Porridge
Porridge is a TV show on BBC2. Comedy. Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure, cellmates Fletcher and Godber become unwilling accomplices to an escape attempt in this cinema version of the popular BBC comedy. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 22 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in January 2025.
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Porridge
Screen version of the classic television comedy about habitual prison inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher and his cellmate Lennie Godber.
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40:00Sitcom set in Slade prison. Fletch has to help Godber out after he gets involved in a fight a week before his parole board hearing.
40:00Sitcom. When Godber starts working hard to get another O level before leaving prison, Fletcher cannot understand why he doesn't just cheat.
December 2024
Christmas special of the classic sitcom from 1975. The festive season falls upon HMP Slade and finds the inmates planning a jailbreak.
Classic sitcom. Fletcher plans to add a bit of Christmas spirit to the festive season at Slade Prison in the form of his very own homemade liquor.
40:00Classic prison-set sitcom. Blanco, who has been in prison for 17 years for a crime he always claimed he didn't commit, refuses parole. Fletcher decides to help out.
40:00Classic comedy series about the inmates of HM Slade Prison. Fletcher decides that Harris must be put on trial for stealing from another prisoner.
November 2024 40:00
40:00Fletch lands in hot water when stolen pills accidentally find their way into his cup of tea. Mr Mackay is determined to get to the bottom of it.
40:00Fletcher is incensed when a third cellmate arrives, and to add insult to injury, he turns out to be one of his old enemies - but why is everyone so polite to him?
40:00Ageless comedy with Ronnie Barker behind bars at Slade. Godber enters the prison boxing championships, and although he is the hot favourite, he must lose.
40:00A broken ankle provides Fletcher with a spell in the prison hospital, along with a fellow patient (David Jason) who mentions a hidden eight grand. Classic laughs.
40:00The inmates of Slade Prison get a break at the weekend to pursue their hobbies. Includes outdated language.
40:00Classic comedy series. The inmates of Slade Prison are horrified to discover there is a thief in their midst - a despicable crime against one's fellow inmates.
October 2024 40:00
40:00Classic prison comedy. The problems of an anxious father and a pining first offender are solved in the prison waiting room.
40:00Classic comedy series set in HM Prison Slade. When Fletcher assumes the role of agony aunt to his fellow inmates, he ends up writing letters home for them.
40:00Classic comedy series. When Fletcher and Godber are allowed out in a work gang, Mr Barrowclough gets more than he bargained for.
September 2024 40:00
40:00Classic comedy series. Fletch and Godber reconcile themselves to a quiet evening in at Slade prison.
40:00Classic prison sitcom. Fletcher gets a permanent job with the pigs on the prison farm and dreams up a novel way to relieve the boredom of prison life.
40:00Classic sitcom set in Slade Prison. Veteran inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher gives the benefit of his experience to his green young cellmate Godber.
Pilot episode that became the classic comedy series Porridge. For Fletcher, the prospect of studying woodwork and botany in prison provokes thoughts of escape.