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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.
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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Dick Clement
director
Ronnie Barker
Norman Stanley Fletcher
Richard Beckinsale
Lennie Godber
Fulton Mackay
Mr. Mackay
Brian Wilde
Mr. Barrowclough
Peter Vaughan
Harry Grout
Tony Osoba
McLaren
David Jason
Blanco
Sam Kelly
Warren
Patricia Brake
Ingrid Fletcher
Paul Angelis
Navy Rum
Royston Tickner
Sgt. Norris
John Rutland
Verger
John Bennett
Medical Officer
John Quarmby
Prison Officer
Philip Jackson
Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley
Robert Gillespie
Vicar
June Ellis
Isobel Fletcher
Brian Glover
Heslop
Susan Littler
Norma
Ken Jones
Ives
Graham Ashley
Mr. Appleton
Peter Jeffrey
Mr. Wainwright
Philip Madoc
Williams
Madge Hindle
Mrs. Hesketh
Tony Aitken
Chaplain
Ivor Roberts
Prison Visitor
Barbara New
Prison Visitor
Geoffrey Greenhill
Prison Visitor
Colin Farrell
Norris
Cyril Shaps
Jackdaw
Roy Sampson
PT Instructor
Christopher Biggins
Lukewarm
Ronald Lacey
Harris
Maurice Denham
Rawley
Alun Armstrong
Spraggon
David Daker
Jarvis
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