Porridge

1974 • BBC
4.9
96 reviews
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Season 3 episodes (6)

1 A Storm in a Teacup
17/2/77
Season-only
When a bottle of pills goes missing from the doctor's surgery, Harry Grout is worried that investigation of the theft by the prison authorities will jeopardise some of his activities.
2 Poetic Justice
24/2/77
Season-only
Fletcher's new cellmate turns out to be the judge who sentenced him to five years in prison. While other inmates have scores to settle, wily Fletch realises that the judge has the ear of the Governor.
3 Rough Justice
3/3/77
Season-only
Fletcher is worried that Judge Rawley might rob him of his main source of income - writing letters for illiterate inmates. How can he get out of this one?
4 Pardon Me
10/3/77
Season-only
Old Blanco is doing time for murdering his wife, a crime for which he has always protested his innocence. Now he's up before the Parole Board and it looks as if he's finally going to be released.
5 A Test of Character
17/3/77
Season-only
Godber is working hard for an extra qualification. Fletcher tries to persuade him that cheating would be a good way of ensuring success in the examination, but he isn't convinced.
6 Final Stretch
24/3/77
Season-only
Godber is due to appear before the parole board, but a fight with another inmate puts his impending release in jeopardy. It's up to Fletcher to save the day.

About this show

Classic sitcom set in HM Slade Prison starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale. Habitual offender Norman Stanley Fletcher is doing five years of porridge at HM Slade Prison. He whiles away the time sharing his wealth of experience with his fellow inmates, particularly naive, young first-timer Lennie whom Fletch takes under his fatherly wing. Classic sitcom written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Winner of 9 awards including 5 BAFTAs, and an Emmy nomination.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
96 reviews
Mark Wilson
5 May 2019
I love this show, it's a classic along with Open All Hours, Ronnie Barker at his best, cheers me up watching these TV shows.
18 people found this review helpful
gleann nicolas
25 September 2020
As long as someone always knows what's going-on, anyone articulate nowadays, you will see them before anyone else right? In this case porridge is always remembered as reminding us inside the nick, Fletcher was putting on the lights to hard times. This comedian never left the cell block a matter just got to work on having a right laugh with the authority that be! Made me feel a lot better, thanks to current state. The ones pressed to made cons was on the other hand no way around hardship of living within a poor story believable altogether to go home with. Today people have awoken to resist beyond their forefathers mistakes and with what was going-on. The actual artist that took it straight into prison then they can be seen whom just saw everything other than the battle was against the employed to do other within a depressive state. Work shy or consciously stood up for what they were and/ or forsaken to be them real selves and that is your call watching through? I mean will we ever see a change in local government tactics or when there don't have anyone other to slave about or either get the economy going and on cheap labour. People don't do anything other than workout the past and grow into a new level of conscious. How can there be justice towards when the person is cleaner. Without any laughter inside social isolation, then who knows what would happen probably that we would all end up on the streets nowadays homeless. Retrospectively-speaking from the North of England it is brilliant how porridge saved the cons heritage from prison, you must chill out first and just read however!
Gary James
2 January 2021
Best comedy off all time 🤣 But I think they should put it on blue Ray like all comedy like this one