The Best Episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H
Every episode of Prisoner: Cell Block H ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H!
Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Prisoner: Cell Block H" is "Episode 200", rated 9.6/10 from 60 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Episode 200" aired on 6/3/1981 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 446".
9.6/10 60 votes#1 - Episode 200
Season 3 Episode 35 - Aired 6/3/1981
Meg goes to phone the police but Mum tells her Bea needs medical attention. Meg agrees to go see Bea before alerting the authorities. In Erica's office, Judy and Doreen explain that they planted buy-up goods on Margo but that someone must have double-crossed them. Erica lets them off but wants no more in-fighting. Vera rebuffs Terry's advances, Jim then bets Terry that he can't get Vera to agree to a date. Mum and Meg arrive at the house to find Bea has left - with Mum's house keeping money. Meg calls the police. The police report that the van officer has come out of their coma and cleared Bea of causing the accident. Mum says that she went to Meg just after Bea arrived, but they are sceptical. Bea goes to school to pick up Debbie. No one knows who Debbie is. While pretending to side with Margo, Lizzie discovers that it was Phyllis who alerted Margo to the set up. Lizzie lures Phyllis to the laundry, where Judy and Doreen attack her.
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- 9.3/10 25 votes
#2 - Episode 446
Season 6 Episode 30 - Aired 5/1/1984
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- 9.3/10 24 votes
#3 - Episode 551
Season 7 Episode 46 - Aired 7/4/1985
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- 9.2/10 23 votes
#4 - Episode 172
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/1981
Jock tells Judy she's now going to work for him: he wants $300 every time he visits - if not, he'll bash her and turn both Judy and Helen over to the police. Doreen is noticeably more enthusiastic about the classes than the other women. After leaving the massage parlour after a hard night's work, Judy has to fend off a kerb crawler and ends up being chased by two patrolcar policemen. Helen suggests that Judy should go away somewhere quiet, but Judy says she wants to get Jock in her own way, no matter how many men she has to go with. Only Doreen turns up for David's classes. Jim tells Sid he ought to make a list of his tools so he knows if any of them go missing. Judy goes back to work at the massage parlour , and when Jock comes to collect his money he hits her across the face when she says she hasn't got it yet. He suggests that if business is slow she ought to offer something more than "a gentle rub-down".
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- 9.2/10 27 votes
#5 - Episode 199
Season 3 Episode 34 - Aired 6/2/1981
The driver of the police van is dead and the officer unconscious. A very disoriented Bea stumbles out of the van and walks away. Lizzie brings Judy breakfast in solitary and tells her Margo has taken over. A friendly driver discovers Bea by the side of the road. Bea can't remember where she is or how she got there but she must get home to her daughter, Debbie. The lady gives her a lift. Erica releases Judy from solitary and asks her to head the Prisoner's Needs Committee. When Judy learns that Bea is coming back she agrees to help all she can. Bev and Lil tear up Doreen's cell. Doreen agrees to give Margo her buy-up and place bets with her. Bea arrives at her house but finds it occupied by strangers. Judy comes into the rec room and announces Bea's imminent return. Margo tells everyone not to get too happy - the Big Red's not back on top yet. While wandering about the streets, Bea remembers an apartment number - #5.
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- 9.2/10 19 votes
#6 - Episode 422
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/1984
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- 9.2/10 19 votes
#7 - Episode 619
Season 8 Episode 31 - Aired 4/29/1986
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- 9.1/10 19 votes
#8 - Episode 419
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/1984
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- 9.1/10 19 votes
#9 - Episode 552
Season 7 Episode 47 - Aired 7/9/1985
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- 9.0/10 18 votes
#10 - Episode 196
Season 3 Episode 31 - Aired 5/20/1981
The corridors are silent when Jim and Colleen check up later, though the din resumes after their dialogue. The women are taken for their showers a few at a time next morning and are then locked back in their cells. Chrissie tells Meg that the only way she can get Elizabeth back now is to earn a little money on her own account: she goes for a job in a restaurant, but the owner sees through her claim to have references from New Zealand. Lizzie tells Bea she's too old to get involved in any protests. Meanwhile, Doreen is trying to calm down Judy by telling her that Bea has everything under control. After seeing an article in the paper, Chrissie's brother Derek calls on Meg to ask if he can help Chrissie, as he feels he let her down when they were kids: he offers to have Chrissie and Elizabeth live with him and his wife. Erica proposes to the officers that a round table discussion with the inmates might help, but Colleen demands that the officers are armed.
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- 9.0/10 16 votes
#11 - Episode 328
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 2/3/1983
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- 8.9/10 40 votes
#12 - Episode 20
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1979
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- 8.9/10 17 votes
#13 - Episode 171
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/1981
Graeme Hopkins arrives at Wentworth threatening to expose the contents of Judy's tape if Erica won't agree to grant him an interview. Helen Smart comes home to find Judy waiting for her: after a bit of persuasion (and a wad of banknotes to cover her lost "business") she agrees to let Judy stay for a while, but she is slightly worried when Judy vows that she intends to avenge herself on Gillespie and Jock Stewart. Erica warns Graeme Hopkins that his campaign to free Lizzie could kill her, but she agrees to let him talk to her so she can hear it in Lizzie's own words. At first, Lizzie says she does want to get out of prison, but when Hopkins tells her he can't help her get a visa, she turns on him and says she doesn't want his help. Helen is sceptical about Judy's enthusiasm when she finds out her tape is to be shown on TV after all, saying the police won't act on the word of a criminal alone.
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- 8.9/10 17 votes
#14 - Episode 417
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/1984
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- 8.9/10 19 votes
#15 - Episode 550
Season 7 Episode 45 - Aired 7/2/1985
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- 8.8/10 42 votes
#16 - Episode 16
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/17/1979
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- 8.8/10 22 votes
#17 - Episode 49
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 8/8/1979
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- 8.8/10 14 votes
#18 - Episode 348
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/12/1983
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- 8.7/10 37 votes
#19 - Episode 19
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/25/1979
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- 8.7/10 22 votes
#20 - Episode 44
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 7/24/1979
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- 8.7/10 22 votes
#21 - Episode 48
Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 8/7/1979
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- 8.7/10 18 votes
#22 - Episode 169
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/17/1981
Vera gives Lizzie mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while the women wait for the ambulance to arrive. Meanwhile, Hazel removes the bucket of booze from the store room behind Vera's back. Ted Douglas tells Erica a teacher will be appointed to a new education facility in the prison. Vera feels guilty that she didn't believe Lizzie at first, but she recovers her usual character in time and remembers about the grog manufacture, which she rushes off to investigate. When she gets to the rec room, the buckets have vanished but Vera tells Bea she must have known what was going on and must see the Governor. In hospital, Lizzie describes her near-death experience to a doctor in the usual cliched terms involving bright lights at the end of a tunnel. Vera takes Bea to the Governor to explain what she knows about the home brew, and Bea is honest for once: she tells Erica the home brew has been flushed down the toilet.
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- 8.7/10 15 votes
#23 - Episode 436
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/1984
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- 8.7/10 14 votes
#24 - Episode 439
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 4/10/1984
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8.6/10 80 votes#25 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/27/1979
Two new prisoners, Karen Travers and Lyn Warner, are inducted into Wentworth Detention Centre and have to adjust to the harsh regime and the tough women they meet there. Karen, convicted of stabbing her cheating husband to death in the shower, turns out to be an old flame of prison Doctor Greg Miller. Lynn has been convicted of kidnapping and burying a baby alive, and though she loudly protests her innocence, she is bullied by the other women, led by their 'Top Dog', murderess Bea Smith. Meanwhile, young inmate Sally Lee hangs herself in her cell while going through ...
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