Thursday, March 27, 2025

Rewatching Prisoner Cell Block H 33 Years Later

I have recently found myself watching Prisoner Cell Block H before bed each weeknight. 

The funny thing about randomly finding it on 5Select at this point in time is that the current episodes are around the parts where I became a fan.

I first started watching the series during the summer of 1992. I was able to stay up late. My next door neighbour, as well as my father, had been watching it for years before me. I happened to catch an episode or two during that summer and was hooked.

Prisoner Cell Block H

When it came time to go back to school, staying up to watch the programme was no go. So, I would record the episode and watch it the following day. I would then repeat the process.

Now, much older, I can watch at my own leisure. On top of that - there are two episodes a night! That's eight more eps a week than my diet was back in '92 and beyond.

Anyway, back to what's going on - Bea Smith has just been caught after going on the run from the prison. Nola McKenzie has become top dog and has a racket going on by bringing drugs into the prison. 

Oh yeah - and Nola and some of her goons have beaten Bea up. This is all leading up to one of the scenes I remember the most from my time watching the series: Bea Smith being in the medical wing and asking the guards to bring Nola in to see her. Bea asks Nola to come closer, she does, Bea then pulls out a homemade gun from under her bedcovers and shoots Nola right between the eyes.

I'm looking forward to seeing this bit again. Even back then it came off as hokey, but I bloody loved it.

It has to be coming real soon because Bea is currently in the hospital room. Any day now.

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