ELSPETH BALLANTYNE - The actress famous for playing warder Meg Morris in Prisoner appeared as Rick Alessi's Mum, Cathy in "Neighbours"
LESLEY BAKER - "Neighbours" Angie Rebecchi played husband-basher Monica Fergusson in Prisoner.
ANNE CHARLESTON - Famous for her role as Madge Bishop in "Neighbours", Anne appeared as two different characters in Prisoner. In the first episodes, she played Mum Brookes daughter. She initially cannot forgive her for the euthanasia killing of her father. In later episodes she is seen as Reb Keane's mother, Deirdre, jailed for helping Reb on the run.
LOIS COLLINDER - The towering prisoner known as Lurch, played The Headmistress of Erinsborough High in "Neighbours"
MAGGIE DENCE - World-Traveller Dorothy Burke from "Neighbours", played psychotic Bev Baker in Prisoner.
STEFAN DENNIS - "Neighbours" Mr Nasty Paul Robinson appeared in Prisoner twice. First as a friend of Pat O'Connell's son, David, and got shot in a police raid. Then he played a runaway who hung around the second halfway house whilst it was being built.
CAROLINE GILMOUR - The "Tart with a Heart" Helen Smart became Cheryl Stark in "Neighbours". Helen was a character who made regular visits due to the nature of her work!
VIVEAN GRAY - "Neighbours" Battleaxe Mrs Mangel played husband-poisoner Edna Pearce in Prisoner.
ANNE HADDY - Ramsay Street's Helen Daniels played Doreen Anderson's cancer-stricken Mother.
LINDA HARTLEY - Kerry Bishop from "Neighbours" portrayed bikie gang member "Roach" Waters in Prisoner.
MAXINE KILBINGAITIS - Young Bobbie Mitchell played Paul Robinson's first wife, Terri, in "Neighbours"
MAGGIE KIRKPATRICK - The actress that breathed life into Joan "The Freak" Fergusson briefly appeared as Marilyn's Aunty in "Home and Away".
DEBRA LAWRENCE - The second actress to play Pippa in "Home and Away" played PMT sufferer Daphne Graham in Prisoner.
GENEVIEVE LEMON - Marlene "Rabbit" Warren, jailed for manslaughter, played Lou Carpenter's sister Brenda in "Neighbours".
COLETTE MANN - The woman who played bear-hugging, thumb sucking Doreen stood in for Caroline Gilmour as Cheryl when she had glandular fever.
JUDY MCBURNEY - The scatterbrained Pixie Mason was famous for her role as Tania Livingstone in "The Young Doctors".
RAY MEAGHER - The actor who played Summer Bay stalwort Alf Stewart also appeard twice in Prisoner. First he played Jim Fletcher's ex-army pal Geoff who turns out to be a bit of a nutcase and, after attacking Meg Jackson and standing in a courtroom with Jim testifying against him, sends a parcel-bomb which blows up Jim's wife and two children. He wasn't much nicer in his second appearance, playing the Governor of Woodridge. This character came a cropper after being stabbed by a female inmate.
JUDY NUNN - Otherwise known as Ailsa Stewart in "Home and Away", she played Judy Martin, jailed for passing money stolen by her husband in a bank raid.
TOM OLIVER - The man who plays Lou Carpenter in "Neighbours", appeared as ex-con Ken Pearce, who romances Bea Smith.
IAN SMITH - "Neighbours" Harold Bishop played Department Official Ted Douglas in Prisoner.
FIONA SPENCE - "Vinegar Tits" Vera Bennett went on to play Celia Stewart in "Home and Away".
JACKIE WOODBURNE - Teacher Susan Kennedy in "Neighbours" played brainy Julie Egbert in Prisoner.
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