From: Rita
Rating of this site: Excellent
I think it is good that u put this site out. u learn loadz.. So thanks its very intresting toooo
Saturday 17 September 2005 - 11:07:34
From: Mitchell D Thompson
Rating of this site: Excellent
Thanks for the site. I got alot of imformation thanks again
Tuesday 13 September 2005 - 15:09:20
From: Chris Pimblett
Rating of this site: Excellent
As I huge fan of the series I was wondering if anyone knows where it is possible to view the scripts from the show on the net?
Been searching everywhere but can't find anything - but in the immortal words of Fletch - "Don't let the b******s grind you down!"
Cheers.
Saturday 27 August 2005 - 09:57:02
From: Chris Walker
Rating of this site: Excellent
I found out what I was looking for, what ever happened to Richard Beckinsale. Now I know a heart attack at only 31 in 1979, 7 years before I was born.
Saturday 6 August 2005 - 00:48:49
From: David
Rating of this site: Excellent
I am very pleased to have found your website Which is the best one you have there at home. While I am a fan of porridge and then I have just found your website very interesting indeed. At home here in Middlesbrough and looking to having a DVD tape of Porridge next week on Saturday this year in 2005 to enjoy watching it as same as normal.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
KIND REGARDS
David
Wednesday 3 August 2005 - 21:23:12
From: Ma®k
Rating of this site: Excellent
Good show my man. Keep it up!
Thursday 14 July 2005 - 22:21:57
From: Kimberly McConnell
Your website has been very helpful to me.
Thursday 14 July 2005 - 08:58:17
From: Paul J
Rating of this site: Excellent
The full series of Porridge are playing here in New Zealand now on our UKTV pay channel. The episodes are hilarious, and it is a pleasure to watch such classical and brilliant British Comedy. Ronnie Barker was a genius without doubt, and it is great to see such humour still popular today. The main difference betwwen American humour and British humour is that British humour never apologises for the subject matter - Porridge is a great example of this - may it live for ever!
Tuesday 12 July 2005 - 16:32:36
From: Stephen
Rating of this site: Excellent
Hello. I think the site is very informative and interesting, so Thank You to those responsible for it.
Thursday 7 July 2005 - 21:53:59
From: Bill
Rating of this site: Excellent
GGS. Gods Greatest Sitcom. Nothing else comes close
Tuesday 14 June 2005 - 23:32:42
From: Trev
Rating of this site: Good
Nice site. Didn't know about first episode.
Saturday 11 June 2005 - 03:30:48
From: Marie Pinto
Rating of this site: Excellent
I have the Porridge Series and Christmas Special but would love the first episode Prisoner and Escort and Going Straight. I am here in Singapore, anyone got any suggestions of where I can get these and if they exist on video and DVD. Love the programme, just wish they had made more! Two teenage daughters hooked too.
Saturday 4 June 2005 - 18:47:35
From: Nigel Summers
Rating of this site: Excellent
Would you adam and eve it, it's taken me all this time to find what is a superb site. Thanks for taking the trouble. It's well worth it.
Saturday 4 June 2005 - 13:46:36
From: Nick Mansell
Rating of this site: Excellent
well, by far the best and favorite BBC Comedy ever. ronnie is a comic genius. manse
Thursday 12 May 2005 - 21:12:09
From: Paul
Rating of this site: Excellent
Wot a great site!!! I'm a great fan of this exellent programme got all dvd. So now I'm going to NAFF OFF
Thursday 12 May 2005 - 13:32:01
From: Dave Crawford
Rating of this site: Good
I just wanted to say that Curtis Watts is using your site to research and ask me silly questions about Porridge and he'd better get on with some work and not waste time like this! I know more about the episodes than he ever will so he'd best concede defeat now. In fact he's rubbish. Ya boo sucks !
Tuesday 26 April 2005 - 22:14:27
From: Shane
Rating of this site: Good
Helena, Going Sraight is on UK Gold starting tomorrow night (April 27). I only found out tonight it existed. Hoping to try get it on video. In the episodes section it says Prisoner & Escort is available on the series 2 DVD but I have that and it isn't on it.
Note from porridge Webmaster. On the Series 2 DVD of Porridge, the episode "Prisoner & Escort" appears in the special features menu. Here is the proof:
Saturday 23 April 2005 - 20:42:09
From: Kim
I'm eleven but I still think porridge is cool + Ronnie Barker is a brill actor!
Friday 22 April 2005 - 14:55:39
From: Ian Russell
Rating of this site: Excellent
I am now 39 and used to watch porridge with my parents when i was a kid. when i grew up i watched them again and now i love them, including going straight. uktv gold are constantly showing them and a porridge day is on very soon. would like to hear from porridge fans to have a chat perhaps. good looking females welcome. no scrotes(as fletch would say).
Friday 22 April 2005 - 13:36:05
From: Stephen
Rating of this site: Excellent
Going straight was on uk gold not to long ago im sure the will repeat it again at some point.
Friday 22 April 2005 - 03:23:40
From: Matt
Rating of this site: Excellent
Thank you soooooo much for the recording of "free inside" what a song, I am a total fletch fanatic! =), re; helena, I watched Porridge growing up and it was only recently I even heard about Going Straight, I had to have it, I watched it with dread "how could it be as good?", after one episode, I had the same warm feeling, it was like I had more fletch I never knew existed, like he'd never been away, altho slightly bleaker, fletch is still fletch, with godber, mclaren, mackay and ingrid in episodes it almost makes up for not having the rest of the nick with him, and watch out for nicholas lyndhurst (superb as young raymond), and btw gr8 site, i will be back =)
Thursday 21 April 2005 - 13:29:59
From: Stu Johnson
Rating of this site: Excellent
Fantastic website. Can someone tell me which episode the following dialogue was in:
[Godber] - You really get up my goat sometimes Fletcher.
[Fletch] - No Godber, I may get your goat, I might get up your nose, I may even get on your wick, but I do not get up your goat.
I love that line. Genius.
Note from porridge Webmaster. Those lines were taken from the movie of Porridge.
Wednesday 20 April 2005 - 16:26:11
From: Ryan Abbot
Rating of this site: Excellent
The best show ever! Does anyone know who the barman was in the movie? He is the spitting image of our QA guy at work and would love to track down a picture of him?
Monday 18 April 2005 - 00:41:52
From: Mark
Rating of this site: Excellent
Great Acting And Great Writing, Porridge Is One Of The Best Comedies Ever Made.
Sunday 17 April 2005 - 13:38:44
From: Jade
Rating of this site: Excellent
Replying to Helena's question, Going Straight should be shown again at some point on UKTV Gold at some point it has been repeated a few times since the Porridge @ 30 weekend. Also, you can buy it on DVD in shops for as little as £9! Its good, but not as brilliant as Porridge but then again nothing ever can be can it? It's cool to know that there r other young fans who adore Ronnie Barker and Porrigde! I'm only 14 meself, and all me friend dnt watch porridge and a lot of them only know Ronnie B as one of the two Ronnies and @ that they dnt even kno which one he is!
Thursday 7 April 2005 - 18:57:43
From: Helena
Rating of this site: Good
Does any1 hav any idea if Going Straight is going 2 be shown on telly again? I have comments from my family that it isn't half as good as Porridge but I'd still luv 2 c it 2 judge 4 myself. Any ideas?
Thursday 7 April 2005 - 18:48:03
From: Helena
Rating of this site: Good
I am 12 years old but I have loved Porridge since I saw my very first episode a few years ago and I think that, along with Only Fools and Horses, it is one of the best programmes ever made. Ronnie Barker is a brilliant actor but it's a pity there aren't more episodes. I enjoyed the Porridge @ 30 weekend on UKTV Gold, but I have never seen Going Straight as i don't think they are showing reruns of it on any channel. This website is good, but it would be better if it had a few Quizzes and Games to brighten it up!
Saturday 2 April 2005 - 01:47:07
From: Ryan
Rating of this site: Blank
I'm 17 but I discovered Porridge on UKGold around a year ago. My two favourite programs are Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen Pet, and I was surprised to find out they're written by the same people.
I have a question: Does Ronnie Barker do the voiceover ("Norman Stanley Fletcher, you have pleaded guilty to the charges...") at the start of Porridge?
Note from Porridge Webmaster - In answer to Ryan's question the answer is yes, it is Ronnie Barker sentencing himself.
Sunday 13 March 2005 - 13:16:41
From: John Dair
Rating of this site: Excellent
Dear sir, after reading through your website I am greatly impressed by the amount of data you have gathered. I was "Crusher" in the series, and although I am not in the best of health, I would love to answer any questions you may have.
Thursday 10 March 2005 - 22:05:17
From: Mark Roberts
Rating of this site: Excellent
Fantastic site. Love the programme. Currently looking for the DVD box set of the series.
Thursday 10 March 2005 - 12:27:08
From: Graham Collom
Rating of this site: Excellent
Excellent site for an excellent programme.
Tuesday 8 March 2005 - 13:48:43
From: Stevo Shipp
Rating of this site: Excellent
Porridge best comedy ever.
Monday 28 February 2005 - 14:38:56
From: Rob Lewis
Rating of this site: Excellent
Website: www.laurelandhardy.org
I am a long standing fan of Ronnie Barker in his many different shows. So this site was a treat. I don't know if many readers know, but Ronnie did a half hour show with Roy Castle (as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy), it was a brilliant tribute to Stan and Ollie. We published and interview with Ronnie in a recent Laurel and Hardy Magazine.
Sunday 13 February 2005 - 17:09:05
From: John Sturat
Rating of this site: Good
Well done!
Saturday 12 February 2005 - 22:23:52
From: Napper Wainright
Rating of this site: Excellent
left right left right(H) this site is pure class (H)
Thursday 10 February 2005 - 21:33:26
From: Lelaina
Rating of this site: Excellent
Hey Ian, Great site! Am a porridge fan for YEARS and this is a home to me! Keep it up please you're doing all the inmates their fans a huge favour. An honourable job to have eh?
Friday 28 January 2005 - 16:58:46
From: Doive
Rating of this site: Excellent
Website www.partsforolderchickens.tk
I was glued to the Porridge @ 30 weekend over Christmas at my parents' house (they have digital, I don't!). Never watched a whole episode before this only being 23 (think I may have seen a few in the late eighties), but it beats all the other present day sitcoms hands down. The writing is magnificent, and the acting and delivery by Barker and Beckinsale bring the humour to life. Never knew until I visited this site that it is available on DVD, so that's a definite buy for me. Great website, very enjoyable too.
Sunday 23 January 2005 - 11:41:33
From: Ian (Porridge Webmaster)
In response to Martin's comments about repeated gags I can think of a couple. In the episode "New Faces Old Hands" when Fletcher is asked to fill the sample flask his reply is "what, from here?". Clement and La Frenais were involved in scripting the Bond film "Never Say never Again" and Connery's Bond has the same line.
There is also a line from Barker who says "Of course I trust you Godber. Besides, when you were all in the showers I went through all your gear." This line was also used by Oz in Auf Wiedesehen Pet.
Does anyone know of any others?
Saturday 22 January 2005 - 00:22:17
From: Martin
Rating of this site: Excellent
Caught one afternoon of Porridge @ 30 over Christmas. BRILL!! I've been a fan since the beginning (When I was 10!!) So I can confirm that the comedy stands up as a child and an adult. The Movie is by far the best ever TV spin off film. As mentioned on the website, some ideas for the movie were "lifted" from the series. However, there is a scene in one episode between Warren and Fletch where they refer to a fellow inmate "Lugless Douglas . Clement and La Frenais also wrote a scene in an episode of "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads" where Bob and Terry discuss an old school friend called Lugless Douglas . I know this makes me a bit of a dork, but does anyone know of any other recycled gags!
Saturday 15 January 2005 - 22:01:26
From: Jade
Yeah it was brill 2 have Porridge on over Xmas. And I was delighted 2 get Going Straight on DVD.
I was just wondering does anyone know anything about Ronnie Barker coming out of retirement and the new series of the Two Ronnies?Thursday 13 January 2005 - 08:57:25
From: Jimmy Fletcher
Rating of this site: Excellent
Hello Boss. Came across this site when I needed to find Biggins character name and was surprised to find I share his birthday. Nothing Lukewarm about that! Great work, have always loved the show and not just because of the name conection or the fact that I eventually lived in Muswell Hill for five years. Thinking of that shouldn't there be a statue of Fletch situated there? Cheers Boss.
Sunday 9 January 2005 - 12:36:01
From: Ian (Porridge Webmaster)
Godber was in a boxing match in the episode "The Harder They Fall" in Series 2.
Thursday 6 January 2005 - 18:45:59
From: Lee Keohane
Rating of this site: Excellent
Does any one know what episode it was when Godber was in a boxing match?
Wednesday 5 January 2005 - 09:10:13
From: Martin Burgess
Rating of this site: Excellent
I got all the DVDs for Christmas (including the Christmas specials and the movie). I'd always preferred Open All Hours, but now I've spent days watching non-stop Porridge my opinion has changed! I'm now a fully fledged Beckinsale fan, so I'll be buying the complete set of Rising Damp as well. My favourite Porridge moment is probably when Fletcher and Godber break back into the prison in the movie. Fantastic stuff.
Monday 3 January 2005 - 00:46:37
From: David Daley
Rating of this site: Excellent
Brilliant, one of the best TV shows ever and one of the best sites that I have seen that does it Justice.
Saturday 1 January 2005 - 18:40:37
From: Kirsty
Rating of this site: Excellent
I love it and I can watch it all day I laugh so much when it's on.