Porridge potato

On porridge potato Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article is about the 1974 British TV series.

The show’s title is a reference to both the traditional breakfast that used to be served in British prisons, and a 1950s British slang term for a prison sentence. Porridge was critically acclaimed and is widely considered to be one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time. 35 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled by the British Film Institute in 2000. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which saw Barker reprise his character as he tries to avoid going back to prison. Porridge was revived in 2016 under the same name, with Fletcher’s grandson beginning a prison sentence.

The main storylines of the sitcom focus on its central character, Norman Stanley Fletcher, a man from Muswell Hill, London. While both Fletcher and Godber are the show’s main characters, the series features two major supporting characters, both prison officers. The programme’s scriptwriters appear, uncredited, outside Fletch and Godber’s cell in the episode “No Peace for the Wicked”. Ronnie Barker had suggested the part of Lennie Godber for Paul Henry, but the decision to cast Richard Beckinsale was taken by the production team. The frontage of the former St Albans Prison was used as the fictitious H. The building is now a register office. Porridge originated with a 1973 project commissioned by the BBC Seven of One, which would see Ronnie Barker star in seven different situation comedy pilot episodes.