Porridge
TV Show
1974-1977
30m
TV-14
English
Comedy, Crime
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Porridge
TV-14
TV Show
1974-1977
30m
English
BBC One
Comedy, Crime
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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Latest Episodes
Final Stretch
Season 3 Episode 6
March 25th 1977
A Test of Character
Season 3 Episode 5
March 18th 1977
Pardon Me
Season 3 Episode 4
March 11th 1977
Rough Justice
Season 3 Episode 3
March 4th 1977
Poetic Justice
Season 3 Episode 2
February 25th 1977
A Storm in a Teacup
Season 3 Episode 1
February 18th 1977
The Harder They Fall
Season 2 Episode 6
November 28th 1975
Happy Release
Season 2 Episode 5
November 21st 1975
No Peace For the Wicked
Season 2 Episode 4
November 14th 1975
Disturbing the Peace
Season 2 Episode 3
November 7th 1975
Cast
Lennie Godber
Mr. Mackay
Mr. Barrowclough
Navy Rum
Landlord
Medical Officer
Evans
Prison Warden
Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley
Vicar
Scrounger
Chief Prison Officer
Tolly
Nurse
Isobel Fletcher
Heslop
Norma
Ives
Mr. Appleton
Mrs. Godber
Mr. Wainwright
Williams
Mrs. Hesketh
Chaplain
Prison Visitor
Created By: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
Written By: Ian La Frenais (19 Episodes), Dick Clement (19 Episodes)
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CinemaSerf
3 years ago
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 More
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