The BEST episodes of Porridge season 1
Every episode of Porridge season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Porridge season 1!
"Fletch", sentenced to a five year stretch at HM Prison Slade in darkest Cumbria, is determined to keep his head down, do his time and not let the b******s grind him down. But it's not so simple when you're an old lag. His naive cell-mate Lenny Godber needs to learn the ropes, skives and scams; evil Prison Officer Mackay can't be allowed to run things his own way and warden Barrowclough is just too weak-willed not to have his good-nature exploited... Starring Ronnie Barker, Fulton Mackay, Richard Beckinsdale and Brian Wilde.
#1 - Men Without Women
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1974
Fletch fancies himself as a bit of an agony aunt and is called upon by his fellow inmates to help out with affairs of the heart.
#2 - The Hustler
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1974
Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets, he'd have been the one in the middle. But there's no way he's going to be left out of Fletch's gambling enterprise.
#3 - Ways and Means
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1974
Who would want to spend eight hours a day sewing fishing nets? Not Fletch, who is hell-bent on a cushy job in the library.
#4 - New Faces, Old Hands
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1974
“Twenty-three and you want to go straight? What kind of talk is that? You've got your whole life in front of you!” It's Godber's first time in prison, and Fletch is going to teach him the ways.
#5 - A Night In
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1974
Fletch explains to Godber that the best way to cope with his first night in prison, is to see it as just a "quiet night in". Trouble is, Godber's got another 698 to go.
#6 - A Day Out
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1974
The rest of the working party are thrilled to have a day out, but Fletch is masking indifference - what's so exciting about digging a ditch anyway?