Episode guide
Porridge: Series 1
6 episodes · premiered Sep 5, 1974
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- Episode 1: New Faces, Old Hands Sep 5, 1974 · 30m “Twenty-three and you want to go straight? What kind of talk is that? You've got your whole life in front of you!” It's Godber's first time in prison, and Fletch is going to teach him the…
- Episode 2: The Hustler Sep 12, 1974 · 30m Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets, he'd have been the one in the middle. But there's no way he's going to be left out of Fletch's gambling enterprise.
- Episode 3: A Night In Sep 19, 1974 · 30m Fletch explains to Godber that the best way to cope with his first night in prison, is to see it as just a "quiet night in". Trouble is, Godber's got another 698 to go.
- Episode 4: A Day Out Sep 26, 1974 · 30m The rest of the working party are thrilled to have a day out, but Fletch is masking indifference - what's so exciting about digging a ditch anyway?
- Episode 5: Ways and Means Oct 3, 1974 · 30m Who would want to spend eight hours a day sewing fishing nets? Not Fletch, who is hell-bent on a cushy job in the library.
- Episode 6: Men Without Women Oct 10, 1974 · 30m Fletch fancies himself as a bit of an agony aunt and is called upon by his fellow inmates to help out with affairs of the heart.