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Porridge

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Plot

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.

Cast

Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher
Ronnie Barker

as Norman Stanley Fletcher

Richard Beckinsale as Lennie Godber
Richard Beckinsale

as Lennie Godber

Fulton Mackay as Mr. Mackay
Fulton Mackay

as Mr. Mackay

Brian Wilde as Mr. Barrowclough
Brian Wilde

as Mr. Barrowclough

Creator

Network

Status

  • Ended

First Aired Date

  • September 5, 1974

Last Aired Date

  • March 25, 1977

Production Companies

    Type

    • Scripted

    Number of Season

    • 3

    Number of Episodes

    • 18

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    It's hard to believe that there were only ever twenty episodes of this classic British comedy ever made. Ronnie Barker ("Fletch") is fantastic as the habitual criminal sent to Her Majesty's Prison "Slade" - perched in the northern reaches of England - for five years. His cellmate is the honest, but supremely naive "Godber" (Richard Becksinsale) and the series depicts their antics surviving the au…

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    1977|6 Episodes

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