The Best Episodes of Porridge Season 1
Every episode of Porridge Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Porridge Season 1!
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 Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Porridge" season 1 is "New Faces, Old Hands", rated 8/10 from 222 user votes. It was directed by Sydney Lotterby and written by Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement. "New Faces, Old Hands" aired on 9/5/1974 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Hustler".
8.0/10 222 votes#1 - 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.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
7.7/10 197 votes#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.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
8.2/10 207 votes#3 - 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.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
8.2/10 192 votes#4 - 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?
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
7.6/10 173 votes#5 - 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.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
8.0/10 179 votes#6 - 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.
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement