Porridge - The Christmas Specials [1975] [1976] [DVD]

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ITV's Victoria reigns over BBC's Are You Being Served? and Porridge revivals". BBC News. 5 September 2016 . Retrieved 6 October 2016. Webber, Richard (2005). Porridge: The Complete Scripts and Series Guide. London: Headline Book Publishing. ISBN 0-7553-1535-9 Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges brought by this court, and it is now my duty to pass sentence. You are an habitual criminal, who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard, and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner. We therefore feel constrained to commit you to the maximum term allowed for these offences; you will go to prison for five years. Production [ edit ] Development [ edit ] The frontage of the former St Albans Prison was used as the fictitious H.M. Prison Slade in Cumberland. The building is now a register office.

During it’s three year run there were two Porridge Christmas specials. Today we’re looking at the first screened after series two, in 1975 – No Way Out. My family watches TV a lot in general, but somehow we see very little if anything over Christmas. No idea why. What's your favourite sitcom Xmas specials? As you probably know by now My Family is my favourite sitcom, and my two favourite Xmas specials are the episodes Glad Tidings We Bring (the 2004 Christmas Special - this is the one where Janey gets married, Daniela Denby-Ashe looked really pretty in that wedding dress that she had to wear for filming that episode 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍) and 2039 : A Christmas Oddity (the 2009 Christmas special, because it's hilarious 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂). However, I also liked the Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special from 2019 as well, and I like many others want to know what actually happened on THAT fishing trip! Hugely successful series from Granada TV that started in 1957 as a fortnightly live sitcom, which was moved to a weekly spot when it became so popular. The series followed the misfortunes of a mixed bag of army conscripts.The 1974 episode "A Day Out", which features a prison work party, was filmed in and around the Welsh village of Penderyn, the prisoners' ditch being excavated by a JCB. Loftus Road, the home of Queens Park Rangers Football Club, was briefly featured in "Happy Release", standing in for Elland Road in Leeds. Unfortunately he finds himself putting his own plans on hold as Harry Grout enlists his help. However sometimes things don’t always turn out so bad. of an unfortunate Fletch who has plans of his own for Christmas, namely getting himself a stay in the prison hospital for Christmas. The episode is considered to be one of the best Christmas specials ever to have graced the small screen. So , every Christmas I always have things I watch almost as a ritual . Just a few are Hercule Poirot’s Christmas … The two Porridge Christmas Specials which are just perfection … At least one Royal Family Christmas Special … the 1971 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show … a QI Christmas Show ( with Stephen Fry ) … a Only Fools and Horses Christmas show . And for some reason old classic films like The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Three Muskateers ( both kept on my iPad ) . Albert Finneys Murder on the Orient Express I always watch . I guess a lot is memories of times past and nostalgia and just comfort viewing , but it’s like some things I have to watch and only watch at Christmas ( things that aren’t Christmas specific ) Following the pilot episode broadcast on 1 April 1973, the sitcom ran for three series between 5September1974 ( 1974-09-05) and 25March1977 ( 1977-03-25), with 20 episodes in total. Each episode was 30 minutes except for the two Christmas specials in 1975 and 1976.

Porridge was immensely popular with British prisoners. Erwin James, an ex-prisoner who writes a bi-weekly column for The Guardian newspaper, stated that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_television_episodes_and_specials_in_the_United_Kingdom Porridge was critically acclaimed and is widely considered to be one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time. It is ranked No. 35 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute in 2000. In 2004, Porridge placed seventh in a poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom.This heart-warming drama stars Rob Brydon and Dawn French and sees iconic children authors Roald Dahl and Beatrix Potter meeting. Steptoe and Son - Take either of the episodes where they plan a foreign holiday as they're both hilarious and use the same basic plot, seemingly, but subvert expectations.

Ronnie Barker was the author of Fletcher's Book of Rhyming Slang (Pan, 1979), which includes an introduction by 'Fletch'.

Harry Grout is planning an escape for a fellow prisoner Tommy Slocombe. Everybody has a part to play in Grouty’s masterplan as members of the prison choir. Subsequently, Barker is reported to have said that he regretted recording himself as the judge, [ citation needed] a role subsequently played by Maurice Denham in two episodes of the third series. Keeping Up Appearances - Hyacinth tries to dress Richard up as Father Christmas, and the QE2 debacle. No Way Out" is the first Christmas special of the BBC sitcom Porridge. It first aired on 24 December 1975. [1] In this episode, prisoner Tommy Slocombe makes an escape attempt in the lead-up to Christmas.