Porridge (1974)
With Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Sam Kelly, Tony Osoba, Michael Barrington, Christopher Biggins
Directed by Sydney Lotterby
Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, after a pilot episode in 1973. The programme ran for three series and two Christmas specials. A feature film of the same name based on the series was released in 1979, after Beckinsale's death in March of that year.
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