Porridge is a British situation comedy that aired on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, lasting three series, two Christmas specials, and a feature film also titled Porridge. It stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as inmates in the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland, and was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence; porridge was originally the standard breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would never return to prison. Porridge was ranked seventh in a BBC survey of the top 100 British sitcoms in 2004.
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Porridge is a British situation comedy that aired on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, lasting three series, two Christmas specials, and a feature film also titled Porridge. It stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as inmates in the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland, and was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence; porridge was originally the standard breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would never return to prison. Porridge was ranked seventh in a BBC survey of the top 100 British sitcoms in 2004.
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