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"Porridge" New Faces, Old Hands (1974)
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"I read a book once. Green it was!" moreCast
(Episode Credited cast) | Ronnie Barker | ... | Norman Stanley Fletcher |
| Brian Wilde | ... | Mr. Barrowclough |
| Fulton Mackay | ... | Mr. Mackay |
| Richard Beckinsale | ... | Lennie Godber |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Michael Barrington | ... | Governor Venables |
| John Bennett | ... | Medical Officer |
| Edward Cogdale | ... | Prison Officer |
| Brian Glover | ... | Heslop |
| Ronald Musgrove | ... | Prison Officer |
| Keith Norrish | ... | Prison Officer |
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Three new arrivals at H.M. Slade Prison - the dimwitted Cyril Heslop, first-timer Lennie Godber, and recidivist Norman Stanley Fletcher. Mackay warns the guards to keep an eye on the latter.
Following an army-style lecture on discipline by the Scots warder, the newcomers are subjected to a medical, or 'depersonalisation' as Fletcher calls it. He gives Godber useful tips on how to survive behind bars, such as requesting special shoes for flat feet to avoid wearing uncomfortable prison boots. In the Governor's office, the wily Cockney pretends to be an expert on tropical fish ( the Governor has a tank of these ), having set his heart on a cushy job in the library, and a cell of his own. In the event, he gets neither of these, being made to share with Heslop and work in a piggery.
Over a year after 'Prisoner & Escort' went out as part of the 'Seven Of One' series, 'Porridge' got underway with this fine episode, establishing the prison setting and introducing Richard Beckinsale as 'Godber', who with Ronnie Barker's 'Fletcher' formed one of the all-time great comedy partnerships. Even here you can see a father/son type relationship developing. The late Brian Glover played 'Heslop' in the first season only. Clement and La Frenais used him in the 'No Hiding Place' episode of 'Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?' as 'Brian Flint'.
Funniest moment - Fletcher having a medical, and blaming his feet for all sorts of problems. "Are you or have you ever been a practising homosexual?", the doctor asks. Fletcher says seriously: "What, with these feet?".