The BBC is putting Ronnie Barker behind bars tonight—and he couldn’t be more pleased. For Ronnie is starring in a new comedy series set inside a...
Ronnie Barker proves his versatility with Seven Of One, a 1973 collection of seven single comedies, two of which would lead to his best known series....
In sitcom Going Straight, after three years, eight months and four days of residing at her majesty’s pleasure at HMP Slade Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker)...
The Rift: In the series finale Fletch (Kevin Bishop) and his cellmate Joe (Dave Hill) are getting on each other’s nerves – life can be tough...
The Listener: An intriguing new inmate arrives at Wakeley, in the form of depressed rock star Rob Strange (Phil Cornwell). Fletch (Kevin Bishop) is tasked with...
The Witness: Dougie Parfitt (Harry Peacock) wants Fletch (Kevin Bishop) to join his crew as his consigliere. But when Fletch tries to broker a peace with...
The Minder: Fletch (Kevin Bishop) gets on the wrong side of a mysterious new inmate. And to make matters worse he gets a present he wasn’t...
In this revival of the classic 1970’s sitcom Porridge Nigel “Fletch” Fletcher is the grandson of Ronnie Barker’s iconic character Norman Stanley Fletcher banged up in...
Hot on the heels of last years one off comes a full blown series revival for classic 1970’s sitcom Porridge, once again written by original series...
In Porridge Norman Stanley Fletcher, a cynical old lag, was sentenced to five years in Slade Prison where he tried to put one over Chief Warden...
Commissioned to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their first big sitcom Hancock’s Half Hour hitting the screen the BBC have come up with a brilliant idea,...
Part of the BBC’s sitcom season continues with not a reboot of all time classic Porridge as such but more a revisit to Slade prison. The...
Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) is ‘an habitual criminal who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard and presumably accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner’. As...
UK / BBC Two / 2×50 minute episodes / Broadcast 26-31 December 2003 Mock-documentaries on the lives of popular characters from sitcoms revealing unknown or merely...