Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3086 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-09-29
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 180 minutes

DVD Description
Fletch is a crafty petty thief who has been in prison many times. He knows the ropes and how to score a few points against the rigid prison system. Sharing his cell at Slade Prison is Lenny Godber, a young first-time offender. A lad can make plenty of mistakes inside – it’s not just the screws he needs to be wary of, it’s also the inmates. Luckily, Fletch decides to take him under his wing and give him the benefit of his wisdom. In fact, Fletch becomes a father figure to many of the men inside and can easily get one over on the screws, especially weak-willed warden, Mr Barrowclough. Fletch’s nemesis is the unbendingly authoritarian Chief Officer Mackay, a dour Scotsman who brooks no nonsense from anyone and always keeps a suspicious eye on the lookout for trouble. Not that that stops Fletch often getting one over on him. Aiding, abetting and frequently hindering his escapades is a brilliant supporting cast of superb comic characters.

Special Features
DVD Technical Information:

• Subtitles: English SDH
  
• Audio: Mono
  
• Disc Format: DVD-9
  
• PAL
  
• Region Code: 2 and 4
  
• Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  
• Running time: 169 minutes

Synopsis
The third series of PORRIDGE starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as the cellmates in Slade Prison under the steely gaze of Mackay and the not so steely gaze of Barrowclough. Classic comedy from Clement and La Frenais, this series sees Fletch having to share his cell with the bent judge who sent him down, and Godber really wants to pass his History O' Level and is finally released on parole. What will Fletch do without him around

Customer Reviews

British Comedy to beat ALL comers
All potential new comers to the comedy scene would do well to use this as a training exercise in how important script writing, comic timing, delivery and atmosphere are to making a true timeless classic.

Watch and learn, but if you have no interest in comedy writing yourself, then just watch and laugh - even more fun!!!

Classic Comedy
Chris Clark is an idiot. How can anyone say that eating porridge is better than watching this CRAP. This series and all the other series if this fool had half a brain was written by Dick Clement & Ian La Franais (HELLO) Auf Wiedersehen Pet springs to mind.

The episodes in series 3 are well written and perfectly acted. Anything with Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Brian Wild Fulton Mackay is worth its weight in Gold, and not to be missed. So don't listen to a fool. Who most probably reckons Two Pints Of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is better. So take your head from out of your Arse and wipe the S#'t from your eyes!!

the final stretch....
Series three of Porridge shows the end of Lenny Godber's stretch and while the comedy is a strong as ever...you can see the system grinding Fletch down to a certain extent.
There's nothing much to say that I haven't already written in my reviews of the first two series but this really is great comedy. While a lot of modern imported comedy dazzles you with quick switches between characters and locations with numerous plots intertwined (usually with a bewildering lack of coherence or success) this is thoughtful, paced comedy. Human nature will always be funny, and Porridge shows that wafer thin supermodels and obtrusive soundtracks do not comedy make...

This DVD has no special features to speak of but it is the timeless comedy sells this DVD and nothing more....