Release Date

05 Sep, 1974

Runtime

00:30: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

18/3

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Porridge

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Specials

01 Apr, 1973

Series 1

05 Sep, 1974

Series 2

24 Oct, 1975

Series 3

18 Feb, 1977

Created By

Dick Clement

Ian La Frenais

Actors

Ronnie Barker

Richard Beckinsale

Fulton Mackay

Brian Wilde

Crew