All MoviesTV ShowsPeopleDiscover

Browse By Genre

ActionAdventureAnimationComedyCrimeDocumentaryDramaFamilyFantasyHistoryHorrorMusicMysteryRomanceScience FictionTV MovieThrillerWarWestern
NextFlixCinematic Explorer

Porridge(1974)

Comedy
First Air Date: 1974-09-05
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 8.1
Votes: 53
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 18

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.

Keywords

prisonenglandjudgetheftconvictwardensitcom

Available on

Streaming

Foxtel Now logoFoxtel Now
BritBox Amazon Channel logoBritBox Amazon Channel

Seasons & Episodes

Series 1

Episodes: 6
E01
New Faces, Old Hands

Air Date: 1974-09-05

30m

“Twenty-three and you want to go straight? What kind of talk is that? You've got your whole life in front of you!” It...

E02
The Hustler

Air Date: 1974-09-12

30m

Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets, he'd have been the one in the middle. But there's no way ...

E03
A Night In

Air Date: 1974-09-19

30m

Fletch explains to Godber that the best way to cope with his first night in prison, is to see it as just a "quiet nig...

E04
A Day Out

Air Date: 1974-09-26

30m

The rest of the working party are thrilled to have a day out, but Fletch is masking indifference - what's so exciting...

E05
Ways and Means

Air Date: 1974-10-03

30m

Who would want to spend eight hours a day sewing fishing nets? Not Fletch, who is hell-bent on a cushy job in the lib...

E06
Men Without Women

Air Date: 1974-10-10

30m

Fletch fancies himself as a bit of an agony aunt and is called upon by his fellow inmates to help out with affairs of...

Similar Shows

Are You Being Served? poster

Are You Being Served?

1972
Arli$$ poster

Arli$$

1996
All Along the Watchtower poster

All Along the Watchtower

1999
Three Sisters poster

Three Sisters

2001
No Photo

The Happy Apple

1983
The Drew Carey Show poster

The Drew Carey Show

1995
Sex and the City poster

Sex and the City

1998
The Andy Griffith Show poster

The Andy Griffith Show

1960
Less than Perfect poster

Less than Perfect

2002
7 vidas poster

7 vidas

1999
Nathan Barley poster

Nathan Barley

2005
The European Side poster

The European Side

2004
What's Happening Now!! poster

What's Happening Now!!

1985
Malcolm & Eddie poster

Malcolm & Eddie

1996
Only Fools and Horses poster

Only Fools and Horses

1981
Ever Decreasing Circles poster

Ever Decreasing Circles

1984
Two Guys and a Girl poster

Two Guys and a Girl

1998
As Time Goes By poster

As Time Goes By

1992
A Different World poster

A Different World

1987
Cory in the House poster

Cory in the House

2007

Recommendations

Arrested Development poster

Arrested Development

2003
Night Court poster

Night Court

1984
Night Court poster

Night Court

2023
Benson poster

Benson

1979
My Name Is Earl poster

My Name Is Earl

2005
Sprung poster

Sprung

2022
Key & Peele poster

Key & Peele

2012
Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out poster

Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out

2005
Barney Miller poster

Barney Miller

1975
Duckman poster

Duckman

1994
Shifting Gears poster

Shifting Gears

2025
Detectorists poster

Detectorists

2014
Brooklyn Nine-Nine poster

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013
The Goldbergs poster

The Goldbergs

2013
Ideal poster

Ideal

2005
Episodes poster

Episodes

2011
One Day at a Time poster

One Day at a Time

1975
Another Period poster

Another Period

2015
The Jeffersons poster

The Jeffersons

1975
French & Saunders poster

French & Saunders

1987

Top Cast

Ronnie Barker
Ronnie Barker
Norman Stanley Fletcher
Richard Beckinsale
Richard Beckinsale
Lennie Godber
Fulton Mackay
Fulton Mackay
Mr. Mackay
Brian Wilde
Brian Wilde
Mr. Barrowclough