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Arrested Development
2003 · Comedy
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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 seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
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Season list for Porridge
Ronnie Barker
Norman Stanley Fletcher
Richard Beckinsale
Lennie Godber
Fulton Mackay
Mr. Mackay
Brian Wilde
Mr. Barrowclough
Peter Vaughan
Harry Grout
Tony Osoba
McLaren
David Jason
Blanco
Sam Kelly
Warren
Patricia Brake
Ingrid Fletcher
Paul Angelis
Navy Rum
Royston Tickner
Sgt. Norris
John Rutland
Verger
John Bennett
Medical Officer
John Quarmby
Prison Officer
Philip Jackson
Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley
Robert Gillespie
Vicar
June Ellis
Isobel Fletcher
Brian Glover
Heslop
Susan Littler
Norma
Ken Jones
Ives
CinemaSerf
February 23, 2022
It's hard to believe that there were only ever twenty episodes of this classic British comedy ever made. Ronnie Barker ("Fletch") is fantastic as the habitual criminal sent to Her Majesty's Prison "Slade" - perched in the northern reaches of England - for five years. His cellmate is the honest, but supremely naive "Godber" (Richard Becksinsale) and the series depicts their antics surviving the authoritarian regime of…
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