Name: Porridge
Released: 1973-04-01T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ronnie Barker, Brian Wilde, Fulton Mackay

TV Show · Comedy · Classics

A habitual criminal, Norman Stanley Fletcher, finds himself engaged in all manner of scrapes with the warders and his fellow prisoners while serving a five-year term for burglary.

1973 · 28m

Starring Ronnie Barker, Brian Wilde, Fulton Mackay

Director Sidney Lotterby, James Gilbert

EPISODE 1

New Faces, Old Hands

Experienced inmate Fletcher, the old hand, gives the benefit of his experience to his green young cell mate, Lennie Godber.

28m
EPISODE 2

The Hustler

Ives is keen to be a part of Fletcher's gambling enterprise, something Mackay is determined to stop, so when Fletcher rejects Ives, things go terribly wrong for Fletcher.

28m
EPISODE 3

A Night In

Fletcher and Godber try to get through the night as they try to imagine what they would be doing on the outside, and who they would be doing it with.

29m
EPISODE 4

A Day Out

When Fletch and Godber are allowed out in a work gang, Mr Barrowclough gets more than he bargained for.

28m
EPISODE 5

Ways and Means

Fletch has fallen out with the governor and has lost all his credibility as a result. Yet, he soon sees a way of getting back into his good books.

27m
EPISODE 6

Men without Women

After reading a love letter for Bunny Warren, Fletcher imparts his wisdom to Bunny regarding the fairer sex, but it seems Fletcher doesn't know quite as much as he thinks when his daughter Ingrid brings him news from home.

28m