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Porridge
6.7

Porridge

Aug 12, 1979

Porridge
1979 93 min 37 vues
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Comedy
The Lovers!
5.9

The Lovers!

Jan 01, 1973

The Lovers!
1973 88 min 7 vues
Reprising the television series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox star as Geoffrey Scrimshaw and Beryl Battersby, a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the sexual minefield of the ‘permissive’ society. This big-screen transfer of Jack Rosenthal’s hugely likeable sitcom sees old-fashioned girl Beryl continuing to slap down the advances of her frustrated boyfriend, whose clumsy attempts to initiate ‘Percy Filth’ suggest he’s not quite up to speed himself! Like everyone else, Geoffrey and Beryl want to fall in love – or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn’t live in Manchester in 1972…
Comedy
Rentadick
4.4

Rentadick

Dec 31, 1972

Rentadick
1972 94 min 9 vues
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...
Comedy
Comedy Classics: Porridge
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Comedy Classics: Porridge

Dec 16, 2022

Comedy Classics: Porridge
2022 90 min 1 vues
An homage to the prison comedy series Porridge, created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. This documentary examines how Ronnie Barker’s Fletch influenced Slade Prison’s characters. There is also a look at 1978’s Going Straight, Porridge: The Movie, the US remake On the Rocks, and the 2017 reboot starring Kevin Bishop and Ricky Grover.
Documentary
Bloody Kids
6.2

Bloody Kids

Mar 22, 1980

Bloody Kids
1980 91 min 9 vues
L'idée de départ est simple : il s'agit de deux jeunes garçons de 11 ans, Leo, froid et manipulateur, et Mike, son ami plus faible et plus impressionnable. Méprisant les forces de police (Mike a déjà volé un chapeau de police sur le lieu d'un accident), les garçons organisent un combat au couteau à l'extérieur d'un stade de football à l'aide d'une poche de sang et d'une vraie lame.
Drama
Detective Waiting
1

Detective Waiting

Sep 14, 1971

Detective Waiting
1971 50 min 1 vues
A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.
Crime
The Floater
1

The Floater

May 29, 1975

The Floater
1975 65 min 1 vues
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.
Comedy
Last Summer
1

Last Summer

Jul 22, 1977

Last Summer
1977 52 min 1 vues
A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.
Crime
Going Straight
7.679

Going Straight

Apr 07, 1978

Going Straight
1978 min 14 vues
Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had been set. It sees Fletcher trying to become an honest member of society, having vowed to stay away from crime on his release. The title refers to his attempt, 'straight' being a slang term meaning being honest, in contrast to 'bent', i.e., dishonest. Also re-appearing was Richard Beckinsale as Lennie Godber, who was Fletcher's naïve young cellmate and was now in a relationship with his daughter Ingrid. Her brother Raymond was played by a teenage Nicholas Lyndhurst. Only one series, of six episodes, was made in 1978. It attracted an audience of over 15 million viewers and won a BAFTA award in March 1979, but hopes of a further series had already been dashed by Beckinsale's premature death earlier in the same month.
Comedy
Porridge
8.1

Porridge

Mar 25, 1977

Porridge
1977 min 48 vues
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.
Comedy
Rising Damp
7.42

Rising Damp

May 09, 1978

Rising Damp
1978 min 25 vues
Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.
Comedy
Bloomers
5

Bloomers

Oct 25, 1979

Bloomers
1979 min 1 vues
Bloomers was a short-lived British sitcom starring Richard Beckinsale that was aired in 1979. It was in production in 1979 but only five episodes were made before Beckinsale died suddenly from a heart attack just before a planned rehearsal for the sixth and final episode of the first series. Bloomers was immediately shelved, though the five completed episodes were broadcast later in the same year.
Armchair Theatre
5.8

Armchair Theatre

Sep 03, 1974

Armchair Theatre
1974 min 5 vues
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
The Lovers
6

The Lovers

Nov 25, 1971

The Lovers
1971 min 3 vues
The ups-and-downs of a young courting couple's relationship.
Comedy
Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes
7.333

Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes

May 07, 1973

Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes
1973 min 9 vues
Sherlock Holmes n'était pas le seul détective au travail à la fin de l'Angleterre victorienne. D'autres, parfois honnêtes, parfois peu dignes de confiance, mais tous très compétents, étaient à l'œuvre dans toute l'Angleterre, et aussi dans la vieille Europe. Dans chacun des 26 épisodes de cette série, un nouveau crime est mis en scène et un nouveau détective (rival de Sherlock Holmes) est chargé de le résoudre.
Crime
Play for Today
5.9

Play for Today

Aug 28, 1984

Play for Today
1984 min 7 vues
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Drama
Justice
6

Justice

Aug 16, 1974

Justice
1974 min 2 vues
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
Drama