Porridge
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 sev
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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 sev
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Info
- Type
- TV series
- Status
- Ended
- First aired
- 5 September 1974
- Length
- 3 seasons, 18 episodes
Production
- Created by
- Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
- Networks
- BBC One
- Countries
- United Kingdom
Languages
- Original
- English
- Spoken
- English
- Streams in
- 4 countries
Worldwide
Stream
Sky Go2 countries
Ireland, United Kingdom
Now TV2 countries
Ireland, United Kingdom
BritBox Amazon ChannelAustralia
Free
BBC iPlayerUnited Kingdom
Buy
Amazon Video2 countries
Guernsey, United Kingdom
Apple TV StoreUnited Kingdom