Porridge (1974)
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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Seasons
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Episodes season 0
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0x1
Prisoner and escort - pilot
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0x2
No way out
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0x3
The desperate hours
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0x4
Porridge - the movie
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0x5
Case for britain's best sitcom
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0x6
Interview with ronnie barker
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0x7
Life beyond the box: norman stanley fletcher
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0x8
Porridge: inside out - sent down
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0x9
Porridge: inside out - banged up
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0x10
Porridge: inside out - good behaviour
Episodes season 1
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1x1
New faces, old hands
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1x2
The hustler
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1x3
A night in
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1x4
A day out
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1x5
Ways and means
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1x6
Men without women
Episodes season 2
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2x1
Just desserts
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2x2
Heartbreak hotel
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2x3
Disturbing the peace
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2x4
No peace for the wicked
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2x5
Happy release
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2x6
The harder they fall
Episodes season 3
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3x1
A storm in a teacup
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3x2
Poetic justice
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3x3
Rough justice
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3x4
Pardon me
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3x5
A test of character
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3x6
Final stretch
