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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.
First Aired
Sep 5, 1974
Last Aired
Mar 25, 1977
Seasons
3
Episodes
18
Network
BBC One
Cast
Full credits →R
Ronnie Barker
Norman Stanley Fletcher
R
Richard Beckinsale
Lennie Godber
F
Fulton Mackay
Mr. Mackay
B
Brian Wilde
Mr. Barrowclough
D
David Daker
M
Maurice Denham
R
Ronald Lacey
P
Peter Vaughan
Harry Grout
T
Tony Osoba
McLaren
D
David Jason
Blanco
S
Sam Kelly
Warren
P
Patricia Brake
Ingrid Fletcher
