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Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series and two Christmas specials, and was followed by a feature film of the same name (in the United States, the film was released under the title Doing ...
The main storylines of the sitcom focus on its central character, Norman Stanley Fletcher, a man from Muswell Hill, London.Fletcher, described as "an habitual criminal" by the judge who sentences him (and whose words, voiced by Barker, are repeated in the show's opening titles), is sent to HMP Slade, a fictional Category C prison in Cumberland, to serve a prison sentence for his latest crime.
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The following is a list of episodes for the British sitcom Porridge and sequel series, Going Straight, which aired on BBC1 from 5 September 1974 to 25 March 1977 and 24 February to 7 April 1978 respectively. A further sequel series following the grandson of Fletcher, Porridge, aired in 2016 and 2017.
Porridge is a British television sitcom, starring Kevin Bishop, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and broadcast on BBC One. The show is a sequel to the original 1974 series of the same name , which both Clement and La Frenais wrote.
Beckinsale was the only member of the cast not to have appeared in The Banana Box, the play on which Rising Damp was based. Writer Eric Chappell stated: "Although not the oldest, he was the most experienced sitcom actor of the quartet, having already appeared in The Lovers and Porridge. This allowed him to be something of a calming influence on ...
Going Straight is a BBC sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale.The programme was a direct spin-off to the sitcom Porridge, which all four were involved in, with its premise surrounding the exploits of Barker's character Norman Stanley Fletcher following his release from prison and his attempts to not commit another crime ...
[5] [6] Also that year, he was cast in the film Alaska is a Drag. [7] In 2017, O'Shea starred in the romantic comedy, A Simple Wedding alongside Tara Grammy. He plays a Californian artist who falls in love with a second generation Persian woman and must bridge the cultural divide with her conservative family. [8]