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Porridge

  • TV series
  • 1974
  • 3 seasons
  • 18 episodes

Created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais

8.2

TMDB audience rating
8.2 out of 10 from 57 votes

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Overview

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.

Roughly 9h to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 18 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 30 minutes.

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Series cast and crew

  • Ronnie Barker

    Ronnie BarkerNorman Stanley Fletcher
    18 episodes

  • Richard Beckinsale

    Richard BeckinsaleLennie Godber
    18 episodes

  • Fulton Mackay

    Fulton MackayMr. Mackay
    18 episodes

  • Brian Wilde

    Brian WildeMr. Barrowclough
    18 episodes

  • Sam Kelly

    Sam KellyWarren
    9 episodes

  • Tony Osoba

    Tony OsobaMcLaren
    8 episodes

  • Michael BarringtonGovernor Venables
    7 episodes

  • Christopher Biggins

    Christopher BigginsLukewarm
    5 episodes

  • Ken Jones

    Ken JonesIves
    4 episodes

  • Paul McDowellMr. Collinson
    4 episodes

  • David Jason

    David JasonBlanco
    3 episodes

  • Patricia Brake

    Patricia BrakeIngrid Fletcher
    3 episodes

  • Brian Glover

    Brian GloverHeslop
    3 episodes

  • Ronald Lacey

    Ronald LaceyHarris
    3 episodes

  • Peter Vaughan

    Peter VaughanHarry Grout
    2 episodes

  • Graham Ashley

    Graham AshleyMr. Appleton
    2 episodes

  • Eric DodsonMr. Banyard
    2 episodes

  • Maurice Denham

    Maurice DenhamRawley
    2 episodes

Created by
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Network
BBC One

Seasons and episodes