Porridge: The Scripts

by Ronnie Barker (Foreword), Richard Webber (Editor), Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.28

  Regarded by many critics as one of Britain's finest sitcoms, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' tales of life inside Slade Prison first hit the screens in 1973 and ran until 1977. This volume brings together the original scripts from all three series of Porridge starring Ronnie Barker as Fletch the old lag and Richard Beckinsale as Godber the naive first-time offender.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $4.04

  Regarded by many critics as Britain's best sitcom, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' tales of life inside Slade Prison first hit the screens in 1973. Three series were transmitted before the prison show finally closed its doors in 1977. But it has never faded from the nation's consciousness. Ronnie Barker as Fletch the old lag and Richard Beckinsale as Godber the naive first-time offender are comic creations as fine - and as well-loved - as any in the history of television. But no book has ever told the behind-the-scenes story of how the series came to be made (it was filmed inside a real, working prison), until now...