Two Ramsay Street residents are set to embrace their (on-screen) chequered past later this month, as Neighbours and Prisoner: Cell Block H are crossing over!

To celebrate Prisoner's upcoming 40th birthday, some of the series' cast will be reuniting with two of their former co-stars in Erinsborough at the end of February.

(Jail)birds of a feather stick together, after all.

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Jane Clifton and Betty Bobbitt, who played Margo Gaffney and Judy Bryant in the Aussie prison soap, will reunite with Jackie Woodburne and Colette Mann for a special episode. Although now known as Susan Kennedy and Sheila Canning in Neighbours, Prisoner fans will remember them as Julie 'Chook' Egbert and Doreen Burns.

The reunion, taking place worlds away from Wentworth Detention Centre, will see Sheila and Susan welcome their former cell-mates to a book group meeting (via Inside Soap).

While the Cell Block H gang are now all reformed characters, Neighbours isn't short of a crime spree or two – just last month, Erinsborough was rocked by Raymond Renshaw's dramatic siege.

Neighbours airs weekdays at 1.45pm and 5.30pm on Channel 5 in the UK and at 6.30pm on 10 Peach in Australia.

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