Watch Series: Porridge Released in (1974) - Season 1 produced by UK, The TV Series categorized in Comedy, Crime, and content rating TV-PG with duration 30 min broadcasted as these networks BBC One, Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Sydney Lotterby. 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.

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\nThe 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. - Season 1