FTA-TV The "Prisoner" Appreciation Thread *Post 557 - No spoilers*

[Exhale You]

at this stage it is led to believe that Wentworth is the highest security prison in the state.

Which makes no sense given they've had women come in on remand for the pettiest of crimes.

 

[brucetiki]

Which makes no sense given they've had women come in on remand for the pettiest of crimes.

It was funny, very early on in the series, the department worked this out and transferred Clara Goddard to Fairley (when they were using Victoria's real prison names at the time as the other prisons before they came up with Barnhust, Woodridge and Blackmoor). They then went back to mixing remand prisoners with hardened crims quickly after that.

 

[HoldenMagroin]

It makes me feel kinda glad there are over 500 eps left to watch. This is a cracking show with great acting, terrible acting, incredible plot holes, and dodgy sets and lighting.

Hear hear. In the beginning with about 690 episodes to go, I thought what the hell was I getting myself into...Seriously now I don't want this show to end. In the short term, I'm keeping a good episode count so far, for no other reason than counting down to The Freak's grand entrance.

You'd think they'd know how to shoot a scene without the boom mike casting shadows over the actors as they move it around. LOL.

In just about every bloody episode, and their non-belief in the use of good lighting when it matters. There... a few more drinking games

 

[HoldenMagroin]

Sorry to go off on a little tangent here, but I just checked out the first Mad Max flick on BD the other day, and as you'd expect from the local production, and having been made around the same period, there are a quite few familiar faces from Wentworth that I hadn't noticed in previous viewings (obviously because I haven't seen Prisoner before) : Lizzie, Chrissy (in a short uncredited role as bikie moll) and Melinda (Karen Traver's roommate) as Nightrider's moll (below):

Dayam, the things you notice the second time around.

 

[CF]

ha ha the reporter wanted to sleep with Judy to get a story....who'd a thought Judy would see so much action recently...maybe her reputation as a call girl in the massage parlour has got around?

 

[Exhale You]

Melinda (Karen Traver's roommate) as Nightrider's moll (below):

Ah, Lulu Pinkus.
I didn't realise what a good sort she was until i saw her on Prisoner recently.

 

[West_Coast_Eagles]

yeah she was sleeping in the raw haha

 

[gytre]

As if Prisoner wasn't entertaining enough, now there's an epidemic in the prison! And Vera has to now sleep in a cell and wear prisoner's pyjamas. Oh, the humiliation of it!

Fletch (referring to Baxter): don't worry, Bryant will take care of her.
Vera: Yes, she will, take care of her.

And so Baxter likes to sleep in the buff and Judy gets herself quite an eyeful and starts getting a bit toey.

Next thing we know, Judy and Bea have come down with the plague.

And now Fletch might have to shoot the escaping reporter.

Prisoner just gets better and better. I never miss an episode. I just can't!

 

[CF]

yeah Judy's new pet is a bit Frankie Doyle like. I think Baxter's real problem is she is deaf and I can't wait for the teacher guy to discover it and then have his "Helen Keller" moment.

I LMAO when the "Doctor" called typhoid fever a virus, better go back to med school mate.

I still think that herbalist woman has something to do with it all.

 

[HoldenMagroin]

Yes... a great episode, especially with Vinegar just being Vinegar with the new quarantining rules, and the end with what looks like Fletch trying to hunt game.

yeah Judy's new pet is a bit Frankie Doyle like. I think Baxter's real problem is she is deaf and I can't wait for the teacher guy to discover it and then have his "Helen Keller" moment.

You might be on to something here. Georgie did seem to slur her words like a deaf person at times, and also appear not to hear conversations around her, like when she was reading the paper at the table and Judy said something to her from behind, but she didn't respond.

 

[JUBJUB]

And now Fletch might have to shoot the escaping reporter.

Didn't this reporter only get locked up by not paying parking fines so she could do a story on Judy ?
Surely she can't be in long,so why is she trying to escape ?

Also why is she in a maximum security [that's a joke] prison for not paying fines ? These days people rack up over $20,000 in parking fines and get a slap on the wrist.

 

[CF]

Didn't this reporter only get locked up by not paying parking fines so she could do a story on Judy ?
Surely she can't be in long,so why is she trying to escape ?

Also why is she in a maximum security [that's a joke] prison for not paying fines ? These days people rack up over $20,000 in parking fines and get a slap on the wrist.

She was in for 3 weeks IIRC. She is making a runner because she is panicking about the "epidemic" at the prison. There was a scene earlier that ep where she went hysterical and Erica had to slap her because of it.

 

[JUBJUB]

She was in for 3 weeks IIRC. She is making a runner because she is panicking about the "epidemic" at the prison. There was a scene earlier that ep where she went hysterical and Erica had to slap her because of it.

Cheers CF,I missed the first part of last nights ep.
Meg should be in The Bold & The Beautiful.Has any other Aussie TV character had more drama in her life than poor old Meg Morris,and she's still got 500 eps to go ?

 

[Exhale You]

Is it just me or is Georgie's 'issue' incredibly obvious?

It hasn't been discovered yet in the storyline (i assume it will, eventually) so i won't mention what it is but i find it hard to believe that between the officers, the teacher and the doctor they wouldn't have been able to work it out.

 

[brucetiki]

Is it just me or is Georgie's 'issue' incredibly obvious?

It hasn't been discovered yet in the storyline (i assume it will, eventually) so i won't mention what it is but i find it hard to believe that between the officers, the teacher and the doctor they wouldn't have been able to work it out.

Given Georgie's attitude towards the staff and some of the women, it could also be viewed as 'insolence'/petulance, which may explain why it took so long for someone to detect her deafness.

We're well into Prisoner's golden era (1981-1983). The next couple of weeks in particular are going to have some excellent story lines.

 

[gytre]

We're well into Prisoner's golden era (1981-1983).

Do you mean the best is yet to come?

 

[brucetiki]

Do you mean the best is yet to come?

Definitely.

We're a couple of weeks away from Val Lehman's favourite storyline (I won't spoil it for those that haven't seen the show before)

 

[Gabbie]

Cheers CF,I missed the first part of last nights ep.
Meg should be in The Bold & The Beautiful.Has any other Aussie TV character had more drama in her life than poor old Meg Morris,and she's still got 500 eps to go ?

I used to hate the actress, Elspeth Ballantyne, who plays Meg as I'm old enough to remember her from her days in BELLBIRD. Her character, another goody two shoes, was engaged to a Charlie Cousins, a pain in the neck, who fell off a wheat silo. Spent most of her air time in tears, or it felt like it.

 

[gytre]

I used to hate the actress, Elspeth Ballantyne, who plays Meg as I'm old enough to remember her from her days in BELLBIRD. Her character, another goody two shoes, was engaged to a Charlie Cousins, a pain in the neck, who fell off a wheat silo. Spent most of her air time in tears, or it felt like it.

My family used to watch Bellbird when I was a kid, but I can't remember anything about the show.

 

[Gabbie]

My family used to watch Bellbird when I was a kid, but I can't remember anything about the show.

I was at school as well and can only remember some bits of it. It went for years, or seemed to. Was more of a pre-runner to shows like A Country Practice without too much on the medical side.

Back to Prisoner, I think what is happening now was when I took a break from watching it for a while as I had other fish to fry around this time.

 

[gytre]

I think I've just seen the worst ill-logic yet from Prisoner's scriptwriters. How stupid can Davidson and Fletcher be? Did they seriously think that convicted double-murderer Bea Smith, very well-known for her vindictive nature, wouldn't try and get back at the woman who poisoned everyone??!!

Surely Evelyn should have been sent to Barnhurst with a little more urgency!

 

[JUBJUB]

I think I've just seen the worst ill-logic yet from Prisoner's scriptwriters. How stupid can Davidson and Fletcher be? Did they seriously think that convicted double-murderer Bea Smith, very well-known for her vindictive nature, wouldn't try and get back at the woman who poisoned everyone??!!

Surely Evelyn should have been sent to Barnhurst with a little more urgency!

So who was the blond that attacked her and put the explosion under her bed ?
I thought it looked like one of the background chicks that doesn't have lines.

Why do Margo and Chrissie seems to disappear for long periods of time,then suddenly pop up for a few eps ? Margo was back last night.

 

[CF]

I guess they were going off to do other work and just making cameos now and then. I think the blond was one of the extras that you see in the background. Good for her she got some extra pay that week.

It was obvious Evelyn poisoned everyone, she even said before it happened "If only there was some way I could prove that my cures work!". When that bit of jumper soaked in Turps went up there was no way her face would have gotten burnt given where she was squatting. Her face would have to have been in the box for that to happen. A little creative license taken there or maybe one for the Mythbusters LOL

That scene in the rec room where Bea says she is going to get her sent a chill up my spine. Nice acting and camera work (for a change).

 

[brucetiki]

Why do Margo and Chrissie seems to disappear for long periods of time,then suddenly pop up for a few eps ? Margo was back last night.

I guess they were going off to do other work and just making cameos now and then.

In a couple of interviews about her time on the show (and on some of the commentaries on the DVD's), Amanda Muggleton (who played Chrissie) has mentioned she'd do Prisoner for a few months, then go do a stage show for a few months, then back to Prisoner for a few months and so on, and the writers would subsequently write Chrissie in and out of the show accordingly.

I suspect it was the same for Jane Clifton (Margo).

Interestingly Chrissie was only meant to be in the show for a few eps (the time she killed Bill Jackson), but people kept writing in wanting Chrissie back so back she came.

 

[JUBJUB]

In a couple of interviews about her time on the show (and on some of the commentaries on the DVD's), Amanda Muggleton (who played Chrissie) has mentioned she'd do Prisoner for a few months, then go do a stage show for a few months, then back to Prisoner for a few months and so on, and the writers would subsequently write Chrissie in and out of the show accordingly.

I suspect it was the same for Jane Clifton (Margo).

Interestingly Chrissie was only meant to be in the show for a few eps (the time she killed Bill Jackson), but people kept writing in wanting Chrissie back so back she came.

Cheers bruce
Some shows you can easily write out a character for a few months [i.e they've gone interstate to visit a sick relative,often to never return] but a show like Prisoner you couldn't it these days.I thought maybe Chrissie and Margo might in a different part of the prison.