing your freedom over. Poor Merle - I hate seeing her taken advantage of, but it's a very realistic situation. I will say one thing positive about Kath - it's obvious that Merle has become a substitute daughter for her and I do like seeing Kath look after Merle... well she tries to at any rate. Good lord Living Single Shacked Up With The Pringles. One guess how well Freaky Fergie Living With The Pringles will term out!
All the running in this episode makes me feel out of breath
All the bottles out bed any officer could walk in
Don't seem to see too much of Ida, she seems to keep herself to herself.
Gee whizz that Ida's voice is murder on the eardrums!
Ok so.....like most people on this I am an avid fan of Prisoner. So much so I know alot of the background characters and I take interest in seeing their development and how long they last in the series. I am sure there are many of you the same. Tina and Lorna are obviously the two longest, with Ronnie and Jacko not far behind. But there was another prisoner from fairly early days who ironically was called Rita. She's been missing for quite some time but I think she has mad a come back in these 're ent episodes, the frizzy blonde in the group when Lexie and Roach run by.
Anyway I just wanted to say that. Totally out geeked myself
Nancy is one of my very favourite characters from this era!
I agree
I fancy Nancy who's face is something fancy
As if Merle wouldn't go straight to Kath and ask her if she wanted her pills herself. Or at least mention that Maggot was saving them for her.
Your dead right Mervin, you can't beat home grown vegetables, better than the genetically modernised crap you buy from the supermarkets. lol
How come Rita isn't surprised when Nancy said she didn't kill her husband? In later episodes Nancy tells Rita she is isn't and he replied that she isn't surprised
41:10 Joan's comment 'it won't be in the first place you look, it'll be in the last place' well there'd hardly be any reason to continue looking for it after you find it o.O
This was a great episode. I love Lexie, and Tony Osicka, - nice work.
I think the show relied too much on The Freak to keep the viewers at this point, all these attempts to 'get rid of Ferguson' and the writers always have somebody step in and save her just to keep her in the show.. It's repetitive. The Freak character ended up like a sucked orange.
We had that TV when I was growing up
Marty has to be the coolest male officer since the helpful hunk Steve Fawkner and Rick "tick-tock" Manning!
Poor merle,
Maggie kirkpatrick was found not guilty
she was found guilty, then had it overturned, i cant find anything where she discusses NOT having sex with a minor
>> it was different back then, lol, really? it was and still is innappropriate
When Maggie Kirkpatrick talked about it being "Different back then", she was talking about the interaction between TV stars & their fans, and how today you would never have fans back to your home. She wasn't talking about the charges.
As for the charges, she would have had to discuss it in court where she did deny it, with the judge concluding that he was "Not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the offending occurred". One of the reasons for that would be that she denied it. You can't find anything when she discusses it because she hasn't....Publicly, which is her right. She said in her only TV interview that she didn't want to discuss her accuser, but she has consistently denied all charges, and was ultimately cleared of all of them.
Please get rid of bloody Janet. She's hopeless.
They've made an unbelievable job of Nancy's character. She started off as one of those suburban housewife characters whom you assumed would lag, cry, get beaten up, lose a family member, attempt suicide and get let off with murder after 10 episodes on the grounds of temporary insanity. In the meantime, we pray for the end of their story. Not Nance. 600odd episodes on and they're rocking that suburban wife!
She's brilliant
+rayman760 She actually was in the earlier episodes. And poisened alot of the women. A crazy person who believed she was a doctor using herbs and shit, killed people and yea.. XD
Always beware of the quiet mice...
leozam I agree.
Totally agree. Nancy is for the 600's, what Mum Brooks was way back in the first 15-20 episodes. A decent and caring, but no nonsence person. A well written character.
1:21 I think the freak is starting to realize she REALLY Fd UP
LMAO
joan's had a bad week!
Nancy really had balls in that scene with rita, if she wasn't such a goodie two shoes she prob could have swung a punch or two and become top dog haha
Janet trying to trick merle into not taking her tablets
What kind of top dog allows the other inmates to interfere? Oh yes, Nora.
Nancy = an old reformed Lou Kelly 20 years later! lol Interestingly, Louise Siversen looks exactly like Nancy these days!
After Marty told the women about the list, they sounded like a bunch of chooks in the garden trying to lay an egg,And unlike Jiggerypokery, I LOVE Marty #3.
I’m surprised Lori hasn’t had anyone’s eyes out 😂🤣
Joan can't have a go at rod as she does that too
Nancy is a badass, love her.
Recently I've been thinking about that gate closing sound that punctuates the commercial breaks. It sounds to me like a snare roll leads into the actual gate closing?
Rodney was watching Lexie & Roach's video & it wasn't even inserted into the VCR.
nancy gets on my nerves with her holier than thou attitude
Patrick Nabors What? By talking someone out of killing another person? Talk sense. Nancy has the most level head out of the entire prison.
She's so level-headed she put a diary admitting to pretty much every scheme in the place under her pillow where any screw could find it.
For Nancy it is more about squaring things with her beliefs than it is concern for the other person.
Agree. If I hear "Oh Rita" one more time I'll scream. Does she not remember she caused more problems with her bloody diary than everyone else put together?
I don't get that vibe from her.
Rita is a good top dog tho a bit rash at times.
She lost all respect when she cried into her pillow
I LOVE the flick of Lori's skirt at the mtg of work release. Classic. Ad Lib??
Joan sticking up for them then not sticking up for them lol
Can’t believe Joan Ferguson listened to Nancy re: knife scene - ridiculous
22:30 Roach pulls Lorelei's dress down, but by 28:15 Lorelei is flashing again
Joan's never appreciated Joyce and merv
9/5/17 - I'm Looking forward to the Blackmore episodes and the Alf Roberts character who comes back as the shades wearing bent governor. I seem to remember a crossbow appears in one episode.
Carry on follow that tape..............
Does Alf bring Audrey with him? With a quick stop at The Cabin to get a paper from Rita and Mavis?!
ah i feel so sorry for kath .. this is still an issue today fucking stupid laws
Hey Loreli! the airs a bit nipply eh! OOPs I meant nippy. We used to have a television like the one in the rec room.I guess Loreli saw some old prisoner's pictures and thought she would transform herself into the new Chrissie Latham.The blond with the Michelle Tanner ponytail, wasn't she the one that was part of the riot way back when Chookie was bashed and she was knocked out herself by Bob Moran?
Kath's nose took a wrong turn.
But, She's a great character!
Yes, I really noticed that in this episode when she was in the governor's office. It really is curved badly.
Lexie is the most energetic pregnant woman I’ve ever seen!
Watch the frizzy haired woman behind Rita and Nancy in the rec room scene. She licks her finger and turns a page of a magazine. I used to do that too until I got sick after doing it at the beauty shop last winter. I was reading a magazine and the next day I woke with a fever and a congested chest and head. I don't do that with any magazine in public anymore.
Merl 😂😂😂😂
Such good characters in Lexie, Nancy, Lorelei and Merle. Only wish Jessie was still in it
rayman760 I really liked Jessie
Lurch as a shop keeper hahaha
Love Lexie's green hair ribbon and her overalls... so cute! 😊
wheres the rest of this episode?
Tape melted lol
Cathy is amazing.
Did Joyce call Merl Joan when she was playing with flour?
No she called her by her surname Jones most of the offices call the prisoner by there last names especially if there been told off
I thought so.
She said Jones.
Can't wait kath takes over 💙
Joan certainly keep me occupied not that I don't need it
I hate that saying "it's not in the first place you look it's in the last"( Joan to the trainee about a cell search for alcohol), well-known obviously it's gonna be in the last place you look, because you don't continue to look any further once you've found it! Always making it the last place you look !!!! #petPeeves!
Ah, but it _also_ means that it's never in the first place that you look! The saying reminds me of a funny joke Lee Evans did about it on one of his tours.
At least lori feels sorry for kath
Where's Lou Kelly at this point?
Dead. Haven’t you been paying attention?
She died weeks ago………… Come on now, do keep up 🙄🤔
I love Julia Blake and she's still on the go, I saw her in X-Men Origins Wolverine she looked almost the same I was gutted when she got killed.
Joan's right won't be in first place u look itl be last
Rodney Joan's new one
Joan likes kath as she's clever
good olde nancy taking control
Rita bark worse then her bite
Poor kath 😢
Joan respects kath
Go Nancy
Joan and Rod think alike