Films and programs like Porridge

Porridge

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La...

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Porridge

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godf...

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Going Straight

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had...

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Dead Boss

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Helen Stephens is wrongly sentenced to 12 years in prison for murdering her boss Eric Bridges, the managing director of Entirely Tiles. Although she is sure that it will only be a matter of time befor...

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Still Open All Hours

Series Age rating: 6 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members o...

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Lead Balloon

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen...

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Fletch

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.9

When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to...

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Uncle

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Andy is a dissolute out-of work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 12-year-old nephew Errol after being morally blackmailed into looking after him by his chaotic sister Sam - all on the...

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Count Arthur Strong

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Count Arthur Strong is a faded star from the golden days of variety, prone to delusions of grandeur, selective memory loss and the blurting out of malapropisms. He was never as famous as he thinks he...

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