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The Sunday Film: Porridge

BBC One
on BBC One London

The feature film starring
In this hilarious film version of the phenomenally successful television series, habitual prisoner and eternal optimist Norman Fletcher is doing porridge again - detained at Her Majesty's pleasure at 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. IAN LA FRENAIS Produced by ALLAN MCKEOWN. IAN LA FRENAIS Directed by DICK CLEMENT. Films: page 12 (Ronnie Barker 's new comedy series, The Magnificent Evans, begins next week)

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Fletcher
Unknown:
Dick Clement.
Produced By:
Allan McKeown.
Directed By:
Dick Clement.
Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
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 Rutter
Rudge:
Daniel Peacock
Source: Radio Times

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