Porridge
Premiered: Sep 05, 1974 | 3 seasons | 18 episodes
Popularity: 2
| Creator: | Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais |
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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. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Fulton Mackay | Mr. Mackay | 18 |
| Ronnie Barker | Norman Stanley Fletcher | 18 |
| Brian Wilde | Mr. Barrowclough | 18 |
| Sam Kelly | Warren | 9 |
| Tony Osoba | McLaren | 8 |
| Michael Barrington | Governor Venables | 8 |
| Christopher Biggins | Lukewarm | 5 |
| Ken Jones | Ives | 4 |
| Paul McDowell | Mr. Collinson | 4 |
| Ronald Lacey | Harris | 3 |
| David Jason | Blanco | 3 |
| Brian Glover | Heslop | 3 |
| Patricia Brake | Ingrid Fletcher | 3 |
| Peter Vaughan | Harry Grout | 2 |
| Maurice Denham | Rawley | 2 |
| Graham Ashley | Mr. Appleton | 2 |
| Barbara New | Prison Visitor | 1 |
| Philip Jackson | Melvin 'Dylan' Bottomley | 1 |
| John Bennett | Medical Officer | 1 |
| Alun Armstrong | Spraggon | 1 |
| Colin Farrell | Norris | 1 |
| Cyril Shaps | Jackdaw | 1 |
| Dudley Sutton | Reg Urwin | 1 |
| Paul Angelis | Navy Rum | 1 |
| Philip Madoc | Williams | 1 |
| Ivor Roberts | Prison Visitor | 1 |
| John Rutland | Verger | 1 |
| June Ellis | Isobel Fletcher | 1 |
| David Daker | Jarvis | 1 |
| Royston Tickner | Sgt. Norris | 1 |
| Johnnie Wade | Scrounger | 1 |
| Andonia Katsaros | Iris | 1 |
| John Quarmby | Prison Officer | 1 |
| Geoffrey Greenhill | Prison Visitor | 1 |
| Susan Littler | Norma | 1 |
| Rosalind Elliot | Elaine | 1 |
| Robert Gillespie | Vicar | 1 |
| Peter Jeffrey | Mr. Wainwright | 1 |
| Terence Soall | Medical Officer | 1 |
| Ronald Lacey | 0 | |
| Maurice Denham | 0 | |
| David Daker | 0 |