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BAFTA TV AWARDS® 1X winner in 1978

Porridge

Adjusting to prison life isn't easy for most, but for Fletch, a career crimal, it's old hat.
IMDb 8.319746 episodes
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - New Faces, Old Hands
    September 5, 1974
    29min
    TV-14
    "Twenty-three and you want to go straight? What kind of talk is that? You've got your whole life in front of you!" It's Godber's first time in prison, and Fletch is going to teach him how to survive.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Hustler
    September 12, 1974
    28min
    TV-14
    Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets, he'd have been the one in the middle. But there's no way he's going to be left out of Fletch's gambling enterprise.
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  3. S1 E3 - A Night In
    September 19, 1974
    29min
    TV-14
    Fletch explains to Godber that the best way to cope with his first night in prison is to see it as just a "quiet night in." Trouble is, Godber's got another 698 to go.
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  4. S1 E4 - A Day Out
    September 26, 1974
    29min
    TV-14
    The rest of the working party is thrilled to have a day out, but Fletch is masking indifference - what's so exciting about digging a ditch anyway?
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  5. S1 E5 - Ways and Means
    October 3, 1974
    28min
    TV-14
    Who would want to spend eight hours a day sewing fishing nets? Not Fletch, who is hell-bent on a cushy job in the library.
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  6. S1 E6 - Men Without Women
    October 10, 1974
    29min
    TV-14
    Fletch fancies himself as a bit of an agony aunt and is called upon by his fellow inmates to help out with affairs of the heart.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Sydney Lotterby
Producers
Sydney Lotterby
Starring
Ronnie BarkerBrian WildeFulton Mackay
Studio
BBC
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