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In 2009 Porridge was adapted into a stage show, also written by Clement and La Frenais, starring former EastEnders actor Shaun Williamson as Fletcher and Daniel West as Godber.
The episode ends with a triumphant Fletcher drinking his whisky and wishing Mackay a Merry Christmas. The Desperate Hours” is an excellent episode, pushing further into drama territory than is usual for Porridge but still a great example of a classic sitcom. Despite Barker's initial preference for another of the pilots, a sitcom about a Welsh gambling addict, "Prisoner and Escort" was selected. The doctor is forced to accept that Fletcher's medical records bear his operation story out, so sends him for a day trip under guard to a local hospital for a swift X-ray. Id add votes for OFAH-Jolly Boys Outing is a peak memory for many I think simply because it features the whole cast going full on for the laughs.HBO teen drama Euphoria is going to be releasing two special episodes for fans to enjoy ahead of season two making its big comeback in 2021.
Fletch hobbles in to see the prison doctor, limping heavily when he remembers due to this terrible knee problem that has supposedly kept him in constant pain since he had an operation some years previously. In this episode, we discover the governor (Michael Barrington) is a staunch teetotaller, with a zero tolerance approach to alcohol on prison premises. All articles are copyright © Television Heaven or their individual authors where stated and may not be reproduced without permission.Sutton – still dark-haired and relatively young here – gives a very sympathetic performance, portraying a man at his last ebb and clearly out of his depth, but still potentially very dangerous. 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 . As Fletcher points out, the Christmas choir only exists so that it can drown out the sound of Tommy Slocombe's tunnelling, his escape attempt scheduled for Christmas Eve. As well as highlighting Barker's extraordinary comic range (and providing an early screen outing for David Jason) the series was the genesis of not one but two much-loved British sitcoms.
It just happens that the four walls confining our characters are not a cell but the governor's office. Fletch wants no part of it, but no one subjected to Peter Vaughan's threatening performance as Grouty is going to be able to say no. Ronnie Barker was the author of Fletcher's Book of Rhyming Slang (Pan, 1979), which includes an introduction by 'Fletch'.A collection of classic BBC Ronnie Barker shows, including four series of Open All Hours; the three series and Christmas specials of Porridge; the follow up sitcom Going Straight; the Clarence series starring Barker as a short-sighted removals man; all seven episodes of Seven Of One; and The Magnificent Evans.
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