Porridge
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First Air DateSep 05, 1974
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Rotten tomato81%
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Original titlePorridge
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ReleaseSep 05, 1974
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Overview
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.
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Casts
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Norman Stanley Fletcher
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Lennie Godber
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Mr. Mackay
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Mr. Barrowclough
Specials ( 1973-04-01)
Prisoner and Escort - Pilot
No Way Out
The Desperate Hours
Porridge - The Movie
Case for Britain's Best Sitcom
Interview with Ronnie Barker
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Porridge: Inside Out - Sent Down
Porridge: Inside Out - Banged Up
Porridge: Inside Out - Good Behaviour
Series 1 ( 1974-09-05)
New Faces, Old Hands
The Hustler
A Night In
A Day Out
Ways and Means
Men Without Women
Series 2 ( 1975-10-24)
Just Desserts
Heartbreak Hotel
Disturbing the Peace
No Peace For the Wicked
Happy Release
The Harder They Fall
Series 3 ( 1977-02-18)
A Storm in a Teacup
Poetic Justice
Rough Justice
Pardon Me
A Test of Character
Final Stretch
