Ronnie really loved Richard Beckinsale - you can see their genuine friendship on screen!

At the same time Borstal was a reality. Good old British humour eh?

An Oscar nominated, Tony winning, Knight of the realm playing the baddie!

Leonard Arthur Godber (LAG) - slang term for a prisoner. Coincidence?

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Whys it back in the shop?

I can see the microphone boom swinging over at 12.55

Theses where the great old day's sweany porridge only fool's horse's good old day's gone.love to be back in the 80s 90s.2024 is the beginning of the end.whats good about smart fhones youtube go back in time more or less watch anything you like.just finished watching porridge about to watch now minder yeah.

I didn't think I would enjoy this as much. Sometimes a spin off spins in the right direction.

It’s Fawlty Towers set

I’m not talking about you being half black, I’m talking about you being half scotch🤣

26p for a beer!!! 😭😭😭

I love it

A lot of thinking went in to this, I didn’t guess the ending.

The sexual tension between Fletcher & MacKay is through the roof !!

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Fletch owned a three-bedroom house in Muswell Hill. He was made. How the hell he got a mortgage when he was in and out of prison is not explained.

My favourite comedian ever Ronnie barker legend

Why was his daughter Marian never shown?

He's got a Spurs keyring but he supports Orient.

Underrated series

1 million and a quarter unemployed----this was filmed in 78---it was soon going to triple----.

Adam and eve it. That’s funny

I always preferred Porridge to Going Straight. Both series were the best of British Comedy and great acting from Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale.

For anyone who's not sure how big a deal £500 would actually be, I'll just point out that in the year Going Straight was first broadcast (1978), the average annual salary for a full-time worker in the UK was £3,269. So, in other words, Pipers has just offered him a little under one sixth of the average Brit's total income to be lookout. If this was made today, he'd be offering him around 6 and a half grand....I'd have to be scared off it too I reckon 😂😂😂

4.20. Not a sweeping generalization at all, he's spot on. And it's even worse today.

11.20. That manhandling of the daughter. Clever writing, showing that behind the quick quips the jailbird Fletcher was a nasty piece of work.

So many cameos :)

Mr Mackay. Superb

That's some seriously classy, well thought out script writing. Brilliant acting too.

I’ve remembered the theme from back then,alls these years..

The master ❤

are they using the faulty towers set?

I appreciate this much more now than when it was originally aired. Mind you, I am a fair bit older as well LOL The cast is stellar and I love Patricia Brake as Ingrid. Superb

Great show .

'What time is it'

Thought the series was called Porridge?

If only we could still have this on what joy we could have ❤❤❤

Absolutely superb writing.

26p for a beer! Bloody hell!

Is that Dave?

Would been good to see Baraclough in this aswell as him and fletch got on well

Like the way in Porridge and this Fulton McKay played himself (same name)

Shame Mckay wasnt the last person to see him in the prison rather than the dope who released him

Ronnie Barker Comedy Legend...

The 10% of the money they lent us

This was a perfect 6-parter. Tragic that Beckinsale died of course, but I think it ended well here as it achieved what it set out to do. Modern fiction could learn a lot from this simple, well-executed character development and arc for one of sitcom's greatest characters. The comic irony that the prison sitcom was more upbeat and lackadaisical than the more realistic life on the outside where you are your own worst enemy, is just perfection.

Sir Humphrey, Rodney and Obidiah Hakeswill all in the same episode, the unexpected crossover!

Marmite as sun tan lotion? Never be able to get away with that line now!