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Porridge

BBC One
on BBC One London

starring
Ronnie Barker
Richard Beckinsale Fulton Mackay Brian Wilde
In this hilarious film version of the phenomenally successful TV series, habitual prisoner and eternal optimist Norman Fletcher is doing porridge again - detained at Her
Majesty's pleasure in Slade Prison. A celebrities-versus-prisoners football match is planned to provide cover for an escape attempt, in which Fletcher and his young cellmate become unwillingly involved.
Screenplay by DICK CLEMENT and IAN LA FRENAIS Produced by ALLAN MCKEOWN and IAN LA FRENAIS Directed by DICK CLEMENT
* FILMS: page 26
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Contributors

Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Richard Beckinsale
Unknown:
Fulton MacKay
Unknown:
Brian Wilde
Unknown:
Dick Clement
Unknown:
Ian La Frenais
Produced By:
Allan McKeown
Produced By:
Ian La Frenais
Directed By:
Dick Clement
Fletcher:
Ronnie Barker
Godber:
Richard Beckinsale
Mackay:
Fulton MacKay
Barrowclough:
Brian Wilde
'Grouty':
Peter Vaughan
Bainbridge:
Julian Holloway
Governor:
Geoffrey Bayldon
Beale:
Christopher Godwin
Oakes:
Barrie Putter
Rudge:
Daniel Peacock
Source: Radio Times

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