Porridge
TV Show| Title | Porridge |
| User score | 8.1 |
| Release date | Sep 5, 1974 |
| Release date of last episode | Mar 25, 1977 |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Director | Dick Clement , Ian La Frenais |
| Production country | GB |
| Series status | Ended |
| Seasons count | 3 (List of episodes) |
| Episodes count | 18 |
| Run time | 30 min. |
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.
Latest episodes
List of episodes
S3.E6 ∙ Final Stretch
Mar 25, 1977
S3.E5 ∙ A Test of Character
Mar 18, 1977
S3.E4 ∙ Pardon Me
Mar 11, 1977
S3.E3 ∙ Rough Justice
Mar 4, 1977
S3.E2 ∙ Poetic Justice
Feb 25, 1977
S3.E1 ∙ A Storm in a Teacup
Feb 18, 1977
S2.E6 ∙ The Harder They Fall
Nov 28, 1975
S2.E5 ∙ Happy Release
Nov 21, 1975
S2.E4 ∙ No Peace For the Wicked
Nov 14, 1975
S2.E3 ∙ Disturbing the Peace
Nov 7, 1975
S2.E2 ∙ Heartbreak Hotel
Oct 31, 1975
S2.E1 ∙ Just Desserts
Oct 24, 1975
S1.E6 ∙ Men Without Women
Oct 10, 1974
S1.E5 ∙ Ways and Means
Oct 3, 1974
S1.E4 ∙ A Day Out
Sep 26, 1974
S1.E3 ∙ A Night In
Sep 19, 1974
S1.E2 ∙ The Hustler
Sep 12, 1974
S1.E1 ∙ New Faces, Old Hands
Sep 5, 1974
S0.E10 ∙ Porridge: Inside Out - Good Behaviour
Jun 4, 2014
S0.E9 ∙ Porridge: Inside Out - Banged Up
May 28, 2014
Videos
Porridge - Fruit pie (clip)
Jun 15, 2010
Actors
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Ronnie Barker
Norman Stanley Fletcher
Richard Beckinsale
Lennie Godber
Fulton Mackay
Mr. Mackay
Brian Wilde
Mr. Barrowclough
Michael Barrington
Governor Venables
Christopher Biggins
Lukewarm
Ken Jones
Ives
Paul McDowell
Mr. Collinson
Brian Glover
Heslop
Ronald Lacey
Harris
Graham Ashley
Mr. Appleton
Eric Dodson
Mr. Banyard
