Porridge
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.
Created by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
Seasons
Cast
Ronnie BarkerNorman Stanley Fletcher · 18 ep.
Richard BeckinsaleLennie Godber · 18 ep.
Fulton MackayMr. Mackay · 18 ep.
Brian WildeMr. Barrowclough · 18 ep.
Peter VaughanHarry Grout · 2 ep.
Tony OsobaMcLaren · 8 ep.
David JasonBlanco · 3 ep.
Sam KellyWarren · 9 ep.
Patricia BrakeIngrid Fletcher · 3 ep.
Paul AngelisNavy Rum · 1 ep.RRalph WatsonLandlord · 1 ep.
Royston TicknerSgt. Norris · 1 ep.
John RutlandVerger · 1 ep.
John BennettMedical Officer · 1 ep.RRay DunbobbinEvans · 1 ep.
John QuarmbyPrison Officer · 1 ep.SSteve IsmayPrison Warden · 1 ep.
Philip JacksonMelvin 'Dylan' Bottomley · 1 ep.
Robert GillespieVicar · 1 ep.JJohnnie WadeScrounger · 1 ep.AArnold PetersChief Prison Officer · 1 ep.EEmlyn PriceTolly · 1 ep.PPeggy MasonNurse · 1 ep.
June EllisIsobel Fletcher · 1 ep.
Brian GloverHeslop · 3 ep.
Susan LittlerNorma · 1 ep.AAndonia KatsarosIris · 1 ep.RRosalind ElliotElaine · 1 ep.
Ken JonesIves · 4 ep.
Graham AshleyMr. Appleton · 2 ep.JJohn RudlingMr. Birchwood · 1 ep.MMargaret FlintMrs. Godber · 1 ep.
Peter JeffreyMr. Wainwright · 1 ep.
Philip MadocWilliams · 1 ep.
Madge HindleMrs. Hesketh · 1 ep.EEric DodsonMr. Banyard · 2 ep.
Tony AitkenChaplain · 1 ep.
Ivor RobertsPrison Visitor · 1 ep.
Barbara NewPrison Visitor · 1 ep.
Geoffrey GreenhillPrison Visitor · 1 ep.
Colin FarrellNorris · 1 ep.TTerence SoallMedical Officer · 1 ep.
Cyril ShapsJackdaw · 1 ep.
Roy SampsonPT Instructor · 1 ep.JJohn MooreSpider · 1 ep.JJohn DairCrusher · 1 ep.MMichael BarringtonGovernor Venables · 7 ep.
Christopher BigginsLukewarm · 5 ep.PPaul McDowellMr. Collinson · 4 ep.
Ronald LaceyHarris · 3 ep.
Maurice DenhamRawley · 2 ep.
Alun ArmstrongSpraggon · 1 ep.
David DakerJarvis · 1 ep.Crew
Sydney Lotterby (Director)
Sydney Lotterby (Producer)
Ray Millichope (Editor), John Dunstan (Editor), Howard Dell (Editor), Geoffrey Botterill (Editor), Geoff Higgs (Editor)
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