Poster for Porridge (1979)

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Porridge (1979)

Fletcher's inside story - even funnier as a film

  • Aug 12, 1979
  • 1h 33m
  • PG-13
TMDB user score 6.8/10 41 votes on TMDB
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Story

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.

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Cast

  • Ronnie Barker Norman Stanley Fletcher
  • Richard Beckinsale Lennie Godber
  • Fulton Mackay Mr. Mackay
  • Brian Wilde Mr. Barrowclough
  • Peter Vaughan Grouty
  • Julian Holloway Mr. Bainbridge
  • Geoffrey Bayldon Governor Treadaway
  • Christopher Godwin Mr. Beal
  • Barrie Rutter Oakes
  • Daniel Peacock Rudge
  • Sam Kelly Warren
  • Ken Jones Ives
  • Philip Locke Banyard
  • Gorden Kaye Dines
  • Oliver Smith McMillan
  • Andrew Dunford Armstrong
  • Steve Steen Wellings
  • Ivan Steward Simkin

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